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the opioid epidemic is ravaging communities across the nation especially areas in the midwest and appalachia on the west coast there is a new measure to save lives patrol deputies in los angeles will now be given the opioid blocker nor can it can be given quickly and can save lives in an emergency santos has more from los angeles under this pilot program all of the sheriffs in the department three thousand of them i'm sorry deputies they will be equipped with the lax on which is also known by its name brand can now this will be a nasal spray and it's a fast acting anti opiate that reverses or blocks the effects of opioids in just minutes and these were first a person purchased by the department thirteen hundred units earlier this year but they now have gotten five thousand additional doses which will allow the entire department to use these now deputies will have this available throughout l.a. county which includes the crist center valley east los angeles in santa clarita valley areas as well as the bureaus that serve community colleges and parks now i spoke earlier with tom jones a medico a

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. >> that's no feet here in appalachia, a region gutted by tobacco and coal industries.the robin's transformed their farm into a -- >> we refinanced our home which was scarry. >> and farm aid help farmers like robin make that leap supporting food hubs and distribute their products to bigger supermarket. robin has grown her organic produce farm to 24 acres now. >> she runs it with her husband, no offense to dave but i don't think robin run it is show. got on a tractor the first time and learned from dave how to do it. what's it like knowing this is your family's land? >> it's that connection that really keeps you here. i've been a lot of different places but i always come back here. >> i warned your mom every plant i've ever touched i killed. >> it brought robin's daughter logan back too. she just left her office job. >> farming brought you back? >> yeah, because i miss it. i know that's something to be proud of. >> from logan i learned how to get the plants ready to ship off to market. >> next, probably my most challenging job on the farm, taking sue keen knee trans plan

when we talk about the trump phenomenon in politics, we think .f west virginia, appalachia he didn'tll in those places. he also did really well in some very fancy, upscale parts of new york and manhattan not far where we are filming this. palm beach, near mar-a-lago. the thing that struck me is if you talk to trumpeters in these very different locales, but they say about the president's are similar. , he say he is a businessman is not a typical politician. he is a good man. the media is being tough on him. you have to give him more time to do what he wants to do. the russian investigation is made up, etc. that kind of consistency of worldview prompted a question for me, which is, if people are not voting on pocketbook issues, they are not really voting on economics it seems to me. what are they voting on? alison: what is his appeal? you finally came to the collusion it is his appeal. what is it? >> i think he has pioneered a kind of white identity politics. it sounds like you are accusing trump supporters of being racist. that is not what i am trying to do. america has become a much

seeing this series for the last couple of days, your incredible reporting, also what's happening in appalachia where so many people are unemployed? >> it's not just krdrug addicts it's not just about dealers, it's a lot about unemployment. this is about people feeling lying they're destitute, they have no other options. in dayton, ohio, where i was, the automotive industry picked up and left, gm picked up and left. and it makes solving this crisis even harder. so at a time when it's worse than ever, we're on the verge of seeing washington pull back from funding this in a way that local officials feel is very significant and necessary. >> your reporting is very necessary and thank you so much for sharing. >> i was there with you last night on your lifetime achievement award. >>> and coming up, off the sidelines, the race bringing former president obama back to the campaign trail. the current lieutenant governor joins us next. e first and only eye drop approved for both the signs and symptoms of dry eye. one drop in each eye, twice a day. common side effects include eye irritation, discomfort or

following families for men months and years across four sites across the nation, chicago, cleveland, appalachia and the mississippi delta. we find a dramatic rise in " a "$200 a day poverty. over the last 20 years. it's a very dramatic rise and it keeps increasing every year. okay? because our safety net in theou aftermath of welfare reform hasf all but crumbled. we have fewer -- i won't get into that but it's really a story about how people live and try to survive apart from the safety net, and the incredible costs that are born by families who have to survive with no source of cash income. probably -- i'll just end with this. the most profound impact of this project had on me was i went repeatedly to the mississippi delta during this ford this tins little town. can't tell you the name of the town because then you could identify the characters in thehe book, but tiny little town near clarksville, mississippi, and i met a young girl there named tabitha, and tabitha had lived most of her life under the $2 a day threshold. her mother had to sell half the food stamps to pay the utility bills. so w

they, you node, traveled, so the definition of liberty and justice for all is different in greater appalachiait is in yankeedom up here in wisconsin and it's a miracle we kept them together. why can't we go back to a time when we'll all singing "kumbaya" because we never have. this continent has been "game of thrones" since the first ships pulled up. people very different values trying to sort out what it means to be an americans and i think we're seeing that now more than ever. >> well, i look forward to your conversations and hearing more about it. >> thank you. >> the search for common ground in the age of trump, bill weir, thank you for being with us, and don't forget at 9:00 eastern here on cnn bill weir and a panel of political experts and activists, they will be there for a frank discussion on "states of change." "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. i'm ana cabrera in new york. have a wonderful weekend. see you back here tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. eastern. >>> thank, anna. president trump's tweets, they may have u.n. cut his ability to keep comey quiet. "the lead" starts right now.

or the hungry child in inner city or appalachia. or the unemployed factory worker. 85 tweets attacking the media. 67 about jobs. 27 about troops and veterans -- really? the numbers just don't lie. let's bring in cnn's sara murray at the white house. sarah, with so much of the president's agenda in play today, these tweets clearly taking everyone in washington off message including the president's aides? >> reporter: that's right, jake. so much the president could have been focused on plenty of news coming out of the white house including that the president is going to be meeting with vladimir putin on the sidelines at the g20 including the controversial health care vote. but instead, the president is taking at the media and doing it in a very personal way. president trump setting off a firestorm today as he blasted this out on twitter. i heard poorly rated morning joe speaks badly of me. don't watch anymore. then how come low i.g. crazy meek qaa along with psycho joe came to mar-a-lago three nights in a row and insisted on joining m

academic researchers have focused on the most intensely affected regions like appalachia and rural new england. a trend in began around 1999 and continues unabated. caller: china cut medicaid. it would do a lot of good. i would say the lieutenant governor he had up there, he's not a republican. he's a democrat. you guys can change that. host: okay, thank you very much for calling. we have robert on the line. robert from charlestown, rhode island. caller: what's your first name, john? host: i'm paul. caller: opioid is a different story. i've been prescribed oxycodone because i have arthritis. i've taken one pill. i'm 76 years old. i have bad arthritis. i only taken one pill. i watched the program cops and other programs where you see these people, they're almost comatose on the streets and everything. it's a waste of money. you can't save them. this younger generation is brought up by tv programs they see on cell phones. it's almost like most of them don't have no purpose in life. they turn to drugs like this. they have nothing that interest them. me, i get high when sun is shining and

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visits the cultural region of appalachia to see if anything can save them. >> we went from 18 mines ine went from 1,500 employees to 150 people working. >> we are in an economic downturn in the coal industry. >> and this is the main industry. >> it is. but the los of those jobs is really devastating families and communities. >> we scrape to get by. i just want a good job. that's it. >> there's no jobs. leads to no money. leads to depression. which leads to drugs. >> how easy is to find drugs out here? >> all you have to do is walk down the sidewalk. >> i'm concerned about the future. isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audience. great show. here you go. now he's added a new routine. making depositing a check seem so effortless. easy to use chase technology, for whatever you're trying to master. isaac, are you ready? yeah. chase. so you can. p3 it's meat, cheese and nuts. i keep my protein interesting. oh yea, me too. i have cheese and uh these herbs. p3 snacks. the more interesting way to get your protein. anyone can get you ready, holiday inn express gets you the

guess what, there are -- it's going to be very important for coal miners to go to work in appalachia, in particular, if you do this agenda. and i'll tell you why. if you build wind turbines, you've got to have a thermal capacity from your coal to do it. in other words, you could actually, for a long period of time, have coal miners fueling the building of the wind turbines. >> we have 500 years worth of coal. we have clean coal, the cleanest coal in the world, the technology that is incredible. by the way, let's talk about clean energy. we have a clean energy. it's called natural gas. it's the reason the united states has reduced its carbon emissions. >> let's talk about that. here's what i love. you guys can't have it both ways, sir. do you like fracking and natural gas or do you like coal? because the reason -- >> we should do both. >> but this is what i'm not -- this is the sort of nonsense they got away with for the whole campaign. you cannot be for fracking, dropping the price of natural gas below coal and you want more fracking and more coal. that's like saying you want more wat

when you go to some of the more difficult areas in appalachia, you go to our state anywhere in the deep south you see people, some white and some african-americans, some now latino vietnamese, they are struggling. throughout history demagogues made white people that brown people and black people just trying to take their stuff and vice versa. we put people have them convinced is one of them have something, the other can't have it. we have them fighting over little bit of meat empty bowl. instead of having them stand side by side working together to grow the pie. so that they all can benefit. as opposed to benefiting from the presence and communion they would enjoy together. sad thing they working class african-americans and whites haven't found each other. yet, don't understand that their futures are united as one. they share common interest. dr. king said, they abound in single garment of destiny. if that actually happened, if they found each other, if they got together, there was a coalition of working people peopledisenfranchised across the races, it will be a political earthquake. b

talk about, it affects african-americans but it affects other individualing, affects people in appalachia affects middle class individuals. we want o we need the substantiatesive issues dealt with not just a photo op. i've been to the white house and oval office many times don't need to go there to for another social. >> if anything changes keep us updated. >> i will. >> thank you for being with us. coming up a new morning ritual for president trump before he heads to the office. we'll be right back. compassion . compassion . he spent decades fighting to give families a second chance. but to help others, they first had to protect themselves. i have afib. even for a nurse, it's complicated... and it puts me at higher risk of stroke. that would be devastating. i had to learn all i could to help protect myself. once i got the facts, my doctor and i chose xarelto®. xarelto®... to help keep me protected. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner... ...significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. it has similar effectiveness to wa

kwlas appalachia, with all its issues front and center, once you sit and look around, you see what people here see, a region that's one of the most beautiful areas of the country. people looking to be a part of this nation. and not forgotten because of it. >>>. >>> it's the grand old divide. republican senators asking the party's leadership to delay the vote on the buiill to replace obamacare. >> in columbia, at least six people died. a packed ferry sank. we will have a live report from that region. >> an interview with a former jihadi who fought for isis in asia. >>> hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. i'm rosemary church from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. >> and i'm george howell. cnn starts right now. around the world within fair to say it is a crucial week for health care in the united states. on the line, insurance coverage for millions of americans. president of the united states, donald trump, is hoping to make good on a major campaign promise to repeal and replace the affordable care act, dubbed obamacare. republican leaders are aiming to ho

. >> it's all part of a grand trying to change the way the world thinks about the people of appalachiahink how we look at ourselves, and we just need to transform how the world understands us. >> the coders at bit source are busy doing just that. proud hillbillys helping to change those old stereotypes. >> for a little while, i said i was a former coal miner. now i do computer work. >> you're coders now? >> yeah, we're programmers now. we got the jobs. >> there is a photo of the mercury 7 astronauts hanging on the wall. >> yeah. >> when i was a kid, i was a space nerd. those mercury 7 were the ones who proved you could do it. so they were the bit source of their day. >> is there a day where you could see a google or an apple or some company having an appalachian home up here? >> it's not hard at all for me to see that. i believe e >> and rusty knows a thing or two about persistence. he said he once had a crush on a woman and asked her out 29 days in a row. she said no every time until day 30 when she finally said yes. she's now been his wife for 30 years. when we come back, our road tr

. >> reporter: reverend barber has even taken his message into appalachia, and up to mitchell county,th carolina. >> mitchell county, north carolina. a place where, in 1920, all the black people were run out of town over the accusation of a black man raping a white woman. it's 97% white, 77% republican. >> reporter: wary but undeterred, reverend barber seized on the invitation of this rural white church. >> i went in and talked to them for about an hour. and i said, listen, this legislature just cut, denied medicaid expansion. there are a thousand people in this county that would get health care, and they can't be black because there are no black people up here. they cut funding for public education. you are losing teachers here. and they have to be white. now, you voted for some of the people, because of what they told you where they stand on prayer in school and homosexuality, but let's look at what they are doing, and how it is hurting you? >> reporter: so basically, what you did was to talk to them about the things that they had in common. and it registered, it permeated their con

if you're in greater appalachia, those are different countries.y where are you from, where did you grow up t helps me understand why you vote the way you do, how you define the definition -- how you define liberty and justice for all. we all have very different definitions of what that means. >> so fascinating and beautifully shot. a great look at some beautiful parts of the country as well. >> thanks, kate. >> make sure to watch "states of change." that's tomorrow night. you will not want to miss it. tomorrow night here on cnn. be right back. ...i kept looking for ways to manage my symptoms. i thought i was doing okay... then it hit me... ...managing was all i was doing. when i told my doctor,... ...i learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease... ...even after trying other medications. in clinical studies,... the majority of people on humira... saw significant symptom relief... ...and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability... ...to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, s

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