the race is on to avoid a default disaster. minutes from now the first key vote on the debt ceiling bill is set to take place on the house floor. already it s facing pushback from both sides of the aisle. we ll be speaking to one of those lawmakers ahead. officials in iowa trying to decide whether they can keep searching for five people who remain unaccounted for at the site of a partially collapsed apartment building there. rescuers are entering a no-win situation as we learn that what remains in the building is unstable and could come crashing down at any moment. plus the gloves are off. during his first official campaign event, ron desantis taking on donald trump. ahead, see why he thinks the former president s attacks are going to backfire. we are following these developing stories, all coming in right here to cnn news central. right now the house is in session ahead of a key vote to avoid default on the nation s debts. president biden and house speaker kevin mccart
pomellato by the people who built and fed this country for generations. hundreds of thousands of them have died from opioids and their still dying more than a hundred thousand drug deaths last year from fat and all. smuggled through china and mexico. if you live there you probably know someone who is died from fat and all probably someone s child. what you may have forgotten in the face of all the sadness is the opioid epidemic was not organic, it didn t just happen one day people and sparsely populated people in kentucky this of me felt sad and took dangerous drugs. no. this particular disaster was greeted by drug companies. that is true they kicked it off. they did by aggressively marketing oxycontin. they sold it to doctors and doctors solely to the patient s on the false claim that it was nonaddictive. it was very addictive. what happened next? what drive through upstate new york you could see the carnage. ultimately purdue pharma fixed lawsuits and criminal charges in th
opioid business. it shuts down purdue pharma. it gave deedee and families like hers the opportunity to address the sacklers and tell them how they wrecked their lives and gets money to families like deedee s, $750 million or more. the sackler family said the s sackler family believes it is critical to providing substantial resources to people and communities in need. we are pleased with the court s decision to allow the agreement to move forward and look forward to it taking effect as soon as possible. the settlement means immunity from thousands of lawsuits related to purdue pharma s early aggressive marketing of oxycontin as nonaddictive, which it was not. before purdue filed for bankruptcy in 2019, the total cost of all the lawsuits facing them was according to a second circuit court opinion, $40 trillion. they obviously are not going to have to pay that. in 2021 the sacklers are
pomellato by the people who built and fed this country for generations. hundreds of thousands of them have died from opioids and their still dying more than a hundred thousand drug deaths last year from fat and all. smuggled through china and mexico. if you live there you probably know someone who is died from fat and all probably someone s child. what you may have forgotten in the face of all the sadness is the opioid epidemic was not organic, it didn t just happen one day people and sparsely populated people in kentucky this of me felt sad and took dangerous drugs. no. this particular disaster was greeted by drug companies. that is true they kicked it off. they did by aggressively marketing oxycontin. they sold it to doctors and doctors solely to the patient s on the false claim that it was nonaddictive. it was very addictive. what happened next? what drive through upstate new york you could see the carnage. ultimately purdue pharma fixed lawsuits and criminal charges in
nonaddictive, as practically nonaddictive. this is, i think, one of the ultimate examples of a swamp story. and michael, lastly, this isn t the first project you have done on this theme. i remember clean and sober and also dealing with dependency issues. you have a foundation in your nephew s name. my sister pam formed a foundation, and i want to make sure i get it right so i read it to you. it s called the michael douglas chiclone foundation, and it goes toward addiction issues, and it goes toward this other wonderful i m from just outside of pittsburgh, and so i can read it right if you don t mind me doing this. this is matilda tice early childhood behavioral health facility in the hill district of pittsburgh, and this year, some of the proceeds go toward that. she s done great stuff. there s so many people out there, you know, helping out because it s so unbelievably