dog chow s been a part of my family s life for over 40 years. my grandfather made it and now i m making it. as a micro-biologist i ensure that dog chow leads with high quality ingredients. my name is bryan and i m proud to make dog chow in davenport, iowa. to the index of other news tonight, the massive sinkhole in the philadelphia suburb. the hole opening in front of lawns between two homes. partially swallowing a pickup truck, and forcing families to evacuate. it s estimated at 20 feet deep, stretching out into the street. part of the sidewalk and road collapsing. workers are trying to stabilize the ground there. to the mumps outbreak in spokane, washington. hundreds of students in that county forced to stay home. at least 80 confirmed cases, many involving people who were vaccinated. more than 300 students without up to date vaccinations are not allowed in the school. they are being warned to get that vaccine.
s security is a major issue. that s for sure. more misery tonight for washington, d.c. s maligned transit system. four metro track inspectors and two supervisors have been fired for falsifying records after an investigation into a derailment in july. metro s general manager says it revealed a disturbing level of indifference, lack of accountability and misconduct. six more firings or suspensions are pending and 28 of the rail network s 60 inspectors are facing some kind of discipline. the u.s. is experiencing its worst mumps outbreak in ten years. mumps. it s scary to know something like that is around. reporter: parents feeling anxious after top u.s. health officials say they are closely monitoring the largest mumps outbreak in more than a decade. what we are seeing is a
s security is a major issue. that s for sure. more misery tonight for washington, d.c. s maligned transit system. four metro track inspectors and two supervisors have been fired for falsifying records after an investigation into a derailment in july. metro s general manager says it revealed a disturbing level of indifference, lack of accountability and misconduct. six more firings or suspensions are pending and 28 of the rail network s 60 inspectors are facing some kind of discipline. the u.s. is experiencing its worst mumps outbreak in ten years. mumps. it s scary to know something like that is around. reporter: parents feeling anxious after top u.s. health officials say they are closely monitoring the largest mumps outbreak in more than a decade. what we are seeing is a
there were 186,000 cases of mumps before a vaccine was developed. the vaccine reduced the numbers but for the last few months the nhl has been fighting to get a mumps outbreak under control. not something we hear about very much. we asked our reporter to stop by. she is with cnn sports, obviously. laura, how do you describe what happened here? this is such a weird situation. it s just all of a sudden come to the forefront and mumps is now in the spotlight. but this is something that began back in mid october. that s when there were the initial reports that came out of st. louis blues players having mumps-like symptoms. now the team never confirmed that. however, now looking back on it, it kind of seems likely. now from that time in mid-october, more players throughout the league, they began to sit out of games with the mumps-like symptoms. by mid-november, they realized there may be a problem here.
a vaccine was delooed in 1987 there were cases of mumps in the united states and the vaccine dramatically reduced those numbers but the nhl, the national hockey league, has been fighting to get a mumps outbreak under control. not something we hear about very much so we asked an expert to stop by, she s with cnn sports obviously. how do you describe what happened here? this is such a weird situation because it s all of a sudden come to the forefront and mumps is now in the spotlight with the nhl but it s something that began back in mid-october. that s when the initial reports came out of st. louis blues players having mumps-like symptoms. the team never confirmed that. however, now, looking back on it, it kind of seems likely. now, from that time in mid-october more players throughout the league they began to sit out of games with the mumps-like symptoms. by mid-november the nhl finally realized, hey, there might be a