>> the number of overdose deaths in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania has doubled in the last two years.ich, poor, young, old. opiods don't discriminate. >> you aren't going to be surprised, huh-uh. i hope i can help it. >> it's been eight years since carol lost her son, eric, to a heroin overdose. she mourns and says he's better off. >> he had to live that life as he was living for the rest of his life, then i'm glad that he was gone. it was torture watching him. torture. >> eric's story of addiction and death has become almost routine. drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental deaths in america. over 50,000 a year, far more than are killed in car crashes. opiods are the heart of it, with 15,000 fay talts related to pain pills. >> it can happen to anybody if it can happen to me. i'm in the system. i see it every day in court. and i had no idea that my son was using heroin. >> bruce brandler is the chief law enforcement enforcer for half the state of pennsylvania. but he couldn't protect his 15-year-old son eric who died of an o.d. in 2011. carol spends time with her daughter, rec

showers, come down wind from the great lakes and you can see from binghamton down toward scranton wilkes barre we have light snow showers moving through this evening, most of our area will be spared, these will in the travel quite that far, but in the far north and west suburbs a stray sprinkle will or brief snow shower or squall cannot be ruled out. the wind are strong and carrying that moisture right along with them. the as far as, temperatures are concerned it is cooler, then it was last night, still not bad, we're not feeling the full cool down, until we will get through overnight the hours and into tomorrow. still sitting at 47 in philadelphia, 44 allentown. 45 degrees in millville. but we did add another rain drop to our calendar out identify today, inly total 3.06 inches but with that rain that came down this morning more green then blue on the calendar so far. it does look like at least end of the january will stay without a rain drop, it will stay try through next several days but as we head into next week we are tracking chance for perhaps some snow. typical january chill as we head

moving on as we get closer to president-elect's donald trump's election day police a business in wilkes barreing increased sales because of trump. >> scott paul is general manager of wet paint printing and design. he says 07 percent of his sales come from cardboard cut outs. they receive all sorts of the requests by cut outs of celebrities including president-elect are among the most popular. >> everybody wants their piece of a celebrity for themselves and it is easier to take home a cut out then it is the actual celebrity. >> paul says company has sold 5,000 cardboard cut outs of the future commander in chief, but there is one person whose cut outs are more popular and that is pope francis. >>> well, coming up in the next her of "eyewitness news", the trump inauguration boycott escalates we will look at the growing list of law headache hours say they will not attend >>> and high tech shopping, how virtual reality is changing the way you'll buy your grocery or clothes, coming >>> wet wednesday morning commute the rain could slow you down but good news it is not ice and snow. katie and meisha

this is a stop at wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, this fire station. pennsylvania's bravest. i learn that 40 out of 68 full-time firefighters here have to work at least a second job. though they say a generation ago, a firefighting income could support your family. but firefighter chris smith simply will not give up on that dream for his children. chris smith has three jobs he works on rotation. his schedule is a rubik's cube. >> three nights of february, i'll get to sleep in my own bed. every other night, i'm working somewhere overnight. >> reporter: we're there as he gets ready to go to work at his first job. firefighter on the night shift. >> i have to be clean shaven for the fire department so our masks will form a good seal on our face. spare yun forp uniforms for every job i'm going to. >> reporter: job number one at the firehouse. 15 straight hours. >> we are heading out on a call. possible structure fire. >> reporter: job number two is as a trained paramedic. some days chris goes directly there to work eight hours. job number three, five hours as a paramedic in a diff

. >> william lisp and is a corner of luzern county, covering wilkes-barre and other towns in centralennsylvania. he remembered seeing one overdose death a month back in the '70s. and now, there are nine suspected ods in the first 19 days of this year. >> this has absolutely become routine that we say put the body in the morgue and we will get to the work on monday morning. >> carol spends time with her daughter, jennifer, a recovering addict herself, and share something her son wrote just before he died rid >> his last thing is, at first it was fun, later it was a full-time job. and it was. it consumed his life, that is all he thought about. >> federal prosecutors, including bruce, have a strategy to fight the opioid epidemic, combination of prevention, enforcement, and treatment, but even he admits this will not be over soon. >> jenna: we will make sure it's a priority, thank you. >> the day is over when they can stay in our country and wreak havoc. we are going to get them out, and we are going to get them out fast. to speak of these measures are inconsistent with our values -- >>

back to the election, why did hillary clinton lose in middle class, working class places like wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, close to where you grew up, and what economic message could have changed the outcome? >> well, first of all, i'm not... there's false choice being put forward by some democrats now. either we double down on our progressive values or we go out there and talk about the middle class and the working class. i have never found them inconsistent. they go together. the reason i'm a democrat is because the essence of the democratic party is an abhorns for the abuse of power on the one hand and the notion that everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity. that message never got through. i remember going, i was flying the cleveland. i did 83 events. i was wondering why i was so upset about the way the campaign was going. this was about three weeks out. and it hit me that because of the outrageous nature of the way in which the things that trump was saying, you never got to substance. you can't find me any viewer that can define for you what hillary's free tuition plan was about