they give a rare interview to our anne thompson in tonight's "your money, your life." >> you can't hide, your drug prices are homicide! >> reporter: in a nation demanding lower drug prices, houston power couple john and laura arnold are picking a fight with big pharma. >> the industry has pushed pricing so far that it's created a fury amongst the populace. >> these kinds of companies have a monopoly on the regulatory system, on the delivery system, on the products. so this isn't capitalism. this is a form of, you know, of oppression. >> reporter: is this a broken system? a broken market? >> it's absolutely a broken market. we have a monopoly with no price regulation on it and an industry that has coopted the political process. >> reporter: the arnolds made billions. he was an energy trader at enron and then a hedge fund manager. she was corporate lawyer. they retired in their 30s and now run a foundation, already putting $119 million toward health care issues. does greed play a role? >> i don't know if i'd call it greed. i'd call it a desire to maximize profits. >> reporter: a prime exa

i want to cherish this. >> reporter: new life made anne thompson, nbc news. >> no greater gift. >>> i'm lester holt for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching, good night and have a good weekend.the teams are here a live look at s-j-c, where the two best teams in college . >>> right now at 6:00, the teams are here! a live look at sjc where the two best teams in college football are arriving for the national championship game. >>> also, she went out of her way to help a man down on his luck, and she claims that man raped her. in an exclusive interview, she tells us why the district attorney is not pressing charges. >>> but first, get ready for a soggy weekend. we're tracking a series of storms heading our way. >>> the news at 6:00 starts right now. good evening, thanks for joining us on this i'm janelle wang in for jessica aguirre. >> i'm raj mathai. you might need to change your plans for tomorrow. it's dry for now, but things will be changing. let's bring in our chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri who has the timeline of when this will arrive. >> you can see on storm ranger mobile

here is ann thompson. >> reporter: bitter bills for americans taking prescription drugs. 60 companies raised prices on almost 300 drugs on the first two days of the year. price tracking firm rx savings solutions says the average hike is 6.3%, nearly three times the rate of inflation. >> drug companies raise prices simply because they can. >> reporter: for david mitchell the outrage is personal and professional. mitchell needs almost $300,000 worth of medicine a year to stave off his blood cancer and he leads patients for affordable drugs they want the elected officials in this country to make this drug pricing situation under control. >> reporter: today president trump promised action soon. >> we've gone through a big process and i think you'll see a tremendous reduction in drug prices. >> reporter: it worked last summer when pfizer and others delayed price increases at the president's urging until this month. the industry trade group says spending on medicine is increasing at its slowest rate in years. >> what is actually paid for medicine, the net price of the medicine, is actually

anne thompson, nbc news. >>> we'll take a short break. up next, youtube's new crackdown. >>> we've all seen them. videos of stunts like the birdbox, or tide pod challenge. now youtube is drawing a line. here's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: they're the cringe-worthy challenges deemed dangerous. potentially deadly. or just downright stupid. tonight youtube says it's banning or restricting all vil pranks and challenges, like biting into tide pods, that could result in physical harm. it comes after the explosion of birdbox challenge, where participants blindfold themselves and perform everyday tasks. but in utah, a teenager was nearly killed while driving during the birdbox challenge. >> this is one thing we never thought we'd have to say. don't drive blindfolded. >> youtube says when a questionable video is flagged, their editors can immediately pull the clip. but the company promises this isn't the end of viral videos. so tonight, no need to worry. the "i ate all your halloween candy challenge" is here to stay. miguel almaguer, nbc news. >>

as anne thompson reports, ssee gold in all those springs and other mattress parts.orter: for entrepreneurs on both csts this is the stuff of dreams, mattresses broken down and recycled. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: with more than 50,000 thrown away every day in this country. in landfills, they can take 90 years to decompose. nc it feels good knowing you're making a differee in the world every day. >> reporter: mattress recycling is the law in california, connecticut and rhode island. in new york, it was in the trash left by superstorm sandy that christine foundal poten treasure. > i started seeing mattresses everywhere. >> reporter: when reduced to parts, mattresses have many uses, savinghampstead 30,000 a to recycling instead of sending the mattresses to landfills. what does the foam get reused for? >> commercial carpet padding. > reporter: what about the coil >> this is considered scrap metal. they take it, melt it twn, crushown or repurpose it for other material. >> reporter: 80% of the mattress can be cycled. today the only thing that goes to the landfill is

here's nbc's anne thompson. >> reporter: at sunday's chargers/patriots game, she'll make the call. sarah thomas, the nfl's first and only female referee now the first woman to officiate a playoff game. a dream just two years ago. >> every game, every season is just to be the best official i can be on the field. and in turn, that will bring, hopefully, a playoff game. >> reporter: after spending two decades working high school and college games, this is thomas' fourth nfl season. holding her own in this game of hard knocks. in a league dominated by tom, dak, and patrick, sasome off-field te >> i grew up loving sports. >> reporter: the mother of three sunday will be the down judge, what was the heads lineman changed to a gender-neutral term. >> the thing said most about sarah to me is the coaches, the players, and their reaction to her have been extremely positive. >> reporter: progress marked by respect. anne thompson, nbc news. >>> up next here tonight, i'll go one-on-one with a comedy superstar. >>> in our nightly spotlight, something we can all use right about now. something to s

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nbc's ann thompson explains whyr >> repr: bitter pills this new year formericans taking prescription drugs. 60 companies raised prices on almost 300 drugs in the first two dayshe of year, including humira, armour thyroid and avycontin. rxgs solution says the average high is 6.3%, nearly of e times the rate inflation. >> drug companies raise prices simply because they can. >> reporter: for david mitchell, the outrage is personal and professional. mitchell needs almost $300,000 worth of medicine aav year to off blood cancer. and he leads patients for afrdable drugs, fighting high prices. >> the pain of high drug nrices do know a party, it does not know a region. people are hurting, and they want the elected officials in this country to make changes to get this drug pricing situation under control. >> repter: today, president trump promised action soon. big 've gone through a process, and i think you're going to see a tremendous reduction. >> it worked last season, when pfizer andth manufacturers delayed price increases until this month. thetr ind trade group says spending on medicine i

here's anne thompson. >> reporter: david austin is heartbroken. >> i've had her since '82. >> reporter: missing his wife bonnie of 36 years. shortly in september after being rushed to mt. carmel west hospital in columbus, ohio, >> out comes that doctor and he says, she's brain dead. then i went berser >> reporter: austin agreed to withdraw life support, but in a lawsuit says he didn't know dr. william husel had already administered an excessive dose of pain medication, including the opioid fentanyl, for the purpose of ending bonnie's life. >> any reasonably careful doctor would know that would cause death. we apologize for this tragedy. >> reporter: now in a video statement, hospital officials are apogizing, saying they found at least 27 patients near death for whom dr. husel ordered potentially fatal doseain medication over five years.>> he actions instigated by this doctor were unacceptable and inconsistent with thvalues and practices of mt. carmel. >> reporter: the hospital fired dr. husel, who could not be reached for comment, and suspended 20 staffmembers pending review.mb co poli

our ann thompson has the story. >> reporter: 29-year-olds daru n mith and sarah mcphlinked by fate andtion at university of chicago transplantation institute. both needed triple organ transplant, aeart, liver and kidn days before christmas, got them. >> it was just a miracle that these two separate donors came up at the same time. >> reporter: daru ff suering from an inflammatory disease attacking organs got the word first. sarah's mother wasn't jealous she got the news. >> i go oh my god, he got the organ. she didn't know who i was. >> reporter: while operating, dtors learned there was a donor for sarah. >> we're in operation mind. we're going for it. >> reporter: a third chance at life for the michigan woman that had her first heart transplantt 12. >> i'm thrilled there was a chance, they wanted to take on the opportunity and just how confident they are. r >>eporter: daru ready to get him to his 3-year-old son. >> still i just want to take it day by day. i want to cherish this. ep >>ter: new life made possible by the loss of life, never to be forgotten by either. ann thompson, nbc ne

anne thompson, nbc news. >>> there are more allegations of anti-semitism after two disturbing photos surfaced appearing show high school students giving nazi salutes. nbs morgan chesky on the outrage over that tonight. >> reporter: it's the invitation to a high school dance sparking a social media firestorm a minnesota teen couple's sign e ading, sweethearts would hitler with you, i could nazi myself going with anybody else, be mine, yes or nein. on the female student's private instagram, the picture included th caption, i am not anti-semitic in any way, i hate all raceequally. the principal of minnetonka high denouncing the post in a school atmail calling it a deeply offensive message n no way aligns with our school core values. >> it shouldn't surprise us thac there isa discernible lack of knowledge about the holocaust. it's a matter of resmarces, it's er of time, it's a matter of motivation. >> reporter: the sch principal says the students have taken down the photo, but that post not an isated incident. just this week in indiana, this picture taken at zionsville communy high schoo

as nbc )s anne thompson reports, some see gold in all >>> we are talking about mattresses and a growing movement in this country to recycle them. as ann thompson reports, some see gold in all of those springs and other mattress parts. >> for entrepreneurs on both coasts, this is the stuff of dreams. mattresses broken down and recycled. with more than 50,000 thrown away every day in this country. in land fills they can take 90 years to decompose. >> it feels good knowing that you're making a difference in the world. >> matress recycling is the law in california, connecticut and rhode island. it was in the trash left by super storm sandy that she found treasure. >> i started seeing mattresses ever. >> and discovered that mattresses have many uses. starting with saving as much as $30 per ton in trash disposal costs by recycling instead of sending them to land fills. >> what does the foam get reused for? >> the main purpose is commercial carpet padding. >> what about the coil? >> so the coils is considered scrap metal. they melt it down or crush it down and repurpose it for other materials.

anne thompson in panama city. now bk to you. >> amanda knoxs back in the news this morning. europe's human rights court is ordered to pay financi damages. it is for police failure to provide legal assistance and as tror during a long night of questioning following the 2007 murder of her british roommate. you'll remembe this case captured international attention. knox and her then boyiend were initially convicted of her e ommate's murder but w eventually acquitted. knox rheurned totates soon after that acquittal. >>> working for your health this morning. migraines that begin later this life could be a warning sign of something serious. they were tce as likelyo have a stroke at some point if you're over 50 researchers say migraines without aura are not linked to stroke regardless of whenhe headaches started. >>> a new study says older women need to stay away from fried food. eating onef serving fried food a day increased the risk of early death by as much as 13%. the worst culprits were frieded fish and f chicken. >>> hulu is dropping the price of the most popular plan by $2.

joining me now for more, nbc correspondent ann thompson. ann, you think it can't get any worse. here's what the vatican had to say about why these proposals were shot down. considering the nature and scope of the documents being proposed by the conference, i believe it would have been beneficial -- this is from a cardinal -- to have allowed for more time to consult with this and other congregations. but there is an ap exclusive piece that put it, the draft proposals only arrived at the vatican november 8, four days before the bishops' meeting began. is this slow bureaucracy, is this a total not understanding what's going on out in the world? what's happening here? >> i think it boils down to who has -- when does the vatican come in and have a role in what the u.s. bishops are going to do? the vatican wanted its role to happen before they made a vote. the u.s. bishops thought it would happen after they voted on these proposals. the two proposals, you remember, came out of the scandal around former cardinal theodore mccarrick of washington, d.c. who was accused of abusing a minor.

anne thompson, nbc news. >> that is the kind of history being made that you like.rees in foxborough tomorrow. >> so bundle up. what an inspiration. >> no doubt. >>> still to come, the latest on the miracle discovery, a wisconsin teen who went missing for three honestiey >>> still to come on "today," a bombshell report by the "new york times" claiming president trump was investigated by the fbi to see whether he was working for russia and against the united states. we'll take you live to the white house. >>> plus "hamilton" premieres in puerto rico with lin-manuel miranda back in the title role. we'll go live there. oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major card

ey sat down with ann thompson to talk about more about their plan for this >> pushed pricing so far that it created fury amongst the populus. >> these kinds of comnies have a monopoly on the regulatory system, on the delivery system and the products, so this isn't capitalism, this is a form of oppression. >> reporter: is this a broken system? market? >> absolutely. >> yeah. >> we have a monopolyicith no regulation on it and an industry that has co-opted the political process. >> reporter: the arnolds made billions. he was an energy trader at enrun then a hedge fund manager. she was a corporate lawyer. theyetired in the 30s and now run a foundation already putting $119 million toward health care issues. >> reporter: does greed pla a role? >> i don't know that it's called greed. it's the desire to maximize profits. >> reporter: drug companies exploiting patent laws. arnold funded research reveals the companies behind the top 12 selling drugs in the u.s. are trying to nearly double their patent protection from 20 to 38 years, blocking cheaper generic competition while raising prices an aver

anne thompson is in panama city with the latest. >> reporter: hoda, pope francis is here in panama city to energize the world's catholic youth. we're waiting to see if he says anything about the clergy sex abuse crisis that is engulfing the global church. on the papal plane here, pope francis made newsn w asked about president trump's proposed border wall. his response, it is the fear at makes us crazy. francis himself is the son of immigrants. throughout his papac he's advocated for refugees and migrants. he's urged the world to build bridges and not walls. three years ago he said anyone who builds walls to keep people out is not christian. given that panama itself is a land bridge between and south american continents, poem francis is expected to say more on the issue of immigrahoon thro the rest of his four-day visit. hoda? >> all right, ann, thank you so much. craig joins the table with covering. ry we're >> good morning. new details erging about the kidnapping ordeal faced by a young woman in boston and the amatic manhunt that led police to both her and her alleged abductor a thise

anne thompson is in panama city with the latest here. hey, anne. >> reporter: hey, hoda. pope francis is here in panama city to energize the world's catholic youth. we're all waiting to see if he says anything about the clergy sex abuse crisis that is engulfing the global church. on the papal plane here, pope francis made news when he was asked about president trump's proposed border wall. his response? it is the fear that makes us crazy. francis himself is the son of immigrants, and throughout his time, he's helped migrants. he urged the world to build bridges, not walls. he said, anyone who builds walls to keep people out is not christian. given that panama itself is a land bridge between the north and south american continents, pope francis is expected to say more on the issue of immigration throughout his -- the rest of his four-day visit. hoda? >> anne, thank you so much. >>> craig joins the table with another story we're covering. >> good morning to you. new details are emerging this morning about the kidnapping ordeal faced by a young woman in boston, and the drama