mourns. customs and border protection stopped more than 230,000 migrants at the southern border in october. it marks the third highest month of illegal border crossings during the joe biden s presidency. october saw fewer venezuelas after the administration introduced new asylum restrictions but saw an increase in arrivals from cuba, nicaragua, and colombia. weekly flu cases, hospitalizations and deaths have nearly doubled for the second week in a row according to the cdc. so far this season there have been at least 2.8 million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations, and 1,300 deaths from flu. the hospitalization figure is doubled from one week ago and is now the highest hospitalization rate this early in the flu season since 2010. according to cdc data, the southeast is currently the hardest hit area of the country. willie. and just ahead of the busy
home depot reported earnings today, strong numbers but less people going into the stores, the volume, the amount of traffic in the stores coming down, the number of purchases coming down, yet what they ve been able to do is pass those costs on to consumers. the question is, come next year, are there going to be less people in the store and can they still pass those costs on to consumers. if they can t, in some ways that represents good news because it means that the inflation piece of this will start to subside. cnbc s andrew ross sorkin, than you very much. coming up, nbc s keir simmons brings us the story of a girls school in kenya where an inspiring head mistress is a role model for girls facing dire situations. as we go to break, a big headline out of california. officials there are reporting an unprecedented rise in flu cases that are reaching levels not seen in years, a positivity rate in l.a. county alone now at 25%.
severe heart disease, for example. and it does work. and it does make it milder. but, no, that vaccine is yet to come. why are we seeing such a spike in, you know, some new children kind of flooding into the emergency rooms with rsv. and here in atlanta, you know, i ve been speaking with the children s health care of atlanta, they re saying that the shift this week has been now a majority of flu cases. last week, it was rsv. but i know there s a lot of talk about the immunity gap, covid forcing a lot of people to wear masks. a lot of people still exposed to a lot of these virus, sometimes, their immune system not as strong to deal with all of this. would you say, though, that the various is also mutating or getting stronger? is that why we re seeing such a spike? no, i don t think so. up here in the northeast, we re still seeing the predominance of
have had on one s immune system, making you more susceptible. that makes so much sense. so flu season also, you know, ramping up early this year, and cdc data shows it s been more than a decade since flu hospitalization rates have been this high at this point in the season. do you apply the same kind of logic that you did for rsv? the burden of flu cases right now is actually a bit eyebrow raising. it hasn t been this bad since the 2009 h 1 n 1 pandemic. flu is hard to predict. in the southern hemisphere, if we use those countries as an example, australia had a sharp uptick in cases such as we are seeing here, but then a very quick dropoff. we can use chile. they protected their population