Virginia tech. Authorities said he had an Assault Rifle and was trying to get thousands of rounds of ammunition. What else he was looking for. The drowning danger. Tonight, americans on vacation, Nine Drownings in less than two weeks in the same area. And the deadly crash. The former nba player and a former American Idol contestant who did not survive. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a very busy wednesday night. And we begin with that deadly train collision. Onboard, more than 100 republican members of congress. That amtrak train was taking those lawmakers to a retreat, colliding with a Garbage Truck in virginia. It happened this morning, not long after the State Of The Union last night. The driver of the truck was killed. Several lawmakers jumping in to help many of the injured on the scene. And several people tonight, including congressman jason lewis, were taken to the hospital. House Speaker Paul Ryan among those onboard. And abcs linzie janis leads us off f
hospitalizations and up to 19000 flu -related deaths. experts fear cases will only continue to climb in the new year. so, how can you protect yourself this flu season (doctor marty mckay professor at johns hopkins school of medicine on a fox news conservative. so doctor mary, is this flu season worse than others? or are we mingling more? it is nice to see you arthel but does not appear to be worse than other flu seasons but the country has been oddly complacent about flu deaths each year we have got almost 5000 this year from just this flu season. they has not yet peaked in many parts of the northern united states inmate peak in february. we may see 15 30,000 deaths in the typical flu season where the hopes of the pandemic was the silver lining is that we basically learn better hygiene. it should not be acceptable to show up to work coughing on people and slobbering.
one of the explanations for this could be a sunni radical group that recently did something like this at an iran police station. we don t know who is responsible but we know it s a very significant event in iran today. bill: the four-year mark of the day that soleimani was taken out upon landing in baghdad. we re watching this back in america we talk about flu season. it s ramping up as people return from the holidays. cases are spiking in most parts of the country especially in the sun belt. why is that? from atlanta, jonathan serrie might give us an answer. good morning, sir. hi, bill. flu had become an after thought during the height of the pandemic. flu seasons are a fact of life once again. according to the latest cdc estimates more than 7 million people have become sick with flu this season here in the u.s.
you went through all kinds of flu seasons i m sure, and still never missed a day of work. what have you taught your younger colleagues about work ethic? well, they all know to work. she got there early and she only took 30 minutes for lunch, and she had me to pick her up and take her if it rained or snowed. i m told you have the skill to take a very small transaction and make it into a big sale. what s the key to doing that? well, you just show something and then you show something else that goes with it and then you show something else and let them choose what they want, and then you can just keep building the sale a little bit bigger. they ll either come back or take it then. mike: clearly you are a people person. what else do you love about that job? well, i just going to work every day, i like driving down the highway, i stop 3, 4 places
among school-age children have dropped 4.5% over the last three years. we worry about things like measles, mumps, rubella and other diseases that have largely been controlled and now we re seeing increased hesitancy there. reporter: thanks to misinformation? thanks to misinformation. reporter: at a local clinic, dr. dale brasser says flu shots are down too. even as the nation deals with one of the worst flu seasons in years. we re only about half of the typical number of flu injections that we would typically see by this time of the year. it worries me to a great extent. reporter: used to battling disease, the oklahoma city health department now finds itself also fighting lies about vaccine safety. how dangerous is misinformation? it s cost lives. i mean, i don t know how else to say it. it s about as dangerous as it gets. reporter: the department has had to move resources to monitor public sentiment, using new technology to comb through social media. when vaccine messa