grazed by a bullet is among the injured. innocent people. half didn t know they was shot. and it is amazing. on mother s day. there is kids involved in this. reporter: up to four people are in surgery their conditions are not yet known. somehow, no one was killed. it appears the two or three people unknown to us started shooting towards the crowd. over in just a couple seconds. reporter: the shooting at the corner of frenchman and villary in the seventh ward. the victims were part of a second line parade, following the parade s brass marching band. a celebration of mothers turned into a nightmare. linzie janis, abc news, new york. o.j. simpson is set to return to a las vegas courtroom today to get convictions thrown out. robbery, assault and kidnapping. simpson wants a new trial claiming his old attorney gave him bad legal advice. simpson served four years of a
is world news now with john muller and diana perez. good monday morning to you. day one. how was your mother s day? first mother s day ever. special? it was special. what did they do? i got breakfast in bed. my husband cooked for the family. got a nice gift. devon walked over to me. it was great. set the bar high. got to make sure you get breakfast in bed every year. year two. have to beat year one. glad you had a great first mother s day. you deserve it. you work hard. thank you. begin this half hour in new orleans. the mayor is pleading with witnesses to come forward after shooting at a mother s day parade. 19 people including two children were hurt when someone opened fire on a crowd. with more here is abc s lindsay janice. reporter: gunmen opened fire on the mother s day parade, wounding 12 people. po girl
0 this morning old n this morning on world news now parade bloodshed. gunshots fired at a mother s day parade in new orleans. children among those shot. the mayor demands answers. drama in cleveland. new video shows the police busting into castro s home, ending years of captivity for women inside. hear what castro s brothers are saying about the alleged crime. surviving abduction. the heartfelt response from two women kidnapped and freed in ohio in a similar crime. i couldn t imagine going through what i went through for ten years. i mean that s just torture. their nightmare, unforgettable memories and their message to the cleveland victims on this monday, may 13th. announcer: from abc news this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. good monday morning to you. day one. how was your mother s day? first mother s day ever. special? it was special. what did they do? i got breakfast in bed. my husband cooked for the family. got a nice gift. devon
abc s lindsay janice has more. reporter: 53-year-old karen bartlett, once an independent mother and wife is almost captive in her own home. she is nearly blind and almost died after taking a generic pain drug eight years ago. all this happened because i took a medication prescribed to me, all because of shoulder pain. reporter: she sued the generic manufacturer, got a $21 million judgment but hasn t seen a dime of it. that s because in 2011 the supreme court limited the responsibility of generic drug manufacturers because all they have done is copy the brand name formula. many feel this is unfair. in high school a doctor prescribed accutane, a medicine to gabe drapus. the pharmacy gave him the generic. at college, he fell violently ill, was bleeding internally and had to have his large intestine removed. he blamed the medicine. 770 people have sued the brand
name maker with one person awarded $25 million. the brand name is appealing. no lawyer would take gabe s case because he had taken the generic version. karen s case was heard by the supreme court. which will decide if the generic drug manufacturer can be held accountable. unless the law changes most people taking generics have no legal recourse if the drugs make them sick. lindsay janis, abc news, new hampshire. frightening. what do you do? you can understand in a way, the generic company saying we are following the formula of the original drug company. we didn t make the drug. approved by the fda why should we be held liable. it is really a tough one. the supreme court is split on this. with some of the justices saying we don t know if we want regular people determining whether or not these pills are bad or not so bad. and the other half kind of saying, wait a second it is okay if they re fda approved. that didn t mean they re not dangerous. yeah. that s why the supreme cour