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"not tonight, britta. not tonight." ♪ 30 years ago eradicating smallpox was once of science's greatest achievements, described as one of the worst disease ever, it killed half a billion people in the last century alone. however, two countries -- russia and the u.s. -- still have hundreds of smallpox samples between them tucked away in secret laboratories. many countries believe these stockpiles should finally be destroyed. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta goes to the cdc which has one of these labs to get answers. >> reporter: smallpox is a disease no one has seen since the late 1970s.

Secretive about where exactly the virus is being kept. even though they say that information isn't classified. they wouldn't even tell us if it's on this campus. but they did say they'd show me what the virus looks like. >> we're looking at a slide of dead virus. is that right? >> correct. >> where do they come from? >> so this is a virus that was grown back in the '90s when some of the initial research was going on to begin to look at antivirals. >> reporter: this doctor is one of fewer than ten people at the cdc with access to the live smallpox samples. if this were a live virus, we would no...

new york city. dominique strauss-khan was arrested saturday for allegedly chasing a housekeeper through his luxury hotel suite naked and trying to force himself on her. let's go straight to richard roth who's been following today's developments. richard, bring us up to date. >> reporter: randi, the proceedings have just concluded and basically, dominique strauss-khan, the leader of the international monetary fund, has been charged with sexual assault on a maid in a new york hotel in times square on saturday. we're just now seeing and we just heard the formal charges so it is importan...