The World Health Organization today called swine flu a pandemic - meaning the flu, which emerged in Mexico in April, is spreading globally at a sustained rate. So far, swine flu has killed more than 140 of the nearly 28,000 people who have contracted it. Dr. Robert Webster, a flu expert at Saint Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, is our guest.

President Obama says he sees signs that his economic policies are beginning to bear fruit. Other analysts warn that the economy is still at the brink. We'll speak with Greg Ip, economics editor for The Economist, who says that in either case, the government still has to figure out how to get out of its multi-trillion dollar stake in everything from car companies to banks without causing panic.

Four decades later, evidence of the US war in Vietnam is still all over the place, and it's exploding. Heavy and steady U.S. bombings of North Vietnamese supply routes through the neighboring country of Laos left behind countless un-detonated cluster bombs which are killing and maiming innocent villagers all these years later. The BBC's Jill McGivering has the story.

A quick reminder that midnight Friday, broadcast television stations will switch over from analog to digital... Then: Reinvention is the name of GM's new ad campaign. The auto giant is using TV, print and the internet to assure consumers that GM will emerge from bankruptcy stronger than ever. We look at the current campaign and some commercials from GM's glory days with Here & Now media analyst, John Carroll.

We revisit a conversation with Myla Goldberg. Her 2005 novel "Wickett's Remedy" centers around Lydia Wickett, a young nurse working in Boston during the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak that killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide.