support of his family, it s really this entire community here in plains, georgia. as we speak to people, they truly revere him. they are still amazed decades later about the way in which this one-time peanut farmer ascended to the presidency. there s a great little restaurant just down the block here, a southern restaurant called bonita s. listen to what the restaurant owner told us. we want to hear him because he was doing the sunday school classes. so we did. we got up real early. and the people, the church was already packed. so we had to go in the overflow. and i said, oh, we have to go in the overflow. but guess what. there he was, teaching from the overflow. so i had first-hand looking right in his face, you know, as he taught the sunday school class. that was a great experience for my children, who are all grown now. so you hear the excitement there from bonita.
he absolutely was. his dad was a peanut farmer. i m so touched, seeing that and hearing from bonita. she was so well spoken and what she said was really moving. thank you. we turn now to senator john fetterman, one of his aides tells the wall street journal the pennsylvania democrat could spend weeks or more than a month in the hospital for clinical depression. his treatment is raises questions about the possible connection with strokes. elizabeth cohen joins us. walk us through what we know. in fetterman s case, he had a history of depression. his spokesperson said that he has a stroke and now he s getting treatment for clinical depression. right, pamela. it is not unusual for people who have had a stroke to suffer from depression. let s take a look at that number. 1 out of 3 stroke survivors experience depression afterwards. one out of three. now, sometimes that s because
restaurant. the owner there telling us about her connection to that family. this town just a few hundred people. he is deeply revered here. people em menacely proud that a former peanut farmer could ascend to the presidency, abby. yeah. they absolutely are. he is really a small town man through and through. he s so beloved in plains. tell us more about his connection to this town, his family s connection there and what his life has been like there as he s gone well into his old age, just living a very simple life. reporter: he has. most of his life post presidency has really been defined by his humanitarian work. we are in spitting distance of where he went to high school. we are not far from a train station that actually was also the site of his campaign headquarters in 1976. what we have seen is people come by all morning and afternoon to visit that as they are
sunday school where he began teaching in the 1980s. the carters and georgia, it s such a close relationship. yeah, he sure was missed, especially when you speak to residents here. it was at the sunday school where they may have interacted with them, some of them telling me they brought their kids so they could listen to the former president. i want to give you a sense of the community of plains, georgia, just a few hundred folks living here. as many folks know, the former president was a former peanut farmer, and all day long we have seen peanut trucks coming by here, pretty much peanuts and lumber is all we have seen come back and forth down this road. here is main street. on the other end of main street you have a train depot, and that depot also served as former president carter s campaign headquarters in the 1970s. on main street, it s peppered with cute different little
sunday, february 19th. a new week. we are so grateful that you are starting it with us. good morning. great to be with you as always. good morning to you. we begin in plains, georgia, where the family of former president jimmy carter says the 98-year-old will begin receiving hospice care at his home. a peanut farmer and navy lieutenant before going into politics, the democrat eventually served one term adds governor of georgia and one as president of the united states from 1977 to 1981. yesterday the carter center released a statement, quote, after a series of short hospital stays, former u.s. president jimmy carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and to receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. he has the full support of his family and medical team. carter, who turned 98 last year, became the oldest living u.s. president in history in 2018