bill to avoid a government shutdown at midnight. and with respiratory viruses on the rise and kids medicine harder to find, we ll look at how to keep your family safe during the holidays. we begin this morning with the dangerous winter storm battering much of the country that has up ended holiday travel for many americans. this morning more than 200 million americans are still under some kind of weather warning orred a size ri. the storm continues to move east expected to bring powerful winds and bitterly freezing temperatures after dumping blind ing snow on parts of the midwest. hundreds of thousands of people are without power this morning. meteorologists have categorized the storm as a bomb cyclone. the storm disrupting travel for folks looking to head out for the holiday weekend. according to flight aware, there are already more than 3,000 flight cancellations and more than 2,000 delays in the u.s. joinings us now is shaq brewster in michigan and meteorologist agie lasm
house speaker nancy pelosi and violently attacked her husband with a hammer. sources say 82-year-old paul pelosi was taken into surgery for a skull fracture. he is expected to make a full recovery. this all started just before 2:30 pacific time at the pelosi home in san francisco where sources say the male suspect confronted paul pelosi screaming, where is nancy, and tried to tie him up, quote, until nancy got home. shortly thereafter, police arrived on the scene. the suspect pulled the hammer away from mr. pelosi and violently assaulted him with it. our officers immediately tackled the suspect, disarmed him, took him into custody, requested emergency backup, and rendered medical aid. san francisco police have identified the suspect as 42-year-old david depape. he s has a history of spreading far right conspiracy theories about covid vaccines, the 2020 election, and the january 6th insurrection. sources say he was not known to capitol police or in any federal threat datab
on the for the last two years, bow both in our endependent work and also in reporting on the committee s investigation and its progress. its path to uncovering what really happened behind the scenes. some key things that i was struck by. one, the information and suggestion inside the white house and knew about the utility that the vie leps was going to provide on january 6th that s an interest text by a junior white house aid that the chief of police on capitol hill is begging and pleading for emergency national guard to save his officers lives. that text potus is watching this and loving it. that the president will be enjoying the fact that his supporters have marched violently and broken into the
has beenman fested by what you just recently reported about paul pelosi as an example of the kind of rhetoric that turns into violence. yeah, i mean, i ve seen disagreements, political disagreements, ideological differences, but never the degree of rhetoric turned into action and eviolence and threat of vie leps. i think it s going to have a very negative effect on young people who are deciding whether or not they want to go into a number of professions, including public health. and certainly when you talk about people who want to go into public service, where they are going to be scrutinized by people who would disaglee with them, but then when they disagree with them, they turn to rhetoric that s violent and actual violent actions. i ve never seen anything that even approximates this degree in any of my experience over now
people who commit potentializing vie leps. someone is going to get hurt. someone is going to get shot. someone is going to get killed. it s not right. it was clear s. all the way back in december 2020 that the campaign of pressure and harassment against elections officials by donald trump and his allies, which were producing a campaign of threats and harassments against election officials by his supporters. no one has been killed and thank goodness. but elections work as officials in georgia and across the country are being terrorized and leaving their jobs in droves. we were reminded this week, it is not just those threats being investigated. trump s pressure campaign, itself, is very much under criminal investigation. the district attorney in fulton county, georgia this week moved to empanel a special grand jury in her investigation into trump s attempts to mess with the election in georgia. that investigation center can thes on that infamous phone call to brad raffensperger pressu