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facilitating terrorism in Syria. That's it for now. Time now for a | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
look at the news as seen across the United States a couple of hours ago | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
in ABC World News with Dianne Sawyer. | :00:10. | :00:10. | |
Tonight, the polar blast pressing south. Rivers jammed with broken | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
icebergs. Out west, the race to get sandbags ahead of floods. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Coming home, our investigation of American veterans from Iraq and | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Afghanistan are hooked on addictive painkillers. It's a living seemingly | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
never ending nightmare. Tonight, why is this happening? Will be used to | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
date change it? And a new and simple solution for a nation of insomniacs. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
This woman. Is she about to change your life? | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
Good evening. We begin with the sights, sounds and struggles of a | :00:56. | :01:09. | |
nation watching as the freezer game. Even Texas will feel it. Out | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
west, the race is under way to get sandbags in place before heavy rain | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
threatens to bring mudslides on thousands of homes. A meteorologist | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
is tracking the split personality weather tonight. | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
Parts of Southern California playing out almost 150,000 sandbags, | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
preparing for what could bring more brain in four days and they have had | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
in the past year. Mudslides are more of the potential, especially in | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
areas where there have been fires. Especially here, the home of the | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
wildfire that removed almost 2000 acres of education in January. We | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
need the brain. But not that much! `` rain. They needed to help dent | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
the drought. But even if they get five inches of rain, they would need | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
another 15 inches within one month to really see a rebound. The brain | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
will start Wednesday and the heaviest will come into Saturday. `` | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
rain. Meanwhile, the headline for many east of the Rockies is cold. | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
The savage winter still howling in southern Minnesota. The deadline to | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
get your ice fishing house off the Lakes is less than one week away. | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
What with all the cold lately, they may not be able to remove them in | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
time. That push brings the sub freezing wind chills as far south as | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
north Texas and northern Alabama. It is forcing ice jams from Illinois to | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
India Anna and Pennsylvania, bulldozing the swollen rivers. `` | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
Indiana. It is destroying whatever it crosses. There are a windchill | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
advisories from Montana to Ohio. Let's bring back the map. This is | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
the windchill in Chicago, one of many cities concerned about the | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
dangerous weather. Tomorrow morning, it will feel like `20 in Chicago. | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
Other cities, anyone surrounding the great Lakes, will be very | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
uncomfortable. Thank you so much. Next, the big | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
surprises today in that culture war under way in Arizona. The one that | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
pits religious liberty against gay rights. Today, some big American | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
companies warned the governor of the state against signing that hill. In | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
fact, even Mitt Romney weighed in and not the way you might think. | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
Outrage at the state capital. As the governor faces her decision. Does | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
she signed into law a bill allowing businesses in the name of religious | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
freedom to refuse to serve gay people or veto it? But major | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
companies are pouncing, saying the law would create an unfriendly | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
climate that is bad for business. Joining the chorus, Mariott hotels, | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
Apple, which wants to open a 2000 plant offers. Mitt Romney chimed in, | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
urging a veto. `` office. Even the NFL waiting. With the Super Bowl to | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
be played in Arizona next year, it says it promotes exclusiveness. It | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
is discrimination hidden behind religious beliefs. The opposition | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
has been loud but from the backers of the will be here silent so far. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
We tried to find business owners who would go on the record in support of | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
it not so far we have not found one. But willing to talk, this woman from | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
Arizona's Christian business networking. For her, this is about | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
religious freedom. How is this any different to refusing someone | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
service records of the colour of their skin? This is just about | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
people having the right to have their belief system is respected. | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
The governor has until Saturday to act. `` six to `` systems. Return to | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
the results of a special investigation. To address a kind of | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
epidemic among American heroes, returning home only to battle | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
addiction to prescription drugs and drug is provided by the very system | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
meant to help them. It is part of a new series about America's fighting | :05:44. | :05:44. | |
men and women. These are probably the most | :05:45. | :05:56. | |
difficult ones. Snapshots of a father. An army veteran and a bronze | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
star in Iraq. Here, so stoned on prescription drugs he can barely | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
hold his daughter. The war hero turned addict. I had everything | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
going for me. In a flash, but fast, `` that fast, you wake up and it is | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
gone. He is now alone. It is said and number of prescriptions for | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
highly addictive painkillers surged 270% in two years, above the | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
increasing patients. In fact, or than 50,000 veterans were treated | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
for painkiller addiction last year alone. My life revolved around | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
primarily one thing, when is my next bill? The road to addiction started | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
hours after 911. There he is, part of the rescue effort outside the | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
Pentagon. He injured his back pulling the woman from debris. More | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
prescription drugs when he fell off and helicopter in Iraq. He says | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
doctors kept prescribing more painkillers. Soon a full`blown | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
addict, he tried to stop three times. It's a living seemingly never | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
ending nightmare. I am angry that there were better options, more | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
effective ways to treat my pain. The priority was seemingly treating me | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
for whatever was the fastest and most inexpensive way. Tonight, this | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
whistleblower speaks for the first time. She was a pain specialist at a | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
hospital in Kansas City. I saw what I saw and I had to do something | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
about it. But other doctors around the country, she told us she saw an | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
alarming trend, more patients addicted to painkillers. She tried | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
to get them off them but some of them came to her taking massive | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
doses, as much as 1000 mg of morphine per day. Ten times the | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
level considered safe. The bedrooms have their own set of issues and | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
then they are given narcotics. `` veterans. You have used the word | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
generous but it sounds like you want to say excessive. Very excessive. If | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
the patient continues to explain, give them more. If they continue to | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
have pain, give them all. `` com plain. Today, we took these | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
troubling numbers to the health administration who told us they are | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
announcing a programme, and safety initiative, using many of the same | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
recommendations pain experts have made four years. Alternatives like | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
acupuncture and yoga, which have had great success. These are pretty new | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
ideas. We owe it to them to find ways to treat the pain. I am here to | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
say we are working on that. There is 12 years of evidence to say American | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
veterans are over prescribed pain medication. Why hasn't the change | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
occurred? We are addressing this as quickly as we can. This is an | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
absolutely serious issue to the agency, to my fellow physicians. I | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
do treat patients and the ultimate goal for us as physicians used to | :09:20. | :09:29. | |
get our guys back on their feet. Those recommendations come too late | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
for such veterans. I just hope somebody else dealing with chronic | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
pain hears all see this. If they do make the same mistakes I do, they | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
can still raise their daughter, read her story at night. All sides agree | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
they have paid a high price. Their pain is real. The DA insist they | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
have found a new pain management plan they say works. The numbers | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
asked the ringed by what is the evidence it works? According to | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
tests, the VA says the use of addictive painkiller is dropped. We | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
will have to see if those numbers hold. Now we turn to political | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
news. Former President, Bill Clinton blazing his way back onto the | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
campaign trail. Why are? And what does it say about Hillary Clinton in | :10:31. | :10:42. | |
the White House in 2016? Bill Clinton is back. I love | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
Kentucky! The effort to knock off the top Republican in the Senate. | :10:51. | :11:03. | |
Bill Clinton says it is an art form. You do everything you can to make | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
sure the problem is fixed. In Kentucky today, he was helping his | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
opponent. She was a teenager when he was president. He/she is aged 14, | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
resenting roses to the Clintons at the inauguration. Surrounded by | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
senators in Washington, he brushed off the visit. This year, Bill | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
Clinton is his party 's biggest draw. I hope that Hillary Clinton | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
runs for the White House. One person not mention today, resident Obama. | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
You did not mention Obama once. Why is Clinton a bigger draw? Bill | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
Clinton is a friend, a mental and an adviser. We caught up with Bill | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
Clinton and asked if Democrats could maintain the Senate control. Bill | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
Clinton in high demand, hoping to come to the rescue. | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Late today, we got some news that gave hope in the fight against | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
obesity. News that obesity in that group has plummeted 43% in ten | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
years. So what has made the difference and how much credit goes | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
to Michelle Obama and her campaign that again four years ago today? | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
Four years after Michelle Obama launched her campaign to get kids to | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
eat right and exercise. Tonight, that stunning headline. New | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
government numbers showing that in 2004, 14% of two to five year olds | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
were obese. But by 2012, that number dropped to just 8%. The CDC is | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
calling it the first significant decrease in the could be Derek `` | :13:05. | :13:16. | |
epidemic. Experts point to a number of factors that may have contributed | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
to the decline. Kids are consuming fewer sugary drinks. While mothers | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
are breast`feeding and they also credit the first lady with raising | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
awareness. Lessons that may be starting to stick. | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
Also tonight, we are tackling sleeplessness in America. A simple | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
solution for insomnia and how one woman is getting millions of people | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
to fall asleep without pills or gadgets. And it is free. | :13:48. | :14:35. | |
Our series this week, sleepless in America. Tonight 23 million of us | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
wonder if we will stay a week all night with a Sumner `` insomnia. | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
What if there was a simple way to fall asleep for free? | :14:47. | :15:03. | |
Today I have a new video for you. This woman would be offended if her | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
voice puts you to sleep. It is the response that she wants. She is the | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
sleep with bra, one of eight exploding community on the | :15:13. | :15:24. | |
Internet. They, brush, poor and mostly whisper all to lull people to | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
sleep. Is it just a soothing voice? It has to do with the combination of | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
sounds and voices. It actually works. Per videos have generated 16 | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
million clicks and are among the options. One of her followers says | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
her videos have changed her life. I could not sleep and I was thinking | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
about so many different things. When she saw the first video, she found | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
it hard to keep her eyes open. I was hooked. My rain relaxes so much. And | :16:09. | :16:20. | |
that is with no appeals, signed a fax `` side`effects. The videos | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
could be a good solution to insomnia. It brings me comfort that | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
I cannot find in other things. Millions of people are now relying | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
on the Internet equivalent of counting sheep. | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
Would you dance till you drop for 46 hours? 700 students defy exhaustion | :16:48. | :16:57. | |
and sore feet to use their energy to light a fire for other kids. | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
Don't let that silly hat for you. Alison and Ryan are preparing for a | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
marathon. Just trying to stretch out. 46 hours of no sleep and no | :17:16. | :17:29. | |
sitting. Just dancing. This is America's biggest college dance and | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
Marys on. More than 700 dances shaking and strutting their stuff. | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
All to help kids like this 13`year`old. She has cancer and | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
money raised will help pay for medical costs. After 24 hours, | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
almost 36 hours in Alison 's legs are swollen and she is losing her | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
voice. Is about fighting cancer! Nearly two days after the dance | :18:01. | :18:12. | |
began, they are barely hanging on. And then, it is over. Mission | :18:13. | :18:22. | |
accomplished. $13 million raised. And perhaps, more importantly. | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
Britney is beaming. Don't ever underestimate the effect you can | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
have on a child life. Dancing with your feet and your heart. That is | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
America Strong. And we celebrate them all and thank | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
you for watching. See you again tomorrow night. | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
A cold at night and pad to last night and that leads us into a | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
chilly start for Wednesday morning. While some start dry and bright, for | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
others showers will develop quite quickly. The showers are developing | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
late into the night and the morning for part of northern Ireland, some | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
on the heavy | :19:25. | :19:25. |