according to ukrainian armed forces. civilians have also been targeted. this video showing the terrifying a blast rocks a pedestrian bridge in kyiv moments before a person could be seen walking across it. that person manages to turn back and runway from the destruction. that strike reminiscent of this blast saturday on a crucial bridge connecting russian-controlled crimea and the country s mainland. a blow to russia suffering humiliating defeats on the battlefield. vladimir putin says that today s wave of violence is revenge for that blast. he blames ukraine, even though kyiv has not taken responsibility for it. ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy sharing these devastating images from the aftermath of today s deadly campaign and founding an urgent alarm saying, quote, they are trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth. all the while ukrainian civilians are, again, forced underground into kyiv subway system, but they re managing to come together in an emot
hour. a violent assault the man accused of attacking house speaker nancy pelosi s husband expected to be charged with multiple felonies today. cnn has learned he had zip ties, duct tape and hammer during that attack. we are live in san francisco. plus, deadly crush, more than 150 people killed after being caught in a suffocating crowd at a halloween festival in seoul, south korea. what we are learning about the two americans who are among the dead. next hour the supreme court set to hear arguments in two cases that could upend how college admissions are decided by eliminating or restricting race-conscious programs. let s begin this hour with the latest on the have eggs into the violent a talk on paul pelosi. veronica miracle is in san francisco, melanie zanona is on capitol hill. veronica, the suspect set to be charged today, what more are we learning about what happened in those early hours at the pelosi residence? reporter: good morning, erica. the details that we re
Bret we are moments away from president s address to the nation. I am bret baier. Martha i am martha maccallum. An important moment for any president. An Oval Office Address to speak to the nation. We will make his case for a number of things. He will layout additional aid for this fight in israel. Also for the fight in ukraine. That was the original road map for the speech. And humanitarian assistance for the residents of gaza. Bret President Biden will speak to the nation from the oval office. We have Team Coverage tonight. We have John Roberts In Jerusalem and peter doocy at the white house. Martha lets start there. Tonights remarks will explain to the American People why u. S. Dollars and not u. S. Troops are critical to wars in the middle east and europe. He is not expected to attack maga republicans because he needs them to vote 100 Billion Dollars in new funding. Bret interesting to see if this sounds like a state of the Union Address or more emotional after his trip in israel.
we prevail. and he wouldn t stop in ukraine. i think that s important thing, an important thing for americans to understand. i know, i ve listened to putin, i ve met with him, i worked with him when i was in the government, and if you listen to what he says, he believes he is in a war with us. he s in a war with the free world. so this won t stop in ukraine. if we stop funding and supporting our partners in ukraine. it will be a threat to our nato partners throughout europe. winter has set in. and much has the new phase of this war. we know that putin is really trying to weaponize winter here. how long does it take for aid like the one in this omnibus bill to be felt in ukraine? longer than it should. but it s obviously, it s very welcome inside ukraine. and he is using winter, he s using cold weather, to terrorize ukrainians. you know, it reminds me a lot of what hitler did against great britain in 1940, bombing the cities of london and everywhere else, to try to get them to
the grid working. it is something especially when you see those pictures and those numbers, people lining up for that water and their resolve. appreciate it. thank you. joining me to discuss further andrea kendall taylor. good to see you this morning. when we look at what happened today, when we look at this pressure that russia and vladimir putin are trying to put on ukrainians by specifically targeting infrastructure, not just electricity, but water, what does this tell you about putin s plan moving forward? could he be moving further west ultimately to target some of those infrastructure some of the infrastructure there as well? well, i think, i mean, as you re covering the attacks are horrific and we should not grow to grow immune to them, but they shouldn t be surprising, and i think the way that we understand these attacks is that as vladimir putin is unable to accomplish his objectives on the