"america tonight"s sheila macvicar investigates speaking with former pentagon advisors, raising alarmls much >> reporter: the air force base is where the american pilots learn the art of aerial combat. here the full array of u.s. air power is on display, gr proven workhorses like the f-16 and f 15 to the modern f22. parked along side the runway, you'll find the latest edition to america's military arsenal. the f-35 is the most expensive weapons programme in american history. according to one pentagon report, it has a price tag of 1.4 trillion. so far, the pentagon bought almost 150 f-35s, with more on the assembly line. even though the plane is not clear for combat. eventually, the air force is expected to buy more than 1700 f35s, with the navy and the marines purchasing 700 more - ones modified for them. why buy so many f-35s when they are not cleared for battle. congress and the military refined. >> you can't touch the airplane. >> from a shape to the millions of lines of computer code acting complicated. >> reporter: like getting into a racing card. -- car. >> it is, you don't get

in an exclusive investigation, "america tonight's" sheila macvicar found the results can be catastrophic. >> here's dad right after surgery. >> patrice gillgen captured this with her father, jerry gillgen. went by ambulance to an assisted living facility south of los angeles. >> how you feeling? >> well, just a little bright. >> jerry gillgen also suffered from dementia and accompanying bouts of confusion. but in the first day in his facility his family said he was alert and lucid. >> daddy? dad? >> just one day later. patrice gillgen found a very different man. >> he's not waking up. i'm like what the heck happened to my father? what happened? why is he not waking up? >> jerry gillgen's wife was shocked. >> we took him into the home, it was the best place because his brother was there. the day later, he was a vegetable. staring in space drugged out. >> reporter: drugged out on medications like haldol and seraquel, approved for patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. not for dementia. strongest warning a black box warning telling physicians not to prescribe antipsychotic drugs

"america tonight's" sheila macvicar brings us her story. >> good morning. >> good morning carolyn how are you. >> i'm good i'm good. my last day hmm? >> it's been 21 days since nurse practitioner karen dominguez returned home to loomis, california from an ebola treatment center in sierra leone. >> go ahead and take your temperature. 97.5. >> are you having any chills? >> no. >> unexplained hemorrhage or bruising or any other unusual symptoms. >> no, i feel great. morning. >> good morning. >> dominguez shares her home with a family of four but no touching is allowed. >> going to say bye. >> most rg critical is contact with people. i'm very touchy feely. people surrounding me, my friends, family, loved ones. >> reporter: for dominguez the quarantine was a minor inconvenience compared to the six weeks she experiential in sierra leone volunteering to fight ebola with the international medical corps. there this is the picture of the ebola treatment unit that i worked at. >> the world health organization reported almost 200 new cases of ebola in sierra leone in the past three weeks. domingu

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as sheila macvicar reports, she was spurred on by a dark secret from her own past. >> the gun reportimbing mountain every day. >> reporter: for 16 months in an online blog of the "new york times," jennifer documented every shooting in america, or at least every shooting publicly reported. the inspiration? the horrific shootings at sandy hook elementary school. over the course that you reported all of these shootings, how many were there? >> over 16 months i estimate around 50,000 deaths. >> reporter: she wanted to personalize the carnage. to give faces to the numbers. >> these were fathers, daughters, brothers friends, they had toe be people. and i wanted to get that across. >> reporter: the secret from her own past helped keep her going. a family history of gun violence that began here in owl's head park brooklyn years before she was born. it was here that my father took his first life. >> reporter: she would discover later in life that her father had been a mob enforcer. after he passed away she learned an even darker secret from her mother. >> she said you know how you always aske

sheila macvicar has her story. good morning. >> good morning, how are you. >> my last day, huh. >> reporter: it's been 21 days since karen returned home to california from an ebola leone. >> go ahead and take your temperature. 97.5. this. >> no. unexplained haemorrhage or symptoms. >> no, i feel great. >> reporter: he shares her home with a family of four, but no touching is allowed. the biggest challenge. people. >> see you later, alligator. bye-bye. >> i'm a touchy feely person, and it's difficult to not have contact with just people that are surrounding. my friends, family, loved ones. for dimminges the quarantine was a minor inconvenience. for the six weeks volunteering to fight ebola. >> that is a picture of the at. >> the world health organisation reported 200 cases of ebola in the past three weeks. 40 were admitted to her unit whilst she was there. we had a big surge of patients while there. siren. >> before the patient could be touched, the ambulance had to be disinfected with chlorine. >> one thing that wa

in an exclusive investigation, sheila macvicar found the results can be catastrophic. >> here is dad after surgery. >> patrice captured this moment with her father, following surgery for a malignant brain tumor. from the hospital, the firefighter went by ambulance to an assisted living vassility south of los angeles. bright. >> reporter: jerry suffered dementia and accompanying bouts of confusion. at the first day of the facility he was alert and lucid. >> daddy. dad. >> reporter: just one day later man. >> he's not waking up. i'm like "what the heck happened to my father? what happened? why is he not waking up?" >> reporter: jerry's life was shocked at the change. >> we took him into the home thinking it would be a good place, his brother was there. a day or two, he was another person, he was a vegetable. there was nothing to him. staring in space, drug the out. >> reporter: drugged out on medications, depsychotic drugs approved for patients with schizophrenia, not approved for patients with dementia. the federal drug appreciation based a strong warning, telling them not to prescrib

sheila macvicar on the brutal life and fascinating death of richard iii. >> earth to earth, ashes to ashes ... >> reporter: at least his final journey was gentle and solemn. the last english king to lead his troops in battle laid to rest by a military guard. mourners parked the cathedral and the streets outside. a specially committed bone red by benedict cumberbatch. >> my bones, in soil, written in human braille... >> reporter: the academy award nominee a distant relation to the dead king attending the service. the funeral brings to a close the history of a legendry figure. richard iii portrayed as a ruthless power grabbing king. >> now is the winter of our discontent. they re-enact the battle where richard led a charge and was brought down by a sword, his body taken to lester and buried in a firry by monks, his resting place forgotten, until three years ago when researchers tracked down his remains, long covered under a parking lot. >> it's incredible the fact that someone can be killed in battle, thrown aaburied somewhere and all these years later the body is discovered in a car p

"america tonight"s sheila macvicar investigates speaking with former pentagon insiders who raised alarmls. here is where american pilots earn the art of combat. here the full array of power is on display. like proven workhorses to modern aircraft like the f-22. parked along side the runway, you'll find the latest edition to america's military arsenal. the f-35 is the most expensive weapons programme in american history. according to one pentagon report, it has a price tag of 1.4 trillion. so for the pentagon bought 150 f-35, with more on the assembly line, even though the plane is not cleared for combat. eventually the care force is expected to buy more than 1700 f-35s, with the navy and marines purchasing more - ones modified for them. why buy so many when they are not cleared for battle. >> congress and the military believe the plane can be refined. it's more being built. >> from the futuristic shape to the millions of lines of computer code, it's a complicated beast. >> like getting into a racing car. >> you don't get in it. you strap it on. >> this is a place the f-35 is being teste

sheila macvicar met the woman that keeps the death toll. >> it was like climbing a mountain every day took four hours each day, on the weekend because of so many shootings, 10 hours. >> reporter: in the "new york times", jennifer documented every shooting in america, or every shooting reported. the inspiration, the shootings at sandy hook elementary school. >> this started when the columnist said google shooting, who gets shot every day in the country. this was a month after newtown. >> the massacre of victims, teachers and staff renewed calls for gun control, and sparked a heightened interest in other victims of gun violence. >> we know about the mass shootings, they get the most press. what about the every day shootings. the quest to answer that question would con assume the next 16 months of her life. >> we searched for man shot, woman shot, child shot, dentally shot, and the incidents would come up. it was pages and pages and pages of google searches. >> over the course that you reported the shootings, how many were there and who were dying. >> there was about 150 injured, 33,000

. >> sheila macvicar, aljazeera. >> and be sure to watch the rest of sheila's report tonight. >>> the trial of an accused boston marathon bomber, dzhokar tsarnaev earlier, jurors saw photos of the blood stained message written inside of the boat the pencil written notes in defense of the muslims, and buying milk less than an hour after the bombs went off in. >> west virginia's governor has signed legislation allowing the use of a drug that can reverse the affects of a heroin overdose. the deadly overdoses in the united states for several years, many of them were from heroin. adam traveled there. >> reporter: dale everhart meets me in a hotel warmth where he almost died of a heroin overdose in november. he had relapsed like so many times before. >> they brought me here and pulled me out of the car. >> the addicts left him on the ground and someone finally recognized him and got him home and his mother called emergency services. >> cathy steven's daughter, tiffany wasn't so lucky. only 23, she died of a heroin overdose that same month leaving behind a three-year-old daughter. >> it's li

as "america tonight" sheila macvicar reports, results can be cata trophic. >> reporter: this video was is a retired new york city firefighters, going by ambulance to an assisted living facilitiy. gerry suffered dementia and bouts of confusion. on the first day of the facility he was alert and lucid. >> dad, dad. >> reporter: one day later, patrice found a different man. he's not waking up. what the heck happened to my rather. >> he was a vegetable. he was starring in space. anti-psychotic drugs. not approved for patience with dementia. the strongest warning, a black box warning telling patients not to prescribe. one in three nursing home residents with dementia receives anti-psychotic. they are given to the patients for the benefit of the facility they are zhonged out. so you don't are to be bothered with them. five days after arriving at the assisted living. state investigators later determined jeffrey gilligan had been overmedicated. >> if medicare is saying the drugs are bad. there's, you know research showing clearly it could cause death, why is medicare paying for it. snakes no se