>> newport beach, california, south of where we are here in l.a. go ahead, alain. >> thank you for taking my call. i wanted to let beth know, i read the book. i am a retired teacher, 30 years in orange county. it was just so well researched to let people know what is happening to our young people who have become addicted to opioids. also, the way you wrote so compassionately and as a teacher, i so appreciate that. i hope so many people will read your book, i hope our nation will do something about this epidemic and really look at it in a compassionate way. these people are not week. they have become addicted to very strong drugs. thank you, beth. >> thank you so much. as i said earlier today, my job was to make people care about this issue. not just the people who are suffering, many of them initially addicted through no fault of their own but also first responders are suffering, too. i've seen police officers arrest people and be stuck by needles and had to be tested for hepatitis b. you see physicians and judges worn out by this issue. i know as

and settled in newport beach.hat's where she met glenda, who was also from new mexico and they immediately hit it off. >> pegye was probably one of the most gregarious people that i've ever met. she was happy and she was always smiling. >> reporter: and, says glenda, pegye was driven to establish herself as a successful physical therapist. she had almost everything she wanted. >> she did wanna find a guy. >> and the clock was tickin' a little bit. >> it was. >> and then one day on the beach, you found somebody for her. >> we did. so one afternoon on -- on a weekend, pegye called me and said, "what are you doin'?" and i said, "well, i'm gonna go down and watch dave play some volleyball on the beach." >> reporter: dave was glenda's husband. >> i asked pegye if she wanted to come down with me and she said absolutely. she immediately spotted eric and said, "who's that?" >> reporter: eric bechler, then in his early 20s, was a walking commercial for the california beach life. >> i'm going to guess when she notices a guy

they are looking to expand the case which features on a newport beach college admissions company thatre than 700 clients. huffman is accused of disguising a $15,000 payment to doctor her daughter's s.a.t. results. laughlin paid $500,000 to have her daughters designated as recruits to the crew team. >>> new questions this morning about how compliant california hospitals can be with looming new earthquake safety standards. hospitals must be earthquake safety by 2030. 418 hospitals have been able to meet the new seismic safety standards. many are too financially strapped. >>> spring is in the air, a sure sign of the season making its presence known at our nation's capitol. >> they are in the white stages right now. next comes pink blooms, which should happen in the next few days. they are a gift from japan. they sent 3,000 trees to the u.s. to host a festival every spring drawing 1.5 million people. i have been there during the festival. >> just beautiful. >> it is so beautiful. >> i have some pictures. i'm going to post those on facebook. >> 4:52 right now. >>> coming up on today in the

>> host: elaine in newport beach, california, south of where we are in los angeles, go ahead, elaine.>> caller: hi, thank you for taking my call, i have read the book, i'm a retired teacher 30 years in orange county and it was just so well researched to let people know what has happened to our young people who have become addicted to opioids and also to the way you wrote compassionately and as teacher i appreciate that, so many people will read your book, i hope that our nation will do something about this epidemic and really look at it in compassionate way. strong drugs. so thank you, beth, thank you, c-span for the wonderful, wonderful interview. take care now. >> guest: thank you so much. i said earlier today, i feel like my job was to make people care about this issue and not just the people who are suffering, many addicted through no fault of their own but first responders are suffering too. i've seen, you know, police officers arrest people and be stuck by needles and had to be tested by hepatitis c, you see physicians and judges just absolutely worn out by this issue and elaine

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federal prosecutors are looking to expand the case which enters on a newport beach college admissions company that served more than 700 clients. hoffman is accused of disguising a $15,000 payment. laughlin allegedly paid $500,000 in bribes to have her two daughters designated as recruits to usc's crew team even though they were not rowers. >> two men took to the outdoors on this gorgeous day. they didn't know it but they were going to need help getting out. the story behind the river rescue. >> not your typical yard sale. this created a long line at a legendary restaurant but people were not there to eat. the special ingreed yepdients t brought out this cloud. >> a mostly cloudy start to your monday morning and likely showers before the end of the day. the time line on multiple rain chances ahead when we come right back. fools! how some of silicon valley )s biggest tech companies are embracing the day. plus, as you start your work week monday, we )re tracking yor forecast. join us monday morning from new video tonight of a dramatic rescue. two jet skiers got themselves into quite the

would never have had the case at all, except -- >> we were lucky that we had some boaters leaving newport beach going to catalina island and they came upon a body floating in the water. >> just happened to see it? >> just happened to see it. >> that's a big ocean out there. >> absolutely. >> so the chances of it being seen are, what, needle in the haystack? >> very slim. >> reporter: the sailors had spotted a flock of shrieking seagulls perched on top of a body. it looked like it had been in the water for some time. >> it was in extreme decomposition phase. >> right. >> bloated and -- >> barnacles had attached themselves. >> barnacles already? >> absolutely. >> yes. >> reporter: there was no i.d. on the body. it was labeled a 'john doe' and taken to the l.a. coroner's office. >> well, initially it was believed to be a drowning victim. >> reporter: but who was he? identifying their john doe posed a huge challenge. >> we could only say it was a human being and that was it. >> reporter: though there was one odd thing. medical examiner pointed to the man's left hand. three fingers were missing, and

federal prosecutors are looking to expand the case which features a newport beach college admissionspanies that had more than 700 clients. huffman is accused of disguising a $15,000 payment to doctor her daughter's s.a.t. results. laughlin allegedly paid $500,000 in bribes to have her two daughters designated as recruits to the usc crew team. >>> 5:44. the president said he will close the border with mexico this week. >>> and two of the president's top advisers say he's not bluffing. >> yeah. kellyanne conway and mick mulvaney. what does it mean to close the border? does he mean specific ports oven try, tijuana, or all ports oven try? here's the president on friday. >> i'll just close the border. and with a deficit like we have with mexico and have had for many years, closing the board will be a profit-making operation. >> the president is right. we do have a trade deficit with with mexico in goods. more stuff flows south to mexico than north to the u.s. a lot of things come from china, through long beach, straight to mexico. so a trade deficit hard to calculate. we have a trade surp

she was not in any contact with rick singer in newport beach that was the mastermind or ringleader of this whole thing. you talk about the reporting being done locally. they talk about rick singer as just the very tip of the iceberg. this is a cross-country thing that the fbi is investigating. because rick singer was doing it with famous people here in southern california, they say there are these types of schemes going on all across the country that are now kind of being delved into a little bit, investigated and as the weeks and months and years go by, we'll hear a lot more of these cheating schemes because it wasn't just a one-time thing here in southern california with a couple of people from yale involved. this is going on a little bit in pockets according to officials across the country. it's fascinating when you read what felicity huffman is pleading to now, the potential charges. we don't know what she will face her and what lori loughlin will do in her next court date. it does come down to paint this bigger picture of what a widespread problem this could be for students who a

. $1.2 million to a home builder in newport beach. $500,000 to rent a beach house for four months inn a private we vacation club also in 2016. the catch is the feds say that avenatti didn't pay taxes for several years and didn't file tax returns but he did submit phony tax returns to a bank in mississippi to obtain more than $4 million in loans. avenatti says the government has got it all wrong. watch. >> for nearly 20 years i have represented davids versus goliaths as an attorney. throughout that entire time period i relied upon the justice system and judges sitting in the courthouses just like this. i am highly confident that when the process plays out, that justice will be done. >> he is very much in favor of due process now. not so much in the brett kavanaugh hearings. he is also now accused of trying to extort nike saying he would blow the whistle on the shoe company for paying high school athletes unless they handed over $20 million. but when president trump attorneys threaten to sue stormy daniels for violating a non-disclosure agreement, avenatti said this. watch. >> there is