the campaign trial. in south korea, police are taking the blame for that deadly halloween crowd stampede that killed more than 150 people. mostly young adults including two americans. and the conservative supreme court majority takes up affirmative action today in college admissions. singling a possible reversal on another issue that had been law. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington on halloween. the attack on paul pelosi spurring a flood of conspiracy theories and disinformation including from twitter s new owner, elon musk, who tweeted an opinion, an opinion article from a low credibility source to his 100 million followers about the attack. and although many republicans have condemned the violent attack on the speaker s husband, republican governor glenn youngkin made light of the assault just hours after it happened. speaker pelosi s husband had a break-in last night and he was assaulted. there s no room for violence, but we re going to send her back to ca
i want wyoming to be protected and i don t feel that liz is doing that job. she stood up for what she believes in. this primary election is over, but now the real work begins. welcome, it is wednesday, august 17th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington, 2:00 a.m. in wyoming where voters have spoken handing former u.s. president donald trump and his supporters perhaps their biggest primary victory yet. just a few months ahead of the midterm elections. trump s most forceful congressional critic liz cheney has lost her house seat. well i won t back down, no, i won t back down cheney conceded to her trump-backed rifle harriet hageman, but issued a rallying call to all americans who care about protecting democracy. cheney is vowing to do everything she can to keep the former u.s. president out of the white house. and steer the republican party away from his lies and influence. jeff zelleeny was there and has that report. reporter: congresswoman liz chen
Is accusing russia of doing that. we ve heard strong words over the weekend from president biden who called it outrageous. we heard secretary of state blinken that putin was playing hunger games. the u.n. security council is holding an emergency meeting right now. i m going to share right now the good news we ve just learned under secretary general for humanitarian affairs and relief coordinator had just said that 12 ships were able to leave ukrainian ports. this is very good news. over the weekend, russia suspended its support. on sunday, not one taker, the u.n. chartered ship which was carrying 30,000 metric tons of grain headed for the horn of africa was able to leave sunday. we understand those ships have now left through the maritime humanitarian corridor. that is good news. i also want to bring you upup to date on what s been happening. a wave of missile attacks on
Week, explosions have rocked a russian military site in crimea. the russian defense ministry says sabotage is behind tuesday s blast at an ammunition depot, but ukraine has stopped short of claiming responsibility. and to the east ukraine is acknowledging some russian gains in the donbas with one ukrainian commander calling the situation intense but fully controlled. meanwhile the first shipment of humanitarian food aid bound for africa since the war began left ukraine on tuesday. u.n. chartered ship is headed to ethiopia. david mckenzie is joining us from kyiv. we ve seen ships carrying agricultural shipments, but this shipment is the first of its kind because it is helping countries facing famine particularly in africa. reporter: that s right. it is a bit of light in this otherwise very dark story. this ship is used by the world