honestly, sometimes it just seems easier. >> reporter: gary tuchman, cnn, boston. >> sadly, billy and's stories are not unique. the cdc estimates in 2015, 828,000 americans 12 years or older used heroin in the previous year. more than 12 million misused prescription drugs. joining me from new york, john brog brogan, addiction counselor, and former opioid addict. cleated the recovery program that governor chris christie adopted for his state of new jersey. good to see you. from your personal experience both as someone who battled addiction and someone now who is counseling addicts, how would you describe the scope of the epidemic? >> it's huge. i just want to correct one thing. we are peer recovery specialists. it's much different from counseling. it's a form of counseling. just to take those three examples you had on the streets of boston -- our recovery specialists partnered up with ocean counties prosecutor joe coronado, governor mcgreevey and governor christie. and we'll go to the streets and guide those individuals into a form of recovery and track them long term. that's the short

gary tuchman's report has images of drug use, but we think it is important to show you that some people start their addiction to opioids after taking legally prescribed painkillers. >> reporter: to most people, this is a neighborhood south of downtown boston. to others, it is a living hell. >> i'm a junkie. i've been shooting heroin for 16 years. i'm homeless. i live on the sidewalk. this is my life. >> i didn't grow up thinking i was going to be a heroin addict. this isn't exactly what i want to be. >> reporter: what are your hopes and dreams? >> to get sober, to have a family. i at one point thought i was going to and i lost the love of my life, he overdosed, when i woke up, he was dead. >> reporter: billy wants to be a tattoo artist some day. but even while we talked, he was looking for a vein. is it possible for you to start shooting the heroin while we talk? >> um -- if i got it in me, it would be. >> reporter: that's what i'm wondering. you feel such a strong urge you can't stop while we talk? >> yeah. yeah. there is nothing that would stop me. that's how bad it gets. >> reporter:

gary tuchman joins us with more. you were at the site of the condo, what can you tell us?> well, anderson, you're right, it's disturbing to know the shooter stayed in this building in las vegas. adjacent to another music festival site a week before the massacre he carried out. he could have been scoping it out, he could have been planning to have carried out the mass murder here, we just don't know. if he was, it would have been logistically much easier because at the mandalay bay, he had to fire the shots a quarter mile. this is where the festival was held. this was part of the area. a stage was here, and people went out into the street, they were right next to the hotel. it was an alternative rock, rock, hip-hop festival. there were dozens of them, with lord, blink 182. it would have been easy for him to carry out a mass murder here, we don't know. we went inside this hotel and talked to people. a lot of motorcycles here, if you can hear the noise. we asked employees if they saw this man. anything he was carrying. they couldn't comment. they were leaving that to the poli

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gary tuchman is there. gary, explain where you are, what you're seeing. >> anderson, we haven't been able to broadcast here until today, so close to the hotel and the concert site. we want to give you a sense of the extraordinary distance these bullets carried. this is where the concert was, the route 91 harvest music festival. this is across las vegas boulevard, eight lanes of traffic, four lanes to the north, four lanes to the south. and here is the mandalay bay hotel across the street from it. you can see the broken window on the 32ed floor where the gunman was firing his shots. he was 300 feet in the air when he was firing those shots and the bullets had to carry between 400 and 500 yards across the street. that's about a quarter mile into this concert venue. this is where everyone was. while he was firing those gunshots the bullets were flying over hundreds of cars. this is a very busy street. the bullets were flying over the cars going north, going south, and ending up killing 58 people who were at the

garry tuchman is there right now. gary, what do you see?er: john, i'm with one of the people, there are hundreds of people in line giving blood. and one giving blood as we speak. it's the senator. senator how's the needle feeling? >> fortunately i'm in good hands with lisa. >> reporter: what was the last time you gave blood? >> it's been a few years. my wife gives all the time so she great to drag me in here and get this done. >> reporter: tell me how you feel right now and how things are going in the state right now with what happened? >> it was a horrific event clearly, and everyone around the country understands that october 1st, 2017 is never going to be forgotten in this valley and community. it was a terrible event. it just goes to show you how dangerous this world really is. there is no up side to it except to see a community come together. >> reporter: that's what i want to ask you about the up side. there are hundreds of people wrapped around this building wanting to give blood. right now they have enough blood. how does it make yo

here's gary tuchman. >> reporter: to most people this is a neighborhood south of downtown boston. to others it's a living hell. >> i'm a junky. i've been shooting heroin for 16 years. i'm homeless. i live on the sidewalk. and this is my life. >> you know i didn't grow up thinking i was going to be a heroin addict. this isn't exactly what i wanted to be. >> reporter: what are your hopes and dreams? >> to get sober, to have a family. i at one point that i was going to and i lust the love of my life. we both overdosed and when i woke up he was dead. >> reporter: billy is 31 years old, he has a 5-year-old son. he want to be an tattoo artist someday. but even while we talked, he was looking for a vain. it's impossible for you to stop shooting the heroin while we talk? that's what i'm wondering your feel such a strong urge you can't stop while we talk? >> yeah, yeah. there's nothing that would stop me, and that's how bad it gets. >> reporter: megan also lives on the streets on the sidewalks. you're about to reach your 30th birthday, and how long have you been addicted to heroin? >> sinc

more on this from gary tuchman. >> harvey weinstein didn't know it but the model was wearing a microphoneiven to her by police to capture an encounter between the two in the hal way. >> come in. >> what do we have to do here? >> according to the new york magazine ambra told police earlier that weinstein touched her breast while going over here modeling photo, including putting her hand up her skirt. the police asked her to meet with him again. gutierrez agreed and wen to the hotel where he was staying. >> i'm not going to do anything for do you. yesterday was kind of aggressive for me. >> i won't do a thing. please i swear i won't. just sit with me. don't embarrass me in the hotel i'm here all the time. >> i know but i don't want to. >> please sit there please one minute. >> wean steen asked her to go to the bathroom. gutierrez said she wanted to leave to go down stairs, then came this key exchange. >> please don't have a fight with me please i'm not going to do anything i swear on my children. on everything, i'm a famous guy. >> i'm very uncomfortable right now. >> please come in now. an

gary tuchman is there. gary, explain where you are, what you're seeing. >> anderson, we haven't been able to broadcast here until today, so close to the hotel and the concert site. we want to give you a sense of the extraordinary distance these bullets carried. this is where the concert was, the route 91 harvest music festiv festival. this is across las vegas boulevard, eight lanes of traffic, four lanes to the north, four lanes to the south. and here is the mandalay bay hotel across the street from it. you can see the broken window on the 32ed floor where the gunman was firing his shots. he was 300 feet in the air when he was firing those shots and the bullets had to carry between 400 and 500 yards across the street. that's about a quarter mile into this concert venue. this is where everyone was. while he was firing those gunshots the bullets were flying over hundreds of cars. this is a very busy street. the bullets were flying over the cars going north, going south, and ending up killing 58 people who were

to speak of for human rights and reckon state very good to get your thoughts thanks very much gary tuchman is there a pleasure and i get right to hollywood actress who sparked a global campaign against sexual harassment and sell the rally that she was silent for twenty years but won't stay silent any longer rose mcgowan is one of more than thirty women who have accused producer harvey weinstein of rape or sexual harassment chris is telling me takes a look at whether this will affect change in the workplace by now it's a familiar story a young woman trying to make it as an actress put in a compromising position by a hollywood power broker karens claire is one of hundreds of women to come forward with her experience of sexual harassment in recent weeks it started with this man filmmaker harvey weinstein who lost his job after it was revealed he paid millions to silence his victims since then the spotlight has fallen on other powerful men including schoolers alleged harasser the filmmaker james toshack amazon studios executive roy price fox news anchor bill o'reilly and fashion photographer t