as it was for kay mortensen.mber 16th, 2009, just before thanksgiving. >> hi, this is flint. we have police on the way to help you there. are you sure your dad's cold to the touch? >> kay did not shoot some intruder, as he'd long promised he was prepared to do. no. somebody killed him. without firing a shot. >> and the man on the phone reporting the crime? roger mortensen, kay's eldest son. >> sliced his throat? >> yeah. >> it wasn't long before kay's wife, darla, had made it to the mouth of the canyon and was led to the command post which was set up at the foot of their home. and gave her the news. >> your life just comes tumbling is down. you have it all planned out. you think you know what it's going to be. and then everything's gone. >> kay caught off guard? not kay, thought darla. impossible. but that seemed to be just what happened. at least that's what roger and pam told the police and later us. and a very strange story it was that began, they said, when pam received a pie at work as a gift. >> he with kne

expert chris mortensen with us.ou look for when you get these reports that come out of the region, what do you particularly -- how do your ears perk up and on what? >> i am looking for the cases, a lot of people have been talking about this program before. we can take these numbers out of china with a big grain of salt but what they are showing us it's still a increase in the cases, this thing is not like sars, not like the flu, has very serious complication rate, it has a fatality rate that set it apart so when i look at this, i now see it in 23 countries and everything i'm looking at says this is a pandemic and it is spreading. >> neil: compared to sars, what is it looking like? what do you look for that is similar, dissimilar? >> first, this looks like it is spreading much more ineffectively, has a higher transmissivity rate. sars did not spread from person to person until a person has symptoms. so they had a fever or something like that and then they would be spreading it to another person. they looks like it ha