Video taking off 59x its usual first day

Chris Murphy awake and alert after stroke, chief of staff says

LiveNOW from FOX's report carries an update on the Connecticut senator's treatment and messages of support from lawmakers in both parties.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,608,607 views a day, 59 times a normal first day on this channel (27,395).

BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy suffers stroke, hospitalized

LiveNOW from FOX reports that Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy was hospitalized after suffering a stroke on Saturday, citing the Associated Press and The Washington Post.

The report includes a statement from Murphy's chief of staff, Allison Herwitt, saying he experienced numbness in his arm and was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring. She says he is responding well to treatment.

"The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery," Herwitt says in the statement read by the anchor.

The short report drew about 830,000 views in its first eight hours, far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for Shorts.

Much of the segment is devoted to messages from Murphy's colleagues. It displays support from Representative Ro Khanna and Senators Chuck Grassley, John Fetterman, Pete Ricketts and Martin Heinrich. Fetterman's message reflects on his own experience surviving a stroke, while the report brings together well-wishes from both sides of the political aisle.