idea that almost all addicts that suffer have a serious trauma in their lives. >> reporter: beau and i never really grieved the loss of our mother or baby sister. did you talk about it with your dad? >> we talked about it all the time, but the accident? no, the darkness that i know my dad suffered afterwards, is not something that we necessarily talked about until much later. >> reporter: do you wish you had now? >> no. and this is where i am, it's hard. >> reporter: yeah. >> this is why i don't want to admit that we probably should have. i think they were trying to protect us. >> reporter: the book chronicles his struggles with alcohol and cocaine. at one point, he managed to stay clean for more than seven years. but when his brother beau died of brain cancer in 2015, hunter

began a four-year decent in to the darkest period of his addiction. what he calls a blur of complete and utter debotchery. >> drinking a quarter of vodka by yourself in a room is debilitated. >> reporter: that was the beginning. >> smoking crack around the clock and drinking lethal amounts of alcohol. >> we want biden. we want the son, hunter, where is hunter. >> reporter: by 2019, he was a target of the trump campaign. >> 10% held by hunter for the big guy. i wonder who the big guy was. the big guy. >> it didn't change my behavior in any way. i still needed to get high and hide and fill that hole. >> reporter: as his father was planning a presidential run, biden who had left behind three daughters and a failed marriage, was living out of roadside motels, chasing his next fix.

then the family planned a dramatic intervention. disguised as an invitation to a family dinner. why did you agree to on go? >> my mom said she missed me. she said dad really needs you. >> reporter: yeah. but you were not really in any condition to go. >> no, i walk in and there are my three girls. my niece and nephew, my mom and dad. and two counselors from a rehab center that i had been to before and i looked and i said, not a chance. no way. >> reporter: you exploded. >> exploded. literally, began to do run up the driveway. >> reporter: and your father chased you? >> yeah, and he grabbed me in a hug and grabbed me, and bear hug. and he said, he just cried and he said, i don't know what to do. i don't know what to do. >> reporter: what did you think when you heard that?

>> i thought, i need to figure out a way to tell him that i'm going do something so i can go take another hit. it's the only thing i could think. i don't know of a force more powerful than my family's love. except addiction. you i said i was going to go get help. book the next flight to los angeles and decided that i was going to completely disappear forever. >> reporter: but before he disappeared biden agreed to an interview with the new yorker. >> it's part of the thing that saved me though. i started to tell my story. >> reporter: a lot of people looked at the new yorker article and thought, why are you doing this to your dad right now? >> yeah. and i looked at it as, i was going to take awayer their ammunition. the one thing that i thought they would try to use against him was my drug addiction. this idea that i was a crack

addict. >> reporter: yeah. you wanted to put it out there before they could use it against your father. >> exactly. and no one in the campaign knew i was because i knew they would say no. >> reporter: what happened next biden calls a miracle. on a blind date, he met melissa cohen, an aspiring film maker from south africa, they had an instant connection. >> and i told herrer an hour later, i said i'm a crack addict. >> reporter: and she didn't run away. >> she said, well that ends now. >> reporter: did you think it was your last chance? >> yes. i knew it was my last chance. >> reporter: just search days later, they were married. hunter biden began to repair the damage. one of the deepest wounds ons td his family, the affair he with his brother's wife, halie, just

after his brother's death. many people would say, what were you thinking? >> yeah, both of us had gone through the most incredibly painful loss and it was out of love and i thought that maybe that love would bring my brother back. >> reporter: hm-mm. >> and it didn't work. >> reporter: in the middle of that, did you think of how your own kids would look at this? >> yeah and it was hard. that's all i can say. it wasly really hard. >> reporter: in the nearly two years he said that he has been sober, hunter biden has tried to make amends. >> hardest amends to make was to my brother. >> reporter: because you could not make that in person? >> i -- i made a promise to him. that i would be okay. >> reporter: you felt like you let him down? >> yeah.

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while humans are not affected by the disease, this highly contagious virus is bad news for rabbits. first identified in china in the 1980s, the initial rhdb outbreak wiped out 140 million rabbits. the newer strain popped up in france in 2010 in 2019, washington got the first case. >> we have people who were desperate. you know, calling our clinic repeatedly over and over again, hey, we want the vaccine, please, please let us get this vaccine. >> reporter: this doctor was the first veterinarian in the country to import the vaccine. no american company has produced the vaccine, she had to get permission to bring it in to the u.s. >> we know it's 90% effective and that is really good. we are happy with that. considering the alternatives almost 100% fatality, it's

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hall of fame quarterback joe montana said if you ain't cheating you ain't trying. china has busted a huge cheating syndicate with online gaming. >> reporter: it was game over for what chinese authorities call the world's biggest game of video game hackers. ten were arrested for selling cheat software used in best selling game titles like call of duty. luxury cars were among the assets seized from the enterprise raking in $70 million. such cheatingg syndicates have long operated with impunity.

>> they are extremely professional. if you look at ththe website offerings, heavy shopping carts and pricing list and customer service. >> they are like amazon. yeah, exactly yes. some of the companies are raking in millions and millions dollars each month of revenue. the scale is unbelievable in some cases and so have the profits. >> reporter: china's crack down shows that the online games grabs so many eyeballs it has become a political tool. last year, representative alexandriaocasio-cortez streamed herself playing online. this hotel manager said that most of our adult customers check in friday night and play all weekend long. he meant that literally.

sardine like bunks bathed in game arcade lighting are available up stairs but often go begging as customers totally immerse in multi-player gaming. >> for those of us that don't have lightning fast reflexes, it's easy to see why cheating is irresistible. you can have sharp shoot er aim and see through walls. here, online gamers are no one to take short cuts. when we first opened we caught three cheaters, the manager said. this year, close to half a bill fans are forecast to watch e-sports. with revenues on track to top $1 billion. vanquishing the cheating hoard will be front and center. and that's the overnight

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