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The truth behind them. We start in brazil and a crucial summit to protect the amazon rain forest. The leaders of eight South American countries that share the amazon are gathering the first time in 45 years theres been a meeting like this. Scientists are concerned that deforestation in the amazon may be approaching an irreversible Tipping Point. Brazils president Lula Da Silva is hoping for a co ordinated regional approach, to tackle illegal mining and logging as well as other environmental crim...

Disdainfully by everyone. instead of opening peoples eyes to the staggeringly huge extent of, for instance, the churchs abuse problem and the shameful cover—up, she became the target of this vitriol and public protests, even. it was quite strange. she was telling the truth, and the public targeted this uppity, petulant woman for some kind of metaphorical stoning. the point about it is, now people see — i mean, they saw, supposedly, in the year 2000, when the church came out and admitted a fe...

Facing criminal liability, not to mention professional jeopardy. >> ellen, let me put this back to you. the story and your reporting, one of the hallmarks of your reporting is the care with which everything is described and written for us, the readers. but i wonder if you can tell us if this whistleblower ever intended or desired for any of this to become public. usually they do not. >> yes. usually they do not. i believe the whistleblower did want this to eventually get to the congress. but the...

A significant percentage of women in spanish politics which is obviously fantastic to see and something that has been welcomed better sanchez has said that you know he is a feminist and he is very much in favor of. giving you know introducing more laws which are more about ecology in spain so you know i think were going to be seeing more progressive laws for women in spain and the peoples party were talking as well about perhaps taking away the abortion laws and bringing it back to laws from the...

The opioid abuse problem in your state and many others is catastrophic. dont you think it would have been a better idea to have public hearings rather than to have done so much of this behind closed doors? why did that happen? >> you know, i think weve talked about it so much in terms of the last seven years in terms of whats going wrong with the program. i dont have an opposition to public hearings, but i think in order -- you could see how difficult its been with the only public document that ...

And abuse problem. people will point to fraud and abuse rather than answer the difficult questions. >> the times shoes democratically who is getting what and how to check up on them and raises the question of how good the system is. you are helping them on a personal consumer level. how does that type of a organization or lack thereof impact as a whole and how do we know what it costs? >> in general spending will go up. but you are right. people are asking more personal questions and they are no...

Shootings, same formula, we knew they were troubled, they wouldnt take their meds, we couldnt get them help. why is it so hard to control someone who cant control themselves. >> one of the challenges that families know well in america, when you have someone whos a young male in the family, one of your great obstacles is the denial of your son that he needs help. and for families, your greatest risk are folks who may have a psychiatric illness, in this case quite possibly depression, coupled with...

Right, soon on the heels, tha day, on the heels of the republicans voting to make sure that everybody who had food stamps was drug tested. its like, what? i hope that there will humanize shall we say their thinking. >> beyond speaker boehner, have we heard from any other republicans defending him or offering a compassionate words if he says hes dealing with an abuse problem? >> so far its been a lot of silence. marco rubio was asked about this. he is from florida. he said he had no comment and w...

sharon bialek here this morning with her skoir. guilty of the charge of involuntary manslaughter. >> a jury decides the fate of invi conrad murray. whats next. >> its a roar. >> oh, my god. >> and way too close for comfort. storm chasers catching amazing video of a tornado on the ground in oklahoma on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. it is tuesday, november 8. welcome to "american morning." first, shocking accusations against herman cai...

Doctors. the anesthesiology department, one out of four has one doctor abusing it. >> heather: when it comes to antidepressants, apparently im 2 1/2 times more likely to be taking them than gregg because im a woman? >> right. exactly. over 12% of the americans over the age of 12 are taking antidepressants. but the problem is that the wrong people are taking them. a lot of times it is women that are taking them wrongly. for those severely depressed, one third is taking them, when 100% should be o...