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Here. Were there in the line of fire as residents evacuate and the molten rock threatens to swallow their homes. But first the nightline five. Take zzzquil and sleep like the kids went to nann as out fr the whole weekend. Zzzquil. It helps you sleep easily and wake refreshed. Because sleep is a beautiful thing. Zantac heartburn alert. Stop. Nexium can take 24 hours to work. Zantac is different. For relief without the wait. Try zantac. Number one in just 60 try zantac. Number one in just 60 seco thank you cable. For the slower internet upload speeds. For making me wait longer to share my photo albums. Thank you, cable because if we never had you. We wouldnt know the incredible difference verizon fios makes. The numbers dont lie. In Customer Satisfaction studies, fios is rated 1 in Internet Speed and reliability, and hd picture quality. So join the millions who enjoy the difference fios makes and get a fios triple play online at an amazing price guaranteed for two years. 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She was, her eyes were rolled back in the back of her head and she was frothing at the mouth. Reporter that was the shocking day she found her 17yearold daughter in when she went to wake her for school one morning. I screamed to my husband, im like, get up here. And were shaking her, shaking her, shaking her. Reporter both she and her husband had no idea what was wrong with nicky until paramedics arrived. He asked me, he said, what kind of drugs does your daughter take . I said, she doesnt take drugs. He said, she has track marks all over her arms and im like, what . He goes, your daughter is a heroin addict. Reporter their daughter was revived that morning, but the nightmare was only beginning. Her story is one of just thousands playing out across the country. Is this the house where your friend lost her right here, yeah. On easter sunday. Reporter the heroin epidemic casting a shadow on neighborhoods big and small. Deaths from heroin addiction have more than doubled from 2010 to 2012. Heroin, it seems, is everywhere. You guys want to head out . Reporter and authorities are doing everything they can to crack down on the addictive substance. Its just after dawn near st. Louis, only about 25 miles from her home. And a team of dea agents and local police are preparing to raid a home they believe has a stash of heroin inside. Lets go. Reporter a few minutes later, its on. Dea, police, come on out. Come on out. Reporter they are hunting for heroin. Whats going on . Reporter and police say it doesnt take long for agents to find some. Nine months. Reporter for dea Task Force Officer juan wilson, its just one front on a battle that has consumed him. He lost his fatherinlaw to a vicious heroin addiction. Today, the search inside this home leaves him outraged. What did you find in there . We found a loaded pistol. It was underneath the couch cushion, laying right next to where the baby was, where we found the heroin, also. Fully loaded. Reporter you look pissed. Its its one thing to find, you know, the heroin next to the baby, but you find a loaded gun, you know, ive got kids of my own and little angry, yeah. Reporter more and more suburbanites once addicted to pain pills are turning to heroin. Its a cheap alternative and more potent. Its a quick fix and driving big business. Why do you think heroin is so popular here . Its very afodable. Its cheap. Okay si ckocon sin, dealers cha a dollar per milligram. If you have an 80 milligram dose, you can pay 80 for one pill, versus one pill or one dose of heroin in a capsule could cost you anywhere between 5 to 15. Two females. Reporter were at that same house before, undercover. They want to make the money. Reporter we set up a safe distance away, watching with binoculars to see if buyers drive up to the home for drugs. Were seeing transactions gone on while the mail is being delivered. Reporter we watch car after car pull up in what Police Allege are customers chasing a high. Theyll starterly in the morning, theyll finish late at night. Theyll do this all day. White male and white female are sitting in the black car. Reporter convinced they just made purchases, police pull over suspected customers. Yeah, we got him. Reporter the passenger got picked up by his friend over here and even with a child in the car, decided they were going to come out and buy some heroin today. The passenger attempted to snort as much heroin that he could and then flick the rest of it out the window. What kind of average do you have . Two, three grams a day. I snorted some. Right. I can see it on your nostril. Reporter not far away, agents pull over another suspected buyer. This one thought to have hidden heroin. Theyre concealed down there. Shes having are they inside you right now . How do you want to do this . Do you want to reach down and give them up . Reporter she gives up quickly. These are called beans or button. Theres usually a half gram in there. Reporter for juan, fighting heroin is not just a job. He grew up here. And heroin has cost him dearly. Ive got a personal stake with it. Reporter you lost your fatherinlaw . Yes, sir. He was a longtime prescription pill abuser and a longtime heroin user. One day, he got a phone call to come to his apartment where they had found his body. Reporter understanding how heroin has infiltrated small town america requires tracing it to its biggest source. Mexico. We went to ground zero. The gateway. The southern border. To understand the huge scale of the problem. Were at the busineest Border Crossing in the country. Were talking an incredible volume. 45,000 cars per day. Its a game of cat and mouse between customs and Border Patrol officers. And an army of smugglers whose job it is to get thousands of pounds of heroin into the u. S. Are they getting more creative . They are being creative. Deemer concealment. Tough for us to get to. We have to call mechanics. Reporter in the inf infrastructure of the car . In the structure of the car, yes. Reporter while were there, agents see something that doesnt look right in this van. They run it through an xray machine. They find nearly 100 pounds of marijuana, vacuum sealed and neatly stuffed in the gas tanne the cartels are smuggling heroin by any means necessary. Through tunnels, submarines, even inside the bodies of live puppies. If its caught, its sent to a super secret governmentq faciliy like this. A site so sensitive, we cant tell you where it is. The concern that heavily armed cartels and other drug dealers might come to steal this precious product. Your family doesnt know where this place is, flight. No. Reporter warehouse is packed from floor to ceiling with these drugs, kept under padlock. Were looking at a couple thousands pound us. Reporter what would that translate into, millions of dollars . Yes. Right here what we have is essentially white heroin. Right here what we have, is what we call brown heroin. And depending on what they cut it with, youre going to see different shades of the brown. This last one here is what we would call your black tar heroin. Reporter were looking at ruined lives, were looking at death. Right in that bag. Yes. This is an amazing city. Reporter back in st. Louis, dea special agent jim shroba says the cartel devised a marketing plan to boost heroin production. They brought in better k chemi chemists. A better refinement process. They wanted to open up the market to individuals whose idea of heroin was the sir ring. They made it so pure, they gave new users, suburban users in this region the opportunity to snort it and get them hooked. Reporter in some cases, heroin sold on the street, once only 6 pure is now a staggering 90 pure. And the st. Louis suburb where juan grew up, the death toll is alarming. In the st. Charles county area, 2004, there was four overdose deaths. In 2013, there were 26. Its highly addictive. Reporter so many have died, juan decided to tour schools to warn young people. That Community Outreach led him to meet gee. Her batters battle touched him. They became family. Nicky went through three years of rehab. She was in college on the path to recovery, but it was a struggle. This is not your child anymore. Physically, it looks like them, but the inside is not them anymore. That is someone who is controlled and owned by heroin. They all become lying, cheating, steaming thieves. Reporter nothing could save nicky. I got a phone call from a local police officer, theres a sick call at your house. I immediately went home, i pulled up and there was, our whole court was filled with police and there wasnt any sirens on. I saw my husband just collapsed on the front porch and i knew. I can so vividly remember that moment of just sitting there, thinking, oh, my god, she died. I want to tell everyone thank you so much for coming out in such short notice. Reporter she and her family have turned their immense grief into a calling. Thank you for coming out. Everybody ready . Reporter they walk to raise awareness of the dangers of heroin in communities that may not realize they have a problem. Theres not one person here that is not been affected by heroin. Reporter some come with pictures of loved ones who have died from heroin. Juan has been with gee every step of the way. This is my calling. In the past couple of months, two to three people have died from drug overdoses. People that i went to school with and that i knew. Reporter deaths from heroin, an indiscriminate killer that does not care what neighborhood youre from. For nightline, pierre thomas, abc news, st. Louis. Next, them woirps of a geisha gave us a peek behind the curtain of this mysterious life. But what is it really like to go to Geisha School . Plus, the molten onslaught, as lava swallows part of ah ha wian town. Our rob marciano is there. If yand youre talking toevere rheumyour rheumatologiste me, about a biologic. This is humira. This is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. This is humira giving me new perspective. Doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. Humira works for many adults. It targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. Before treatment, get tested for tb. 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Reporter we were invited inside the tea house where it takes years to perfect her skill. Entertaining clients with ancient performing art. Like dancing. Music. And drinking games. This is every college frat persons dream. It may look silly, but this is not a mere game. She can earn hundreds per night. Her livelihood depends on her ability to delight and entice her male clients. Yes, its a tradition, yes it involves the art, but it invo e involves serving men. Dont really think about it. Reporter you dont feel it that way. Im really comfortable serving. Reporter she says she grew up dreaming of being a geisha, much like american girls dream of being a princess. For as long as you can remember, you wanted to be one. Yes. Reporter and she wanted to be a regular teen. Thats her playing trombone in a community band. These days, she has a new instrument. Do you ever miss modern music . Do you ever want to listen to taylor swift or something . Sometimes. Reporter most teenagers listen to taylor swift. And bruno mars. Reporter bruno mars. Geishas are a dying breed in japan. 100 years ago, there were 80,000. Today, just 1,000. When she is out in public, locals and tourists alike descend like paparazzi, trying to catch a glimpse of such a rare sight. Reporter you are constantly being gawked out. They think that im like a mickey mouse going around the disney land. Reporter they think of you as a cartoon character than a real professional. I feel like that sometimes. Reporter right. Its a lifestyle perceived as Old Fashioned and depicted as brutal. Your cape is untouched. Men like. That. Reporter where even a womans virtue can be bought for a price. You must sell it to the highest bidder. Reporter what are the biggest misunderstanding about geisha . They think, like, movie. Reporter they think its like memoirs of a geisha. They they think that i was sold to this tea house or something. Reporter they think you are forced into it. And thats definitely not the case. No. Reporter and theres not because theres alsoen undercurrent of of sex that people assume. Is that a big misunderstanding . Yes. We dont have that culture anymore for long, long time. Reporter she may not be having sex, but here, shes still admired by many. Mostly men, like this man who has seen her perform seven times. Hes kind of a groupie. What does he like about her . Because shes still in training, every cent she earns on the job goes directly to the tea house mother who runs the business and provides room and board. She also gets the privilege of wearing antique kimonos. Gorgeous. Which, like coutoure gowns, can run up to tens and thousands of dollars. She sleeps on a wooden pillow. Where do you sleep with it . On your neck . On here. Jimmy so it doesnt mess with the side or the back. You probably havent had a full nights sleep since you started. I think that means yes. But for a young girl, the biggest sacrifice is being away from her family. Sometimes i feel homesick. Reporter she may be giving up the chance of a future family, as well. Geishas, by definition, remain unmarried and childless. Do you ever want to get married and have kids . I want to be reporter maybe down the road, might want to i dont know. Reporter you dont know. You cant think that far ahead. No. Reporter as she disappears into the darkness, shes not focused on her feature. Shes helping preserve her countrys past. Next, residents of a picturesque hawaiian town forced to evacuate as lava threatens to incinerate their homes. Our rob marciano is in the thick of it. Tigers, both of you. Tigers . Dont be modest. I see how youve been investing. Setting long term goals. Diversifying. Dip you got our attention. We did . Of course. Youre type e well, i have been researching retirement strategies. Well thats what type e s do. Welcome home. Taking control of your retirement . 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And the first local structure falling victim to this searing heat. Today, with residents still evacuating, officials announced a plan to allow them to watch their own homes burn from a safe spot. Its really scary. You have to be on alert. Reporter so, what is it really like to live in the specter of fiery annihilation . We took a treacherous journey to find out. We got a ride up this dirt road. Were going to have to go in by foot. It wasnt long before we could see the glowing embers. This just broke out here. A lava breakout on top of the already crusted flow. Were going to get a little bit closer. And feel the burn. This is just incredible. It just broke out from underneath of what was cooled, hardened lava. It is incredibly hot right here. Were still three miles from the lava front. This is only a few yards wide. You can just imagine lava front over a football field wide would feel or look like going through your neighborhood. 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