egerman authorities say infection was probably caused by contaminated tomato, cucumbers and lettuce. we go to berlin with more on this. fred, how widespread is this? >> reporter: certainly is widespread especially in the northern part of germany. i have brand new numbers for you, as well, and 14 people have apparently now been killed by this disease and the interesting thing is that for the first time two people have actually died outside of the region of northern germany, both people died in the western part of determi germany. so it does appear that the e. coli outbreak seems to be spreading. the german government is on the plan. they had a crisis meeting last night to see how they would be able to come to terms with this and the two very disturbing things that came out of this meeting is that they've not yet identified where this e. coli outbreak comes from, although some believe it might be from