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♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight doctor on demand. flu season overwhelming hospitals and over crowding waiting rooms, but does this new app have the cure, sending medical care to your home with a touch of a screen. >> it's not just more convenient care it's better health care. >> is this the beginning of a health care revolution. >> plus former map maker turned global sensation when he strumabled on outdoor art form creating incredible work with geography. one step at a time. what comes next for the world's best and first snow artist. and blast off. new spacex rocket most powerful all time taking flight to david
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bowie's song first the "nightline" five. ♪ ♪
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there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those who embrace it. the future is for the unafraid. ♪ ♪ ♪ good evening. thank you for joining us. we're used to the long waits at
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the doctor's office, it's made worse by rough flu season this year. we begin with a new app hoping to change all that. some are calling it over for medicine, sending doctors directly to your door with a tap of a finger. here's abc's nick watt. >> flu cases are on the rise according to the cdc. >> the worst flu season in a decade to could last into may. >> they're concerned how this flu effects most vulnerable, the children. >> 46 states reporting widespread activity. >> mother of two died outside of boston. >> more than halftime hospitals offering some level of phone or online consultation and services like heal cutting down the need for emergency room visits. >> not having others sneeze all over your children in the waiting room. >> yeah which is always growth.
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>> her son just bumped his head but instead of going to the doctor, the doctor comes to him. >> he so maniy er somersalted o toilet. >> he's eating okay? >> yeah he's eating okay. >> good old little house on the prairie visit like this one costs $99 less if you have insurance. >> you're doing such a great job. >> i use apps for most things in my life, food delivery, rides, medical attention at this point now. >> last year in january heal doctors had 380 flu cases this year 3,040 here's their promise. >> a licensed medical doctor comes to your house any time 365 days a year. >> a tech entrepreneur and wife
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created heal in 2015 after an er experience of their own. >> we had an experience with our seven month old son. took him to ucla emergency room on friday afternoon. sat for twelve hours and at 11:00 at night driving home she said there has to be a better what i for families to see doctors and we hooked this up. >> uber and tinder changing the way we drive and find life and heal want to change the way we see our doctor. they have raised millions in funding even lionel ritchie. >> hello. >> investing in it. >> he's been supportive investor since day one of this company. >> this is not designed to be an exclusive service. >> affluent celebrities who want privacy to very low income family who's need health care
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and can't get time off from their jobs to see a doctor. >> more than 40 million americans wrought insurance is one of the most charged political debates of our time. >> people i really want the to deliver care to are those who cannot access care. >> forbes magazine named nick one of the ten ceos changing health care in america. >> on a sunday evening if i i have my kid has men begin itis you will come see me for $99. >> or less. if you have insurance it's even cheaper. your cost would be the same if you go to doctor's office james koh pay between $15 and $30, except you get a house call, a doctor who comes on any day of the year. >> and there's other numerous online medical services springing up. pager in new york city. and then the heal nerve center
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in beverly hills. >> see where the doctors and patients are on the screen. software will assign this visit to a specific doctor. the doctor sees the details of the patient. the address. previous visit information. what the symptoms are. >> he's a 40-year-old man. >> the nurse drives. the doctor works on an ipad in the passenger seat. >> i do my charting after i see the patients. and by the time we are at the next patient i'm done with my charting. >> sleeping normally, just not feeling right. >> if it starts being to the point you're having a hard time swallowing please let us know. >> 40 something it's going to be okay. >> you have the flu don't want to get in the car. our pediatrician moved from his practice to heal. >> oh, okay. >> so that's how we got to know the company. >> it's very competitive pay it to other places believe it or not.
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if it wasn't i don't think i'd be working for them right now. >> we'll see you. >> around 90 physicians are currently on heal's book staff and contractors. >> when you see different areas of los angeles and try new restaurants. >> heal claims they see fewer patients every day. >> his lungs are perfect. sound great. and i don't hear any wheezing. >> the appointments are longer around 25 minutes compared to the 9 minutes average in conventional office and getting into a house gives them a ho holistic view of the patient. >> any significant reason you're taking iron. >> we walk in your door and no so much already about you. you kwoent have that in avenue er. >> heal operates in southern california san francisco, and washington, d.c. they want legislatures to take note. >> we want to make it so we matter and that's how we think
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we can do it is by making this proof of concept. >> our health care delivery needs a massive shake up. any time you see business invasii innovation coming together to shake it up will result in better health care delivery to patients that's great thing. >> how's it possibly make sense to charge only $99. >> because we cut out 65 to 70% of the cost. >> they point to no doctor office, no receptionist, a stream lined online accounting system. >> the integration to get rid of the bureaucracy of insurance company is what we spent our first year doing. >> whether any medical system is able to be extrapolated to rural areas, variety of socioeconomic groups is the holy grail, more of a financial and business question. >> 90% of americans live in markets we plan to share.
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>> they visit homes and offices for annual checkups for busy business member. like this executive. >> no issues or problems. >> we get a massage therapist why shouldn't be get a doctor delivered to our doorstep. >> heal can't be all thing to all. >> if i had a gunshot wound would you dale with that? >> no if you put in gunshot or heart attack we have a key word filter that would pop up recommend calling 9-1-1. >> are you making money yet? >> no but we are gross margin profitable in los angeles which means our margin works. >> and kid is also going to be just fine. >> i'm not worried about his head. >> for "nightline," los angeles. ♪
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♪ simon beck was a map maker who hated his job until one day he literally stumbled into a new art form called snow art where he created elaborate geo metric patterns using his own two feet and his work is featured in national parks and stadiums. how's he do it? >> in the beginning his canvas
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is pure as driven zmoe. snow. will take him ten painstaking hours placing one foot in front of the other 45,000 times. to bring what only exists in his mind to life. had is simon beck, dubbed the world's first snow artist. >> it looks good. hasn't been done before. that's the holy grail for any artist isn't it. don't have to buy any tickets. can see clearly. >> snow art. trans fixing murals in nature's powder that have become a sensation his work shared and sought after the around the globe. geography meets geometry meets the power of the internet and for this man suddenly a new career doing what he loves. >> bit of a joke really after skiing one day decided to make a drawing on this area of level
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snow. >> what happened that day an a stunding design he saw from ski lift. >> never knew how good it would look when i seen that drawing. >> over time his snow shoes took him on artistic trek on palettes around the world from national park to summit powder mountain in utah and here in minnesota the city welcoming back an umpire winter festival the great northern. ice carving. curling. but the big ticket item is beck's 276th drawing. >> overall i think it's pretty good. should get a reasonable result today. >> he's always wanted to filet stadium this is his first. target field. >> this is engineer's drawing cut down to the grass area to give an idea of the scale of the drawing. go out here in straight line.
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that red cone in. >> he secures his snow shoes for beck his painter's brush and begins. >> going to go anti clockwise. got to step over. after 275 draws still feels like the first time. >> the precision worked almost meditative the him of the city slowly dimming against the cadence of his step. >> never seen an artist create like simon using his physical self to use a beautiful shape emerge in the snow but he does it using his body. definitely surprising you, this jufr journey has taken you where nobody has before. >> i was amazed found that out on the internet. that's what i took it seriously. >> he used to pay the bills making maps but along the way
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training his mind to hold complex designs. >> the first one was a simple pointy star. >> he showed a bit of his process mostly starts in his head. >> start by working in the middle if you can. >> middle of the space you're working. >> might walk in bit of a curve. >> and every line is a line you will have to walk physically. >> yeah. got to make the track in the snow. it. >> the work can take hours even days. this installation will take roughly ten hours to complete. so i'm off to help. >> so the main thing is well on the way to be completed now. i will show you over there, shade it couple more times. >> i see you working with single ski pole making very light markings yet even now i can tell this is a very precise piece of work how are you so precise using just a ski pole.
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>> well, it's not hard to do. you get too close you you go dang i'm bit too close, the eye is sensitive. when it's bit too wide, six inches would notice. >> just six inches is enough to make a difference. >> now i'm now artist assistant give me pointers tell me what to do. >> boundary between shaded and unshaded needs to be nicely flattened. >> and flat is the unshaded. >> absolutely. you go twice and get nice soft edge. try to smooth down the edge. nice curve along the edge of the boundary. >> reminds me of hiking. >> it's actually really nice to do something very simple and creating something beautiful. what about the fact do you find
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it beautiful that it will not always be here. >> just a fact of life. look at blank canvas wasn't destroyed by the forces of nature. don't think i wouldn't do it if i knew it would be destroyed by forces of nature. >> what's the high point for you. >> definitely when you get good result when conditions are right. >> 45,000 steps later the vision in simon beck's mind has come to mind. >> when you realize wow i'm doing this and lot of people are interested in having piece of it what was like that like. >> felt like a valued man in society. >> that's what this is part in large part. >> well that's just what i do. >> for "nightline" gloria riviera in minneapolis. and next the new paspacex
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♪ and finally tonight, the new privately built rocket leaving earth and nasa behind. >> 3, 2, 1. >> from the same launch pad america sent men to the moon -- >> -- elon musk's spacex ignited
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falcon heavy largest rocket in the world actually three boosters strapped together. >> successful separation. >> those boosters slowing re-entry with another engine firing and nearly synchronized landing. and then the big reveal of the cargo. musk's very own roadster from his other company tesla which makes electric cars. a message on the dash, don't panic, playful test cargo accompanied by music from david bowie. the plan is to send a tesla to mars but first remarkable picture of a dummy dubbed star man with glorious background of the star called earth. >> what did you learn? what did falcon heavy teach you.
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>> i get it taught me that crazy things come true. because i didn't really think this would work. because when i seen the rocket lift off i seen a thousand things that could not work and it's amazing when they do. >> the big rocket means much heavier cargo. satellites can be carried to space and closer to his dream of colonizing mars. musk said there was only 50/50 chance of this working has a stunning success tonight. >> for "nightline" i'm david curly. >> it was eleanor roosevelt who said the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. thank you for watching "nightline" and as always we're online on facebook thanks for the company america. good night.

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