Setting Up Spacex News Today

good morning, everyone. it is saturday, october 22. im amara walker. >> im 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...

Have raised questions about whether the u.s. government should partner at all with elon musk on a sensitive operation given his volatility in dealings with the u.s. government. as cnn reported last week, musks company, spacex, had been asking the pentagon to foot the bill for starlink services in ukraine. after that report musk withdrew that request by twitter saying he would continue funding the technology himself and creating even more uncertainty as one source put it us to, quote, ukraine nee...

From kyiv in ukraine. thank you. new this morning, cnn has learned that the white house is engaged in talks with elon musk about the possibility of setting up spacexs starlink the previously unreported conversations come as the biden administration searches for ways to support the ongoing protests in iran over the death of 22-year-old mahsa amini who died while being detained by tehrans so-called morality police. cnns natasha bertrand has the latest. >> reporter: the biden administration offic...