♪ i left provincetown with restaurant experience, a suntan, and an ever deepening relationship with recreational drugs. i went to culinary school, then to new york city, and never returned. today, however, i'm staying in massachusetts, heading over to the western part of the state, one of the most beautiful areas of the country, the gorgeous mill towns, victorian houses,

deeply felt famously upright and new england values, norman rockwell america where something really inexplicable and unexpected has happened. >> new england is a new mecca for heroin use. >> emergency room admissions, law enforcement areas dealing with crimes being committed that never happened before. >> detectives are working around the clock. dealers are making a killing. >> not new york or baltimore or l.a. or chicago, but rural towns like this one are now statistically ground zero for the heroin epidemic. what the hell happened? >> the next couple years, if this heroin use trend continues to grow, it may be beyond getting a handle on. i'm a detective with the greenfield police department here, and my focus is undercover and narcotic investigations. >> this is a well-known area to us and very active. >> heroin use in the past year, its just increased to a level

i've never seen any other drug come into an area. people are all going to be affected. it hasn't topped out yet. >> someone you've known, someone you went to school with, someone you work with. >> so, sunny crocket gets a ferrari. what's wrong with this picture? >> tried the lexus but they said no way. >> it's been reported in the national papers there's been explosion of heroin use, heroin-related crimes, overdoses, how does that happen? >> i think once this area realized we had a heroin problem, we were already behind it trying to play catch-up. we are on the 91 corridor. route 91 has been dubbed the heroin highway at this point. it's a widely used road to go north and south. there's opportunists here and for low money input, they're getting a high profit. that's the typical heroin packages. bundles of ten, 50 bags here. >> 60 to 80 bucks for ten. >> they can charge what they

want. it's supply and demand. >> one dose for most people? >> multiple bags, anywhere from three to five backs at a same time. up to 30 bags a day. and the current economics of the town, i am the only one assigned to the narcotics position. >> how many heroin addicts are walking the streets of greenfield right now? >> i'm going to say we're in the high hundreds. >> wow. >> we're in the high hundreds. >> high hundreds. >> it's hitting every age group, economic household, it's out there. >> we don't have crips and bloods taking over motel rooms, the person selling you dope more likely to be familiar than a stranger? >> we're going to meet a pass distributor i've known for several years. >> we meet carmen, as we'll call her, a powerful local heroin dealer turned paid confidential police informant out in the woods. >> how'd you get into the business initially?

>> i needed the money. i needed to support my family. couldn't get a job. >> how easy was it to get into the dope business? >> not hard at all because it's cheap. >> was there money in it? >> oh, hell, yeah. yeah, oh, yeah. >> it's like mayberry out here from looking around. who's using heroin now? i mean -- >> kids. >> kids. >> kids. >> today's heroin epidemic is different than the one that raged through america in the 1970s in a few significant ways. back then, heroin was mostly seen as a poor people problem, somebody else's problem. the sort of thing that musicians and criminals got into, marginal people, far from the white main streets of mayberry, usa. what those people did to themselves, well, it was unfortunate, but not our problem. until somebody broke into your house. today, it's absolutely the reverse. the new addicts are almost entirely white, middle class, and from towns and areas like

this. how do you think you make it better? >> you don't. >> whoa. you don't? >> no, there's going to be more robberies, there's going to be more killings. take one person off the street here, two more come in. >> at peak how many customers do you have? >> practically all of greenfield. >> what happened? how did the kid next door, along with mom, pop, and grandma too become users of hard-core illegal narcotic drugs, the worst drug with the worst reputation? ♪ ♪ i'll take you there well, maybe start here. >> once you found the right doctor and have told him or her about your pain, don't be afraid to take what they give you. often it will be an opioid medication. >> here's a 1996 promotional video from the fine folks at perdue pharmaceuticals. sent around to doctors, it encouraged them to prescribe the

latest, newest, most wonderful drug for long-term pain management, oxycontin. >> some patients may be afraid of taking opiods because they're perceived as too strong or addictive. but that is far from actual fact. less than 1% of patients taking opioids actually become addicted. >> sales initially and falsely proclaimed as not addictive, absolutely skyrocketed from $45 million in 1996 to 3.1 billion in 2010. that same year, perdue tweaked the way that we're making oxy in an attempt to, they said, limit its addictive qualities. finally the government and law enforcement took a harsh look at the drug and it became much harder to get legally which sucked for the thousands and thousands who by now had a serious habit. >> i am ruth, a family physician in greenfield, massachusetts, and i grew up here.

my dad was actually a small town doctor out here. i'm a total generalist, but for the last four, four and a half years, a larger part of my practice has been focused on addiction to opiates. >> i got put on pain medication. then when they started disappearing, everybody else is doing it. >> the heroin? >> yeah. i can get a bag of heroin easier than i can get a joint. >> once they start, they just slip down that rabbit hole and, you know, maybe they make it out. that's our goal is to get them out and to live healthy again. we've really in our own way created this mess that we're in now. ♪ >> in downtown greenfield, the people's pint, an eco-conscious, local pub that brews its own beer, uses only farm fresh ingredients and composts its own ingredients.

it's where i meet up with dr. poti for dinner. i guess my first question is who is doing dope? >> everybody starts with the pills. there's nobody that goes from marijuana to heroin. there's an in between step. always pills, it's pills that people get from their doctor. from me. particularly the young people. had an injury, a sports-related injury, had their wisdom teeth out, and they felt awesome on the drug, and they were like how can i get more of that? after three to six months of looking for more, they couldn't find it, and then they jumped. >> is it the big pharmaceuticals fault? doctors fault? who's fault is it? >> it's complicated. i'm not going to say there's one entity here that's responsible, but there was a lot of money to be made by promoting the treatment of pain to the highest level. big pharma made a lot of money on this. and i was taught in residency, you give people as much pain medicine as they need. you get them out of pain, we'll judge your hospital, emergency room based on your pain scores. that's how we were taught. and we were also told that they're not all that addictive. we started handing out pills

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a few miles down the road from greenfield is shellburn falls, the good old days that everybody used to talk about when i was a kid. sundays, church and picnics. saturday nights, sox games, beer, and bowling. the shellburn falls bowling alley is where time seems anyway to have stopped. first opened in 1906, this is the second oldest bowling alley in america. dedicated to old school new england-style candle pin bowling. the holy rollers, a crowd of septuagenarians who grew up in shellburn and plan this is a reasonable expectation to kick my [ bleep ]. they've been playing here since the '50s. >> i was never allowed to come

near the bowling alley. this was my aunt did not think this was a good idea. >> oh, man. it's a tiny little ball. this looks really hard. [ cheering ] >> it's very different, shellburn falls. i grew up here. very different. people don't know each other as well as everyone used to know each other. >> when i grew up in greenfield, everybody had jobs. i worked from the time i was 13. if i had to go back there, now, i don't believe in drugs, i don't have anything to do with them, but what choice would i have? stand on the corner, i would probably get into a business. what's a good business? well-paying business? i'm sorry. that's where we are. ♪ >> yes, it used to be a very different world towns like this one. and there were many. but like everywhere else, it

seems the mills, the factories closed down, and with them a certain kind of social contract with the people who worked there. >> my name is ed gregory, originally from terrence falls, born and brought up here, born in 1945. my father was an employee of the mill, as was my grandfather. >> during the hay day, there were three paper mills, cotton mill, a silk mill, a foundry, a beehive of activity here. >> back then, a company town like this, the company actually took care of you. they built and provided homes for their employees. schools, the river provided energy. the company provided nearly everything else. >> the hayday is gone. people are definitely struggling to find work. the town just kind of died during the '80s. >> when the folks came to work, they were immigrants -- >> attracted by the manufacturing here. >> correct. made it a possibility of owning a home in a real decent part of the county here. ♪

>> so my father was here, a millwright, a millwright's job is a jack of all trades if you will. if there was something to be repaired. >> you could work in a mill and live in a nice home, send your kids to school, make a living all on a mill salary. >> you bet. >> it's unthinkable now. what happened to the business? >> things are going to other countries, but not coming back to the united states. >> this time it's redundant? >> correct. >> again and again all over the country, i keep running into situations like this where industry has died or fled or simply relocated. i meet people like charles garbel, hometown heroes who for some reason though they could go anywhere, take their skills, and return to where they grew up. shady glenn diner, today's special, a tribute to the old european immigrant culture of the area, the new england boiled

dinner. so i hear rumors of corned beef and cabbage, is that right? >> yeah, we do -- every week we do a corned beef and cabbage dinner. >> corned beef, boiled potatoes, steamed cabbage. >> that's a beast, awesome, thank you. >> how long have you been here? >> two years. >> are you from the area? >> i grew up here, been coming through here since a kid. went threw a few owners then came up for sale and decided to give it a shot. >> generally speaking, who are your customers? >> most are retirees, they've been coming since they were 30. >> this, you don't see so much anymore. dino-era homemade pies and lots of them. all baked on premises. raspberry cream pie for me, thank you. this is not something we see a lot of. old school pie like that and this number of them. >> serving made here. everything is made here. and they're all the original recipes from the '60s. the index cards are so old, they're all faded yellow. >> this is exotic for me. >> really? >> oh, yeah. how's business?

>> it's getting better. the drug problem has gotten rampant. took over may 1st, 2012, and by the end of that year i was broken into four times. it wasn't just me, it was multiple businesses time after time. i came in one morning to open up, and i actually had a guy in front of the register and he got up, pulled a knife out. i realized it really wasn't worth anything over a knife. >> what you're doing here is terrific. i mean, where a man get a good hot open turkey sandwich and good slice of pie, it's a beautiful thing. . it helps keep my skin clearer. with only 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses... ...stelara® helps me be in season. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and increase your risk of infections. some serious infections require hospitalization. before starting stelara® your doctor should test for tuberculosis. stelara® may increase your risk of cancer. always tell your doctor if you have any sign of infection, have had cancer,

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♪ hush little baby don't say a word ♪ ♪ papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird ♪ my name is heather taylor. ♪ and if that mockingbird won't sing ♪ i'm a mother of three. ♪ momma's going to buy you a diamond ring ♪ the two older kids experienced my addiction. my addiction started with pills. i started sniffing heroin. i shot up for the first time, and shortly there later i found out i was pregnant.

i had my daughter. she was in the hospital for six weeks because she was addicted to the methadone and i had to watch my baby go through withdrawal. my son was 4, and my daughter was 6 weeks when they were taken away. i lost my kids for 33 days shy of two years. i became serious about my recovery. >> so is this the bad part of town or is this just a place where you're unlikely to be for people to find you. >> just a place where people are unlikely to find you. i wouldn't necessarily say there was a bad part of greenfield. i mean, it's probably pretty spread out, bad, i guess you'd say. >> what would you do? would you come here to shoot up? >> yep. you know we'd go down here and just hang out down there. i bet if we walked along here, we'd probably find needles and bags, you know. >> so basically you'd come down here, shoot up and what, are you going to nod out? just sit down --

>> just sit down and hang out. a day like this, hang out under the underpass over there. >> not exactly la vida loca. >> no. as you can see, all the trash and yuck, it's dirty and gross. there's probably people who live down here. >> really? >> yeah, there's a lot of homeless people in greenfield. >> what do you think now when you see somebody who's clearly junk sick on the street? >> it gives me that yuck, sick feeling. and it scares me. like it reminds me why i don't want to be out there. it's just scary. a friend of mine overdosed january 1st of this year. and my brother-in-law overdosed in wendy's bathroom and they found him. and they brought him back to life. he was dead in the bathroom. >> uh-huh. >> so this is my narcam. i carry this around, i have one of these in my house and i have

one in my car. i have a fear that my husband's going to relapse and i'm going to find him dead. you just put this in here and squirt it up their nose. >> now in most cases, as i understand it, they're right out of it. >> they're right out of it and they're instantly sick. >> they don't wake up happy. but they wake up. >> but they wake up. >> somebody's blue there. >> on the floor. >> are you saving that life? >> yep, saving that life. absolutely. and then kicking their ass [ laughter ] >> better now? life better now? >> absolutely. my kids have been home three years. you know, i no longer have to watch my back. you know, i live a pretty straight and narrow life, which, you know, people might say is boring, but i love my life today. i'm grateful. >> where are we headed? >> this way. >> oh, okay. >> to the recover projects. this is where my recovery started. >> started nearly a decade ago in one of the two main streets

of greenfield, the recover project is community-based. an open arms program aimed at helping addicts stay clean. >> given the opiate heroin addiction in our community, we'd like to start the conversation. just kind of sharing with one another what happened at that point of our life, what that was like. >> so as a child growing up in a home of addiction, i didn't understand how they could do all the stuff that they did to me and my brother and sister. like don't you love me enough? then i became a mother, and then i became a heroin addict. and i did all that stuff to my kids. >> my doctor was my biggest drug dealer. i fell down a flight of stairs. just been married. had a baby, fell down the stairs, two jobs, college on top of it. next thing i know i'm on these prescriptions, that's where it all began for me. >> what are the odds you're going to own a house? what's the odds you're going to have a nice car? any car? a place to live, all that stuff? seems less and less likely all the time.

contrast that with what happens when you stick a spike in your arm. and why wouldn't you. >> so i had this picture in my head when i got the phone call that my daughter's father had been in the accident and i had just had a c-section and they come in with this needle to give me ativan, and all i needed was a hug. i needed someone to give me a hug and say, i care about you, kaitlyn, and everything's going to be okay. >> i'll tell you something really shameful about myself. the first time i shot up, i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw. i came up with a stable family in the suburbs, i had a lot of advantages. there was some dark genie inside me that i very much hesitate to call a disease that led me to dope. i didn't have anyone else who

could have talked me out of what i was doing. an intervention wouldn't have worked. i didn't have a child. i have a 7-year-old daughter now who i never would have had. i never would have thought. i looked in a mirror, and i saw somebody worth saving, or at least that i wanted to try real hard to save. anybody can find themself very easily in this situation. and, you know, i look back on that, and i think about my daughter. what i'll tell my daughter. you know, that was daddy. ain't no doubt about it. but i hope i can say that was daddy then. this is daddy now. that i'm alive and living in hope. thank you, guys. >> thank you. [ applause ] here's a little healthy advice. eat well, live well, and take of what makes you, you.

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in massachusetts the clambake is a ritual going back to the flintstones, before the pilgrims. today at the long-standing locals only shooting club, schuetzen veerin in german for the immigrants who started this

rustic fraternity back in 1912. ray takes me through the fascinating and arcane process of creating an old-school clambake. >> basically we build a kiln with hardwood and stone. we burn it down, remove the wood and cover it with seaweed and corn hunks and we put our clams and lobsters and corn in there like a pressure cooker. >> we've got a pig hiding in there also. >> no, no, no. we're going to pull a tusker out right now, and you'll see what we have here. >> let's eat. >> all right. [ laughter ] first some good chowder and there really is only one kind of chowder, new england clam chowder. mm-mm. that is good. steamer clams, lobster, corn, potatoes. that's a pretty luxurious clambake here. >> that was amazing. >> absolutely.

>> everybody's attention for a second. the opioid education and awareness task force came together several months ago. i don't think we realized how quickly this could turn into a crisis for us. >> everybody in this room has been touched by or impacted by narcotics in some way. the franklin county opiod task force is a grassroots response. doctors, law enforcement led by franklin county sheriff chris donilon, addiction specialists and addicteds themselves are -- addicts themselves are coming together to find a community-based solution to what is finally being recognized as a public health crisis rather than a criminal justice problem. >> a great opportunity to come here tonight to break bread and look at the successes that we have had so far, think what makes me more proud than anything else about living in franklin county is that we will not sit back and wait for anybody else to solve this problem for us. we're going to be a model for the commonwealth and nation on

how we save our young people and save our community. [ applause ] >> it's a change. the city is the place where all the bad stuff was supposed to happen, not nice towns like greenfield. >> it isn't the image that people used to have 20 years ago that it's a junkie in an alley somewhere using a needle. it's not. it's your kids, it's your neighbors. >> the worst i think is when you have these young people who break a leg and they go to the doctor and get a prescription for oxy and become addicted to it. these are any kid who plays a high school sport. it's a horrible circumstance when that happens. >> it's only started in the past couple of years. yeah, the heroin was around. pills were around but we didn't have people dying. >> once you've been busted for heroin, that's a hard thing to live down. >> got to get rid of that shame factor so people can deal with it, address it and get support from the community. >> i feel like we'll lose a generation of our young people. 18 to 22 is what we're seeing the most.

the district attorney, the police department are all united this. the task force has grown to a matter of a hundred people. >> i lost one daughter to drugs. you know, whatever it takes. >> let's start by being honest with ourselves. as a nation for decades we were perfectly happy to write off whole neighborhoods, whole cities, whole generations of young men and women. as long as it was an inner city problem, an urban problem, which is to say a black people problem, a brown people problem, send them to prison into a system from which they'll never return. maybe now,now that it's come home to roost and it's the high school quarterback, your next-door neighbor, your son, your daughter, now that grandma is as likely to be a junkie as anyone else, we'll accept there's never been a real war on drugs. war on drugs implies an us versus them and all over this

part of america, people are learning there is no them. there is only us. and we're going to have to figure this out together. welcome to our viewers joining us now from the u.s. and around the world. i'm andrew stevens in hong kong. let's get straight to our top story this hour. renewed deadly violence between israelis and palestinians. the latest. police say they shot and killed a palestinian man who tried to stab an officer during a check. phil black is in jerusalem and joins us with the latest. obviously it doesn't look like the violence is starten to

lessen at all -- starting to lessen at all. >> reporter: that's the case. early on a saturday, already there's been a knifing or two attempted knifing incidents we're hearing about from police. you touched on one there. here in jerusalem, israeli police say a police officer was approaching a palestinian man because he was deemed suspicious. and during that approach, the man, although 16 years old, pulled a knife and attempted to stab the officer. the officer used his weapon to shoot and kill that 16-year-old palestinian. the other incident we're hearing about was on the west bank of hezbollah where they say a jewish man defended himself. used his only sidearm to shoot a palestinian who had apparently tried to stab him, as well. friday, it was a day of rage. there was another stabbing incident there which involved i

palestinian pretending, police say, to be a press photographer who tried to stab an israeli soldier but was also shot and killed in the act. these are incidents in what has been a new and different surge of violence here. about two weeks ago, a young palestinian man and teenagers began attacking jewish people on the streets. sometimes using knives, other cutting implements, a meat cleaver. it's been very difficult to police because of the random nature of these attacks. it has meant that tensions have really increased dramatically. and the result in human terms, according to the israeli government, seven israelis since the start of october have been killed as a result. officials put the death toll somewhere around or above 30 people, including some of those people who conduct or perpetrate the attacks. >> you call it a new and

different level of violence, phil. and talking there about a 16-year-old boy and people having killed the palestinians, some are young men. why is that? why are these ages, these age kids getting involved? >> of course, it depends on who you talk to. this is a different phenomenon in the sense that it is random, seemingly almost a grassroots movement if you like. these attackers are not thought to be following the orders of anyone in the palestinian leadership, moderate, radical or otherwise. they're not targeting anybody, they are simply acting as a result of material they are seeing on line. the israeli view is that, yes, there is material on line. it is inciting young palestinians to act. the israelis believe the material on line is just part of a wider culture of incitement and indoctrination where they

say palestinians are taught from a young age to hate jews and to be violent toward them. that violence is then celebrated. the palestinians talk about the violence and security at the moment being a continuation of the ongoing situation that is caused by what they describe as israeli aggression, oppression, and occupation of their lands. those grievances are old, but the phenomenon, the nature of these attacks, it is new and is proving difficult to police and to secure because of the random, unpredictable nature in which they are taking place. >> phil black in jerusalem, thank you very much. violence between israelis and palestinians as we've seen recently has flared up at various times for decades. cnn.com has everything you need to know about the current situation and the events that led up to that. the first migrants have reached the slovenian border after hungary sealed its border

with croatia. hungary is trying to reduce the flow of thousands of migrants and refugees comes across its borders daily. many are trying to get to austria and germany from hungary. croatia and slovenia says they'll keep their borders open as long as austria and germany keep accepting migrants. turkey has slammed the european union saying a deal to stem the flow of migrants is not yet done. turkey has become a transit stop for thousands of syrian refugees and migrants, many going to europe from there. the plan is for visa-free travel for turkish citizens. ankara also wants more than $3 billion in aid and rigged members of the e.u. membership bid. officials saying the e.u. need to offer more money. nearly 27 years after pan am flight 103 exploded over lockerbie, scotland, officials have identified two suspects in that deadly bombing.

these new developments could raise more questions. we have the story. >> reporter: the scene of pure evil. 270 lives taken in the blink of an eye. mangled, smoldering debris all that remained from pan am flight 103 blown apart midair. the scottish town of lockerbie its final resting place. now almost 27 years on from the atrocity, a possible breakthrough in the investigation. the u.s. and scotland naming two suspect. a former spy chief of ousted libyan leader moammar gadhafi. a man who already has blood on his hands. known in libya as the butcher. convicted by france over the bombing of the passenger plane the year after lockerbie. 170 people killed if the attack. he's currently in prison awaiting execution. he was held responsible for the deaths of protesters during libya's 2011 uprising. the other man of interest,

investigators trying to determine whether he's a known bomb-maker who goes by a different name, asud, also in prison on unrelated charges. this new turn in a decades'-old probe continues to fuel a long-held belief that their wasn't a lone wolf attack, and the gadhafi regime was somehow involved. gadhafi denies his government had any role in the bombing, and to this day, abdelbaset ali al megrahi, speaking here with gadhafi, is the only man convicted. the man many regarded as a hero, jailed in scotland for mass murder, released in 2009 to die at home after being diagnosed with cancer. he protested his innocence even in his final days. these latest developments may come to nothing, with both suspects already in jail. it's unclear whether they can even be charged or stand trial. if that does happen, wound which have taken some 27 years to heal will all of a sudden be

reopened. cnn. still ahead on the show, in california, cars half buried, hail the size of golf balls. the threat of weather is not over yet.

in southern california, residents and emergency officials are bracing for even more rain. flooding closing yet another highway northwest of los angeles on friday. at least 12 people were rescued after a large mudslide hit north of l.a. thursday. as sara sidner shows, it was a terrifying experience for some drivers. >> reporter: a neighborhood street turned into a raging river. a part of one of california's busiest freeways, interstate 5, turned into a muddy lake. in the drought-stricken, fire-ravaged california hills, short but heavy downpours can create mayhem. tony hemming and his brother were on their way home after picking up their 10-year-old brother from school when they were broadsided by a wall of mud. >> all of a sudden i looked to the left, and this entire

embankment gave out underway, and it was a frightening feeling of there's several feet of mud coming right at me. >> reporter: hemming carried his younger brother, and they all ran, leaving their truck behind. happy they're still around to dig it out the next day. >> if we were 15 feet farther, we're completely covered. there is no chance of getting out of that. >> reporter: the flash floods came so fast and so fewer kwous, this little car -- furious, this little car was nearly swallowed whole. we're told by troopers that the driver did manage to get out uninjured. it wasn't just flash floods and sliding mud but hail like folks who have lived here all their lives have never seen before. golf ball-sized hail slammed down, damaging cars and homes. >> i'm from kentucky. so i'm no stranger to bad weather. this is the worst storm i have ever seen in my life. i was in a hurricane, typhoon in okinawa one time. nothing compared to this.

>> reporter: this, meteorologists say, is just the beginning of what the climate cycle known as el nino will bring to california. even though the state needs the rain, too much too soon could be disastrous. >> we'll have a geologist come out to inspect the hillside and make sure that they're stable and safe. obviously with a lot of rain, you get a lot of saturation. sometimes slides don't happen on that first day. they happen later. >> reporter: sara sidner, cnn, like elizabeth, california. >> terrifying pictures there. are more mud slides in store for california this weekend? let's go to the world weather center. what's it looking like, karen? it looks very iffy, but the potential is there as we've got the cutoff area of low pressure still swirling moisture around. a lot of areas don't see a lot of rainfall to begin with. but whether they do and you get brief but heavy rainfall, that's the kind of thing you can look forward to. most of the precipitation has moved further toward the east and pushing in toward the great

basin. so we've got setup for this again tomorrow, and another storm system comes in for sunday afternoon. i want you to listen to this -- a woman was a passenger in a car in the mojave desert, in california, when the mud started rolling in. so listen to this -- it's chilling. >> oh, my god, this car is going to hit us! oh, my god! [ screams ] >> there you see the mud and the muck and people stuck in it, blown off of the road, they did manage to fairly quickly clean off the highways. but in excess of 200 vehicles were tied up in the mud debris. let's talk about another serious situation. this in the pacific. we've got typhoon kopu making its way toward the west. but it's slow. because of the slow movement, there you see the eye, it's about 24 kilometer wide, about

14 miles wide. it is very tiny. that tells us that the storm system is really powerful. as it slams into the philippines, it's not going to move much. it's going to be several days. we're not going to measure the rainfall for inches or feet or millimeters and meters, it's going to be measured meter plus. if you haven't battened down the hatches yet, this is the time to do. we've still got somewhere between the 12 and 18-hour time period before this makes land fall, and the rainfall is going to be staggering. catastrophic. the ground is possibly going to give away. there will be power outages, there will be damage to homes, and people have been evacuated. the military's in place. it is a very potentially catastrophic situation.

andrew? >> meters worth of rain defies comprehension almost. how do you even prepare against that rainfall? >> it's staggering to think about that. but they are used to typhoons. this is a busy time of year. it is the season for this tropical activity, but hopefully they've already made preparations. >> the president talking to the nation friday to warn them to be prepared. karen, thank you very much. karen maginnis from the weather center. a big move in the battle against climate change. the leaders of ten of the biggest energy companies are joining forces to stop global temperatures from rising more than two degrees celsius since preindustrial times. eight of the executives were in paris for a show of unity at a news conference. together the companies, which include the giants like shell, b.p., and total produce more than 20% of the oil and gas. they want to play a bigger role in renewable energy and invest

in natural gas over coal production. >> the companies have come together and said the two-degree target is what we should shoot for and aim for. we're open that the path, trajectory of that is not on that path which is why we have this renewed sense of urgency. >> and i'm fully convinced but for this climate change, if we are all to use oil energy companies, we have strong human capacity, strong technology capacity and financial capacity that's clearly part of the solution. if we don't step in the issue, nothing will move. it's better to see it as positive rather than fight against us. >> the companies have signed a pledge calling for an effective climate deal in december during the u.n. climate change conference. the sbatds on to save another en-- battle is on to save another endangered animal from becoming a tragedy of the climate change.

the arctic fox population has been decimated across scandinavian countries due to temperatures affecting their natural habitat. there's been a breeding center built where pups can be nursed in safety. >> like when we hopefully started this project, the remaining populations in norway and sweden combined was less than 15 individuals, adult individuals in total. today there is approximately 300 in norway. >> there are currently eight fox couples in the breeding center. searchers hope to eventually release them into the wild to boost the animal population. still ahead on cnn, russia is ramping up air strikes in syria where government troops have launched a new offensive against rebel groups. plus, egypt is on the verge of its eighth election in four

years. some fear voter fatigue will keep many people away from the polls.

welcome to viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm andrew stevens in hong kong. here's an update on the top stories we are following this hour. israeli officials say a border police officer shot and killed a palestinian man in jerusalem during an attempted stabbing. in an earlier incident, the israeli defense forces say a palestinian tried to stab an israeli man who shot and killed him. the first migrants have reached the slove