. >> dr chen admits the challenges are overwhelming. >> i extent 25 years in rutland as a physician, politician, as a school board member. we raised three kids there. it was all around us. i consider myself lucky that it didn't happen to one of my kids. >> it happened to kimberley, introduced to heroin by her mother. >> i knew from growing up that drugs were the way to escape. that's what my mum did, used drugs to get out of reality. >> how did you make the other choice to clean up, when so men people are falling through? >> i wanted to live. and i was at a point where i wasn't going to live much longer. >> coming up, so what about the next generation? "america tonight" gets exclusive access to a hospital where babies born to adict mothers go through intense, painful withdrawals. >> israel's invasion of gaza continues tonight. >> we have been hearing a lot of tank shelling coming from where we are, here. >> every single one of these buildings shook violently. >> for continuing coverage of the israeli / palestinian conflict, stay with al jazeera america, your global news leader. >> th

dr. tran den chen. >> make sure there's as much skin exposed as possible. >> about 60% of all babies are born with jaundice which can lead to severe brain damage. it is now treated with ultimate vital violet light. it weighs only eight kilos. the vietnam made so-called fire fly n firefly weighs less than 20 pounds-and not only provides photo-therapy indoors but by the mother's bedside. >> it's great if you can keep them with the mother. the baby is not in the phototherapy machines. so it's designed small for that reason. you have lots of babies with a phototherapy over it then that increases risk of infection. by putting only one baby in, it decreases risk of infection. >> focuses on appropriate technology. in this hanoi lab engineers like matthew glide are tweaking the circuit boards of the infant warming device. >> we are just trying to interpret our ability a little bit so it's an extra circuitry to make it mobile protected particularly in environments where the electricity supply might not be so reliable or mite have spikes and dips. >> you want it to be able to withstand spikes in e