and welcome to your new day. i m boris sanchez. good morning, boris. i m amara walker. we have new details on the violent attack of nancy pelosi s husband. we have new information and indications about the suspect s motive. and it is the final sprint of the midterm elections with both parties bringing out their closers. their messages and last-minute concerns in some of the key races. plus, the urgent message from the cdc about this year s flu vi virus, and why they re urging everyone to get vaccinated now. and pediatric hospitals pushed to the brink by a surge of rsv patients. your new day starts right now. good morning, everyone, and welcome to your new day. it s saturday, october 29th. always great to be with you, boris. i still don t know what to do with a 50% chance of rain forecast two days from now. give me 40% or 60%. what do i do with that? i m surprised they re not going to take an umbrella with you. i think you re going to be drenched. i m g
quote, it s not my quote just to be very clear. elon musk sending a message moments after taking over twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. happy friday. happy friday to you as well. john berman is off this friday. and the tesla and spacex billionaire, elon musk completing his $44 billion acquisition last night, once in charge musk was quick to show the door to top twitter executives. he fired the company s ceo, the chief financial officer, the chief legal counsel. he first agreed to buy the company all the way back in april and then he spent months trying to get out of the deal. in an effort to reassure advertisers, elon musk posted an open letter explaining why he bought twitter saying, quote, there s currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right and left wing echo chambers that generate hate and divide our society. what happens when one of the world s richest men controls the most influential media platform, joining us
hardest. cnn s adrienne broaddus has more. reporter: good morning, amara and boris. patients who show up in the e.r. will have to pack some patience. a visit to this emergency department might leave you waiting hours. a few hours unfortunately. we do our best to shorten that, but with the overall surge of patients we re seeing at this time, it s very difficult to see people seen immediately when they get to the emergency department. reporter: dr. kim quail is the director of st. louis children s hospital emergency department. she said the number of children treated here is concerning. if you compare volumes to
up here will have to pack some patience. a visit to this emergency department might leave you waiting hours. a few hours, unfortunately, we do our best to shorten that, but just with the overall surge of patients we re seeing at this time it s very difficult to have people seen immediately when they get to an emergency department. reporter: dr. kim quail is the medical director of st. louis hospital emergency department. she said the number of children treated here with rsv is concerning. we re seeing about a 300% increase in rsv cases. it s just a very striking peak and we don t know if we peaked yet. reporter: respiratory syncytial virus, or rsv, is most serious in infants, young children, elderly people and those with weakened immune systems.