where huge crowds have gathered hoping for a positive outcome. china s president xijinping has declared the winter olympics open at an unusually low key ceremony, due to the pandemic and a diplomatic boycott over human rights abuses. the main venue is the birds nest stadium, already familiar to sports fans after it was the main focus for the 2008 summer olympics. the opening ceremony was overseen by film director jang imo who was also behind the ceremony in 2008. but spectators were thin on the ground because of strict covid restrictions. and few world leaders made the trip to beijing. our correspondent steve mcdonell is in beijing and following the action. it s a real party atmosphere. typical beijing pubs full of families and little kids and couples and older people who come here to watch the opening ceremony on the big screen. part of the reason this pub and how many others in the city are fullest because this is how you get a community feeling of the games. the general
just ahead, russia targets ukraine s power grid across several regions leaving the new care power plant completely off- line. we will have a report just ahead. the senate republican leaders hospitalized after a for wednesday night. we will break on the results of the justice department probe into the louisville police force. developing this hour, the u.s. senate republican leader is recovering in the hospital after a fall. his spokesperson says he tripped at a hotel in washington during a private dinner wednesday night. there is no word on his condition. he has fallen at least once before in his home in 2019 when he fractured his shoulder. the 81-year-old is the senate s longest serving republican leader. more on this story as it develops. we looking now at ukraine were a new wave of russian attacks have targeted energy facilities in at least seven regions. at least three people have been wounded in key and power has been knocked out to around 15 percent of the city a
after the house speaker s husband was violently assaulted during a home invasion, we re told. what we know about his condition and the man maybe behind that assault. welcome, even, i m neil cavuto and yet another busy weekend as we get closer to the midterms. but growing questions as to how the speaker of the house s husband could get so brutal brutally attacked in his own home. she was, of course, in washington. she s with him now in san francisco. mark meredith has more. reporter: investigators have yet to say what they believe motivated the attack, but police believe the break hip and the assault inside the speaker s california home was intentional. police say it was around 2:30 friday morning when 42-year-old david depape allegedly broke into the speaker s san francisco home through a back door. he was reportedly shouting where s nancy, but the speaker, as you said, was not there. she was in d.c. it was her husband that was in the house. investors believe 82-year-old pa
witnesses who said they were pressured by people close to the ex-president to, quote, do the right thing, be loyal to donald trump, reminding them trump would be paying close to attention to their words. the committee suggests it has many other examples of witness tampering, which is of course a very serious crime. is that what is happening here? and will the doj be looking into this? they believe they could affect testimony of witnesses before the committee. oits a very serious issue, and i imagine the department of justice would be very interested in and take that seriously as well. the two investigations going on, congressional and criminal, are showing signs of clashing again. there s friction over access to transcripts of interviews the committee conducted that the justice department wants. the new york times reporting federal prosecutors were just as surprised by hutchinson s testimony this week as anyone else watching and left feeling blindsided. but at the same
crime? according to three cnn sources t former aide to then white house chief of staff mark meadows told the panel she was contacted by someone in the trump camp attempting to influence her testimony. remember those messages vice chair liz cheney read aloud at tuesday s hearing alluding to possible witness intimidation. the gop congresswoman didn t name names but she relayed accounts of two unidentified witnesses who said they were pressured by people close to the ex-president to, quote, do the right thing, be loyal to donald trump, reminding them trump would be paying close to attention to their words. the committee suggests it has many other examples of witness tampering, which is of course a very serious crime. is that what is happening here? and will the doj be looking into this? they believe they could affect testimony of witnesses before the committee. oits a very serious issue, and i imagine the department of justice would be very interested in and take that seriousl