several more weeks before residents out here start to notice some of the debris being picked up out of their neighborhoods. alex and brianna, right now residents on fort myers beach they re only allowed onto the barrier island five days a week, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., then they have to get out. the other two days are set aside for crews working on the power grid, water system and trying to get the debris out of fort myers beach. devastating scenes and stories. that is a long road to recovery. carlos suarez, thank you very much. new day continues right now. let s also talk about the elephant in the room. i had a stroke. he s never let me forget that. and i might miss some words during this debate. mush two words together. but it knocked me down but i m going to keep coming back up. i m running for the u.s.
look at me. we took a look, and our heart breaks for you but we re not comfortable, i think is going to be the consensus. let me ask you another question. we were speaking with a doctor who was talking about recovery can take up to 18 months, right. he s at the five month mark. where do you think voters look, voters aren t a monolith. but a lot of people have experience with people in their lives recovering from strokes. where do you think the patient s level is going to be with voters thinking he might be in a better place in a couple months. maybe this isn t a cognitive thing and it is just expressive. i went through this with someone close to me, who went through a stroke, so i know of what you speak. i bet most of us have someone who was stroke afflicted. here s the answer, at what point do i, as a pennsylvanian, say i respect it s going to take a
there have been moments where he s had these interviews, but they have been tightly controlled. we ve seen the letter from i think it s his gp, who s talked to his other specialists, but the letter is not from the specialist, we have not seen the medical records. my point is, we didn t know what we were going to get until last night. and i think it was different than what some people were expecting. it s difficult to discuss. to even have this, i think, objective conversation is to be accused of ablism. i don t think that s what it is. i think that had john fetterman been more forthcoming from the get go a about the timing of the stroke because there was a 48 or so hour time period. it was the final weekend of the primary he didn t let us know he had a stroke. the underlying need for a defrishly later was not revealed. he s not been transparent. his answer last night was to
and we learned he has a cardio mie oyopthy. so there are underlying health conditions but if people are assessing cognition, that should be apparent in the way he s understanding and able to answer questions regardless of how the speech is happening. the expressive communication we see issues with. but just to under line. on the cognition, his understanding once he had the accommodation of the closed captioning, you weren t seeing issues with that. he said he had two cognitive tests. we haven t seen the results. good point. it s difficult again to assess that based on what we re watching. i think, that s unfortunately, what people are going to be left with, in terms of making the decision. it s unusual for people to recover from a stroke in public. there s an article in the atlantic that the headline said
brain associated with language, that s that section of the brain. it s not affecting the motor or cognitive function. so while somebody has difficulty understanding or speaking that does not translate to their ability to make decisions or to, you know, their intelligence level or anything having to do with their cognition. in addition i think there is a recurrent risk of stroke we need to be clear and honest about. we know that patients who have had strokes can have strokes again, that s a risk factor. if their risk factors are definitely well controlled, that risk of recurrent stroke drops to 10%. if not, it can be in the teens. certainly he has atrial fibrillation, that can lead to stroke, and it did in his case because he was not on blood thinners at the time, which can be protective. patients who are on blood thinners you drop the risk of recurrent stroke by about 50%.