David muir is next. I appreciate your time. Im dan ashley. Im kristen sze. For sandhya patel a tonight, bracing for a possible hurricane. Tropical storm dorian gaining strength right now in the atlantic. Forecast to become a hurricane as early as tomorrow. The islands, then puerto rico and why florida and parts of the east should be paying close attention as we head into the labor day holiday. Ginger zee standing by with the newest track just in tonight. Breaking news. The verdict late today. The Opioid Crisis in america. And the stunning decision from a judge. The 572 million verdict against Johnson Johnson. President trump tonight facing new questions after the g7. Does he have Second Thoughts about the trade war with china . And hes now suggesting his own hotel for the next g7, saying each country could have their own villa, their own bungalow. And why the president was a noshow for a meeting on Climate Change. Our team tonight in the amazon rain forest. The stunning new images comi
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but we will be watching, because we could see some major impacts this holiday weekend. david? all right, we ll watch it straight through the week with you. ginger, thank you. the other breaking headline tonight involves the opioid crisis here in america and the stunning new ruling late today. a judge in oklahoma ordering johnson & johnson to pay $572 million for aggressively marketing addictive painkillers to doctors and to patients. and the question tonight, is this just the beginning? here s abc s steve osunsami now. reporter: this decision has the nation s drugmakers on alert tonight. this oklahoma judge has decided that corporate giant johnson & johnson helped fuel opioid addictions in his state. and he s ordering them to cough up more than half a billion dollars to help residents struggling with addiction. the opioid crisis is an imminent danger and menace to oklahomans. reporter: craig box is one of the parents who testified at trial. his son austin was a linebacker at
you tell doctors that hey, don t really worry about addiction. this stuff is something you need to provide your patients whenever they have the least amount of pain. so we have proved our case, i believe. it s up to the judge and i have to say this judge has done a remarkable job of being fair and handed in administering the trial. the testimony in this case is emotional. one person who testified was craig box, his son austin former linebacker for the oklahoma sooners died of an overdose. he was 22 years old. here is his father, craig. he graduated, he graduated from the university of oklahoma the saturday before he died on a thursday. we heard from so many parents across the [crying]
stand in a case against johnson & johnson. jean, what can we expect today? reporter: a number of victims and families will take the stand in this trial which is a case of first impression. this is the first opioid case to come to trial right here in oklahoma. it s craig box. his son austin was a football player for the university of oklahoma. he was injured. he had to recuperate. what the plaintiffs, the state of oklahoma said yesterday is he began to take opioids so he wouldn t feel the pain, became addicted and died. the defense in the opening said there is no recorded prescription of opioids for austin, that he actually died of a heroin overdose. he will be a star witness, the father, for the state of oklahoma. oklahoma said this is the worst man made disaster.
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