Title: Could swine flu telecommuters hog the internet?

" Thank you venture online this morning our director digital media Ted Mack. H1N1 swine flu here as well an interesting dilemma that comes the -- When nine you know people aren't feeling well -- in Milan went up to six the easy thing to do and the Internet makes it possible here to stay at home. And telecommuting inning -- worked on from home. But now there's a warning the government that if -- that may affect the health. Of the Internet infrastructure and take a look online the Washington Post reporting that's so that you see the headline could swine flu. Clog the web the story from -- you can't I takes a look at a report the Government Accountability Office. That's we came out earlier this week and it's warning is that if millions of Americans this time that they need to telecommute from home where children are accessing video files because -- home because schools are closed it may actually overload. Local Internet. Networks and that that would happen it's not clear what the government can necessarily do that and of course there's a lot of critical."

" I information -- need to be passed on the Internet as well people use it as a news source he believes it is a source for information and the question now is whether the government. Is able in any way to -- handle. This kind of spike in Internet traffic. The GAO and it's the department of homeland security's actually Charter Communications networks. -- in the case of a major crisis but don't necessarily have a plan for this he got of the GAO web site. It's an exciting place look at how these fun filled reports I know I spent a lot of my free time here but it is here -- revenue influenza pandemic. On it it's a 77 page report taking a look at this and initially it was designed so that the report was it was a ordered. On to take a look at what happened in the financial markets in the case of a major pandemic if by the market the market stay open. And the answer that the GAO found is actually the markets themselves aren't private networks -- they could probably handle the changes in the traffic other question we wouldn't it have enough staff to be able to make -- the markets actually work. But interesting problem is that the government doesn't have a lot of options and neither do while web providers. They say you know big there'd be legally bound to want. Not to discriminate against certain web sites were prioritize traffic that -- be set -- accusations that they're saving some traffic over others. So it becomes an interesting dilemma for Iraq for people if if we overlook these networks what the government can possibly do to protect us -- now."

" Don't know tell what they can do is just shut down FaceBook and MySpace for the length of time needed and that should free up about 80% of the space on the Internet."

" But what she -- that and I mean then then you know with them about what stared each other have to. Pretty pretty thank you might I mean. It might do that they -- out one of the -- my of course that are special kind of seven -- if you look at the latest news on H1N1 swine flu. But the latest news section nearly a quarter of any skin dot com and other -- especially for H1N1. Click on you get all of our video stories on H1N1 as that we continue to cover this and that we -- have more links also as we get closer to what tomorrow night session."

" Should be a good show there I think you're very valuable -- of course we're getting questions from people less sentiment fluid any cnn.com."

" We'll bottom line answer from seven and on my mind and a lot questions to -- on the -- yes we do a lot but with nobody questions on Twitter as well. So we'll talk I talk about that stuff tomorrow because they're hatched -- and a and a millennia to get your pen and paper for -- could decide okay that's what we could always use that that's -- next hour."