dr. holmes said, these kids don't walk different, taught different. it is just the nature of their disease that is different. he said, i was louis. i figure that it was something i ought to be able to do something about, just like diabetes or epilepsy or as more and your infection, but he quickly learned about addiction, recognizing that his patience, as he put it, had a relentless relapsing ellis that is potentially fatal. you realize that his obligation was to help them treat that on this. when he retired last summer he was treated more than 80 kids for opiate addiction in his small practice. dr. holmes is here today. thank you for your service to vermont. please rise so that we can thank you. [applause] [applause] >> the stories of these young vermonters breaks your heart. one of dr. holmes patients was raised by a hard-working, supportive family on a dairy farm. started using drugs and tenth grade during a 15 minute break between school exams when a bunch of his friends offered him oxycontin. he became an addict hard and fast. his addition quickly

dr. holmes got it right when he noted that addiction is at its core a chronic disease.for this disease what we do for cancer, diabetes, heart and other chronic illnesses. name for prevention and eradicate any disease that develops with aggressive treatment. getting this right is not just a matter of compassion. it is also the right thing to do for our pocketbooks. let's put aside our hearts for a moment and with our heads look at the math. every week, every week a drug task force estimates more than $2 million of apps and other opiates are being trafficked into vermont $2 billion a week. due to our proximity to new york, philadelphia and other cities where heroin is cheap dealers can make a lot of money from an addict in vermont. 1/$6 bag of heroin in new york city can go to up to $30 a year. so think about that for a second, a $6 purchase can sell for 5 times that much just a few hours up the interstate. that means that a heroin habit in vermont can cost tens of thousands of dollars per year, that is before they put a roof over their heads, food on the table or sneaker

dr. kim holmes, a distinguished fellow at the institute for international studies here at the heritage foundation. he praises serve as the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies and director of the davis institute for international studies. he is the founding editor of the "index of economic freedom." from 2002-2005 he served in the george w. bush administration as assistant secretary of state for international organization for this. widely recognized as america's leading conservative, one of america's leading conservative voices in national security policy. is also the author of rebound, getting america back to greatness. >> thank you. good morning, everybody. welcome to the heritage foundation. i would like to certainly thank senator demint and paul for getting us off to a good start. very glad they could be here. this is a special day for me. senator demint mentioned i was here 20 years ago when we first started the index. i'm looking at all the covers of the index. one, 1995 on the top left corner, knowledge and design i think has improved over the years but i think also the co

lucy plays holmes' partner, dr. joan watson.they want it's not going to change the situation. i'm not going to get any kind of sex change any time soon. it's going to stay where it is in our fifth year something may happen. >> that wouldn't phase the fans in atlanta. most of them met in cyberspace. on sites like, the baker street babes, always 1895, that are holmes and gardens. the proceed proprietor of "where's sherlock" naturally she hosted the costume contest. >> >> these people that know how passionate you are. >> sherlocks holmes is your special landmark in a way. >> yes. best way. >> it seems like there's a sherlock for everyone. >> it's clearly an evolution. >> who else can put it all in perspective than ashlee, who is getting her doctorate in the cinema of sherlock holmes. what does the astonishing popularity of this character say about us? >> we long for order and reason. this is a guy who can walk in to a room and see all the things going on in the room and go that matters, that matters, none of the rest of it does. we

dr. katranji's patients have visible wounds as well as scars that go much deeper. nidal hasan is an interior decorator from hosni mubarak holmes whose body was left riddled with a rocket attack. he told us the same attack killed his three closest friends. while politicians squabble over syria's future, dr. katranji told us what syrians need is more humanitarian aid. >> that baby just dying, freezing to death, it's a tragedy that could have so easily been averted if the world will just kind of look at this as a humanitarian crisis the way it should. >> reporter: we speak with a lot of syrians and not one of them has told us they're optimistic about the peace talks. most people say they are a pointless political exercise that won't achieve anything. and, scott, many syrians tell us they are angry because they say the outside world is ignoring their suffering. >> pelley: more than two million refugees, holly williams along the border are syria and turkey. holly, thank you. today, two people were shot to death in antigovernment protests in ukraine. police were beating some protesters and tearing apart their camps. the demonstratio

dr. james mcgaugh at the university of california irvine. an eye condition requires him to wear a clouded lens. >> mcgaugh: we are pretending that we are sherlock holmes of a sudden, we have a new phenomenon of memory, and we're trying to figure out how it is that this happened. >> stahl: when we did our first story, only six people in the world had been identified with this ability-- one of them, by chance, the actress marilu henner. but that number changed quickly... okay, quiz: what's the date that that story first aired? >> december 19, 2010. >> stahl: what day of the week was it? >> sunday. ( laughter ) >> stahl: joey degrandis, bill brown, tracy fersan, and jerrard heard are among the 50 new subjects. all right, what happened on june 25, 2009? >> michael jackson... >> tracy: michael jackson, and farrah fawcett died, too. >> bill: farrah fawcett, that morning. >> that's right... >> tracy: they both died the same day. >> stahl: and when they think about those days, they actually relive them. >> tracy: it's not just a question of numbers, dates and times. it's emotion. and so, you know, when we wake up on that certain day of the year, it's kind of