Roller coaster election season. Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are hunkered down, plotting strategy for their first debate on tuesday in philadelphia. The latest polling from New York Times and Sienna College suggest for all of the excitement surrounding harrisentry into the race in july the race remains a dead heat with neither candidate holding a significant at vantage either nationwide or in key states. Donating millions of democratic candidates to take on maga republican candidates as the state and local level. Joining me now is North Carolina Attorney general the democratic governor. And before we get started to your governors race. North carolina is in the News Week as the Vice President first stop in her Barnstorming Tour after the debate. Polls show a tight race between her and trump in North Carolina. But also in other Swing States. What do you think North Carolina is the vps and we do you think it is the vps first stop post debate. Reporter polls
good morning, everyone. it is saturday, october 22. i m amara walker. i m boris sanchez. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we are grateful you are starting your weekend with us. there is a growing health concern this morning for parents of young children as cases of a common respiratory virus known as rsv are surging across the country. listen to this. 74% of u.s. pediatric hospital beds are currently in use with capacity filling up faster than at any other point in the last two years of the coronavirus pandemic. cases are rising fast. during the first week of october, more than 4,400 rsv infections were detected by pcr tests, more than triple the levels were just two months ago, and some states are already in crisis mode. illinois only has 6% of pediatric icu beds left, and space is running out so fast at the connecticut children s hospital that they have had to treat patients in the hallway and in the play rooms. cnn s brian todd has more. the drive to the emergency r
unpredictable things happen ever two years. having said that, it will be a real shoif the democrats hold t house. the republicans only need net five seats. i would be surprised if they didn t pick up multiples of the number that they need. so even 49, 46 seems close and the overall polling average has democrats and republicans tied around 46% for the house. but that isn t good enough for democrats. they need a lead, a substantial lead of at least several points, maybe more than that, in the generic ballot and they don t have it. now, you know, there are two weeks remaining. president biden was right the other day when he said there is still enough time for another shift. we have had a roller coaster election. democrats ahead, republicans ahead, the democrats ahead, now republicans ahead. so the final two weeks are absolutely critical for early voting and for the election day vote. too early to call things definitively, but i think the republicans are clear favorites