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Dozen. we now have multiple thousands. estimates range from 10,000 to 19,000. bill: deadlines have come and gone twice now. ultimately they want to get a deal done by the end of june. right now there is no clear indication which way it goes. thank you for your time in washington. >> martha: we have another hospital reporting several cases of a potentially deadly super bug. what you need to know about this. why this infection is spreading and how bad it could get. reporter: a dramatic day on the slopes. hundreds of skiers getting more than they bargained for right there.

Those people damaging 100 feet in the air. it was a high-wire rescue with crews descending on the cable car lifting everybody to safe live. 200 people made it down safe and sound. well done. martha: a second los angeles hospital is reporting an outbreak of a potentially deadly super bug. jonathon, what else the latest in all of this? >> reporter: first of all we had the outbreak at the ronald reagan ucla medical center. 7 people infected, two of whom died. now we have a second outbreak at cedars sinai. the us snct all of this. take a look at the particular type of even endoscopy.

Bacteria on the part of the stethoscope that we put on your back or chest. you might be sweaty. you sweat on to the stethoscope. don't you want the doctor to use an alcohol swab. it's simple to wipe down the part that touched the patient. even the tube has back dwreteri it. i wear it from one patient to the next. i can pass bacteria. mrsa is a super bug and it doesn't actually show which pathological bacteria are there and can they cause infection? i would like them to study what we have talked about. if you are passing for doctors to stethoscopes to patients, don't just wash your hands. put a...

We find a lot of fecal matter everywhere. the point of the matter is, when we live in a society that is in constant movement and you have a lot of people going back and forth, then you have the potential for the outbreaks. that is why a lot of scientists that deal with infectious disease are saying be careful because one day we're going to have a super bug, and we have those already, that is going to be very difficult to treat and we don't have the resources or antibioti antibiotics. so again, we have to be careful about proper hygiene and having a strong immune system. >> all right. thank you...

Super bug like mrsa or this bug or these are the big killers and we have to watch out for it. martha: i have got to go but i want to ask you very quickly if we can, mark. this is affecting the elderly for the most part. people hospitalized or health compromised so far. should people outside of those areas be concerned about this? >> martha, that is a great question. yes, it is mainly the run-down immunocompromised. here is the problem, people that are healthy, it could colonize them. it could spread to somebody healthy, they don't get sick but they spread it to somebody who is more run down. o...