Men and women the world is safer. Speaker john boehner is put the sport date day. Scalise criticized for a speech he gave 12 years ago to a white soup rem sift group. The Pakistan Government is intensifying its campaign against fightsers. Pakistan has been a place attracting foreign supporters. A number of Police Officers killed in shootings rising 6 in the United States, including 15 cases described as ambushes. It is to proclaim identity, politics. Muslim useds turned on to. Black history for the africanamerican struggle we begin with a formal end to the United States combat mission in afghanistan. And questions about the divide between the armed forces and civilians they protect. Hundreds of thousands served in 2001, along with Afghan Forces and coalition troops. At a flaglowering ceremony, Coalition Commander general John Campbell praised the service calling it. President obama had nothing but praise when he visited a military base in hawaii on christmas day. The world is better, i
Overdoses from prescription opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. Thats one overdose death every thirty minutes. The overdose rate which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our Emergency Department is now more like 3 or 4 or 5 if not more than that, in a 24hour period. Thats a massive increase. Massive. Over the past 10 years, weve had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller Overdose Deaths. The food and Drug Administration recently approved a powerful new opioid painkiller called zohydro over the objections of its own medical advisors and dozens of lawmakers. I thought we had learned our lesson with oxycontin. How can you say with any degree of confidence that zohydro wont be abused . Youre going to have people die. This week fault lines looks at the battle over the most popular drugs in america opioid painkillers. There is big controversy tonight involving a new narcotic painkiller. The drug about to hit the market is called zohydro. B
And extraordinary work that goes on around the world from people who the public dont really know very much about. Politicians and society tends to be rather cynical about journalism. But i see enormous bravery, enormous challenge, great courage going on to surface things that the public really needs to know about. Journalists go towards danger when others move away. Journalists have to get involved with all sides of the conflict in order to get the story. It takes a very fearless journalist to get up every day and say, you know what . Im determined to continue my profession, even though i may have to spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder. [radio] line em all up. Come on, fire i came here in 2003, i came to cover the usled invasion, i got here about three weeks before the Bombing Campaign started. And i stayed for the next couple of years working on and off. I came because i thought the war was going to be covered pretty heavily in the western media from the position of emb
Of 2014, race as an american flash point came up plenty. Not only in the shootings of Michael Brown, eric garner tamir rice and others, but the Legal Process and backlash that followed. More than half a century after the final vestiges of jim crow were torn down, housing, education, voting, it was illustrated again and again in in 2014 that there is more than one way to look at america. An opportunity and rights, personal safety on the streets. This was the scene earlier in december in new york city. Washington, d. C. Chicago, and oakland. In cities across the country people took to the streets to protest the decisions of two grand juries not to indict Police Officers in the deaths of two unarmed africanamerican men. What comes as weve seen in recent days in our criminal Justice System too Many Americans feel deep unfairness when it comes to the gap of professed ideals and how laws are applied on a daytoday basis. The grand jury decisions i am inflamed protesters. And the shooting of 1
Need to do to stay safe on americas streets. Do you fear for them . I continue dont want to raise my children to operate with fear. What i want to raise them with is awareness. The edmond peddis bridge, bloody sunday and the echo of selma. Jim did not die in vein . No, i dont feel that this is all in vain. I feel that it was a step in history. A trip back to alabama and the long journey still ahead to reach equality. And good evening, welcome to the america tonight weekend edition. Im adam may sitting in for joie chen. Today were taking a look at race Law Enforcement and justice. There was ferguson, Staten Island and now milwaukee. Thats where another community has decided not to prosecute a Police Officer for his role in the death of a young black man. So the big question tonight is how do keep officers from going too far. America tonights Christof Putzel looks at a new state law in wisconsin aimed at ensuring justice. But in this exclusive interview the family of a mentally ill man s