grain farmers in western pennsylvania were hit the worst, especially hard. fundamental to economics. farmers had no roads to transport grain in boat across the appalachians. so they distilled the grain into whiskey which they could carry in jugs and barrels by mules over the narrow mountain trails. almost all farmers west of the appellations had a still. and there was nothing less envy than government confiscation that could wipe out their pockets and bankrupt them. a philadelphia newspaper asked what was it that caused the revolution, if not this. in the first tax collectors, farmers met the alleged -- met them with pitchforks. thousands of farmers band together, friends secession. they wanted to march to philadelphia and overthrew the washington demonstration. the president responded with outrage. he squeezed back into is revolutionary war uniform in order military strike. it was every americans' worst nightmare come true. george washington turned tyrant, sending troops to crush citizen tax protests to assess the fish is done 30 years ago. copperhead hadn'

phil is expecting 20,000 people in western pennsylvania to see the famous road and emerge from his home. legend has it if phil sees a shadow, enter will last six more weeks. if he does not, we will have an early spring. we will see what happens tomorrow at dawn. the weather is headed our way the next couple days. steve will joi >> a 13-year-old girl in maine is recovering from first and second degree burns after her iphone caught fire in her pants. she told firefighters when she sat down at school, she heard a popping sound from her back pocket where her phone was located, then smelled smoke. outside, took off her pants, and the teacher brought in a blinded. she was treated and released from the hospital. undere of the fire is investigation, but one fire official thinks that the phone battery shorted out. weather, we are under a winter storm watch in some parts, expecting something? >> it is tomorrow night at 11:00 until monday. tonight, no problems, standard protocol for the watch. it could be changed into a warning, advisory, or nothing at all. outside right now, beautiful evening. yo

the front is all rain with temperatures well above freezing, but by friday morning into western pennsylvaniad see some ice here in new england, certainly that rain-snow line pushed well north. a line of severe storms most likely moving through friday late morning and early afternoon, and behind it it dries out but just gets cold. another shot of arctic air coming down and pushing to the east. we're not quite done with winter yet. >> some interesting sculptures are popping up with all of the snow like this one. one man in minnesota carving the sculpture. >>> and two sub bah drivers getting the thrill of a lifetime. at first they thought the giant sea creature was a rock. they quickly learned it wasn't the case when it began to fight for their camera. the drivers said the octopus didn't pose a threat. >>> thanks for watching al jazeera america. i'm del walters in new york. appropriately "the stream" is next. >> outside door enthusistics flock to utah to explore the national parks and for the people that call the state home, poor air quality has many asking if the state of the people are are je

take you to western pennsylvania. a train carrying oil and propane, which is in short supply, has derailed in the town of vandergrift nap , that is a just northeast of pittsburgh. and our nbc affiliate is live near that train derailment. dave what can you tell us? >> reporter: tyler, this is a big derailment. over 20 cars derailed. all of them except two were carrying propane. i want to show you right now exactly the scene, at what we're looking at. you can see the redetailment right back there. the cars on the side of the hill. it's really bad. one car actually went into that building right over there. thankfully, and believe it or not, no one was hurt. i want our photographer to pan down. you can see, it's hard to see through the trees but the workers are working on one of the cars, the tank we believe is leaking the oil. two other tanks are being looked at that have propane. i want to roll video of what we got when first here earlier. the propane obviously, a big concern. all of these cars will have to be looked ov

western pennsylvania and that's extending all the way down into north and central portions of texas all the way into south and central portions of oklahoma, so it is a very slow go out there. if you are on the roads really advise you to make your way home soon, continue do have to deal with ice through the course of the day, and it only take as little bit of ice to create treacherous travel conditions. back to the northeast, where we have the rain coming down been but if you are closer to eerie and upstate portions of new york, ice and snow out there today, we could see anywhere from two to four inches of snow, regardless of what punxsutawney phil says, mother nature will approve that on monday. right around normal, and some snow we could see anywhere from two to fourisms. thinking about the super bowl, the snow won't begin until late night, soy think anyone attending the game will be safe, back to you. >> thank you so much. and other in the garden state, unfortunately for some fans officials aren't allowing tailgates but luckily the city of east rutherford errford came to their rescue.

in western pennsylvania, cleanup crews are dealing with the aftermath of an oil spill. a canadian railroad car.. hauling the crude.. derailed thursday, spilling an estimated 4 thousand gallons of oil. it was the second crude-oil train incident in less than a month in pennslyvania. general motors is recalling older model cars linked to deadly crashes. the models include: chevrolet cobalt manufactured from 2005 to 2007, and 2007 pontiac g5. a gm spokesman says: the ignition can be bumped out of place causing the engine and electrcal power to suddenly shut off. the car company says 6 people died in 22 crashes. alcohol was a factor in 3 cases and in others people were not wearing seatbelts. apple says it's cracking down on factory conditions overseas. in an audit-- apple notes suppliers are limiting work weeks. however, employee pay and benefit issues are still apparant in some facilities. in 2011, apple was blamed for harsh working conditions at its fox-conn factory in china. apple also clarified in the audit that its factories are not using "conflict metals" that finance

in western pennsylvania alone, the heroin/fentanyl mix claimed 25 lives in two weeks. >> i've never seen it this bad. >> reporter: dr. reynolds says lowering the death toll will take better treatment for addicts and less stigma for addiction. and families liked medoffs are pushing even in their loss. brook silva braga. for cbs news, breakneck, new york. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," the dow cinches deeper and the super bowl attracts a record audience. marlie hall is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. >> reporter: good morning to you, anne-marie. the new york stock exchange opens in the wake of big losses following a weaker than expected manufacturing report. the dow suffered a triple-digit logs for the seventh time this year. the dow jones industrials fell 326 points, its worst day in seven months. the nasdaq composite lost nearly 107 points. investors moved into safer assets such as u.s. treasuries. >>> the string of winter storms and unusually cold weather hurt car sales last month. overall, u.s. auto sales slipped 3% in january to just over 1 million. it was the first y

at least 22 people have died in western pennsylvania after using the drug mix.t dogs not appear hoffman's death was linked to this combination. >>> well, federal investigators are on the scene of a deadly small plane crash in nashville. it's believed that four members of the same family were on board the gulfstream that went down. the plane had missed its first approach and crashed near a ymca while preparing for a second attempt. no one on the ground was hurt. >>> the food and drug administration launching a $115 million nationwide ad campaign targeting young smokers. the ads will graphically focus on concerns about appearance one showing a teenage girl peeling the skin off her face to trade it for a cigarette. in another a young man pulls out a tooth with pliers. the ads will run through at least next year. >> time for sports. >>> that means hoop highlights including a a nail biter from the college ranks. details from our friends at espn. >>> good morning, america. he's stan, i'm neil. this is the "sportscenter" set in los angeles. >> and we got college basket

south of chicago, through indianapolis, parts of ohio and western pennsylvania, through the weekend. diane? >> here it comes again on the east coast. thank you so much, ginger, watching the storm tonight. >>> and next, here, tonight, an urgent headline for parents and schools across this country. it's about soccer. we told you about the risk associated with football and disabling concussion. well, tonight, for the first time, a soccer player has been diagnosed with a disease linked to repeated blows to the head. abc's senior national correspondent, jim avila, has the headline. >> reporter: american kids love to play soccer. long seen as the safe alternative to u.s. football. but today, for the first time, a soccer player has been diagnosed with cte, the very same repetitive head trauma disease, found in some pro football players. >> our son, patrick, was doing headers at the age of 3. >> reporter: patrick granger died nearly two years ago. his brain donated to scientists at boston university, studying cte. today, doctors announcing the frontal lobe of his brain was badly damaged. rid

in western pennsylvania, 22 deaths were reported in just the last two weeks. we asked vanita nair to look into this. >> reporter: lab technicians in pittsburgh immediately new the heroin found on overdose victims was something different. the powder was white instead of yellow. medical examiner karl williams. >> when they found almost exactly the same substance in both of those stamp bags, almost a 50-50 mixture of heroin with fentanyl. >> reporter: what is fentanyl? >> fentanyl is a powerful narcotic. depending on how you formulate it, it can be 10, 20, 100 times more powerful than morphine. >> reporter: fentanyl offers a higher high than heroin alone. it also carries a higher risk of an overdose. this pittsburgh man took the fentanyl laced heroin. he asked us not to show his face. what did the dealer say when he gave you the two bags. >> they're potent, just be careful. which was the first time he's ever told me that. >> reporter: walk me through what happened. you get the bags from him? >> i go lock myself in my bathroom and i do them and within probably 20

they went out to the frontiers which was western pennsylvania and was very grateful to her for being such a good businesswoman. basically you do wonderful work and she said would you please come home from england? i'm lonely here and i would like you to come home. he wouldn't defend some of their friends and neighbors thought he wasn't really fighting hard enough against the stamp act. does anybody know what the stamp act is? >> that is one of the things that the americans started to rebel against the british is the stamp act. people in pennsylvania but he should be fighting harder against the stamp act. she said i'm not going to do that and she got a gun and she got some friends with guns and she defended her house and she said well done, deborah but she still wouldn't come home. and their only daughter got married and he wrote to her and said let's make sure the wedding doesn't cost very much money but he still wouldn't come home and finally, she died. he said i have to come home now because my wife in whose hands i left the care of my affairs has died. so now i will admit that whe

. >> you grew up in western pennsylvania, so you're used to snow. were you surprised at what was going on in north carolina today? you've been there for a while. how unique was this, shall we say? >> north carolina snow is very different than western pennsylvania snow. we're not as e equipped for it. they had primed the roads a couple days ago but it rained and washed a lot of it away. typically in pennsylvania they salt the roads well prior. the problem in raleigh is the snow melts so quickly and refreezes so quickly that instead of just snow it's ice and people can't move the that. >> were you told this morning don't go to work, stay homewy bilow e cal authorities on the radio or television? >> i hadn't seen it. i had watched the news before i left to see what the roads would be like, and they told us the snow would probably hit between 12:00 and 2:00. so i figured i only live, you know, two miles away from where i work so once it starts i'll go ahead and leave. but in that ten-minute time span i ended up getting stuck. >> are you okay right now,

winter storm watch is being posted all the way east to western maryland and western pennsylvania.tem is going to start with rain. we know that. it looks like it will probably change the mix of sleet and snow, in the morning hours. it will be out of here by late monday night. that leaves a lot of unanswered questions, like exactly how much stuff are we going to get? it is a one-day deal. after that, the weather will still be cold. but the sunshine will return. >> thank you, doug. we will see you soon. >> we needed. -- need it. we are in the grips of a cold snap. you can see the mets. there is a pop fly from the left. diving catch. good. let's move to the top of the fifth. ready for the season opener. come on home. seven with theon r.b.i. drives this one over everybody headed center field. triple.olson with a with a triple. a lot of this stems from the pitching staff. more from the spring training camp in florida. rotation may be, on paper, the best in baseball. >> it is such an honor for me. >> the personalities range from to atra-serious strasburg gregarious gonzalez, often pointe

last year you saw it move from - quickly from camden to philadelphia out to western pennsylvania, and down in baltimore. it pops up all over the place. it's unpredictable. you don't know when it will come around again. for addicts who are not heavy habituated users, catching a bag unexpectedly is almost guaranteed to lead to an overdose. whereas however, if you are a habituated users, who needs a lot of heroin to get through the day, when you hear on the streets that, you know, the bag down the block knocked out 14 people, they want to know what the brand stamp on the bag is, first of all, getting back to the marketing piece, and once you know what that is, you can figure out which corner it is sold on. intentionally. >> it's incredible that that is going on. you called it a quiet epidemic, it's under the radar. there's a remarkable statistic. deaths have been rising steadily and become the leading cause of injury or death in the united states. i have to say, i was surprised when i read that. >> that is a standing statistic signs the rise of the automobile. drug overdose, principally

they went up to the frontier which was western pennsylvania and ben franklin very grateful to her for being such a good businesswoman. he kept writing to her and saying you are a fortune to me. you do wonderful thing. she gets in, would you please come home from england? i'm lonely here and i would really like you to come home. he wouldn't. and then some of the friends and neighbors thought that he was not really fighting hard enough against the stamp act. does anybody know what the stamp act was? let's see, go ahead. >> the stamp act is when the british decided to tax the key coming into the colonies. >> they were taxing at that point paper and other very essential things. and that was one of the reasons that the americans started to rebel against the british, was the stamp act. and ben franklin was in england, and his people in pennsylvania thought he should be fighting harder against that stamp act. and so they were so angry that they came and they were going to tear down his house. and everybody warned deborah to get out of the way, and she said i'm not going to do that. and she g

western pennsylvania is seeing an explosion of jobs and high-paying jobs and working class jobs.obs and even though those resources are in new york as well, politicians in new york had righted apparently new yorkers don't want jobs. that has been the problem that we have seen. rules have been put in place prohibiting us from using the resources that we've got. and the potential is us and w are talking about millions of jobs are being created and that can be created and part of my bill also is to take the additial revenue that all of the will generate. generating new leasing on federal lands and paid into a trust fund to pay down our national debt. because our national guard is out of control. neil: you do face an uphill fight as you know. i'm wondering what this debt ceiling deadlines fast approaching. do you think whether or not it should be a tax to any measure that raises that that feeling? >> in my view we should not raise the debt ceiling without fundamental structural reforms to sp the out-of-control site 's is the one that's never going to happen. >> with respect it has ha

western pennsylvania is seeing an explosion of jobs and high-paying jobs and working class jobs. jobs and even though those resources are in new york as well, politicians in new york had righted apparently new yorkers don't want jobs. that has been the problem that we have seen. rules have been put in place prohibiting us from using the resources that we've got. and the potential is us and we are talking about millions of jobs are being created and that can be created and part of my bill also is to take the additional revenue that all of the will generate. generating new leasing on federal lands and paid into a trust fund to pay down our national debt. because our national guard is out of control. neil: you do face an uphill fight as you know. i'm wondering what this debt ceiling deadlines fast approaching. do you think whether or not it should be a tax to any measure that raises that that feeling? >> in my view we should not raise the debt ceiling without fundamental structural reforms to stop the out-of-control site 's is the one that's never going to happen. >> with respect it

is bringing snow and even brain into portions of the appalachians heading towards much of western pennsylvania. but we try out today. 34 degrees is the high temperature today. tonight we fall down to 20. it will be breezy on saturday. sunday light snow. high of 25. >> still ahead, movie reviews for the weekend. >> and a video surfaced of a wolf reportedly on the loose inside an olympic hotel. >> and talking with a woman celebrating her 100th birthday. she is quite a story. and fantastic video that you don't the debate over gay marriage continues in several states. in arizona state legislature approved a bill to allow people to discriminate others in the name of religion. it's intended to protect religious freedom but upon say allows discrimination of the people. state lawmakers vetoed a similar bill in maine saying it would let employers refused to provide health coverage for certain services. the attorney general in oregon announced her office will not defend the state ban on gay marriage in court. >> a viral video has turned out to be a hoax. it's called a wolf in my hall. it was up loaded f

last month, 22 people died from heroin overdoses in western pennsylvania.een laced with phentonol. two to three grains of salt mixed in with heroin could kill a seasoned heroin addi ii ii ii addict. they don't tell you it's in there. >> they recently seized heroin worth millions on the streets. these are photos of some of the heroin and weapons picked up. dealers are going to extremes like this woman police say was selling heroin in mcdonald's happy meals. $2 for the toy, $80 for heroin. those are making the agents job harder. >> sometimes it can be hidden. in the mailbox, underneath the car. they'll go and reopp the amount they have on them. they never take the chance to lose their product. >> randy day reporting for us. >>> do you remember the so called affluenza case? how could you forget? the teen that killed four people and only sentenced to probation, no jail time. his attorneys argued he grew up too privileged, didn't get the lessons taught right from wrong. he's back in court. what happened outraged family members of the victims yet again. mine was

. >> police point to a spike in overdoses in western pennsylvania. 22 deaths in just two weeks. experts say one big reason is heroin is being mixed with a powerful painkiller that can be a hundred times stronger than morphine. >>> president obama will visit a school in prince george's county later today. he'll be stopping by the buck lodge elementary school in adelphi to talk about his connect ed initiative. over the next five years, the president would like to see 99% of the students connected to the next generation of broadband and wireless technology. the education department says the internet is too slow or very limited at 80% of schools in the united states. >>> it is time for the the latest your money report. >> here's a look at some of the headlines at 6:06 this morning. investors are hoping for a better day on wall street today. yesterday marked the worst january close in years and stocks kicked off february with even more losses. the dow tumbled 325 points yesterday. the nasdaq finished off by 106. >>> well, there is concern now about yet another cyberattack. this one i

the storm is going to be coming in overnight in western pennsylvania and new york, and the poconos in the higher elevations of new york, anywhere between 12 and 16 inches of snow could be expected in some locations. now, here in the metro areas, that's a whole different story. we're going to be a little bit warmer and that means we could be seeing frozen presip changing to freezing presip. and that will make a difference on i-95 and the marriage airports as well. the rain is going to end if the southern areas, but what's going to happen, a lot of the presip that was on the ground is going to stay on the ground. and that means thursday morning as well as into friday morning. it's going to be a problem there. that's a look at the national weather and your news is right after this. >> this story is true, it's an amazing story of survival. and if it's not, it's a hoax that captured national attention. jose washed ashore on the marshall islands several days agoful he claimed he had been stranded on a boat at sea for more than a year. some wonder if he's telling the truth. mexican officials

organizers estimate about 20,000 came out to attend the event in western pennsylvania.will take a forecast like that even if it's from a critter who has no -- or anything else. we need wintry weather. >> we are getting the winds. the rain is change to go snow at higher elevations and even some thunderstorms off the coast. live doppler 7hd right now. the east bay valleys, livermore you picked up a couple hundredth. say a look at this picture. the coastal hills looking at moderate rain. lick county. 8:00 it changed over to snow in mendocino county. we still have plenty of moisture. looks like by the late afternoon we will get into some clearing. but a thunderstorm off of point reyes. you see the heavier showers here. right now highway 101 looking at the wet weather. more heavy rain, moderate run, has been moving into livermore. so you haven't seen that much. right now 580 and 680 it's picking up. right here along the peninsula, the san mateo coast, look at the half moon bay, the moderate rain down through sunnyvale. now it's beginning to fill in and over through mt. hamil

but, we in city of pittsburgh and most municipalities in western pennsylvania throughout the state use penn d.o.t. contract, pennsylvania department of transportation contract which we piggyback off of. they have that contract and very difficult for them to keep up with the demand for us but state and county and local municipalities. they are trying best as they can. they can't mine it fast as they can. gerri: they sure can raise the prices though. >> we're locked in at $55 a ton. that is us, the government. i'm not sure in the private sector they may get more for that. i hear rock salt is going up to $200 a ton. gerri: are you seeing increases too? >> yes, we are. that is one of the concerns we have. i don't know if there is a way to prove it are vendors holding back from the municipality that is have lower price of salt and cornering the market? gerri: unbelievable. i got to tell you. i think the next issue will be flooding. this snow is all going to have to go somewhere. what do you say? >> absolutely, our overtime costs with regard to our plowing is going to be difficult but what w

. >> it's not just in western pennsylvania. a yet to be published study from washington university in st. louis found the number of rehab patients being treated for harry win addiction has ballooned from 10 to more than 20% in just the last two years. experts say heroin has become more attractive to users as drug makers clamp down on prescription opiates like like oxycontin and it's appeal even in suburbia is growing. in just the last few weez, as pittsburgh law enforcement tracked the fentanyl laced heroin, they found heroin being sold by dealers in fast food meals. >> this is supposed to be a fast food restaurant. it's fast food and dope. what a gift. >> it is stunning, epidemic proportions, the former baltimore county drug czar and host of "straight talk." help us understand about this. after all, we are talking about an incredibly successful actor. every sign that he had everything to live for, said he had beaten his addiction years and years ago. how could somebody like this be drawn into heroin use? >> heroin has become s

paulson, whenever he is back home -- when i'm back home in western pennsylvania, i talk to people all the time. we try to gather information. as you just said, come to us. let us know what's going on. make us aware of what's happening. people come to me and talk to me. this is not anecdotal. this is a fact. can you use my story but you can't use my name. now, the reason they say that is because the history doesn't have the same projection as the words. and, you know, i have been around for a little bit of time. usually when people tell the stories or jokes, there's the three biggest lies. two of them could be something other but the last one is always from the government, i'm here to help you. i would just suggest -- i don't know how you're going to do this. you're a turn around guy. i would like to hear that. how are you going to turn that around? i hear what you're saying. i heard mr. warfol come here, gave us the do you means and said this is the path to getting this fixed. you're on board now. this is a turn around issue. i'm really concerned about this. i've got to tell you, the

and 22 people were killed in overdoses in just one week in a six-county region in western pennsylvaniamichael. >> and i imagine here too, this is something -- i mean, it was a surprise to some of us, but to others, certainly, they're very much aware this is a big problem. what are they doing to address the large number of people who are addicted? >> reporter: well, you know, that's actually one of the big questions, how you can treat this problem. in big cities where this has been showing up, in new york, for instance, where phillip seymour hoffman's death has become the center of news, i think a lot of authorities are now finding this is a good way to draw attention to what is a big problem. our producer has been on the scene there, told us that they found about 50 of these glassines in seymour's apartment. that's a lot of the drug. and it shows how easily available it is and so authorities are trying to draw attention to the problem, hoping people can understand that this is something that needs to be taken seriously. and not only that, but the potency of the drug is very, very dange

then, in western pennsylvania, flooding became a problem after a snow and ice melt there. take a look at these pictures. a flood advisory remains in effect for pittsburgh until sunday afternoon. they are still digging it out. once again in the upper midwest. after 15 inches of snow fell in wisconsin. dylan dreier is here with the forecast. good morning. >> good morning, betty. after a wild day yesterday with a lot of tornado watches posted throughout the day, things are finally starting to improve. here is the cold front moving offshore. behind it, things are quiet. the cold front moves through. it's not going to cool off much today. it will cool off next week. we're starting off the day at 41 degrees in new york city. 40 in atlanta. 30 in kansas city. six degrees in minneapolis. it's where the next blast of cold air is moving in. it will start off at 23 in chicago and not warm up that much. we have a couple lighter snow showers through iowa. it's not going to amount to much. it will hardly accumulate at all. through the northern rockies, it's where we are going to see mos

organizers estimate about 20,000 revelers came out to attend the early morning event in person -- western pennsylvaniaw accurate is phil? >> they should leave phil alone. >> let him go back into his bureau instead of bothering him to come out. >> we talk about this last year. good morning. live doppler 7, an active thunderstorm just to the north and west of us. everyone will be getting wet today as an area of low pressure and cold front moves into the bay area. it's raining at the airport, also santa rosa, the north bay and along the coastal hills. very exciting for us as we get just a little bit of rain today. more than we've seen as of late for sure. petaluma, novato, down san rafael. be careful out there. 101 very slick. take a look at san francisco and you head over into oakland now getting wet, as well as san leandro. you, too, will get in on the action. not as much for the friends in the livermore valley but down toward the peninsula and the by, this is where most of the activity is. the santa cruz mountains. behind this system much colder air. we are looking at temperatures coming down today, t

i look up when capital is distributing a lot of places cropping up, like big money, ohio, western pennsylvaniassouri. what is the attraction? is there a lot of good labour? >> not just labor. over 25% of the united states research budget is spent in the midwest with fabulous universities like university of michigan, carnegie-mellon, northwestern and many others that are minting phenomenal engineers the and the past those engineers if they wanted to follow what they wanted to do they had to go to silicon valley or boston. what you're seeing now is capital in places like chicago and columbus and other places where they can stay and build their dreams. cheryl: the government's more from the? california is pretty hostile in terms of these ups and tax structure and property prices. >> it is really crazy. i grew up in silicon valley and lived there in the 60s, 70s and so on, there was a report recently how selling in palo alto there were 1100 square feet with one cargo raws for the foundation was scratched, roof was leaking from a one$.6 million. gerri: you making that up. >> i am not making that up

about 20,000 people were on hand to see him early this morning in western pennsylvania.st phil. most hoping that he wouldn't see his shadow and predict a short winter instead. organizers say historically there's an 85% chance that he will forecast six more weeks of winter. >>> 8:25 now. coming up on kron 4 news weekend, gearing up for a soda tax in san francisco. it's a possibility and how much the proposed legislation could cost you if you drink soda. >>> we take this live look outside of san francisco where we see overcast skies. rain this morning over most of the bay area. we will be back with the full forecast. >> developing story this morning. a 4-year-old girl found dead in napa. police are looking for her mother and her mother's boyfriend. napa police would like to talk to sarah kruger, the girl's mother and her boyfriend, ryan scott warner. the body was found in the bed after police visited the home for a welfare check saturday afternoon. officials say there are signs of foul play kruger and warner were last seen saturday morning leaving the area carrying luggage

> well, you know, you know i grew up in a way like a lot of these kids where, i grew up in western pennsylvaniabig football town and i was really into art and photography. and every sunday night my family, which was quite dysfunctional, would go see a painter and he teaches painting and watercolor and it was kind of magical you know. but also very much underlying very difficult. and this is a trip where i took this picture of my parents in a virginia beach. and my parents sort of came back together again with a a great amount of love and affection and made me really happy. when i see that picture and experience it i really am very proud of it. >> you said you learned from diane and said to take photographs you need courage. >> yes. >> what's the courage you need to take a photograph? >> most photographers are very very shy. to have a camera in front of you really helps you a lot. this is crazy. my dog goes swimming in the water and i love to photograph him under the water. i can hold my breath for the longest time under the water with my camera. if i was just swimming around with my pals, i wou

it was in six counties in western pennsylvania.ear about and any state, in our state whether it's philadelphia or pittsburgh, these deaths occurred in places pretty far from a big city. so helping us get to the origin or source of that is one part of the challenge. also, dealing with this question of the -- the potency of the heroin, as well as the efforts made by the bad guys to get it into the hands of younger and younger people. this is an issue that frankly was highlighted a couple of years ago by the so-called ndic in pennsylvania, which was at the time located in johnstown. they focused on this as an east/west, eastern problem moving west and now we have evidence of it. >> the surge in heroin use hardly unique to your state. this is vermont's governor, in his state of the state address just last month. take a listen. >> vermont since 2000, we've seen more than 770% increase in treatment for all opiates, what starts as oxycontin problem in vermont, has turned into a full blown heroin crisis. >> he devoted nearly his state of t

ciavarella takes him for four months and since then to another facility in the jpa childcare in western pennsylvaniar four months, losing his job, loses everything again. the people that worked there could not understand why this almost 20-year-old is doing in this juvenile facility. nobody understood. but he came out of there and that was it. he ended up in a fight, which he -- the fight he did get into that we took to adult court was thrown out. it was just a fight between two kids. but mark ciavarella, four months, he went to his other facility that they were receiving profit for. that was it. he got into a fight. he was sentenced to a state prison for it and he came out and lasted for almost five months, and then -- that's it. >> and he shot himself. >> yes, in his heart. >> we're talking to sandy fonzo. she is talking about her son ed kenzakoski, who took his own life after an ordeal that lasted years when he ended up originally in the court of judge mark ciavarella. in the midst of what you're saying, sandy, you said you came to know that judge mark ciavarella was now being investigated, even

just last month, 22 people died from heroin overdoses in western pennsylvania.entanyl. >> fentanyl is extremely dangerous. extremely potent. and two to three grains of salt just to put anytime perspective, often tan ill mixed in with heroin could kill a seasoned heroin addict. >> they don't tell you it's in there. >> they don't tell you it's in there. >> reporter: the agent's team recently seized over 12 kilo grams of heroin worth millions of dollars on the street. these are evidence photos of just some of the heroin and weapons they've picked up. but dealers are going to extremes. like this one, woman police say, who was selling heroin in mcdonald's happy meals. $2 for the toy, 80 bucks for the heroin. those extremes and creativity are only making his job harder. >> sometimes they'll have small amounts on them. and sometimes it will be hidden. it will be hidden in that mailbox. could be hidden underneath the car. it will be hidden in a corner. then they'll go and re up the amount that they have on them. so they never take a chance to lose their product. >> rand

snowfall ranged from six inches in western pennsylvania to ten inches in northern new england. for many, it was another day of plowing streets and removing snow from roofs. others took advantage of yet another day off to get in some recreation. in economic news, the congressional budget office reported the president's plan to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would boost earnings for more than 16 million people. it also said employers would cut half a million jobs. and on wall street, the dow jones industrial average lost nearly 24 points to close at 16,130. the nasdaq rose more than 28 points to close at 4,272. canadian-born writer mavis gallant, known for her mastery of short stories, died today at her apartment in paris. she was born in montreal, started out as a journalist and went on to publish more than 100 short stories. scores of them appeared in "the new yorker", and in collected form. mavis gallant was 91 years old. still to come on the newshour: deadly violence fuels unrest in ukraine; what s.a.t. and a.c.t. scores say about college success; the push toward pe

we could see 1 to 2 feet of snow in western new york, western pennsylvania.d see some pretty high totals as far as new york city and boston as well. >> jennifer, thanks very much, i guess. >>> let's get caught up on some of the other stories. susan hendricks has a 360 news and business bulletin. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence officials confirm they're tracking specific threats against the sochi olympics and they're working with russian officials. two u.s. warships will be on stand by in the black sea. >>> a federal grand jury is investigating the toxic spill at a west virginia facility that polluted a river supplying water to charleston. 300,000 people were left without water. and independent tests conducted for cnn found traces of the chemical remain in the water but the cdc says the levels are safe. >>> well, today the senate passed a nearly $1 trillion farm bill that the house already approved. i now goes to president obama. it lays out five years of farm poll six cuts food stamps and increases spending on farmer's markets. >>> take a close look. the surfe

and if you look right now in western pennsylvania, i think we're up to something like 22 deaths with heroin that is laced with another pharmaceutical painkiller fentanyl. >> sam, the other thing we know about the hoffman story is that he had gone into rehab many years ago. he was essentially said to be clean for several decades, in fact. that tells us something clearly about the nature of this kind of addiction. >> it tells us that this is an enormously difficult addiction to kick. people have to relapse six, eight, nine, ten times before they're actually able to kick the heroin habit. once you get down, once you start down that slope it is very difficult. it also has this horribly mangling effect on the families surrounding the people who use it. talking with lots of families, people around the country have lost loved ones to this. and the death, sometimes is even almost like a relief because for so many years it's just been this horrible, horrible problem dealing with this one kid who cheats, who lies, who steals. and that is air big part of the addiction. can i say also, that in m

just last month, 22 people died from heroin overdoses in western pennsylvania.ll of it had been laced with fentanyl. >> fentanyl is extremely dangerous. extremely potent. and two to three grains of salt just to put anytime perspective, of this mixed in with heroin could kill a seasoned heroin addict. >> they don't tell you it's in there. >> they don't tell you it's in there. >> reporter: the agent's team recently seized over 12 kilograms of heroin worth millions of dollars on the street. these are evidence photos of just some of the heroin and weapons they've picked up. but dealers are going to extremes. like this woman, police say, was selling heroin in mcdonald's happy meals. $2 for the toy, 80 bucks for the heroin. those extremes and creativity are only making his job harder. >> sometimes they'll have small amounts on them. and sometimes it will be hidden. it could be hidden in that mailbox. could be hidden underneath the car. it will be hidden in a corner. then they'll go and re up the amount that they have on them. so they never take a chance to lose their

and there is speculation, could this be linked to the 22 deaths in western pennsylvania.>> right, the mix. >> they will do preliminary test on it. >> investigators trying to determine where that heroin came from. >> absolutely. >> when we come back, the low down "the skinny." >> the latest on "the direction." what one direction is now worth. and how john stamos looks bald. you're a big fan of john stamos. stick around. >> "world news now" continues after this from our abc statio >>> welcome back to the tuesday skinny. that means our weekly update on "the bachelor." >> joining us again for his commentary, world nowned bachelor analyst. >> might have been the best entrance yet, jack. >> i'm late because i was getting over the super bowl. >> getting over it. >> thank god it was a close game. at least until they kicked off. shortly thereafter. anyway, "bachelor" last night. vietnam. 11 women in the running. first date, our girl renee. she is doing good. she is hanging in there. our girl, renee. there they are. they had a great time. walking around. everything went great. late

and another train hauling crude oil has gone off the tracks, this time in western pennsylvania.he pittsburgh post gazette reports 21 cars of a norfolk southern train derailed and hit a metal factory. so far there are no reports of injuries or fires, but there are reports of leakage from one of the cars. ashleigh, back to you. what's happening now? still raining? >> yeah, because we've gone up in temperature, jean. you know, over the course of the morning this was a blizzard like city, and now it's just an awful rainstorm. the rain is driving, and it's painful and it's cold. and it's also making things very slushy. so pedestrian traffic in the biggest pedestrian city in the united states is really, really uncomfortable. that's just uncomfortable. but there are places that are dangerous and where motorists have had to be, you know, stranded in traffic yet again hours and hours in north carolina. overnight it was a gridlock mess. they got the kind of snow they knew was coming but didn't know how fast it was going to be coming. so here they are again day two getting another full rou