polls in a snap election. we re live in rome with a look at the deepening political divide in the country. and nasa will test out a mission that sounds straight out of a hollywood movie, a spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid s moon. a look at the upcoming mission. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we are expecting an update at any moment from the national hurricane center with the latest forecast track of tropical storm ian which could be the first major hurricane to hit florida in four years. we begin in eastern canada where hundreds of thousand right side still without power. fiona is now a post tropical cyclone and continues to move through the region. hurricane force winds battered the maritimes as the storm made landfall saturday, the strongest storm on record to hit dan da s atlantic coast, huge waves battered the coastline causing severe flooding. police posted photos of destruction saying condition
the past two years. 74% of pediatric hospital beds are full across the country. cnn s brian todd has more on this troubling surge. the drive to the emergency room was really scary and really intense. this mother of a 5-year-old, who was hospitalized with difficulty breathing told us of an anxious drive to the emergency room. things eventually got worse since we were admitted. i see starting last night he is progressively having a harder time breathing. rsv is one of the scariest infections in a child, especially when it s in your baby. you feel the baby breathing really, really fast, and you feel there s nothing you can do. reporter: around the country, a spike in rsv, a common respiratory illness that is occasionally severe in babies and young children. pediatric hospital beds are more full now than the past two years. some children s hospitals are overwhelmed, scrambling to make tents. one key reason is because kids are back in school after the pandemic. many chil
john kerr by joining us live. herschel walker accused of extreme hypocrisy. his denial and what his son is saying today. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. more than 400,000 florida res departments are still without power, six days after hurricane ian made landfall. for floridians, the reality it could take years to rebuild. shaq brewster has been speaking with residents in ft. myers beach. how difficult is it to drive through viewing the damage, living with it. reporter: so much damage. especially when you move away from the beach. we are three miles from the beach, two miles from the river. i wanted you to see the extent of the daniel here. every house in the neighborhood, literally every house in the neighborhood you are seeing what it looks like their house, the full home outside on the front lawn. right here behind me, this is the first time that we have seen a fema team in this neighborhood. neighbors saying it s the first time they have seen a
countries, two americans among them. a far right rebuke in the world s fourth biggest democracy. brazil s bolsonaro beaten in his re-election runoff. what could be a big blow to diversity at colleges. today the u.s. supreme court considers ending affirmative action. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. the death toll is now at least 154 in south korea s crowd surge. making it one of the country s worst ever disasters. this morning south korea s president and first lady laying flowers at a memorial alter in front of seoul city hall as the nation begins a week-long period of mourning. senior international correspondent ivan watson is live for us in seoul this morning. are investigators making progress on figuring out what sparked this crowd surge? reporter: we re not hearing any conclusive details about that. i do think that the shock of the scale of this tragedy is still sinking in. i m here just basically a few step
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