scott higham is one of thest "washington reporters on this series. he joins me now."newshour".back to the just an incredible piece of reporting and analysis you guys have done here. i wonder if you could walk us riatng findings from this base. >> you know, the sheer volume of at were spilled across the united states of america between 2006 through 2012 is just jaw-dropping. there werlse 76 billion pilhat were distributed or dispensed across the country during that time frame, and 75% of those pills were distributed or dispensed by some of theiggest names in the drug industr mckesson corporation, cardinal health, amerisource bergen, cvs, walgreen's, those compani distributed 75% of those 76 billion pills. >> and the strack levels of saturation in some these communities. can you talk about how the simple volume of pills that were dispensed in these tiny communities? >> yeah, you know, the striking thing from this data is that little tiny towns in rural america were heavily hit by this epidemic. pharmaw,es that serve, you kno just a few thousand peo received millions a