want to follow up on the questions being asked. to your knowledge is dea working with customers border to interdict the shipments? >> as closely as we can. absolutely. >> cooperative agreements in place. >> i don't know. there is a healthy working relationship. >> and you think it is functioning? >> i believe so. >> the number of synthetics that has occurred? >> i'm sorry? >> estimate the number of prosecutions? >> it would be hard to come up with a hard number. >> okay. mr. smith, paul has the department had to shift the drug enforcement. >> the combining of synthetic drugs is typical enforcement of any other law. it's ever-changing chemical makeup of the synthetic drugs for prosecution. just tweaking one chemical out of changes the enforcement aspect on law enforcement. a chemical drug that was not actually scheduled. they change in adam. it is now a new chemical. >> is anything you have not been able to tell us? >> how much time do you have? one of the things that occurs to me, how a price tag? hello price tag changes being made or delayed? from a paren

we will also hear from the dea official and the washington d.c. police officer at this house judiciary subcommittee hearing. >> the crime terrorism, security and investigation subcommittee will come to order. we welcome everyone to this morning's hearing on synthetic drugs and i will begin by recognizing myself for not putting statement. last week the house took significant steps to forward, steps forward and combating the opioid epidemic in america. today the subcommittee will examine important issue the scourge of synthetic drugs in the united states. simply put synthetic drugs are a prime example of how criminals can stay one step ahead of law enforcement. today parents have to worry not only about a child's exposure to illegal drugs but about synthetic drugs many of which are produced and marketed directly at children and young adults. synthetic cannabinoids with names like spice k. tour scooby snacks, and brightly packaging that make them attractive to teenager marketed and sold as legal alternatives to marijuana cocaine and heroin. does youn

want to follow up on the questions being asked. to your knowledge is dea working with customers border to interdict the shipments? >> as closely as we can. absolutely. >> cooperative agreements in place. >> i don't know. there is a healthy working relationship. >> and you think it is functioning? >> i believe so. >> the number of synthetics that has occurred? >> i'm sorry? >> estimate the number of prosecutions? >> it would be hard to come up with a hard number. >> okay. mr. smith, paul has the department had to shift the drug enforcement. >> the combining of synthetic drugs is typical enforcement of any other law. it's ever-changing chemical makeup of the synthetic drugs for prosecution. just tweaking one chemical out of changes the enforcement aspect on law enforcement. a chemical drug that was not actually scheduled. they change in adam. it is now a new chemical. >> is anything you have not been able to tell us? >> how much time do you have? one of the things that occurs to me, how a price tag? hello price tag changes being made or delayed? from a paren

tot has the dea and doing combat the manufacturing of chemical compounds?e of the biggest challenges. the manufacturers operate with impunity because the majority are not schedule one. we have a strong and growing relationship with the republic of china. scheduled 2015, they 115 of these synthetics. as a result, they provided leads domesticallyentify where gatekeepers or cartel distributors would be in the united states so we can work under our laws to bring them to justice. >> how are these precursor chemicals being imported? >> they are being labeled as research chemicals. any other contraband they are mislabeled and sent in. unfortunately with the majority we do not have the authority to stop them. the majority are not scheduled. >> officer smith. in the past several years there have been an enormous increase in the variety and number of synthetic drugs available. as a first responder, what additional help and safety precautions to police have to take when approaching an individual suspected to be under the influence of synthetic drugs? >> from the law e

in the last year is take an average of 32 days for dea to approve one application. once the researcher has received approval a little more than four weeks. i would argue these are reasonable requirements on balance with her duty to protect the public from these highly unstable and often deadly drugs. the dea is committed to everything we can to address this threat. we look forward to working with congress with our partners and law enforcement medical and scientific entities to improve our effectiveness. thank you very much for this opportunity and i look forward to answering any questions you have. >> thank you special agent milione. officer william smith i will recognize you for five minutes. >> good morning mr. chairman and distinguished subcommittee members. [inaudible] >> would you pull the microphone closer please? would you pull the microphone a little closer to you? [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> i apologize. first responders to respond to individuals under the influence of synthetic drugs. the side effects of synthetic drugs are very similar to anothe

milione for the dea's hell. my district has been overrun so you've been kind enough to assign dea officers and agents up in my area what with our locally so we really appreciate the help. in the individual state doesn't impact on the border but you do. so that's been an enormous help for us in trying to interdict some of the heroin pipeline that's been coming up into the boston area. i had the honor of cofounding the cushing house in boston for boys and girls, it's actually an adolescent treatment is only because our kids are coming in so young with addictions to the opioids and heroin. we've got basically 24 beds for boys, 20 for growth but the promise i've got a line out of the door. it's happening over and over and over again. i do want to say just as a sideline, as i talk to our young people, and we put thousands of kids through this home, and it's a long-term rehab facility. and while i don't know if mary wanted is a gateway drug to heroin, but every single kid that ideally with who is on opioids and on her

the dea were rules for it. my compounding pharmacy was as a veterinarian and the dea had not written any rules for veterinarians. it's a whole different kind of business because veterinarians are kind of a walking pharmacy. instead of writing the name of the patient down the road my -- and as we argued what were we supposed to write down? the dea came down on armed taking documents. >> guest: showing the records. >> host: we were both there controlled substance license. we came in we went to the court of appeals and the court of appeals would win. i'm telling the story because it was interesting to people understand. the dea says this is kind of a problem, work it out. they were happy with that. you will go through an administrative hearing. of course it costs more money. printed a thousand dollars. and then after the mistreated law took another year and a bit circuit judge who still have not ruled an administrative judge -- and ott we finally threatened a mandate and guess what our client got their license bac

they have a legal obligation to report the suspicious patterns to the dea? >> yes. and they weren't doing that. >> reporter: during the last ten years, the dea has brought 12 civil suits against drug wholesalers for breaking that law. mckesson, the largest drug distributor is at the top of the list. the dea along with six states sued mckesson for supplying hundreds of hydrocodone orders to rogue pharmacies. mckesson settled paying more than $13 million in fines and agreeing to closely monitor their pill supply. >> even after we charged them civilly and took civil fines after them. even after they had memorandums of understanding that they knew what to do now, three years later, they started violating the law again. >> reporter: this time the wholesaler paid $150 million in fines and had distribution centers suspend operations in four states. in your view, was the pursuit of profits outweighing compliance with the law? >> yes. a civil penalty of, you know, a few million dollars, tens of million dollars means nothing when you are making, you know, potentially billions

we're not seeing it in this high school like we were with this case. >> on the national level, the deaforts to shut down synthetic drug rings. in just the last three years, operation project synergy has seized almost 50,000 pounds of synthetic drugs and made more than 400 arrests. >> did we get it all? of course not. that would be a very difficult thing to do but we got a bunch of it. we got some stuff off the streets and i premium in the pr -- presumed in the process saved some lives. >> last october after international pressure, china made it illegal to manufacturer and sell more than 100 synthetic drug chemicals including 25i. >> that was a great step. is it enough? no. we need to do a lot more, them, us, everybody. >> at home, detective said parents start respecting their kids' privacy a little less and start. >> ing around a lot more. >> go through their stuff. search their stuff. >> that's hard, though, what about their privacy? they're teenagers. >> there is an element of privacy with teenagers, however, you don't want me showing up at your door. if the difference is an upset ki

i support the dea. i don't like anyone in healthcare who is not practicing by the best of standards. we have got bad pharmacies out there. we have bad pharmacist's. we got bad doctors. mr. botticelli, there are bad doctors. you cannot paint with a bad brush. there are bad actors in every profession, but this kind of action, this is totally unacceptable, especially when you have someone come into your pharmacy bearing guns. that is unacceptable, so i hope you will look at that west chase pharmacy and i hope you research that managed and that. i went to ask you, dr. wen, especially, we have talked about opioids being used as the entry-level drug for pain control. one of the problems that i see here and, mr. botticelli, you and i have worked together before and you know i have sponsored legislation in georgia state senate for the georgia-- one of the problems i see is with the fda taking a lot of the products off the market. now, specifically want to talk about propoxyphene. it was on the market for years a

reporter: since the inception of these events, the dea says 5.5 million pounds of pills have been collectednd then destroyed. on saturday, the boxes and boxes of meds filled in livermore were then taken to the dea's office in oakland where they were incinerated. a load off maria hernandez's mind who praises events like these. >> we need them. reporter: in livermore, kron 4 news. >>> no more elephants performing at the circus. where they are retiring after folding up the tent. >>> uber making changes to become more pet friendly with people and their service dogs. >>> and we have a preview of what's ahead for tomorrow's big game as warriors get set to take on the trail blazers in game 1. >>> there's a big parking garage in fronts of that tower. we're going to have to move down there, try it again, see if that works down there. if that doesn't work, i'm going to take this truck and throw in the river. >>> the back story, sunday night at 9:30 on kron 4. >>> crews just finished cleaning up a 60,000 -- i think that would be 60,000 pound whale carcass in southern california. the last bits were rem

we will also hear from the dea official and the washington d.c. police officer at this house judiciary subcommittee hearing. >> the crime terrorism, security and investigation subcommittee will come to order. we welcome everyone to this morning's hearing on synthetic drugs and i will begin by recognizing myself for not putting statement. last wth

i know the dea is active in that. all of us, physicians and patients alike, if we take opiate or benzodiazepine for two weeks, there better be a very good reason. has to be done patient to doctor, understanding it is a high risk intervention, to go longer, better be a good reason and do it together. really, these are designed for acute intervention. going more than two weeks, doctor and patient better be thinkings hard about it. >> i believe that we need to really look at physicians who are prescribing large quantity of drugs. >> and selling the drugs for cash. that's a huge problem. >> we need to come up with ways to prosecute these physicians and to monitor them and to go after them. this is not what physicians are supposed to be doing. you're supposed to be relieving pain and suffering. and this is criminal. this needs to be legislated and managed. >> bridget brennan is here. she's special narcotics prosecutor in new york city, attacking prescription addiction at the source, doctors who overprescribe the drugs. her

the dea and the us attorney'sy' office are now joining local officials in the deaths in dea investigation> in the meantime radio stations nationwide paid tributu to prince this evening. eni they played the song nothingot compares to you at 6:07 this evening. that marked seven hours andou theen days since his death.ea those of course are the songsons original opening lyric.. earlier tonight we spoke with local radio icon donny s with magic 102.3 who took part p in that tribute.. >> when he first presented theet idea to me and asked me did i want to be part of it, absolutely.abso without a doubt.t ou we're playing the song now. i think it's a great way to honor him. him. ♪ >> the minneapolis station thata organized the event followed the ballad with one of prince's fun tee eighty three tracks, my namy is prince.e. ♪ >>> it's certainly --in >> a lot of them, you know. >> the circumstances surroundinr his death are certainly sad. >> yes.>>. >> it's something we see time and time again.and not just with famous people but with -- with, you know, nonno nn famous people as well.e as w >> we've be

. >>> the dea says 5.5 million collected and then destroyed. aturday the boxes andkmámsns of meds filled in livermore were then taken to the dea's office in oakland where they were incinerated. a load off of maria hernandez's mind. >>> a round of racist and homofoebic texts has surfaced. ugly, bigoted and difficult to look at. the latest messages were between two on-duty officers. calling the remarks a betrayal. >> 2000 members of this police department and the action of these two officers however reprehensible in discussing was not only a betrayal to the city but to those other two thousand officers out there every single day holding the oath they swore to help protect everybody. >> the chief announced a new work place training. it clearly describes what is unacceptable behavior and the responsibilities of officers to report such conduct immediately. >>> meantime a hunger strike is in its nineth day in san francisco. five people have gone without solid food since last wednesday. jeb bush talks to protesters saying they'll refuse food until the

attorney and the dea have joined the probe. abc's eva pilgrim has the latest. >> reporter: a new bomb shell the very day he died, prince's inner circle was trying to get help for his addiction to pain pills. expert in pain medication addiction who runs a california clinic for what his lawyer refefrs to a life-saving intervention. the doctor immediately rushed his son andrew on a red eye to paisley park. carrying a drug to help deal with addiction withdrawal. >> when he arrived he went looking for prince. staff representatives apparently found him in a elevator unconscious. one of the staff members started screaming. >> reporter: the plan was to give the medicine to a local doctor who was supposed to see prince later the same morning, but instead, according to his lawyer, andrew called 911. prince was pronounced dead at 10:09 a.m. too late for prince to agree to california for long-term care under the doctor's supervision. sources tell us prince was found by his body eva pill gram, abc news. >>> former browns quarterback johnny

but not the undercover dea tape. that was nonsense, she said. the true tape, the one that told the honest story of what she went through that day back in 2008, was her recorded 911 call. after she shot nissim. >> oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. >> reporter: that was the true cindy, the defense said, tearing out of the house, hysterical, panic-stricken, telling the operator she was sure he was going shoot her. >> i thought he was gonna fire at me. so i fired and then i run. i -- i panicked, i panicked, please help me. >> reporter: sitting here on the witness stand, cindy swore her story was the same now as the one she told the cops from the start: that she was home alone when nissim, showed up uninvited. and attacked her. >> he got aggravated and aggressive with me and he grabbed me by my shirt. >> and it was at that point in time that you shot him to protect yourself? >> yes, i did. i was in fear for my life. in my mind, he was there to kill me. >> reporter: cindy turned to the judge, fighting back tears, and explained that she fired because it

so this all happens at the same time the dea showed up again at prince's paisley park home. are the cars. there's the gate. this is becoming a familiar scene. more investigation, more searching, they need more clues. cnn's sara sidner is live outside of that home and she's getting some of those clues. tell me more about this. the doctor and the new warrant and the new search at prince's home. >> reporter: so the search of prince's home is a separate thing to the search warrant that was served on the hospital where the doctor worked. we tried to get in touch with the hospital that he no longer works at the hospital but he was certainly working there during the time where he met prince and said that he performed some tests on prince and you know that he showed up here the day that prince died with the results of those tests. he had met with prince on the seventh of april and the 20th of april. the 20th being the day before prince died. we showed here the next day to hand over the test results according to the paperwork that has been filed in court and, of course, prince's body

what does it mean for part of the dea? k about having some sort of clearinghouse to find out whether someone is overprescribing. right now, who's keeping track of it? the insurance companies. if you go to fill a prescription and your insurance company said, we're not going to fill this. we just had this. it's a dollars and cents issue. it's not just we're going to make cash. i got a handful of prescriptions. go to different pharmacies in various jurisdictions and pay cash, not only will they not say anything, they won't know. there's no mechanism to figure it out until later on. you get a situation and backtrack. by the way, it's early to say whether anything inappropriate happened. we always forget and say, oh my god, the doctor. nothing yet. >> nothing in his record. >> everyone in this subject, we heard politician after politician on capitol hill looking for fixes. but there are no easy answers. david, sanjay, thank you so much. it's a programming note. a lot tonight. there's a town hall special called prescription addic

there are now reports that the dea and the u.s. attorney's office in minneapolis are joining the investigation. >>> about a quarter past 5:00. if you're heading out the door and use 95, hang on a second and listen in. >> jessica, remind us where it is and what the problem is. >> we have an accident scene just past the work zone on 95. if you're headed southbound. all lanes are blocked right now. this is our camera around the blue route headed southbound. you can see traffic not moving at all. just a string of bright lights. that's headed southbound, approaching the accident scene. the accident is just around route 320. again, all lanes are blocked off. of course, you can see none of the traffic is moving right now. northbound past the scene, traffic is moving. gaper delay by the scene, of course, because we have construction in the area as well on the northbound side. a big mess on 95 right now. also watching an accident that just cleared out of the way on the schuylkill expressway headed eastbound to the ramp to vine eastbound. th

the dea calls him the usama bin laden of the drug trade.loa drug cartel, pouring heroin, this whole new epidemic and suburbs that is a sinaloa heroin from mexico,fenn tin noll, the sin at the time tick. hep chops people's heads off. the way he gained control of drug trade through merciless violence. this is kate castillo, star in popular, "dynasty" like, "dallas" like show on television. portrays drug kingpin to uses ruthless violence and her charm. "el chapo" becomes obsessed with the character she plays in the telenovellla. she writes a missive. you're blaming for horrible crimes. i know you're not responsible for everything. why don't you -- he starts writing him back. harris: was she lonely? what was going on? >> i'm not a shrink but -- character she placed theresa mendoza, did the actress become in her mind, was -- i don't know why, but i know, a lot of people hung out with john gotti, charles manson and his followers. harris: what happens? >> what happens they track the text messages between kate as she brings sean penn along and part

the median seizure of the dea in .014 was a single kilogram in denver, a 10-12 pound shipment is considered large. laredo brothers recently indicted in the eastern district of pennsylvania is indicative of these trends. the laredo brothers are charged with moving one ton of heroin over a six-year time span, 14 kilos per month. the organization was so subtle that the mexican authorities were not even aware of the group. this brings us to mexico. excuse me, the horizontal nature of the distribution chain makes it a difficult law enforcement problem in mexico as well. noted, the ones monolithic criminal organizations are shells of what they once were. the is due to infighting of type mentioned other, but also mexican law enforcement efforts. many of the fragmented pieces of form their own organizations or brand names. the market is broken into numerous pieces, small producers, processors, wholesale purchasers, and the transporters. production, transport, and distribution may all be different organizations. laredo brothers, for example, were purchasing opium gum from an independent broker and p

there are now reports that the dea and the u.s.orney's office in minneapolis are joining the investigation into prince's death. >>> a school superintendent in georgia apologized to a family after a principal found a 5-year-old special needs student hanging from a blackboard by his belt loops. the principal heard screaming coming from a classroom last thursday, walked in to discover the boy dangling from the top of the chalkboard. the child was kicking and screaming. the superintendent suspended the teacher and two assistants and recommended they be fired. >> i hope that they're not able to teach again. let this be a lesson. we're supposed to love our children and treat them kind. >> police are now investigating. >>> well, you now have to be 21 years old to buy get cigarettes or other tobacco products in california. the governor signed a bill raising the age to 21. hawaii and some other cities have increased the smoking age to 21. here in our area, a bill is moving through the new jersey state house to raise the age from 19 to 21. p

federal prosecutors are working with the dea to investigate prince's death. are learning more about the musician's final hours. his staff members called a well-known mill valley doctor for help the night before prince's death. the addiction specialist couldn't leave town right away so he sent a member of his team, his own son, to prince's compound the next morning. >> dr. cornfeld felt his mission was a life-savings mission. >> it was too late. his son arrived to find prince unconscious and made that first call to 911. >>> north carolina republican leaders rallying against a new federal warning. the state's new law that limits protections to the lgbt community violates the federal civil rights act and the state could lose hundreds of pls of dollars in federal school funding. the north carolina governor says that is a broad overreach of federal authority. >>> tesla riding high on new earnings reports. youtube trying out a new business model. >>> we tern to landon dowdy. are you wearing red for cinco de mayo. >> you better believe it. futures point to a higher

menendez: i look at all of the agencies that you mentioned, the department of justice, the dea, homeland security, immigration, alcohol, tobacco, and firearm, and i think to myself, that would have to be billions, collectively. and i5 billion dollars -- was one of the architects of the initiative, which i support, what $1.5 billion later, billions between all of our respective agencies and what we have is an opioid epidemic. and so one as a policy maker has to take a step back and say, what is not working? because something is not working. if billions of dollars later is what you see as a spike versus a trend in the other direction, then something is not working. so if i were to say to you, it's not working, what do we need to change, your answer would be? mr. foote: first of all, senator, i think we have in the past few years come to the realization that this is a shared responsibility between the united states and trafficking countries. i am heartened by the senate's recent passing of the opioid legislation, it is something that is going to help us. certainly mexico specifically, their

has the authority to effectively -- institutions of the federal government and that is the dea. we can have a war on drugs by telling the tape of the dea to bring all drugs to zero, this would effectively kick the war back to the states. and we could end the dea that way. [applause] larry: we will turn our attention to foreign policy. mr. mcafee, what do you think of the iran deal, does it pose a threat to israel and is that a concern for america? mr. mcafee: the iran deal, where we pay an enemy hundreds of billions of dollars to do what? ideasweapons, systems and to destroy ourselves? we need to get out of the internal affairs with all of these nations and bring our troops home and stop giving military aid. [applause] larry: mr. perry, the iran deal? mr. perry: despite the fear mongering, iran is not trying to build nuclear weapons, they were trying to build nuclear energy. to continueows them to build that, but there is a lot of taxpayer money going to iran, so there are parts that are good, parts that are bad. i've not read the document, so i do not know if the good outweighs

. >> prosecutors are working with the dea to investigate prince's death and we are learning about his final hours. it turns out the staff member called a well-known person it help. he could not leave town right away to help so he sent a member of his team, his son, to prince's compound the next morning. >> the doctor felt his mission was a life-saving mission. >> it was too late. the doctor's son arrived to find him unconscious. he made the first call to 911. >>> he is the last man standing for the republicans. donald trump is saving a new message geared for hillary clinton. >> hillary will be easier to beat than many of the senators and governors, et cetera. >> that was trump with lester holt. his path to the nomination could be a path to disaster for california republicans. they fear a noncompetitive primary will hurt the party's voter turn out and help democrats. nbc bay area is in san francisco and what is the plan locally for republicans? >> reporter: there is no plan. they are as shocked as everyone else. they expected a battle royal here in california and now there is not going

attorney and the dea have now joined the investigation as abc news learns the pop singer's inner circlewas trying to get him help for an addiction to painkillers. investigator the cause of death. >>> police in texas are investigating a workplace shooting that left two dead. marion williams dismissed from a houston area transportation company stormed into the building shouting that they'd ruined his life and then opened fire. he killed a supervisor and wounded two others before turning the gun on himself. on average there is one deadly workplace shooting every day in this country. >>> some terrifying moments played out in the sky over indonesia yesterday. take a listen. those were people screaming on board this flight that hit sudden and severe turbulence as it prepared to land in jakarta. some hospitalized with serious injuries. it landed safely but turbulence enough to damage cabin storage areas. >>> getting our first look at an accident averted thanks to the they were trying to recover the body of a hiker when the safety rope got caught up in the blades and sounded like an explosion a

has the authority to effectively -- institutions of the federal government and that is the dea. can have a war on drugs by telling the tape of the dea to bring all drugs to zero, this would effectively kick the war back to the states. and we could end the dea that way. [applause] larry: we will turn our attention to foreign policy. mr. mcafee, what do you think of the iran deal, does it pose a threat to israel and is that a concern for america? mr. mcafee: the iran deal, where we pay an enemy hundreds of billions of dollars to do what? ideasweapons, systems and to destroy ourselves? we need to get out of the internal affairs with all of these nations and bring our troops home and stop giving military aid. [applause] larry: mr. perry, the iran deal? mr. perry: despite the fear mongering, iran is not trying to build nuclear weapons, they were trying to build nuclear energy. to continueows them to build that, but there is a lot of taxpayer money going to iran, so there are parts that are good, parts that are bad. i've not read the document, so i do not know if the good outweighs th

while the final haul from today's drug take-back event is still being counted, the dea says it collected more than 700,000 pounds of prescription drugs during last year's event. >>> well, the republican presidential candidates focusing on indiana an california this weekend. in addition to courting voters, ted cruz and donald trump making appeals to rebl sides. >> reporter: a surprise boost for ted cruz. >> i am here today to announce to you my whole-hearted endorsement. >> reporter: former california governor pete wilson backing his campaign. >> california is going to decide this republican primary. >> reporter: so will indiana. and in a new online ad, a cruz superpac touts governor mike pence's vote of confidence. but he refrained from criticizing trump and many republicans are convinced he will win the nomination. jimmy duncan endorsed the republican front runner saturday. protesters opposed to trump's immigration positions blocked his arrival at the california gop convention forcing trump to arrive on foot. >> we went under a fence and through a fence. and ... oh boy. felt like i was

the dea will be here tonight, along with police, a recovering heroin addict and community members to talk about how to prevent moreover doses and deaths. this is happening just day after weep got the autopsy report for the center ville high school student who died from overdose in march. it revealed 17 year old alex ya springer killed by toxic cocktail of morphine, anxiety drug, alcohol. we also learned that in recent weeks, three fairfax county teenage verse overdosed that happened in just one day at a house party. i was just able to speak to county supervisor, holding this town hall tonight, and he says he is hearing about overdoses just day, and a lot of this involves kids. >> the kids have, they call them, farm parties, pharm. and they basically dump pills in a bowl and pull out pills and mix them with alcohol. >> he says this really hits close to home for him. he says the house party where alex ya overdosed actually happened in his own neighborhood just down the street from his house. the town hall start at 7:30 tonight. it is being held here at the fairfax county government cent

now the dea is investigating. in mill valley, jackie ward, kpix 5. >> coming up on the kpix 5 news at 6:00, we take a deeper look at the cutting edge drugs doctors like kornfeld use to treat patients with addiction. >>> scary scene at a medical officeling with in san jose. patients and workers started getting sick and that turned into a full-scale evacuation. it all started about 10 a.m. this morning. hazmat teams called to the indian health center on meridien avenue. kpix 5's devin fehely on the office accident that caused some big problems. >> reporter: patient after patient after patient was wheeled out of the indian health center to be decontaminated and examined for exposure to the chemical creosol. >> we have our chemicals in a locked container in the dental laboratory and they reached up and grabbed something and knocked it over. it splashed on the ground. >> reporter: creosol is commonly used in dentist offices as a sealant for tooth fillings t can be dangerous if it comes in contact with your skin or if yo

it was not true. >> what does the dea think? i asked carl poik. >> kate castillo said it never telling the truth? >> i believe kate. i have the highest praise and confidence with the mexican. and impeccable seymour waved sean penn through a check block. >> that is suggesting that the mexican military and dpft is compliceit with el chapo; is she correct? >> i don't believe that at all. >> so he's lying? >> i think so, yes. >> we tried to get both sides. but sean penn refused my many request thes for a interview and chlor up the discrepancies. >> i don't know what is in his minds. that is definitely a very delicate point for the mexicans. >> what did you talk p at the that table. we talked about the project and talk about his mom. about his sons, and he has so much love for his sons and he was happy to be out. and to be free in a way which is for me not freedom, of course. >> one curious side show is the role of presidential candidate donald trump. for reasons that el chapo explains he seemed obsessed with the billionaire and maybe

. >> reporter: court record show doctor somers lost his license to practice after the dea served a search warrant at his south philadelphia clinic back in 2014. meantime only one doctor of the three, still has a license left to practice. meantime each now faces several charges including distribution, health care fraud and money lawnering. all three are expect to surround toward federal authorities next week. in the sat center, natasha brown, for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> now for a look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> philadelphia inquirer is reporting city council president darryl clark is floating an alternative to mayor kenney's soda tax plan. clark is looking at what a one sent or less tax could pay for. mayor wants to use money to pay for 6500 new prek, clark's proposal would fund 2,000. >>> on the front page of the bucks county courier times, detectives are investigating whether surveillance cameras installed around the bristol township municipal building and in police department holding cells violates state laws against unauthorized eavesdropping. >>> officials

attorney and the dea, after alarming developments today. a doctor now claiming that people close to the pop star called him in to help prince with a drug addiction, and that it was the doctor's own son who arrived at the compound but too late. abc's eva pilgrim outside minneapolis tonight. >> reporter: a new bombshell tonight. the very day he died, prince's inner circle was trying to get help for his addiction to pain pills. the wednesday night before his death, prince's reps contacted dr. howard kornfeld, an expert in pain medication addiction who runs a california clinic, for what his lawyer refers to as a life-saving intervention. >> did prince know about the intervention? >> yes. >> reporter: dr. kornfeld immediately rushed his son andrew, who works at the clinic, on a red eye to minneapolis. he got to paisley park at 9:30 thursday morning. he was carrying a drug to help deal with addiction withdrawal. >> when he arrived, they went looking for prince. staff representatives apparently found him in an elevator, unconscious. one of the staf

summers lost his license to practice after the dea served a search warn at his south philly clinic backn 20 2014. meantime only one doctor of the three indicted has a license left to practice. each faces charges now including distribution, health care fraud and money laundering. they're expected to surrender to federal authorities next week. natasha brown cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> natasha, thank you. >>> tonight pennsylvania state police have a suspect in custody and a frightening road rage incident. anthony richardson of overbrook park had no comment as he was taken into police custody. police say he opened fire on another driver on the blue route near the schuylkill expressway last week. police also say richardson was angry because the victim suddenly braked after seeing richardson tight on his bumper driving erratically. >> there was a huge danger at that time on interstate 476 there was heavily populated with vehicular traffic. >> the bullet went through the passenger side door and lodged in the car's console. now no one was injured. a composite sketch that generated a phone tip ul

summers lost his license to practice after the dea served a search warn at his south philly clinic back in 20 2014. meantime only one doctor of the three indicted has a license left to practice. each faces charges now including distribution, health care fraud and money laundering. they're expected to surrender to federal authorities next week. natasha brown cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> natasha, thank you. >>> tonight pennsylvania state police have a suspect in custody and a frightening road rage incident. anthony richardson of overbrook park had no comment as he was taken into police custody. police say he opened fire on another driver on the blue route near the schuylkill expressway last week. police also say richardson was angry because the victim suddenly braked after seeing richardson tight on his bumper driving erratically. >> there was a huge danger at that time on interstate 476 there was heavily populated with vehicular traffic. >> the bullet went through the passenger side door and lodged in the car's console. now no one was injured. a composite sketch that generated a phone tip