Nothing but net. The High School Freshman who made that shot and is going viral this morning is going to be with us live, coming up a little bit later here on gma. Were going to start here with those tiny glimmers of hope on the early and nasty deadly flu outbreak. John schriffen outside a hospital in manhattan right now. John, good morning. Reporter dan, good morning. Here at this emergency room in new york city, the hospital says the percentage of patients theyre seeing with flulike symptoms is fivetimes as many as they saw last year. But the good news around the country, new numbers show the worst could be behind us. This morning, the flu has spread to 47 states across the country, according to the cdc, crossing the line into epidemic territory. At this hospital in minnesota, so many patients are coming in with the flu, theyre packing two to a room. But as the number of cases grow, were finally seeing a glimmer of hope. Were seeing firsthand, in some of the Southern States that got
Its right here. Look at that. Love it. Nothing but net. The High School Freshman who made that shot and is going viral this morning is going to be with us live, coming up a little later here on gma. Were going to start here with those tiny glimmers of hope on the early and nasty flu outbreak. John schriffen outside a hospital in manhattan right now. John, good morning. Reporter dan, good morning. Here at this emergency room in new york city, the hospital says the percentage of patients theyre seeing with flulike symptoms is up fivetimes as many as they saw last year. But the good news around the country is that new numbers show the worst could be behind us. This morning, the flu has spread to 47 states across the country, according to the cdc, crossing the line into epidemic territory. At this hospital in minnesota, so many patients are coming in with the flu, theyre packing two to a room. But as the number of cases grow, were finally seeing a glimmer of hope. Were seeing firsthand, in
Its been about a year since weve had weather like this so remember to bundle up and wear those layers. We have some warming coming up in a few minutes. It feels like green bay around here. Guess who is in town tonight . The green bay packers. The big playoff game is now less than 24 hours away. The 49ers, packers at candlestick. The San Francisco skyline showing off the citys team spirit. At city hall the 49ers flag is flying high with hopes this win tomorrow, if they win, will pave the way to new orleans, the site of the super bowl. Preparations are under way, course, at candlestick. The game is sold out. It will be cold as jeff said, but some people are already tailgating. You see the parking lot. Huey lewis and the news will will sing the national anthem. E40 will perform at halftime. The real excitement is whats going to happen on the field. They embrace that put up or shut up, that win or you go home. And theyre excited about it. Theres no more fun you can have than winning a play
First forecast. Im just thinking to sunday. Im just getting there. Are you ready for some football . We are. Wont be the same without redskins but still worth watching. Going to be a great weather for outdoors, throwing the football around in your own yard. We have clouds passing through. Its partly cloudy to mostly cloudy across most of maryland, virginia and West Virginia. The areas of color there, the left of your screen, thats where theyre getting some rain. Right now getting light to moderate rain across indiana into kentucky and then theres a few scattered lighter showers that are now moving out of Eastern Kentucky into southwestern West Virginia and in central ohio. All of this is gradually arriving here by later today. Getting a few sprinkles around roanoke. Most of the metro area down to the mid 30s. Milder air pushing into the mountains right now. Charleston, West Virginia, 57 degrees. Montgomery county in the mid and upper 30s. Its down into the low 30s parts of Fairfax Coun
Cardinal drive. A vehicle fire. The good news is the police are on the scenement looks like the fire is out and smoldering. Might take a while to get it out of the way. The good news is things are moving by pretty quickly. Tenminute ride on northbound 95 from the occoquan to the beltway. The trains are all on time. A Traffic Alert in fairfax county. Westbound lanes of Leesburg Pike near the dulles toll road should be open again. They started construction on the pedestrian bridge which connects the spring hill metro station with businesses and homes on Leesburg Pike. Work resumes next week. Today, president obama and afghan President Hamid karzai will meet for the First Time Since president obama was reelected. The leaders will discuss what the u. S. s role in afghanistan will be when the war ends there next year. Karzai had dinner last night with secretary of state hillary clinton. The meal came after the two had a private meeting. They also discussed the future afghanistan, including