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Respond privately. >> okay. >> if they dont put their name and most of them are anonymous and you say, you know what? im so sorry you had a bad experience. we have that flu bug. we had three of our staff was off that day. could you guys come in and let us treat you to a meal, and make this right. what you want to do is not go public with it, and really just by responding to them so many people are so excited. well, somebodys listening to me. >> thats what i found. people just want to be heard. >...

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>> unfortunately, its still almost a 12-18 hour turn around. my colleagues at duke university developed this protocol, and, you know, the hope is that we make a rapid office screening test that you can, you know, do like a quick strep test that we do now in doctors offices. and if that happens, then we can really make a huge difference in screening large populations and in making sure we treat the right patients with antibiotics. jenna: how about a little news we can use, doc, on that? when we s...

When youre around the stuff all the time. it would make sense, essentially you wind up not being affected by it it if youre lucky. >> right. and theres tons of good bacteria and bad bacteria. and being on the farm, you know, were around a lot of different things that people in the normal society dont get to be around. so, and also, i show cattle so i get to go around the country and be with different people from all over the united states, so im getting introduced to a lot of the other outside f...

Remember, the flu bug is widespread across more than 40 states. everything in red here, according to the centers for disease control and prevention in atlanta. and its already killed, authorities tell us, more than as to children. we expect to get a better picture of the flu season tomorrow when the centers for disease control issues its updated report. emergency rooms are getting three times the amount of patients. a bigger concern in massachusetts, outside boston, the mayor announced state-run...

offer the spending and deficit cuts that republicans thought it would. cnns chief white house correspondent jessica yellin spends the next 18 seconds giving us the big picture. >> reporter: whats happening now is democrats are waiting. theyre just waiting to see what happens with the republicans bill before making their own move in the senate. the big picture here is neither the republicans bill in the house nor the democrats bill in the senate seems to have the votes to get through bo...

Ret is going to have more on this, on special report but outlining the specifics here. bret baer, thank you, buddy, appreciate it. you can see him tonight. folks, dozens and dozens of young girls in schools in afghanistan made sick by a mystery illness. it happened at three separate girl schools in that country. but this is no flu bug. we are live in kandahar in three minutes with new details on who and what was behind this. >> and have you seen that? a video spoof about global warming has pro...

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Grown to epidemic status the official word from the center for disease control in atlanta. responsible for 7.3% of deaths in the u.s. last week. the cdc reports widespread flu activity in nearly every state except california, mississippi and hawaii. why mississippi would be there in the middle of things and not have a wid spread. probably has more to do with reporting than reality. it was widespread in just 41 states in the previous week. in eastern oklahoma one school district canceled classes ...