take a look at the pediatric unit, children all over come in here, would die within hours if they didn'tet fluids. governor palin is meeting a couple of the little children, but the children come in here literally hours away from death and with hard work, by all of these volunteers, from samaritan's purse and your u.s. aid you're saving lives and this is a desperate situation. the cholera epidemic many people think has been grossly understated and a far graver problem in haiti than stated, but the bottom line, people here, if nothing else, are working really hard to save lives. >> hey, little sweet love. >> and they came in i don't know if they told you about cholera, but we actually think the malnourishment is the bigger problem and these guys are sick and they look about, six week, six week old babe, so, their cholera, they beat quickly, but we're almost keeping them as long as we can so we can feed them as much as we can. >> straight ahead. education leads to jobs, what lessons are the children at the greta home and academy be taught to lead them to a successful life? a closer look in

elliott friedman is manning the pediatric trauma unit. >> they were very close to losing their lives.and they would have dropped into the critical temperature range. >> but all five of the children do pull through and live to tell about their close encounter with death. >> because my sister was drowning. she was screaming. i tried to save her, but i fell in. i couldn't get up because my book bag was heavy. but he pulled my head up and pushed me to the ice. >> i want to thank all the officers and the police department and the fire department. >> if we didn't get there when we did, that would have been a real bad situation. i think that we could have been doing a body recovery operation instead of a rescue. it was real close. >>> up next -- >> we didn't know how long we had. >> a cruise ship is in deep trouble, and it isn't the officers performing the rescue. >> my job is to rock and roll, not to rescue. >>> also a plane is going down. >> it went from -- to a -- >> they brace for impact. then, if crashing into the ground isn't dangerous enough -- >> there's a plane that is literally stu

we are looking at emergency room visits due to influenza and intensive care unit hospitalizations and pediatric deaths, and early in december we started to see that rise in influenza activity and we actually have had many intensive care users and hospitalizations reported to us. at this point we haven't had any pediatric deaths reported to us and we're thankful for that. >> you mentioned pediatric deaths especially, but are elderly also equally vulnerable? >> on the intensive care unit hospitalizations that we have had reported to us, the vast majority of them are senior citizens with underlying health conditions so yes with this particular strain we know the elderly and those with underlying health conditionsare more likely to get seriously ill. >> let me ask you and i want to ask dr. schaffner this, what do the hospitals do with the added pressure? we mentioned in the introduction about turning some patients away? >> in the state of illinois emergency rooms have a by pass system where they can, for certain reasons, whether it's low-bed availability or backed-up emergency rooms, they can have

we are looking at emergency room visits due to influenza and intensive care unit hospitalizations and pediatric deaths, and early in december we started to see that rise in influenza activity and we actually have had many intensive care users and hospitalizations reported to us. at this point we haven't had any pediatric deaths reported to us and we're thankful for that. >> you mentioned pediatric deaths especially, but are elderly also equally vulnerable? >> on the intensive care unit hospitalizations that we have had reported to us, the vast majority of them are senior citizens with underlying health conditions so yes with this particular strain we know the elderly and those with underlying health conditions are more likely to get seriously ill. >> let me ask you and i want to ask dr. schaffner this, what do the hospitals do with the added pressure? we mentioned in the introduction about turning some patients away? >> in the state of illinois emergency rooms have a by pass system where they can for certain reasons, whether it's low-bed availability or backed-up emergency rooms, they can have

united states may last six more weeks. nine more children have died in the past week alone due to the flu-related illness, bringing the total number of pediatric >> heather: the woman charged with pushing a man to his death in front of a new york city subway says that she was having a bad day. she says she targeted the indian immigrant because he was hindu. >> gregg: we are awaiting the autopsy results of a poisoned lottery winner from chicago. his body was exhumed yesterday. police want to know exactly how he was poisoned with cyanide. he died in july after winning the lottery. his death was initially ruled a result of natural causes. >> heather: we are following breaking developments out of algeria where we are awaiting new information on the hostage stand-off at a bp natural gas plant in the sahara desert. at least one american is dead and other americans were among the international group of employees taken hostage. all of this started wednesday morning. that's when militants stormed the plant. the attackers initially claiming that it was revenge for france's operation targeting a dangerous wing of al-qaeda in nearby mali that. is where it