The baby in the photo is very small and surely under 5 pounds. Assuming that his twin is also small, in a normal scenario they’d be in incubators for the first few days at least. That and the alertness and I’d tend to agree they could be more than 5 days old.
It seems that the criteria for being a news reporter these days is not so much have the intellect and insight to ferret out the real story but rather passing a political litmus test.