pelosi's husband and the baseless claims that have surrounded friday morning's assault. listen. >> what did the attack and subsequent conspiracy theories say about the state of our politics right now? >> yeah, i just -- of course i was appalled by that. of course the kind of vitriol that is out there in the political conversation out in america now is astonishing. it's unconscionable. >> and you can see don's complete interview with john fetterman tomorrow morning. that's on "cnn this morning" with don lemon, poppy harlow and kaitlin collins, a new morning show debuting tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. eastern. thank you so much for joining us, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. "ac 360" starts now. the suspect said, quote, he was going to hold nancy hostage, unquote. and if she did not tell him the truth as he saw it, he would

break her kneecaps. john berman here in for anderson. those words from a federal criminal complaint spell out an attempt to take house speaker nancy pelosi captive, interrogate her and beat her savagely if the answers did not come out right, which the suspect, one david depape, considered a certainty. late today we saw separate state charges, including attempted murder. more on that shortly. stop at think about what's already on the table. according to federal authorities who have now charged him with an assault on paul pelosi and attempted kidnapping of nancy pelosi, this man says he wants to break the kneecaps of an 82-year-old woman and do it to make a political point. quoting again from the filing, in the course of the interview, depape articulated that he viewed nancy as the leader of the pack of lies told by the democratic party. the document goes on in graphic detail about what the suspect said he intended. the bottom line is simple enough. according to the suspect himself, this potentially deadly attack on paul pelosi was part of a politically motivated

attempt to kidnap and harm the speaker of the house, the most powerful woman in american politics, second in line to the presidency. yet as shocking as that is, it sh should not be surprising. not when you consider the way pelosi has been openly demonized, often using imagery to do it. >> we're tired of being pushed around. >> and open borders. >> and gas prices. >> the good people of arizona have had enough of you. it's time for a showdown. >> that arizona senate candidate paid big money to air that ad during the super bowl and he's not alone. according to "the new york times" citing data from ad impacts, so far this year republicans have spent more than $61 million on ads attacking speaker pelosi, ads that have now aired about 143,000 times.

now, by no means are all these ads violent, but you can see how frequently she's targeted of the that's on top of all the conspiracy theories from the far right and the 2020 election lie which has practically become a token of faith among some otherwise mainstream republicans. put it altogether and you have a toxic wellspring for some to drink from. even worse, it's not surprising and not even new or even strictly partisan. listen to this georgia republican election official warning about where things might lead from december of 2020. >> it has to stop. mr. president, you have not condemned these actions or this language. senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions. this has to stop. someone is going to get hurt. someone is going to get shot. someone is going to get killed. and it's not right.

it's not right. >> that's a georgia republican just a few weeks before a violent mob would storm the capitol. behind those doors are the speaker's offices and those rioters, one of whom police fatally shot were trying to get to her. the former president and others would try to make a martyr out of the dead rioter, incorporating her in turn to the myths and conspiracy theories about the insurrection, all there for the next deranged person to drink up. so we've already seen lies and incitement, some of them targeting speaker pelosi by name. we've already seen warnings it will lead to violence. we've seen the violence justified by more lies. now in the wake of this latest violence, we're seeing more attempts to explain it away. >> with paul pelosi, that's a terrible thing. with all of them, it's a terrible thing. look at what's happened to san francisco generally. look at what's happening in chicago. it was far worse than afghanistan.

you look at what happens in chicago in one weekend. last weekend was brutal, it was like a war zone. >> see, not politics, just crime, which was a talking point for a while until something more toxic came along. a conspiracy theory that the crime was actually about something else. we won't even dignify it by mentioning the details. but it was enough for elon musk to tweet it out with the line, quote, there's a tiny possibility there might be something more to this story than meets the eye. he later took that tweet down, but not before it had been retweeted more than 28,000 times. the conspiracy theory he reposted came from a website that once falsely claimed that hillary clinton had died and been replaced by a body double. the suspect's facebook page was full of memes and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and january 6th. an acquaintance told cnn he seemed, quote, out of touch with reality. but even if that's the case, even if he is especially susceptible to all the lies, conspiracy theories and ads with

violent imagery, it doesn't mean public figures who should know better also are. elon musk wasn't out of touch with reality when he amplified a conspiracy theory. that senate candidate knew what he was doing when he made that ad of him shooting nancy pelosi. donald trump knew what he was doing when he glossed over the attack on paul pelosi as just more of the same big city crime. and this congressman knows what he is doing here. >> on your twitter feed, you posted this video we're going to show just a few days ago where you're firing a gun and it says enjoyed exercising my second amendment rights. #firepelosi. why is there a gun in a political ad at all? >> it wasn't an ad. i was tweeting out something that i had just done. >> #firepelosi with a weapon. wouldn't a pink slip be more fitting if it's about fire her? >> it's interesting exercising our second amendment rights, having fun. >> having fun.

some fun. cn nervou cnn's josh campbell joins us from san francisco where the district attorney announced charges against the suspect. the suspect is expected to be arraigned tomorrow afternoon on state charges. let's listen to what san francisco d.a. brooke jenkins said just a short time ago. >> two police officers arrived at the front door two minutes after that 911 call. when that door was opened, the defendant was holding his hammer, which mr. pelosi appeared to be attempting to control by holding a portion of that hammer. the defendant then pulled the hammer away from mr. pelosi and violently struck him in the top of his head. >> the d.a. was also asked if this was an assassination attempt. what was her response? >> reporter: she thinks this was and that's one of the charges that the district attorney's office announced today, john, attempted murder. she said particularly in the final moments of this incident at the residence here behind me

early friday morning, that as police arrived, that this suspect struck mr. pelosi, according to cnn sources. that was at least two times fracturing his skull. again, she thought that he was trying to kill mr. pelosi. we also learned according to this new fbi affidavit today that it wasn't just mr. pelosi that was an intended target but also house speaker nancy pelosi. in really chilling detail according to the confession of the suspect himself, the fbi says that his goal was to take speaker pelosi, break her kneecaps. i know this is repulsive, but just to give you a sense of the level of vitriol that we are talking about here. he wanted her to be wheeled into the capitol as a display to other members of congress, in his words saying that there are consequences to your actions. just truly, truly troubling details we learned today, john. >> in addition to the federal assault charge, explain the other federal and state charges this suspect is now facing. >> this was a big day in the investigation, john. within a matter of hours we saw the feds come in and then state

officials with a litany of charges. in addition to the one attempted assault of mr. pelosi, that charge was actually assaulting a member of the a public official. the suspect has also been federally charmingcharged with d kidnapping, pertaining to the house speaker nancy pelosi. in that confession the federal government alleges that this suspect says 450he wanted to ta her hostage. in addition to the state charges we're talking about attempted murder, assault, elder abuse. it's worth pointing out if this guy is convicted, he's almost certainly going to jail for a very long time. the federal charges alone carry a combined sentence up to 50 years in prison, john. >> what about paul pelosi's condition, how's he doing tonight, josh? >> reporter: he remains in intensive care. this was a very violent struggle and violent injuries that he received. we're talking about someone with a fractured skull. he has a lot of recovery ahead of him, which is why it's been so repulsive. here a lot of politicians,

political leaders actually laughing and making light of what happened in this violent struggle. the house of a u.s. house member brutally assaulted. he's continuing to recover from in the hospital tonight. >> josh campbell, thank you for your reporting. please keep us posted. joining us, senior law enforcement analyst and former deputy director andy mccabe. cnn chief law enforcement analyst john miller himself, a former senior fbi official. andy, i want to start with you. what stands out with the charges we've seen so far, both federal and state. >> the thing that jumps out to me once you get past the gory details, the thing that jumps out to me is a question you've been hearing a lot of people say and talk about today is this an act of domestic terrorism. there are some very clear signs in this affidavit that the government believes it's an act of domestic terrorism. first, of course, is that the agent, the affiant whose words

we're reading is someone who's a specialist in investigating domestic terrorism. so that tells us the bureau sees this case as one being managed by the counterterrorism division. secondly, i would say, john, the facts as alleged by the government in the affidavit fit perfectly the statutory definition of domestic terrorism. so 18 usc 2331-5, i believe, which basically defines an act of domestic terrorism as a crime at the federal or state level, it's a violent crime and one that's committed for any one of a number of different intents, one of which is influence the conduct of government. the facts that we read in this affidavit about this individual's intent to shatter nancy pelosi's kneecaps, to have that work as a message to the rest of congress when she's wheeled back into the capitol, i mean there's no question that that fits very squarely the

definition of domestic terrorism. >> domestic terrorism, john, do you agree with that? >> i think when you look at the suspect statements and when you look at the suspect's actions, it's almost like he read the two statutes and then tried to meet every violation of the statutes that he could. i mean you've got two cases here, john. one is the d.a.'s case, which is a simple case and very important. that's a felony that occurs in the presence of police officers recorded largely on body camera where that's a probable cause arrest. mr. pelosi is a witness, but they could have made that arrest without him. the federal case they'll have to prove those elements about his motive to intimidate government officials in the performance of their duties. when you articulate allegedly in your interview with the fbi, the capitol police and the san francisco police department that your goal was to have nancy pelosi return in a wheelchair with broken kneecaps to congress

to intimidate not just her but the entire two bodies of congress, you're pretty much meeting the statute. >> yeah, it sounds like that is the definition of the statute. and just in terms of the sentence that you might face from domestic terror versus the other charges, any distinction there? >> well, the interesting and somewhat confounding thing about the law on the federal side, john, is that domestic terrorism as it's defined in the federal statutes, there's actually no criminal penalty for it. if you believe it in this day and age, we still don't have committing an act of domestic terrorism is not officially a crime at the federal level. however, the two charges that he faces federally already, as josh campbell indicated, will bring him an extensive jail term if he's convicted, particularly that first charge of intimidating, retaliating against a member of congress or federal official by attacking a family member. >> let me just play a little bit of what the san francisco attorney just said in her press conference.

>> it's something that we have to take very seriously and it's very sad to see that we are once again at a point in history where people believe that it's okay to express their political sentiments through violence. and so i think it really demonstrates that we have to calm things down, we have to decide that we are going to be more respectful as an american society, that it's okay to disagree. but it certainly is something that has unnerved us all. >> so, andy, you've been in the public eye for some time and probably experienced serious threats on social media and elsewhere. what's your take on this? >> yeah, john, it's absolutely terrifying. i can only imagine what the speaker and her family are going through right now. i think this is something that unfortunately many, many people who find themselves by virtue of the work that they do in the public eye and through the lens of politics, and everybody has strong opinions about that, you become a magnet for this sort of contact, this sort of criticism.

you don't worry about it for yourself, but you really worry about it for your family. it's easy to find people nowadays. it's easy to figure out where people live. and that is the -- you know, that's the terror that we all live with. plenty of people have reached out to me aggressively over the years and each time it happens, it's shocking and really, really unnerves you and your family. >> john, one of the things that you hear some people say, whether it be on social media or on conservative networks is that this guy was mentally disturbed. he didn't have his wits about him. this wasn't political, this was someone who was just crazy for lack of a better word. but does being disturbed preclude being able to be influenced by the type of violent political rhetoric that's out there? >> no. and i think when we look at the legal history here, he clearly knew right from wrong. he clearly didn't like the fact that mr. pelosi called the police. he clearly articulated that he

was going to not surrender but fight the police. he clearly knew that he was going to assault mr. pelosi. he has a very clear vision. and by the way, this goes beyond even what we've been talking about. i've been talking to people associated with the investigation briefed on the case for a couple of days now. in his interviews, he spoke negatively not just about nancy pelosi, not just about the democratic party, he singled out individuals like hillary clinton, he singled out hunter biden, he singled out others. he also made the statement allegedly to the investigators that he wanted to use nancy pelosi to lure another individual to him, which is -- think about -- think about that for a second, john. he's assaulted the husband of the speaker of the house. he is prepared to tie him up and stay in the house for more than a day or so for her to return

where he then expects to kidnap and hold her and then assault her. and then use her before or after to lure a third individual in his sights to that residence. this has taken some real turns. >> it only gets more chilling the more you learn. john miller, andy mccabe, thanks to both of you. next we'll talk more about the threats so many lawmakers now face and what's being done to protect them. joining us a friend of speaker pelosi and fellow california congresswoman who herself has experienced violence up close. and later, how people in south korea are struggling to come to terms with the death of at least 155 people when a halloween celebration became a deadly crowd surge. it's an owl-cat-bat. some things leave you guessing. (meow) but not mailchimp. mailchimp takes the guesswork out of e email marketing by ananalyzing millions of data points from the billions of emails we send to offer personalized suggestions for how to improve engagement and revenue. guess less and sell more

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♪ aleve - who do you take it for? as news of the pelosi attack was breaking on friday, a pennsylvania man was pleading guilty on federal charges of making threats on the life of california congressman eric

swalwell. whitney wild has been looking into this security situation and joins us now. republican senator susan collins said she wouldn't be surprised if a senator or house member were killed, end quote. so what's the level of concern tonight among lawmakers not just for themselves but also their families? >> there's particularly heightened concern. what law enforcement sources have told us over the last two years these threats to lawmakers also include threats to their family. we know some members of congress are frustrated by the fact they have had difficulty getting federal funding or federal resources to protect them. for example, adam kinzinger telling zack cohen that he brought a threat that he says was directed to his wife and young child. he has an infant at home. they brought it to capitol police and they said you are among a lot of people that get threats. ultimately this comes down to a resources issue. capitol police does not have the people to put a detail on every

single member of congress. this is another stark reminder of how serious the security situation is and how difficult it is for law enforcement to get in front of, john. >> 435 members of the house, 100 members of the senate. so how does the capitol police -- how do capitol police officials make decisions about where to allocate protection? >> reporter: well, significantly it is threat based. what they basically do is take a threat assessment for each member and decide what is an appropriate security package for that member. sometimes that package comes and goes. a member gets a detail. a member doesn't have a detail for a period of time depending on the threat landscape. the major concern is outside of the building because once you're inside the building, save january 6th, for the most part it is an extremely secure location. the place is just crawling with capitol police. the major concern for law enforcement is once those members go back to the district where they don't have as much protection. so now this is starting a new conversation about what the options might be. we know congressional sources have told us that there is a lot

of discussion under way about what can be done for members as well as their families once they go back to their home districts, john. >> so if they are going to boost security, any sense of a timeline for when it will happen? >> we don't know that yet. the reality is this is going to take a lot of logistics because as i said capitol police is already strained to deal with the mandate that they have now. they're trying to assess a heightened threat landscape. they're trying to physically protect that area. this continues to be, you know, an extremely volatile time threats-wise. so they are swamped with work just here in washington. what they can do is start working more closely with their law enforcement partners across the country to assess what security gaps their law enforcement partners on the ground may be able to fill. quite often what capitol police will do is work with a local police department to say, okay, can you pick up this, can you pick up that. we see that when members are going on the trail, for example. but it takes a lot of

coordination. this is not an overnight fix. it's going to take ultimately more funding. we know that senator chris murphy told my colleagues earlier today that they are looking at all of the security options, particularly for high-profile members in leadership. >> it's an enormous task. whitney wild, thank you so much for your reporting. with us a member of the california congressional delegation, democrat jackie speier. i know you're not just a colleague of speaker pelosi's, you're also friends. what's your reaction to these chilling new details from the fbi affidavit, including the possible desire to hold speaker pelosi hostage, break her kneecaps. what do you think? >> john, when i heard the references to the affidavit, i literally had chills running up and down my spine. i got teary-eyed. i can't begin to tell you how it pains me for the speaker and paul pelosi and their children and grandchildren. and what it says to all the other members and all the other

potential members who are running for office. the fear it's going to place in all of them. is this really worth it? i mean what has happened in this country has happened as a result of donald trump giving license to people to spread the qanon message and to attack. so he himself has attacked speaker pelosi 800 times based on a "new york times" analysis of all his tweets. and more recently, he has said things like, well, you know, there's going -- people are really angry and there's going to be some terrible things that are going to happen to those members. you have people like marjorie taylor greene saying that the speaker should be executed and hung. words matter. and members of congress who speak in those kinds of terms should be called out.

i led a censure of paul gosar because he put congresswoman ocasio-cortez in a meme in which she had the crosshairs of a gun. we've got to stop it. and for the most part we have basically just kind of chalked it up to, well, that's just their extreme rhetoric. well, their extreme rhetoric is turning into horrific actions. and i think that we've really got to do more. now, there have been 10,000 threats alone in the last year that have been reported to the capitol police. 10,000. that's more than double in the last five years. i've had a number of threats that were actually taken to court. convictions actually provided. and people now serving time in jail. but we don't necessarily recognize that all of these cases could in fact be

legitimate under certain circumstances. >> you were talking about the language that's being used and how people are speaking. donald trump did say what happened to paul pelosi was unfortunate but then he likened it to crime in other cities. kari lake, who's running for governor in arizona, appeared to joke about the attack on paul pelosi when she was answering a question about school security. listen to this. >> it is not impossible to protect our kids at school. they act like it is. nancy pelosi -- well, she's got protection when she's in d.c. apparently her house doesn't have a lot of protection. >> a laugh line there. what does that say about the state of politics in this country? >> it says to a specific universe of people, as long as it's not happening to their people, they think it's pretty funny if it's happening to the other party. and acceptable if it's happening to members of the other party. until the republicans speak out

strongly against this and join with the democrats to make sure that any conduct by members in congress or people that try to address members of congress in vicious ways are properly handled, it's going to continue because it's been licensed by the former president. and frankly, not many people have been held accountable. >> how does it impact your ability or members' ability to do their jobs? >> you know, i've done two town halls in the last five days. i'm more anxious. and i think for all members, there's going to be more trepidation associated with them being out with their constituents. for the longest time we were doing telephone town halls, and that's pretty safe. but, you know, your constituents expect to see you and shake your hands and ask you questions. that's going to become something

that members are going to really evaluate very carefully. and whenever i do have meetings like that, there's local police that are called upon to be present. so it's a resource issue as well for the local police. >> congresswoman, stick around here for a second. we just got a new statement from speaker pelosi. let me read this out loud. it says, quote, since the horrific attack on paul early friday, we've been deluged with thousands of messages conveying concern, prayers and warm wishes. we are most grateful. thanks to the excellent trauma care and medical team add zuckerberg san francisco general hospital, paul is making steady progress on what will be a long recovery process. a long recovery process. your reaction. >> well, that was one of my fears. you can't have a fracture to the skull and not be concerned about blood bleeds. it may have affect -- i don't

even want to anticipate what the issues are. but she's saying long recovery, that means it has impacted part of his functions. this is so egregious, and i think the american people need to sit back for a moment and think about if something like that happened in their home how would they feel. their sanctuary. and this was someone who was hellbent on doing vicious actions. and he succeeded. so my heart just aches for them and for their whole family. they have been so devoted, and she has given so much of her life to this country and to making sure that children, particularly in our country, are well served and passed through so much legislation that frankly without her would not have passed. whether it was the affordable care act, the infrastructure

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we are eight days away from election day, more than 21 million americans have already voted early, and about the only thing we can say for certain are the key senate and house races to watch and why they may be bellwethers for the midterms as a whole. tonight we have new polling on some of those key senate races that will determine which party is in the majority come january. i'm joined now by john king. we are at the magic wall. eight days to go, john. what are you looking at? >> obviously a 50-50 tie as we head in. vice president harris breaks it so democrats control the senate. here's where we are eight days out, one week of campaigning left. the yellow states are the toss-ups, light red are lean republicans and light blue lean democrat. let's look at these new polls. let's go through them quickly. john fetterman the democrat up in pennsylvania but just up, just outside the margin of error. republicans believe they can close on this, democrats want to hold it in a state now held by a republican. you move to georgia, no clear leader here. 49-46. the democrat, the incumbent,

raphael warnock ahead, if you want to call it that, but statistically that's a tie and remember on election night if nobody gets 50 plus 1, we have a runoff in december. georgia, a very close race to the end. now to nevada, katherine cortez masto is the most vulnerable democrat snad. barack obama is heading out there to help with turnout. 47-47, a dead heat. then arizona is interesting because if you look at the polling numbers, democrats feel a little better about this based on the numbers. the incumbent democrat is mark kelly, that's six points. but obama added a stop, john. added a stop in arizona in the final days. that tells you democrats are a little nervous. what are we looking at here? democrats want to pick this one up. they desperately want to pick this one up. why do they want to pick that up? that would get democrats to 51 if they hold this one and that one. but what if democrats lose this? this is the most likely one to flip right now. this is why these four races are

likely to determine control of the senate. if that happens, democrats are back to 50. but what about georgia? if republicans can pick up georgia, this is all hypothetical at home, we're just walking through this in the final days here. this is why rick scott thinks they can get to 52. he thinks, rick scott, who runs the senatorial committee for the republicans, he thinks they're going to get georgia, he thinks they're going to get pennsylvania and nevada and get to 52. those four races likely to decide in the end whether this stands or whether it flips. >> very quickly, a couple of sleeper races. new hampshire and perhaps ohio where the parties have hopes but may not turn out to be what they want. >> you come back to it right now. these are races democrats, number one, the republicans still think we lean blue. maggie hasan has had trouble getting above 50. the democrats, whether it's ohio, wisconsin, north carolina, three races in states you would think in joe biden's first midterm should be leaning red.

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south korea today grieving the loss of 155 people who died over the weekend after halloween festivities led to a massive crowd rush. at least 149 people have been injured, including 33 seriously. with a nation now in a week-long mourning period, questions are emerging about the government's handling of the incidents and lack of crowd control leading up to the tragedy. paula hancocks is in seoul with the latest. >> reporter: once the heart of seoul's night life, now the sight of endless grief and loss. south korea was in a period of national mourning. for 155 lives lost in a crowd surge saturday night. >> that was just obviously waves of people coming in. this is like the middle of it so waves are coming in from both sides. and more people fell and i lost my friend. there's so many people.

and i'd like turn around and i told the crowd, you can't come this way. people are dying. >> reporter: south korean officials now admitting there were no guidelines for dealing with the halloween festivities. a street event without a host. they deployed just 137 police officers to deal with tens of thousands of party goers. multiple eyewitnesses say they saw no attempt to control the crowds. >> it was about like, you know, you versus other people. i just wanted to get out of there. i was using my arms, squishing out like i don't care that my clothes were getting ripped. i had bruises on my arms and stuff from trying to maneuver out. it was just shoulder to shoulder. people just couldn't breathe. the shorter people were trying to look up in the air to get some sort of air. >> reporter: the tragedy has echoed around the world. 26 foreigners lost their lives here. the victims, some teenagers, many in their 20s, including 20-year-old american college student steven blesi from

marietta, georgia, who had only been in south korea for two months. >> i feel like i have a hole in me, a big hole in my chest. i can't tell you the pain that is. i wish i would have not let him go. >> reporter: ann geske a nursing student studying abroad in seoul, the niece of brad winstrop of ohio. he called her a gift from god. just two of hundreds of families dealing with the life-changing events of that night, dealing with a nation in shock and demanding answers. now, we're seeing a massive outpouring of grief here in seoul. this is one of the makeshift memorials. this is just less than 100 feet where many lost their lives. people laying flowers, bringing tributes to those victims we saw earlier one man who was here who lost his big sister. he said he didn't want to leave the spot where she had died. now, some of that anguish is

turning to anger. where were the police? where was the crowd control? just over 300 feet away across the road is a police station. had they seen anything? did they try and help the situation? these are the questions that investigators are going to be asking, and these are the questions that many people coming here, emotional, tearful, laying flowers, want to know the answers to. john. >> unimaginable tragedy. paula hancocks in seoul, thank you very much. in ukraine today russia launched a new round of missile attacks on key infrastructure facilities leaving parts of the capital without electricity or water. russian president vladimir putin claims the strikes were partly in response to ukraine's attack on a russian fleet in crimea. according to a ukrainian power company, the country's energy system has suffered more attacks since october 10th than in the previous eight months of the war. this comes as putin says russia is suspending but not ending its participation in the black sea grain export deal with ukraine. the u.n. brokered agreement was seen as vital to addressing the

global food shortage. joining me in soeutheastern ukraine with the very latest, clarissa ward. clarissa let's start with the strikes on civilian infrastructure. what's the latest? >> reporter: well, john, this is becoming a sort of grim routine. every single monday morning now, the last four mondays, ukrainians wake up to air raid sirens and the sounds of russian missiles slamming into key civilian infrastructure around the country. today it hit ten different regions, 18 different installations. it was still actually a remarkable success on the part of the ukrainians in the sense that they are claiming the air force, that they managed to intercept 40 of the more than 50 missiles that flew into ukraine. but still, the ones that did managed to achieve their targets, have done significant damage. so you had hundreds of thousands of homes without any power in kyiv today. you had 40% of people in kyiv

without any water. you started to have lines forming on the street at makeshift water pumps that were erected. the mayor telling people to go out and try to basically stock up on water in case this happens again. here in zaporizhzhia where we are as well, rolling blackouts. 200,000 people without power. the power has now been restored. but there was a time today when the children's hospital here was running on emergency power. and the real fear, john, is that this is not a sustainable situation, because while the ukrainians keep desperately and quickly trying to build back the second these attacks happen, there is a rate of attrition and damage. and there is a sort of level of stress that the grid has come under now, which is very difficult to repair, john. >> an attack on the ukrainian people because they refuse to be occupied. clarissa ward in southeastern ukraine, thank you so much for being with us. stay safe. still ahead, more on those bellwether congressional races we mentioned earlier.

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as we mentioned, we're just eight days from the midterms. another tight race we want to focus on tonight is in new jersey's seventh congressional district held by tom malinowski. he's facing a tough re-election bid he says is crucial for democrats. he's calling on the party to take more action. cnn's manu raju has the details. >> reporter: new jersey congressman tom malinowski has a blunt warning for fellow democrats. >> i don't think the democrats can hold onto the house without this district. i think this is a bellwether for the country. >> reporter: just four years ago, malinowski and a crop of democrats swept swing districts in america's suburbs and gave them their first majority in nearly a decade. >> this is where it gets serious. >> reporter: now they could be in danger of being swept away in a red wave. >> this is a district that wants

leaders that gets shit done, not leaders who are batshit crazy. >> reporter: through the northeast, a top krat, new york sean patrick maloney is on the ropes and benefitting from a late infusion of campaign cash from campaign groups, including one he runs. a source tells cnn that the democratic campaign arm is expected to dredge additional resources to give malinowski a late boost. >> if anyone is looking to forward some money our way, we would certainly be receptive to it. >> very nice to meet you. >> reporter: to more rural areas dominated by republicans, he's bracing fair cliff hanger. >> this is basically the median congressional district in america. half of them are more republican. half of them are more democratic. whoever works harder is going to win. >> reporter: facing the same foe

he defeated by just one point two years ago. tom cain jr., the son of ex-governor tom cain. in swing districts like this one, some see another advantage. donald trump is no longer president. >> he's not on the ballot this year. >> that's leonard lance, the ex-gop congressman who lost his seat in 2018 to malinowski amid an anti-trump wave. >> because inflation -- >> reporter: this time there's voter anger over sky-high inflation. >> we have a record of the democratic party in control of both the congress and the presidency. and the overwhelming issue is the state of the economy. >> kean is seeking to ride the national environment while avoiding scrutiny on the trail, rarely holding public events and refusing to tell cnn where he was campaigning. new jersey political watchers say that is not an accident.

>> is this his campaign strategy? to hide? >> i think it is. i think his strategy is kind of like a run out the clock, avoid the local gate keepers. >> reporter: as malinowski has ba ba bashed kaen over abortion rights, republicans are spending millions more than democrats on tv ads here in the final weeks. attacking malinowski for facing a house ethics probe after failing to disclose stock trades during the pandemic as required by law. >> just another insider politician trying to get rich in office. >> all i did was file paperwork late. it's very hard to respond to it unless you put millions of dollars on the air calling out a lie as a lie. >> reporter: manu rah you, new jersey. something sweeter than candy this halloween that could put you on easy street for the rest

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