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Chicago. the wall of a salt storage facility collapsed spilling tons of the stuff on to cars at the dealership next door. as many as 11 cars were buried. most belonging to service customers. only three or four were new. the fire department says they had exceeded capacity stressing the wall. and remember this awesome sight? a sinkhole that swallowed up eight rare cars at the national corvette museum last february. this week the work of filling it up is finally under way. construction crews are ...

Goes off to college. now more and more are moving with them. have helicopter parents finally taken things too far? you think this is ridiculous. >> total helicopter parenting. college is about leaving your family and discovering yourself, and if mom and dad are living a block away from campus, wont happen. >> college is different than when i went to school. theres an increase in binge drinking. there are rapes on campus. what is wrong with having your parents around? how can an 18-year-old deal ...

And out a side door. the attorney for the fraternity says theres no side staircase in the house but there are side doors and this has an ex-peeror side staircase. the fraternity attorney records show there was no party the night the gang rape allegedly occurred and the man who jackie says lured her to the room was never even a member of the fraternity. "rolling stone" revised its apology over the weekend to say it takes responsibility for any inaccuracies in the story, and the blame does not lie...

Resilient community to fix it. >> reporter: fix what "rolling stone" magazine calls a culture of sexual assault at uva. sullivan says that they would find a way to root out binge drinking and drugs on campus, and provide greater safety for guests to operate on campus, and hire additional trauma counselor on the campus, and put a sub station on campus, and conduct an anonymous survey in the spring to find out how often students experience sexual abuse on campus. and all the while, students are co...

Campus. the university of virginias president theresa sullivan canceling a scheduled appearance at the national press club in washington monday. instead, deciding to address the uva community about the sexual violence controversy engulfing the campus. >> theres a piece of our culture thats broken. and i ask your help in coming together as a strong and resilient community to fix it. >> sullivan announcing the outline of an action plan. mostly modest steps to address the issues detailed in "rollin...

Killers. problems with lifestyle, problems with smoking, people with eating. be honest with your physician. >> then how much is too much? >> okay. so the binge drinking is what were talking about. if youre having five hardly core, five serious drinks in a short period of time, thats too much and thats dangerous. thats what were talking about here. premature death because of alcohol kills 80% men out there. its a serious problem. $230 billion goes into this kind of thing. the truth is, as a docto...

I will just ask you if this study is dead on or not? >> definitely for young people. young people associate binge drinking with having a good time and making new friends and yolo. you only live once. thats what that means. >> i didnt even know what a vod-sod was. >> vodka soda. >> nobody actually says that. >> i do. >> no one does. >> when you meet a man or women who does the binge drinking, when they are an adult, thats a red flag. you say oh you are still doing that a? >> where is the cutoff? ...

You encourage them to binge drink. >> i i dont like to say encourage. i dont be rate them. >> you say it helps losen them up. >> if they think it is, it does. thats how it works. there are a couple of things here. students who are considered more socially powerful drink more. binge drinking is associated with high status and students on campus. well, maybe -- they keep saying college students who binge drink were happier than their counterparts because it is cool. i think maybe they were happier...

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>> use ronin farrell. he has a show now. >> piers morgan was good. >> but he no longer has the show. >> oh he is done. >> yes. speaking of done, joanne, all you do three hours a day is drink. you have to feel good about yourself. >> my binge drinking is healthier than being -- binge watching. if they are b nie ge drinking while they are binge watching, that is worse or balances each other out. >> i disagree. tv shows today it depends on what people are watching. they didnt take that into account...