Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. So lets start with the good news about the flu. Today, the c. D. C. Said that the flu season in much of the country appears to have peaked. So weve seen the worst of it. But the worst still includes this the flu is now widespread in all but six states, and its sending americans 65 and older to the hospital at the highest rate in at least a decade. Heres dr. Jon lapook. Reporter at a Senior Center in new york city, the friday bingo game is in full swing but 96yearold mae robinson is thinking about her friend who recently caught the flu. My deceased friend had it. They worked very hard to save her, but she passed. Reporter the c. D. C. Began tracking flu hospitalization rates 10 years ago. This year, the hospitalization rate for patients over 65 has been more than twice the average rate over the previous five seasons. Dr. Susan rehm is an Infectious Disease specialist at the cleveland clinic. People who are 65 years of age and up tend to
Behind 40 billion in damage. President trump has sign a disaster declaration in the state of texas. Clayton we have Team Coverage. The hurricane all over the coast this morning and matt with an update. Matt, can you tell us at this hour . Good morning, guys, we are in palacios texas, when we got here the water line was 5 to 10 feet beyond the shore and now you might be able to see that it is coming up and engulfing this path behind us and in the distance its up into the gas area and storm surge anywhere between 10 and 20 feet in this town. A fishing town of about 5,000 people. Its throughout the night we have seen the power going on and off here. At certain points it was a complete blackout and we can assume that some of the emergency lights are using generators. In this town, in this county of about 36,000 people, mandatory evacuation was issued midnight on friday and as of yesterday, the buses left at 1 00 oclock and those who people who did not get on the buses, chose not to evacuat
U. S. President donald trump saying he has the absolute right to send undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities. Those are cities which limit their cooperation with immigration enforcement. His critics say hes using the move to retaliate against cities that oppose his border wall. Mr. Trump tweets, democrats must change the immigration laws fast, in not, sanctuary cities Must Immediately act to take care of the illegal immigrants. He then went on, after the mayors of those cities, writing, so interesting to see the mayor of oakland, california, and other sanctuary cities, not want our currently detained immigrants. Well, oaklands mayor responded to the president saying, oakland welcomes all, no matter where you came from, or how you got here. Meantime the president denies he offered pardons to Homeland Security officials after mr. Trump reportedly told customs and Border Protection chief Kevin Mcaleenan he would pardon him if he was jailed for having Border Patrol agents block Asylum
Does it seem like chris hasnt started a little early this year . Dean martins daughter has some choice words for those who are messing with her dad classic, baby its cold outside, in the name of me to. Thats later in the show. Before we get to that, there is no doubt about it, folks. They are burning the midnight oil at the capital tonight read tomorrow is a big day for both sides in this impeachment battle and tonight, speaker pelosis railing her troops in the basement of the capital. Republicans on the committee are holding mock sessions where adam schiff is in preparation for the big moment in the spotlight. They are here tonight with our analysis and we began with fred. Thank you. Good to see you tonight. We have said you believe in all of this process, when you go back to the root of it, the whistleblower and his motivation andy lee spoke with are indeed relevant and that you must open lee testified. Is that correct . Thats correct. I think the American People expect a process tha