good morning, everyone. it is saturday, october 22. i m amara walker. i m boris sanchez. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we are grateful you are starting your weekend with us. there is a growing health concern this morning for parents of young children as cases of a common respiratory virus known as rsv are surging across the country. listen to this. 74% of u.s. pediatric hospital beds are currently in use with capacity filling up faster than at any other point in the last two years of the coronavirus pandemic. cases are rising fast. during the first week of october, more than 4,400 rsv infections were detected by pcr tests, more than triple the levels were just two months ago, and some states are already in crisis mode. illinois only has 6% of pediatric icu beds left, and space is running out so fast at the connecticut children s hospital that they have had to treat patients in the hallway and in the play rooms. cnn s brian todd has more. the drive to the emergency r
it s amazing. [laughter] rachel: it is. pete: after the cow saying we need to moo-o-ve on. will: we re having apple cider doughnuts. todd: what a tough day for hegseth, the eater in chief, man, you re missing all the stuff that will mentioned. it s next level. will: yeah. it is a fun day here. it s officially fall, and let s bring in our friend, dan bongino, the host of unfiltered with dan bongino. good morning, dan. rachel: good morning, dan. hey, i was on my phone. oh, yeah, i got a guest date on fox. [laughter] by the way, it was not the producers fault, they only told me five or six items, you re coming up any second now, and i was still on mien phone. this is super important. you know, my family, the bongino crew down here, thinks the world of duffys. we love them to death. they are truly some of the most genuine people they ever meet. i heard a little birdie tell me it is rachel birthday today. it is her 21st, so you can now drink legally. i thought it was a good i
with stress. rachel: it s called cow therapy. it s cow therapy. yes, to rower your low lower your heart rate. i don t know how we all feel right now, but i will, i will say that, you know, it was really fun. and, by the way, i got to feed two of the cows simultaneously. so i guess that s what it feels like to have twins. will: they say the cow s heart rate is lower than ours, so our heart rate will match theirs or slow down. i think their brain waves are also a little slower rachel: do you not love cows? will: i like cows. yeah, i like cows. rachel: and he were rescued from possibly becoming veal. pete: they ve lost their biggest upside. if you had twins, you normally don t slaughter them when they re big and fat and juicy rachel: babies too. pete: these were saved from veal farms, i think, so hair life their life is a little bit better, but they will never be as tasty. [laughter] will: just feels weird. pete: for now, we cuddle with them. rachel: we had goat yoga, an
fox weather reporter robert ray is live in bermuda, what are you seeing this morning? yeah, good morning from bermuda, the small island out in the atlantic ocean, been getting pummelled anyway t by the hurricane issue the category 4 hurricane fiona, it is about parallel with the island of bermuda, look at the video from overnight and the wind is coming in, gusts up to 71 miles per hour and the past few hours that is almost hurricane strength. next two or three hours, it is expected to get more intense and taper off into the afternoon as it makes its way up into canada. if we can, take a look at this sail drone video from out in the atlantic ocean, this was yesterday, just a few hundred miles from the island of bermuda. look at the swells, 50-foot wave and that is happen ing around bermuda, just from the north carolina coast. thus far we are right on the virge of those gusts into the world of hurricanes, hurricane winds are 74 miles per hour and the rain continues to come i