Senator Chris Murphy Hospitalized After Suffering Stroke

Fifty-three-year-old Senator Chris Murphy is currently recovering at Johns Hopkins after suffering a stroke on Saturday afternoon. The fifty-three-year-old Democrat felt numbness in his arm while sitting at his son's hockey game. That matched the arm weakness sign in the American Stroke Association acronym BE FAST. His chief of staff confirmed he is expected to make a full recovery. Stroke remains the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. It killed more than one hundred sixty-two thousand people in twenty-three.