Tonight online lion under a state of emergency we spend 48 hours inside bostons hardest hit emergency rooms. Children, parents and doctors are fighting a raging flu outbreak. Shrink that bill. Want to pay less but keep talking . Our phone Company Insider has secret tips and he saved this family over 1,000. And it may have won big at the Golden Globes but argo is sparking international backlash. Iran is making their own version of the hostage drama. From new york city this is nightline with bill weir. The country is in the midst of one of the worst flu seasons in recent memory with 47 states reporting widespread cases. Boston is struggling to manage the sheer number of patients and Lindsay Davis spent 48 hours with the doctors and patients in bostons emergency rooms. Fevers as well . On and off, yeah. Not any higher than 102. Reporter cassie looks how many in boston feel. This twoyearold is in boston Childrens Hospital emergency room. Shes a toddler with a cold. Shell kick it soon but it has gotten really bad. Reporter dr. Ann steck recognizes the symptoms. I think its influenza because of the high fever and cough. Reporter cassie was born prematurely putting her in the highest risk category for serious complications and she is in a city under siege. Where the mayor has declared a Public Health emergency in the midst of this contagious and fastmoving flu. This flu seems to have just spread really rapidly through large numbers of people. There are so many more people with it. Reporter so nightline spent the next 48 hours documenting this city in crisis. Witnessing firsthand the human toll of the outbreak. Children ive been throwing up and stuff. Reporter parents hes just not better. Reporter and Health Workers with the flu. We met those who have caught it. This is the flu. Thats what you got. Oh, my god. Reporter and those trying to avoid it. How was that . Reporter nationwide the flu has sickened thousands and killed at least 20 children. There we go. Reporter doctors dont waste any time treating cassie. They admit her immediately and they have company, a lot of it, kids with sniffles, fevers and coughs in every room. We are at full capacity. The hospital is completely full. Reporter all of bostons world famous hospitals are operating in overdrive. 750 confirmed cases this season. A tenfold increase from this time last year. How crazy is it right now . This is my 20th winter i dont remember seeing anything like this in 20 years. Reporter at mass general, there were 72 confirmed cases last week alone. Shane wells fears his chills, sweats and his cough means he is another one of bostons latest statistics. Why did you come to the hospital . Trying to get back to work. Reporter shane has a temperature of 104 degrees and has been out of work for four days. Costing me financially and enough time and maybe my job. Reporter shane is tested for the flu. And the results are back in just ten minutes. We have a red line above the blue line which indications that the person has flu. Reporter its positive but theres not much doctors can do for him. He is past the 48 hour window when medication could have treated the virus effectively. Wear the mask in public and try to keep yourself away from people washing your hands all the time. Reporter shane is sent home. Meanwhile four miles away at Childrens Hospital, cassie needs chest xrays, her lungs full of mucus. I want her to get better. Reporter because she is dehydrated with low blood oxygen she has to stay in the hospital overnight. Its going to be a long night for her mom. Hi jason. Reporter just down the hall is kayson page born with congenital heart disease. The flu can be a matter of life and death. The main thing that worries me is how many deaths have happened from it. I dont want him to be number 19 or whatever. Reporter he was discharged yesterday but after repeat vomiting his parents bring him back to the e. R. An exhausting and scary process. He gets sick off a simple cold or Something Like that and i dont want to know what the flu would do to him. Reporter at brigham and womens hospital. Do you feel out of breath . Reporter at 1 00 in the afternoon, this section of the e. R. Has seen eight flu patients. Have you had troubles with your bowels before . Reporter dr. Walls pays attention a elderly patients who are at high risk. 18 people have died from the flu in massachusetts. The best way to protect yourself . Get a flu shot. Reporter just six miles away at the east Boston NeighborhoodHealth Center people are taking that advice to heart. There have been four episodes of children sick at the school. I dont want them to catch it. If its a flu shot and vitamin c they will be great. Reporter they have given out 20,000 flu shots this season. We dont usually have to do big clinics like this. But when there is a need like this year when the flu is severe we want to vaccinate people we are happy to do this. What do you think, little lady . Reporter the next day we caught up with cassie still at Childrens Hospital now in intensive care. She had the mucus drained from her lungs and starting to improve. Things are headed in the right direction. You know, only time will tell in terms of whether we go home monday, tuesday. Well be happy to have her home. Reporter but what a difference a day makes for shane wells who felt awful as he was discharged 24 hours ago. Feeling a lot better. Got my energy back and i pretty much feel, you know, 80 . Reporter the biggest relief for shane . I think ill be all right to go back to work tomorrow. Reporter and a decline in admissions over the weekend suggests things are look up in this city that is sick and tired of being sick. Im Lindsay Davis for nightline in boston. 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I have since simmered down, he adds in a british fashion. And canadians dont love argo either. Their ambassador was reduced to a bit part player. They made a tv movie called escape from iran the canadian caper. Now bold ben previewed argo in toronto. He got steak and amended the postscript caption to give canada a little more credit. And in iran they dont like argo at all. Its banned and they claim the great satan gave away tickets to fill theaters for this quote, ahistoric work of propaganda. The government green lit a different version of the events. The movie entitled the general staff will be released. Ben affleck has spurned a diplomatic brouhaha. I think this is a tremendous badge of honor. So why and iran so offended . First of all, iran has a rich history of slowmoving allegorical cinematic masterpieces. The rule is dont be boring and entertain your audience. Those are the rules. I tell my students dont believe movies. Reporter al qaeda could remake zero dark thirty Osama Bin Laden gets away at the end. Good luck to them. Affleck took some liberties. Thats fine. There was a movie called we bought a zoo its based on a true story. The only part that is true is a guy who bought a zoo. Its called dramatic license. Reporter and the iranians are no stranger to dramatic license. This is an intelligent minister cartoon showing john mccain in the white house trying to stir pan iranian revolution. They understand bending the truth. Do they think that affleck was mocking their president but looking like him . Im being silly. The problem is that history is usual written and movies usually made by the victor. But what happened in 1979 when the americans stormed the embassy that still aint over. The iranians take this too seriously. For the american movie telling a story from an American Point of view. A real movie argo about a fake movie argo is being remade because the iranians say the real movie about the fake movie isnt true. You couldnt make this stuff up. Actually you could. It would be a great movie. Im nick watt for nightline in hollywood. You can teach a rhesus monkey to be a director. This morning Robin Roberts appeared on Good Morning America to share exciting news. I can begin the process of returning to the anchor chair. Im coming