Transcripts For KPIX CBS Evening News With Jeff Glor 20180202

Little daredevilish in you. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor and this is our western edition. Good evening. The flu is epidemic in this country, and one reason is, the vaccine is not working very well. A canadian study out today found its effective only 17 of the time. Last year here in the u. S. , the flu vaccine was 34 effective. Hospitals right now are struggling to keep up. Here is mark strassmann. At atlantas Grady Memorial Hospital has been overwhelmed by the h3n2 virus. Starting this week, staff have quarantined new flu patients in this separate mobile hospital, typically reserved for disasters like hurricanes. So weve had, you know, id say about a 25 increase, on certain days. Reporter dr. Hany atallah is gradys chief of emergency medicine. We physically just need the space to put a patient in. This is going to help solve g at. Reporter what has not been as helpful as hoped is this years flu vaccine. Canadian researchers reported today that its less than 20 hafective against the flus most dominant strain. In georgia, this flu epidemic has killed 37 people, 25 of them aged 65 or older. In neighboring north carolina, ris state has reported 95 flu deaths. In all, 49 states have reported widespread flu outbreaks, and Health Officials say the flu thasons peak is two to three weeks away. It is a really terrible flu season. Reporter katherine lockler, atfrustrated nurse in pensacola, recorded this youtube flu warning that now has more than three million views. And there is it is a osspool of flu, a cesspool of funky flu at the e. R. Right now. Ou, please dont bring your team in. Please dont bring your healthy children, especially your newborn babies, into the emergency room. Reporter children can be such germ magnets that grady hospital here has banned patient tsits from anyone under the age of 14. And, jeff, georgia Health Officials told us the state ofpects to break its record of 59 flu deaths, and soon. Glor all right, mark, thank you very much tonight. Joining us now, dr. Tara narula, our cbs news medical contributor. A cesspool never sounds good. No, it does not. Glor heed her advice. What do we take away from this report . Right, so, were all looking about, what is the vaccine effectiveness going to be in this country . We have australia, last season, that tells us their vaccine effectiveness against h3n2, the predominant strain, was about 10 . Now canadian data telling us in their interim analysis its r out 10 to 20 . We will have information from the c. D. C. Released in about one to two weeks, that will give us some more stats for whats going on here. Bottom line, we need a better vaccine. We need a universal vaccine. We need better production of the vaccine. Glor but as you know, these low, low, numbers people say, why even get the vaccine . And thats the problem. So, for someone sitting at home right now hearing this, who e snt gotten vaccinated, i iink that would be the wrong wrssage to take away, that i shouldnt get vaccinated because its not effective. Every Public Health official in the c. D. C. Will say theres still benefit. Theres benefit because 17 overall effectiveness is better than nothing. E eres benefit because it can decrease the severity of the symptoms, it can decrease your iosk of complications. T d it can also protect you inainst the other strains, influenza b, and h1n1. So please, get your shot, even if the effectiveness is low. So glor okay, dr. Narula. Thank you very much for being here. There was a School Shooting today, the third in less than two weeks. Police believe a girl, believed to be 12 years old, fired at l,assmates at the Salvador Castro Middle School near downtown los angeles. Mireya villarreal is there. Reporter the call for help came in just before 9 00 a. M. As a parent, this is everyones worstcase nightmare. Reporter Police Believe the shooter is a 12yearold girl. One of the Main Missions is the issue of finding out how a ccung person had access to a weapon. And i assure you, if we find out it came from an adult, from a home, that the proper prosecutorial procedures will occur. Reporter two older students in a classroom were shot, one in the head. Three other people sustained minor injuries. Officers responded quickly, searching nearby classrooms and students for any additional weapons. Id they want our kids to stay in thool for the rest of the day, but i dont understand how you can expect our kids under these circumstances, theyre going to sit in class. Reporter many parents who tced to the school were stuck waiting at this nearby softball field for hours. T you see it on tv and then its, you know, its actually happening here, and its just scary. Its like, this worlds crazy now. Reporter a bit of good news, though, jeff. Doctors say the boy who was shot in the head is very lucky the bullet did not hit any vital parts. Hes expected to make a full recovery. The other victims are in stable condition. Police do not have a motive at this time, but they continue to investigate and interview ,itnesses. Glor mireya villarreal, thank you very much. President trump is expected to authorize the release tomorrow of a classified memo about the russia investigation written by the chairman of the house intelligence committee. Democrats and the f. B. I. Are objecting. Here is justice correspondent jeff pegues. How much did you like the memo . Reporter the impending release of the memo touched raw nerves as the white house batted ecwn rumors f. B. I. Director Christopher Wray was going to quit in protest. Releasing the information, which is based on classified intelligence, is unusual. It all goes back to president trumps 2016 campaign, when the f. B. I. And the department of justice went to the foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, or fisa court, to approve a warrant to monitor thentrump Campaign Adviser carter page, who was suspected of having illegal contacts with russian operatives. The fourpage memo, authorized by republican congressman devin nunes, outlines alleged surveillance abuses, and it has deepened a severe partisan divide. Democrat adam schiff says it presents a distorted and unfair picture of how the f. B. I. Behaved, and jeopardizes the special counsels russia rdvestigation. They ought to be sending the message instead to the white inuse that, were the president to fire bob mueller or rod rosenstein, that would be considered obstruction of justice, and it would bring down the administration. Reporter House Speaker paul ryan denies its politically motivated. This memo is not indictment p the f. B. I. , of the department of justice. What it is, is the congress legitimate function of oversight to make sure that the fisa process is being used correctly. Reporter whether the f. B. I. Director will go to the mat to prevent the memos release remains an open question. Chris swecker is a former assistant director of the bureau. Im not sure that this is that dieintheditch moment for chris wray. I think he would resign if this were something that he really, ally felt strongly about. Reporter tonight, former f. B. I. Director james comey, who was fired by the president , neighed in, tweeting, American History shows that in the long run, weasels and liars never hold the field so long as good people stand up. That is a reflection of how e tense this controversy has now become. Jeff. Glor jeff pegues, thank you very much. As former gymnastics doctor larry nassar awaits a third sentence in michigan for sexually abusing young patients, there are more indications tonight, he could have been stopped. Here is dr. Jon lapook. We let you down, brianna. Reporter meridian townships manager, frank walsh, publicly apologized to one of Larry Nassars victims today. In 2004, 17yearold Brianne Randall complained to police that nassar had sexually abused her. We were deceived. We wish we had this one back. I was very upset, and i wanted answers. O reporter randall was one of 156 victims who spoke at last g. Eks sentencing hearing. She saw nassar for back pain. Sadly, they took your word instead of mine. Reporter according to the 2004 Police Report released wednesday, randall told police dhe was scared and uncomfortable after nassar squeezed her breasts and was trying to put his finger in her vagina. Nassar admitted touching randall in the genital area, but claimed to an officer, it was a medical technique, showing him a niwerpoint presentation written by nassar himself. Him and the police instructed my parents that this was a legitimate medical procedure. At that point in time, it should have immediately been taken down to the prosecutors office, and it wasnt. Reporter 12 more years would go by with nassar continuing to sexually abuse young women. I am so hurt to hear that so many women and young girls suffered abuse as a result of the inaction in 2004. Reporter do you think, what if . What if they had just believed me and pursued it . I think what if all the time. I wish i would have gone in there and questioned what the police were telling my parents. Reporter today, one of nassars attorneys was interviewed on a radio station. Shannon smith questioned whether all the girls who came forward were really sexually abused. Later, nassar put out a statement saying he did not know smith was going to say that and did not authorize her to do so. Jeff. Glor all right, jon lapook, thank you. Training athletes used to be stmpler a stopwatch, whistle, and clipboard. Now, the n. F. L. Is bringing together men and machine. Carter evans checks out this new technology. Touchdown, l. A. Rams we look at the athlete as a finetuned sports engine. We look at, how much mileage have you put on that car. Reporter ted rath is the l. A. Rams conditioning coach. We all know, every certain amount of mileage, weve got to make an oil change. Reporter and to do that, the rams rely on the same technology aat tracks shipments and targets shoplifters. A microchip the size of a nickel is now embedded in every game y ll. Hes coming for number 4 reporter . And the shoulder pads of these linemen. Carter, why dont you suit up. Reporter john pollard is Vice President of zebra technologies, the company that producing the tracking chips. Okay, so where are the sensors here . The sensors are sitting in e e shoulder pads here. C reporter the result is a treasure trove of data. Every movement is tracked and plotted. The rotation of the ball, and the velocity of the throw. Plere we go. Rotatstarting to warm up. Reporter yeah, that was a e ce one. So, im number 14 right there . Right. Reporter its also gathering how fast im moving, how quickly i stop. R how far you went. Reporter so when the pros suit up and the virtual becomes reality, its serious business. A 52yard catchandrun reporter and this is keeping track of every player on the field . Absolutely. Or reporter rath told us the chips show how high quarterbacks throw and how fast players are running. What ever happened to just watching the players, and knowing, this guy is worn out . We can say, yeah, hes fatigued. All right, why is he fatigued . Within this data, it can tell me l. En he hits that fatigue state, when he recovers from it, and how hard he is able to work, so that we can push him right to that level and actually make him a better conditioned athlete for the next training session. A great example this season would be a todd gurley. Reporter while many players tire out as the season wears on. N, heres his trend line. Reporter . The data showed the star running back. Todd gurley reporter . Got faster. This was actually the very esay where he hit 21. 1 miles an hour on that specific play. Reporter it seems like you could really geek out on all these numbers here. O no question. Prove us right, prove us wrong, or shock us. And sometimes the data shocks you. Reporter the one thing the chips do not measure is the impact of a collision between players. The technology exists, and it could be put in a helmet. The n. F. L. Just hasnt requested that data. The league has already faced a major Class Action Lawsuit over concussions. Jeff. Glor might be an important thing for the future. Carter, thank you very much. Now to some other stories were following in the evening newsfeed. The tech giants keep growing. Apple today reported record nuarterly revenue of more than 88 billion. Amazon took in more than 60 billion in the Fourth Quarter of last year. Googles Parent Company alphabet topped 32 billion. Rcebook yesterday reported fourthquarter revenue of nearly 13 billion. Federal investigators are looking into whether the yossing gates were working yesterday when an amtrak train hit a truck in virginia. The train was carrying republican members of congress, including House Speaker ryan. Witnesses tell cbs news, the gates were malfunctioning the s y before. One person in the truck was thlled. There is much more ahead on tonights cbs evening news. Reporter in life, natalie wood was one of the biggest film stars imaginable, but it is her mysterious death that keeps her legend alive. Glor new rules mean the unpport peacock may be grounded for good. Reporter they built the ski jump, and the jumpers came. Not many people can say they can fly through the air on a oiir of skis going 60 miles an hour, you know . K the day after chemo might mean a trip back to the doctors office, just for a shot. But why go back there, when you can stay home, with Neulasta Onpro . Strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection, which could lead to hospitalizations. In a key study, neulasta reduced the risk of infection from 17 to 1 , a 94 decrease. Applied the day of chemo, Neulasta Onpro is designed to deliver neulasta the next day, so you can stay home. Neulasta is for certain Cancer Patients receiving strong chemotherapy. Do not take neulasta if youre allergic to neulasta or Neupogen Filgrastim . Ruptured spleen, sometimes fatal as well as serious lung problems, allergic reactions, kidney injuries, and capillary leak syndrome have occurred. Report abdominal or shoulder tip pain, trouble breathing or allergic reactions to your doctor right away. In patients with sickle cell disorders, serious, sometimes fatal crises can occur. The most common side effect is bone and muscle ache. So why go back there . If youd rather be home, ask your doctor about Neulasta Onpro. When this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. 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Drvern claimed the couple had a terrible fight before she disappeared. I believe that Robert Wagner was with her up until the moment the went into the water. Reporter 30 years later in 2011, the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department reopened the case. This new information is substantial enough for us to want to take another look at the case. Reporter the medical examiner, after reviewing photos of bruises and the autopsy report, changed the manner of woods death, from accidental to undetermined. Why are all these bruises thspicious to you . Because she looked like the victim of an assault. Reporter veteran homicide detective Ralph Hernandez and heeutenant john corina say they onw have corroboration for daverns story about the fight two new witnesses claiming they not only heard the fight one says she saw it. Saw figures in the back of the splendour, male and female, whose voices they becognized as being Robert Wagner and natalie wood. Reporter investigators still dont know how natalie wood got into the water. Do you believe natalie wood was murdered . I think its suspicious enough to make us think that something happened. I dont think she got in the water herself. I dont think she fell into the water. Reporter but Robert Wagner s long said it was an accident. He only realized she was missing o en he went to look for her and she was gone. Do you think Robert Wagner has ever told the truth of exactly what happened . I havent seen it, and his arsion of events just dont add up to the evidence and the witnesses we found. Reporter back in 2011, lieutenant corina said wagner ws not a suspect. He still isnt, but now. W. As we investigated the case over the last six years, i think hes more of a person of interest now. We know now that he was the last person to be with natalie before she disappeared. Reporter Erin Moriarty, cbs news, new york. 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Reporter scott smith is a ski jumping coach and president of the Norge Ski Club, founded in 1905 by some norwegian immigrants who must have wanted to spice up chicago winters. See, i dont think of illinois as being particularly alpine, you know, like mountains. Doesnt that go with ski jumps . Um, not always. Reporter they built the ski jump, and the jumpers came. The clubs annual competition was held this past weekend, and thousands of fans showed up. Fritz gohl was one of them. This is one of the biggest crowds ive seen, in maybe the last 20 years. Reporter do you have norwegian blood coarsing through sur veins . No, no, swiss. Reporter swiss theres more interest than usual in the jumpers now because the little Norge Ski Club is, for te first time, sending not one but three homegrown contestants to the Winter Olympics kevin bickner, casey larson, and mike glasder are making smiths dreams come true. I missed out in the 88 olympics, and then when i got into coaching in 1989, i said some day, id love to coach somebody to the olympics. Reporter and possibly more on the way. Hunter gibson has been jumping since he was five. So they thought it would be funny to throw the fiveyearold kid down the ski jump . T yeah, i guess so. Ve reporter hes 16 now, and pointing toward a future olympics. Not many people can say they own fly through the air on a pair of skis going 60 miles an otur, you know . It does help if you have a little daredevilish in you. Reporter it sure does. How do we get back down, now . Ive got some skis up here for you. Reporter okay. laughs maybe next time. Dean reynolds, Fox River Grove, illinois. Glor yeah, i would do the zipline, not that. That is the cbs evening news tonight. Im jeff glor. Good night. Ght. Kpix5 news begins with dramatic , a new reality check for the bay area. Good evening. The latest drought monitoring map shows the bay area is still okay but three Southern California counties are in severe drought. More than half the state is at least abnormally dry. We wanted to know if its time to start worrying. Reporter veronica other people are starting to talk about the drought. If a lot more rain doesnt fall and soon. Reporter you could see for yourself just how far down the reservoir levels are in Santa Clara County as what should be a high point in the season. They are at a quarter capacity at the historical average. There is no rain in the forecast for at least the next two weeks. We have 70 degrees and sunny. I dont think about panic but time is now a point of concern. Reporter the director of the valley Water District says the only good news is that there is a lot of water underground. Thanks mostly to last years rain. The groundwater basin is good. But we are significantly down. Reporter for now, only whispers of another drought but fishermen got a warning that drought like restrictions could take effect on some nearby reservoirs. They made a phone call to the reservoir. They are telling me that they may not even have a boating season because of the water