announcer: if you look at the rates of insomnia in this country, there have been surveys conducted that9% of the general population suffers from bouts of insomnia, and some of -- 10% of us suffer from chronic

sleep walkers experience daytime sleepiness and insomnia. the disorder may be genetic. >>> in order to control drug prices, american medical association said advertisements aimed at consumers have to go. the drug companies are pumping $4.5 billion into ads. people can be hurt when drugs can become unaffordable or are not covered by health insures. >>> thousands of runners hit the streets for the philadelphia marathon. today is the half marathon. and for one runner being in the race is a victory. ali gorman has his story. >> without taking a deep breath in push all your air out of your lungs. >> reporter: dr. michael roth helps local athletes reach for their best. last year he was put to the test after learning he had stage four collin cancer. after -- colon cancer. he plowed into an aggressive treatment and 7 months of chemo therapy and two operations. he did everything he could to survive. so did she. >> when i think about other people who go through this, you wonder how you can stand it. the truth is, when you're in it, you keep walking. >

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responded to a red cross follow-up half of them had difficulties returning to normal life ranging from insomniae reunion never happened in the first place. returning to normal life after such emotional turbulence is hard and restaurant with the wife and acknowledging he has a father but is unable to contact him. >> translator: when we had to part i wrote a letter, i put in the hands of my father through the window of the bus, whoever reads it will burst into tears because i wrote the words miss in every line. >> reporter: nonetheless he says the reunion was a miracle that made him whole and hoping for another with yearly meetings and his mother feels no sadness simply happy to know her husband is alive, south korean bureaucracy will not allow her to rescind his death certificate but no longer has to mourn him that she has every year since he vanished, harry in seoul. >>> the largest the world has ever seen extending the quarter of the world population and covering a fifth of the world's surface and celebrating the former glorys and jessica baldwin went to have a look. >>> queen victoria giving

the tragedy of paris was in just a wake-up call it had been suffering from insomnia since the train massacre this summer as a reminder that the terror is years and what should we do now? to what roundup every jihadist on the planet drop in the whole with an arsenal of nuclear weapons on their head. but to eradicate the red deer bags without civilian casualties' but now we know unfortunately we cannot get them all at one place at one time. stop pussyfooting around to call the monster's islamic radicals. they're not disordered or disaffected teenagers, they have perverted their own religion. and then they sell their living brethren to knocking off. there is no provable cause of government intrusion in one happens in france. they already passed regulations this summer to read emails and our tournament has been struggling since edward snowden. don't use it as an excuse to lot toward now will cost lives and they don't want it. to impose freedom by force defeats the purpose. let's not give into hysteria. find a way to kill them without defecating our civil liberties. what is the trade-off? judge n

there were 30 or 40 of us there and that's what document became insomnia and he said your grandfather was a great man. what? typical nixon. had done his homework. saw my name, did some research and found out my grandfather, norman thomas, socialist, and flattered me. nixon was very shy but is a good politician or he did his homework so that he could flatter you by knowing something about you. >> host: by senior grandfather was a great man, what was he saying? >> guest: he was just trying to flatter me. my grandfather was a complicated held in his own way. he was a socialist, a very moderate socialist who kind of worked within the system can socialist. probably not as much of socialist as bernie sanders. he did when for president six times. and nixon, a lot of people had respect for norman thomas. mostly he was trying to flatter me husband was at the end of the conversation traffic i said well he was a great grandfather. because he was a great grandfather. >> host: next call comes from dennis in lynnwood illinois. , crucial opportunity thank you for the wise men and activity book and a

perhaps it's a first step to help the 10 percent of americans who suffer from insomnia?the ones who wake often during the night? and it may provide reassurance to new parents? that it's all in their brains -- not in their heads. with this medical minute i'm dr. timothy johnson. the avian flu devastated iowa chicken and turkey farms earlier this year... and the lasting effects of the outbreak are still hitting farms across the state today...especia lly when it comes to egg production. good morning this is the david geiger. ---- the last positive case of the highly pathogenic avian influenza was announced on june 16th.. after that high temperatures and less bird migration are thought to have subdued the virus. but the toll was high.. more than 70 iowa sites.. and 31 million birds were affected.. and put into egg laying industry here was affected by the outbreak.. that's clear in the iowa chickens and eggs report.. this time last year.. there was one point three billion eggs produced.. now it's just over seven hundred million. but there were worries that when fall migration

. >> there's this huge constellation of symptoms, everything from insomnia to anxiety to flashbacks. each one of those target symptoms generally would receive another prescription. they end up getting stuck on 8, 10, 12 different medications and suddenly they're like zombies. >> there is one medication that holds a lot of promise. >> marijuana is excellent for ptsd. >> rick doblin is a researcher and is a doctor from harvard. >> one of the surprising things about marijuana is it suppresses dream recall. for people who are traumatized and have nightmares, the opportunity to have a good night's sleep without remembering their nightmares can be fundamentally transformative. also, marijuana tends to focus people's attention on the here and now, and that's also really important for people who are carrying the trauma from the past into the present. >> if all of that was true, it sounded like marijuana could be an ideal treatment for ptsd, yet understandably there are many skeptics. >> i was really stunned when more and more patients were coming out of the shadows and disclosing to me they

with little road noise in the poor unemployed and less educated along with poem who smoke and have insomnia. does not prove it brings on depression researchers think constant stress and annoyance it causes can contribute. i can see that. presidential tradition. the yearly pardon of the turkey. >> president obama spared the turkey. according to npr there are sparing turkey given to hem as a gift. clinton said it began with eisenhower but the first to give clemency was president kennedy as for mr. obama that was the 7th turkey pardon with daughters he couldn't help but throwing out a dad joke. >> it is hard to believe this is my seventh year of partening a turkey. time flies even if turkeys don't. [laughter] >> that was good -- >> they're just too cool. like -- yeah, dad really. the president said as silly as turkey pardon is he gives americans to wish in a kivel way a happy thanksgiving. your top stories when we come back. >> out of this world thanksgiving. we'll tell you when we come i just want the most wonderful holiday ever. you should get holiday scratch-offs from the new york lottery.

the tragedy of paris was in just a wake-up call it had been suffering from insomnia since the train massacreummer as a reminder that the terror is years and what should we do now? to what roundup every jihadist on the planet drop in the whole with an arsenal of nuclear weapons on their head. but to eradicate the red

daily, joel eventually ended up in rehab where he faced mild withdrawal symptoms like irritability, insomnia certainly it isn't anything nearly as dangerous as abrupt discontinuation of alcohol. you know, for somebody like joel, going into rehab is really about learning new behaviors more than it is about sort of treating the physiological dependence or tolerance or withdrawal issues. >> joel has been clean now for six months, but these kinds of risks, they don't scare off charlotte's parents. >> people ask us that a lot. like, how do you make that decision? it wasn't a decision. it was the next viable option. >> and some would say a radical option, marijuana for a 5-year-old. but it was an option they hoped would change her life forever. >> baby. >> when we come back, matt and paige figge finally give their charlotte marijuana. the results are shocking. blan >>> it was january 2012, afghanistan, about 7,000 miles away from his family in colorado, matt figge received this video from his wife paige. >> it's horrible seeing these videos when i'm deployed. >> it was his 5-year-old daughter, cha

and then there's -- >> that is insomnia.is your emoji there? >> mine is give me more candy corn and coffee. >> please. >>> well, a dad was given a video camera to document a trip. problem was daddy put it on selfie mode and then this happened. >> so, he didn't know it was on selfie mode? >> no, he went to vegas on his trip. his son said dad, take this camera and document your trip. yeah. but what daddy didn't realize was he put it on selfie mode. so everything, every shot has him in it. >> so you never get to see all that is -- >> and his son posted on facebook. i gave my dad a gopro while he was in las vegas. i didn't instruct him how to use it and he didn't know the point of the effing thing. >> that is the worst vegas video yet. that's one of the things that happens in vegas that should stay there. >> it's funny. >> that's the news for this half hour. >> more news coming up from abc. stick with us. >>> this morning on "world news >>> this morning on "world news >>> this morning on "world news now" world's most wanted. the