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hi, everyone, this is al jazeera america, i'm john siegenthaler. >> everybody sure would like to know the motive. >> a texas deputy killed in cold blood. new debate tonight and tension over the tone of police protests. crime scenes. >> pinch like this. slip it under my collar. >> los angeles begins rolling
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out body cameras. dividing lines. >> just let them in and gave them a chance to live. overwhelmed and underprepared europe struggles to keep up with the flood of refugees and to keep them safe. plus going to extremes, the first sitting president to visit the alaska arctic. and where critics say the u.s. is playing catch-up in the region. ♪ we begin tonight in houston where we're learning the disturbing details of the shooting death of a texas deputy. the suspect appeared in court today, but questions still linger about the motive. robert? >> reporter: good evening, john, the family of the police officer that was shot 15 times, execution style, and laid in his
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own blood, was in the first row of the courtroom today. unbelievable things as the prosecutor revealed this horrific situation that occurred this last friday. flags outside the district court in houston flew at half mast today. inside the court a shackled 30-year-old shannon miles was arraigned on a murder charge. >> when deputies arrived they found the deputy face down in the parking lot. he had clearly been shot multiple times. >> reporter: investigators revealed surveillance video from the gas station. she said it goed that deputy goforth has just come out of the convenience store, when a man
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stepped out of a red truck, and began shooting 14 times after he was on the ground. on saturday the sheriff called the killing cold blooded and brought race into the discussion. >> we have heard black lives matter, well cops lives matter too. >> reporter: shannon miles is no stranger to trouble with the law. he has been sentenced to several short stints in jail over the past ten years. >> everybody would like to know the motive. >> reporter: meanwhile hundreds of people of all races marched over the weekend to honor the slain deputy. john police presence around the courthouse today was intense. many of them watching out -- watching all of the people walking around. there's a lot of fear here and the temperature, so to speak is
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hot right now. not just because of the shooting that occurred here, but also last week's shooting of the journalists. we should also note some of those officers with their badges had a black ribbon honoring their officer that was killed, but that discuss as we heard the sheriff here, bringing up the group black lives matter is just getting amped up. so we'll see where this released us. also the president of the united states called the widow of the killed deputy, darren goforth. we don't have any details of what the conversation entailed. but he did call. >> robert thank you. we're joined by a columnist and senior editor of ebony.com. and a former prosecutor in new
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jersey. welcome both of you. has the black lives rhetoric gotten out of control? >> absolutely not. that's ridiculous. >> when protesters are chanting pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon that sounds out of control. >> it's impolite, but you are talking about a protest movement that has been non-violent in practice, action, and if we were to go to the locker room in a police station, where we're not watching police officers talking very politely, you would hear similar rhetoric. >> the sheriff's department hasn't declared a motive in this case. is the department jumping the gun here? >> they are following thef dense. >> but weren't they blaming
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black lives matter? >> i don't think so. i'm familiar with this sheriff's office, which is the second largest in the nation. what they are saying is all loves matter. cops lives matter. there are families being torn apart, because officers are being assassinated. we have lost seven or eight officers in the past week and a half. and yet we don't hear a cry from the community saying this is wrong. every life matters, our communities matter. >> let me throw up a tweet that the sheriff's department put up about the funeral arrangements, and it's really more about the hashtag which says lives matter. and you say that is offensive. >> i think it is. the phrase of black lives matter does the work of all lives matter. it does not imply that black lives matter anymore than anyone
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else's. however, we know there is a problem in this country between african american communities and police departments. and by waving away the black and saying that lives matter isn't going to make that tension go away. you are more than seven or eight african americans who have been killed by law enforcement in the past two weeks as well. >> i don't know about the last two weeks. have been people who have died and we have a legal process to look at not only the police actions, but what happened at that moment in time. >> the process doesn't work. >> we also know it hasn't worked sometimes. and african-americans are angry about it, and that's why the black lives matter movement, because they said black lives didn't matter as much to police officers at certain times in the history of this country, so by saying lives matter, do you say she is saying that really puts
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that movement down or not? >> listen, i'm not in your shoes, certainly. but i do know that walking down the street or putting fuel in your car because you are wearing a uniform and being assassinated in cold blood, 15 shots -- 14 shots into the back of that officer as he laid dying, that's a problem. whether he scribed to the rhetoric like the individual did here in new york, that took up the gauntlet of black lives matter, my life matters, those two officer's lives matter as well. >> let me talk about the violence for a second. during these protests, there has been violence -- >> very little violence -- >> there has been violence -- >> occasional violence. >> but it has been aimed at police officers. and the argument is people like yourselves don't come out and say this is a horrible thing.
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the protesters shouldn't do this. >> but that -- i think the process of rocks and bottles being thrown -- >> if you get hit by one it can do the damage of a bullet. >> but they don't. and the reason that these protests are take place is because people are dying. black people oftentimes unarmed who have been accused of or found guilty of very petty crimes, these aren't serial rapists or murders, or the guys we're really afraid of having on our streets -- >> a peaceful protest we all support, don't we? >> in theory. there have been tons of peaceful protests. and i have watched police officers turn body cameras off. i have seen them interact with community members in a way that say we do not support peaceful protest. people are upset. >> and they have right to be heard. >> yes. >> this was an issue you dealt
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with when you were in office. so give me a sense of how law enforcement officers should be communicating with the black communities. >> reporter: in other police agencies across the nation, ferguson was a match point of incorrect relationship with the community. by the time ferguson happened, it was too late to put the genie back in the battle. the community relation should have been done for months if not years -- >> decades. >> first of all you don't resist arrest, you don't rob a [ inaudible ]. that's the first thing. you conduct yourself in a manner that you should. so law enforcement does not have to take action. you see the taunting and what have you, but now what we're seeing today is law enforcement against the community, the community against law enforcement. instead our elected leaders and administrations need to be doing
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the job to support law enforcement and to support that community so people don't feel disenfranchised. >> would you agree with that? >> i would. i think it's also important we don't side with two bodies that are dealing with the same amount of power. when you have armed police departments, and many citizens they have harassed before somebody died. >> and we all have bad apples. >> we do. but we -- i have been considered a black lives matter member, even though i'm not. but now there's just some emotional thing happening, this is mess merable. there are lots of black bodies who have been shot down in the prime of their lives.
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and how it is that someone who shoots up a movie theater can be peaceful apprehended, but you can't get the guy that steals a pack of cigarettes. >> because they give up when the law enforcement officers arrest them. if you resist arrest it's thu law -- >> but you cannot argue that they did not feel as threatened at the presence of someone who they have seen take numerous lives shooting after shooting. >> i would argue that the react had many, many officers armed because of this. >> we'll have you guys back and do this again, because it's an important issue and we want to continue to cover it. >> it should be covered. >> thank you both. >> thank you. los angeles is rolling out
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police body cameras. the first of a thousand hit the streets today. the goal is to build trust, but there is already controversy over who gets to see the video and when. >> reporter: john police shootings of unarmed black men have put the pressure on police departments across the country to arm officers with these body cameras. the rollout today makes los angeles the largest city to use the devices on a large scale, but critics are already saying this won't necessarily improve transparency if the video isn't shared with the public. police in l.a.'s mission hills neighborhood call this the new normal. more than 80 officers here took to the streets wearing body cameras. >> it's something we're not afraid of. we're embracing the idea and concept of it. i think it will give a new
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perspective. >> reporter: the first 860 will be deployed across the lapd over the next month. eventually 700 will be issued, making this the largest city to use these devices on a large scale. officers say body cameras will give the full story, unlike other deaths that were not captured on camera. >> if they are talking to somebody about an incident, that camera will be on. this organization has nothing to hide. >> reporter: but this man with the aclu disagrees. he notes that the officers will be allowed to review the footage before filing their reports. the department has no plans to let the public see any of the video recorded. >> one of the things that body cameras promise to do is increase public trust by providing the public some assure rans that officers will be held accountable, but giving officers
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a special advantage of looking at the video before taking a statement betrays that principal. >> reporter: in 2012 the small city east los angeles became the first police department to deploy body cameras. body camera footage has also been used against officers. this video from cincinnati shows a routine traffic stop escalate into a shooting. the white officer is now charged with mudder. the lapd has been plagued with allegations of abuse over the past many years. officers shot and killed an unarmed man. officers never said why he was stopped in the first place. but an investigation concluded
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that the actions were justified. ford was one of 18 people killed by the lapd last year. john? now we turn to austria. chaotic scenes at the railway station. hundreds of refugees arriving from hungary, scramble to catch trains. also in vienna a memorial to honor the refugees found dead inside of a truck last week. rob reynolds has more. >> reporter: thousands of people gathered in vienna's ancient cathedral to mourn and pray for the 71 refugees who died an agonizing death in a truck. and for the thousands and others who have died on land and sea, trying to reach europe. the deaths of the 71 refugees have horrified the
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european public. over the weekend, austrian police belatedly began check trucks and vans entering the country from hungary. they found at least 200 refugees packed into trucks. austria's interior minister ordered the action. >> translator: we are seeing people traffickers who have become increasingly brutal and inscrupulous, and we have to fight that with tougher measures. >> reporter: but getting tough snarled the highway with a traffic jam nearly 30 kilometers long. >> save it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here! >> reporter: as night fell, thousands of people marched in protest through the streets in vienna, demanding better treatment for refugees. people here are not only grieving for the refugees who have died. many are upset with the leaders of the european union for
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failing to deal effectively with the refugee crisis. leaders of austrian human rights groups organized the march, seeking to apply pressure on politicians. >> i'm embarrassed to be an austrian. despite 100 million europeans, we can't take up a few hundred thousand refugees? >> i want the government to be more sensible -- sensitive to all of the foreigners, which have pain and suffer, just let them in and give them a chance to -- to live. >> reporter: but prayers and protests are no substitute for a coherent refugee policy. european leaders will hold a summit on the issue in two weeks. miriam is a member of the
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european parliament representing malta, and joins us tonight from brussels. this emergency summit was scheduled for september 14th. is that too late? >> in my opinion it is to late. because until the 14th we'll see more tragedies unfolding before our eyes. this is not the first time we're speaking about these tragedies. it is something that is being repeated over and over again. and i would say every day that we're losing, it's something that is keeping us away from trying to address the situation sooner rather than later. >> we have watched the pictures of these refugees for months and months, did europe just close its eyes to this? >> i'm afraid that europe was very slow in taking action. i wouldn't even say divisive action, i would say taking any action whatsoever. i remember tragedies happening in october 2013. we had these same discussions in
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april, when we had a tragedy on the shores of libya, where 800 people were feared dead, and after that we have the european agenda on migration, and yet here we today, august, speaking all over again about these tragedies that are happening. i would say that's -- rather than the european union was closing its eyes, i would say that some governments, some leaders in the european union were reluctant on taking any action whatsoever. >> is this a reluctance of taking on shared responsibility? and when you talk about some of the countries that haven't acted so far, do these refugees have to land on their doorstep before they take action. >> fortunately my opinion what we saw recently is some governments move if something happens under their doorstep, then they do not even consider that issue a priority.
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there are no quick fixes. what i would like to see is not patch work, there is a tragedy and we try to do something to address that tragedy. i would like to see a long-term strategy as well. the european union doesn't have a common migration policy, and it needs that. we need to address traffickers and human smugglers. there is a real need for international cooperation, and last but not least, we need to start addressing the situation in the countries of origin, the countries from where these people are fleeing. >> you talk about malta, italy and greece bearing the burden of a lot of this. what do you make of the plan of welcome centers in italy and greece? >> i think it is something that needs to be discussed further, my only concern would be having welcome centers in italy and
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greece ultimately would be tantamount to leaving the whole responsibility on these two countries. these two countries which so far have been carrying a lot of the responsibility and burden. what i really want to see is sincere and proper responsibility sharing. we have been speaking a lot about responsibility sharing, but it has to be the responsibility of all of the member states and not just two member states who happen to be on the borders. >> thank you very much. still ahead, power struggle, how energy troubles in puerto rico, are fuelling the island's debt and hitting residents hard. plus violence in kiev, what set off clashes between police and protesters in ukraine.
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today in kiev. demonstrators reportedly opened fire and tossed grenades at police. a preliminary vote today granted autonomy to two rebel-controlled areas in eastern ukraine. critics say the government is selling out the country by making concessions to russian rebels. puerto rico's debt crisis is turning into a power struggle. its payment is now due september 8th. but for some there may be no extensions and the bills are coming through. >> reporter: john, this debt crisis is touching nearly every part of life here in puerto rico, including electricity. just keeping all of these downtown buildings lit is very expensive. the utility owes billions and
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tomorrow it is hopefully going to reach a deal to keep the lights on. wilson says he has to keep his market in the dark to survive. he has turned off half of the lights, unplugged the freezers, even then he said his monthly electric bill is approaching $2,000. puerto rico's energy problems are at the center of the crisis. rates here are twice as high as the u.s. national average. of the $70 billion government debt, $9 billion is owed by the state-controlled utility. puerto rico's power system relies on oil which is expensive and must be shipped in. instead of using resources here, like wind or sun.
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1% of the island's utility comes from green sources. >> we have sun, we have wind, we have biomass, we need to embrace oerngy forms, and think don't want to do that. >> reporter: but he says the problems go much further from ancient power plants to years of wasteful spending and cronyism. >> corruption, what drives the decision-making process is not the needs of the people. it's who gets the contract. >> reporter: julio said he oversaw the management of one of the largest power plants. >> they know how to do their job. so let's get the politicians out. >> reporter: another concern is that many aren't paying their share. up to a third of the customers get a discount if they even pay at all. local governments, public housing complexes, churches,
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even hotels, all get a break on their electric bills, costing the government more than $300 million a year. even the island's top energy official admits it's a problem. >> it's not fair. >> reporter: lawmakers are now considering overhauling the subsidies. plus supporters say rates have been dropping correctly. but he adds everyone deserves some of the blame. >> we started consuming electricity as if it would never -- we would have to pay for it, and then -- now, we are saying oh, why we are paying all of these rates. >> reporter: a lot of people are saying it's unfair to blame the citizens. >> we are part of the problem. and we are. >> reporter: but people like cabrera are consuming as little as possible with little relief, he speaks for many when he says he may have to move. for now he is one of many struggling to keep his doors open and the lights on.
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and if no deal is reached by tomorrow, it could spark lawsuits and even more troubles, including even hire electric bills. john? >> jonathan thank you. up next, arctic rush why some say the u.s. is falling behind in the race for resource. i'm jake ward in san francisco, medical science in the form of this drug has done away of the threat by heroin overdose, now will politics and popular opinion let it get out into the world.
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it into the hands of the people that use this drug. they are the most likely people to witness the overdose. >> thoefr dose medication that saves lives, and the fight to get it into the hands of those who need it most, addicts. more hillary clinton emails are about to be released. what is classified, what isn't, and what it could mean for 2016. and why the presidential candidates are suddenly all teeth. ♪ >> president obama is in alaska tonight. he's meeting with alaskian it intives in anchorage, then he comes home to be the first sitting president to visit the arctic. libby casey is live in anchorage with more. >> reporter: good evening, john. president obama has come here to make a point that climate change is real, it is happening, and it is a threat.
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this comes in advance of a international conference this fall where climate change will be the big topic. the u.s. is frankly lagging behind. this is an opportunity for president obama to bring national awareness to what alaska is facing. warming is happening here at about twice the rate as other parts of the world. and glaciers are melting three times faster than they were just a decade ago. president obama will visit one of the glaciers tomorrow during this tour. there is a lot of concern about scientists here about what climate change means for animals and migrating birds. as secretary of state john kerry mentioned this is also a lot of concern about what this means for people. >> and we as leaders of countries will begin to witness what we call climate refugees. if wait until you see what
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happens if there's an absence of water or food, or one tribe fighting against the other for mere survival. >> we will meet this week some alaskans that will be forced to move. they will still stay in alaska, but having to leave your home, even by a few miles can be a real and radical lifestyle change for the alaskian native people, john. >> earlier this month, president obama approved all -- offshore oil drilling. a mixed message? >> reporter: absolutely. that the development of fossil fuels has lead to climate change. so there are some protesters, however, the state of alaska,
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many people here do want to see more development, because they are concerned about the state's economy. they want to see good-paying jobs. president obama will certainly talk about that this week, and talk about his hope that further development in the arctic can be done in a responsible way, but as we'll hear there are still a lot of fears about what an oil spill along the lines of an exxon valdez or deep water spill would cause. >> thank you. the president's visit underscores the geopolitical situation in the arctic. >> reporter: john, countries are vying to stake their claim to the strategic waterways and rich resources. according to the u.s. geological
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survey, rougherly 30% of undiscovered oil and gas are in the arctic. most of it under the ocean. that's nearly a quarter of the world's hydrocarbon reserves. and it boasts fish stocks and mineral deposits. andshiping times can dramatically be cut. but who will reap these spoils? eighty countries have territories inside the arctic circumstan circle. a global treaty gives nations control over resource within 200 naughtial miles of their coastline. the united states hasn't ratified that treaty, but other nations are pushing ahead, most notably russia.
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their grab was televised back in 2007 when russia planted a flag on the seabed of the north poll. and they are ramping up air patrols, bolstering air defenses, holding unannounced air games, and reopening military bases. the united states sees these developments as provacative, but not enough to bolster its regional presence, which combined with its allies is significant. given the fall of oil prices over the last year, it might not be worth it now, but moscow is clearly betting the top of the world will pay off. john? the arctic is one of the most extreme environments on the planet. that could make cleaning up a spill a nightmare.
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techno's phil torres reports. >> reporter: it's summer high up in to the arctic circle. and this is what you would expect to see. ice as far as the horizon. the only way through it is on this ship. the coast guard hutter healey. it's one of only two ice breakers in the u.s. the ride can get a little rough. another ship 20 miles away is passing us heading north. the lead ship of the shell fleet that is bringing the polar pioneer to the sea. the post guard's research and development team is already preparing for the challenges ahead. what are the unique challenges to responding to a disaster in the arctic. >> the distance we have from any one part. a lack of resources and
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infrastructure. >> reporter: andy is an ice researcher on board the healey. how do oil spills and sea ice mix? >> fortunately nobody really knows because it hasn't happened yet. if it does happen it is going to be extremely challenging to separate the oil from the ice. the ice will be somewhat like a sponge. so you are l have a mix of oil-covered orb shall, oil-covered ice, and oil-impregnated ice. >> reporter: it seems that the predictions have that the arctic is only going to start to get busier with more and more ship traffic. do you think the coast guard is going to be ready? >> that's why we are here. we're trying to get as many tools up here to help as possible. we're already more ready than we
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were two years ago. >> unfortunately we seem to have lost phil's significant nam. phil are you still there? >> -- they are extreme. so drilling there, they are going to be up for quite the challenge. all right, phil, so what do we know about shell's drilling so far? >> sorry, i'm having some audio issues. john, i can tell you they have had some hiccups already. they had a spokesperson say they had to pause their drilling because of high seas, rough weather. when we were on that -- when we were in the sea, there weren't really any rough seas, but the sailors assured us that it can get mighty rough up there. ironically it's actually the global warming it's a that opening up the arctic to these drill conditions.
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because it's now open ocean allowing ships and of course, drilling to get in there. >> phil, thank you very much. his complete report on the arctic will be airing next monday, so you can get it all then, september 7th, 6:30 eastern, 3:30 pacific time. alaska's governor and congressional delegation praised president obama's decision to rename mount mckinley to denali. the state of alaska has officially called it deally since the 1970s. politicians and former president mckinley's native ohio are speaking out against the name change. >> the park is called denali now, which is what alaska wanted, but we wanted to maintain that one peak as the mckinley peak. he was one of our great presidents. he was assassinated in his
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second term. he was a guy from ohio. and we think it's too bad the administration has chosen to go around congress and to do this. >> the interior secretary changed the name, siting a 1947 law that gives the department power to do that. today is international overdose awareness day. jake ward reports from san francisco. jake? >> reporter: john, to understand the relevance of overdose prevention day it's good to understand the fundamental mechanics of an overdose. when you overdose on heroin, or prescription open outs, basically the drug binds to your drain and overwhelms it, your brain literally just forgets to breathe. now science has solved this
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problem, but the question is can politics and the cultural stigma of drug addiction get out of the way? who is this? >> that's my friend ariel. she and i friends. >> reporter: how long ago did she pass? >> she died in 2005, and -- yeah. that's -- that's really hard. >> this woman runs the drug overdose prevention and education program in oakland, california. the work is very hard and very personal. >> we sat outside for a long time, and she -- she said i don't even know what i'm doing. i'll get my -- together. i don't know what -- you know, it's just a blip, you know. and she died that night. >> reporter: wheerl may not be able to get users into treatment, but she make sure they have access to a miracle drug, narcan. an overdose causes the body to
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forget to breathe. narcan literally knocks opiates off of the brain sobering the user up instantly. during 2013, about 16,000 people died of an overdose of prescription opioids, and about 8,000 died of heroin. in that one year, according to a survey wheeler's group help conduct, a narcan injection reversed overdoses 8,000 times. anecdotal evidence suggests the experience of receiving narcan as well as administering it can inspire people to seek treatment. >> in clinics where it is prescribed, we have seen dramatic reductions in overdose death, and we seem to see
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reductions in any overdose events. so maybe it's acting as a behavior change. >> reporter: narcan is arguably the safest drug in the world. narcan is safe to administer to absolutely anybody in any condition, and that's why this stuff is available to emergency personnel and normal people, you and me. >> i tried to pick him up and shake him, and he was like really heavy. it's like, okay. this is bad. so luckily i had narcan and i gave him the narcan, and it seemed like it wasn't working, and so i gave him nothing dose and he came back. >> reporter: paramedics have traditionally administered narcan.
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but according to wheeler's study, drug users saved each other over 80% of the time. that's why wheeler says they must have narcan too. >> for me the priority has to be to get it into the hands of people who use drugs. they are the most likely to witness an overdose. we're equipping people who are out there using drugs with life-saving tools to save their friends, to save themselves, to take care of each other as a community, that's a really hard thing for main stream america to wrap their minds around. >> patrick would be dead if he had to wait for an officer or emt. >> when i was in minneapolis i acquired some heroin that was a lot stronger than what i was used to in san francisco, and so i basically od-ed.
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and my girlfriend luckily had the training in how to use narcan, saw i was unconscious and not breathing. inserted my narcan into my -- you can do it into the nose which is how she did it. and revived me. >> reporter: narcan doesn't mean that a drug user is going to act more responsibility or seek treatment. for an addict the use of narcan can be a horrible experience. it's instantaneous withdrawal. it's not some crushy backstop. but just as ugly is the fact that narcan isn't about treating addicti addiction, but it can keep addicts from dying. >> it can't hurt anyone, so i see absolutely no reason why it should not be available to everyone. >> reporter: john there are a few things keeping it from being available everyone to, including
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the cost. it costs at this point about $100 a pop, and that price seems to be going up and up and up, and there seems to be a ten -- tendency to attach issues it to like you have to call 911 after you use it. and the veteran's administration is considering a plan to hand out narcan with almost every prescription opioid that they give out. so we are literally at a point where science has solved this problem, but politics and a cultural struggle is getting in the way of the very thing that can be antidote to at least the risk of death. >> jake ward. good to see you thank you very much. coming up next, data dump. the state department is set to release thousands of pages of
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the supreme court has ruled against the county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses in the state of kentucky. she wanted an emergency order allowing her to continue to deny the licenses as she appeals a lower court ruling. she refused to issue the licenses. well, she says doing so would violate our religious beliefs. now to afghanistan where most of the american and other foreign troops are now gone. and there are now fears that the taliban is taking advantage. antonio mora is here with more. >> reporter: john, the last few months have been the first
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fighting season. and it has been a season of gains for the taliban. last week nato air support was brought in to help afghan troops fight back. we'll take a look at that, and also the struggles afghan troops are facing as they wage a war with much-less international support. we'll look at what this means for the future of afghanistan and the american troops that are still there. the state department is about to release another trove of emails belonging to former secretary of state hillary clintons. a total of about 7,000 pages will be released to the public tonight, including 150 pages that have been de -- redacted
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because they have been seemed classified. hillary clinton still remains the democratic front runner for the 2016 race, but her lead appears to be shrinking, a new poll shows vermont senator now just 7 points behind clinton. the caucus will be held february 1st, just five months from now. michael shure joins now to talk about this, what is happening in hilary's captain. he is in san francisco. how important is this release of her emails tonight? >> reporter: good evening, john. it's a difficult thing for the clinton campaign. they have decided to release these tens of thousands of emails, and the problem is the state department and the people releasing them have to go through them so meticulously, but they are not finding the things that republicans are hoping to find. >> what are republicans hoping
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they would find? >> they were hoping she would have some emails there, they wanted there to be some sort of controversy, that she would have had some classified emails which were labeled classified at the time, that were handled on her in-home server. and they are saying 150 are going to have that classification. but they could have been classified since the time that they were handled by clinton. so it's hard to say at this point, but thus far they are looking for the smoker gun that hasn't been here yet. >> how does a voter decipher this? >> the more we hear about this, the more there are controversies with clinton, and you see it in the polling, you see her trustworthiness going down, and that's the problem. so every few weeks -- every three, four weeks we're seeing more of these emails, as they come out the public is reminded
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there are question marks, but even if there's nothing there, this constant on slot hurts the clinton campaign. >> there is a sense that the clinton campaign hasn't been responding enough or well enough to this. do you have an opinion on that? >> yes, in the last week, hillary clinton admitted it was a mistake. but the clinton campaign hasn't really begun yet. she is not out there on the stump campaigning aggressively. you talk about her numbers against bernie sanders. those numbers are great for bernie sanders because he is running really hard. clinton hasn't been responding that much. >> michael shure good to see you have. thank you very much. shaking hands and kissing babies has long been a part of the campaign culture, but now every day the candidates are
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asked to pose for selfies. here is tonight's first-person report. >> we're the presidential selfie girls. we are trying to take a selfie with every presidential candidate for 2016. >> we go to the events, and we go there and talk strategy, sometimes, be assertive, go up to the candidate, smile, be polite, and we just find our little holes to the candidate and we politely ask them to talk to us, and so far everyone has said yes to a selfie. we have 19 so far. >> we still have to take photos with these four, cruz, huckabee, rubio and jim webb. so we have a song. ♪ chrisfy, chaffy, busch, and graham, carson, o'malley
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[ inaudible ] jim gilmore, kasick, walker, trump [ inaudible ] rand paul, hilary, bernie too, we still have four more to do! [ laughter ] >> since we interviewed the girls, they have managed to get photos with five more candidates only three to go. that's our broadcast. thank you for watching. i'm john siegenthaler. see you back here tomorrow night. the news continues next with antonio mora. ♪
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