scandal. donald trump's campaign manager briefly su rended to police in florida today. he stands by his man tonight. david shuster reports. >> good job corey. good job. >> reporter: it was just two weeks ago after the initial complaint when donald trump publicly thanked his campaign manager. on tuesday the florida police department charged his manager with misdemeanour battery and released this video. it appears to show reporter there in the lot top with the tape recorder trying to ask trump another question. the man with the crew cut seems to reach from behind him to stop and grab her. other video also caught part of the interaction. fields insisted she had been man-handled and she tweeted a

photo of bruises on her arm. >> this has to be aside from my father's death, the worst experience i've gone through >> reporter: on his aeroplane he said the charge is absurd. >> the news conference was over, it it was done, finished, and she was running up and grabbing and asking questions. she wasn't supposed to be doing that. i think he should - i told him, you should never settle this case. you should go all the way >> reporter: the lawyer and campaign issued a written statement: >> reporter: the case is another reminder, though, of the tensions associated with the trump campaign. earlier this month in chicago there was pushing and shoving between protesters and trump supporters after the campaign cancelled the candidates appearance. ted cruz meaning while tried to generate more positive news tuesday in his nomination bid.

>> i am proud to endorse ted cruz. >> reporter: scott walker gave the endorsement by phone on a tv show >> looking at speeches and records, at what the candidates say and what they have done in the past, it was an easy call for me to support ted cruz. >> reporter: the wisconsin primary is in one week. the interview was played on loud speaker. when cruz took the stage, >> how is that for breaking news this morning >> reporter: he called the conservative governor walker, who survived a recall election, strong and principled >> he with the help and women gathered here today and all across this state, won an election and then another election, and then another election. >> reporter: trump tried to undercut walker's endorsement of

cruz. he tweeted: >> reporter: still this may go down as a bad day for donald trump. instead of promoting policies that seem to resonate with conservatives, his campaign was put on the defensive over an alleged physical attack. david shuster senior political correspondent michael shore is in wisconsin where donald trump held a meeting. if this was a typical campaign, trump would probably have fired his campaign manager, at least forced him to resign, but he is standing by him. what does that mean? >> reporter: well, good evening to you from wisconsin. it is exactly that. if donald trump were any other candidate, any other year in any other race, he certainly wouldn't have on fired him or

the manager may have resigned. this is a different campaign. even here in jamesville, one of the supporters here, i asked him about the manager and he said he admired the way that he has a boss like donald trump that will stand by him. another thing you ask, is this going to hurt the campaign. so far nothing that donald trump has done has hurt him with his supporters. this doesn't make any difference either paul ryan has not endorsed trump but he has come out against some of the rhetoric. how did donald trump go there and how are the residents reacting to this visit some >> reporter: the symbolism can't be missed. the home of the one of the more liberal former sen tors, it is washington to donald trump. he comes here as a candidate running against washington and

where else better to go than the place that the speaker of the house of representatives is from. it doesn't look at donald trump the way that the rest of america looks at donald trump. we saw that here today in talking to the people here. >> mr donald trump. >> reporter: today he brought his campaign into america's heartland, home of house speaker paul ryan and the two republicans could not be more different >> our political discourse, both the kind that we see on tv and the kind that we experience among each other, it did not used to be this bad. it does not have to be this way. >> reporter: as the presidential race presses further into spring time, it is more than just a coincidence that trump is bringing his combative brand of politics to the backyard of the most important republican in

america and it is not lost on the people here >> for the 25 years we've been here, the only time i've seen a fight big enough to walk out the door was regarding brett. >> reporter: just across the street from the district office, every visitor is offered a free cup of coffee and an antique for not much more, but here the attitude varies here. >> paul is well respected throughout the community because he is a hard worker and that reflects our community. there isn't much nonsense that goes on. >> reporter: but nonsense has come to town in the form of donald trump, if you ask others here >> how is he going to make it great when he is fighting the $15 standard for the young people?

who is he kidding? >> reporter: like many here, this man is a democrat >> when i first started voting, there was george wallace and that was a tough one. that election was. anyway, yeah, this whole town is a working town. workers are going to have more democrats >> reporter: it lost its general motors plant the oldest in north america in 2008 after 89 years. he doesn't see donald trump being for the workers >> i'm heading to protest there. i think he wants people to protest. it brings him out, that side of him, but i'm still going. >> reporter: this man has been a republican since 1976 when gymy carter pardoned the conscientious objectors to the vietnam war. he says donald trump would need to do a few things to get his vote >> he will have to back track on some things he said.

you know, immigration, and he needs to apologise to megan kelly and some other people that he has been nasty to. >> paul ryan, i don't know him well. i'm sure i will get on with it. if i don't, he will have to pay a big price >> reporter: clearly in this,of 64,000, there is still one speaker that has the support of many of them >> well, paul is a good guy. he has realistic views on stuff and can work with a lot of different people. >> reporter: john, one of the most surprising things to happen today at donald trump's meeting here with supporters was when he asked the audience if they thought that paul ryan was terrific r of course, there were a lot of boos. nobody expected that. it shows you how angry some republicans are with cashing done thank you. peter matthews is the author of

dollar democracy. he is joining us. give me your reaction to the manager situation, does it damage donald trump? >> good evening. it's a reflection of two things. one, his view that sometimes he can be threatening at his rallies and tell that protester should be punched, incite violence and violence against women. his manager physically manhandled the reporter and then he also has made derogatory comments, and i don't know if that was because he was a woman or the fact that he wanted to get her away from donald trump. i think he has plateaued with a certain number of voters. in the general election he won't

have a chance it hurts him? >> it helps him in the primary to get some of the people around him, they respond around his sectarianism, but it helps him with the general lek or eight. -- electorate. i think many won't vote for him in any circumstances you read my mind because there has been a lot of questions about many of the things he said about women and then his attacks on megan kelly, to name one, and now his campaign manager allegedly grabbing a female reporter, an conservative female reporter, at this event. >> right there's video. this campaign manager saying he didn't touch her, but clearly he did. >> the video proves otherwise

how could women view this event? >> they would view it very negatively. the independent women, democratic women will be dead set against if it. a good slice of republican women will say they're abhorred by it. this is something so degrading, so awful and out of the range of things that we can't accept this person. we will not vote for him. some will vote for mike huckabeeing if she is the nominee, or bernie sanders if he is the nominee you suggest he has plateaued, but there were political analysts six or eight months ago said he plateaued at 20 to 30%. now he looks like he is headed for the nomination. is it possible that he is actually convincing voters as he moved forward to support him? >> he is bringing in new voters.

people who have been out of the system who have been angry at losing their jobs by outsourcing, a lot of angry 40 to 50 year old's who feel like the country has been taken over by immigrants, et cetera, this is what has been tapped into and he has expanded his base with those people what racial xaent some-- racial component? >> all immigrants are not wanted here, they have to be sent out of the country, they came here illegally and many are rapists. he used terrible wording for them and said some may be good but they're mostly rapers and robbers. we need to get hid of them and deport them. he also says muslims should not be allowed in the u.s. a blanket statement about a whole group of people, most of

whom are extremely great american citizens. he is giving a blanket statement about ethic groups. this rubs people the wrong way. this is a nation of immigrants. we should honor people around the world and reach out to other countries in the world in a positive way. he is scaring countries and leaders about outrageous statements, how he will end things in the middle east, drastic actions in syria and other countries without thinking twice, he will use force and violence. he has another side which bring in addition illusioned middle-class. we have to stop having the 40% far if on chinese goose and that's the thing that will kill this country. he should be talking about fair trade where we can have policy that will raise wages in other

countries so people can buy products from here. the fair trade model donald trump doesn't talk about. bernie sanders does speak about them. donald trump has this right wing popularism. it is different than a bernie sanders's popularism. it is different. you will see it is a plateaued group of people that the general election will be set at about maybe 40%. he probably won't break 45 against hillary clinton or bernie sanders. we will see what happens it's good to have you on the program. thank you >> my pleasure. thank you now to the supreme court. a tied vote in a case that threatened to cripple unions to collect fees. >> reporter: this is a big

victory for public employee unions. if justice scalia had been on the bench it would have likely gone the other way. this case involves the california teachers association and the question of what's called fair share dues. these are dues that teachers must pay even if they don't want to join the union, dues they have to pay to the union because they get the benefit of any contract negotiated by this group. a number of teachers had sued argued this violated their first amendment rights of free speech. in a one-page ruling the supreme court said: >> reporter: >> reporter: it was a four-four split, no national precedent is set and the court has simply affirmed the lower court judgment, the ninth circuit, which found, in fact, that these fair share dues are illegal. the head of national association

said: >> reporter: >> reporter: the center for individual rights, they represented the teachers who were suing over these dues. they said this is too significant a case to leave as is: >> reporter: >> reporter: >> reporter: in case brings into sharp focus the absence of antonin scalia. it could be many of the cases which are going to be split four four, no decision made, cases involving abortion, affirmative action, immigration and parts of the affordable care act thank you. president obama's nominee to remain the justice was on capitol hill today. he met with his home town law

maker who told reporters he would consider voting for the president's choice. he is one of only 16 g.o.p. senators willing to break rank with mitch mcconnell who insists there will be no hearing until after the elections. coming up next, a bizarre hijacking in egypt. the plane forced to land, and the motive not terrorism, but something personal. a solution to pain killer abuse.

a hijacking involving an egyptian airliner ended peacefully this afternoon. it was supposed to fly from alexandria to cairo. it was diverted to cyprus after a man claimed to have a bomb.

he surrendered without a shot being fired. >> reporter: passengers and crew heading for safety after hours in captivity. these images were the first indication that this hostage crisis was reaching its end. then the man himself. a 59-year-old egyptian taken into custody. around his stomach something white, possibly his suicide bomb belt which authorities now say is a fake. >> translation: from the search of the aircraft, no explosives were found, not on the 5 the-year-old suspect or the aircraft itself. it is not related to terrorism. >> reporter: this video was shown the suspect going through security at the airport. his belt reportedly made from mobile phone covers went through undetected. during what should have been a 30-minute journey, he threatened the crew and demanded that the plane be diverted to cyprus.

for hours the crisis team negotiated with the hijacker. the team focused on the personal rather than political. police here are saying this is being treated not as an act of terrorism, but as a criminal act and the man involved is likely to face court and be indicted on criminal charges on wednesday. they're saying that their focus will be on a letter he threw from the plane. that letter was written to his ex-wife. other reports suggested that the hijacker had asked for female prisoners to be released. >> translation: at some point the hijacker demanded to meet with an e.u. representative, and at other points he demanded to depart from the airport and go

to another designation. he raised no specific demands. >> reporter: by midafternoon the airport had opened. the ordeal is over and the investigation into the incident well underway. as are renewed questions about egypt's security. they have to consume that a real belt got through united states has ordered hundreds of diplomats and military personnel to leave parts of turkey. there are a fear that americans are being targeted by i.s.i.l. or other extremist groups. more from the pentagon via our correspondent. >> reporter: obviously some technical problems with that story. we will try to get it back for

you later. a week after bombs claimed 32 lives in brussels, belgium, remains on edge as investigators continue to search for suspects public anger is growing. jacky rowland explains. >> reporter: the neighborhood of molenbeek is under scrutiny. astarted with the paris attack last year and has intoens p intensified with the bombs in brussels a week ago. the focus is on a small group of radicalized young men, but some belgians are starting to regard the whole muslim community with hostility. >> translation: it is sad it has come to this. i saw their poster yesterday saying let's expel the terrorists. when they say islamist, they really mean all muslims, but it is wrong to make generalizations. >> if 500 people come here, they're in one street living here, so we will be here to defend our shop and there will

be big trouble here. >> reporter: brussels in a taste of trouble on sunday. a few hundred extreme right wing protesters marched to the square that has become a memorial to the victims of the attacks. their banner was anti i.s.i.l. but their chanting was against immigrant in general. a tense stand-off followed which the police ended using water cannon. spreading fear and mistrust was clearly one of the objectives behind these attacks. i.s.i.l. wants to drive a wedge between different communities in europe and provoke confrontation between muslims and non-muslims. members of the belgian parliament have been debating new security measures. the far right party has criticized the protests but has called for controls on citizens

that are muslim >> they have to make a choice, that they reject violence, and we want an official declaration of them signing that declaration. if they don't want to sign this declaration, then they have to be expelled out of our country and out of europe. >> reporter: all of which stands in stark contrast to the messages of peace and unity at the shrine to the victims. these attacks have been a test of democracy and tolerance in belgium, and that challenge is not over. jacky rowland now back to that jamie mcintyrre report . >> reporter: both the pentagon and the state department say the mandatory ordered departure of more than 700 u.s. military and government employee dependants is not the result of any specific intelligence but in response to the overall

deterioration of the security situation in turkey and the increasing threat of a mass casualty attack. at turkey's air base where u.s. and coalition jets launch daily tacks against i.s.i.l. in iraq and syria, if was closed last week citing forced protection concerns. the u.s. is ordering most but not all families of state department and american military personnel to pack up and leave out of what the pentagon called an abun dan dance of caution >>-- abundance of caution >> we want to take this step now to minimise a disruption to the families. we sympathise with that but bee have a responsibility to do everything we can to ensure their safety. that's what this represents >> reporter: the order applies to dependents in three areas of turkey considered dangerous.

these two areas shown. not affected are those in the capital in the north and istanbul in the far north-west, both of which are considered safer. the state department says the evacuation order was weeks in the making and done in full consultation with turkey. >> the discussion to do this first of all wasn't taken lightly. it was done after careful thought and consideration and inter agency coordination, and i think it is very much a result of our ongoing assessment of the security conditions there in turkey and in recognition of the threat environment. >> reporter: while the order applies only to families of u.s. government employees and military dependents, the state department issued a general travel warning for any americans in turkey. it cited increased threats from terrorist groups throughout turkey noting that foreign and

u.s. tourists have been targeted and urging everyone to avoid visiting south-eastern turkey, especially areas near the syrian border. >> reporter: the departure of u.s. dependents from turkey comes as turkish officials are travelling to america. there is no connection it is said. the command says the move is temporary, that so-called accompanied tour $in turkey may resume once the threat has subsided thank you. coming up next, how heroin and prescription pain killer addiction has taken hold in u.s. suburbs: plus a father and a video game he created about his dying son. now the subject of a documentary. we will hear from the father and one of the film makers after this. r this.

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address the growing heroin epidemic in the country. it shows how big that problem has become. robert ray is in atlanta tonight. >> reporter: john, indeed. it is a major problem. in fact, numbers in 2014 over 47,000 people across the u.s. died and that puts it as a number one priority on president obama's list in his final year as the president. >> 2000 medical professionals and advocates listend to president obama and others talk about the opiate and heroin on abuse problem >> it's not enough to provide the architecture and structure, but there needs to be more funding >> reporter: this woman is in recovery. >> it slowly happened from

weekend to needing something to go to work. eventually i needed something stronger than the vikonen. i was doing oxycontin and others until it led to me doing heroin >> reporter: opiates killed more than 28,000 people in 2014 more than any other year. the president is calling for 1.1 billion in funding to increase services. >> we still underresourced. the public doesn't fully appreciate yet the scope of the problem and my hope is that by being here today hearing from people who have gone through heroic struggles with this issue, hearing from medical community about what they're saying that we've got the opportunity to really make a dent on this. >> reporter: this man lost his son to heroin and says the president could do more without

waiting for congress >> there could be an executive order tomorrow, an emergency executive order. this is spreading 30,000 people are going to die this year. that's half of the vietnam war. >> reporter: president obama is pushing congress to act on what the center for disease control calls a problem of epidemic proportions >> my hope is that all the advocates and folks and families who are here and those who are listening, say to congress this is a priority. >> reporter: john, prescription pain-killers are not hard to get. the thing is, is neither is heroin any more. if you look at the northern suburbs of atlanta, where there is money, there is an epidemic up there. it is called nationwide, but in places like roswell, suburbs of at lan day, there is a huge problem in the high schools. the police are trying to address it as are the community but that

is a microcosm of what is going to across the u.s. clearly why the president made this urgent event today and he is pushing congress to open those funds to make a change thank you. police say they cannot arrest their way out of the opioid epidemic. some officials are trying to have new policies to save lives. >> this is my favorite picture because i can feel this hug. i had to leave her with a babysitter and she didn't want me to go so she was wrapping the legs around he >> reporter: the memory is builter sweet. her daughter, amy's little sister. an a student and cheer leader gone before her 24th birthday >> the police rang and it was the police department. she has been picked up again and

is in jail. it wasn't that. he said that liz was found dead in an apartment with a needle sticking out of her neck >> reporter: in a small town near her family's home, elizabeth's life ended with a heroin overdose, but her trip there seemed innocent. recreational use of prescription opioids. >> she said, mum, i wish i had never taken that first pill. i would rather have cancer. >> reporter: the lure of opioid pills has caused a full-scale drug especially dim you can in the u.s. nearly half a million person took a prescription pill the year before. 1350 new initiates a day. >> reporter: who do you blame

for this crisis? >> pharmaceutical companies. without a doubt. >> reporter: this doctor is the executive director of physicians for responsible prescribing. >> we were duped. it was a marketing campaign that was launched along with the introduction of objection owe contin. >> reporter: he says-- objection owe contin. >> from every direction you heard that a few -- you will understand the rate way to treat pain is with an opioid prescription. since 1997 there has been a 900% increase in addiction to prescription opioids. >> reporter: he has lobbied for decades for restrictions are these prescriptions. last week this family watch the governor sign a law limiting initial opioid prescriptions to a seven-day supply and

encouraging doctors to try other pain relievers first >> i stand here representing the thousands of grieving mothers who have lost their children to overdoses. >> reporter: while state and federal authorities focus on new regulations to limit the use of i i did notteds, addicts like elizabeth unable to break free continue to look for ways to get high. that's why heroin overdoses are escalating in towns like this one over america. >> definitely a syringe >> reporter: this man runs the vice unit here. >> we started to see it five or six years ago >> reporter: he says the heroin trade here has exploded. >> the drug dependent people that we come across aren't from our city. nor affluent suburbs, wealthy areas, who come here after they run out of their objection owe

contin-- oxycontin supply. >> reporter: four out of five users begin with prescriptions. which is cheaper? >> heroin. >> reporter: he supports the effort to restrict prescriptions. >> limiting the amount of drugs that are available is going to slowdown the process. nobody is immune to this problem. i realise that and i've realized it since i have had my own kids. i have at least a 33% chance of one of them being affected by it. >> heroin? where would she get heroin? >> reporter: this woman feel like the laws help to reduce the stigma addiction and could have helped her no save her sister. >> she had a long struggle with this addiction. there is a piece of me that is

glad she is not struggling >> she is home with god right now al jazeera contacted the maker of oxycontin. the company told us: >> reporter: >> reporter: it now leaves battles for its allegedly misleading marketing practices through 2001 you mentioned a new law. any other states taking action against opioids? >> reporter: you may recall our report from a few days ago in ithica. there is a proposal on the table which is not so much fighting opioids but providing a safe environment where there will be a supervised injection center. in new jersey the emergency

department of st joseph's hospital has just announced that they're going to use non-opioids as a first step 330 people have been detained by immigration agents over the last three months. some of them were teenagers who came to the country illegally and as is reported, two teens caught in an immigration loophole. >> reporter: at this georgia church a special prayer for someone who can't be here. kimberley chavas family holds hands hoping she will be home soon. we spoke to her at the detention center. she tells me she never imagined immigration officials would scoop her up one january morning on her way to school. >> reporter: what have these last few weeks been like?

>> very sad. it is too hard for me to stay here because i want to be with my family. i really miss my family >> reporter: she is one of more than 300 individuals immigration and customs enforcement have detained since january targeting those who came here illegally after january 2014 as an accompanied children, but are now 18 or older, have final orders of deportation and no pending cases in court >> we're in shock. no-one could believe it. >> reporter: her high school friend travelled to plead for her friend. she is stuck in a complicated immigration loophole. >> they're being grouped together with other immigration. she should be an unaccompanied minor and is trapped in that world >> reporter: 19-year-old says his previous lawyer told him not to show up in court and he wasn't told to apply for asylum before his 18th birthday.

it has been more than 40 days since he has brought here. some 500 miles from where his high school teachers and classmates are pleading for his releas release. >> it is difficult here. >> reporter: it's difficult? >> difficult. >> reporter: like most unaccompanied minors from central america, he wants asylum, citing fear of returning to honduras because of gangs and organized crime >> reporter: you would rather be detained here than it go back home? >> yes. i want to stay here. >> reporter: rather than go back to your country? >> i don't want to go to my country because i have big problems there because the people will kill me >> reporter: for these immigrants proving asylum is their best shot at staying in the u.s. of the 500 filed cases, at least

40% were approved. the department of homeland security says the recent detentions are part of our broader and ongoing efforts to enforce our ilgraks laws in line with our stated priorities. he says he is speck-- immigration laws. >> >> reporter: this is the letter that kimberley has for people helping her family to get to the three hour trip to visit her. tears swell up at she thinks about leaving her behind. wishing she could bring her home nearly 30 children younger than 15 will be diagnosed with cancer today. one family decided to go public with their private struggle with paediatric cancer in an entirely new way. they created a video game to

document their battle and to help other families deal with the same issue. it is the subject of a new documentary and of tonight's first person report. >> my name is ryan green >> i directed a documentary film called thank you for playing. >> it is strange showing a game about terminal cancer. why is that so strange? why are we all walking around anonymous and not talking about things that shape the way we are. >> it tells the story of ryan and aim ee green who developed a game called that dragon cancer. >> it is a poetic retelling of my son's life with cancer. i'm a video game designer and so creating something out of trials that we were going through seemed like a natural thing to

do. >> you basically experienced what it was like when he was very sick >> you could imagine walking into a painting and hear the sounds of that environment and hear the thoughts of the people in that environment. >> mr and mrs green, i'm sorry, it's not good news >> they've actually kind of really challenged what video games are capable of >> what can you experience emotionally in a video game. >> we were so intrigued by the idea that they wanted to share an experience that is so often relegated to very private spheres. >> that's not fair. i love him as much as you do. >> i used to cringe when people would ask he is the making of this game ca, this hartic because i felt like that i was doing it for other people.

it is the thing that kept us moving forward and preventing us from shutting down. creating this felt like a form of documentary. in many ways, as the film makers came in and started documenting our life, it felt like a collaboration. >> they never asked us to turn the camera off once. they had set out in a goal. >> i fell this compulsion to share about it, to talk about it, to capture it because as soon as it's gone, it will be a shadow and i won't be able to remember it >> it certainly meant at times we were filming moments in their life that were some frt hardest things we've ever filmed. >> from the outside looking inside feels unbearable and i want people to know that when you're in the midst of it choosing to love and choosing to love someone that you could lose is worth it. aim ee choosing to live like

joel was living rather than he was dying, he was going to do all the things that normal children do. it allowed a lot more joy to be in our life than you would expect. so my hope is that others would choose to walk with the people around them, to ask them about the people that they have lost, to support them in the midst of their struggles. joel was the sweetest boy. he was full of laughter and he was so loving and he would just melt into my side. he went through so much and yet he had such a sweet and joyful spirit. i think in many ways he taught me how to love and i miss him. so the documentary thank you for playing is now available for purchase online and on demand. that dragon cancer is available wherever video games are sold.

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to look at it, you would never know the ma gentlemens particular-- magestic grand canyon is a supply. the politicians are argue the industry is just too important. our correspondent has more. >> reporter: in one of the most photographed places on earth it is likely you've never seen this before. the remnants of an old uranium and copper mine. it is not the iconic images associated with the grand canyon. just as the river runs wild, mining is also inextricably linked to this national treasure. if you want along the south of the canyon you can't mistake the footprint and the legacy of

mining that happened right here inside the park. at this point in the trail it detours around the old or fan mine which closed in 1969. today it is a super fun site and it is fenced off to protect visitors from radiation and other contaminants. >> it breaks my heart to see people do that to my land. my sacred land. >> reporter: she is a member of a tribe that has already suffered from damage done by the mine. it is new mining around the national park that poses the greatest threat. >> it is going to contaminate the water and we don't want to see that. water is sacred. we've got to preserve it. >> reporter: according to the grand canyon trust, four mines operate near the north and south rims of the canyon. one of them is a canyon mine known as a zombie mine because

it laid dormant nor years. it operates in the ground war basin that provides the primary source of drinking war to the tribe and located 6 miles from the village, the main tourist center in the park >> it is a time bomb that is in the land landscape. >> reporter: we met roger clerk with the grand canyon trust as he was leading college students on a walking tour of mining sites. >> when rainfalls, the rain coming off it as radio active. there was a ban around the canyon, but mines have been allowed to continue or resume operations. additionally some arizona state officials in the chamber of commerce are working on over turk the ban saying new uranium and copper mine will provide new jobs >> for health, mining and copper

have been a big part. it would be like saying let's shut down the financial service industry of new york. we don't believe that the federal government needs to come in and basically make unusable a land chunk the size of the state of delaware. >> reporter: the national mining association wants to over turn the ban. in a 2015 letter the association's president wrote: >> reporter: >> reporter: you're laughing. why? >> it is like bp saying there's virtually no impact of deep offshore drilling in the gulf. until there is. when it is, when it happens, it's irreversible and

irretrievable meaning that contamination in the groundwater is forever. it has happened here, and it can happen at the other mine. i think those that don't live here who want to tell the people that have to live with the consequences that there's virtually no harm is really an insult. >> reporter: in 2010 the u.s. geological survey reported 15 springs and five wells near uranium mines have dissolved uranium concentrations greater than safe drinking water standards. this has the potential to impact 40 million people who depend on the colorado river and nearby water sheds for safe drinking water. does the grand canyon need that to protect it? >> it is the best we can get. the fact that they're trying to over turn it before the 20 years occurs says the attack on that is at risk. it was a decision made by this administration. it's an executive decision. it could be changed with new leadership in the presidential office

>> reporter: does that worry you? >> yeah. it does. that's why we're pushing for a permanent ban under a designation of this entire area as a monument. outside the park, the lands, if they were designated as a monument would put an end to the mining. >> reporter: a ban is the only way to protect her people she says >> my future doesn't look promising with the uranium mining, but we will still continue to fight it for the protection of the environment and for my people, and everybody. >> reporter: as the fight over the future of mining continues, fences along the south rim and rusted relics clirnging to the cliff side are a constant reminder of the price people and mother nature have already paid coming up the remarkable life of actress patty duke. duke.

>> our american story is written everyday. it's not always pretty, but it's real... and we show you like no-one else can. this is our american story. this is america tonight. oscar winning actress patty duke died today from sepsis. she was a child star who became a mental health advocate.

she had personal struggles. >> reporter: for a 16-year-old it was the role of a lifetime. she played helen keler opposite ann bancroft. she became the youngest actress at the time to win an academy award. memories never faded. >> she told me i was wonderful. gregory peck. i miss him. all of it was truly a wonder land. >> reporter: with the awe came plenty of adversity. her father was an alcoholic, her mother a manic depressive. she herself struggled with bipolar disorder, a battle that

hollywood turned into a sitcom classic. this show made her a tv star. the director wanted both sides of her represented. she had been married three times. she went public with her illness in 1982. from 85 to 88 she served as the president of the screen actors guild. when she was asked in 2014 how she would like to be remembered, her response? >> i'm proud that when i get a job i'm going to give what you paid for, and maybe even more. >> reporter: her son took to social media today sharing a picture of himself as a baby in the arms of his famous mother.

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