Dr. Erica Pan, Director of the Division of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention and Deputy Health Officer at Alameda County Public Health Department speaks with UpFront this morning about the epidemic levels of flu during this year’s flu season. We discuss what you need to know, what epidemic status means, and how to best take care of yourself. Antonia Juhasz, investigative journalist and who writes about the intersection of oil and politics. Her books include The Tyranny of Oil and Black Tide, about the Gulf Oil Spill. She speaks with us about the gulf spill and the politics of oil nationally. To follow up, Blaire Briody, author of the book the New Wild West joins the discussion about oil, focusing on fracking and boomtowns.