To this is crazy this is usually covered in snow what happens now is whats going to happen around the globe. Are we listening . Also i just broke down. Sorry. Why does that particular moment bring tears . His deeply personal story has struck a chord across the country jd vance and his bestseller hillbilly elegy. When i finished the book, i felt a little worried about you. Why . I wondered if you had really dealt with everything. Tonight, he opens up like never before from troubled childhood to extraordinary success. Have you been surprised by how successful its been . Yes, laughs how could i not be . Im sitting here talking with megyn kelly. This is great. All that and more coming up on sunday night. What is going on guys . This is the brand new Samsung Galaxy s8. First thing we need to discuss is that display. The s8 plus has a higher resolution. The s8 was much better in low light situations. Video as well, id have to give the edge to the s8. We have gorilla glass 5 front back. 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Palm beach county state attorney Dave Aronberg is talking about the drug rehab industry in south florida, where some 400 Addiction Treatment centers are luring thousands of young people. Parents send their kids down here to south florida to get well, not to die. With more rehabs here per capita than just about anyplace else in the country, Palm Beach County might well be considered the recovery capitol of america. And while there are some good facilities, sadly scenes like this are playing out every day here. I dont feel no pulse. This is bodycam video of Police Responding to a drugoverdose. 24yearold alison flory died in the very place she was supposed to be getting help for her addiction. Shed come here for drug treatment at a facility called reflections. Did you get a phone call from the people at reflections . No. No one called you . No, no one ever called me to let me know. To this day . No. I mean, what kind of people run a facility where a young woman dies and they never call her parents . No, theres no condolences, there was nothing. Alison had gotten caught up the florida shuffle a criminal scheme, born of the opioid crisis. Its making some people very rich and putting others at risk. Like millions of young people in america, alison became addicted to opioids. Her parents say it started with pain pills in high school, and by her early 20s, she was in serious trouble. She tried rehab near her hometown outside chicago but relapsed. Her parents were desperate. So florida, why florida . Well, the facilities down there that we heard about were very good. It was beautiful. It is beautiful. And it and it seemed like a good fit for her. And you felt at this time hopeful . I felt hopeful more than i had ever felt ever. The rehab center provided a free plane ticket. And alison was off to south florida, where a new model for rehab is creating a crisis. Thats an overdose. Its an overdose . Yeah. Its delray pd, male overdosing, administering narcan. In the last four years the number of overdoses here has quadrupled as the Treatment Industry has exploded. More than 4,600 overdoses in Palm Beach County alone last year. We rode along with delray beach fire and rescue, and in just 90 minutes we witnessed two more. We can run 12 upwards of 12 in a day. Twelve in a day . Not a great record for the Recovery Capital of america. Its the wild west. Cary glickstein is the mayor of delray beach. The most vexing problem that our entire community is dealing with is a broken recovery industry and the collateral damage. So whats different down here . Instead of checking into a rehab, down here most addicts here live with each other in residential neighborhoods in houses like this one, called sober homes. There are four just on this block and thousands in south florida. Treatment happens at outpatient Treatment Center. It was supposed to make recovery cheaper and better but the system has been corrupted. Jennifer says alison tried to tell her as much before she died. She would call and say, they dont care about us. All they care about is money. Im like, that is ridiculous. I told her, thats not thats of course not, i mean you believed that people who were running rehab facilities, sober homes, are gonna help get her sober. Right. She didnt even know the half of it. But she was right. But she was right. After alison died, jennifer traveled to florida to try to find out what happened to her daughter, armed with reams of bills to her Insurance Company from multiple Treatment Centers, doctors, and laboratories. Jennifer going through bills in the car 3,400, 100, 4,100, 2,000. Almost 10,000 in lab fees for one date of service. Many of the charges are for care she doesnt think alison ever really got. The total for 15 months, over one million dollars. Theres two ways out, you either get out and recover or you die. Michelle curran also sent her daughter mikaya to florida. Despite more than 600,000 worth or bills to her insurance, she doesnt think mikaya got very much help. Im like, i didnt know you saw your therapist every single day. She goes, i dont see my therapist every single day. But youre being billed for that. I said, but were being billed for it. I said, and do you have Something Else going on . Are you sick or something . Theyve done a ton of labs on you. I said, i have a bill here for 10,600. For one lab . Yeah. Yes. One. And she goes, mom, ive and this was her words. Ive peed in a cup twice this week. I want you to take me through bit by bit what looks from the outside like a scam. Oh, its it is a total scam. State attorney aronberg says its all part of a massive kickback scheme and those outrageous lab bills are typical. Theres gold in that urine. And so the labs will compete to get the urine sent to them. They make a lotta money billing insurance. And so they will kick back some of the money to the outpatient facility or the sober home, whoever gets them the patient referral. After seven months of treatment mikaya was worse than ever and died of an overdose of heroin mixed with carfentanyl. How much does it hurt . It still does. Yeah, its a lot. Sorry. You know, if the lawmakers in washington, d. C. Knew what was going on, they would hopefully enact changes to federal law to prevent the scam from continuing, because not only are taxpayers footing the bill but people are dying unnecessarily because of this. He points to the Affordable Care act which makes payment for Addiction Treatment virtually unlimited. Its supposed to improve recovery, but criminals here see an unlimited pot of money to exploit. So the legislation thats designed to protect people who have addiction actually is exposing them to this horrific scam . This is a free for all created by well intended federal law. Other wellintended federal laws designate sober homes as housing for the disabled and that prevents local officials from regulating them. Theres no regulations, no certifications, no registration. No supervision. Theres no requirement to have any supervision. You could open up a sober home today, today. You just turn your house into a sober home. You just rent it out. He says its no way to get better, but it is another way everone makes money. Anybody with an insurance policy down here is more valuable than anybody without one. Mercedes smith, a recovering addict herself, told us sober home operators compete for addicts with good insurance enticing them with promises of free rent, free food, free cigarettes. She says she was paid to go to 12 step meetings to recruit people to her sober home. We would have to drive around delray. And anybody with, like, suitcases we would have to ask them, do you have insurance . We have a place you can go. A crooked sober home operator gets an illegal payment for each new patient brought to treatment. Its called patient brokering. We met colin and drew who have seen it first hand. They tell us its the money that makes the florida shuffle go round. Theyll pay you like 500 you know, like some people like 1000 to go to treatment. Its like hustling humans is what i feel its like. Pretty much. Theyll take extra insurance money and pay you to live there and just let you get high because the owners making bank. And that leads addicts to move from place to place to place. Before alison died, she had cycled through nine different Treatment Centers in just 15 months. I was just thankful that i had good insurance. And in this particular case i wish i had no insurance. She was a goldmine for them. Oh yeah, oh yeah. And it led to her death. Mikaya went to seven different Treatment Centers. One of them was reflections, that Treatment Center affiliated with the sober home where alison died. She told her mother that the man who ran it, Kenny Chatman, personally supplied her and other addicts with drugs. Heroin . Yes. So when they go test, they test what they call dirty. Which means that they can get into recovery again. Then they send em back to detox. And then Kenny Chatman gets a kickback on that. Theres no incentive in sobriety. The money is in relapse. It haunts me. She trusted in people that she shouldnt have trusted in, and and we told her to trust those people. During the course of our investigation we looked into dozens of Treatment Centers and sober homes. We dug into Police Reports and found drug use and patient brokering are rampant. Were in the parking lot of a location where alison received treatment. The place has changed its name three times since december. We have some questions to ask. Furniture turned upside down. Nobodys there. We tried to talk to another Treatment Center alison also attended, the london Treatment Center. Its linked to a sober home where there were six overdoses in just five months. Hi im cynthia mcfadden, from nbc news. Do you work for the london Treatment Center . I do but im not giving you permission to be on camera. We just have a couple of questions. Thats fine, but i have no comment right now. Im not giving you permission to be on camera. We asked if someone else would talk to us; no one would. But there is hope. Florida has expanded the state attorneys power to crack down on those who prey on addicts. How many arrests have you made . We have made 29 arrests here in Palm Beach County. Thats since july of last year. They include the operators of Treatment Centers, and sober homes, the head of a lab, and numerous people accused of of patient brokering. More to come . More to come. And we believe were closer to the beginning of this effort than the end. And as for the man who ran reflections and gave drugs to addicts . Kenny chatman has been sent to federal prison for 27 years. For desperate families caught up in the sweep of the opioid epidemic, the mayor has some advice. To the parents who think that theyre sending their kids down here because its number one in rehab. Thats a complete fallacy. Keep them closer to home. They are not Getting Better in florida. This scheme has already moved into new york, california, texas and arizona. So watch out, because it could be coming to a spot near you. Coming up penguins now gentlemen just calm down. A trip to antarctica, teeming with surprises. Ice is melting here, but some of these little guys are thriving. What we can learn from them. They roll with the punches. In a way that these other species just cant. And later. Hillbilly elegy. Its the bestseller that hit a nerve, and pierced hearts. Im sitting in the back of this police cruiser, theyve just arrested my mom. I was just really sad and felt very lonely. Jd vance gets candid about his inspiring story, and shows us all you can go home again. 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You can argue about its causes all you want, but there are few places on the planet that have felt the effects of earths warming more than here, the antarctic peninsula. Where the average winter temperature has risen nine degrees. What does that mean . The penguins will tell us. The antarctic peninsula isnt the easiest place to get to. It requires a two day sea voyage from the bottom of argentina across the southern ocean. Our destination, the 800 mile long leg of land that reaches northward from the continent. It is a place of jaw dropping grandeur, mountains, glaciers, and icebergs the size of city blocks. We came here to count penguins, for them Climate Change is already a critical probelem. And their problems may soon be our problems. How to you count them . What are we going to do . It is super low tech. Weve got these clickers. There you go. Handheld clickers. We got one for you too harry. One click for nest and thats it. I might be able to handle that. All right its harder than you might think they all look alike. But well give it a try. Antarctica is home to millions of these dumbfoundingly charming and remarkably resilient animals. A flightless bird that has been cavorting around this part of the world for 60 million years or so. Ron naveen is the birdman of antarctica. A citizen scientist, he founded an Organization Called oceanites. Its sole purpose is keeping track of the penguin population. Well, theres five here. Dr. Heather lynch, joined him about ten years ago. Shes a harvard trained evolutionary biologist and teaches at stonybrook university. Would it be too much of a stretch to say these penguins are sort of the canary in the coal mine of Climate Change . Oh we do think that. And in fact thats one of the reasons why we are so focused on them. Because they are the thing that we can, we can study. And we hope that they they can tell us a little bit about of what we might expect elsewhere. You know all the species on the planet need to deal with Climate Change. Its not an antarctic issue. But these penguins are dealing with it now. Specifically they are here to count three types of penguins. Chinstraps, adelies, and gentoos easier to do now because its december, summer in the southern hemisphere. In order to count penguins you must overcome an olfactory challenge. The ever constant aroma of penguin poop. There is an odor that accompanies our tasks here, today. Its the smell, its the antarctic perfume you might say. Its the guano from the penguins. Ron can tell from smell and sight exactly what the birds are eating. So the penguin poop tells you a lot. Oh my god, penguin poop tellguano is everything. You know we got to count but i like to know what the hell they are eating in the ecosystem. And there is a lot of concern because with the warming down here. The food chains been really disruptive. Disrupted, he says, either by rising temperatures or over fishing, maybe both. The birds are eating tiny shrimp like creatures called krill instead of fish. And rons not happy. You can yell at them eat more fish, eat more fish, you know and they just dont get it. And its not just the food supply, warmer winters mean rain sometimes instead of snow. Birds building nests in mud instead of ice. Some though have moved to higher ground. Look at this. Sometimes the antarctic acts like it wants to swallow you whole and then today it is nothing but gifts. Im so surprised that these birds decide to nest a couple hundred yards off the water. They are way up here. They are but look at how dry these places are. I mean, if you are a penguin, this is awesome. This is the best zip code around. Eggs are dry and these little boulders provide a little protection from the predators. For several days we sailed and counted, and sailed and counted. But about halfway through our 11 day journey we came upon a place called brown bluff. There we saw a penguin colony ron discovered. His connection here is visceral. Because, it is almost unrecognizable from when he first set foot here. Whats the biggest change youve seen here since you started coming here 30some years ago . Theres no snow. And its early december. This is crazy. This is usually covered in snow, snow that is making it difficult for me to count these guys. Its not here this year. The sea ice was low this year. In other locations in the antarctic peninsula, i can walk beaches that were covered by glaciers when i first came so many decades ago. This place is changing. And changing fast. This year antarctica had the lowest amount of sea ice since satellites began keeping track in 1979. And not by a little bit. Sea ice was down some 66 thousand square miles from the previous record low. Thats about the size of washington state. Have there been moments of futility for you here, trying to say that these animals and this place are trying to send a message but no ones listening . I have that feeling all the time. You truly have to understand that there are a lot of people and i do understand this, who just dont have the best of lives. They cant put food in their mouths. They dont have a job. I understand why they cant focus on Climate Change right now. But theres a heck of a lot of people out there that just havent gotten the message yet because i dont think theyve heard it necessarily the right way. Now gentlemen just calm down. Heather lynch says the adelie penguin population here has declined by seventy percent since the 1980s. And the chinstrap population is down fifty percent in some places. Incredibly at the same time the gentoo penguin population is actually growing. Some of these birds, some of these penguins have thrived the last couple of years. Oh they have, these guys right behind us the gentoo penguin, their population grow three, four, five percent a year. The secret, adaptability. The gentoos are adjusting their diets and moving their nests to more suitable places. They roll with the punches. In a way that these other species just cant. And in that there is a big lesson for us, you know, that we have to adapt or were not going to make it. At stony brook dr. Lynch analyzes drone footage and even satellite shots. So the technology that were using now isnt just telling us how many penguins there are, its telling us all sorts of things about penguin behavior. Its the way to get the big picture. So what are the penguins telling us . I think theyre telling us that things are changing. And i cant say why. We have some we have some suspects here. You know, certainly Climate Change is one of our major suspects. Fishing. We have a very active fishery in the antarctic. So something is going on now that hasnt been going on in the past. We know that. And that makes the work that we do not just important, but really urgent. And as for Climate Change doubters . Remember the Antarctic Penninsula is the place where the average winter temperature has gone up nine degrees. An unprecedented increase. Here the earth is getting warmer faster than anywhere else, changing the environment and forcing the penguins to adapt to survive and the penguins are telling us sooner than we think we will have to adapt too. I think that people want to deny the reality of Climate Change, which is that, you know, if we just dont i just close our ears to it, if we just close our eyes, that somehow its not gonna happen. And then before you know it, youre looking at a foot of water out your front door, and youre thinking, you know, we really should have invested in some real estate, you know, further uphill, and even the penguins are going to have to do that too. Ron has been to antarctica so many times, in all hes spent eight years of his life here. His hope, his work will make a difference, but it pains him to see whats happening to the planet. When do you cry . I cry when i think about leaving the antarctic. I cry when i think about my grandkids, max and charlie. And i think about what theyre gonna be facing when theyre 10 or 15 years older than they are right now. That really chokes me up a lot. They represent to me what this is all about. Its all of us on this planet working together, doing a better job. Its winter in antarctica right now, where the average low is minus 56 degrees. So ron and heather are stateside now, but they tell us theyll be back when it warms up. Coming up. Parents who were separated or divorced . Check. Living with an alcoholic or a drug user. Check. Watching a loved one be physically abused. Check. Youre batting 1,000 . Yeah. Jd vance and his poignant bestseller hillbilly elegy. 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How could i not be, right . Why do you think . Im sitting here talking to megyn kelly, this is cr i mean book cover, bestseller lists, flurry of media appearance. Hillbilly elegy hit a nerve in the president ial election cycle. Vance became a go to guy on cable and in print, a cnn commentator, a contributor to the new york times. He became a guide to the anger, rebellion and pessimism in the communities that carried donald trump. He understood what they cared about and didnt. Do you think that it also explains why when the socalled coastal elites, were getting very upset over the many offenses that trump caused. Some of the sexism, some of the foulmouthed language that this was not particularly shocking because a lotta these folks had grown up around that . Absolutely. Ive criticized a lotta trumps rhetoric and im not a big fan of some of the things that hes said, but there was almost a sense where people were offended by trump, not because of the substance of what he said, but because of how he said it. Good Society People should not talk in this way. And i just never quite understood that that criticism. Vance is in a unique position, a colossal success by any measure, a marine, a graduate of ohio state and yale law school, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. And now an unusual move, back home again to ohio. He returns determined to work on the very problems that made his childhood there so turbulent. For all its power as a window on the white working class, hillbilly elegy is a painful story about a childhood most people would not want to risk revisiting. Vances father abandoned him. His mother was locked in an endless cycle of drug abuse that escalated to heroin. The toll it took on her young son is seared into memory like a simple car ride gone wrong. I said something, or some conversation topic really ignited her temper. And then she just sped up and she just kept on saying, im just gonna crash this car and kill us both. Im gonna crash this car and kill us both. Jd jumped out of the car and ran for help. Someone called the police and his mother was arrested. And when you watched them take her, do you remember how that felt . Honestly, i just felt relieved. In that moment i just felt relieved. And i thought to myself, all right, im gonna live another day. Thats thats how terrified i was. I mean, i i just wanted that situation to end and then i just broke down, right . I was just remember i was, i was just really sad and felt very lonely. Because im sitting in the back of this police cruiser, theyve just arrested my mom, the relief of having survived another day was gone. And then i just wanted then i just wanted somebody to come and take me away, and that was actually lindsay. That you know, that was who sorry. Why why does that particular moment bring tears . Its its just such a Crystal Clear memory. And so its hard almost not to feel the same way that i felt as a 12yearold kid sitting in the back of that police cruiser. But i also think that, that moment is kind of a microcosm of my entire life, is that there was this brief moment of terror and of feeling really lonely, and then there was lindsay. I would die for that kid. And i know he would, too. His sister lindsay, five years older, was always a source of comfort and protection from their mothers abuse. Did you ever think about calling 911 . Its no, i only thought about calling mamaw. Mamaw, vances grandmother, bonnie blanton, took jd to live with her after that harrowing car ride. Was there a greater influence on your life . No, no, i mean, she really just got me, she understood when i needed somebody to ride me. She knew when i needed love and comfort, she knew when she needed to just be sympathetic. She was really smart. Mamaw preached personal responsibility and insisted on three gets, good grades, a good job, and get up and help me, and she came with some serious firepower. She was pretty good with a gun . She was very good with a gun. You know, mamaw when when she died, i think the number is 19 handguns, loaded that we found in her house at various places. She also wasnt afraid to threaten using it. Yeah, she said, look, youre gonna come and stay with me and if anybody has a problem with it they can talk they can talk to my gun. Jd continued to live with mamaw while lindsay found her own escape. She got married and had three children of her own, and her focus turned to them. For lindsay, reading her brothers memoir brought back a life she had tried to forget. I just laid in bed and i you know, pulling it apart and reading it and then and i would just cry. I just felt so sorry for those kids, and why i didnt see more of him, i dont know. I shouldve been able to do more. Can you see that now, that you were not given the skills . How do you mean . You were young, too. You had been subjected to unthinkable things, too. I i guess i realize that i dont think that ill ever be able to say that there was a good reason to not have stepped up. She has a lot of guilt over that. She shouldnt. Yeah, we weve talked a lot about that. I just dont think that lindsay should feel guilty at all about it. She had found her way out, and i was looking for my way out. When did it it even occur to you that you could get into a place like yale law . I read this study about people who come from disadvantaged backgrounds, that they internalize a certain, inferiority. That they assume that, because no one around them has done much, that they are just genetically incapable of doing it. And it completely changed the way that i thought about my own possibilities, right . I thought to myself, you know, ive been sellin myself maybe a little short. When j. D. Was here, hes pretty open about the fact that he stuck out a little bit. He really did actually. Amy chua, author of the bestselling book battle hymn of the tiger mother, was one of his professors, and became an important mentor. You would think theres nothing in common between chinese american immigrant child, and a guy from appalachia, but i saw a lot of myself in him. You know, he was a little bit of an underdog, didnt quite fit in. And there was something about her story that resonated with him. He said, its gotten me thinking, you know, about my own life. I have a lot of thoughts ive never shared with anybody. I still have this email. It says, i dont even know what im thinking that i can write this down, but, you know, heres a little bit about my own background. The email was the beginning of the book idea . I mean, was was it that that made you turn around and say, j. D. , youve gotta write this down. You have to tell this story. It was. And that wasnt the only advice chua gave. Is it true that you of all people actually told him, focus on your love life. I did. Thats because she could see that vance was deeply in love with a classmate, usha chilukuri. He just had a really great attitude to everything. He was clearly so excited to be there in a way that, you know, a lot of people just you get accustomed to places like yale law school, when youve been to other universities like that before. And he i dont know. He just he felt very different. But what usha didnt know was just how different, as far as jd had come, his past was always looming. I was as close to a nervous breakdown as ive ever had, just the stress of law school, mom had just had a heroin overdose, i was in love with this girl, usha, but i didnt quite know how to be in love with her in the way that i wanted to be. And i just thought to myself you finally got to this place thats going to guarantee that your life is gonna go well, and youre struggling with all of the things that you thought you got away from. With ushas love and support jd graduated and they got married, now theyre expecting a baby boy. Family is close by, including his mother beverly. She is clean now, but jd keeps his distance. After a brief maternity leave, usha will be commuting to washington for a Supreme Court clerkship with chief justice john roberts, but for now theyre settling into a new house. So, back to columbus. Yeah. Why . Well, its about to have a baby. Its good to be close to family, but, you know, the things that i care most about are not in san francisco. Theyre not in Silicon Valley. The things that i care most about are the opioid crisis, about solving some of the issues that i write about in the book. And you can only do that i think when youre actually close to the problems, and when youre actually on the ground tryin to help. The ohio life he leads today is very different from the one he left behind and with all the attention and recognition, comes criticism. So one of your critics dismisses the tone of the book, quote, all hillbillies need to do is work hard, maybe do a stint in the military, and they can end up at yale law like he did. I just dont think thats the thesis of the book at all. The takeaway of the book is not just work hard, the takeaway of the book is that community and family really matter. And i think anybody who ignores that is fundamentally not appreciating the actual reality that exists on the ground, and the complexity of the problems these kids face. Two months ago, he started working for an Investment Firm dedicated to ohio opportunities and hes formed his own nonprofit our ohio renewal. His return has started speculation that hes planning something political. Everyone wants to know whether jds gonna run for office. Whos everyone . Everyone, its everyone. Trust me, i speak to them. What do you think . Should he run for office . I dont believe its everyone. I think someday, if the time is right and if if he really feels that thats the best way that he can contribute to his home, then, i think that would be a great idea. Why do you get uncomfortable when that idea comes up . Well i think that, you know, when people ask me if i wanna run for office, part of me wonders, like, do they think i just give off a used car salesman vibe. Dont you think its more borne of hope that you could be you could be a real change agent. Well, sure. Yeah, no. I i think thats the optimistic take on it. Im very flattered when people ask me. And you never say never, but its just not something that i think about doing right now. So we left j. D. Vance, 32, home again on the cusp of fatherhood, whether his past will interfere with his present, well, that could be another book. Do you think hes dealt with this stuff . I think that he thinks that he has. I think that i think that this book, writing it, was a very good step when i finished the book i felt a little worried about you. I why . I wondered if you had really dealt with everything. Thats interesting. And when i met with lindsay she wondered, too. What do you think . Thats a really good question. Ive ive never been asked this. I i think that the the honest answer is that i i probably havent dealt with everything, but that thats part of growing up and living your life, is youre constantly dealing with this stuff and youre constantly working through it. Th the book is not an effort to sort of finally work through all of these things that happened when i was a kid, its the beginning of an effort that will probably take me for the rest of my life. And you know, im im okay with that. A happy update for you now, its official, jd vance is a dad Ewan Blaine Vance was born june 4th, three weeks ago today. Congrats to jd and to usha. Coming up, remember that superhero in the science lab . I realized, wow this is gonna impact everybodys lives curing disease, reversing aging. New information tonight about the discovery that may lead to astounding things. Just since our story aired, there have been developments Keith Morrison has the latest. Not gonna get my job done. Pains kind of selfdefining. When it hurts, it hurts. When i cant do something, it makes me feel isolated. With aleve, you can stay strong longer because only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. Tylenol cant do that. I get to be present and enjoy what i love. This is my pain. But i am stronger. Aleve. All day strong. All day long. One of the things we want to do here on sunday night is tell you when theres been an Important Development in one of the stories weve reported. Her name is jennifer doudna, and in Academic Circles shes become a kind of rock star, as cocreator of a scientific storm that is sweeping the whole world. I describe it as surgery for the cell. You know, its really you know, its sort of doing making precise changes to the code of life. You know, it means that we can control Human Evolution now. We can control essentially anything that is alive and we can manipulate the script. An Amazing Technology so valuable a huge patent battle is raging. This week doudna and her coinventors revealed they won a round. A patent in one of the Worlds Largest markets. China. We also gave you a glimpse into the crispr race that is underway among scientists everywhere. To find new ways to cure some cancers, fix deadly genetic afflictions like muscular dystrophy, even rid the world of malarial mosquitoes. Is there a chance that what youre doing here in your lab in california could save hundreds of thousands of lives . Were doing with the expectation that it will. Absolutely. There is so Much Research into crispr applications, and its moving so quickly, worldwide, something new comes along practically every week. Just since our story aired, there have been developments. Atlantas Emory University announced it has successfully used crispr to reverse huntingtons disease in a living animal. Not a human yet. But one step closer to a treatment for the tens of thousands living with that fatal genetic disorder. And scientists at a Company Founded in part by doudnas crispr coinventor emanuelle charpentier, have just reported Promising Research on sickle cell disease. As have the scientists at Stanford University and elsewhere. They hope to begin Clinical Trials in patients as early as 2018. In the past and up until now there has been no treatment for this. Wouldnt it be exciting if you could take a gene editing tool and use it to fix the typo in the dna that is giving rise to the disease . And now, thanks to crispr, closer and closer. Well be back with more in a moment. What . We gotta go. Where . San francisco. When . Friday. We gotta go. [ tires screech ] any airline. Any hotel. Any time. Go where you want, when you want with no blackout dates. [ muffled music coming from club. Blue monday by new order. Cheers. ] how does it feel the travel rewards credit card from bank of america. Its travel, better connected. The travel rewards credit card from bank of america. In the mirror everyday. When i look when i look in the mirror everyday. Everyday, i think how fortunate i am. I think is today going to be the day, that we find a cure . I think how much i can do to help change peoples lives. That helps me to keep going to cure this. My great great grandfather lived to be 118 years old. Ive heard many stories from patients and their physicians about what they are going through. I often told people oh im going to easily live to be 100 and, uh, it looks like i might not make it to retirement age. We are continually learning and unraveling what is behind this disease. I may not benefit from those breakthroughs, but im sure going to. Im bringing forward a treatment for alzheimers disease, yes, in my lifetime, i will make sure. Testinhuh . Sting is this thing on . Come on your turn where do pencils go on vacation . Pennsylvania laughter crunchy wheat frosted sweet kelloggs frosted miniwheats. Feed your inner kid and, at outback our sweet, tender snow crab legs come with a big bold outback steak and, speaking of big. Why not go full aussie, and go for a full pound steak crab starts at just 15. 99. But, hurry in. When theyre gone, theyre gone next sunday night well be lighting up the barbeque like the rest of you for the 4th of july weekend. But take a look at some of the stories weve got coming up in the next few weeks. Your book is subtitled from war orphan to star ballerina. Yep. The chances of that happening were so remote. And here you are. Yeah. How would you characterize the way that were treating alcohol use disorder in this country . Its an abomination. We dont send someone with diabetes to a spa for a month, teach em diet and exercise, and then say, go to support groups, but dont take insulin. Thats the absurdity of what were doing now. Youre essentially telling folks that you can drink yourself sober. Yeah, sounds like something thats gonna get us in trouble. Yeah. Im uncomfortable with that. The whole goal of the program is to slowly extinguish the amount that they drink over a period of four to six months. Whats more important to you, winning a world series or coming back and helping your hometown . Honestly, coming back here. This is the town that raised me. And i dont forget anything. The hazleton integration project, what it does best it brings groups together. Its a gathering place. Its an educational place. You were maybe the mosthated Airline Executive in the country. I think thats true. [ laughter ] may still be. And now other airlines are thinking ben what do you have to teach us [ laughter ] shirts are tucked in. Yep. And the kids they dont mind it . Of course they mind it. [ laugh ] theyre teenage boys. They fight it all day. There are people now who are taking a second look at Charter Schools and saying, maybe not so fast. This has been a fight. And im from 27th and york. Im right off the corner. So i know how to fight those stories and more. Coming up here on sunday night. Thanks for joining us. Im megyn kelly. For all of us at nbc news, goodnight. [ squeaky voice ] hmm . 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