In just one year more than 29,000 people lost their lives to an overdose of heroin or prescription painkillers, including oxycontin, hydrocodone and fentanyl. Thats an increase of 329 since the start of this century. Because this has become a national epidemic, were beginning special coverage tonight, and well start with Dean Reynolds. Hes coming around a little bit. Reporter the frightening rates of ore doses are fueled by a mix of heroin and an opioid called fentanyl, 30 to 50 times as powerful as heroin itself. Theres this misperception that heroin laced with fentanyl is the better high. Conversely, it causes too many deaths. Reporter one person dies every day from an overdose in chicago, where Dennis Wichern is with the Drug Enforcement agency. When they taint it with fentanyl, the impurity goes way up and thats when you get the overdoses. Reporter 25yearold Chelsea Blackburn of pittsburgh, who was on heroin when she got pregnant but is now clean, says the search for a high can qui
In just one year more than 29,000 people lost their lives to an overdose of heroin or prescription painkillers, including oxycontin, hydrocodone and fentanyl. Thats an increase of 329 since the start of this century. Because this has become a national epidemic, were beginning special coverage tonight, and well start with Dean Reynolds. Hes coming around a little bit. Reporter the frightening rates of ore doses are fueled by a mix of heroin and an opioid called fentanyl, 30 to 50 times as powerful as heroin itself. Theres this misperception that heroin laced with fentanyl is the better high. Conversely, it causes too many deaths. Reporter one person dies every day from an overdose in chicago, where Dennis Wichern is with the Drug Enforcement agency. When they taint it with fentanyl, the up and thats when you get the overdoses. Reporter 25yearold Chelsea Blackburn of pittsburgh, who was on heroin when she got pregnant but is now clean, says the search for a high can quickly reach a dead
Big crash crashalong interstate 80 Near West Branch sunday. Sunday. It shut down the west bound lanes while crews cleared the crash site. Site. Viewers sent us these waiting in a long line of cars. Right now the state patrol says three separate crashes happened involving more than 30 cars. Three people were hurt but authorities are not saying how seriously. All three collisions are being investigated. In central iowa a man was seriously injured while riding a snowmobile. Mobile. 35yearold damoin louk was driving along highway 30 just west of boone at about 60milesperhour when the left front ski caught deep snow throwing him 150 feet off the snowmobile. His helmet came off during the accident and he was flown to a des moines hospital. Right now multiple agencies are investigating. Developing news this morning on the death of Supreme Court justice antonin scalia. The top elected official in the texas county where scalia was found dead now says scalia died of natrual causes. Causes. Becau
Theres already a battle going on over who should replace him. 3 pkg nats a white hearse carried the body of Antonin Scalia to a west texas airport sunday. Bound for virginia at the request of his family. The 79yearold Supreme Court justice passed away suddenly over the weekend while vacationing at this resort ranch. A county judge ruled scalia died of Natural Causes after consulting with his physician and sheriffs investigators sot Cinderela Guevara Presidio County judge one of the things i did ask the sheriff and the marshal that was there if were there any signs of foul play . What did they say . absolutely not. On sunday flags across the country and in the Nations Capital flew at halfstaff in honor of the longtime justice. Known for his strict conservative views scalia was both reviled and beloved by his colleagues. In a 2008 60 minutes interview he maintained his disagreements werent personal sot scalia file i attack ideas i dont attack people and some very good people have some ve
Sales are picking up in northern nevada. John definitely, the horse power is back en vogue, and its a trend that tends to follow the gas prices. Carter and jenn fox are thinking about getting a truck depending on what they think is practical. Carter were just coming down to check out all the new models, everything in town. Weve got one newer vehicle but one we might be looking to replace and just seeing what was around. A lot of people are in the same boat. Record sales are expected to continue this year partly because people have waited longer to buy new cars. Jimmy in the past, where people would keep their cars 67 years, because of the economy, they were keeping them 8 to 10 years. Well, now theyre ready to buy. Some customers just like looking at the different makes and models at their own pace. Tom whats nice is you dont have pushy salesmen bothering you and you can look all you want, and touch, and open and get in, and not worry about them asking you to sit down for three hours.