what we have here is a finger of suspected fentanyl with maybe some heroin. definitely fentanyl.his is broken-up -- you can tell. >> reporter: later that day, two more arrests. >> is that the guy? >> yeah. >> reporter: both accused of selling a heroin-fentanyl combo that killed its users. >> two people in a span of an hour, less than a couple of miles apart. >> reporter: across the country, the arrests are just one weapon in the war on drugs. >> how much heroin did you use? >> reporter: some police have started releasing photos of addicted parents passing out in their cars, their toddlers strapped in their car seats, hoping to shame them. >> the women unable to move or speak in an apparent heroin overdose. >> reporter: in manchester, some measures also include compassionate nonpunitive approaches. there, firehouses have become places of refuge for users coming in off the streets. >> we have a guy walking over right now. hey, how you doing? you made it through the night. >> i'm back. >> reporter: every day a steady stream of people who often use fentanyl and heroin come here looki

fentanyl with some cut and this is some broken up fentanyl, you can tell. >> reporter: across the country the arrests are just one weapon on the war on drugs. >> how much heroin did you use? >> some police have showed parents passed out in their cars, the toddler strapped in their car seats. fire houses have become places of refuge for users. it's a so-called safe station where there's no risk of arrest. >> police are working hard to take the drugs off the streets. we're trying to get people in recovery. we're hitting it hard this way. you've got to hit this problem from so many different angles. >> all hands on deck for a state under siege, its victims many. >> it really is a growing problem within this country. >>> well, coming up, the final splash at sea world, san diego. >> as the park drops the curtain on the final killer whale performance. while they're still refusing to release the orcas in >>> some breaking news this morning from paris. in the robbery of kim kardashian a few months ago. several people arrested early this morning in connection with that armed robbery. more on this

fentanyl being imported from china. unlike other opiates, fentanyl is purely synthetic. you can have super labs in china imported. fentanyl is more powerful than heroin. elephant tranquilizers are now being abused. and it is causing a massive deaths we are seeing when cut with heroin or counterfeited as pills in west virginia and new hampshire. we have a lot of different people between regulators and educators involved, and where law enforcement comes into play is obviously to turn corruption in doctors. with apt doctor prescription pad can sell as many prescription drugs as any gang. we are involved in the prosecution of this heroin importation and the fentanyl importation problem, and we cooperate very closely with regulators involved in deterring negligence among medical practitioners, and taking licenses, and disciplining were that needs to happen. to --ok.just wanted i need to go mics. i just wanted to follow-up on what sam was saying. i started out by saying that there have been 270,000 deaths with opioids. sam has a good point. kind of the genesis of all this, or

it's now been transformed into a fentanyl issue. in massachusetts this year, in new hampshire, senator sha heen's home state. three quarters of the people who died in 2016 of opioid overdose died on fentanyl. and if it was occurring at the same rate across the country as it did in massachusetts in 2016, that would be 75,000 people a year dying from fentanyl overdoses. now, the way this is coming into america is pretty much the chemicals come in from china. they go down to mexico, and then they're trafficked in out of mexico into the regions of the country. senator rubio has a similar problem in florida. we need to elevate this issue, mr. secretary, to a much higher level of importance in our country. the terrorists that's going to kill americans on the streets of our country are the terrorists who are selling fentanyl. it's the mexican and chinese operatives who are funneling this into our country. that is the terrorist fear in the hearts of americans. can you talk about how strong you intend on ensuring that the state department ta

for fentanyl. these are the people who could potentially die because they don't have medical coverage. what's the plan that the plans have to deal with these 1.6 million people who are already under a substance disorder medical coverage plan? what's their plan for these families who are already desperate for the medical help they're going to need in order to stay alive, in order to get the help which they and their families need? those families know that any delay in a replacement being put on the books could be the difference between getting clean or getting buried. this repeal effort is the worst kind of bait and switch, and it's happening at a time when the american people can least afford it, and repeal is being done at the same time the republican budget gives billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars to corporations and to the wealthy in tax breaks. so look at that as the balance that we're talking about. 1.6 million people who have an addiction, a substance abuse problem, t

brain in such profound ways it totally blindsided me to the point i eventually was injecting my own fentanyling room, and was fortunate to have partners who intervened upon me. you were injecting yourself? yes. powerless, powerless over it. i promised myself all the time, "we will not do this again... "that we are not going to do this again today," and by the end of the day, you know, ijust could not control it. i'm addicted to heroin. i about died six times. all i could think about is, when am i going to get some more? never feeling better. i am tired of this. i remember the first time i 0d'd, and my boyfriend was actually filming me. he brought me back, and right after that he went and did a shot, and just kind of like, "wow, ijust almost died." heroin‘s addictive like no other drug, and for many, there are only two ways out — rehab or death. today, the victim isjust as likely to be your friend, your neighbour, or even your child. i miss you so much. i held him first on february 11, 1994. then i held him last on august 22, 2015. i never want a parent to ever have to do that. it's the harde

she sold heroin to the victim but actually sold him fentanyl. she faces five years behind bars if convicted. >> 73-year-old janet powell daily faces 20 days of house arrest. she was barred from working in the mortuary business. police were called to come and investigate a foul order in august 2015. she pled not guilty to abusive corpse and theft. >>> a local organization is turning tragedy into life saving opportunities. dann cuellar tells us about a program encouraging families coping with loss to provide the gift of life. >> just after 8:30 police rushed to the 5600 block of ridgewood to find a man shot in the chest. they rush him to hj. earlier, a 37-year-old was shot in the face, neck and heyed. again, under the commissioner ramsey's program called scoop and run, officers don't wait for an am blues but take him to the hospital themselves. >> the extra minutes could make all the difference in the world saving a life. sometimes the victim is seen as a tissue or organ donor. >> there are 40 coordinators in delaware or north carolina that go to

fentanyl is a highly addictive narcotic to treat pain.n: today would have been seth rich's birthday. there is a renewed push to find his killer. we have the latest. reporter: the family and friends of seth rich want to do everything they can to find his killer. later this month after the bus stop like this along rhode island avenue you will find seth rich's picture on benches like this as well as words pleading for information in the case. you will also find a bil now this afternoon, across the river in arlington we spoke with a man responsible for the effort. it's jack burkeman, the attorney for the rich family and a republican lobbyist. he says the posters and the billboards are needed to keep the story in the minds of the public. early in the morning in july 130 of last year, d.n.c. staffer seth rich was shot and killed a black from his home in bloomingdale. police have investigated the case for months. the family pleaded for help. volunteers handed out flyers seeking for information but it's unsolved. he is a native of nebraska and sp

the suspect admitted selling heroin to the victim and tests revealed she later sold fentanyl 50 to 100 times stronger. >> she took a lot from me and our 8-year-old daughter. his fiance was in court today and he admitted he had a problem following an injury and wanted to seek help before his death. >> i was aware he had a drug problem but was not aware that he was as deep into it as he was. but i don't believe he ever intended on doing too much to die. >> the district attorney's office says it's not unusual for an alleged drug dealer to face these charges. but hope to send a message. >> the heroin epidemic going on this is just another tool if the tool chest to use to show how serious we are. if you sell in montgomery county and someone dies we are coming after you. >>> if convicted the defendant could face five or more years in state prison she is expected back in court sometime in may. reporting live in hatboro, annie mccormick channel 6 "action news." >>> state police are trying to determine if a piece of debris that damaged a car on the vine street expressway came from a constructio

an yawl fatalities related to prescription pain pills and more than 12,000 killed by heroin and fentanyl if it can happen to me it can happen to anybody. i'm in the system. i see it every day in court. and i had no idea that my son was using heroin. >> reporter: bruce brandler is the federal officer put even he couldn't protect his son eric. >> it's not an overstatement when they call it an epidemi epidemic,. >> shocking surprising. >> reporter: william listman is the coroner. he remembers seeing one overdose death a month pack in the 70's. now there were nine suspected od's in the first 19 days of this year. >> this is absolutely becoming routine that we say put the pedestrian in the morgue and we'll get to the work on monday morning. >> reporter: carol spends time with her mother a recovering addict and shares something her son wrote before he died. >> his last thing was first it was fun, later it was a full-time job. and it was. it consumed his life. that's all he thought pow. >> reporter: federal prosecutors have come up with strategies to try and battle the opioid epidemic a combina

the rise in the last few years, driven by a use in increase in heroin and synthetic opioids like fentanyl course, as you mentioned, joe, overdoses from heroin have surpassed deaths from gun homicides in the united states. in total, more than 33,000 people in the u.s. die from opioid overdose a year. that's 91 people a day. so the numbers are just huge. but there is a drug that can reverse opioid overdose. public health experts call this a miraculous drug. it can bring somebody back within seconds. here's a quick look at how it works. the class of drugs called opioids includes illegal drugs. they work with receptors in the brain. but those are also implicated in important functions like breathing. if they become overwhelmed by too many opioids, the body can go into overdose. this drug can rapidly reverse this process. it binds to those receptors, blocking the effect of opioids, quickly restoring breathing and saving a life. >> but the price of many of these versions has been rising, even though it's been available since 1971. there are many generic forms available on the market. these are

brain in such profound ways it totally blindsided me to the point i eventually was injecting my own fentanylou were injecting yourself? yes. powerless, powerless over it. i promised myself all the time, "we will not do this again. "that we are not going to do this again today," and by the end of the day, you know, ijust could not control it. i'm addicted to heroin. i about died six times. all i could think about is, when am i going to get some more? to feel better. but never feeling better. i am tired of this. i remember the first time i od'd, and my boyfriend was actually filming me. he brought me back, and right after that he went and did a shot, and just kind of like, "wow, ijust almost died." heroin's addictive like no other drug, and for many, there are only two ways out — rehab or death. today, the victim isjust as likely to be your friend, your neighbour, or even your child. i miss you so much. i held him first on february 11, 1994. then i held him last on august 22, 2015. i never want a parent to ever have to do that. it's the hardest thing that you'll ever do. there is nothing else

tests revealed she was actually selling fentanyl, a substance mosh stronger than here oh win. they want this case to send a message to other drug dealers. >> the heroin epidemic going on this is just another tool to try and use how serious we are and how we are going to, if you are going to sell in montgomery county and someone dies, we are going to come of ayou. >> she faces five years behind bars if convicted. she'll be back in court in may. >>> philadelphia police are looking for a pair of thiefs that stole cell phones from a verizon store. this is the thieves in action on video. in the city's queen village section on january 3rd. the suspects removed cell phones from a display case and ran off. both suspects tripped on their way out of the store. from our delaware newsroom. the christina school district in wilmington has named a new school superintendant. he is richard greg. and serves in aston, delaware he holds a masters degree from wilmington university. greg is also extensive experience in the classroom and as a school principal. >>> and independence national historica

the profit margins are huge and the addictive nature of fentanyl is even greater than other opioids.but one of the things that i am heartened by each a focus on the demand side of this crisis. and it would be i think heartening to the people of my state and our country if you can commit on behalf of dhs should you be confirmed to partner with this committee, with colleges around the country to really look at the overprescribing of opioids in this country and treated as a security threat that it is. is that something you can work with us on? >> i look forward to that. >> thank you. i will add to the northern border course by the way, just to say don't forget us. lastly i wanted to focus on one other issue concerning terrorism. certainly we are all concerned about that terrorism that is a threat from faraway places. earlier in your testimony you indicated that one of your goals would be to keep the tears apart thaway from the states soil as possible. but the nature of the threat is always changing, always evolving. and i think we all agree there's been a disturbing rise in homegrown te

fentanyl. it is sometimes mixed with heroin in mexico and brought back in a drug form. it is not taken by packages across the border physically. it goes through the u.s. mail system. we tried to work with customs and border protection on this and dea. i wonder if you have a sense of that issue, what you would do and your general thoughts on interdiction. >> i believe in addiction starts really where it is produced. the colombians to use that example do tremendous work in terms of eradicating cocoa and destroying labs and that kind of thing, tremendous work in taking huge tonnages off the flow with very, very few naval assets. and i use coast guard there as well. very, very few naval assets, southcom and my information is at least a year old, but right at a year old, but southcom gets a couple hundred tons a year. you get it in one ton, two ton, three ton lots. once it gets asu s ashore and t ride up the network, it might be 5, 10, 15 kilos. if we could do more with our partners, the problem is,

. —— fentanyl. i was powerless, powerless. i promised myself all the time, we will not do this. going to do this. that we are not going to do this again today, and by the end of the day, you know, ijust could not control it. it is a real hopeless feeling. i remember feeling control it. it is a real hopeless feeling. i rememberfeeling it one time that, you know, this is my fate in life. i am just going to die from this. i'm addicted to heroin. i died about six times daily. all i could think about —— i nearly died six times. when i would get some more. never feeling better. i times. when i would get some more. never feeling better. lam times. when i would get some more. never feeling better. i am tired of this. i remember the never feeling better. i am tired of this. i rememberthe first never feeling better. i am tired of this. i remember the first time never feeling better. i am tired of this. i rememberthe first time i did and my boyfriend was actually filming me. —— overdosed. he brought me back and right after that he went and did a shot, and ijust almost died. it is absolutel

it has now been transformed into a fentanyl issue. in massachusetts this year, in new hampshire, senator shaheen's peopleate, 3/4 of the who died in 2016 of opioid overdose died from fentanyl. occurring at the same rate across the country as it did in massachusetts in 2016, that would be 75 thousand people a year dying from fentanyl overdoses. the way this is coming into america is, pretty much, the chemicals come in from china. they go down from mexico. and then they are trafficked in out of mexico into the regions of the country. sen. rubio: a similar problem in florida. to elevate this issue, mr. secretary, to a much higher level of importance in our country. the terrorism that is going to kill americans on the streets of are the terrorists who are selling fentanyl. it is the mexican and chinese operatives who are funneling this into our country. that is the terrorist fear in the hearts of americans. can you talk about how strong you intend on ensuring that the state department takes, in terms to tell the chinese and the mexicans h

in particular, because that is changing the way drug dealers canoperate the way fentanyl be made.he profit margins are huge, and the addictive nature is even greater than other opioids. one of the things i am heartened by is your focus on the demand side of this crisis. i think it would be heartening to the people of my state and our country if you can commit on behalf of dhs to partner with this committee, with governors around the country, to really look at the overprescribing of opioids in this country? is it something you can work with us on? gen. kelly: i look forward to that, senator. sen. hassan: thank you. northernd to the border chorus, by the way, just to say don't forget us. lastly, i wanted to focus on one other issue, concerning terrorism. certainly we are all concerned about terrorism that is a threat from faraway places. earlier in your testimony, you indicated that one of your goals would be to keep the terrorists as far away from united states soil as possible. but the nature of the threat is always changing. of late, i think we all agree there has been a disturbi

police seizing more than 40,000 of fentanyl without the family knowing.ive interview with sean hannity, the president blast nbc, one of its writers with your just suspended for a tweet saying 10-year-old barron would become the country's first home school shooter. >> for them to attack -- nbc to attack my 10-year-old son -- heather: calling her disgusting about blowing up the white house. >> yes, i have thought an awful lot about blowing up the white house. >> she's disgusting. i think she hurt hurst very badly. i thought what she was was disgraceful to our country. >> her comments were taken widely out of context. i'm not sure how you can take that out of context. this morning judge is ripping into the last for the lack of respect for the first family. >> it's about the respect for the first family in the country, the first lady calling ignorant, donald trump being likened to hitler and the devil and madana muising about blowing up the white house, what you've got are people who insult people's minds with social media and all of their ability to get info

test found the drug was actually fentanyl between 40 and 50 times stronger than heroin. his fiance admitted he had an addiction problem following an injury and wanted to seek treatment before his death. >> don't believe he ever intended on doing too much to die. >> she will remain in custody until her next court hearing in may. >> if you noticed issues with patco service you are not alone, trains are overcrowded and skipping stations and even canceling stops during the morning and evening rush. "action news" reporter john rawlins got to the bottom of this and joins us from the station in collingswood with the detail. >> reporter: well, both patco's president and general manager today apologized for a series of break downs yesterday. not all but most of the the case his to do with the motors that drive the trains. >> this truck came with two detective motors and they have both been changed. >> patco technicians and mechanics working around the clock. >> it was exacerbated by the extreme weather conditions. >> patco president john hanson says that trouble began when the st

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. >> a sharon hillman was arrested for allegedly dealing fentanyl laced heroin that led to a man's overdoseeath. james collins was charged and faces prison. collins was responsible for the fatal overdose of a 28-year-old man last october. >>> adam is back with another check of the forecast. mild temperatures but it's going to get soggy. >> it is tomorrow and then a bigger storm toward the end of the weekend we are tracking for soaking rain but right now dry and a little bit of sunshine sharing the sky with the cloud cover, 47 in center city right now and north-northwest wind at 8 miles per hour. we carve that air temperature back a bit with the windchill more like 43 degrees and here it is the system out of the gulf of mexico has a lot of precipitation but it falls apart some before it comes in our direction. not a soaking rain tomorrow but a steady rainfall for your friday afternoon. then over the weekend, saturday we are in between systems, a lot of clouds and minimal sun and warm 53 and on sunday that is the start of a much more sizable storm. dreary and rain arrives in the afternoon 52

police announcing that they seized more than $40,000 worth of fentanyl.s found hidden around the home without the shriver family even knowing. brian: that's one of the main reasons i don't have a compound. i don't want people dealing drugs out of it. heather: isn't that crazy you own a home someone manages it for you and you allegedly let's these guys in. ainsley: kennedys and shifers were not affiliated with it. steve: man o man. brian: got to do extreme vetting on property managers. heather: third world problems. brian: meanwhile, he said it would happen. >> we're going to build the wall. don't worry. who is going to pay for the wall. who is going to pay? >> mexico. >> i didn't hear you. who is going to pay? >> mexico. >> you better believe it. brian: could that be a relates. the obama appointed border patrol chief is stepping down. what does that say about the policies of the past? ainsley: he is not the only person leaving. there was a mass exodus at the state department. so should trump supporters be celebrating the latest move to drain the swamp? st

he thought he was purchasing heroin and it turned out to be pure fentanyl which is 60 times stronger than heroin. these dealers are making these kill bags and they are selling them. what it does in the hopes of boosting sales. it skyrockets. people come rung. that's the mind set of an addict. if someone dies, they have the good stuff, let's go there and get it. so one of the reasons why i voted for donald trump is because he made a promise that he is going to strengthen the borders and protect them and keep the drugs from coming in. what are we going to do to keep him to the fire to make him stay good on that promise? >> i know addiction is something that you have seen close and personal. do you have words of comfort for joel before you get down to the policy questions given how many people are suffering with addiction and are dying? >> the opioids and the pills and all of this stuff has been so prevalent and easy to get. this is going to sound crazy, but i'm not so worried about what's coming from mexico. i'm worried about what's here and what comes into our homes via a script from

and admits to selling heroin to the victim and tests revealed she was actually selling fentanyl. and they want this case to send a message to other drug dealers. >> the heroin epidemic going on and this is just another tool to use to show how serious we are and how we are going to, if you sell in montgomery county and someone dies, we are going to come after you. >> she faces five years or more behind bars if convicted. she'll be back in court in may. >>> newly inaugurated governor, john carnie already at work, he was inaugurated yesterday and today he signed his first piece of legislation as governor, his first executive order was to attract new and growing companies and support innovation. >>> and the end have had violence in philadelphia starting with no more guns, the coalition today made a pledge to reduce the number of shootings in the city and everyone support a month of peace by putting down their guns for the month of february and called on resolving conflicts through mediation instead of using firearms. >>> turning to the forecast now the spring like stretch ahead for t

." >> tonight, fighting fentanyl. a synthetic painkiller up to 40 times more powerful than hair.rous risk. >> i felt like my body was shutting down. >> you felt like you were dying. >> on the streets as they take down alleged drug labs, taking on what one dea calls a weapon of mass destruction. how can they stop this epidemic? >>> plus, inside industrial light and magic. >> this is gold leader standing by. >> where special effects jedi digitally recreated a 19-year-old carrie fisher for "rogue one: a star wars story." and resurrected this familiar face

so it's opioids, prescription drugs, fentanyl. >> is it a dealbreaker if the incoming hhs secretary won't go to the matt for people suffering from a scourge going across this country, will that influence your vote? >> we'll talk to him about it. i think he was talking more about the exchanges and what should the mandates be. there's a lot of honest debate about whether the affordable care act put so many mandates in place that it's driven costs up. >> but senator you've seen if you don't make insurance companies cover addiction treatment, they don't cover it. so if you remove that and he vacillated on it, at best and he's passed bills in the past that took it away in the main, will that matter enough to you to compromise your vote? >> i'm going to have the discussion with him as well as some other issues. i believe we ought to have a transition that is smooth and thoughtful in terms of the affordable care act and take our time and get it right. there's a lot of discussion to be had. we have a hearing today with him in the finance committee. so we'll have a chance to talk about those and o

autopsy revealed that lowry died of combination of heroin and an even deadlier drug, fentanyl, in november. >> lansdowne mother is asking for help finding her son who has been missing since the middle of november. she said she last spoke to him on november 17th. but no one has seen or heard from him since then. twenty year old william tony lives in west philadelphia, but he often hung out in share son hill in upper darby. tony works at macy's in center city and is student at the community college of philadelphia. police say he has no known ties to anyone with a criminal history. his mother says she new something was wrong the sunday he didn't show up at her house for dinner with her, and his ten and 12 year old brothers. >>> called his job. he hadn't been to work. and that sort of kind of took it to the next level for us. and then when the night before thanksgiving, which is something we usually spends as a family together, that's when i decided to call and get in contact with the police. >> east lansdowne police traced same phone to the area 51st and ranstead in west philadelphia. but the

annual fatalities related to prescription pain pills, and more than 12,000 killed by heroin and fentanyl>> if it can happen to me it can happen to anybody. i am in the system. i see it every day in court. and i had no idea that my son was using heroin. >> bruce is the chief federal law enforcement for half the state of pennsylvania, but even he couldn't protect his 16-year-old son, eric, who died from an o.d. in 2007. >> it's not an overstatement when they call it an epidemic. it's not an overstatement when they say it's a public health crisis. >> shocking, surprising. >> william lisp and is a corner of luzern county, covering wilkes-barre and other towns in central pennsylvania. he remembered seeing one overdose death a month back in the '70s. and now, there are nine suspected ods in the first 19 days of this year. >> this has absolutely become routine that we say put the body in the morgue and we will get to the work on monday morning. >> carol spends time with her daughter, jennifer, a recovering addict herself, and share something her son wrote just before he died rid >> his last thi

lansdale woman supplied 22-year-old isabella lowry with a combination of heroin and the powerful drug fentanylember. lowry died of an overdose later that day. parker faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted. >>> officials at the salem medical professional building is trying to figure out if any medical record were damaged in an overnight fire. flames burned through the roof of the office building on bypass road in mannington township around 4:00 a.m. the fire started on the second floor but quickly spread. investigators say they're still trying to determine if foul play was involved. >> well, zzz is often bill he would as the nonhabit forming sleep aids but now consumer reports has a warning for in it june relies on that to get to bed. rick williams live with the details. >> reporter: that's right. the group took a closer look at exactly what's on the label. here's what they found out. turns out the products carrying the exact same main ingredient also carrying warnings you want to know about. health reporter ali gorman breaks down the list and what you need to know tonight coming up in hea

. >>> sharon hill man is facing charges for dealing fentanyl laced heroin that lead to a man's overdose. this suspect 26 year-old james collins, police say he dealt heroin to the 28 year-old main from see kaine who overdosed and died in october. collins being held at george w hill correctional facility in glen mills millions. >>> the delaware state fire marshals says arson was to blame last night, two alarm blaze broke out around 11:30 on tuscany court. six people were left homeless but were assisted by red cross officials say someone intentionally started a fire which quickly, spread to multiple units. >>> we believe it started from the exterior and just got in, on the first and second floor. so, we secured the fire from the first and second floors and then it started to burn the roof off in some parts. they work from cutting the roof to putting on the ceiling >> reporter: damage from the fire is estimated at $300,000. the state fire investigators are conducting a criminal investigation. >>> search continues for three robbery suspects who terrorized workers at a consignment shop in man

he thought that he was purchasing heroin and it turned out to be pure fentanyl, it's a drug that's 60imes more stronger than heroin. >> yeah. >> these dealers are making these kill bags and they're selling them. and what it does, and it hopes it boosts their sales. it skyrockets. people come running. that's the mindset of an addict, if someone dies, they have the good stuff. let's go there and get it. okay. so one of the reasons why i voted for donald trump is because he's made a promise that he is going to strengthen these borders and protect them and keep from drugs -- keep the drugs from coming in. >> uh-huh. >> what are we going to do to keep them to the fire to make him stay good on that promise? >> and i know addition something that you've seen close and personal, do you have any words of comfort for joel before you get down to the policy questions and given how many people have suffered with addiction? how many people are dying? >> you know, the opioids, the pills, all of this stuff has become so prevalent, it's so easy to get. and you know, this is going to sound crazy, but i'

ends up being a gateway into heroin some of which like synthetic heroin is being produced called fentanyl just over dose e rates of deaths. and this is not an inner city problem, per se, but this is reaching every community. in some ways it's worse in a lot of rural communities. so there was a bipartisan effort for us to put more money in the net. but here's the thing. if we just put money into cancer research and we just put money into dealing with the opioid prices, and now we're taking away money that is providing drug treatment services, in those very same communities, by repealing obama care and taking away the ability to access a doctor to then w cancer treatments, we're really not helping anybody. that is a second point i want to make. i would oint is that local communities to get involved in the process and i think part of the problem with this whole law has been that the people who benefit aren't out there making noise and the people who idiosyncrasy who ally opposed this -- ideologically oppose this had have been really loud. now is the time for people who have benefited or have

some of which is synthetic ,eroin being produced, fentanyl has terrible rates of overdose deaths. this is not a inner city problem, per se. this is reaching every community. in some ways it's worse in a lot of rural communities. so there was a bipartisan effort for us to put some more money into that. but here's the thing. if we just put money into cancer research and just put money into dealing with the opioid crisis, and now we're taking away money that is providing drug treatment services in those very same communities by repealing obamacare and taking away the ability to access a doctor to get new cancer treatments, then we're not really helping anybody. so that's a second point i want to make. a third point i want to make is i would encourage local communities to get involved in this process. and you know, i think part of the problem with this whole law has been that the people who benefit aren't out there making noise, the people who ideologically opposed to it have been really loud. now is the time for people who have benefited or seen their families benefit to tell their s

fentanyl, stronger than heroin, was involved in 420 fatal overdoses in 2015, an increase of 250% over the previous year. the lady who was quoted earlier who lost her son to the overdose wasn't surprised. she knows several other people who have overdosed and many others who have died including one last week. chicago, i'm proud to represent it, but up to 30% of the 9,000 prisoners at the cook county jail have a diagnosed mental illness. the a.c.a. has been a game changer for those who were in and out of cook county jail said c.e.o. of thresholds, a chicago treatment provider. it costs less than $20,000 a year for threshold's highest level of community-based mental health care with a housing voucher. $20,000 a year, less than that. you know what it costs to incarcerate that same person? $70,000 a year to incarcerate them. about a third of the patients being treated by thresholds are covered by the affordable care act. what's the alternative, i say to my republican friends. they can't wait to repeal this but they don't have an alternative. meanwhile in illinois, in new hampshire, in maine

the misuse of pharmaceutical products in some cases, has to do with some of these products like fentanylt are available on the streets instead of heroin. it's a very complicated issue. as a society think we have to be focused on the welfare of all of our citizens, and i think from my perspective this is a critical issue that the industry needs to contribute to but lots of people in society need to contribute to. >> right. although is there a way if, you know, the president-elect, for example, came to you and said, how do we fix this, is it making treatments for effective for people overdosing? while we sort out all of the rest of the societal problems, is there a way to kind of relieve people of some of the most dangerous parts of their addictions to these substances now? >> i think there are. again, this is not an area of medicine that merck is involved in, but we do know that there are medicines that actually help with overdose situations and i think they ought to be made available broadly. as i understand it, police departments around the country tend to be carrying these drugs more o

and, we have legislation called the stop act which is supposed to deal with the problem of fentanyl, the next wave in the communities. it comes by mail and some of it from mexico and coming from china directly and sometimes mixed with heroin and mexico and brought back in a drug form. not taken by package is across the border, goes through the u.s. mail system. we try to work with customs and the dea. i wonder if you have any sense of that and what you would do and your general thoughts on this addiction. gen. kelly: i believe addiction starts really where it is produced. the colombians to use that again, do tremendous work in terms of eradicating and destroying labs and that kind of work. taking huge tonnage is off the flow with very, very few naval assets and i use the coast guard there as well. very very few naval assets. my information is at least one the beauty of it down there is you get it in one time, tutankhamen three ton lots. once he gets a sure it is in the network. it is a big take. cocaine or something like that might be 5, 10, 15 kilos. withoutuld do more command probl