>> mason: good evening. i'm anthony mason. and by the time this broadcast is over, three people will be dead, victims of an opioid epidemic that's taking 140 lives in america every day. opioids are responsible for the overwhelming majority of drug deaths, which these maps show have grown dramatically from just under 17,000 in 1999 to 52,000 in 2015, a more than 200% increase. today, president trump declared a public health emergency to fight the epidemic, but critics were quick to say that does not provide the money to get the job done. here's major garrett. >> we owe it to our children and to our country to do everything in our power to address this national shame and this human tragedy. >> reporter: president trump stopped short of declaring the opioid crisis a national emergency, opting instead for a public health emergency declaration. it will streamline some access to addiction treatment, but provides few new resources. financing comes from the public health emergency fund, which has a balance of just over $56,000. the federal government estimates the crisis costs $75 billion annually. nearly 12 million people misused opioids last year. >> and i'm saying officially right now, it is an emergency. it's a national emergency. >> reporter: in august, and again this morning the president said he would declare a national opioid emergency, which would have provided access to billions in federal funds. >> without any additional resource allocation, i think it really doesn't make a difference what we call it. >> reporter: michael botticelli, drug czar under president obama, said today's announcement did not go far enough. >> it's largely rhetoric, and very shallow in terms of really taking major actions against the epidemic. >> reporter: in his speech, mr. trump talked about addiction in personal terms. he cited his brother, fred, who died at 43 of alcoholism. >> and he would tell me, "don't drink. don't drink." he was substantially older, and i listened to him. >> shifting the way that our society thinks about this disease. >> reporter: gary mendell's son, brian, committed suicide after years of struggling with addiction. >> what he spoke about today is a great first step in reducing the shame and stigma that goes along with this disease. but i want to emphasize first step. it's not one speech or one remark. >> reporter: the president lacks key leaders on the opioid front. he has yet to name new nominees as health and human services secretary, drug czar, or administrator of the drug enforcement agency. anthony. >> mason: major garrett at the white house. thanks. insys therapeutics is at the center of an alleged opioid kickback scheme in which doctors were bribed to prescribe a cancer pain killer to non-cancer patients. today, federal authorities in phoenix arrested the billionaire founder and majority owner of the company, john kapoor. he's the most prominent pharmaceutical executive to be criminally charged in the opioid crisis after a lengthy investigation by federal prosecutors in boston. jim axelrod has the story. >> >> reporter: the voice belongs to a saleswoman from the insys drug company. she's impersonating a staffer at a doctor's office and she's lying to an insurer to get a prescription approved. >> reporter: the patient was sarah fuller, but she did not have cancer. >> point the nozzle into your mouth and under your tongue. >> reporter: subsys is a spray version of the opiate fentanyl. fuller would become addicted to fentanyl, fatally overdosing 15 months later. >> the spray that we developed. >> reporter: now the company's billionaire founder, dr. john kapoor, is facing charges of conspiracy and bribery that he personally recruited doctors and helped design a scheme to offer kickbacks to illegally prescribed subsys to furl and more than 1,000 like her. >> the real tragedy is that people were dying. individuals are taking this drug, and they were dying of overdose. >> reporter: michael canty is a former federal prosecutor who now advises states on suing opioid manufacturers. >> in illinois, there was a doctor. he was responsible for about 60% of all subsys prescriptions, and when the sales representative went to his supervisors and said, "this guy's running a pill mill. he's not looking at patients." they said, "stick with him. he's your go-to guy." this is a doctor they paid over $85,000 in speakers' fees to because he was one of their tob prescribers of subsys. >> reporter: cbs news has identified headache doctors, back pain specialists, even a psychiatrist who received thousands of dollars to promote the drug last year. insys made 18,000 payments to doctors in 2016 that totaled more than $2 million. >> i would say that this is the most egregious case from top to bottom of conduct in promoting a drug for off-label use. >> reporter: in 2014, insys had a $10 million budget to pay speakers' fees to doctors, but according to the indictment, many speaker program events had no attendees at all. kapoor's lawyer tells us his client is innocent and intends to fight the charges vigorously. >> mason: jim axelrod. thank you, jim. details of the ambush in niger are slowliy emerging, more than three weeks after four u.s. soldiers were killed. the americans were part of a larger group look for an islamic militant, but his fighters found them first. margaremargaret brennan is at te pentagon. >> reporter: this is the terrorist the patrol was track. adnan abu walid al sahraoui is the leader of an isis offshoot that operates in western niger. today, the pentagon acknowledged for the first time there was a second team of u.s. and nigerian forces on the ground. lieutenant general frank mckenzie: >> there was one that had something to do with this operation, but i'm not going to be able to give any more specific details about what happened until we complete the process of the investigation. >> reporter: cbs news has learned that second team was on a kill-or-capture mission for al sahraoui, but it was called off after he slipped across the border. instead, the patrol with 12 americans and 30 nigerians was told to investigate an area where the terrorist had been. the patrol was also told not to expect enemy contact. the men stopped in the village of tongo tong. they were ambushed by al sahraoui's fighters as they left. sources say the u.s. team sent an alert to commanders that they were taking fire, but the patrol waited an hour before asking for help. >> we look at that hour pretty hard ourselves, but, again, there are a lot of reasones yes that time could have elapsed like that. >> reporter: investigators still do not know how sergeant la david johnson got separated from the other soldiers during the attack. his body was recovered two days later. today, military officials briefed members of the congress. democrat richard blumental said he had questions about the mission of the roughly 6,000 u.s. troops stationed in africa. >> one of the reasons for this tragic catastrophe in niger may well have been lacking resources in intelligence that could have permitted them to avoid that ambush. >> reporter: a french special operations team was among the very first ground forces to arrive in the area. they were there within three to four hours of that call for help. after the french military sent mirage jets and helicopters. anthony. >> mason: margaret brennan at the pentagon. thanks, margaret. today was the deadline for the government to release long-secret files on the assassination of the president kennedy, but chip reid tells us there's been a delay. chip, what's this about. >> reporter: well, just yesterday, president trump tweeted that the long-anticipated release of the j.f.k. files was to take place today. but, after we waited all day, a short time ago, the white house announced that while about 2800 documents related to the 1963 assassination in dallas will be released this evening, many of the documents will remain secret for now, subject to further review over the next six months. why? well, we're told that numerous agencies, including the c.i.a. and the f.b.i., have lodged protests against releasing certain documents that they claim could endanger national security or law enforcement operations. the key question, of course, in the kennedy assassination is whether lee harvery oswald acted alone or whether there was a conspiracy. one expert told me today that whatever is in these newly released documents, it is very unlikely we will ever know the whole truth. anthony. >> mason: so we wait a little longer. chip reid, thanks. this week, china's president, xi jinping, completed a remarkable power grab that could keep him in charge well beyond his new five-year term. in an interview with fox business news, president trump joked that some might call xi the king of china. ben tracy reports that assessment may not be far off. ( applause ) >> reporter: even before the communist party congress came to a close this week, president rob giordano had become one of the chine's most powerful modern leaders. the so-called chairman of everything. xi broke with press dant by refusing to anoint a successor. instead he surrounded himself with six party loyalists all too old to replace him. delegates also voted to delegate xi to a status on par with the legendary founding father of communist china, chairman mao zedong. xi's political thoughts or ideology will be enshrined in the constitution and taught in china's schools. chinese state media has relentlessly built xi's image, while nearly every billboard in beijing proclaims his new era of chinese socialism. and to make sure everyone gets the message, the communist party has ratcheted up the propaganda machine. in this village a couple of hours outside of beijing, they have plastered the walls with the history of the communist party. a large screen has been set up to broadcast the party message and loudspeakers reinstalled to tout china's economic progress. there's no mention of the government's crackdown on dissent. this man says ro rob giordano ms people rich. >> do you wish humore freedoms? >> he answered, "we're richer. life is better. china is stronger. when president trump comes here to beijing next month, he and president xi are expected to discuss issues such as trade and north korea. president trump will now be negotiated with a man who has unilateral decision-making authority. anthony. >> mason: ben tracy. thank you, ben. a disabled girl is facing deportation to mexico after being caught on her way to a hospital in south texas. she had been brought to the u.s. illegally as an infant. anna werner is following this. >> reporter: 10-year-old rosamaria hernandez, who has cerebral palsy, needed emergency gall bladder surgery. she was being rushed to the hospital in an plans tuesday when she arrived at a texas highway checkpoint, her lawyer says when customs and border patrol agencies discovered she was not a u.s. citizen, they followed her to the hospital and after surgery, took her to a detention facility in san antonio. hernandez went with her cousin because her parents, undocumented immigrants themselves, were fearful of being detained and stay in laredo. her mother, felipa de la cruz, said, "i don't want them to deports her. mexico isn't safe, and she needs therapy, her doctors." hernandez's parents brought their daughter from mexico illegally when she was three months old, hoping to get her better medical treatment. the family's lawyer letiticia gonzalez. >> you take a 10-year-old child with cerebral palsy and instead of letting her recover and return to her home, we make it to where she comes to baptist children home ministry with no one who is familiar with her, no physicians who have followed her and away from her family. it's a sad day in america. >> reporter: c.p.b. told us in a statement tonight their checkpoint inspection found the girl was in the u.s. illegally, and due to her medical condition she was escorted to the hospital. they say once she is medically cleared, she will be processed accordingly and they have informed the mexican consulate of her situation. anthony. >> mason: anna werner, thank you, anna. coming up next, an / from formr president george h.w. bush. and how an electric car company drove the darkness out of a hospital. i had no idea. just to know this is what i'm made of, this is where my ancestors came from. and i absolutely want to know more about my native american heritage. it's opened up a whole new world for me. discover the story only your dna can tell. order your kit now at ancestrydna.com. now's the time to get your ducks in a row.ng 65... 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>> reporter: the chorus, yes, but there's an opening verse to that old song that is long forgotten but historically significant ♪ katie casey was baseballed mad had the fever and had it bad ♪ >> reporter: well, who was katie casey? >> so katie casey say fictional young lady, and she is being invited out on a date by her young beau. ♪ called to see if she'd like to go to see a show but miss kate said no ♪ i'll tell you what you can do. ♪ take me out to the ball game take me out with the crowd ♪ >> reporter: that's right. the song every fan sings was written from the perspective of a young woman insisting on admission to what back then was a mostly male preserve, and, yet, it was a big hit. >> it was a time when it was really important for women to start that process of standing up for themselves and bringing awareness to their value as people. >> reporter: so then was "take me out to the ball game" a call for women's liberation? think about that the next time you sing... ♪ it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ball game >> reporter: dean reynolds, cbs news, st. louis. >> mason: you won't hear that song the same way again. that's the cbs evening news. tomorrow, steve hartman celebrates 50 years of "on the road," the chan chinese started by the late, great charles kuralt. i'm anthony mason in new york. thanks for watching. a bridge shut down over politics. their biggest triumph was a traffic jam. chris christie and kim guadagno's failures shortchanged our future. after 8 years- incomes are down, costs are up and our economy is crawling. we are better than this. i'm phil murphy together we'll build a stronger, fairer economy that works for every new jersey family. christie and guadagno left new jersey stuck. i'm serious about moving new jersey forward. ellen under fire over this photo she posted with katie perry. >> some people said if a man had tweeted this, people would be outraged. >> one year after the case of the kidnapped mom, exclusive. the woman who found her speaks out. >> with so many people questioning whether this was a hoax or she was actually kidnapped, what do you believe? 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