the total number of people that died from an overdoze is 93,331 people. you know that our state, pennsylvania, is particularly upset with doj s sweetheart deal that was made last year with the sacklers. what can i say? what can you say to victims of addiction, to the families that have lost people by the flooding of the market by the sackler family and letting them really literally the rich and powerful get away with it? i don t think i m able to talk about that case because it s in litigation. the only thing i ll point out the justice department opposed the release of personal liability of our family and is on appeal right now, i believe. i thank you for that. i hope that justice will be done for these families. and finally, on a third matter,
says iran has a history of dragging dissidents back home to be jailed or executed lester all right, pete, thank you. some stunning images coming out of south africa tonight, where the worst rioting in decades has left at least 72 people dead. one mother was forced to toss her 2-year-old off a balcony after looters set the building on fire incredibly, the child was uninjured. hundreds of stores have been targeted the rioters are protesting the jailing of a former president in a corruption case as well as poverty and inequality here at home, the cdc today confirmed what many feared, drug overdose deaths hitting a record in 2020, exacerbated by the pandemic here is kate snow. reporter: overdose deaths have been rising for years, but you can see the increase that coincides with covid preliminary data from the cdc shows from december 2019 to december 2020, overdose deaths rose nearly 30% that s 93,331 deaths
not through a prescription and laced with fentanyl and they died. sandra: i m everyone has a relative or friend that they have their own story. when you put the number up that you referenced, 93,331. bill, every single one of those lives count. that is a brother that is a sister. that is a son a daughter. when you look at the amount of fentanyl seized at the u.s. certain border, you look at that on the screen and you look how that is more than doubled over just a two-year period, almost reaching 5,000 pounds in 2020. we re halfway through 2021. that number is surging. what do we do about it? well, the question is sovereignty. the poison coming across. we talked about the get-aways. how act the drugs that get away?
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african-american or indigenous women in this country. every woman deserves the rate to the highest level quality healthcare possible. president andth ceo of the march of dimes, stacy stewart, dr. richard besser, thank you for coming on, on these two issues.es one more difficult reality of the pandemic, the cdc confirmed what many feared, the number of people died from overdose hit a record in 2020 as the opioid crisis was made worse by the pandemic. reporter: overdose deaths have been rising for years, but you can see the increase that coincides with covid. data shows from december 20 noon to december 2020 overdose rose nearly 23%. that s 93,331 deaths last year.