manufacturer of these chips, they want to ensure the world's supply chain goes uninterrupted. and they're concerned about the fact on this small island a number of the world's chips are produced. they're trying to move some of these chip production facilities to places like the united states, elsewhere around asia and the world. the problem they're having though, they haven't been able to match at any other location internationally the productivity they have here in taiwan. these are people with advanced degrees who are often working very long grueling hours six days a week, and that's how they're able to produce these chips in such a profitable way. here in taiwan a magic formula they haven't been able to replicate in other countries. >> i'm alex marqardt in the situation room. out front next the mystery

deepens. the president of belarus tonight claiming yevgeny prigozhin who led the rebellion against putin has returned to russian. where's the proof? this as a raid of prigozhin's house have turned off gold bars, weapons, a collection of wigs, and a giant stuffed alligator. a special report on that. and a subpoena tonight. the office of the arizona secretary of state confirms to out front they've been subpoenaed in the investigation into trump's efforts to overturn the election. the arizona secretary of state will be out front. and a story you'll see first here on "out front," a dangerous skin rotting drug taking over the streets leaving users with open wound and amputated limpbes. it's devastating across the country and we have a special report on the epidemic this hour. let's go out front. good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight the mystery deepening. where is yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the armed rebellion against putin? in a rare press conference today the president of belarus said yevgeny rugoshen is not there.

the head of the wagner group who marched on moscow had been banned to belarus by putin. the whole deal was go to belarus, go there. but according to belarus' dictator prigozhin is not there and he could actually be in putin's home city. here is our matthew chance questioning alexander lukashenko. >> i wonder if you could provide us all with a bit of an update on the whereabouts of the wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin. is he in belarus or not? >> translator: in terms of yevgeny prigozhin, he is in st. petersburg or maybe this morning he would travel to moscow or elsewhere, but he is not in the territory of belarus now. >> so according to lukashenko not only is prigozhin in russia, st. petersburg, moscow, he's also a free man. lukashenko told reporters he's even spoken to lukashenko several times on the phone

including yesterday. it's incredible in the sense of prigozhin is usually a very visible person. since the up rising nearly two weeks ago, though, nobody has seen him except for once on tape. we've seen planes tied to him going across russia, going to belarus, going back, but that's it. no proof of his freedom, not even video proof that he's alive, which raises major questions tonight. is prigozhin under arrest? where are his wagner fighters so crucial to the ukrainian war and even is he alive? the kremlin is doing everything it can to diminish, disparage, discredit him on state television press. images broadcast to millions showing putin's security forces raiding prigozhin's home, and they're showing an extensive collection of wigs, cash, gold, and weapons and even that giant stuffed alligator. a russian television feature program digging into the former hot dog vendor's past including why he spent nearly a decade in prison. and they're actually delving

into and just discussing often accusation that prigozhin assaulted a woman, squeezing her until she lost consciousness in order to steal her jewelry. this is what's on russian state television. and it's not the only thing dominating russian air waves. our exclusive conversation with president zelenskyy raging propagandists with the issue of nato. here they are taking issue to president zelenskyy's plea with biden. zelenskyy making his dramatic plea in english and the russians are take note, and they're also taking note of another major development tonight, surely at least. cnn is reporting the u.s. will send cluster munitions to ukraine, something expected to be part of the new military aid package announced tomorrow. now, these cluster munitions would be hugely significant. they would enable utrain to target groups of russian soldiers. they are, though, highly controversial, banned not by the

united states -- that's important -- but they are banned by more than 100 other countries because they break apart in midair and scatter large munitions over large areas. they've been used by russians in this war to indiscriminately kill civilians. first, though, matthew chance is out front tonight in minsk. and matthew, you had a chance to question lukashenko, a person you alone out there have spoken to many times so you know his mannerism wheres hsh you know his response. as much as there's any way to read him, you know it. you asked him about prigozhin's whereabouts, and what else did he tell you? >> reporter: well, first of all, he he said very clearly he didn't know what was going to happen to yevgeny prigozhin next. though he did raise quite alarmingly disturbingly the possibility that prigozhin could be assassinated though he went on quickly to say that he did not believe that the kremlin or

that putin would authorize that. but the very fact he sort of like suggested it as something he wanted to knock down was, you know, a little surprising to me and to the other journalists who were gathered there to have this sort of conversation with alexander lukashenko. he also, you know, denied that he was preparing military bases in belarus for the possible influx of wagner fighters who along with yevgeny prigozhin had also been offered exile and sanctuary in belarus after their armed up rising last month in russia. that after satellite images indicated there were bases being prepared. now he said that wagner fighters were also not in belarus and were, in fact, elsewhere near the front lines in ukraine. take a listen. >> translator: as far as i'm informed as of this morning the wagner fighters for now

stationed at their regular camps. when they go for the rotation to rest and recover from the front lines. >> reporter: so near the front lines in russian controlled territory whether that's in ukraine or not, but the point is not in belarus where the expectation was they would be located after that armed up rising. erin? >> all right, matthew, thank you very much. expectation by ukraine as well. they've talked about stationing troops along that northern border in the event those wagner fighters came over. obviously this raising so many questions tonight. and while there are questions squirrelling about prigozhin's fate more than ever after mathew's questioning tonight russian state media as i said disparaging and demeaning him showing a raids on his home and office. melissa bell is out front. >> reporter: weapons, cash, bars of gold, and an impressive collection of wigs, at least

four presumably used as disguises. hints of the life of the wagner boss, a garish interior complete with an indoor swimming pool, hot tub, and a giant stuffed alligator. as well as ammunition and many, many guns. the alleged st. petersburg home and office of yevgeny prigozhin purportedly raided and displayed on russian state television. presenters calling it scandalous. >> he was holding a defense in his house. look at the office. yevgeny's prigozhin's office, flag and all. it's outrageous. why would a man have so many guns? >> reporter: among the objects seized several passports apparently belonging to prigozhin using different aliases. the man himself hasn't been seen in public since his attempted coup last month.

the belorussian president and putin ally alex lukashenko who said he'd given prigozhin refuge now claims he's gone back to russia. the kremlin refused to comment, but immediately after the attempted coup vladimir putin had hinted that the finances of his former ally would be investigated. >> translator: i hope nobody stole anything while all this was going on or didn't steal much. but, of course, we will deal with all of this. >> reporter: according to the russian president himself, prigozhin's catering company had received almost $2 billion in military and government contracts. but it was prigozhin's propaganda machine that russian authorities targeted first, blocking media companies and websites linked to the man behind the failed push last week. >> translator: we are closing down and leaving the country's information space. >> reporter: yet in many ways prigozhin's empire may be too big to fail as the mercenary group still has a significance

presence in africa. >> translator: agreements between the african countries and pmc wagner is up to the leadership of the countries to decide. >> reporter: as to the fate of prigozhin himself his apparent home is now empty. the giant sledgehammer that symbolized the brutal wagner group abandoned and its name so long lionized and feared now being erased as quickly as authorities can manage. erin, the question of where yevgeny prigozhin is now matters enormously. what we heard from alexander lukashenko is that his men were still at their russian bases in the south of russia itself. that is also important. what you hear on those images when you see the interior of prigozhin's house is common from the anchor suggesting this is criminal investigation. what is seized will now be part of that, and had verdict will come at some point. if indeed prigozhin is on russian territory, that matters because it suggests that the kremlin may need him more than

they're suggesting as part of that raid. erin, back to you. >> melissa, thank you very much. and i want to go to a long time putin critic wanted in russia and retired lieutenant general ben hodges. i appreciate you very much. bill, we haven't seen prigozhin since that armed rebellion 12 days ago. the part of the deal announced he was going to belarus. but lukashenko says he's in st. petersburg maybe in moscow and saying he's a free man, he can do what he wants even though they raided his house and taken everything out of it and humiliated him with the wigs and everything that's going on. what is going on here? >> first and foremost he's created the cardinal sin of making putin look weak. putin prides himself on being a strong man dictator and prigozhin basically put a hole -- sliced that reputation in half by marching on rostov.

no one stood in his way. they were taking selfies with him and getting within two hours of moscow. he's kind of a folk hero in russia and makes putin look like a very weak man. and so what's going on right now is the russians are in a state of aploplexy, putin particularly because his entire strong man image has been challenged. so prigozhin surely doesn't want to be found right now. i can imagine if they're doing all these movies and opening these criminal cases against him, they would love to kill him if haikd get their hands on him. so he's probably gone to ground. he's a dangerous man. he has mercenaries and people loyal to him. >> you this can he's gone underground and he's alive in russia? >> who knows. we saw the wigs, we saw the passports, saw the cash. there was a helicopter in his front yard.

he's got all -- this man is incredible in terms of the tools that he has to, you know, evade capture. i mean he's the most cold-blooded killer out there, and so he's not going to just allow himself to be handcuffed and carted away to the prison. no, that's not going to happen. and so everyone says, you know, how much longer does he have to live? well he's got all these killers on his payroll. how much longer do these guys need, fsb, putin himself have to live with this type of scenario playing itself out? >> general hodges, it is incredible and incredible what they're showing us, right, that he's nowhere to be found. and as their raiding his houses and showing those wigs and those things, what does this say to you from a military perspective? putin says the deal is -- or we're told, right, the deal is prigozhin goes to bell reiss. belarus says he's not here, he's in moscow or st. petersburg and

he's completely m.i.a. >> three things, erin. first of all, how can anybody consider negotiations with russia and expect they would live up to any agreement or thid they'd be trance parent in any way. the circus we've been watching the last couple of weeks tragic in that people are getting killed, but there are a lot of people that think we should push ukraine to negotiate with russia. this is who you're negotiating with. secondly, the kind of activities that we have seen here over the last several days including when president putin wilted when he was pushed into a corner, he wilted and turned to lukashenko, and they made this deal with prigozhin, which it obviously is not turning out like everybody thought or like i thought anyhow, but that's what he did when he was put in a corner, so it did show weakness exactly as bill said. but also, finally, this is not what happens in an army that's confident it's on a path to victory. this really reflects uncertainty

and lack of confidence in the government and in the army. >> bill, i want to play some more from that lukashenko press conference where he took those questions from journalists and our matthew chance. he said he spoke to prigozhin yesterday, and then unprompted he said this about prigozhin's safety. let me play that. >> translator: what will happen to prigozhin next? well, everything happens in life, but if you think that putin is so malicious and vindictive he will kill prigozhin tomorrow, no, this will not happen. >> all right, he brings it up out of the blue, so that's significant. and then he makes this claim of that will not happen. what do you read into that statement from lukashenko? >> well, first of all all these guys, lukashenko, putin, prigozhin, you can't believe a word they say. they lie through their teeth, they lie openly, so you really can't interpret anything from that. what i would say is that this

guy, prigozhin, organized an armed rebellion to take out putin. the normal reaction to that would be for putin to arrest prigozhin, bring him to red square, setup a guillotine and chop his head off. the fact he didn't do that is remarkable. the fact he let him go somewhere else, belarus -- just yesterday when they were doing his raid or his rebellion they raided his office and they seized $111 million of cash. and then as i understand it yesterday they returned the cash. it makes no sense. and so whatever they're saying, there's so much more to the story that we don't see on the surface. and you alluded to it earlier in the report that he's got 17 different countries, rebellions in africa where he's got mercenary operations, which is essentially the entire foreign policy of russia and africa that's under his command. so he may be just too big to take out. i don't know but it doesn't make any sense on the surface, and therefore there's a lot of

information that we don't know and obviously it's guiding their actions. >> general hodges, i want to ask you one thing crucial to the battlefield in addition to all of this which could drumastically change all of it and that is these cluster munitions. they're expected to announce a military package to ukraine. they scatter small explosives around a target so in a civilian area it can cause unbelievable devastation. ukraine says they need it to hit russian soldiers and they've been saying this since the very beginning. how significant is this if ukraine gets these cluster munitions, the dcipm? >> this will be a significant capability for ukraine when you talk about employing them against russian trenches. particularly the russian trenches which we've all seen do not have the overhead cover you

would expect from professional soldiers, so this kind of munition would be devastating against the russians who are sitting in these trenches, which will help obviously with the break through that ukraine is trying to achieve. and they're also devastating against the artillery, when the ukrainians catch russian artillery in a woodland somewhere, this munition will really cause problems for them. fortunately, the united states has a couple millions of these rounds, and so it will help make up the deficiency in artillery ammunition. unfortunately, it doesn't make up the deficiency in not providing the -- >> it doesn't but president zelen skae is tilling us it would be crucial to close that artillery gap you point out. they don't have enough. and next the office of the arizona secretary of state confirming to out front they received a subpoena from the special counsel investigating trump's efforts to overturn the election.

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tonight the department of justice zeroing in on trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in arizona. the arizona secretary of state's office confirming to "out front" it received a subpoena from the special counsel's team which is significant development. it comes as the former republican house speaker in arizona, rusty bowers, tells cnn he was interviewed by the fbi about two calls that he had with former president trump after the 2020 election. the other context that's important here is we're also learning the former arizona governor doug ducey also got a call from trump in 2020 pressuring ducey to find fraud that would help trump overturn the election results in the state. joining me now secretary of state adri pgan fontez. you said you've comply today the

subpoena from the special counsel. can you tell us what it tells you about smith's investigation. >> the original subpoena received by this office came the end of last year in late december. the next one as you indicated was in may. that went to an outside law firm that had been representing this office seeking some of the same sorts of records from a cup of cases that had been filed here in arizona. the trump campaign versus my predecessors, then secretary hobbs asking for a lot of information out of those cases. really can't get too much into what exactly they're looking for other than the specific information that came out of those two cases. and the why question, i hate to get too much into that having been a prosecutor myself. >> right. >> i prefer to be a little bit

circumspect to make sure the investigation maintains its integrity. >> i understand. can i -- can you explain to me and others who may not be fully in the loop on what was this jackson case they were so curious about. without getting into all the details they asked for, what was the core of that case? >> well, these cases were essentially election contests. this was the trump campaign and some of their folks and kelly ward who was the chair of the republican arizona party at the time. it was just another one of the random, various, and a frivolou lawsuits filed across america. it was small chapters in that pathetic volume and we're glad to be participating at this stage and hopefully rendering

justice out as it moves forward. >> just so i understand they were asking about that specifically, but you don't know why that particular thing -- you're characterizing that particular case as similar to other frivolous lawsuits brought by the trump campaign, but you don't know why they picked that versus another one in terms of their questioning? >> well, i could speculate just like anybody else, but i think the crux of what is being sought here is the same as what we're seeing across the united states of america. was there interference? was there attempted interference? does it amount to conspiracy across the country to overturn an election? were there poorly chosen attempts to, you know, influence election officials? i mean all these things are consistent and what we're seeing here in arizona is not inconsistent with what happened across the rest of the country. >> secretary, has the doj asked to speak with you directly or asked you to testify before the grand jury? >> no requests specifically of myself have been made, but let me remind you during the 2020

election i was the maricopa county recorder here in maricopa county, arizona, administering the election on that state. secretary and now governor katy hobbs was administering it at that time. >> do you know whether she was involved in this or they asked her to appear? >> you're going to have to ask the governor that question. >> all right. just want to make sure i follow up with that. thank you, secretary. appreciate your time and what you were able to share with us. thanks. next and the democrat challenging president biden, plenty of good things to say about trump, and the feeling is mutual. >> i will say rfk junior who i've known not very well, but known for a while but respect. >> i'm proud that president trump likes me. plus a deadly nighttime attack shattering the sense of

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tonight 20 million drz, that's how much money ron desantis raised in the second quarter for his gop bid for 2024. i should note that half of that, close to half of that was close to the 24 hours launching his campaign in late may. it still pails in comparison to former president donald trump who announced he raised more than $35 million in the second quarter and comes as desantis' wife casey is launching what she calls her mamas for desantis

campaign initiative for this ad. >> we will not allow you to exploit their innocence to advance your agenda. we are no longer silent. we are united, and we have finally found our fighter. >> we're not going to let you impose an agenda on our kids. we're going to stand up for your kids. >> we need every mama and every grand mama in every corner of the country to stand up and fight back by electing ron desantis president of the united states of america. >> out front now jeff duncan, former lieutenant republican governor of georgia, ashley allison, the former national coalitions director for biden-harris 2020 campaign, and harry enten, our numbers expert extraordinaire. $20 million is a lot of money and raised in the six weeks in the second quarter. obviously there was a big front load to it and that was after e announcement, obviously to

but here's the thing, the poll are still abysmal. 22% among puicans, 34 percentage points behind trump. so my question to you, jack, is if this is what $20 million is getting gop donors who don't like trump, does this show that the anti-trump republicans have nowhere else to turn? >> $20 million is a lot of money, so i don't want to laugh at $20 million, but it's a strong second place finish. donald trump raised $35 million. it's going to take more than money to defeat donald trump. i think 20 million is going to take a bite out of it but not a big enough bite. trump is going to have to feel the weight of these lawsuits, the indictments and there's going to have to be a candidate who stands up and creates a movement. it takes a movement, right? 50,000 people showing up in a rural town in south carolina is an actual movement. now, it's not a movement i follow. i feel like it was probably more of a circus environment, but

that's what it is, a movement. >> you're right in which no one has been able to at this point put much of a dent into. ashley, many meanwhile, though, on the democratic side there's serious dysfunction as well. robert kennedy jr. close to $6 million in the second quarter. okay, nothing close to 20 but he's still running against an incumbent president of the united states. so that is a lot of money in that context. now i want to play a little bit more about what rfk junior said about trump. just to highlight to everybody what kind of bizarre world you're in. >> i will say rfk junior when i've known not very well but i've known for a while, and i respect him. a lot of people respect him. >> people who support donald trump feel they're regarded by the elites as deplorable people and that, you know, they're not part of our country. and i think donald trump made them feel that they were part of

our country, they were being listened to. >> he's a very smart guy and a good guy. he's a common sense guy and so am i. >> i'm proud that president trump likes me. >> okay, i could have just done that, ashley, because here's the thing and we'll see as the polls keep coming out, but we had several in a row over the past couple of months. the i'm proud president trump likes me sort of attitude is working for 20% of democrats. >> well, i first think there still is some name recognition working in rfk's favor. the kennedy name is a dinsynastn politics particularly in democratic politics. that being said is it time to panic for joe biden? i don't think so. but there is a part of the campaign who needs to focus on those folks who just wants someone else potentially right now to see a primary, engage in the debate, see if joe biden is up for it. the campaign should pay attention to it, but i don't think it's time to panic.

and i think once folks know what rfk actually stands about and stands for and is excited trump like him, folks won't want him to be the democratic nominee and will go to joe biden. >> it's going to be interesting to see if you start to see i'm proud president trump likes me. and i want to add to everybody fund-raising numbers are one of the least transparent things in american politics. you sort of get what the campaign gives you. it's not that it's not true, but you look at the detail they provide you. what do you actually see? >> i like to look back through history to understand what do actually tell us?g numbers do peoplo lead in fund raising at this point go onto win the nomination? turns out plentyf times they do since 1980 put it's only out of 9 out of 15 times. i'll name one for you, donald trump back in 2015, right, was not even close to being the fund-raising leader at this point or well into the primary season didn't go onto win the

nomination. so we should tak-raising for what it is. if we look at the democratic side, right, jfk uniyr, getting that $6 million wor of donations that is ahead of where bill weld was in. it's not a ton but more than the traditional. rfq junior is going to be around whether or not biden likes him. >> we don't know, but the amount, right, money talks in its own sense. so, jeff, the fact former vice president mike pence put out an ad this is the most direct and pointed ad from team pence specifically calling him out for his cozy relationship with dictators, kim jong-un and putin. here it is. >> america doesn't stand with thugs and dictators.

we confront them or at least we used to. >> mr. gorbachev, teardown this wall. >> there can be no room in the leadership of the republican party for apologists for putin, there can only be room for champions of freedom. >> i just saw him in ukraine. this is real. this is genuine. this is how he feels. obviously a pac is not separate from him to some degree, but does that move the needle with republican voters nearly half of whom do not support more money going to ukraine, for example? >> well, one, i think it's a good ad and i think history is going to be kind to an ad in that position to be taken. i do think mike pence is going to have a tough time trying to explain to those voters he's trying to switch from donald trump to come over to his direction. and why he didn't come up and say something when he was vice president. there's that odd moment when someone asks that question that

pops up. but, look, mike pence has got to find a lane for himself. he's really, really conservative and he's provingen that over a course of time and that's a challenge to those folks in the middle. and the path to the white house is the middle. the middle is where all this is going to be won and the middle cares about the stock market crashing. the middle cares about their jobs being cut. the middle is the pathway to the white house. >> and where do voters stand on these crucials, stand up to dictators, stand up to putin, believe in ukraine. that's what he's saying. >> you know, among republicans, look, no one likes vladimir putin. we should be clear on that. the polling numbers show that. trump, of course, used to like him a lot. >> sure, but most republican voters don't. that being said they don't want more money given to ukraine. the u.s. is giving too much to ukraine, 56%. here'she other thing jeff was getting at. you know how many voters care about the russia-ukraine issue

among republicans 1% said it was their top issue in determining their primary vote. >> i should add when you say people going to take the opposite side of pence, rfk junior who have talked about putin as a point and potentially donald trump as well and mike pence when he was vice president, which is why it's going to be hard for him to draw a line and distance himself from trump in the long run. new video out front of a devastating strike that left putin's men scrambling for their lives plus a special report on the deadly street drug tranq leaving an alarming number of us users motionless and covered in wounds. >> the tranq gets into your blood stream and it eats at your skin.

tonight new video into "out front" of fierce fighting on the front lines in eastern ukraine. this is from luhansk which has been under heavy russian assault. one of the tanks takes a direct hit, but the ukrainians say it was destroyed, but you do see soldiers fleeing the tank on foot. and it comes -- obviously this is eastern ukraine -- hundreds of miles from the front lines. the sense of safety in western

ukraine has been shattered. ben wedemen is out front. >> reporter: even away from the front lines nowhere in ukraine is safe. this is the aftermath of a russian attack in the western city of lviv. a cruise missile struck a residential building overnight thursday. ages of the victims ranged from 21 to 95 including a world war ii survivor. authorities are calling it the most devastating attack on civilians in lviv since the war began. the russians say that they're bombing military objects, but they hit a peaceful house. people were sleeping, says this lviv resident. how could they do it? world, help us. the nighttime attacks smashed the roof and top floors enan apartment building and damaged several others.

ukraine says the attack was carried out by a russian missile, a long-range hypersonic missile that carries a payload of 1,000 pounds of high explosives. the missiles are extremely accurate and have been used frequently in russian attacks on ukraine. emergency workers and firefighters have been removing chunks of rubble from the blast site and have evacuated over 60 people so far. standing atop the damaged buildings they continue to sift through the rubble for any sign of life or death. the ministry of internal affairs says as many as ten bomb shelters were locked shut-in lviv when the attack happened. an investigation is ongoing to understand why. but considering the city's relative safety, the strike was probably a shock for many. in the early days of the war the city served as a refuge for tens

of thousands of ukrainians fleeing russian attacks. given its proximity to the borders of poland, a nato member, many hoped they would be safer there. but as rescuers continue to clear the rubble and repair the damage, it's clear no place here is beyond russia's reach. also today president zelenskyy speaking at a press conference in bulgaria revealed that ukraine does not know the whereabouts of 200,000 children missing since the start of the full-scale invasion. moscow has been accused of forcibly deporting ukrainian children from occupied territories to russia. and in march the international criminal court issued arrest warrants against president putin and his commissioner for children's rights maria bulova for their responsibility in those forced deportations. erin? >> ben, thank you very much.

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tonight, california governor gavin newsom ramping up efforts to combat the rising threat of the street drug called tranq as governors on the east coast tonight are grappling with the astronomical rise in popularity of what is a sedative designed for animals, for veterinary use. tranq is known for rotting users' skin, festering wounds, amputations. it approved for veterinarians. it's now being detected in more than 11% of all fentanyl-related overdoses, overdoses which are up nearly 300% over the past three years according to the cdc. the video here just shows the shocking impact. you see the pain, what happens on city streets now across this country. danny freeman is "outfront" in philadelphia, ground zero in the fight against tranq. >> i've been using all my life. >> reporter: jimmy golden

doesn't remember when tranq started showing up in philadelphia's kensington neighborhood. >> i call it the drug that bites. >> reporter: you call it the drug that bites. but he can't forget the impact. >> a lot of people are using limbs. the tranq, it gets in your bloodstream, and it eats at your skin. >> reporter: in recent years, the animal tranquilizer called xylazine also known as tranq has found its way into an exploding opioid crisis, in part because of its low cost. illegal fentanyl or heroin sold on the street here in philadelphia is frequently cut with xylazine. xylazine can provide a longer high and mimic the high of heroin or fentanyl, but users don't always intentionally seek it out. the drug is not approved for human use. it causes open necrotic wounds and often leaves users motionless. what does it feel like when you're on tranq? >> i don't know, because it passes you up.

>> reporter: it knocks you up almost immediately. here in philadelphia, tranq was found in 90% of dope samples in 2021. and it's making a difficult problem even worse. >> it's not an opiate. so people are having their opiate withdrawals as well as withdrawing from xylazine being in the drug supply. why don't we maybe move the plates over a little bit? >> reporter: megan cohen used to be addicted to heroin here in kensington. now sober, megan leads a group of volunteers to support those suffering from addiction with food, resources, and more frequently, wound care. >> if it's severe, sometimes we have to do surgery. most of the time folks need antibiotics or they need to be admitted to the hospital. >> reporter: but this problem is not isolated to this small section of philadelphia. >> it's easy to see this problem here because it's so concentrated. so people are so drawn to kensington to talk about xylazine. the reality is it's every place. >> reporter: statewide, in 2018,

xylazine contributed to 51 overdose deaths, all just in a handful of counties near philly. by 2022, xylazine contributed to nearly 650 overdose deaths across more than 35 counties. >> we're seeing it present all across this commonwealth. and that's why we took action. >> xylazine -- >> reporter: pennsylvania governor josh shapiro's administration addressed xylazine, categorizing the tranquilizer as a controlled substance in its illicit form. >> it allowed the substance to be controlled. it allowed law enforcement to have greater tools to try to stop the flow of it on to our streets, and hopefully it will allow us to save some lives. >> we've been speaking to some advocates on the ground who have said to me fentanyl is illegal. heroin is illegal, and yet people are still dying from those drugs. >> danny, i was the attorney general before becoming governor. and as attorney general, i arrested 8500 drug dealers across our commonwealth. that had an impact on our streets.

but i was the first one to say you can't arrest your way out of this crisis. you have to take a multidisciplinary approach. >> reporter: megan says while the government is starting to catch up, it is still behind when it comes to understanding and treating the impacts of tranq. >> these are human beings, and they need help. there is no big warning that went out and said hey, xylazine is going to come into your drug supply and this is the effect it's going to have. they're already using and here we are. people are losing limbs. a lot needs to change and we need to stay up with the times. >> reporter: do you think that the government can stop tranq from getting on the streets here? >> if they stop, there is going to be something to follow on. it's not going to stop. >> reporter: and erin, i just want to emphasize the challenges of treating someone who is experiencing an overdose involving tranq. remember, tranq is almost always mixed with an opiate. so health professionals recommend using narcan and

naloxone because they can actually reverse an opioid overdose. but tranq itself is not an opiate. the more tranq there is in the dope, the less effective narcan is, and there is not a simple way yet of treating a tranq overdose. erin? >> danny, thank you very much. deeply disturbing, but important to know. and coming up on "ac 360," why lawmaker marjorie taylor greene was voted out of the freedom caucus by her own. that's next. and next here, a first look at cnn's newest original series that celebrates the people behind what's being called the golden age of black tv. lars just by switching. ooooh, let me put a reminder on my phone. on the top of the pile!e! oh.. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. . ♪ eva's about to learn her fear of missing out leads to overeating. i totally eat stuff to not miss out. d that's just a bit of psychology eva learned om noom weight.

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