fbi of food. >> reporter: in the last two years, they have seized 59,000 tons of food. the agro mafia's ingredients are poor quality and sometimes contaminated with solvents or pesticides. >> when i tell somebody that i am coming to italy to do a piece about food fraud it almost seems unbelievable. >> it is a serious problem because the it is not only a commercial threat. if you adulterate extra virgin olive oil with seed oil and those reach consumers allergic to seed oil yoare sending them bombs. >> reporter: bombs. on your kitchen shelf? >> yes. >> reporter: the agro mafia has tried to rip off italian shoppers with mozarella whitened with detergent and rotten seafood deodorized with citric

my favorite. italian wines. how are they adulterated? >> they make poor quality wine and brand it as famous wine. >> reporter: take a cheap table wine and just put a famous stamp ont. >> yes. >> reporter: and sell it? >> yes. >> reporter: in tuscany, cops found 42,000 gallons of run of the mill red which would be sold as topnotch. the score could have been $5 million. so everything, olive oil, tomatoes, milk. butter, bread, a wide range of different foods. >> reporter: journalist tom

years. and speaks routinely with investigators and food producers. >> reporte where along the food chain does the mafia get involved? >> from harvesting, they impose it on workers, they impose prices to the transportation and there mafia involvement in supermarkets as well. so certain areas they have infiltrated the food chain from the farm to the fork. >> reporter: muller wrote about olive oil frd in 2007 for "the new yorker" magazine. >> you are getting lower grade olive oil blended with extra virgin oil, deodorized oil, blend it with oil to give it color and flavor. sell it as extra virgin olive oil. >> reporter: extra virgin must come from the first press and free of additives, fruity, aromatic and has a spicycyinish. the best canell for $50 a gallon. but a fake costs $7 to make. the profit margin can be three times better than cocaine. >> i would like to show you how easy it is to make a genuine fake extra virgin olive oil. >> genuine fake?

olive oil. you u st need some seed oil. >> what kind of seed oil? >> it is sunflower oil. no smell at all. >> reporter: none. >> then we just have to add few drops of chlorophyll. >>&reporter: for color? >> for color. >> reporter: it becomes the color of olive oil. >> it becomes the color of olive oil. >> reporter: 80% of italy's extra virgin comes from the southern part of country. so we went to sicily where the mafia is part of daily life in the streets and in the fields. the olive grove is a 90 minute drive south of palermo. we went to see him because he is leading a farmer revolt against mafia control. his olives are hand combed from the trees on to nets below and immediately sent to be pressed. what role does the mafia play in olive oil production here? he told us the agro mafia

prices. he has defied the mob by organizing 200 farmers to skip the mafia mimile men and sell their oil directly to distributors. when you organized the farmers the mafia retaliated against you? >> on the day i started the consortium, they burned my car, they burned down part of my home, and i was inside with mymy wife and my daughter. >> reporter: they tried to kill you? >> no, he said, it was a message to stay quiet. this is a police image of the man he believes ordered the attack. he is mao mecino the boss of bosses. many believe he is hiding out in the town not far from the fields. he built a 41 million dollar

>> it is very difficult to say in any case with olive oil, how many drops in a given bottle actually have mafia blood on them. to sound dramatic. it is fairly straight forward to say however, just how much fraudulent oil is in circulation. >> reporter: how much? >> easily half of the bottles that are sold as extra virgin in supermarkets in italy do not meet legal grades for extra virgin olive oil. >> reporter: half in italy. what would it be in the u.s.? >> 75% to 80% easily. >> reportete yes, you heard right. he said up to 80%. food imported into the united states is inspected by customs d border protection. it is new jersey chemist told us that they have detected phony oil imported from italy improperly labeled as exa virgin. we were curious about what we would find in a u.s. supermarket. so we shipped three brands of italian extra virgin we purchased in new york back to

>> reporter: all three extra virgin. they were in clued in a blind taste test by the experts in rome. the process is as tightly orchestrated as a verde opera. blue glass hides the color. separate cubicles prevent cheating. the panel would not say they were adulterated, but agreed two brands we pupuhased did not come within a sniff of extra virgin. described one as the lowest quality of olive oil. that brand is one the best selling in america. >> it is not that bad. >> reporter: not that bad. >> not that bad. but maybe for. >> reporter: not that the good. >> not for my salads.

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the gaming business isn't what it used to be. atlantic city saw four of 12 casinos close down in 2014 alone. revenue for the rest is down. now casinos are rolling the dice on a new era with games designed to lure the next generation of gamblers.

>> reporter: las vegas as we know it was built on the back of the one-armed bandit. slot machines with their 60% profit margins are cash cows. but it may be time to put them out to pasture. 45 and under are not going to slay slot machines. they're not. >> reporter: if he sounds like a guy with something new to sell. well, he is. >> we are going into a brand new world. >> reporter: he heads one of the companies at the gaming expo in las vegas betting on ape very different kind of gambling. >> welcome to vegas pinball. >> reporter: a casino looks like an arcade and nightclub filled with games that require skill not just games of chance. >> this was much more like video game than gambling to me. >> yes, it does, doesn't it? i am fighting for my life over

where you have a fighting chance to win some money. use your skill. race a car. shoot a target. >> reporter: i can't imagine in that is your sales pitch to the casinos they don't want to give people a fighting chance to win money. >> they ll change as your base gets older and evolves, you have to be prepared for the next generation coming in. >> reporter: the generation, the millenials, those born after 1980, they head to vegas in droves but walk right by the casino and into the nightclub. just 63% of millenials gambled, compared to 78% of their parents' generation and 87% of their grandparents'. >> younger people come to vegas for night life, clubs, party, dancing, all the great things vegas is known for but no longer for gambling. >> reporter: chief marketing officer for gambling. >> you won $3.20. their idea is to take the games people play on their smart phones and add gambling and compete not against a dealer but

>> as opposed to the focus did i win or lose money. start playing. vested in did i beat the boss? am i getting to the next level? how am i doing at the game play as opposed to the money part of it. >> the flip side is they're not realizing how much money they're losing? >> right. absolutely possible. >> reporr: a change in nevada gaming regulations last month now allows for skilled players to potentially win more money by advancing further into the game. but the downside is if you aren't good at the game, you could lose even more often than you would at a game of chance. these new skill-based games are expected to hit casino floors next year. >> we are now treading into new territory. again we are trying to attract a different generation. they don't play poker or black jack. they play arcade games. >> and the slots no matter how much manufacturers try to keep them relevant may be on their final spin

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2015 was a banner year at e box office. ticket sales in the u.s. were up 7.5% from 2014 to more than $11 billn. more movie-goers are just there for the film skipping right past the snack line. now theaters are trying to change that. vinita nair reports. >> repororr: popcorn, plain, salted or heavily buttered has always been addictive. but the finger food that never seems to last through the movie wasn't always rt of it. >> actually vendors outside the movie theater were selling snacks to people before they came in. >> reporter: how funny. >> the theater owner said we don't need people outside our doors selling this to our customers and bringing it in we will sell it within the theater itself. >> this has been here since the theater opened. >> reporter: amber represents showcase cinemas, a movie chain that shares parent company with cbs.

court, featuring hot dogs, pizza, ice cream and starbuck's. >> coming to the movies is still an experience. so the food aspect is a really important pa of that experience. let's all go to lobby to get ourselves a treat >> reporter: sales of snacks account for up to 40% of a movie theater's revenue. new fda regulations to reveal calories in classic concessisis may leave audiences wondering whether it is worth it. a small popcorn weighing in at more than 1,000 calories. treat >> i think it definitely makes you stop and thing. >> reporter: it has the entrepreneurs like ron loft thinking too. he is -- his edamovie, 1/10 popcorn. he would rather not call it healthy. >> it needs to convey that this is good for you, subliminally, but that is a fun food to eat. >> reporter: theater owners agree. the shelves are stocked with

>> the movie theater for sure is a place where people, you know, may want to treat themselves. >> reporter: yeah, hide der the darkness of the theater eat whatever they want. >> exactly, yeah. people when they go to the theater it is a special occasion, special event.

goes along with that. you to ground zero. patients suing doctors and pharmacies that allegedly got them hooked. >> we are talking in a certain sense, drug traffickers. >> and the search for an authentic boston accent. >> welcome to fenway park, the greatest ballpark. >> ever. >> ever. >> ever. the latest powerful el nino storm has been lashing the west. warnings and advisories up along

heavy rain, floing and high surf. have a look at the los angeles river on tuesday, the water rose for less than an inch in the morning, to several feet by midday. ben tracy is in the thick of it. >> el nino round two is packing a punch. this moing, mud cascaded downhill sides on to the freeway. drivers stuck in rising water were rescued and several feet of snow blanketed the mountains. storms battering the west coast also drenched arizona where a man and young grandson were pulled from their hummer after getting swept up in floodwaters. samantha young is the child's relieved mother. >> unbelievably thankful. thank god a thousand times. it wouldn't be enough. >> record amounts of rain have

service says a gust-nado damaged eight buildings downtown ripping off part of the roof and blowing out windows. but the region is also getting something it desperately needs. water. some of the billions of gallons of storm walter inundating rivers in los angeles are being diverted into recharge basins where they replenish groundwater, gary hilldebrand is director of the public works department. >> how much water are you capturing? >> in the storms yesterday for example we are able to capture 1.6 gallons of water, which is enough water for 40,000 people. >> the concern now are saturated hill sides like this one that burned in a wildfire. the mud is streaming off the hillside and at the base of it you have a bunch of homes and bunch of worried homeowners. scott, i there is any good news tonight it is the rain that is forecast for tomorrow is expected to be much lighter. >> ben tracy reporting. thanks. also in california today, a

over a massive natural gas leak near los angeles. thousands were evacuated from l.a.'s porter ranch neighborhood after people there complained of nausea and headaches. the methane has been blasting out of a broken well since october. and today, in michigan, an emergency was declared in flint. where the drinking water is contaminated with lead. last october, children were found to have elevated levels of lead in their blood. after the city started using water fromhe flint river to save money. tonight, scientists doubt north korea's claim that it tested a hydrogen bomb which would be far more powerful than the three atomic bombs it tested before. data from seismographs indicated a blast last night equal to

that's not large by atomic bomb standards. seth doane begins our coverage. >> a p pfect success how state media put it. defending its nuclear arsenal as a powerful deter ept against the u.s. which it called the "chieftain of aggression." the underground test registered as a 5.1 magnitude quake. it was close to the site of three previous nuclear tests. the news sparked cheers in north korea and rattled nerves in south korea which questioned whether the explosion was big enough to be a hydrogen bomb. north korea is known for its saber rattling, but possessing a hydrogen bomb would be a major and surprising step forward. when we were in north korea last october, it appeared relations with china, its biggest ally, were warming. china had sent a top official to

hint of that today. china's foreign ministry condemned the test. will there be some action on china's part? >> china has been using words and actions the spokeswoman said, but denuclearization requires efforts from all parties. ultimately north korea wants to create a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the mainland united states. and regardless of what exactly was tested this likely provide more research and another step towards that goal. >> seth doane reporting from beijing tonight. thank you. >> north korea also claimed that its hydrogen bomb was miniaturized to fit on a missile which would be a huge engineering achievement also unlikely. david martin is at the pentagon. >> u.s. aircraft flying out of japan will collect air samples off north korea to determine

off. but based on analysis of the seismic wave the blast triggered, u.s. intelligence is skeptical of a north korean claim it successfully test aid hydrogen bomb. last night's explosion issest mated less than 10 kilotons. about half the power of the weapon which destroyed hiroshima at end of world war ii. a hydrogen bomb which has never been used in war but tested in the pacific in the 1950s would be 50 to 100 times more powerful. whatever kind of device was definited. the greatest mystery about north korean nuclear weapons is whether they have capability to launchcone against the united states. north korea has a missile capable of reaching that far, but it has never been tested. to be onhe safe side, the u.s. keeps its missile defense system which officials say is capable shooting down a small number of north korean missiles on constant alert.

in nasty surprises. u.s. intelligence expected another test sooner or later, but had no warning it would happen last night. scott. >> david martin reporting tonight. david, thank you. >> well, worries about china's slowing economy shook up financial markets again today. the dow closed off 252 points. oil finished below 5 a barrel for the first time in nearly 12 years. and we note that chipotle lost $22 a share today. down nearly 38% since an e.coli outbreak at restaurants in the fall.

right back. 26 days now before the voting in iowa, a republican donald trump is questioning the birth of front-runner ted cruz. just when you thought this campaign couldn't get any stranger, cruz fired back with the help of the fonz. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: a lack of knowledge has not stopped trump from claiming repeatedly this week that his closest competitor might be ineligible to run for president. >> i hope that is not going to be a problem for him. i have been hearing a lot. you have been hearing. i guess everybody is talking about it. >> reporter: texas senator ted cruz was born in canada but to an american mother and legal scholars widely agreehat makes him a natural born u.s. citizen. trump once shared that view but has apparently had a change of

of some iowa polls. the billionaire now argues a cruz candidacy could imperil the g.o.p. >> if the democrats bring a lawsuit, the lawsuit could take years to resolve, how do you have a candidate where there is something over the head of the party and that individual. >> reporter: it is familiar territory for trump who was t figure head for the birther movement, questioning president obama's hawaii roots. >> our president has finally released a birth certificate. >> like the president, cruz initially brushed off trump's comments. likening them to this famously implausible scene from the 1970s sitcom "happy days." i will stick with fonzie jumping the shark and let the rest of you battle it out. >> in rock rapids, iowa, the lawy in him took over. >> as the a legal matter the question is straight forward and settled, the child of a u.s.

born citizen. >> reporter: legally it isn't entirely settled because the supreme court never weighed in on the matter. but two past gop nominees john mccain and barry goldwater were also born outside of the states to american parents, scott, neither of them faced any serious legal challenge. >> nancy cordes onp the campaign for us. thank you. a texas state trooper indicted for perjury over his account of the traffic stop and arrest of a woman who died in custody. in july, trooper brian encinia pull over sandra bland for an illegal lane changed. he pulled her from the car and threatened her with a taser. he claimed she swung at him and kicked him. well she was charged with assault and hanged herself in jail three days later. if convicted, brian encinia could face a year in jail. >> now, we have a special

a plague in our country. about 2 million americans are hooked on prescription painkillers. and in 2012, 259 million prescriptions were written. that's one bottle for every american adult. how could that be? jim axelrod and producer ashley velly found out in west virginia, a state that is attempting a drastic solution. allowing addicts to sue the doctors who got them hooked. >> reporter: you spent $1,000 a week? >> yes. >> reporter: 17 years ago willis duncan's life changed when a coal mining accident left him with a crushed sternum and broken ribs. >> if i didn't have pain pills, i wouldn't go to work. bottom line. >> reporter: changed your life? >> changed everything. >> reporter: duncan developed an

the only option was an unending supply of pills. >> reporter: hang on a second. you would go in to get looked at. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: but the examination isn't done by a doctor? >> no. >> reporter: duncan would wait for hours to be seen for a few minutes at this clinic where 150 patients lined up every day for pain med prescriptions. did you ever say to a doctor, "this has gotten out of hand. and i need help." >> never. because you done got used to him and you didn't know how to function without them. >> reporter: this cash only operation allowed doctors to clear as much as $100,000 a week. >> west virginia, executing a search warrant. >> reporter: the clinic was raided and shut down in 2010. >> here is the exam room. >> reporter: these are what passed for exam rooms. >> main office. >> reporter: piles of trash and files. loose prescription pads. syringes.

roach-infested cages. >> hundreds of patient records were seized along with thousands of undated and presigned prescriptions for addictive pain meds like vicodidi xanax, lortab. the doctor went to jail for six month for negligence. dea agent gary newman is part of a team currently investigating dozens of doctors, pharmacies and distrutors throughout the state. >> we are talking in a certain sense drug traffickers, and they are doing nothing but writing and cranking out prescription after prescription after prescription. they're pushers. >> they truly are. >> reporter: west virginia has the highest race of overdose deaths in the nation. each year, doctors write equivalent of one painkiller prescription for every man, woman and child in the state of 1.8 million. in the last year, the west virginia department of health

12 were told to shut down. >> you can actually be so stressed that you can't sleep at night. >> reporter: one is run by dr. michael kostenko seen here lecturing. he has written more than 140,000 pain pill prescriptions over two years at his coal country clinic. dr. michael kostenko among those ordered to stop operating as a pain clinic but remains open the after weeks of trying to reach him, we drove out to coal country clinic located at the end of this narrow two mile logging road. instead of finding the doctor, we came face to face with a rotweiller. shutting down thehe clinics can often take years, because these are licensed doctors writing legal prescriptions. >> therein lies the problem. you have to be able to prove in court that they're prescribing

or for such an egregious amount that it was negligent. >> reporter: among the 30 west virginias suing doctors and pharmacies for enabling their addiction is willis duncan. >> they hurt a lot of people. the way around. i have nothing for them. nothing for none of them. >> as for dr. michael kostenko, this friday the state begins the process of seeking to shut him down permanently. but tonight his clinic is still operating. the state could also set a precedent by going a aer not just the doctors and the pharmacies,, but the wholesale drug distributors in court as well. >> remarkable work, jim. thank you very much. up next -- the quest for rest. >> it's 3:20, i did not go to sleep since 2:00. i am a bit overtired. >> so who has the most trouble sleeping? and a future king begins his

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america got a wake-up call today. we're not getting enough sleep. here's dr. jon lapook. >> 44-year-old jackie cohen is a busy entrepreneur and single mother of a 2-year-old. >> i never get 7 hours of sleep in the night. i'm gng to say ever. >> reporter: we asked cohen to chronicle a typical night. >> so it is about 1:30, and it's 3:20, i did not go to sleep since 2:00, i am a bit overtired. >> reporter: she is not alone. nearly a third of adults don't get the recommended seven hours of sleep daily. a new report out tod by the national center for health statistics finds single moms had the greatest difficulty. 40% get less than 7 hours compared to 31% o married women. those are basically motion trackers. >> reporter: the doctor is at

what does our body accomplish? >> repair and recovery at the cellular level of every organ. our heart is given a break. our blood vessels are allowed to relax. our blood sugar goes down. >> reporter: there is no way of getting around the need to sleep. even if you want to live every minute of your day. you still have to go to sleep. for a third of your life. >> the great equalizer. we all have to sleep. >> reporter: sleep deprivation linked to diabetes, heart disease, mood disorders and weakened immunee system. scott recent evidence that may contribute to dimentia and obesity. >> that is an eye opener. jon, thank you. >> the latest additions to

up next. today outfielder, ken griffey jr. who hit 630 home runs and catcher mike piazza, a 12-time all star were elected to the hall of fame. other players linked to the steroid scandal did not get in. >> in britain the first day of nursery school for 2 2 1/2-year-old prince george. look at how much he resembles his dad, prince william, on his first day, 30 years ago.

the king's english. it is a great pleasure to come back to a city where my accent is considered normal. >> president kennedy at boston college 1963.. which brings us to anna werner's story tonight, hollywood, in search of boston. >> you look good, huh! >> reporter: whenn director needs a real boston accent their first ca its to casting agent angela peri. you find yourself looking for people wherever you go? >> everywhere i go. everywhere i go. >> reporter: tax ientives made boston a hotbed of movie making and directors want actors with the right look and sound.

it's diamond search i am sifting through the city. >> my name is natalie foley. >> you're done. >> reporter: at a casting call, 400 people showed up hoping to talk their way to stardom. >> welcome to fenway park the greate ballpark ever. >> ever. >> eveve >> ever. >> man ha noy have n experience. >> this is how i talk. >> just the kind of guy i am looking for. i love that. that's the kind of guy i want? >> because why? >> buzz i just want him to be auentic. because i will meet them, instantly i know who is going to be good. >> like in "the fighter" remember mark wahlberg's sisters. nearly all were locals discovered by peri. >> it was erika mcdermott's first audition ever. >> what did angela say she liked about you?

you know the neighborhood. >> reporter: her south boston accent got her her first job in "gone, baby, gone." >> this is how i am. this is how i was brought up. i just did it myself. >> repororr: this is the real you we are seeing? >> yeah, i'm not acting. i'm me. >> reporter: a business that has come full circle for peri whose accent cut short her acting career. do you think people in boston should be proud of having such a strong accent? >> i am. i a if it's done me well. >> now it is that accent that brings hollywood to her. anna werner, cbs news, boston. >> that's the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news. and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city.