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Murders of nine black parishioners. Mark strassmann is in charleston. Reporter dylann roof spoke softly and calmly to jurors. The reason i chose to represent myself was to prevent my lawyers from presenting a Mental Health evaluation. Forget what my attorneys have told you about myMental Health. There is nothing wrong with me psychologically. He did not apologize. He also never admitted to the killings the way he did to fbi agents the day he was arrested. Reporter assistant u. S. Attorney Nathan Williams was emphatic today. This reporter williams introduced roofs jailhouse journal, which he wrote six weeks after the murders. Clementa pinckney, mother emanuels pastor, was one of them. His wife jennifer and sixyear old daughter malana were hiding under a desk in this adjoining office during the massacre. Jennifer pinckney told jurors, as roof kept shooting, the petrified girl whispered to her, mama, is daddy going to die . By then, Clementa Pinckney lay among the dead and dying. Sharon rishers mother ethel lance and two of her cousins were among roofs victims. To have him nonexistent on this earth, i mean, my life still has to go on. If he dies, its not going to make my life better. Reporter at one point, roof objected to the sheer number of relatives and friends testifying about their losses. Josh, the judge reminded him, thats because there are so many victims. Mark strassmann, there in charleston. Mark, thank you. Well, chicago, which just had one of its most violent years ever, was the scene of another horrifying attack this week. A young man described by Law Enforcement sources as developmentally challenged was beaten, kicked and tormented for half an hour. Video of the assault streamed live on facebook yesterday. The victim had been reported missing from his home in the suburbs. He is now in the hospital and four suspects are in custody. While in new york today, more than 100 people were injured during the morning rush when a packed commuter train crashed as it entered its brooklyn terminal. Many had cuts and bruises. The worst suffered a broken leg. The Long Island Railroad train, though moving slowly, plowed through a bumper block. The front of the train lifted off the track and crashed into a work area. Federal investigators are now on the scene. Still to come here on the cbs evening news consumers find a big tax on soft drinks hard to swallow. And a consumer alert about those special offers from mypillow. Toilet germs dont just stay in the toilet. Disinfect with lysol bathroom trigger. And lysol power foamer. They kill 99. 9 of germs. To clean and disinfect your bathroom. Lysol that. This week philadelphia became the biggest city to impose a tax on soft drinks, hoping to bring down obesity rates. Even diet sodas are covered, though it didnt take long for some to sour on the idea. Jericka duncan found out why. Reporter at this shoprite supermarket in philadelphia, people are experiencing sticker shock over the increased cost of sugary drinks. Elois dickerson saw the price of her favorite drink jump more than 100 . Ridiculous. Reporter Maurice Broadwater misunderstood the 96cent tax on his juice. I thought that was the sale price of 96 cents off. Reporter philadelphia became the first big city to impose a tax on all sugary or artificiallysweetened drinks. The tax adds 1. 5 cents per ounce. Grocery store owner jeff brown says its hurting his customers. This threeliter soda, our price is 1. 39, and the additional tax is 1. 52. And then theres sales tax. Reporter thats more than the actual soda. Before the tax, an eightpack of gatorade with 160 ounces costs 5. 99. The new price is 8. 39. And this gallon of iced tea, which was 2. 79, is now 4. 71. Aside from health benefits, deputy revenue commissioner Marisa Waxman says the tax is meant to help the community. We anticipate that the first year of collections will generate about 91 million that we can put toward prek Community Schools as well as our parks, libraries and rec centers. Reporter but ervin graham says the city has to find a better way. He returned his iced tea. I got my money back. Reporter after realizing he paid almost 2 in beverage taxes. Some people told me theyll consider traveling outside of philadelphia to avoid the tax altogether, and others say theyll simply start drinking more water. Josh, at least four other cities across the country have passed a similar tax on sugary drinks. More water certainly cant hurt, jericka. Jericka duncan, there in philadelphia, thank you. Well, still to come here mypillow why the Better Business bureau is on the case. Jack be nimble, jack be quick, jack knocked over a candlestick onto the shag carpeting. And his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. Luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. Because all his belongings went up in flames. Jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic. Visit geico. Com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. You know your heart loves megared omega3s. But did you know your eyes your brain and your joints really love them too . Introducing megared advanced 4in1. Just one softgel delivers mega support. Number one isnt a status earned overnight. Its earned in every wash. And reearned every day. Tide. Americas number one detergent. A Pillow Company known for latenight infomercials is now taking some lumps from the Better Business bureau. Anna werner has the story. No matter what position you sleep in, this will work for you. Reporter the infomercial for mypillow helped sell millions of pillows. Call now to order one of mypillows. When you do, ill give you a second one, absolutely free. Reporter but its this advertising that caused the company to come under fire at minnesotas Better Business bureau. The problem happened when mypillow started to advertise buy one, get one free, and didnt stop. Reporter the bureaus barb greiman says a pricing deal with no time limit is really just the products regular price. Of 232 bbb complaints, many came from consumers confused about the offer. The bbb dropped mypillows Company Rating from an aplus to an f, and revoked its accreditation. I want it to come with a guarantee, in case it doesnt work. Reporter yesterday, mypillow inventor and ceo Michael Lindell explained the buy one, get one, offer to cbs station wcco this way that bogo offer will probably not be an offer were going to do. We like to change it up. But this was so successful, we ran it longer than we would normally run. Reporter but its not the only complaint. In november, the company settled a case with district attorneys in california, who sued the company over its claims that the pillows could help with conditions, including sleep apnea, migraines and fibromyalgia. While admitting no fault, mypillow settled and agreed to pay over 1 million in penalties. So how often does the bbb drop a companys rating down to an f . The bureau says its pretty rare, and only happened after bbb officials attempted to persuade mypillow to discontinue the buy one, get one free offer, without success, josh. Well, that will certainly do it. Anna werner, thank you. Well, still to come here blessed are those who hunger for a big mac at the vatican. And finally tonight, a new restaurant has come to a holy place, though some would say it is wholly out of place. Heres seth doane, in vatican city. Reporter there are a number of places here where you can get classic roman dishes, and now it turns out you can get a classic dish of a different sort a bigmac. Michelangelo helped design the glorious dome of st. Peters basilica. And now there are modern arches, the golden arches. [ speaking Foreign Language ] do you like the mcdonalds here . Mcdonalds . Reporter si. No. Reporter for four generations, manuel tostis family has had a restaurant across the street. Mcdonalds is producing a lot of problems, he told us. It has the same food everywhere, whereas we do pasta thats famous worldwide and typical roman dishes. In an interview, Cardinal Elio Sgreccia called the arrival of mcdonalds a disgrace. Pope francis who once used a bolivian burger king to change into his religious vestments, regularly rails against consumerism. But the vatican is said to be receiving 31,000 a month in rent. Mcdonalds certainly sticks out on these quaint, ancient streets. The the restaurant is just there. Behind me, here, you can see the wall of vatican city, st. Peters basilica. Even the window the pope speaks from. And around the corner is another piece of vatican property that now host a different restaurant chain. Hard rock cafe opened a store. The grand boulevard which leads to st. Peters square. Near the vatican, some are pragmatic. Its an inexpensive meal, after all. I think there are more Serious Problems in the world, this priest said. There are greater scandals. But italians are bracing themselves for another fast food scandal. Starbucks has announced plans to open up here in italy, the land of small mom and pop coffee shops. Thats the overnight news for this thursday. For some of you the news continues. From the Broadcast Center here in new york city, im josh elliott. This is the cbs overnight news. And welcome to the overnight news. Im don dahler. Two days into the 115th congress and the first shots have been fired in the showdown over the Affordable Care act. President obama was on capitol hill trying to rally the democratic troops to beat back the republican assault on the act. Vice president elect mike spence was also on hand as the senate cast the first votes to fast track a repeal. Nancy cordes reports. Look out for the American People. Reporter president obama and Vice President elect mike pence rallied their respective troops today in the pr war over obamacares demise. Democrat Jerry Connolly described mr. Obamas marching orders. Make sure they own it. Make sure every american who loses his or her health care knows that the republican repeal vote did that. Reporter president elect trump pushed back on twitter, writing the dems own the failed obamacare disaster with its poor coverage and massive premium increases. The simple fact is the American People know who owns obamacare. Its the first half of the title. Reporter pence promised repeal would be followed by a grace period until his party can craft a new law, but House Speaker paul ryan was short on specifics. We have plenty of ideas to replace it. Youll see as the weeks and months unfold what were talking about replacing it. Reporter Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to repeal and then delay is an act of cowardice. That means we dont really know what were doing. Reporter new York Governor Andrew Cuomo entered the fray, announcing that 2. 7 million of his States Residents were at risk of losing coverage. He even broke them down by county. The ayes have 51. The nays are 48. Reporter two hours later, Senate Republicans voted to start the repeal process. Were legislatively at a disadvantage. They have all the cards. Reporter new york democrat joe crowley theyve done absolutely nothing to help advance the cause of health care, insurance and premiums in this country when they had the opportunity to do it. Now they have all the power. Lets see what they do with it now. Reporter a poll taken after the election, 26 of americans say they want the law repealed. 17 say they want it scaled back. 19 want it kept as is. And 30 say expand the law. So its clear that no matter what happens at least half the country is going to be pretty unhappy. Former president george w. Bush once referred to himself as the decider in chief. President elect donald trump may soon be using the tweeterinchief. His use of social media has a lot of people both friend and foe, checking their phones to see what he has in mind. Jan crawford reports. Reporter just this week mr. Trump has tackled not only hacking, but house ethics guantanamo, obamacare, crime, and the auto industry. On monday he had this message about north korea for china. China has been taking out massive amounts of money and wealth from the u. S. In totally onesided trade but wont help with north korea. Nice. That prompted this response from china. Twitter shouldnt become an instrument of foreign policy. Foreign policy isnt childs play. I want to tell you what has been done in the last few days. Reporter like fdr did through radio, and jfk with television i have several announcements to make. Reporter in todays social media era, trumps tweets can dominate a news cycle. He said on twitter hes all over twitter this morning. Reporter lesley stahl of 60 minutes asked him after the election if he would keep it up as president. Im not saying i love it, but it does get the word out. When you give me a bad story or when you give me an inaccurate story or when somebody other than you, in another network or whatever because of course cbs would never do a thing like that, right . I have a method of fighting back. Reporter two former president ial chiefs of staff, Democrat Bill daley and republican andy card told cbs this morning they dont expect him to walk away from the medium hes made his own. I think the tweet world is going to be our world for a long time. Think before you tweet or speak. Because before, it was before you speak. Now, its before you tweet. The use and abuse of opioids is perhaps the Fastest Growing threat in United States. The centers for Disease Control reports 33,000 americans died from opioid overdoses in 2015. Some were using heroin but a growing number are hooked on prescription drugs. Turns out theres a lot of money to be paid peddling opioids, and six former executives of the drug maker are due back in court this month. Theyve been charged with bribing doctors to prescribe their drugs, even when it wasnt necessary. Jim axelrod reports. Reporter the centers for Disease Control and prevention has said the United States is in the midst of an opoid overdose epidemic. Doctors wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers in 2012, enough for every american adult. As many as 1 in 4 people currently struggle with addiction after longterm open yoed treatment for noncancer pain. Theres been excessive prescribing for conditions that are outside the standard of care that is driving some of what were seeing currently. Reporter the problem is back in the spotlight. After the arrests of a half dozen former executives and managers at Insys Therapeutics including the former ceo. Device i brought with me today allows the patient to simply spray the drug underneath their tongue. Reporter three years ago on cnbc, he demonstrated the companys drug a pain reliever pour Cancer Patients delivered through a spray. The medication, which the Company First sold in 2012 racked up 329 million in sales last year. According to the indictment, the defendants conspired with one another to use bribes and kickbacks for doctors who wrote large numbers of prescriptions, most often for patients who did not have cancer. The scheme allegedly funneled tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to practitioners, including one whom a Sales Representative boasted in an email is running a shady pill mill. Is that the exception for rule . There that is the exception. There is egregious behavior out there, but that is the 1 giving the 99 a bad name. Most of the prescribing is well intended and just done inappropriately due to lack of educational foundation. This issue didnt evolve overnight. Reporter Ann Pritchett says the drug industry supports changes, including the creation of evidencebased guidelines to lay out exactly when opioid painkillers are appropriate and the development of new formulations that make drugs more resistant to certain types of abuse. As for trey laird, hes been clean since 2011 and now runs a sober living house in connecticut. He suggests he might have been able to prevent his addiction if only he ha achoo did you know you can pick up cold flu viruses from things in your home for up to 48 hours . Its like having a sick Family Member that you didnt even know was there. And we all know what happens when one Family Member gets sick. But lysol spray and lysol wipes kill 99. 9 of germs including 8 common cold flu viruses to help protect your home. This cold and flu season help keep your home happy and healthy and lysol that. Retired marine general john kelly is president elect Donald Trumps nominee to head the department of Homeland Security. Kellys marching orders include protecting the nations borders, and hell be taking aim at a program that sell passports for profit. Steve kroft has the story for 60 minutes. Reporter if youre shopping for another passport the top of the line right now is malta. By investing 1 million in this mediterranean island a russian or chinese or a saudi can become a european citizen with a new eu passport that will allow them to travel just about anywhere without a visa. There are also much cheaper, less discriminating alternatives available in the caribbean. How much does it cost to get citizenship . 100,000. Do you have to come here and live here if no, you dont even have to come here to get the citizenship. So its mail order citizenship . Something like that. Reporter our introduction to this world of citizenship by investment came in dubai, the gleaming Mental Health<\/a> evaluation. Forget what my attorneys have told you about myMental Health<\/a>. There is nothing wrong with me psychologically. He did not apologize. He also never admitted to the killings the way he did to fbi agents the day he was arrested. Reporter assistant u. S. Attorney Nathan Williams<\/a> was emphatic today. This reporter williams introduced roofs jailhouse journal, which he wrote six weeks after the murders. Clementa pinckney, mother emanuels pastor, was one of them. His wife jennifer and sixyear old daughter malana were hiding under a desk in this adjoining office during the massacre. Jennifer pinckney told jurors, as roof kept shooting, the petrified girl whispered to her, mama, is daddy going to die . By then, Clementa Pinckney<\/a> lay among the dead and dying. Sharon rishers mother ethel lance and two of her cousins were among roofs victims. To have him nonexistent on this earth, i mean, my life still has to go on. If he dies, its not going to make my life better. Reporter at one point, roof objected to the sheer number of relatives and friends testifying about their losses. Josh, the judge reminded him, thats because there are so many victims. Mark strassmann, there in charleston. Mark, thank you. Well, chicago, which just had one of its most violent years ever, was the scene of another horrifying attack this week. A young man described by Law Enforcement<\/a> sources as developmentally challenged was beaten, kicked and tormented for half an hour. Video of the assault streamed live on facebook yesterday. The victim had been reported missing from his home in the suburbs. He is now in the hospital and four suspects are in custody. While in new york today, more than 100 people were injured during the morning rush when a packed commuter train crashed as it entered its brooklyn terminal. Many had cuts and bruises. The worst suffered a broken leg. The Long Island Railroad<\/a> train, though moving slowly, plowed through a bumper block. The front of the train lifted off the track and crashed into a work area. Federal investigators are now on the scene. Still to come here on the cbs evening news consumers find a big tax on soft drinks hard to swallow. And a consumer alert about those special offers from mypillow. Toilet germs dont just stay in the toilet. Disinfect with lysol bathroom trigger. And lysol power foamer. They kill 99. 9 of germs. To clean and disinfect your bathroom. Lysol that. This week philadelphia became the biggest city to impose a tax on soft drinks, hoping to bring down obesity rates. Even diet sodas are covered, though it didnt take long for some to sour on the idea. Jericka duncan found out why. Reporter at this shoprite supermarket in philadelphia, people are experiencing sticker shock over the increased cost of sugary drinks. Elois dickerson saw the price of her favorite drink jump more than 100 . Ridiculous. Reporter Maurice Broadwater<\/a> misunderstood the 96cent tax on his juice. I thought that was the sale price of 96 cents off. Reporter philadelphia became the first big city to impose a tax on all sugary or artificiallysweetened drinks. The tax adds 1. 5 cents per ounce. Grocery store owner jeff brown says its hurting his customers. This threeliter soda, our price is 1. 39, and the additional tax is 1. 52. And then theres sales tax. Reporter thats more than the actual soda. Before the tax, an eightpack of gatorade with 160 ounces costs 5. 99. The new price is 8. 39. And this gallon of iced tea, which was 2. 79, is now 4. 71. Aside from health benefits, deputy revenue commissioner Marisa Waxman<\/a> says the tax is meant to help the community. We anticipate that the first year of collections will generate about 91 million that we can put toward prek Community Schools<\/a> as well as our parks, libraries and rec centers. Reporter but ervin graham says the city has to find a better way. He returned his iced tea. I got my money back. Reporter after realizing he paid almost 2 in beverage taxes. Some people told me theyll consider traveling outside of philadelphia to avoid the tax altogether, and others say theyll simply start drinking more water. Josh, at least four other cities across the country have passed a similar tax on sugary drinks. More water certainly cant hurt, jericka. Jericka duncan, there in philadelphia, thank you. Well, still to come here mypillow why the Better Business<\/a> bureau is on the case. Jack be nimble, jack be quick, jack knocked over a candlestick onto the shag carpeting. And his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. Luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. Because all his belongings went up in flames. Jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic. Visit geico. Com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. You know your heart loves megared omega3s. But did you know your eyes your brain and your joints really love them too . Introducing megared advanced 4in1. Just one softgel delivers mega support. Number one isnt a status earned overnight. Its earned in every wash. And reearned every day. Tide. Americas number one detergent. A Pillow Company<\/a> known for latenight infomercials is now taking some lumps from the Better Business<\/a> bureau. Anna werner has the story. No matter what position you sleep in, this will work for you. Reporter the infomercial for mypillow helped sell millions of pillows. Call now to order one of mypillows. When you do, ill give you a second one, absolutely free. Reporter but its this advertising that caused the company to come under fire at minnesotas Better Business<\/a> bureau. The problem happened when mypillow started to advertise buy one, get one free, and didnt stop. Reporter the bureaus barb greiman says a pricing deal with no time limit is really just the products regular price. Of 232 bbb complaints, many came from consumers confused about the offer. The bbb dropped mypillows Company Rating<\/a> from an aplus to an f, and revoked its accreditation. I want it to come with a guarantee, in case it doesnt work. Reporter yesterday, mypillow inventor and ceo Michael Lindell<\/a> explained the buy one, get one, offer to cbs station wcco this way that bogo offer will probably not be an offer were going to do. We like to change it up. But this was so successful, we ran it longer than we would normally run. Reporter but its not the only complaint. In november, the company settled a case with district attorneys in california, who sued the company over its claims that the pillows could help with conditions, including sleep apnea, migraines and fibromyalgia. While admitting no fault, mypillow settled and agreed to pay over 1 million in penalties. So how often does the bbb drop a companys rating down to an f . The bureau says its pretty rare, and only happened after bbb officials attempted to persuade mypillow to discontinue the buy one, get one free offer, without success, josh. Well, that will certainly do it. Anna werner, thank you. Well, still to come here blessed are those who hunger for a big mac at the vatican. And finally tonight, a new restaurant has come to a holy place, though some would say it is wholly out of place. Heres seth doane, in vatican city. Reporter there are a number of places here where you can get classic roman dishes, and now it turns out you can get a classic dish of a different sort a bigmac. Michelangelo helped design the glorious dome of st. Peters basilica. And now there are modern arches, the golden arches. [ speaking Foreign Language<\/a> ] do you like the mcdonalds here . Mcdonalds . Reporter si. No. Reporter for four generations, manuel tostis family has had a restaurant across the street. Mcdonalds is producing a lot of problems, he told us. It has the same food everywhere, whereas we do pasta thats famous worldwide and typical roman dishes. In an interview, Cardinal Elio Sgreccia<\/a> called the arrival of mcdonalds a disgrace. Pope francis who once used a bolivian burger king to change into his religious vestments, regularly rails against consumerism. But the vatican is said to be receiving 31,000 a month in rent. Mcdonalds certainly sticks out on these quaint, ancient streets. The the restaurant is just there. Behind me, here, you can see the wall of vatican city, st. Peters basilica. Even the window the pope speaks from. And around the corner is another piece of vatican property that now host a different restaurant chain. Hard rock cafe opened a store. The grand boulevard which leads to st. Peters square. Near the vatican, some are pragmatic. Its an inexpensive meal, after all. I think there are more Serious Problems<\/a> in the world, this priest said. There are greater scandals. But italians are bracing themselves for another fast food scandal. Starbucks has announced plans to open up here in italy, the land of small mom and pop coffee shops. Thats the overnight news for this thursday. For some of you the news continues. From the Broadcast Center<\/a> here in new york city, im josh elliott. This is the cbs overnight news. And welcome to the overnight news. Im don dahler. Two days into the 115th congress and the first shots have been fired in the showdown over the Affordable Care<\/a> act. President obama was on capitol hill trying to rally the democratic troops to beat back the republican assault on the act. Vice president elect mike spence was also on hand as the senate cast the first votes to fast track a repeal. Nancy cordes reports. Look out for the American People<\/a>. Reporter president obama and Vice President<\/a> elect mike pence rallied their respective troops today in the pr war over obamacares demise. Democrat Jerry Connolly<\/a> described mr. Obamas marching orders. Make sure they own it. Make sure every american who loses his or her health care knows that the republican repeal vote did that. Reporter president elect trump pushed back on twitter, writing the dems own the failed obamacare disaster with its poor coverage and massive premium increases. The simple fact is the American People<\/a> know who owns obamacare. Its the first half of the title. Reporter pence promised repeal would be followed by a grace period until his party can craft a new law, but House Speaker<\/a> paul ryan was short on specifics. We have plenty of ideas to replace it. Youll see as the weeks and months unfold what were talking about replacing it. Reporter Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi<\/a> to repeal and then delay is an act of cowardice. That means we dont really know what were doing. Reporter new York Governor Andrew Cuomo<\/a> entered the fray, announcing that 2. 7 million of his States Residents<\/a> were at risk of losing coverage. He even broke them down by county. The ayes have 51. The nays are 48. Reporter two hours later, Senate Republicans<\/a> voted to start the repeal process. Were legislatively at a disadvantage. They have all the cards. Reporter new york democrat joe crowley theyve done absolutely nothing to help advance the cause of health care, insurance and premiums in this country when they had the opportunity to do it. Now they have all the power. Lets see what they do with it now. Reporter a poll taken after the election, 26 of americans say they want the law repealed. 17 say they want it scaled back. 19 want it kept as is. And 30 say expand the law. So its clear that no matter what happens at least half the country is going to be pretty unhappy. Former president george w. Bush once referred to himself as the decider in chief. President elect donald trump may soon be using the tweeterinchief. His use of social media has a lot of people both friend and foe, checking their phones to see what he has in mind. Jan crawford reports. Reporter just this week mr. Trump has tackled not only hacking, but house ethics guantanamo, obamacare, crime, and the auto industry. On monday he had this message about north korea for china. China has been taking out massive amounts of money and wealth from the u. S. In totally onesided trade but wont help with north korea. Nice. That prompted this response from china. Twitter shouldnt become an instrument of foreign policy. Foreign policy isnt childs play. I want to tell you what has been done in the last few days. Reporter like fdr did through radio, and jfk with television i have several announcements to make. Reporter in todays social media era, trumps tweets can dominate a news cycle. He said on twitter hes all over twitter this morning. Reporter lesley stahl of 60 minutes asked him after the election if he would keep it up as president. Im not saying i love it, but it does get the word out. When you give me a bad story or when you give me an inaccurate story or when somebody other than you, in another network or whatever because of course cbs would never do a thing like that, right . I have a method of fighting back. Reporter two former president ial chiefs of staff, Democrat Bill<\/a> daley and republican andy card told cbs this morning they dont expect him to walk away from the medium hes made his own. I think the tweet world is going to be our world for a long time. Think before you tweet or speak. Because before, it was before you speak. Now, its before you tweet. The use and abuse of opioids is perhaps the Fastest Growing<\/a> threat in United States<\/a>. The centers for Disease Control<\/a> reports 33,000 americans died from opioid overdoses in 2015. Some were using heroin but a growing number are hooked on prescription drugs. Turns out theres a lot of money to be paid peddling opioids, and six former executives of the drug maker are due back in court this month. Theyve been charged with bribing doctors to prescribe their drugs, even when it wasnt necessary. Jim axelrod reports. Reporter the centers for Disease Control<\/a> and prevention has said the United States<\/a> is in the midst of an opoid overdose epidemic. Doctors wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers in 2012, enough for every american adult. As many as 1 in 4 people currently struggle with addiction after longterm open yoed treatment for noncancer pain. Theres been excessive prescribing for conditions that are outside the standard of care that is driving some of what were seeing currently. Reporter the problem is back in the spotlight. After the arrests of a half dozen former executives and managers at Insys Therapeutics<\/a> including the former ceo. Device i brought with me today allows the patient to simply spray the drug underneath their tongue. Reporter three years ago on cnbc, he demonstrated the companys drug a pain reliever pour Cancer Patients<\/a> delivered through a spray. The medication, which the Company First<\/a> sold in 2012 racked up 329 million in sales last year. According to the indictment, the defendants conspired with one another to use bribes and kickbacks for doctors who wrote large numbers of prescriptions, most often for patients who did not have cancer. The scheme allegedly funneled tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to practitioners, including one whom a Sales Representative<\/a> boasted in an email is running a shady pill mill. Is that the exception for rule . There that is the exception. There is egregious behavior out there, but that is the 1 giving the 99 a bad name. Most of the prescribing is well intended and just done inappropriately due to lack of educational foundation. This issue didnt evolve overnight. Reporter Ann Pritchett<\/a> says the drug industry supports changes, including the creation of evidencebased guidelines to lay out exactly when opioid painkillers are appropriate and the development of new formulations that make drugs more resistant to certain types of abuse. As for trey laird, hes been clean since 2011 and now runs a sober living house in connecticut. He suggests he might have been able to prevent his addiction if only he ha achoo did you know you can pick up cold flu viruses from things in your home for up to 48 hours . Its like having a sick Family Member<\/a> that you didnt even know was there. And we all know what happens when one Family Member<\/a> gets sick. But lysol spray and lysol wipes kill 99. 9 of germs including 8 common cold flu viruses to help protect your home. This cold and flu season help keep your home happy and healthy and lysol that. Retired marine general john kelly is president elect Donald Trumps<\/a> nominee to head the department of Homeland Security<\/a>. Kellys marching orders include protecting the nations borders, and hell be taking aim at a program that sell passports for profit. Steve kroft has the story for 60 minutes. Reporter if youre shopping for another passport the top of the line right now is malta. By investing 1 million in this mediterranean island a russian or chinese or a saudi can become a european citizen with a new eu passport that will allow them to travel just about anywhere without a visa. There are also much cheaper, less discriminating alternatives available in the caribbean. How much does it cost to get citizenship . 100,000. Do you have to come here and live here if no, you dont even have to come here to get the citizenship. So its mail order citizenship . Something like that. Reporter our introduction to this world of citizenship by investment came in dubai, the gleaming International Bazaar<\/a> hosting the citizens conference. Gathered here were lawyers, bankers and Real Estate Developers<\/a> who facilitate and profit from the trade of citizenship for cash. Good evening and a very warm welcome. Reporter this is the man who more or less invited the business, ceo of a Consulting Firm<\/a> in zurich, switzerland. For a fee and healthy commissions, he helps countries set up their program, rewrite their citizenship laws and recruit people of means looking for a second third, or fourth passport, which he sees as just another travel accessory. A passport of convenience. You probably have more than one credit card i would assume. And if visa doesnt work mastercard will do. So i think any wealthy person nowadays should have more than one credit card and likewise more than one passport. Reporter but you would need money to do this . Absolutely. Its just for wealthy people. Reporter quite often, customers come from country where is their passports dont work very well. Global citizens Like International<\/a> lawyer cyrus montevosal, who travels on a west indian passport. Where do you live . Im living in dubai, united arab emirates. So youre an iranian living in dubai with st. Kit citizenship. Yeah, yeah. Its complicated. Yeah. This is the life. Reporter its the life because his passport available for 250,000 or a 400,000 Real Estate Investment<\/a> allows him entry to more than 100 countries without having to get special permission. Its legal way to circumvent visa controls that nations set up to screen people coming into their country. But also an opportunity for shady characters to mask their identity and avoid suspicion as they travel around the globe. The business was born here in st. Kitts, when chris kalen struck a deal with the government a decade ago following the collapse of the islands sugar industry. Since then passports provide hundreds of millions in income. In fact, in 2014 the last year for which there are statistics available, 40 of the governments revenue came from selling passports. Its provided st. Kitts with hundreds of millions for Infrastructure Projects<\/a> private development and tourism. But a lot of the money is unaccounted for. More than 10,000 people have purchased citizenship here but its almost impossible to tell who they are, because the information is not public. Chris kalen doesnt like the word citizenship for cash or any suggestion that all you need is money to get a passport. You have to go through a process. You have to apply, and you have to answer a million questions, and you have to undergo a background verification and you have, at least in the properly run programs you have to be a reputable person and thats checked. Reporter but evidently not that carefully. About the only way to identify people who have purchased st. Kitts citizenship is if they turn up on a list of fugitives or get in trouble with the law. And st. Kitts has more than its share for two sleepy little islands. Its passport holders include a russian wanted for briby, two ukrainians suspected of bribing a u. N. Official and two Chinese Women<\/a> wanted for financial crimes. I think its no secret that these islands have made decisions that are not always optimal. Theyve taken some bozos. Yes, exactly. What about crooks . Yes it goes all the way down to crooks, absolutely. People that i would never let into the country. But im not the government. But you set up their program. We helped set up the program. But advisers add vise ministers decide. Reporter three suspected iranian operatives were caught here using their passports to launder money for banks in tehran, in violation of u. S. Sanctions. It also had to recall more than 5,000 passports, because they either didnt include a place of birth or issued to people who changed their names. Since then, reforms have been made but questions remain. They are not safeguards in place. Reporter until 2014 Peter Vincent<\/a> was the top Legal Adviser<\/a> for u. S. Immigration and customs enforcement, part of the department of Homeland Security<\/a> which he says is well aware of all the vulnerabilities. In fact, the person in line to take over Homeland Security<\/a> general john f. Kelly, expressed concern in a report last year that cash for passport programs could be exploited by criminals, terrorists, or other nefarious actors. Does that represent a security threat, do you think . It does. In my opinion, the Global Community<\/a> has established a very effective Global Security<\/a> architecture to prevent terrorist attacks. I see these cash for citizenship programs as a gaping hole in that security architecture. Reporter but its not stopped the programs from multiplying across the caribbean. Several islands are competing with st. Kitts for customers in badly needed cash. What is are we supposed to do, sit back and do nothing . Reporter the Prime Minister<\/a> of antiga says it has turned the economy around and they claim to have among the strictest programs in the caribbean. You actually have to show up here to get citizenship, albeit very briefly. Our law provides them to spend five days here. That sounds like a vacation. Yes, i understand. However, we haveade sure that at least there must be some facetoface contact so we know who they are. What kind of people are you looking for sh were looking for High Net Worth<\/a> individuals. People who are well known, and to make sure we get the creme de la creme. Reporter last summer, antiga announced it was opening an embassy in baghdad, hoping to sell passports to iraqis. It didnt work out. But its doing in syria after hiring a relative of Bashar Al Assad<\/a> to represent them. Have you had applications from syria . Yes. Syria is an area we have had some concerns but did not place it on a restricted list. You can see the full r hey there, starting your search for the right used car . I am you got it. Just say show me millions of used cars for sale at the all new carfax. Com. But, i don want one thats had a bunch of owners just say, show me cars with only one owner pretty cool its perfect. Thats the power of carfax\u00ae find the cars you want, avoid the ones you dont plus you get a free carfax\u00ae report with every listing start your used car search at carfax. Com 2016 was the 100th anniversary of the u. S. Parks service. Our own connor spent the year visiting every park in the system, and heres his final report. Reporter i knew yellow stone would be cold in the winter just how cold was a bit of a surprise. It was negative 34 degrees when i was there two weeks ago. But a smile would have been frozen on my face no matter what. Americas First National<\/a> park was my last stop on a yearlong quest to visit every national park. All 59 of them. As a journey that began with a hike in the dark one year ago today. I joined a small group of strangers on the top of Cadillac Mountain<\/a> in maine to see the first rays of sun hit the contiguous United States<\/a>. I wanted to get a head start on 2016, the 100th anniversary of the National Parks<\/a> service. I knew i had a lot of ground to cover. Soon, i was underground, at mammoth cave in kentucky. Then underwater at biscayne in florida. Walking across stand and soil. The lowest point in the United States<\/a>. The 59 National Parks<\/a> are spread out across the country. And for most of the trip, i drove. It was sometimes scary. When i did hop on to a plane, the change in landscape was even more dramatic. One week i was marveling at lava in hawaii. The next i was in awe of a glacier in alaska. Setting aside these places for enjoyment of all was and is a uniquely american idea and ive never felt prouder to be an american. It was certainly an interesting year to be crisscrossing the country. I spent plenty of time in red states and blue states. I saw a 1500 foot high wall that already exists on the mexican border. I watched a debate in samoa where the people i met cant even vote for the american president. Much has been made about how divided we are as a country. But you dont really feel that in the National Parks<\/a>. The places were red and blue they come together. Sometimes in the same vista. Naturalist john muir once wrote, Everybody Needs<\/a> beauty as well as bread. Places to play in and pray in. Where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. You may need that now more than ever. Fortunately, theres no shortage of cathedrals. Youll continue to see stories from the parks on this broadcast, but i encourage you to go out and see one for yourself this year. I spent the last few days reflecting on the places people and puppies ive experienced along the way in 2016. I spent last night at Point Reyes National<\/a> seashore in california. On december 31st its where the the sinking of the titanic more than a hundred years ago is the stuff of history and legend. Conventional wisdom says the ship hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the sea killing more than 1500 peng passengers and crew. But producers say there was a massive fire on board that weakened the steel hull. Mark phillips has that. Reporter well, say titanic and you think icebergs and human folly. But according to a new theory to the ice we can add fire. It was the end for the band that played famously as the great ship went down in the 1958 film a night to remember. The tune was nearer my god to thee, and it seems almost 105 years later we may be nearer the complete truth of what caused the disaster. She was the largest ship ever built. Reporter a new documentary provides a twist on an old story. Her Maiden Voyage<\/a> would be her last. Reporter Everybody Knows<\/a> why the titanic went down. She hit an iceberg, and despite been unsinkable, she sank and took 1500 lives with her. But why was she going so fast through an iceberg filled see and why did she go down so quickly . The filmmakers say it has to do with the dark smudge on the hull. Look at this anomaly in the hull. Wow. Reporter the mark on the hull says irish journalist maloney, is the result of a smoldering fire that raged for days in one of the ships coal storage bunkers that weakened the ship. The intensity of the fire and the effect on the steel, very likely the fire itself was coauthor of the catastrophe. Reporter the film even suggests that the need to put out the fire by moving the smoldering coal into the ships boilers was a reason she kept traveling at speed, despite snowing the icebergs were lurking. The official inquiry into the sinking blamed it on the ships speed, but titanic apparently didnt take all her secrets with her to the grave. More than 12,000 feet down on the north atlantic seabed, some are now still being revealed. The titanic has become more than a well known tragedy, its become a metaphor for disaster and it looks like the deck chairs are being arranged once again. Thats the overnight news for this thursday. For some of you the news continues. For others, check back with us a little later for the morning ng funded by c captioning funded by cbs its thursday, january 5th, 2017. This is the cbs morning news. Wheel casting new doubts on reports russia hacked the election, president elect trump appears set to scale back the nations top spy agency. It was a battle over obamacare on the hill. The next step for republicans, to repeal and replace the states legislation. Broadcasted brutality. 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