there are chilling new details about his alleged plan to take the house speaker nancy pelosi hostage and break her kneecaps. we re standing by for a live update from san francisco officials. also tonight, the final frantic eight days of campaigning before the crucial midterm elections. tensions ratcheted higher as federal officials now warn of a heightened threat to the election from violent extremists here in the united states. the homeland security secretary mayorkas joins me this hour. plus, growing misery in ukraine right now as russia steps up its attacks on vital infrastructure. much of the capital city is without water tonight and officials warn they re running out of equipment to repair the country s devastated power grid. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story tonight. the suspect in the paul pelosi attack now facing federal charges. prosecutors
excuse the attack are spinning new conspiracies, fueled by partial information and outright false reporting. listen to this police dispatch call of the incident. he stated that he doesn t know who the man is. his name is david and that he is a friend. he sounded somewhat confused. reporter: a law enforcement source told the los angeles times, investigators believe he was giving coded information while trying to de-escalate the situation. right wing litter tweets lit up with the word friend, suggesting pelosi knew his attacker, which the san francisco police chief told cnn is not true. as a matter of fact, the evidence indicates the exact opposite. reporter: then a local fox news station incorrectly reported then retracted information, saying the attacker was in his underwear. again, false. but it s led to popular far right figures, like former trump officials, and even trump s son to insinuate pelosi and his attack were were romantically
we re back with more breaking news on this friday afternoon. thank you for being with me. i m brooke baldwin. . here s what we have out of philadelphia. this u.s.ist-inspired gunman shooting a police officer 13 times at point-blank range all in the name of islam. the horror of the assassination captured on video surveillance. the would-be culler running up to the driver s side firing round after round after round. you can see in the images here the shooter with his hands, his pistol, look at this. basically elbow deep inside this patrol car. the police commissioner calls the scariest thing he s ever seen. the terror unfold iing in a frantic police dispatch call. shots fired. i m shot. i m bleeding heavily. all cars standby.