get this, the feds say one out of every three kids who are 12 and over who have tried drugs try painkillers first, rather than marijuana, and that leads to things like cocaine and heroin. the real solution here comes in cutting down on availablibility not thinking we can teach our teens not to be teens. they are reckless by nature. they do not know limits. we have to make it to so they are not available. trace: the drugs of choice are demerol, vicodin and percoset. trace: it is not just from street dealers they get it from friends and family members. you look at numbers, and back in 2000, pharmacies wrote 174 million prescriptions for pain
children off for a supervised visit. powell had lost custody of the boys, and he was a suspect in his wife s disappearance. he sent an e-mail saying only i m sorry, good-bye. a neighbor describes what he saw. i just knew that if there was anyone in there, they didn t survive. you could tell that instantly from what we saw. i can t imagine anyone killing their children. i just that s beyond anything i can imagine someone doing. the state department shut down the embassy in syria hours ago. they are urging americans now to get out. syrian activists describe a weekend bloodbath that left hundreds dead in the city of homs. another 46 syrians are said to have been killed. activists accuse the syrian government of intensifying the brutal crackdown. russia and china gave president bashar al-assad a life line, vetoing a resolution that would have condemned him. they are asking for help. we re asking for your help. the rockets for four hours now, they re going to kill us all
to be the first cherished moments together. a newlywed s holiday was turned into horror off of coast of the seychelles island. i m zain vergee, world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and a very good afternoon from the cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today, the top stories this thursday, august 18. foster s knocks back a second big bid from sabmiller. is there any more growth to be squeezed from the aussie beer market. against a backdrop of slowing growth and crippling debt, u.s. vice president joe biden visits the biggest creditor. and you can call it anti-branding. why abercrombie and fitch is willing to pay one tv star not to wear its clothes. we re one hour into the trading day here in europe. let s have a look at how the markets are faring. this is the picture across the board. some of the markets down well in excess of 1.5%. the dax on its way to being down 2% lower on the back
i m page hopkins. here s what s happening. congress has sent president obama legislation cutting $38 billion from the budget after it passed the senate with overwhelming support. the man in charge of the nation s air traffic controllers resigned today in the wake of a series of incidents of controllers accused of sleeping on the job. and a 10-year-old survivor says his mother told him they were all going to die together before drowning herself and three other children in the hudson river. on wall street, the car-sharing service generated about $174 million in share values, soaring 55% in its first day of public trade. also the end of an era on daytime tv. abc is cancelling all my children and convulsi one life
bloomberg, the cost of back pay would be $174 million for each day that the government is closed. fluff of the real news. let s bid farewell to glenn beck and his chalkboard. i felt he should have updated to a more modern dry we could race board. glenn beck confirming reports that it is it the end of the road for his show. there he s in front of the chalkboard. he announced today that he ll be hanging away fox, though, doing radio. here he is saying good-bye. i want to verify something that is true. i am going to leave this program later this year. paul revere did not get up on the horse and say i m going to do this for the rest of my life. he didn t come it. he got off the horse at some point and fought in the revolution. and then he went back to silver smithing. i have other things to do. and not because it s good or bad