as the houthis were taking over yemen earlier this year, the u.s. embassy shut down all americ americans and were repeatedly and urgently asked to evacuate the country. some americans got caught in the middle, clearly it s believed that darden was one of them. but the state department very aware of the circumstances and we are told that his company, transoceanic develop, out of new orleans, which deals in freight and port services in very difficult parts of the world, obviously also aware of his circumstances. a lot of effort being made to try to get this man and the other americans home. wolf? as you know, barbara, the washington post which first reported this information about darden says the other two americans include a 54-year-old man from michigan and a 35-year-old man who is teaching english in yemen. what else, if anything, do we know about these two other americans apparently who were
a terrible humanitarian crisis and every effort must be made but my main obligation and the main obligation of the united states government is to make sure americans are protected so we have to have a very thorough vetting process and when people talk about large numbers coming there i don t see how we could do that because we have no intelligence on the ground. there s no way of knowing without extensive vetting and investigation who these people are, what their background is. i think one way we could do it is take refugees already in jordan because jordan does have very good intelligence and also worked with them and the relief organizations over there. maybe take some of them to alleviate the pressure on jordan. is it will be difficult, wolf, all i m saying is keep our eyes open. i don t want to be on our show a year or two from now explaining why someone who came in under the guise of being a refugee was responsible for something like the boston marathon bombing or subway attack in
deepen our understanding north to beat them. understand we understand their motivations, we are not going to beat them. at the moment we re not weak on those issues. this is a new form of communism, americ americans-that s where the debate should be. under cutting this theological, philosophical strength that. you just said something to me that s very significant. you can t understand it and you can t combat it from looking at it from that perspective.
be a man to work in the world. what did we lose? he was articulate, determined, nice, and tough. if there s all these things in the media about the shooter and there s nothing about the victims, then it sends the wrong message. and people need to understand that real people died here and they need to put faces and names and histories to the people who died to make it real for them. the politicians after sandy hook swore they would do something. we re all proud to be americ americans, but what kind of message does it send to the world when we have such such rutterless bunch of idiots in government. i can t tell you how angry i am.
welcome back to new day. a staggering new report on americans and prescription drug use. according to the department of health, the number of emergency room visits involving nonmedical use of xanax doubled between 2005 and 2011. when it comes to painkillers, americans use 99% of the world s vicodin. that tells me the u.s. must have a prescription drug problem. that s a startling, 99% of the world s vicodin. that s all that needs to be said. we are 5% of the world s population. we consume 99% of this particular type of pain pill. it s a remarkable thing. is it cultural? overprescription issue? what s going on? i have been fascinated by this. we have done a lot of digging. some of it there s been a big