Realized something was wrong, sent the police who were able to tackle the suspect. he s being charged with attempted homicide and assault. our many thanks to josh campbell and that report. of course, this attack on speaker nancy pelosi s husband is just the latest incident raising a lot of concerns among lawmakers, especially in this very polarizing environmental we re live in today. both democrats and republicans are contemning the attack. it does come just over a week before the midterm elections. let s take you to capitol hill to sunlen serfaty. what have you heard about the attack? reporter: we ve heard from both democrats and republicans across the board expressing their outrage over this violence and certainly expressing sympathy for the pelosi family. i think it s notable in
Barge transportation is really the backbone of the american economy, and to mix metaphors, the mississippi river is our super highway, so everything from agricultural exports that feed the world, and that is at no time more critical than now with the russian war on ukraine to the petrochemicals, steel for cars, fertilizers that enable farmers to plant the next round of crops, all of these things depend on barge transportation, and what we re facing right now is the narrowing of that eight-lane super highway to a mountain road. so tell us more how the war on ukraine is complicating things because obviously the export of grain from ukraine has obviously slowed down heavily. so we need a lot of these crops that are supposed to come down the mississippi.
The republicans have vowed and have run on the proposition that they re going to undo a lot of it. there s purely political noise about trying to impeach president biden and they ll figure out the reason later. the hoss stillty, hostility,ite break down. we ll look forward to november 8th. thank you. thank you. still ahead, a major drought is taking its toll on nearly 150 million americans, especially along the mississippi river where the dry spell is creating major problems when it comes to distributing all sorts of vital commodities and when it comes to our food. more on that next.
Time, it inl creases the potential for flooding. a lot of these areas, that s where we re going to be looking at the biggest concern. again, overall the big picture here, oklahoma, arkansas, louisiana, portions of texas and mississippi, they need the rain. overall if you can get just an inch or two, you don t get the thunderstorms with it, these folks are not going to complain whatsoever. outside of that area, though, much of the u.s. looks relatively nice. if you ve got early trick or treat plans, a fall festival going on at some point, you ve got sunny conditions, mild weather across the northern tier of the u.s. we have showers and thunderstorms across areas of florida too. keep one other thing in mind. we also have to look elsewhere. when we take a look at the tropics, we have not one but two different things we re keeping an eye on. the first system is over in
Great balls of fire jerry lee lewis, one of the founding fathers of rock and roll died at the age of 87. he had such great hits of great balls of fire and a whole lot of shaking going on. he married his cousin when he was 22. he made a come bath in music and toured well into his 80s. the philadelphia phillies kicked off the world series in dramatic fashion last night, the phillies storming back after trailing by five runs. right there, the final dagger, a solo home run shot by j.t. realmuto, stealing the win. your final score, 6-5. game two of the world series is tonight. well, flu season has arrived, and it hasn t been this bad this early in years. cnn medical correspondent