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is nbc nightly news with brian williams. good evening. we begin tonight with this flu outbreak across 41 states in this country now. and at this time last week, it sadly had claimed 18 lives. well, tonight in just the space of a week s time, 18 deaths have now been reported, just today in one state, in massachusetts. where the city of boston has now declared a public health emergency, and it s now a big front in the spread of this flu during this already mean season. tonight we want to begin with our chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman. she is at bringing aman women s hospital in boston. nancy, good evening. good evening, brian. in flew ends zais putting a stranglehold on communities around this country, and tonight i have to tell you that i ve now been in two large city emergency departments in this two days and i ve never seen anything like this in the united states. at boston s brig aman s women s hospital, veteran e.r. nurse jana gil has seen it all. i ve be
good evening. we begin tonight with this flu outbreak across 41 states in this country now. and at this time last week, it sadly had claimed 18 lives. well, tonight in just the space of a week s time, 18 deaths have now been reported, just today in one state, in massachusetts. where the city of boston has now declared a public health emergency, and it s now a big front in the spread of this flu during this already mean season. tonight we want to begin with our chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman. she is at briggaman s women s hospital in boston. nancy, good evening. good evening, brian. influenza is putting a stranglehold on communities around this country, and tonight i have to tell you that i ve now been in two large city emergency departments in this two days and i ve never seen anything like this in the united states. at boston s briggaman s women s hospital, veteran e.r. nurse jana gil has seen it all. i ve been working here for 27 years in the er. but she
getting worse. the virus killed 18 people in massachusetts. all 50 states are affected and at least 41 states have a widespread outbreak. cough a lot, sneeze a little. i ve been in bed all day. the president and i are determined to take action. joe biden plans to meet with the national rifle association. he wants to advance his agenda through executive order. the president can do almost anything he wants to. the question is will he get away with it. the prts s cabinet continues to take shape. later, hilda solis announced she is resigning. today a team of federal investigators are focusing on why a commuter ferry slammed into a manhattan pier. 74 people were injured in the accident, one critically sneerch s scared. everyone just flew and people were on the ground. tel aviv, explosions claim this car bombing near the defense ministry. a dozen killer whales in canada are trapped under a large stretch of sea ice. the hole is slightly larger than a pickup t
we have seen a huge increase in patients coming in, with the nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and upper respiratory infections with the fever and cough and body aches. i am declaring a public health emergency in the city of boston. boston s mayor is warning the threat is very serious. so far this season, there have been approximately 700 cases in this city alone. a ten-fold increase from last year s entire flu season. across the united states, schools in some areas are temporarily closed or postponing extracurricular activities. and it s now so bad that hospitals like the mayo clinic and others are restricting visitors or prohibiting them all together, at least for the time being. and it s getting worse. it s come back early and rather fiercely. it s a rather virulent strain so we re having a moderate to severe influenza season, just like the old days. beverly moss said her symptoms started suddenly. and by last night she couldn t breathe. it was like something just hit