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If it were meningitis, how does it spread. >> it spreads through droplets in the air sharing of glasses of water. its so highly contagious when you see outbreaks of meningitis, all the kids get treated. if i were a parents of a kid who had been near her i would took you my pediatrician. we just dont know enough. you also talk about intercranial bleeding or stroke or cardiac arrest. all of that is so unlikely in a person of her age but it could happen. >> with stroke we could see something sort o...

Dying from flu? >> this particular strain, h3n2 hits the very young and the very old. its a big enabler meaning it causes other diseases to parade in. people with hart disease are more likely to have a heart attack if they get this flu, it knocks down your immune system and you get very fatigued. you get muscle aches. if you get pneumonia or bronchitis or a heart issue, you end up in the hospital. over 100,000 hospitalizations a year with this kind of strain. people arent expecting flu this late...

People arent expecting flu this late because the last couple of years its been another strain that peaks earlier. this is an unusual case of flu but bad case of it. >> how did it get to epidemic levels? especially with your kid. you cant take your kid to the doctor without him saying get the flu vaccination. you can do it up the nose or the shot for the babies. why is everybody getting it? >> 43 states widespread, the time of year that you get it because it spreads by droplets, people coughing a...

And although were hearing from indonesian officials that they believe the engine iced over and then the engine stalled, we have one person who says engines dont ice over, wings ice over. explain that if you would. >> right. the main danger posed by icing is indeed you get accumulations of ice on the leading edge of the wing. for instance if, youre flying through a cloud and the droplets of super cold water adhere to the leading edge and it turns to ice, you get huge chunks of ice forming that, d...

Perspective. surabaya indonesia the sun comes up roughly 5:15 in the morning. that was the case on sunday morning. thunderstorms began blossoming smortly after sunrise across this region. unlike north america where storms really peak intensity into the afternoon hours, in this part of the world around the tropics and also the equator that happens in the early morning hours. so the plane takes off. notice major thunderstorm complex to the east of the aircraft there. we know the pilot here asked t...

Form until they make contact wan innot matt object. if the plane goes into this region if that is the case with supercooled droplets that could three-day a disastrous scenario. shortly after that we lose contact with the plane. the plane then runs into a massive complex of thunderstorms and then the rest remains unknown at this point. so that is the storm system we were dealing with at that point of the morning hours. really for a plane to retain lift, to retain laminar flow youve got to have ve...

When the pilot asked for higher weather? the reason i am getting at this is we dont know if this wasnt a mechanical issue. there is the smoking gun, of course that they were in bad weather. we have seen the pictures. there was also six other airliners very close to this one who had no problem. so what that leads me to believe and we have seen this in other incidents or accidents such as air france in 2009 is that possibly they encountered super cool droplets and perhaps their sensors were overwh...

To 50,000 feet and higher. it may have been this this case. you have strong up and down motion as much as 100 miles per hour. also hail can be a significant threat and get into the turbans of the engines and cause them to fail. another is a presence of super cooled water droplets. if you know dust in the atmosphere you can have the droplets that do not form even though they are below freezing. when they come in contact with something solid, they do freeze. we know that was an issue with an airbu...

Thomas of the bannock county sheriffs office lead the investigation. >> theres the house. we had tape across this whole area here. and then we had one point of entry to the scene. >> theres a door going into the home through the garage into a basement. immediately in the basement is a master bedroom. and then theres a stairwell going upstairs. as soon as we start going up the stairway, one of the investigators noticed a very minute small droplets of blood on the stairs. and we started to mark th...

Often is the key to solving crime. and they find this gun case. >> to see if the case contained any fingerprints, forensic analyst mike riddle used super glue fuming. a process where the chemicals from heated super glue adhere to finger oils. riddle saw what he thought might be some partial prints and used yellow dye to enhance the image. these partial prints were in an unusual location. >> they were in one of the corners in a curved portion of the gun case partially covered by the foam rubber t...