the pair spent christmas quarantined in bed, away from their family. >> it's the best thing for everybody. >> reporter: they didn't get flu shots. doctors say getting the shots could have helped. but this year's vaccine has been disappointing. >> this year's flu vaccine may be only 10% effective. better than 0%, but still i have, i have poor. >> reporter: according to doctors, the virus can exist in the air, three to six feet away from an infected person. ten states already exhibiting high flu activity, most in the south and southwest. with the peak of the misery expected sometime in the coming weeks. doctors warning it's not just the vulnerable who are at risk. >> sometimes the flu really affects people who have no underlying medical condition, who are young and healthy. and those patients can get very sick and can die of influenza complications. >> reporter: doctors say despite

effective, people should still get the shots, because it could lessen the potentially debilitating and deadly impacts of the flu. linzie janis, abc news, new york. >> and the federal government apparently takes too long to recall unsafe food products. that's the finding of a government study that says it can take up to ten months to remove unsafe products from store shelves even if people are getting sick. but the head of the food and drug administration says that's no longer true. the study analyzed recalls from previous years. he says many improvements have been made since then. don't quit your day job yet, well, go ahead, quit it. there was no jackpot winner in the megamillions last night. >> that means it jumps to $306 million. there were three people who each won $4 million prizes last night, not bad. >> as we always caution, money will not buy you happiness.

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two dozen apartments were damaged all from a remote control car battery. and new questions about the moment that left californians mesmerized. >> that's because the rocket launch looked like an alien invasion. we're seeing from some people's reactions it was kind of dangerous. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: new images surfacing of california going haywire. >> what the hell is that? >> reporter: that mysterious contrail, space x's rocket sailing smoothly into the friday night sky. >> wow, what is that? >> reporter: a sight so mesmerizing that some drivers couldn't keep their eyes out of the sky and on the road. >> ah, ah! >> [ bleep ]. >> this guy's not paying attention. >> reporter: and even after those three cars crashed, the narrater in

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we're back on tv here. we're back with the powerful new movie starring mary j. blige getting serious oscar buzz. >> "mud bound" tells the story of two families struggling. >> you use the back door. >> reporter: "mud bound" is a powerhouse drama that hits a raw nerve. >> go on. we don't want no trouble here. >> reporter: two young soldiers return home after fighting in world war ii to work on the farm in rural mississippi. >> you just come back. you come all the way back. >> reporter: singer/songwriter

mary j. blige delivers a wonderful performance. i raid that yead that you norma love something when you read it the first time. >> the original was written by virgil williams. and from page one, there's the character, the pacing of it. i called my agent on page five and was like, yeah, i'll do their one. >> reporter: you've got to tell us about this beautiful journal, your grandmother's journal and how it is a part of the film. >> absolutely, yes. approaching "mud bound", i had personal history in it. my grandmother had drawn like floor plans of the cabins and what was in the cabins. it places me in that time. let me get to some pictures. this is my great, great

actually. >> reporter: you can see the strength. >> exactly, yeah. >> reporter: you can see the strength in their eyes. other characters, other actors, were they able to bring some of their personal experiences to the film? >> absolutely. jason mitchell's father served in the korean war. and hedlund's relative was in a war. so all my cast were able to bring personal experience into the story and inject that anses fly -- ancestry into it. >> reporter: this is personal. >> when you're able to bring that authenticity, that kernel of truth. actors can use that to define that crack into a character. and once they find the crack, directors have the wedge and hammer and are trying to help them widen it and widen it and sink deeper and deeper. mary j. blige disappears. >> reporter: how was it

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tempe, arizona with sergeant johnson. sounds like you've got something there. he has two unusual passengers, a news anchor, me, and a meditation teacher named jeff warren. you think on the force meditation is considered socially acceptable? or will people make fun of you a little bit? you can be honest. >> i think people are going to make fun of you just a little bit. >> reporter: you think people think if you're meditating that you're going to kind of go soft a little bit? >> hey, i would say, yes. >> i get it. i used to think that meditation would diminish my edge in the hard-edge of tv news. i had a panic attack live on "good morning, america." >> it's too early to prescribe statins solely for cancer prevention. >> reporter: studies can sugge

meditation can help people in high-stress jobs literally requiring your brain. we here to help make it more acceptable. >> the area's known for illegal activity with drugs. >> reporter: while sergeant johnson is skeptical, we gather his colleagues, many who have embraced meditation. >> may mind y mind is in the rie and i'm able to talk to people. >> reporter: they say meditation helps them manage stress on the job and not take it home with them. by the end of our visit, sergeant johnson is convinced. dan harris, abc news, tempe, arizona. >> a great, great book. i wrote a book, 11% happier, and it went nowhere. go figure. >> i think i have it here in the trash. hold on. i'll get t i'm getting it.

this morning on "world news now," the bitter arctic blast with bone-chilling temperatures gripping the nation. >> and snowfall records are being shattered. more than five feet of though in so -- snow in some areas. president trump is away from the white house for holidays but not off twitter, and he's now taking aim at the russia investigation and the fbi. and a shocking double murder. two parents shot and their daughter's boyfriend is the sus selected quiller. later in the mix, a shoe-in. a bizarre moment when they started chanting and r