much more so every day the code you've got people struggling to even breathe because my people with asimo other respiratory illnesses are really strongly affected by this. and what's also maybe point to remember is. we have a pretty good scientists have a pretty good idea of what smoke and pollution evolution does to your life but in australia with these sorts of wildfires becoming increasingly common and ever strong as a result of climate change we don't know what long term effects of this will actually be on people's health ok but the good news is southeast in australia now hit by heavy rainfall hopefully helping with the fires and washing the smoke out of the out of the at is it all good news. now for the remember as in this case i think the fight is many of them are very grateful to have a reprieve i mean they've been battling with a month and a bit of rain. in a lot of rain in some cases can really really helped extinguish fires and reduce the risk of further spreading the problem is a very infirm area the scale of the rainfall and these storms is really really drastic and that means

. >> chris asimos and the woman who would later become dr.g researchers back in the 60's when motto put together a team to take what was then a pretty unconventional dive into suicide prevention. >> how was suicide treated by the healthcare professionals back then? >> not well. >> no? >> i think all too often the physician thought that this was looking for attention. >> is that right? >> yeah, it was not good. >> dr. motto theorized that like him during the war if people somehow felt more connected in the days after being released from a psychiatric facility one of the riskiest times for suicide that might just be the tether that holds them to life. so he devised a research study involving patients who had been hospitalized for suicide and depression and had refused follow-up care. between 1969 and 1974, he sent half of the patients a series of what he called "caring letters." the other half the control group got nothing. >> and what was in the letters? >> that we're just communicating our caring and concern. >> so it truly was just a reachin