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Procedures, they announced they were stopping making that drug all together. you can no longer get it in the united states. seeing this coming. fearful their supply was about to dry up, some states already started planning for what they would do. they planned to switch to a different drug. a lot planned to switch to pentobarbital. a few months after the first drug was pulled off because the company didnt want it used in executions, same happened to the second one. they put out a statement saying...

So january 2011, the first drug gets yanked off the market to keep it away from prisons. july 2011, the replacement drug gets yanked from prisons too. then in 2012, some prisons move toward a drug called propofol. thats the drug that is famous for its association with the death of michael jackson, you might remember. but in august 2012, the manufacturer of that drug as well also yanked their distribution system for that drug, specifically to make sure it couldnt get into prisons in the united st...

A community on new yorks long island was shaken up after a s.w.a.t. team stormed a house after a call about a hostage situation. it turned out to be an elaborate hoax. investigators say a 17-year-old boy was playing a video game when he was whats called swatted by his opponents. someone called police saying the boy killed his brother and mother and was holding hostages. they are trying to track down who made the call. >> former the high school football coach in ohio heads to jail on friday follo...

A community on new yorks long island was shaken up after a s.w.a.t. team stormed a house after a call about a hostage situation. it turned out to be an elaborate hoax. investigators say a 17-year-old boy was playing a video game when he was whats called swatted by his opponents. someone called police saying the boy killed his brother and mother and was holding hostages. they are trying to track down who made the call. >> former the high school football coach in ohio heads to jail on friday follo...

Remember, gun-free zones in schools, gun-free zones in military installations. as we move on, we have the sikh temple in august 2012, six people killed. the aurora movie theater, 12 killed in that shooting. that raises the question, what about examples that we have of instances where people did have weapons and actually were able to stop it? one of the big stories coming out of last night at ft. hood was the military personnel. the shooting went on for 15 to 20 minutes until the shooter ivan lop...

>> republicans need six seats. whats the projection? how many are they going to pick up? >> id say exactly six. thats probably six plus or minus five. that could be -- >> they could pick up 11 seats? >> they could. >> the dems have fallen out of love with their guy. the democratic senate campaign committee put out a rebuttal saying silvers forecast in 2012 was wrong. also issuing a fundraising alert based on silvers scary and shocking predictions about this years term. silver called that hypocri...

>> i was really impressed. i didnt know that cats could do that. of course, now, remember, i might be eating these words. i could be wrong. >> well, in this case, you are 100% correct. kiddo is the real deal. >> of course, if i were doing it with a cat, i would have pawed the hell out of the cat. no cat is going to outsmart me. >> in august 2012 this new yorker visits a animal shelter hoping to adopt a cat. there she meets 6-month-old kiddo who has been abandoned twice and put to sleep if no one...

And some argue it might have been the most action-packed part of the game. heres abcs aditi roy. >> reporter: 24 miles above earth, felix baumgartner is about to make history. new video of baumgartner catapulting from a space capsule in august 2012. the death-defying space jump featured in a red bull super bowl commercial, free falling for a record 4:19. >> can anybody understand him? >> reporter: 1:30 into the fall, he begins to spin. >> im about to pass out. >> reporter: his heart racing at cl...

Witnessed one of their topless protests in paris. >> femin uses the nudity in another context, not a seductive context where were supposed to be nice and pretty and try to sell the project. now we dont sell project. we speak out loud and sell an idea. >> i am half naked but not an object. im not here for your pleasure. im here to deliver my own message. >> in august, 2012, a solo act of defiance in the ukrainian capital of kiev gets ina in very hot water. a protest dense the trial of the band pu...

Benefits, too. the a.p. reports the standoff infuriates people, such as lita nest who lost her job as a civilian contractor at peterson air force base in august 2012 and just received her final check from the unemployment office. im registered as a republican, but if they continue to use this not extending our aid, im probably changing to democrat she said as she took a break from a computer training class at the pikes peak work force center. people in our district who vote no on this, im not go...