we begin with an alarming outbreak that has some u.s. hospitals struggling. the common but potentially deadly respiratory virus called rsv is spreading rapidly among children. doctors telling cnn the spike is unprecedented for this time of year. cnn s brian todd has more on this troubling surge. the drive to the emergency room was really scary and really intense. reporter: this mother of a 5-year-old who was hospitalized with difficulty breathing told us of an anxious drive to the emergency room. things eventually had gotten worse since we were admitted. i have seen starting last night that he is progressively having a harder time breathing. rsv is one of the scariest infections in a child, especially when it s in your baby. so you will see your baby breathing really, really fast and you feel like there is nothing that you can do. reporter: around the country doctors are reporting a spike in cases of rsv, respiratory syncytial virus, a common respiratory illness tha
Tournts, not so much. how sustainable is that, in your view? i think what we re seeing is we are beginning to see reports out of russia that say that they have actually worked their way through many of their higher capability munitions, especially long-range munitions like the caliber and other cruise missiles. those are very expensive for anybody to produce. if your country is under sanctions and having the economic problems that russia is having, they will be less and less capable of producing them. they will have to turn elsewhere or, as noted earlier, go back to these cold war-era 1950s, 1960s produced weapons, which again is just shocking to people who thought that the russian military was, you know, this great modern force. it s clearly not. youturning out to be reveali in so many ways. steve hall, thank you so much. all right. still ahead, the january 6th committee making good on their promise, hitting former president donald trump with a subpoena to testify and to hand
Their daughter who died of leukemia at the age of 3. we ll continue to follow this. the sixth day of hon moring and remembering the 41st president of the united states. there s much anticipation at this hour as we re nearing the close of a pivotal week in the special counsel s investigation. just days after robert mueller s team filed that heavily redacted and yet reveali ining sentencin memo, deadline vs been set for two other high profile defendants in the russia probe. we know that tomorrow robert mueller must file similar memos on trump s personal attorney, michael cohen by 5:00 p.m. that s end of business an another for paul manafort by midnight although they could be filed together. in flynn s case, we waited into the evening to read the recommendation for a lenient