good evening. on this saturday night, and we do begin with the growing concerns over the west nile virus across so many states now and we learned late today that the spraying in dallas has now been halted tonight because of the weather and just as we learned of this new delay we re getting a clear picture how concerned the federal authorities. centers for disease control con now reporting 26 deaths so far. nearly 700 confirmed cases. that s more than three times the normal number at this point in the year. i wanted to widen out and show you how wide spread it is. we ll light up the map in red. 43 states in all reporting the cases of the virus, as i mentioned more states growing at this hour and ground zero in dallas where ten people have died tonight. bad weather again forcing authorities to suspend the spraying. we begin tonight with meteorologist ginger zee. reporter: breaking in, spraying down. tonight our nation is in assault mode. the mission eliminate mosquitoes tha
good evening. on this saturday night, and we do begin with the growing concerns over the west nile virus across so many states now and we learned late today that the spraying in dallas has now been halted tonight because of the weather and just as we learned of this new delay we re getting a clear picture how concerned the federal authorities. centers for disease control con terming 17 defendants and 693 confirmed cases. i want to show you how wide spread this is. the west nile virus is now coast to coast. we ll light up the map in red. 43 states in all reporting the cases of the virus, as i mentioned more states growing at this hour and ground zero in dallas where ten people have died tonight. bad weather again forcing authorities to sus friend the spraying. we begin tonight with meteorologist jipger zee. reporter: breaking in, spraying down. tonight our nation is in assault mode. the mission eliminate mosquitoes that could carry the west nile virus. in carollton, texas,