cnn s medical unit got an early look and one expert says we re at epidemic levels. dr. sanjay gupta is in atlanta. what are you expecting to hear? elizabeth cohen has been working through the night on getting these numbers. one number, which is important and what we expected. widespread outbreak of the flu. 47 states, up from 41 states with an outbreak of the flu. some good news. the number of states with high levels of activity has gone down from 29 now to 24. two additional deaths in young people, from 18 to 20. but there may be some relief as you say in sight. we are at epidemic threshold. that basically means we are seeing more cases than we expected to see at this time year. big question? will those cases stay elevated or will they start to come down across the country? we keep hearing, get a flu shot, get a flu shot. some got our flu shots early. yes, i m gloating. if you haven t gotten your flu shot yet, is there enough vaccine? i think so. i crunched some number
attorney mark robbins. you might be surprised to hear what he says. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. vice president joe biden says his gun task force will have a set of recommendations on the president s desk by tuesday. but that doesn t mean there s a consensus yet. listen to this from the nra after today s white house meeting we were disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the second amendment. we will not allow law abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen. that s where the nra stands. now we ll remind you exactly where i stand on guns. i m in favor of a nation-wide ban on military style semiautomatic assault weapons and high capacity magazines. i want to close the gun show loopholes and require private dealers to run background checks on all buyers at gun shows and see president obama for increasing mental health funding for all america