more than 40% of students default on loans. boston beer company pulls its sponsorship for refusing to let gay veterans march. those are the headlines, also check out our website. >> on "america tonight": new clues as the hunt for flight 370 moves into its second week and the search enters a whole new ocean. also tonight: addicted in vermont, a new generation. our special series on how vermont's rampant addiction problem is risking the lives of its most vulnerable citizens even before they're born. >> drug sickness amplifies itself with symptoms, babies muscle tone gets stiff, rigid

and that in itself is uncomfortable. >> and the young innocents in the worst place in the world to be a child. syria's children, growing up in the nation's fourth year of civil war. good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. just about this time one week ago came the first now of news out of southeast asia, terrifying word of a plane disappearing with twod 30 people on board. who could have expected, a week later, no one knows exactly where it is. the mystery began early hours of the morning local time. air traffic controllers lose contact with malaysia 370, it seems to disappear.

a day later, the first confusing often contradictory clues, report the jet made a u-turn veering hundreds of miles off course. another terrifying report , are passengers with stolen passports. and malasian airlines say the final are report from cockpit, all right, good night. and forcing investigators to expand the search area from the gulf of thailand and the malacca straits all the way into the indian ocean. to make the challenge deeper, the average debt of the indian ocean nearly 13,000 feet. the original search area averages deaths of a couple hundred feet.

"america tonight"'s lisa stark who has covered a number of air disasters joins us this hour. lisa the latest evidence suggests that perhaps this wasn't an accident, not a catastrophic mechanical failure as we talked about in the beginning. why is the credit evidence pointing in that area now? >> well, joie, evidence points everything on the table, which is a good idea expect but even you with without the wreckage, without black boxes, the information seems to indicate this is something of a slibt attack. they have two -- deliberate attack. the information on the plane's altitude and its location, the other system that sends the information on how the mechanics of the plane are doing, the engines and the other on board mechanics on the system, those systems were shut down, not at exact same time, at different times. then of course there was no

radio contact after about 1:30 in the morning about 40 minutes into the flight. and then it appears from radar data and from other data from satellite information in the area that the aircraft made this turn and stayed flying. all of these things if you put them together, what sources are telling me it leads you to believe that this was some sort of a deliberate act, that someone in the cockpit was doing aircraft. of course they don't know for sure and they're leaving the door open for other things. but this is where the information is leading them right now. >> everyone is so interested in the mystery about all this. but shouldn't there be some signal coming from those black boxes? isn't that the thing that people look for, some sort of signal from the black boxes coming back at this point? >> they really need to find those black boxes obviously. when the boxes are underwater, if the plane is on the bottom of the ocean for example, it does have a pinging signal, comes out

for 30 days, that's how long it's designed for, may go longer but it has to ping for 30 days if you will. so one investigator say they really need to get listening devices under the water there trying to pinpoint the areas that are the most likely where the plane might be and get those listening devices going. we're already a week into this, three more weeks that pinging is going to stop and it is going to be so, so tough to locate those black boxes. >> you would have to be fairly close to them for good why equipment to hear them. >> a couple of miles through deep water, and topography, if they are buried in sand. a lot of technology needed to find these black boxes. >> lisa stark, thank you. >> thank you. >> after the break, a terrible legacy. >> i'm an addict, their father

was an addict. there's that gene, susceptible to addiction. >> bringing up a generation born addicted in vermont.

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is. and it's constant. >> jessica says the guilt is overwhelming. every time she watches this video of her baby boy. >> hard to watch, it really is. >> jacks was built physically dependent on the heroin replacement drug, seboxin. >> he cried, he had all the symptoms. there's no subtlety to him. >> crying? >> oh yeah, crying. >> fidgeting. >> fidgeting, starting. the -- startling. the only time he seemed okay was when we were skin to skin, if he was lying right on my chest, that would settle him. >> jessica has lived her entire life in the picturesque town in

vermont, the most drug addicted women in the entire country. by age 20 jessica was addicted to heroin and she stayed looked for ten years. when she found out she was pregnant she switched to a replacement therapy. her young sovereign's withdrawal from the drug was so bad, she thought i might die. >> he went quiet and his lips turned blue and it just -- >> what did you do? >> i picked him up and kind of shook him a little bit, like wiggled his face and i blew in his face, and it was brief, it felt forever but it was probably a good 20, 25 seconds. you know, to where he just went limp. >> did your heart just jump out of its chest? >> yes, i was really scared. >> now, a toddler, jacks appears to be a

normal , energetic and engaging child. she had to wean him off of siboxi nrveg. her older child is also a siboxin baby. this is a clin clinic where they both were born. >> she comes, she doesn't. she comes, and then she doesn't. she likes to be rocked and swayed and that's what we do. >> amy fenning is the clinical nurse manager. giving "america tonight" a rare look at what these babies experience. >> this baby is in withdrawal. from opiates. >> fenning says in just the last two years, the number of drug affected newborns treated at the clinic has doubled. >> drug sick

ness is indicated by stiff, their muscle tone gets stiff rigid, that in itself is uncomfortable, they sneeze repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly. >> most babies are here two weeks. but some require up to 40 days of hospitalization. it's even tough for professionals to watch. dr. gordon frankel. >> keeping the mothers on a heroin replacement drug during regular neighbors and after birth is better than going cold turkey. >> do much better if they are engaged in treatment with medication assisted treatment. these allow for a continual replacement of the opiate. so the babies and the mom go into withdrawal. that's not the same when you are

searching for the opiate on the street, there's a rush of the drug and a withdrawal, a rush of the drug and withdrawal. >> frankel says most babies make it through program without serious problems and has not shown long term effects but the future of these seboxin babies remains in question. >> it's difficult to research on because so many factors come into play as to a child's development. a lot of it has to do not with just what you're exposed to in utero but also the environment you're born into and what's the home life like, what type of nutrition do you get, what type of education do you get, what type of support do you get as you grow up. all those are important in the child's development. >> are you worried at all of the long term health effects on your kids? >> i am. they're healthy now.

my worry is more about their learning things and disability like that. my worry is more about as they develop and change, it worries me a lot because from everything i can see -- >> they're pretty funny kids. >> they're great yeah. >> what does worry her more is raising her children in rutland where the heroin epidemic has shown no signs of letting up. >> do you think your kids would have a happy life here? >> i challenge. i don't know if i'm willing to >> really?isk of having them. >> i mean i'm an addict, their father was an addict chances are they are both going to have that gene susceptible to addiction. >> jessica is off heroin but she still needs the replacement drug seboxin, afraid without it she could relapse. >> what's it like to see your kids now? do you ever look at them and

hold them and think, oh my god i'm so glad i got clean? >> i see, what is it? >> so grateful for them. and grateful for life that we have. you know, and on days where i'm struggling or i feel like i've been up, i look at their little faces and there's no way, you know, there's no way. they're my heart. >> there he is! >> i want nothing but the best for them. for our little family. you know, i'm hoping -- yeah, everything will be good. >> hoping the next generation doesn't have to pay the price for this one's hand. >> and we just got an update from jessica. three days ago, she decided to quit taking seboxin. she said she's really tired of relying on it and she wants to be 100% clean. but she says it's extremely hard giving up that medication.

however she's really determined to do this especially for her children. especially joie jessica has just finished a course of treatment of addiction, for expectant mothers, letting them know what goes on during addiction therapy. >> expected whether she could have a good life in that town, given all the addiction in that town, given what she knows in that community, wonders why she didn't want to leave it pack up her children and move somewhere else. >> i asked every single person, why not leave? picking out and moving from an element could happen in recovery, it's a twofold answer. every one of them said at some point they would like to leave vermont, there's so many bad

memories, but one thing they have very strong support networks there, they're involved in other groups with other people struggling with addiction, there's a strength they get from being around those people and also financially. many of these people lost everything. the one individual we met earlier in the series, matt, he worked for the department of homeland security. here in washington he had a very successful job. he was traveling back and forth from vermont. he had a home there, traveling, lost his home in vermont. i asked him did you have pictures from back in washington, credit i'd like to credit see some. he said, they were on my computer, he sold his computer to get drugs. there is a will to get out of vermont eventually. >> to get to someplace and stay clean. adam may, we appreciate you bringing us the stories of those folks there. thanks very much. after the break in our final

segment, the worst place in the world to be a child. syria's war and its youngest victims. and looking ahead to next week on "america tonight." stunning revelations about a frightening time in american history and the effort to create a super-race. >> they were asleep by the time they got to the operating room. and i remember. one week, we could do seven male sterilizations, and the next week, we could only do two female sterilizations, because it took much longer to do the female than it did the males. >> eugenics in the united states. one nurse explains her role publicly for the first time. she speaks only to "america tonight"'s lori jane gliha, about what she did and the patients that changed her life. that story monday, only on "america tonight."

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most dangerous places on earth to be a child. that's how unicef describes syria. for three years already, it's estimated 136,000 people died, more than 10,000 of them children. and as "america tonight"'s reports, the survivors face a life of tremendous risk. >> in the nation's capitol syrian americans pay tribute to the more than 100,000 syrians killed in the raging civil war now entering its four year. these are the streets of cities like homs and aleppo, three years of conflict and turmoil in

syria. yet the smallest victims that led to declare syria one of the most dangerous places on earth for children. >> translator: here the conditions aren't good. we get sick. nobody looks after us. getting through the day is very difficult. back home, we went to school. we get assignments, do our homework. hee with hundred keeping busy. >> living among the devastation is brutal. with each day a struggle to survive. according to a new report published by the aid organization, more than 10,000 have died since credit january alone and more than 1.2 million have fled syria becoming refugees in egypt, jordan, libya and iraq. inside syria,

displaced. 425,000 are under the age of five. children around the world replicated faims famous -- famous, there is always hope artist by banksie. antigovernment graffiti that sparked the flame for this war back in 2011. >> right now we've got events going on in new york, paris and london. and the unique thing about this event is this is the credit opportunity for putting children of z arvesrtary camp to commemorate the third day of the uprising. >> the event commemorates the with syria comparison, human tairnt and human rights groups join forces to help syrians in need. vigils in more than 40 countries. almost two and a half million have fled the country.

in a rare public appearance outside damascus, syrian state tv shows president bashar al-assad on a tour of the dplaised. the government fighting them to get back home, most syrians from their homes. at the start of the fours year of the war, the displaced and dying continue to grow and there's simply no end in sight. sarah hoy, al jazeera. >> joining me is francine i iunuma. in a word there isn't much health care. >> what we found after three years of conflict, it isn't just the violence, which we would

expect, but vaccine preventible diseases, can polio, measles and meningitis -- >> they are spreading? there. >> exactly. credit. something once been treatable, leukemia, we talked to a father whose son died, because he couldn't get routine medicines he would have been able to get a few years ago. >> routine medicines and anesthetics are in short supply as well. how do doctors deal with that this? >> it is a very desperate situation, we have credit heard stories of knocking children out. >> what does that mean? >> because there was no anesthetics . >> credit other than clunking someone against the head and knocking them out to treat them? >> that's right. when you have a place like

aleppo where there were 5,000 doctors at one time, there are now 36. and those 36 that remain, they can't get adequate equipment, one doctor tells us he uses car batteries to run dialysis for those children who need it. >> trying to help these children, are they faced with situations where they can do nothing? >> absolutely. we have heard doctors tell us they have seen children die because they couldn't treat them. doctors have had to flee the country. there was a polio vaccine campaign worker who was killed back in january trying to give children those much needed vaccines. >> because of the work they were doing or just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong moment? >> what we have seen is hospital and medical workers deliberately targeted. that's what we're calling for an end of. >> can the hospitals, the

availability of a hospital, a now? >> we're seeing at least 60% of the hospitals in syria have been damaged and destroyed and are unusable. you have people who have to use a home or medical facility to use, a tremendous strain for them and they're risking their lives to help the people still in the country. >> francine, thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> hard to find a helpful note in all that but the global campaign with syria, illustrated which the work of the artist banksie. >> on march 15th, 2014, the world will wake up to the third anniversary of the bloody conflict of the war in syria.

>> with syria's campaign videos being shown in locations all around the world, including in nenew york's times squares. look for it and think of the children. that's it for "america tonight." please if you would like to comment on anything tonight, click on to aljazeera.com/americatonight. twitter or facebook. can we'll have more of "america tonight," tomorrow. >> scared as hell... >> as american troops prepare to leave afghanistan get a first hand look at what life is really like under the taliban. >> we're going to be taken to a place, where they're going to make plans for an attack. >> the only thing i know is, that they say they're not going to withdraw. >> then, immediately after, an america tonight special edition for more inside and analysis. >> why did you decide to go... >> it's extremly important for the western audience

to know why these people keep on fighting... ...it's so seldom you get that access to the other side. >> faultlines: on the front lines with the taliban then an america tonight: special edition, only on al jazeera america >> we're driving to a crime scene in a suburb outside of columbia, south carolina... we've come because more women are killed by men here than any other state in the country... around 10:30 in the morning, a family of four, including two children, were found here. they were shot dead. the handgun was right next to the father. the lights are still on, even though the bodies were removed earlier.