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Nightline #929801

ABC Special for Monday, Apr 27, 2009

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  • Taped segment with Dan Harris (ABC), St. Francis Preparatory School student Michael Nicholous‡, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg‡, Centers for Disease Control Acting Director Richard Besser, health expert Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Barack Obama, and unidentified others re: cases of swine flu in New York and elsewhere.
  • Taped segment with Terry McCarthy (ABC), flu patient Hortencia Martinez‡, Mexico City resident Mark Powell‡, and unidentified others re: precautions being taken against the spread of swine flu in Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Taped segment with Jeffrey Kofman (ABC), Oaxaca (Mexico) Minister of Health Martin Vazquez‡, and unidentified others re: efforts to determine the origin of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico.
  • A live discussion between Martin Bashir (ABC) and Dr. Tim Johnson re: issues related to the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico and the US.
  • A brief Closing Arguments segment with Bashir re: whether low-flying aircraft should be banned from flying near Ground Zero in New York City, following an incident earlier today in which Air Force One frightened some New Yorkers.
  • Reporter(s):
    Harris, Dan;
    McCarthy, Terry;
    Kofman, Jeffrey
    Duration:
    00:31:00

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