World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-09-30

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[0:04] On World News Tonight this Wednesday,

[0:06] the first budget surplus in a

[0:07] generation, $70 billion. Where did it

[0:10] come from? Who gets the credit? And how

[0:12] will it now be used? The most dangerous

[0:15] threat to health on a college campus.

[0:18] We'll take a closer look at binge

[0:20] drinking. And medical technology on the

[0:23] cutting edge again tonight. The smart

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[0:28] the patient.

[0:35] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:38] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:41] Peter Jennings.

[0:42] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with an

[0:44] impressive accomplishment. At the end of

[0:46] this fiscal year, the federal government

[0:47] will have taken in about $70 billion

[0:50] more than it spent. We knew it was

[0:52] coming. The amount of money from taxes

[0:54] is up in every single category.

[0:56] Nonetheless, the last time there was a

[0:58] surplus of any magnitude was almost 30

[1:00] years ago, which means, as you can

[1:03] imagine, all sorts of people who want

[1:04] political credit for this and a vigorous

[1:07] debate about how the surplus money

[1:09] should be spent. So, we go to Washington

[1:11] and ABC's John Cochran.

[1:14] >> Thank you.

[1:14] >> It happened on Bill Clinton's watch, so

[1:16] he was eager to brag about how long it

[1:18] has been since the government took in

[1:20] more dollars than it spent.

[1:21] >> 29 years ago, Neil Armstrong walked on

[1:24] the moon.

[1:26] Bonanza was one of our toprated TV shows

[1:31] and Sammy Sza was one year old.

[1:33] >> Actually, there are a lot of people who

[1:35] can take a share of the credit. 5 years

[1:37] ago, the president pushed through an

[1:38] unpopular budget that increased gasoline

[1:40] taxes and raised a lot of tax revenue.

[1:42] Economic growth provided still more tax

[1:45] dollars. Republicans in Congress held

[1:47] down spending and passed a balanced

[1:48] budget. and ordinary Americans should

[1:50] get credit for paying all those taxes

[1:52] and increasing their productivity on the

[1:54] job. As for what to do with the surplus,

[1:57] it is the politicians who will decide.

[1:59] House Republicans want to set aside 90%

[2:01] of the surplus to protect Social

[2:03] Security, but use the rest for a huge

[2:05] tax cut. President Clinton argues all

[2:07] the money should be set aside until the

[2:09] Social Security issue is resolved.

[2:12] >> This in a sense uh is a club that the

[2:15] president has. Uh he's saying uh come to

[2:17] the table Republicans and uh cut a deal

[2:20] with me on social security or I won't

[2:22] free up some of this resource these

[2:24] resources.

[2:25] >> Social security is a hot issue because

[2:27] vast numbers of baby boomers will start

[2:29] retiring soon. And unless Washington

[2:31] kicks in more money 31 years from now

[2:34] retirees will lose 25% of their

[2:37] benefits. The president says he will

[2:39] veto any big tax cut until the future of

[2:42] social security is guaranteed. and the

[2:44] polls which he pays a lot of attention

[2:46] to show he is on the popular side in

[2:49] this debate. John Cochran, ABC News,

[2:51] Washington.

[2:52] >> Other economic news of note the day

[2:54] after the Federal Reserve's modest

[2:55] quarter point cut in short-term interest

[2:57] rates. Some banks have already cut their

[2:59] prime lending rates. They normally do

[3:01] after a Fed cut, but others are holding

[3:03] back. A sign that they think that

[3:05] lending has become riskier. Another sign

[3:08] of international economic trouble, the

[3:10] International Monetary Fund has slashed

[3:12] its estimate of world economic growth

[3:14] for this year and next year by more than

[3:17] 1% to the lowest level in 7 years. And

[3:20] on Wall Street, the Dow Jones lost just

[3:22] under 238 points today to close at

[3:24] 78.42. On the NASDAQ market, stocks lost

[3:28] 40 points. From the international

[3:31] community today, including the United

[3:32] States, calls for an international

[3:35] investigation of a massacre in the

[3:37] former Yugoslavia. The Serbs have been

[3:40] running a violent campaign against

[3:42] ethnic Albanians in the province of

[3:44] Kosovo for more than 7 months now. The

[3:47] US and its allies in the North Atlantic

[3:49] Treaty Organization have repeatedly told

[3:51] the Serbian leader, Slobodon Mallosvich,

[3:54] to stop or else. It has not been a

[3:57] credible threat. The massacre in the

[3:59] tiny village of Gier O'Ne makes it very

[4:02] clear. Here's ABC's Mike Lee.

[4:05] >> In this village, 18 Albanian civilians,

[4:08] including children, and all people who

[4:10] could hardly walk, much less fight, were

[4:12] slaughtered. Others who escaped say that

[4:14] Serb forces had executed everyone they

[4:16] could find. An American human rights

[4:18] observer was at the scene yesterday.

[4:20] >> All of them had been shot in the head,

[4:21] and it appeared that they had been shot

[4:23] from close range. Uh, and the bodies

[4:25] were uh had had signs of bodily

[4:28] mutilation.

[4:30] >> 20 miles to the north, another atrocity.

[4:33] This time, a group of at least five

[4:34] refugees on the run after their village

[4:36] had been destroyed were murdered. This

[4:39] Albanian man says he saw the horror.

[4:41] They stripped one woman and cut her ears

[4:43] and nose and fingers off. After a while,

[4:46] they shot her. M

[4:48] >> Serb officials said today the massacres

[4:50] were actually carried out by Albanian

[4:52] extremists against their own people in

[4:54] an effort to provoke Western military

[4:56] intervention.

[4:58] >> But Western officials say the Serbs have

[4:59] committed a series of murders over the

[5:01] past 6 months.

[5:04] This latest carnage was carried out

[5:05] while Serb forces were telling the world

[5:07] their offensive was over. The Serbs have

[5:10] now left much of the Kosovo countryside

[5:12] in ashes and in agony.

[5:15] >> I know. 800 people are dead. 300,000

[5:19] Albanians are homeless.

[5:22] Mike Lee, ABC News, London.

[5:25] >> Great Britain has called an emergency

[5:26] meeting of the UN Security Council

[5:28] tomorrow to condemn the killings. There

[5:30] have been condemnations before. The

[5:32] question now is, will there be action?

[5:35] Here's ABC's John McCarthy.

[5:40] In Bosnia, it was the Marketplace

[5:42] massacre in 1994 that first energized

[5:45] public opinion and forced the

[5:47] governments of Europe and the US to

[5:49] exert pressure on the Bosnian Serbs. But

[5:52] it still took 18 months and yet another

[5:54] massacre before NATO was pushed into the

[5:57] air campaign that eventually helped to

[5:59] end the war. Today, there were tough

[6:02] words from capitals all over the world

[6:04] in the aftermath of the newly discovered

[6:06] massacre in Kosovo. NATO is now ready to

[6:09] act.

[6:10] President Mallosvich would be making a

[6:12] big mistake if he did not recognize the

[6:16] revulsion across Europe at this latest

[6:19] atrocity.

[6:20] >> There are some top US officials who say

[6:22] they would like to drop bombs on Serb

[6:25] troops in Kosovo this week. But other

[6:28] officials say it would be a terrible

[6:30] mistake for the US to act alone in

[6:32] either diplomacy or use of force. Those

[6:35] courses are best undertaken by countries

[6:38] working together who care about the

[6:40] future of Europe.

[6:41] >> Many European countries say before any

[6:44] air strikes, they want additional UN

[6:46] Security Council resolutions to provide

[6:48] them with political cover. Over the

[6:50] years, Serb leader Sloan Mallovich has

[6:53] become a master at dealing with NATO by

[6:55] keeping the violence just below what

[6:57] might provoke the world to act.

[6:59] >> I think Mr. has read us beautifully. He

[7:01] knows how to deal with us. He has he has

[7:04] he has cleaned our clothes. He stripped

[7:07] us bare and we have gone along with it.

[7:09] >> Most veteran Mallosvich watchers believe

[7:12] he will withdraw his troops and agree to

[7:14] peace talks, but not until he is

[7:16] convinced that air strikes are imminent.

[7:19] John McQuey, ABC News, the Pentagon.

[7:22] >> When we come back, some of today's other

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[9:04] air. The United Paramount Network, UPN,

[9:07] is withdrawing the initial installment

[9:09] of a show called The Secret Diary of

[9:11] Desmond Pyifer. The show has been

[9:13] attacked for racially offensive jokes.

[9:16] Television networks are constantly

[9:18] redrawing the lines of what's

[9:19] acceptable. In this instance, the

[9:21] question is, did UPN go too far? Here's

[9:23] ABC's Brian Rooney.

[9:27] >> Protesters collected this morning at the

[9:29] gates of Paramount Studios demanding the

[9:31] show's cancellation. The United

[9:33] Paramount Network, which has more black

[9:35] viewers than any other network, has

[9:37] offended a core audience.

[9:39] >> Anything that they reflect about slavery

[9:42] in a comedic way, is unacceptable. The

[9:45] secret diary of Desmond Pifer intends to

[9:48] lampoon the Clinton presidency through a

[9:50] black servant's view of Abraham

[9:51] Lincoln's Civil War White House.

[9:53] >> The president having sex with someone

[9:55] who works at the White House.

[9:56] Preposterous.

[9:58] >> The show got into early trouble when

[10:00] advanced copies circulated and people

[10:02] saw jokes about slavery.

[10:04] >> The slaves haven't been emancipated yet.

[10:06] Get your feet off the table, Fifer.

[10:08] >> I just love my mass soul. I just be

[10:12] standing here in case she be unneing

[10:15] something.

[10:17] >> A UPN executive defended Desmond Pyifer

[10:20] during an appearance on black

[10:22] entertainment television.

[10:23] >> This is not a show about slavery, nor

[10:25] does it trade on slavery. It's a show

[10:27] that satarizes American life.

[10:30] >> Some television critics and newspaper

[10:32] columnists say the show is the product

[10:33] of a notion in comedy that these days

[10:36] anything goes. That's a uh silly, ineply

[10:39] done historical spoof that has managed

[10:43] to stumble into offending people. Uh

[10:45] certainly not on purpose, but apparently

[10:47] very effectively.

[10:48] >> Any UPN executive who looked out his

[10:50] window today could see that no one in

[10:52] this crowd was laughing. Brian Rooney,

[10:54] ABC News, Hollywood.

[10:57] >> Other news across the southeastern

[10:58] United States today, the last gasp from

[11:01] George on Dolphin Island, Alabama. Homes

[11:04] are still underwater. Power is still

[11:05] out. Damage to roads and bridges alone

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[11:11] In Mississippi, where Jors first hit

[11:13] shore three days ago, thousands of

[11:15] people are still not able to go home

[11:17] because of the high water.

[11:19] >> When we come back, binge drinking on

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[13:34] tonight at one of the most dangerous

[13:36] health hazards that college students

[13:38] particularly face. Binge drinking is not

[13:40] suddenly new on American campuses, but

[13:43] it is still decidedly destructive. Binge

[13:45] drinking is five drinks in a row for a

[13:47] man, four for a woman. A study from the

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[13:58] cocktails every time they drink. And 16%

[14:01] of all teenagers say they have blacked

[14:03] out and couldn't remember the previous

[14:05] evening because they were drinking. And

[14:08] one more. A recent Harvard study found

[14:10] that more than half of students say that

[14:13] they drink to get drunk. Here's ABC's

[14:16] Antonio Mora.

[14:21] On fall weekends, rooting for the

[14:23] Cougars is a Washington State University

[14:25] ritual.

[14:26] >> Let's go COUGARS FOOTBALL.

[14:29] >> For many here, so is the partying and

[14:31] heavy drinking that often follows.

[14:33] >> We work all week, Friday, Saturday, time

[14:35] to have fun and go out. And a lot of

[14:37] people abuse alcohol on the weekend.

[14:40] >> So much so that in past years, student

[14:42] bingers regularly ended up at the

[14:44] detoxification unit at the university's

[14:47] hospital. on this campus and many

[14:49] others. People are especially sensitive

[14:51] to the issue because just last year,

[14:53] binge drinking killed one student at

[14:56] Louisiana State University and another

[14:58] at the Massachusetts Institute of

[14:59] Technology. For college administrators

[15:02] and parents, binge drinking has become a

[15:04] primary campus safety concern. They

[15:07] realize that binge drinkers are not only

[15:09] a danger to themselves, they're a danger

[15:11] to others. That's because binge drinking

[15:14] is associated with many, if not most,

[15:16] campus car crashes, sexual assaults, and

[15:19] incidents of vandalism.

[15:20] >> On any given Friday or Saturday night,

[15:22] about 80% of what I do is

[15:23] alcohol-related.

[15:25] >> Washington State decided enough was

[15:28] enough. After seeing an earlier Harvard

[15:30] study on binge drinking 5 years ago, the

[15:32] school recognized it had to take a

[15:34] stand. In consultation with the study's

[15:37] authors, the school banned alcohol from

[15:39] all public places on campus. That means

[15:42] no drinking allowed at football games,

[15:44] at dorm events, or even at fraternity

[15:46] parties. Still, no one believes drinking

[15:49] will just disappear.

[15:51] >> Do I think it will evaporate and go

[15:52] away? No. Uh no more than I think uh

[15:55] alcohol will drop out of all of our

[15:57] society.

[15:58] >> That's not stopping Washington State and

[16:00] other colleges from taking a hard line,

[16:03] hoping to reduce alcohol abuse.

[16:06] Students who want to drink are furious.

[16:08] They don't want colleges to be

[16:10] babysitters, and their protests at times

[16:12] have turned violent. Last May, police

[16:15] used tear gas to break up a crowd at

[16:17] Michigan State University.

[16:20] At Washington State, a day later,

[16:22] students attacked police who were trying

[16:24] to stop rowdy partying near off-campus

[16:26] bars. Some blamed the violence on the

[16:29] anti-drinking policies. Other students

[16:32] have sided with those tougher policies

[16:34] and nationwide more and more

[16:36] fraternities are going on the wagon,

[16:38] choosing to go dry.

[16:40] >> People feel more comfortable going into

[16:41] a fraternity knowing that they can hang

[16:43] out and have fun and someone's not going

[16:45] to like here you want a beer. Here you

[16:46] want a beer or you know things like

[16:48] that.

[16:48] >> At Washington State, they are finding

[16:51] small signs of improvement. Ben's

[16:53] drinking has only landed one student in

[16:56] the hospital even though the school year

[16:58] is only 6 weeks old. That's still

[17:01] something to celebrate. Antonio Mora,

[17:03] ABC News, New York.

[17:06] >> But sometimes the best efforts don't get

[17:08] anywhere. And when kids start drinking

[17:09] at 14, we look around for reasons why.

[17:13] Some of the answers might be right here

[17:15] in front of us.

[17:17] >> Hey, you know what? This is pretty good.

[17:19] >> The professionals who deal with

[17:20] alcoholism are concerned that drinking

[17:22] is all too common on television.

[17:24] >> From a very early age, kids watching

[17:26] television get the idea that all adults

[17:28] drink. Uh, television normalizes alcohol

[17:31] consumption and they make it look like

[17:33] any other beverage.

[17:34] >> A recent survey by Temple University

[17:36] found that in 50 hours of prime time

[17:38] programming, there were between two and

[17:41] four alcoholrelated scenes per hour.

[17:45] And many of the shows are designed for

[17:48] the young. The president's drugs are

[17:50] says the average teenager will have

[17:52] watched 65,000 episodes of drinking by

[17:56] the time he or she is 18. The obvious

[17:59] question is, is there a connection

[18:01] between young people drinking and

[18:03] drinking as it's portrayed on

[18:05] television?

[18:06] >> Well, the more they see drinking on

[18:08] television, the more likely they are to

[18:09] drink.

[18:11] >> Many television producers say that in

[18:13] the '9s they will lose in the ratings

[18:15] race if they don't show life as it

[18:18] really is. But Brian Dak, who works for

[18:21] the television industry, says this is

[18:24] not the place to look. I think teenagers

[18:26] learn about drinking first in their home

[18:29] before they ever turn a television set

[18:30] on. If their family doesn't drink, they

[18:33] learn about it from their friends or in

[18:35] the neighborhood or within the

[18:36] community.

[18:37] >> None of the networks would talk to us on

[18:39] camera, but in a written statement, ABC

[18:42] said that most scenes with alcohol

[18:44] depict its use with moderation. When

[18:47] this is not the case, we must always

[18:49] show the consequences. ABC will find

[18:52] many who do not agree. Very often you'll

[18:55] see characters, particularly in

[18:56] situation comedies, drinking a lot. The

[18:59] more they drink, the funnier they get.

[19:01] That's a very bad message to be sending

[19:04] to kids.

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[21:06] >> Yeah. So tell me about Cant.

[21:08] >> Just jump to 43 even. You're long

[21:11] 20,000.

[21:12] >> What's the best way to sell that?

[21:13] >> Checking the quote.

[21:16] There's a huge size on the bid. No need

[21:18] to break it up. You can move it as a

[21:19] block.

[21:20] >> Good. Sell it to market. Okay.

[21:23] >> Placing an order. Moving 20,000.

[21:26] >> We're moving nowhere in Santa Monica.

[21:29] >> Confirmed. 20,000 sold at market.

[21:33] >> Can you give me the pianies?

[21:35] >> And now the last in our series this week

[21:38] at least about medical technology on the

[21:40] cutting edge. Tonight, technology on the

[21:42] move. The Pentagon is always trying to

[21:44] get effective medical assistance out to

[21:47] wounded soldiers faster. Today they

[21:49] showed us their latest mass unit. It

[21:51] starts as a 5x10 ft box that is dropped

[21:54] very close to a combat zone and in about

[21:56] 15 minutes. Today it took 16 minutes and

[22:00] 30 seconds a 10erson team can set up a

[22:03] 30foot hospital ready for surgery and

[22:06] for posttop. Officials point out that it

[22:09] is a civilian use as well, which is also

[22:12] the case for a very new, very advanced

[22:15] stretcher. Here's ABC's Jack Smith.

[22:18] Come on.

[22:19] >> In war, as many as 50% of the wounded

[22:23] can die on their way to a hospital.

[22:26] In civilian disasters, it's the same.

[22:28] Too much distance between the casualty

[22:30] and the care. But there's a remarkable

[22:34] new solution. bring critical hospital

[22:36] services out to the patient during the

[22:38] so-called golden hour.

[22:41] >> It's the hour immediately following an

[22:43] injury and the treatment that you can

[22:46] give during that time is is really

[22:48] important.

[22:49] >> With revolutionary advances in computer

[22:52] technology and miniaturization,

[22:54] engineers have built the world's first

[22:56] smart stretcher, essentially a portable

[22:58] intensive care unit.

[23:00] >> This provides breathing air to the

[23:01] patient. Packed into this high-tech

[23:03] stretcher, just 5 in high, are nearly a

[23:06] dozen advanced medical devices right out

[23:08] of a hospital. Devices to keep patients

[23:11] breathing, keep their hearts beating,

[23:13] pump drugs into them, monitor their

[23:15] vital signs, and test their blood. And

[23:17] this information is relayed immediately

[23:19] to the hospital ahead of them.

[23:21] >> The same kinds of devices, medical

[23:22] devices for either monitoring or

[23:24] therapeutics you'd find in an emergency

[23:25] room or an intensive care unit, you see

[23:27] on this platform. The prototype does

[23:29] weigh a hefty 135 pounds, but future

[23:33] models will be lighter.

[23:34] >> Air weight is fine.

[23:36] >> It's already been tested by the army and

[23:38] the Food and Drug Administration has

[23:39] given its approval. So, it goes into

[23:41] production later this year.

[23:43] >> Is that going to make a difference? I

[23:44] believe it will. I believe we'll be able

[23:45] to save lives we couldn't save before.

[23:48] >> A breakthrough in medical care for

[23:50] combat casualties and civilian disaster

[23:52] victims alike. Technology that gives

[23:54] both a better chance of surviving. Jack

[23:58] Smith, ABC News, Pico Rivera,

[24:00] California.

[24:02] >> When we come back, updating a classic,

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[25:41] Tonight, a man on trial for murder. A

[25:43] juror seduced by his kiss.

[25:45] >> He pulled me towards him and he kissed

[25:47] me.

[25:47] >> And what happened then? My knees went to

[25:49] jolly.

[25:49] >> A forbidden affair, a surprise verdict.

[25:52] Diane Sawyer, Sam Donaldson, 2020

[25:54] tonight.

[25:57] >> Finally, this evening, a truly grand

[25:59] reopening for a great American building.

[26:01] Tomorrow here in New York City, the

[26:02] terminal at Grand Central Station will

[26:05] be rededicated. Tonight, a preview of

[26:07] what you get after a renovation that

[26:09] took 10 years and cost $200 million.

[26:15] It is so much more than a train station.

[26:17] It is functional certainly, but it is

[26:19] also breathtaking.

[26:21] >> Great space here is not where the trains

[26:22] are. The great space is where the people

[26:24] are. We New Yorkers pass through it as

[26:27] if it's our town square.

[26:28] >> John Bell is the architect responsible

[26:30] for Grand Central's restoration.

[26:32] >> It's not an elitist building. It's a

[26:34] building that makes everybody feel

[26:36] welcome. Just walk across the marble

[26:38] floor and you feel like Fred a stair.

[26:41] You feel like dancing. It's so

[26:42] wonderful. Grand Central Terminal, as

[26:44] it's called, built in 1913, had pretty

[26:47] much gone to seed in recent years.

[26:51] You couldn't see the creamy marble, the

[26:54] wonderful town, the great chandeliers.

[26:56] >> When Grand Central first opened its

[26:58] doors on the eve of World War I, it was

[27:01] an elegant departure point for great

[27:03] trains such as the 20th Century Limited.

[27:06] From here, the rest of America was

[27:08] becoming accessible. In the 1970s,

[27:12] Jacqueline Kennedy Onases led a campaign

[27:14] to save the station from real estate

[27:16] developers.

[27:18] Today, it is a hub for commuters and for

[27:21] tourists.

[27:22] >> Half a million people a day go through

[27:24] this building. That's the population of

[27:26] Cleveland.

[27:27] >> And in the main concourse under the

[27:29] constellation ceiling, one can stand for

[27:32] a moment and simply absorb the history.

[27:35] >> It's beautiful. Just absolutely

[27:36] beautiful.

[27:37] >> There's no building like this. I want

[27:39] them to feel that we've brought back

[27:41] this space the way it was in 1913 that

[27:44] made it totally equipped for the next

[27:47] century. For the next century. That's

[27:49] our report on World News Tonight. Later

[27:51] on 2020, did an affair between a juror

[27:54] and a defendant influence a verdict? And

[27:57] on Night Line, have computers really

[27:59] helped in the classroom? I'm Peter

[28:01] Jennings. We hope you have a good

[28:02] evening. See you tomorrow. Good night.

[28:06] Tomorrow, the millennium clock is

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[28:27] Tonight, it's Drew's comedy jam with

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[28:35] It's Drew like you've never seen him

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[28:39] >> Oh, this is tough.

[28:40] >> Yeah.

[28:42] >> Should I wear this suit tonight with

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[28:43] >> The premiere of The Secret Lives of Men

[28:45] after Drew. ABC Tonight.

[28:51] >> This is News 2 at 6.

[28:55] In school, there was a whole lot of

[28:57] people sick.

[28:59] >> Hickman County battles an outbreak of

[29:01] Chageela.

[29:03] >> Good evening everyone. A health alert

[29:05] tonight about a relatively rare

[29:07] intestinal infection called Chageela

[29:09] that generally affects young children.

[29:11] >> There have been 150 cases reported here

[29:14] in Tennessee so far this year. But as

[29:16] News2's Chris Bungard tells us, this

[29:18] Shagela outbreak has left a lot ofies