refusal to testify before the january 6th select committee and his failure to turn over documents. let s begin this morning outside the u.s. district court in washington, d.c. cnn political correspondent sara murray is there. how is all of this expected to play out today? reporter: well, you know, look, steve bannon is here in court, we expect this could take a couple of hours. what we know is that steve bannon is trying to get out of any kind of jail time. he was convicted on two counts for refusing to show up for a subpoena to testify before congress and refusing to hand over documents. the government has asked that he spend six months behind bars and they said he should pay a $200,000 fine. now, bannon s team has said, look, at the most he should get probation, he listened to his attorneys advice and if you are going to put him behind bars it should be house arrest only. they are also saying bannon plans to appeal his conviction and they re saying that any punishment he
a committee member joins us with more on that. and russia and chichina s leaders are meeting face to face. and speak with foreign relations committee chair bob menendez about it. today is day one of hispanic heritage month. we ll talk about efforts to address mental health access for latinos. plus thousands of people lining up for hours to pay their respects as the queen lies in state. we ll go live to london. we begin this hour with two buss with people who had crossed the border in texas arriing near the residence of vice president harris in washington, d.c. this according to fox news. they were reportedly sent by texas governor greg abbott, who has also sent buss with migrants to new york city in an effort to pressure the biden administration on immigration. this morning new york city mayor eric adams toured a center that s now helping those who were bussed there. el paso also bussed people theres last month. in florida the office of governor ron desantis provided
flu season tracks through may. we re only in december. a long way to go. we are absolutely looking towards a rough patch this year. oh, my goodness. hhs data is showing less than half of the population actually got their annual flu shots. i wonder if people are feeling very fatigued, getting covid vaccines, getting boosters. are people throwing up their arms and saying, yet another shot? flu? i don t wanna. people are fatigued, you are absolutely correct. there is also this anti-science, anti-vax movement. we have to make sure the scientific voices are heard. people with scientific backgrounds are leading these discussions as opposed to people with large platforms but no scientific credentials. we have to make certain that we understand that vaccines do save lives. we have seen the covid vaccine really be responsible for saving
difficulties for us because, again, our beds are filled to capacity, the kids keep coming in so we have had a situation where we have to expand our services in a way that we can provide all the care for the individuals that are coming in with rsv. i ve been doing this for a long time, having at connecticut children s for 25 years and i have never seen this level of surge specifically of rsv coming into our hospital. cnn medical correspondent dr. tara narula is here with the details. a cnn analysis of new hhs data shows children are filling hospital beds more now than over the past two years of the pandemic. i m hearing anecdotally from friends, too, whose children are suffering with this, one had to be hospitalized. why are we seeing a spike in cases? we have done covid mitigation strategies really well over the last couple years so kids normally get exposed to rsv and almost all of us have it before we reach the age of two, but because of what we ve done in the past two years we v
and turning now to new data from the department of health and human services showing the new 988 suicide hotline is already reaching more americans in distress than the ten-digit lifeline in july. in august the first full month of operations, npr reports calls for help in english and spanish were made up by more than50% compared to the old line at the same time last year. the average response time went from over two minutes on the old line to under 45 seconds on the new one. with us now is the secretary of health and human services. let s talk about this very important lifeline. what s so different about it? the difference is that when people call, we re reaching them. they are actually getting to talk to a counsellor and professional that will help them. so if you re going to be strong enough in your hardest moments to reach out for help, we ll be there. hhs data says almost 1