joe powell, executive director, association of persons affected by addiction, dallas, texas. dr. thomasina borkman, professor of sociology emerita, george mason university, fairfax, virginia. keith, let's start out by letting the audience know what is the need for treatment in terms of substance use and mental disorders in this country? a lot of people aren't aware of how prevalent these conditions are, but amazingly there are 45 million american adults who meet the criteria for a mental health problem. and 23 million who meet it for substance use, alcohol or drugs. and most of those who also smoke and the overlap between those groups is about 10 million people who struggle with both of those problems. so that means at any given time one in four people in this country could conceivably benefit from treatment for mental health or substance use disorder.

today, of course, being executive director for apaa, association of persons affected by addiction, which is a recovery organization, we're actually able to not only locally but also working with the state and the federal to actually move as being a part of the recovery movement, but it was only because of my personal recovery where it all started. and you're also working with some of the folks in the recovery movement in the mental health community. talk a little bit about that. very important, and, you know, i didn't see this at first and, of course, also being a licensed chemical dependency counselor to do the work on myself as well as to see about the co-occurring mental illness part and the mental health part of my own family. but the way it worked in my recovery is that being a counselor and working with people with co-occurring and also looking at my own family, now i'm at the level to where we're doing work with the managed care company, we're able to do also as far as the recovery-oriented system of care to integrate both sides of the system, the mental health side and the addict

of bricks. >> he managed to get himself inside. fire district responded to the 911 call. >> the lightning was probably in the vicinity area and close enough the personal energy affected him. >> kind of electricity associated with the lightning doesn't affect the place it strikes but the perimeter around it. >> i was kind of confused. a little worried. >> but stable. first responders took him to the e.r.. >>> they got me to the hospital and basically said i was okay. >> the captain grew up in the bay area and even he was impressed. >> i don't remember a storm with that much force. >> usually the department only gets two on three calls a night. we had about 13 calls within a 24-hour period in the district itself and another 13, to 14 called in uninning corporation rated san mateo county. >> get inside and stay away from the windows. >>> national weather service says a tornado touched down yesterday afternoon in yuba city north of sacramento. you can see the damage caused by the 75 mile-per-hour winds blew the roof off of a car dealership. weather service says the twister was on the ground for about one-eighth of a mile. that long enough to do all that damage. nobody was injured. a tornado was reported on st