I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure. I thought the house would be O.K. When they were fairly adamant about staying, I said, 'All right.

It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't do anything by himself. It was difficult for her to get him in and out of the car.

With traffic, it took them eight hours to reach Jackson,

The planned polio vaccination campaign is an emergency protective measure aiming at rapidly boosting children's immunity against polio.

It's about as mild as you can go. It's more of a face-saving measure.