little daredevilish in you. this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. glor: good evening. the flu is epidemic in this country, and one reason is the vaccine is not working very well. a canadian study out today found it s effective only 17% of the time. last year here in the u.s., the flu vaccine of the 34% effective. hospitals right now are struggling to keep up. here is mark strassmann. reporter: this emergency room at atlanta s grady memorial hospital has been overwhelmed by the h3n2 virus. starting this week, staff have quarantined new flu patients in this separate mobile hospital, typically reserved for disasters like hurricanes. so we ve had, you know, i d say about a 25% increase on certain days. reporter: dr. hany atallah is grady s chief of emergency medicine. we physically just need the space to put a patient in. thigoing to help solve that. reporter: who has not been as helpful as hoped is this year s flu vaccine. canadian researchers reported today
police did not believe her story. plus, boston and philadelphia led the american revolution. now they re preparing to face off in the super bowl. mo rocca visits beantown, while michelle miller visits the other city to see who has the winning spirit. first, we begin with today s eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. there are jaw-dropping revelations about the extent to which the fbi and department of justice were weaponized politically. president trump set to release the gop s secret memo. this is a cover-up by the republicans to protect president trump. this memo is congress doing its job in conducting legitimate oversight. this momemo is a transparent political hit job. grant me five minutes. the parent of a victim of dr. larry nassar charging at him during a sentencing hearing this morning. federal immigration agents raided california workplaces. i.c.e. demanded proof that the detaineesters are country illegally. charging a 12-year-old girl. a ni
a surreal sight. it s not often that you see something this big, a full ladder truck on its side, mangled after rolling on a city street and next to it, it you can see the wreckage of an suv that rolled on top of it. that drier was trapped in his gmc yukon for at least half an hour as first police and then firefighters tried to free him. witnesses tell us he was awake and talking and moving his arms and legs before he was airlifted to john muir hospital in walnut creek and there is every hope he will survive his injuries. four firefighters on the ladder truck went to vallejo to be checked out. they were racing lights and sirens to a kitchen fire when somehow they tangled with one or more cars and lost control trying to miss the collision. this retired firefighter who took the video says they were in shock after the crash, but still tried to help. the firefighters in the rig originally were out of vehicle trying to help him until other firefighters got here and took them, be
we re essentially pulling the rug out from underneath the polar bears. this is the cbs evening news ninan: good evening. i m reena ninan. democrats on the house intelligence committee are pushing for the release of their own memo, rebutting the controversial republican memo released friday, the republican document accuses f.b.i. and justice department officials of anti-trump bias and surveillance abuses. critics are dismissing the memo as an effort to protect president trump and discredit the russia investigation. the president weighed in today from florida. errol barnett is there. reporter: this morning, president trump said he was totally vindicated by the newly released g.o.p. house intelligence memo, insisting there has been no collusion or obstruction, and that the special counsel s investigation is a witch hunt. however, in an interview aerog face the nation, republican trey gowdy insisted the memo will not affect the special counsel s probe. i actually don
little daredevilish in you. this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. glor: and this is our western edition. good evening. the flu is epidemic in this country, and one reason is, the vaccine is not working very well. a canadian study out today found it s effective only 17% of the time. last year here in the u.s., the flu vaccine was 34% effective. hospitals right now are struggling to keep up. here is mark strassmann. at atlanta s grady memorial hospital has been overwhelmed by the h3n2 virus. starting this week, staff have quarantined new flu patients in this separate mobile hospital, typically reserved for disasters like hurricanes. so we ve had, you know, i d say about a 25% increase, on certain days. reporter: dr. hany atallah is grady s chief of emergency medicine. we physically just need the space to put a patient in. this is going to help solve g at. reporter: what has not been as helpful as hoped is this year s flu vaccine. canadian researchers reported