Nowhere is the pain of addiction felt more acutely than the communities of vermont, seeing the number of opiate deaths double. And where the number of addicts seeking treatment rose 800 sips of the year 2002. America tonights adam may reports on those addicted in vermont. People here do not make enough money to get buy. Theyll get rid of food carts. Theyll go without food, theyll steel from friends and family to get one mosh. Heroin is spreading through rural america, striking small towns like rutland, vermont. No matter what, 24 7, you are plotting in your head on how to get the next high. Its an every day struggle, an every second struggle. Vermont ranks number two in the country for people seeking treatment for opiate addiction. Tucked away between the restaurants is seren itty house. There are addicts homing here to get clean. Here are two hard core addicts going through recovery. How hard is it . It destroys you. Mentally its all over the place. You are happy, sad. Youre miserable, excited. Physically everything on your body hurts, and you deal with it. You dont graduate from addiction, you are not court. After trouble with the law and a dozen overdoses that put her in the hospital, ashley, whos only 21, hit rock bottom. I didnt think i would make 21. Matts addiction cost him a career as a computer technician at the department of homeland securi security. It was great, making good money, travelling, and spending twice as much and sit and think and wonder how i spent that drugs when i made this much. Since last year deaths from opiate overdoses have doubled in vermont. The number of vermont people seeking treatment has increased 771 since 2000. Almost everyone we spoke to here knew someone affected by addiction. The pain hurts, its too much. I know how i raised him. I know how i raised him. He went to private schools, he had the best of everything. He went to sunday mass. We lived a whole some life. And i dont know how this addiction took over. I dont. I dont now how it took over. Carol is one of many broken parents of children in the gripe of heroin addiction. She asks that we not show her face. Your son was going to come here and talk to us as well. And he decided not to. Correct. Why . Its a vicious cycle. Its a game. Hell say and do whatever you want to hear. But not follow through with it. He says hes been clean for several days now, do you believe him . Absolutely not. I know nothing about addicts or drugs, but im learning a lot. I wake up every morning and thank god that my son is still alive, i think. I think. I havent heard from him. I think. I havent heard from him. I think he has not got no trouble with the law. I want to keep him alive, but i dont know thou do it any more. I dont know thou do it any more. Do you think he considers how this has impacted . I dont think they care, as long as they get their fix. How serious is the heroin problem in vermont right now . Right now my patients tell me you can find heroin on every street corner. Its in every town. Dr deb richter is a one of vermonts leading addiction specialist and says it can be traced back to cheap, powerful painkillers that were easy to get. Its a problem in rural states. Perhaps boredom, im not sure. I was in primary care. I remember seeing it. I moved here in 1999. In the early 2001, 2001, i started seeing a bunch of 20yearolds coming in with habits of oxicotin. To me that was the turning point of how things started. It started with pills. Pills that were crushable and easy to snort. Dr rictor believes pharmaceutical companies could have done nor prevent the epidemic. How did heroin become a problem. Essentially the company decided not to put a coating around the medication. That would have made it difficult to snort. Most kids started out snorting the medication. If they had put the koeting around it, it may have stopped this. They chose not to for economic, financial reasons. When they decided or the company decided to put a coating, the cost of the drug went up. The heroin dealers moved in. With other powerful painkillers going for 80 a bill. Heroin was the cheaper alternative. They saw a maimer market in rut line and major profit. We are near new york and massachusetts, and connecticut. And people can take a couple hour trip to these places and score cheap heroin and sell it for more here. We didnt know she was using drugs until 15 or 16. Thats when things got bad, and we had to admit something was wrong and seek treatment. Patricks daughter sara started to use drugs in high school. With treatment her parents thought she was out of danger. She turned her life around, applied for college, life was good. She had a good job. She was vibrant. We were ready to see what was in the future for her. We knew it would be good. Martins life shattered when police knocked on his door. It was devastating. I had a lose before, but not of my child. No one should bury their child. No one should try to figure out the clothes theyll put them in in a casket. Martin says his daughters body was dumped in a hospital parking lot after dying slowly from an overdose. The heroin was 82 pure, and mixed with cocaine. She died a slow death at the apartment of the people she was with. They sanitised the place as she was dying. They knew she was gone, and they they took care of themselves first. Are you haunted by the questions . Absolutely. Im haunted by the fact that the people with her never got charged and are still out, with furnishing the drugs one is local, still dealing. This is the bench that sarah used to sit on when she came downtown. After saras death, patrick and his wife came by the bench in downtown rutland. It was saras favourite spot to relax, and where the martins decided to start a support group for merits like them. They named the group wits pd. If we can wits end. If we can help one person, help another family save their child, her life wont have been in vain. She was so much more than drugs. When we return, you may not recognise him. The places you go to to get your 5 minute happiness. The faces he brings to the web put the cheese in the cheese burger, and a laugh online for cats and other people too. Meet ben, and hear what he has in mind for your digital future, next. For much of the last book the focus was on the skies. A while ago, pan am flight 103 exploded over scotland. Only one man was convicted in the attack. A man, abdel baset almegrahi. In a report al jazeeras Investigative Team draws on undisclosed intelligence documents, and fresh testimony from a member of Iranian Intelligence and a former c. I. A. Agent to identify those responsible. Sh its the night of the winter solstice, the longest night of the year. Pan am flight takes off. Theres a bomb in the cargo hold. 30 minutes after takeoff theres an explosion. 200,000 pounds of kerr seen ignates. The boeing 737 crashes on the town of lockerbie. 259 passengers and crew are killed, and 11 people on the ground. The bomb has been hidden in a toshiba radio cassette player, packed into a brown samsonite bag with new clothes, made in malta. Most of the dead had been americans heading whom for christma christmas. We remember them. Each year on the date of the tragedy, families gather in arl iping tonne cemetery Arlington Cemetery to remember their dead. 2013 was the 25th anniversary of their loss. Everybody who lost a close member of their family will be affected by it. Part of the way you are affected is you want to know about who did it, why they did it, why werent their loved ones protected. No amount of time can put an end to your loss or pain. Those that committed this evil act do not have the last word. I will tell you that i remain confident to this day that abdel baset almegrahi was one of those responsible for the terrorist attack. To this day the only man found guilty of the lockerbie bomber was a libyan official named abdel baset almegrahi. The case depended on the fragment of a timer found in a shirt collar and recovered from the site. It was alleged that abdel baset almegrahi bought the shirt from a Small Clothing shop in malta, and linked libya to the crime, because the fragment matched 20 timers known to have been purchased by libya. In two previous documentaries al jazeera unearthed fresh evidence on the case of the lockerbie bomber. First, george thompson, a defense investigator proved that abdel baset almegrahi was never in the maltese clothes shop. The shop is on the lefthand here. Its closed. A shopkeeper picked him up. We she had the shopkeeper described a man that was taller, darker and older than abdel baset almegrahi. We revealed that the shopkeeper, tony gauci was paid a 2 million reward by the u. S. Government. This and inconsistencies in his evidence tainted the judicial process. And there was more rigorous scientific tests on the fromming the fragment of bomb typers was not one sold to libya. The information was withheld from abdel baset almegrahis defense lawyers, even though it demolished the cas. This Circuit Board was manufactured by a different process to the original fragment that i analysed. This Program Addresses the unanswered question if abdel baset almegrahi was incident, who then was responsible for the lockerbie bombering. Al Jazeera America presents its been a big week in the geek world. The internet marked its 25th birthday at the annual south by southwest conference, and they held a standing room only session, the economy of internet cat videos. Featuring the mutty million view no, no, no, no, no, cat. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, no, yes, yes, yes, the guy that started the internet cat is a seattle entrepreneur with a fondness for cat, cash and fast cars. Meet ben ha. Theres nothing wrong with wrecking your car. Thats what insurance is for. To understand ben ha, you have to take a leap. Have you to jump. I dont want to let life pass me by and regret it later. Its something that makes no sense whatsoever. Your brain screaming at you, dont do it, you dont want to die. You have to be willing to go along with the ride. And hang on. Its a fun part of the curve. Its found be a fast one. Because even compared to other high stakes tech entrepreneurs. I made it. The 36yearold south korean born superstar is all in, all the time. How are you doing. What makes him do the things he does. I made it. Hes probably a little crazy. Which is good, i think. To be a successful entrepreneur. Hes a person that is striving to be better, do something knew, and always curious. I can do it. Ben and his wife is the brain trust behind this. Arguably the dumbest images on the internet. From the gin awnous popular website. Why would you watch that . Maybe its at a zoo and needs help. This is the cheeseburgers. Dogs do dumb stuff too. And left you think that the cheeseburgers discriminate against certain species. That is stupid, theres the fail blog. Where stupid human tricks have a home too. A place you go to to get your five minutes of happiness. Cheeseburger owns 50 websites, some of the most viral images on the internet. Half a billion page views per month. The Digital Real Estate advertisers line up to throw money at. Business is simply. You want to make a dollar of profit. If you lose a dollar, if you are unprofitable, theres an expiration date. If you are profitable youll never go out of business. What is hard is making your own luck over and over again. What does emily have to do with your suk sis . Success . Part of the weirdness of being a c. E. O. Of an Internet Company is you become eccentric. People dont tell you no. You get to do what you want. Its a privileged life. And she keeps me in check. Every successful person has someone behind the scene making sure it happens, shes that purpose. Ha wont say what its worth. In 2011 he asked a venture capitalist for 30 million and admits the company is worth more than the investment. Disney started with a mouse, i started with a cat. Will you be as big as disney. I would love to be. In truth, the cat gave him his second shot at success. The first business, a Software Analytics company. At the tender age of 22, he faced his first epic fail. I lost half a million of other peoples money. It was more than half a million, it was 1. 75 million. When i was younger and closed out my company, it was super hard. Crushed, ha folded his business, wept went back to his apartment and talked about suicide. The more you talk about it, the more you talk about it, the fewer take their lives. It was depress, and 9 11 happened after, that exacerbated it. Imagine the shock of going through the depression of closing a company and wondering if you are worth anything, and the world crumbles. He got out of the dark place, the realisation that failure could be a companion to success, and it didnt have to define him. A lot of people equate their identity with the success or failure of the company. Its not like i have 1 hun failure 100 failure. Ha laid off a third of his cheeseburger staff. Was this another epic fail. We are a startup. Usually startups are funded by investments, meaning that theres a run way that runs out. You have to take off. You have to become profitable or find another investment to extend the runway or find a way to reduce the burn. We felt it was better for us to cut. This is a family you built. Absolutely. And so that hurt. Yes, it was painful. Today the Northwestern University journalism grab is pursuing bigger dreams than cute kiddy places. With his newest endeavour, circa, he and his partners want to change your the face of mobile news. Rather than taking print and web content that would be for those areas and shoe horning it, our writers and staff produce news for mobile phones and mobile context. Circa is a News Organization that delivers its product on your handhotel device in bite sized bullets that you can customize with a swipe. We are here to check the balance of those in power. People like me, who are not in new, stage a claim and say we believe this is the future of journalism, that we have the ability and ideas to change your something that has been around for hundreds of years. This is a hip nice area of up to. Yet, for all his high speed, high tech know how, this entrepreneur goes to retro when it comes to music. Why vinyl . Its slower. Wait, you are a guy that had me out riding around at 155 Miles Per Hour. Its kind of the same thing, the 155 Miles Per Hour in records. Its about enjoying life. Fast or slow. You put on a record. You have 20 minutes per side. If you do anything else, youll miss the music. I want to experience things in the truest way. I want to know the real thing. He may not be a musician himself, but ha has his own rock star status, complete with groupies. How are you doing. And to think it began with a picture of a cat. Apropos for a man who has landed, so far, on his feet. I mean, if you think about it, anyone can start a tech starter business. Theres no barrier to entry, right. If you think about the business, we are competing with everybody and anybody who is creating entertainment. Do you have a cat . I do not have a cat. Im allergic to cat. You dont need to be a cat owner to do this. You need to understand what your customers want. That is business. Cats too. Looking ahead now on the program. Coming up next week, cleansing america. They were asleep by the time they got to the operating room. I remember one week we could do seven sterilisations, and the next week we could only two two female sterilisations because it took longer to do the female than the males. Complex story on the practice of ugenics and the stolen future of thousands of people. Lori jane believe har reports on the movement to cleanse societi societies. And why people get up and close to florida humanity. Maybe a threat to its the florida amenity is a success story. Theres less than 400 remaining. With applications, thousands are swimming again. As america tonight Sheila Mcvicar discovered, the loveable creatures may be too popular for their own good. Theres two acres, and seven acres here of where we are going to go to. Activity behind the boats on the surface. Likely a mating herred. A mating herd. Its past down on kings bay on the west coast of florida. Im with a u. S. Fish and wildlife ranger, and he knows every inch of the water. 9 miles away. The bay is serene, empty of boats and people, but filled with an exceedingly rare and endangered slice of wildlife. They are the only curious mammal that initiates contact because of curiosity, the way the brain is wired. Do you think they make a conscious choice . Yes, they do make a conscious choice. They know. Its that promise of interaction that by noon produces an aquatic gridlock rivalling rush hour. The bay fills with tour boats, kayakers, swimmers and snorkellers and people, now more than 250,000 an i cant remember, flocking to this small bay. Its about half a square mile. Most of the people that live here are not liking the fact that theres no limits, no thresholds, no capacity of seeing how many visitors at one time can come to the bay. Most people in town are happy because the economy depends on the culturism kings bay is one of the only places where you can swim and touch groups of florida menity. Hot springs supply warm water, heated to 72 degrees. Menities meed d need the warmth. Its critical habitat. Mike is a guide, tour Boat Operator and guide. Theres 400 to 600 here in a good winter. Thats a lot. It is a lot. Crystal river is named one of the thousand places to see before you die. In the New York Times best seller of the same name. Manity eco tourism is the lifeblood of the small town, population 3,000. Eco tourism and hundreds of thousands of tourists set off a debate between environmentalists, business owners. What is it about. Let me fall back on a favourite quote by a famous conservationist. You protect what you love. Getting to know the animals, we foster a stewardship. When we come face to face, its real. This is his livelihood. Manities will behave like cats and not so much like dogs. We call them gentle giants. They are so engaging and so curious, and they move in slow motion when they are looking at you and theres a connection when you look in their eyes. Every day he takes visitors under water and swimmers will pat or tch the menties, which is legal here. Some conservationists want the tour boats eliminated because they believe smorklers or boats are destroying the animals. Insist touching should be banned. Tour Boat Operators argue its an experience turning tourists so manity advocates. It gives me chills, touching something that, to me, is allusive. It was so different to anything i have done. They are so big, and they are right there, and, you know, you can reach out and touch them, and they wont do anything. Manities have roped off sank tu air yeas. They are off limit to the public, but sometimes, as we saw, tourists go there any way. Maam, you are not supposed to be says closed area. Well go up here this way. Tracy is app environmentalist who leads kayak tours of the bay. She films what she calls amenity harassment by diverse and tour operators. What was it like out there this morning . Crazy. Too many people, too many boats. Few man itties, scpept the ones in the sanctuary. Coulson saw manities chased. I see people stand on them. Climb on their backs, try to hug them, catch a ride. Blocking them from surfacing to breathe. Just about everything you can think of crystal echos Tourism Industry provides 1,000 jobs and tens of millions in revenue for gift shops, dive tours and hotels. It really is the only game in town. Where do you draw the line . I think people should not touch the animals or attempt to. No one explained what i do with my passenger when the animal goes over, do i back you up, put you on the boat. The no touch is code for the activists that want to such us down. You get the passengers out of the situation, you have destroyed a third of our customer base. I dont know a business that can survive taking a 33 hit. One place within kings bay that environmentalists want turned into a sanctuary is Three Sisters springts, the popular location for swimmers to interact. Every day in the winter its packed with manities and tourists can they rest. They, they are resilient. Some are intolerant. Thats why they choose the areas closed off, off limits to people. With the ranger as our guide, we went for a swim. Manities all around. We drifted taking care not to tch them. Some were inquisitive, some nibbled on toes and some swam by. I cant think of a wildlife species where you have an inspection of interaction. If you go on safari, you see the animal, but you dont want to interact. Right. But an lion wont crawl up in your jeep and roll over. They want to address the overcrowding. Jurisdiction is divided. Tourists will continue to flock to crystal river, hoping to have a once in a lifetime experience, but the town needs to stay economically afloat and for now the touching will continue. People think the value is in the interaction and the touching. Unfortunately, thats what most people want to do when they swim with dolphins or feed the dowl funs. They think its no different. Theres a ginormous difference, its an endangered species, its not treated as such. Coming up next gone fishing. The ones that didnt get away because thi luke it. Living because they like it. Lying a highlight when the temperatures are down loi. Spring arrives in a few days. Welcome news for many of us there are folks that enjoy ice on the lakes in the north. They make a lifestyle out of it. Thats why this week was a sad one for minnesotas ice fisherman as the seen came to an end. Not before adam may got the drift of a favourite winter pastime. Have you cut anything today worth keeping . I havent cut a thing all day. Fisher many travel from across the country to do this sit and stare into a hole, in subzero weather, waiting for the big one. This lake is a popular spot. The department of fisheries issues more than a million licences each year. What is it about fishing in minnesota . Its something to do in the winter. Wed fish in the water if we could. We love fishing and we can do it. Dan jasper turned minnesota winter pastime into a business. He toured the lake, covered in 26 inches of life, the frigid freeway enough to hold our suburban. You plough of roads and everyone uses them . Yes. The roads leave to villages of ice fishing houses. Some are not the shack to get out of the cold. Not all as as nice as this . No, this is one of the nicest ones. Its a camp are, heater, refrigerators, stereo, stove, sink, tv. Deep fryer, pizza cooker. Is this a sport with these amenities out here. We like it. Jasper rents his ice fishing house to tourists from around the world. Excited to sleep on the frozen lake and try his newest gadget. This is an underwater camera, 19. 5 feet down. We are able to watch the jig and the fish at the same time. We can trigger them to bite by watching the fish you can seat the tricks. What they like and dont like. Sounds like a video game. You are sitting there staring at the screen, not looking down the hole. Thats right. A video game making catching fish easy. You aim for the big one . Yes. You got the worm. A little left. Got him. What are you got . Little pumpkin seed. Just a sunny. Well let him live another day. Catch and release. Good luck. So out here the fish house comes in all shapes and sizes. Theres a big one everyone says we have to check out. Its the balajio, and the owner invited us inside. Wow. This is incredible. Alan shavers house has everything. This is what we want you to see. How many holes do you have. Theres 10. You have a full bar here. Yes. Every flavour imaginable and a tv. And a full bathroom in here. And then i got a cub board in there, and all the nov elties that we give out. Gees, you have an oven. Theres an oven with a flap on it. I have that light in spain, and its for deco. Before we put in the fireplace we could bring a four wheeler in the door, and you could bring a four wheeler in, if you want to. This is what i say about my wife, oh, what a dream. I dream of walking a field of flowers makes you wonder how much fish is taking place in the led holes, bub lipping to stop them freezing open. This is a wal jirks, i caught that. You cut this in wepter and pulled it though a hole. We did. It was about 7 pounds. Shaver is retired, and the house is his pride and joy. He ops it to strangers on the ice. Look for the flashing strobe light and you know visitors are welcome. Why do you do this . It makes the winter go fast and its just plain fun. Amidst the glam there are some who do it the oldfashioned way. Summer fishing is great. Nothing like ice fishing. In father and son huddled in a small tent every winter for years. Its not fancy, but to them thats the point. Its our time together, bonding time. A lot of times you get wrapped up in a busy life, and you dont get over and see the parents. Slow down like this. Thats right. This is our time to spend together. And it means the world to me. Thats nice to hear from your son. It sure is. People dont realise how much that means to a dad. Its a good thing. Even if the fish are not biting, the memories can be unforgettable. And ahead in our final thought this hour a stitch in time during a brutal winter. Well revisit the seamless operation that serves as an empower. Plan. Theres more to it from detroit, next. Finally from u spring starts this week. Much of the country is getting cold shoulders, especially detroit. We return there to check in on a story, an effort to give the homeless a warm home on the cold nights. Theres more to it. The sleeping bag things, do you know how to work it, undo it and all that. On a bitterly cold night in Detroit Church volunteers are on a mission. The temperatures is 12 degrees. The biting wind makes it feel like 5 below zero. Thank you, god bless. Its cold. The men are driving through detroit looking for the vulnerable on a brutal winter night, the homeless. Piled in the back of the truck are heavyduty coats that double as sleeping bags. They are sown together a few miles away and given to churches and carties to hand out charities to hand out. On a night like this they can stop someone freezing to death. Rick approaches a man. Do you know how to work it. It has a velcro hit. The coats are functional. Specifically designed for the dispossessed and destitute. Someone give you a big hug. Its hike a big bear on you. Caro line gunsays such a coat kept her warm when she was homeless and living in a shelter with no heat. I cared for nothing when i had my coat. That is everything to me. Im not just saying that, its the honest gods truth. Its a good coat. She is one of 15 seamstresses working for the empowerment plant, the non profit group. The ladies, as they are called by c. E. O. Veronica scott. We sat with her last august. And said the idea to make the coats grew out of a project. She realised the coat was not fuf. A coat on its own is not going to change anything. If i higher the people in the shelters that would be on the receiving end, instead of giving them a coat, and hiring them. Potential employees, single mum, homeless or living in shelters, desperate for work. One of newest hires was tea sams, a 21yearold mother of two. She had been living in a shelter, separated from her children, desperate to reunite with them. When i walked in here, all i thought about was my kids. Im to have a job and get the kids back. That got me excited. Tea had no sewing speemexper, and the bonechilling winter seemed far away. Six months later detroit suffered the lowest textures sips the 1950s. Tea is transformed. Shes one of the strongst sowers. I see plenty of coats. I see the details that i did in the coat. That is exciting. It warms my heart to see the people that needed a coat walk around in a coat. I spent. Op days like this, 9 degrees, the c. E. O. Hits the streets to hand out her special coats. The windchill makes it feel like minus 12. A couple of homeless men are roaming the streets. Theres a buckle on the sleeves. The coats are big, designed that way, allowing for layers of clothing or possessions, backpacks in this says, to fit underneath and providing application in temperatures where its unsafe to be outside. Stay warm, pan. With the weather we have experienced and seeing people in the conditions they are in because of the weather, this is a huge part of what we are doing. We have stronger dedication to making the coats the best we can make them. Buttons fall off and zippers jam, so this is velcro. It has a builtin sleeping bag. Ing aboutname companies, including general motors, and car hart donate much of the tomorrow. Between the black shell and red liner is white insulation made from the stuff put inside car door panels. Insulation that can keep someone alive in the dead of winter. Carr scro line gunsays caro line gunsays after she moved from the shelter to the home it was a bed. My husband and i slept in the coat. It was our pillow and blanket. It is a blessing in its first year veronica said they produced 25 coats. The following year it made nearly 1,000, and the nonprofit stitched together more than 3,000 in the past year. Veronica is manning to expand the planning to expand the warehouse and hire more people. We represent 20 people that their livelihood depends on this. Its exciting, thrilling but counting. Its making it better for them. Daunting, perhaps, but veron ka is determined, and so are the seamstresses that sow, backstitch and hem, making thousands of coats for those in the streets, fulfilling a need that the women here understand better than most. I enjoy helping people. I welcome the work. I love getting paid. But to know that the coat is helping someone. I know how i feel. The smallest thing can mean the world if you have nothing. Me making a coat is contributing to people feeling it. Stay warm, man. So glad our correspondent chris brewery was able to return to detroit and see the coats making a difference. Thats it for us here on america tonight. Remember if you want to comment on any stories, log on to the website aljazeera. Com americatnt. And you can meet the team and get sneak previews of other stories, and tell us what youd like to see. You can join the conversation at twitter or our facebook page. Goodnight. More of america tonight tomorrow. This is al Jazeera America. Im jonathan betz, live in new york. What now the big question after app overwhelming vote in crimea to rejoin russia. A u. S. Army general facing life in prison for Sexual Assault makes a deal with prosecutors. The investigation into Malaysia Airlines flight 370 focuses on this man, the pilot