on the streets sara hoy found the drug trade is luring more victims to their deaths. >> reporter: theth filly neighbourhood of kensington, a short train ride from buildings and monuments symbolizing philadelphia. the av mu was a thriving shopping district and is now an eyesore. abandoned buildings, factories and row houses attracting pushers and users. it's a neighbourhood where the people are forgotten and the forgotten go to forget. >> this is the part people choose to turn their head away from. a blinds eye. >> one woman not turning a blind eye is carol, born and raised in kensington. she note the pain of afiction, her 25-year-old son used to live on the kens i'ming tonne streets when -- kensington streets when heroin took hold of his life. >> my son - i don't know the feeling, i guess it's euphoria. >> reporter: carol patrols kensic tonne handing out water, food, toiletries and clothes to the addict. >> he doesn't know it's me yet. sneakers? >> i didn't. >> i got you 10.5. >> reporter: she plays the role of mum for many of the young addict looking to get clean and need help and gu

here is sara hoy. >> reporter: lesley wanted to be heard. growing up in one of the nation's poor city, there were times he felt invisible. >> i wanted people to see me, hear me. i wanted my voice heard. it was hard. it was not an easy thing. it motivated me to keep pushing. after his parents split, he turned to selling drugs. to help make events meet fighting from north philly to become freeway. . it. one of the best-known wrap artists, a journey as rough as the streets that forged him. >> when i was coming up, the corner boys were successful. the person on the corner, they had a fly car, that's what i wanted to do, i wanted to get money, that's why i had to look up to them. >> the 36-year-old group in the midst of the crack epidemic, rocking the city of love to its core, and corner boys. the front-line lieutenants of the drug trade, like the young men depicted in the drama "the wire", were out in full force. we caught up with freeway in march. >> what was it like living and dealing here at the height of the epidemic? >> it was pandemonium.

on that here is sara hoy. >> it was july 27th, 2005. it was a nice day. a hot day.ot paid that day. it was a great day. guys were outside of my building asking me questions about the job. we were talking. the shots rang out. [ siren ] >>> derek was just 21 years old when a stranger shot him twice while on his way home from work. >> the worst pain i felt in my life. it was so bad. it was like hot lava like my insides were burning. >> reporter: doctors confirmed his worse nightmare, he was por lived and would never walk again. >> i was 21. >> i had everything i want. from doing that from being waited on hand in foot. it was almost a child again. >> when it comes to gun violence, what gets attention is those that die. often overlooked are those who live. and the enormous cost that go with it. >> gunshot wounds are the third-leading cause of spinal cord injuries affecting young uninsured men with health costs climbing into the millions. owens was uninsured at the time of the shooting leaving the hospital to pick up the tab, with the remainder needed to be covered by dis

. >> sara hoy at ground zero of the opiate epidemic and why as bad as it is america's addiction problem be getting worse. >>> thank you for joining us, i'm joie chen. we know the grip is powerful and becoming deadly. there are signs that heroin is reaching into new communities, getting more people hooked. "america tonight" has closely followed the nation's surge in opiate addiction, and now a new cvc report confirms what we have seen - an explosion of death due to heroin overdoses, earlier four times higher over the last decade. on the streets sara hoy found the drug trade is luring more victims to their deaths. >> reporter: the north filly neighbourhood of kensington a short train ride from buildings and monuments symbolizing philadelphia. the av mu was a thriving shopping district and is now an eyesore. abandoned buildings, factories and row houses attracting pushers and users. it's a neighbourhood where the people are forgotten and the forgotten go to forget. >> this is the part people choose to turn their head away from. a blinds eye. >> one woman not turning a blind eye is carol, b

sara hoy in the heart of california's arson ally. thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen.ight a good part of north america is on wildfire watch. the season is not in full swing, but hundreds of wildfires have been burning now in the united states and canada. tens of thousands of fires cost billions, and tragically lives are lost. one in five wildfires are deliberate criminal acts. there's a pattern. some areas are known as repeat targets. sara hoy from southern california where arsonists are on the proud. >> firefighters have been accounted for. >> reporter: police crackled to life, and firefighters. the calm chatter acting the severity of the situation. five u.s. firefighters were dead or daring atop a hill in the mountains. known locally as arson ally. >> i didn't know anything. and one of my co-worker said oh my goodness, five firefighters are missing. and i thought "oh, no, goodness, no." then i got a phone call, and one of tanny's friends -- danny's friend's mums said danny's truck went down. i felt numb. >> it was a call gloria dreaded. and quietly hoped she'd never

"america tonight"s sara hoy travels to st. pete to meet with leon jackson, one of two surviving members of the courageous 12 to here if thinks change or stay the [ singing ] >> i have a dream ... >>> martin luther king junior, malcolm and, rosa parks - these are the icons of the civil rights movement, familiar names and faces. there are many names and faces unrecognized. unsung heroes of the movement. we pave the way for african-americans in law enforcement in the entire nation, and it should be. >> reporter: is the 23, leon jackson joint the st. petersburg police department. his biggest challenge at the time was not the community he was sworn to serve. it was the police force that hired him. >> what was it like as a black police officer in the city of st. petersburg florida. >> we could not work in the right neighbourhood. we were unable to arrest whites, could not hold any desk jobs at the police department. we could not take the sergeant's exam for a promotion. >> they could not go and arrest a white man or stop a white car

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here is sara hoy >>> this pair are about to graduate from howard university when two u.s. marshalls knocked on their frond door. >> heard a banging on the door. next thing there was flash flights, d.e.a., fbi, slammed be on the ground. >> reporter: the garrison definition, 25 years old, had plans to attend law school, end. >> they tested them for trucks. they put them in a conspiracy and made them responsible for a table of drugs. - marijuana, gun, bullets. >> reporter: federal agents told her that a man they knew through an auto shop, a confessed drug dealer identified them as being part of a drug wing, accusations that the garrison, who had never been in trouble with the law before, denied. >> did you partake conspiracy. >> no, we didn't. >> reporter: are you innocent? >> yes, we are. >> reporter: they were both found guilty after a 4-day trial. convicted. >> initially because i wasn't caught in possession of anything, no phone conversations, no photographs or anything of that nature. so when, of course, i'm like they can't lock me up for this, this is crazy. >> in 1998,

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and sara hoy considers the high cost of a gunshot. >> reporter: what would you say at the end of the day was the total bill, from start to now? >> almost $10 million. >> reporter: $10 million. >> on a lot of drugs, machinery, health care nurses. >>> also, highway robbery. alone. >> he said "what are you doing with this money?" i said we are going to vegas to together. >> lisa fletcher, with the rules letting police take cash and

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sara hoy with a voice committed to dropping the truth. also - quick draw. >> it's a fast meeting. if you slow it, it will be caught. a new orleans's artist, and how it earnt him an audience he never expected. >> seeing the guys walking up. this didn't look good.

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and sara hoy considers the high cost of a gunshot. >> reporter: what would you say at the end of the day was the total bill, from start to now? >> almost $10 million. >> reporter: $10 million. >> on a lot of drugs, machinery, health care nurses. >>> also highway robbery.

sara hoy is here with the story. >> you know what, she is not alone. when we look at the numbers, there's a high list of these people, even within the last month. you'll be shocked looking at the numbers behind the deaths. >> reporter: the death of freddy gray in police custody sparked protests across baltimore. the unrest in charm city sparked more than outrage about one man's death, igniting a call for action against a pattern. sandra bland dead in a cell. ken chapman, dead in an alabama gaol cell. rex dell henry dead in a mississippi gaol cell. the deaths come in the last few weeks, with ray net turner, 43 mother of eight dead on monday in a gaol cell outside new york city. her alleged crime - shoplifting food for her family. gonzalez, the attorney for the family. >> she was not arrested for eyeshadow or lipstick or something else egocentric or superficial. she wanted, maybe, something for the family. it was a small matter that could have been dealt with in a different way >>> turner, who had high blood pressure complained of feeling ill and was tak

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