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Appreciate that. a new report by the cdc shows a massive spike in flu case, this at the height of the flu season. officials in nearly half the states reporting widespread flu activity, from just 10 last week. the shows particularly high numbers of the h1n1. it is putting an extra strain on parents whose children have become hospitalized. >> it's tough. especially for a first-time parent like me to see a child this way. to know i can go through it and fight. but you can't fight for them. >> it's hard. some of the flu cases are so severe that the illness has led to a number of adults and child...

Data allowed you to actually figure out -- allowed people to figure out where flus were breaking. >> yes, indeed. think back at the h1n1 flu crisis we had and the centers for disease control in atlanta and the united states wanted to find out where the flu was and they asked doctors to report every flu case, but by the time they had collected all the nvltion, calculated it, two weeks went by and that's an eternity if you have a pandemic at hand. google at that time thought they could do better. just by looking at what people searched for online. >> so the words would be something like -- >> wh...

Before all of that, this year's fierce outbreak of the flu is forcing even more communities to take action. outside of tulsa, oklahoma, no one is going to school today because a quarter of the students are already sick. >> the extreme measures are keeping big city hospitals busy. as abc's linsey davis reports. >> reporter: all day long, dr. ron walls is rushing down the hall. a squirt of hand sanitizer and he's off to battle more flu. >> it's going to take you two or three weeks to feel really good again. >> reporter: he's wearing a face mask because he can't afford to be sick. not now with br...

Because a quarter of the students are already sick. >> the extreme measures are keeping big city hospitals busy. as abc's linsey davis reports. >> reporter: all day long, dr. ron walls is rushing down the hall. a squirt of hand sanitizer and he's off to battle more flu. >> it's going to take you two or three weeks to feel really good again. >> reporter: he's wearing a face mask because he can't afford to be sick. not now with brigham hospital overrun with flu case s this patient has been battling the flu for ten days now. >> you've been coughing a lot? >> yes. >> what are you bringing up with ...

Cases that could impact marriage laws across the country. proposition, 8, california's ban on gay marriage, and the defense of marriage act, which deprives legally-married same-sex couples of benefits applied to married people. the judges hearing both of those cases in march. the centers for disease control saying there is an alarming spike of flu case, killing 3 children and more than 1,000 confirmed cases in a woke's span. there is widespread flu activity in 18 states. the cdc says if you have not received a flu shot yet, this is the right time to get it done. now back to "on the record." yo...