Some are gliding their way into the emergency room. But first the nightline 5. Im right here. You hear me . You fight. You dont give up. As long as you got a breath in you. The revenant, rated r. January 8th only in theaters. Seconds. Good evening. Breaking news as we come on the air tonight. The International Manhunt for now come to a close. The rich and privileged teenager who killed four in a drunk driving accident and got off with only probation and time in a rehab center. Authorities confirming he and his mother are now in mexican custody and hell be transported to the u. S. Four, five kids, kids laying in ditches and streets. Ethan couch pled guilty to killing four in a drunk driving crash back in 2013. His infamous defense sparking nationwide outrage. Affluenza. Affluenza. The lawyer told judge boyd he was so rich he didnt know right from wrong. He was sentenced to 10 years probation. Earlier this month a video surfaced of couch allegedly playing beer pong, possibly violating the terms set by the judge. Once that video came out that they felt like that a probation violation could be coming. He failed to check in with his probation officer. His mother tanya couch also mysteriously vanished. In my opinion he belongs in big boy jail. Tonight hes reportedly back in handcuffs. Theres no word what his defense will be this time. Well have the latest details tomorrow morning on gma. Now we turn to chicago. After another call to police turns deadly. A city demanding justice and answers. Tonight perhaps a lesson to learn from another american city, san antonio. We were on the streets with two remarkable officers using new tactics to save lives. Their departments on a mission to change the way Law Enforcement interacts with the mentally ill. Reporter death and disbelief. Chicagos newest neighbors struck again this weekend. Two people shot, were shots fired by police just to confirm . Yes, they were. Reporter police opened fire responding to a domestic disturbance. 19yearold Quintonio Legrier allegedly threatening his father with a baseball bat. On arrival they were confronted by a combative reporter a College Student and engineering major at Northern Illinois university, legrier was shot seven times. I went to the hospital. My son has seven Bullet Wounds in him. Thats too much. Reporter janet cooksy says her son was a good kid, a good student with big dreams. He also battled Mental Health. He was having a mental situation. Sometimes hell get a little loud. But not violent. Reporter caught in the crossfire was a neighbor, 55yearold bettie jones. Why you got to shoot first and ask questions later . Its ridiculous reporter nationwide, fatal altercations between police and the mentally ill happen all too often. Dallas 911, whats your emergency . My son needs to be taken to parkland, hes bipolar schizophrenia, make sure theyre Trained Police officers. Okay. Reporter this body cam video shows two Dallas Police officers responding to a 911 call about a bipolar schizophrenic man off we have to warn you, what happens next is hard to watch. Bipolar schizo. Reporter 38yearold Jason Harrison comes to the door. Notice the screwdriver in his hand. Drop that for me, guy. Drop it drop it oh they killed my child oh, they killed my child shots fired. Cover code 3. Reporter eight seconds after he came to the door, harrison lay dieing in his mothers driveway. Shot five times. Twice in the back. Called for them to take him to the morgue. I called for help. Reporter the officers insist they had no other choice. They fired in selfdefense. They could have tasered him or something. They didnt have to come out straight fiftieth the deadly force. Reporter a grand jury declined to indict. The officers and the city of dallas, who have sought to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing use of force was reasonable under the circumstances. The training that these guys are lacking is what needs to be changed. Reporter Jason Harrisons name has now become one among many others. Names like lavalle hall, dontre hamilton, james boyd, americans described by their families as mentally ill who have ended up on the wrong side of an officers gun in what many even inside Law Enforcement are calling a crisis in american policing. This is the future of policing. Reporter just hours from where Jason Harrison was killed, a Specialized Team is working to revolutionize policing from within. Theyre san antonios Mental Health unit. Shes calling in stating that she has depression. And that shes feeling suicidal. Reporter meet patrolmen joe smarrow and Ernie Stevens. They respond to emotionally disturbed persons anywhere in the city. I promise you im not like any Police Officer that youve probably ever met. Reporter today its a young woman who called 911 contemplating suicide. Suicide in the past . No. I dont even know how to do it. You dont have a plan right now . No. Reporter these officers are experts in whats called crisis intervention training. Would you say that you really dont want to die but you want the pain to stop . Yeah. Okay, okay. I dont want to leave my kid. Are you willing to get some help today . Yeah. Reporter this woman agrees to get help. Its all part of a Pioneering Program where the mentally ill are diverted out of jails and into treatment. How is your approach different from the average cop, if you will . Were in plain clothes, unmarked car. We walk in, its not im officer morrow, officer stevens. Its, how you doing, byron . Im joe, this is ernie. Were here to help you. Reporter 15 to 20 of Law Enforcement agencies in the country have crisis intervention training programs. Suicide, do you know if shes taken an overdose . Reporter Ernie Stevens says he helped start the one here in san antonio. That was the call i hated most. Theres an individual at this house that has schizophrenia, thats hearing voices, hes reporter all that changed, officer stevens says, after he reluctantly attended a weeklong crisis intervention training class and met a woman with a schizophrenic son. She said, one day one of you officers will have to come to my house and you might have to shoot and kill my son. I want you to know thats okay because i want you to go home safe to your family. And it was at that moment that by made a pact, we were going to ask the chief to start a Mental Health unit to help family members just like her. Reporter according to a survey by the Police Executive research forum, new recruits typically spend 60 hours learning to handle a gun, compared to eight hours learning streams for handling the mentally ill. Look at police academies. How close do they mimic military boot camps . But when you graduate you go to the streets. My 18yearold daughter is wanting to kill herself. All of a sudden weve got to calm down. Jimmy for him its veteran hes battled ptsd. Personal question, you ever considered suicide . I have. Absolutely. And more than once. I dont shy away from the tough questions, byron. Again, i hope that it will help somebody. When you go on these calls, you sometimes see yourself . A lot of the times i see myself. And thats what allows me to do what i feel like is a good job. Reporter this new approach may be saving lives and it certainly saves money for the city of san antonio. Around 50 million in the past five years. Do you feel shes suicidal . Reporter their specialized training is put to the test almost daily. A complainant asking for a welfare check on his estranged wife. Shes a veteran. Wounded warrior. She called him this morning and was crying and told him that she was in a lot of pain. Hes unable to get ahold of her the past hour. Hes at her house. Hes banging on the door. No answer. Reporter they race to the scene. Rising. Its the police, are you okay . Reporter thats the victims estranged husband who called 911. Is she breathing . Reporter all they can do is pace and pray. Ernie and joe arrived in time. They had to kick the door to get inside. They found the woman unconscious. Maintenance, can you coordinate, get them up here . Shes unconscious, shes taken a lot of pills. We found her face down in her bathroom, empty pill bottles, at least seven. We tried to do what we could. We do have a faint pulse. My hearts broken for her. Sad for the family. Sad for the husband. You know. Just wish you could do more. You can see the emotional toll this takes on the officers. And they do this every day. I was struck how you kicked the door in having no idea what you might find inside. Certain officers are going to see us as foolish. You know . Like you said, we dont know whats on the other side of that door. Potential to turn violent. Like i said, our mindset is always ready to go there if needed. Reporter the woman survived. Ernie and joe likely saved her life. I saw two cops go in. I saw two human beings come out. Reaction is that, byron, because of how you see it affect us. Theres no way you can do this day in and day out and not have a human approach or respond with emotion. I dont think its possible. Reporter back in chicago, the city is in turmoil. The officers involved in the shooting are on administrative duties, the department apologizing to bettie jones family for her accidental death. The embattled mayor, rahm emanuel, walling for a review how officers are trained to handle Mental Health cases. But for the families of Quintonio Legrier and bettie jones, it is too little, too late. Im going to let it shine next the refugees biking over the russian Regional Border in hopes for a new and better later, hoverboards. 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[jerry bell iii] deep couch sitting when heartburn hits fight back fast tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue and neutralizes stomach acid at the source tum, tum, tum, tum desperation desperation can make fora powerful motivator. Tonight a story near the Arctic Circle makes that point. The surge in refugees flocking into norway in the dead of winter. Imagine putting everything you own on your back and getting on a bike. Heres abcs Alex Marquardt. Reporter its a frozen, barren landscape in the russian Arctic Circle. And cutting through the cold, figures with bikes. Refugees from thousands of miles away trudging through the snow and pedaling toward what they hope will be a better life. This is the only Border Crossing cross on foot. Thats why at the least theyve got to use bikes. You can see this big pile of bikes, many cheap russian brand, all of them brandnew, not a scratch on them, barely used. That one up there still in its wrapping. When people come across, they just dump the bikes into these containers. Syria is not an option right now for me. Reporter kinan is fleeing the war in syria. A long way from home in a finny russian mining town called nickel. Hes wearing every piece of clothing he has because its minus 5 fahrenheit. And this dingy hotel has no heating. Its much cheaper than going to turkey, from turkey getting small boats to cross to greece, from greece to europe itself. Reporter hes waiting for a smuggler to show up with a bike hes bought to make the frigid crossing. It will be more like a kids bicycle. But i will pay a lot of money more than i should. Reporter he and about 5,500 others have ridden this more than 10mile road to the border this year. Some of the more than 1 million migrants and refugees who have flooded into europe in 2015. Theyve crossed the Mediterranean Sea in flimsy boats. Theyve climbed over razor wire and under fences. Walked countless miles through the heart of europe. Almost 4,000 have died in the process this year. And this might be the most extreme. Going all the way up to the russian Arctic Circle to a tiny remote border with norway and crossing by bike. Where temperatures get so low that they could freeze to death. Russian buses will take them part of the way to the actual crossing. It was on one of these buses on the russian side of the border where we met the yahea family from baghdad. I leave because my life is kind of dangerous. Reporter they paid 4,000 for this route to europe to mediterranean by boat. The russian government wouldnt let us film their actual crossing so we met up with hussein, his wife sarah, and their 18monthold son yussuf on the norwegian side. What was the first thing that went through your head when you crossed the border knowing you were finally sure. I feel i am in a safer place. Reporter hussein and sara are on the run, their lives threatened by one of iraqs many powerful militias. They told me that you, your brother, all your family, we will kill anyone. All of your family . Yes. Reporter the middle of the night but they still have to be processed. And outfitted with coldweather gear for this new, unforgiving climate. In the light of day, the camp is even bleaker than it first looked. Rows of trailer bunk houses. All the refugees Walking Around in matching winter clothes. It is bitterly cold this you can see the wind just driving the snow sideways. You can only imagine whats going through the minds of people who have come here from places like the middle east where its so much warmer. Waking up your first mornings in europe, seeing and feeling all of this. No one will end up settling here. The lucky ones will soon fly to southern norway. The unlucky ones, those from countries considered safe enough, will be forced to go back. Camp director henry osima tells us for now his goal is to give them as warm a welcome as possible. You expect this to continue throughout the winter . Im afraid its going to happen. I fear we are going to lose some lives. Somebodys going to freeze to death somewhere. Reporter inside the family has rested after their long trip and is trying to come to terms with their new reality and what lies ahead. How are you feeling right now . Unhappy. Because youre not at home . Reporter as hard as it is to leave home and loved ones behind, seeing your country torn apart, the pain is compounded for so many like this family and kinan, when forced to accept their new status at refugees. I dont know, im regretting my decision to emigrate. Yeah, im seriously regretting my decision. Reporter for so many of the hundreds of thousands trying to make their way to europe, its not a decision at all. But a question of surviving and building a new life. And theyll do whatever it takes to get there. For nightline, im Alex Marquardt in norway. And next, its one of the hottest gadgets this giftgiving season. 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Representative taking to twitter to show off his hoverboard injury. Weve seen the fires linked to hoverboards. Commission now investigating 21 fire incidents across the country. Even tweeting this warning. Got a hoverboard for christmas . Might want one of these. Major airlines banning the devices from flights for fear of the batteries catching fire. I was surprised. I didnt think i would get injured that badly. This thing goes so frickin fast reporter teen xavier documented his first ride. He falls twice, bloodying his knee. The cpsc says it has received dozens of reports of injuries and is expecting that number to grow. Experts urge everyone to wear proper safety gear before taking one for a spin. If you want to be taking care of yourself, get wrist guards, get a helmet. Reporter for nightline, remember the good old days when people actually walked places . It was the late comedienne joy adams who said, if it werent for the fact that the tv set and the refrigerator are so far apart some of us wouldnt get any exercise at all. Thank you for watching. Tune into Good Morning America first thing tomorrow. As always were online 24 7 on our night like Facebook Page and abcnews. Com. Good night, america. Now, on ok tv. Leonardo decaprios oscar winning performance. You took that from me, you understand . The highly anticipated and closely guarded star wars. The dark side. Weve got your star studded holiday movie preview. Ageless bomb shell pamela anderson. Why the cover shoot is different than all the rest. Its the movie that could be taking center stage of the
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