tonight s address will look very different from previous presidential addresses in the house chamber. usually some 1600 people will be filling the room. you know the video i m talking about. tonight only 200 will attend in person. chief justice john roberts will be present to represent the high court. only two cabinet members will attend. no need for the morbid assignment of one cabinet member, there will be no designated survivor this time. also no first lady s box and no other guests in the house chamber, no unmasked faces except for the president. one historic and long overdue change, two women seated behind the president of the united states for the first time, house speaker nancy pelosi and vice president kamala harris. also important, remember that president biden will be speaking tonight at the site of the violent attack on american democracy, the site of the january 6th insurrection. a lot is going on tonight, but we re learning more already about what the president w
correspondent jonathan breaking details the latest we had know right now, live from our west coast news as we await that update from police. for several hours this morning we all wondered what the moment i have was author this brutal attack. now we know forces telling him it does appear to have been politically motivated, the sale and chanting where is nancy? 82-year-old paul pelosi was beaten with a hammer. he suffered blunt force trauma to his head and body although we understand he is expected to make a full recovery and as you look on the right at a helicopter shot of the pelosi house in san francisco, we understand that the fbi and the u.s. capitol police are now assisting the san francisco police department into the investigation into which the sale at broke into the back of the house. speaker pelosi was not there at the time. she was in washington, d.c. but the big focus this morning has been motivation and we are getting all these indications this was perhaps the
first to those remarks we just got from the police chief a short time ago we are going to play them out here. we will go ahead and get started. good morning. my name is chief bill scott with san francisco police department. at approximately 2:27 this morning san francisco police officers were dispatched to the residence of speaker nancy pelosi regarding an a priority well being check. when if officers arrived on scene, they encountered an adult male and mr. pelosi s husband, paul. our officers observed mrd pelosi and the suspect both holding a hammer. the suspect pulled the hammer away from mr. pelosi an violently assaulted him with it. our officers immediately tackled the suspect difficulties armed him took him into custody requested emergency backup and rendered medical aid. the suspect has been identified as 42-year-old david ded purrageous dyna david depeppi. this is an active investigation currently being led by the san francisco police department special investigati