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hello. thank you for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with the husband of house speaker nancy pelosi recovering in a hospital after a violent attack at the couple s san francisco home early friday morning. a spokesman for the speaker says 82-year-old paul pelosi underwent successful surgery for a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hand. police say a man broke into his home just after 2:00 a.m. friday and attacked him with a hammer. sources say paul pelosi was able to call 911 at the start of the attack and officers responded quickly, taking the suspect into custody. cnn s josh campbell has the details from san francisco. reporter: 82-year-old paul pelosi the husband of house speaker nancy pelosi undergoing surgery after being eviolently attacked with a hammer say the the pelosi s san francisco home. speaker pelosi was in washington at the time. special call, medic, location reporter: police found paul pelosi fendi ....
archaeologists are still unlocking the secrets of king tut s tomb. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone we re heading into the final weekend of campaign 2022. now four days before the election that will decide which party will control the levers of power in washington down the stretch, democrats who have faced headwinds over a fragile economy got a brief reprieve in the form of strong jobs numbers. 261,000 jobs added last month while the drama builds in those key georgia races. warnock versus walker. and pennsylvania, fetterman versus oz. oprah winfrey offering a late endorsement in that contest today the importance of that state to both parties made clear as presidents biden, trump and obama hit the ground in pa over the weekend on behalf of their candidates. peter alexander is there tonight. reporter: tonight the political power players, presidents past and present prepared to converge on pennsylvania. as republicans blame democrat ....
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Still relatively low. the week of november 26th, there were 33,000 people admitted to the hospital with covid, 33,000, and that s up 27% from the previous week. so really what you can do here is make sure that you are up to date on your covid vaccinations, make sure that you get a flu vaccine and really that s all you can do and hopefully they can manage to nip this in the bud early. elizabeth, we know that children have been hit hard with the respiratory virus, rsv this season. how are kids doing with the flu this season? you know, there s also some pretty high numbers for the flu. jake, i think that sometimes people forget that children get the flu. let s take a look at this graph and you ll understand what i mean. that top line, that red line, that s flu hospitalization rates for the elderly, for people over 65. but right next to it, the next line under, is the yellow line ....
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 ....