cannabis. we also saw some major recalls including several popular heart medications including one known as losarten and allergon issued a worldwide recall of implants and tissue expanders. they were found to be linked to a rare cancer. some of the best news of 2019 came in our fight against hiv/aides. president trump announced his commitment to ending the aides epidemic. my budget will ask democrats and republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the hiv epidemic in the united states within ten years. reporter: scientists also discovered a new strain of hiv for the first time in nearly two decades. it doesn t pose a new threat, but it does prove the current testing for hiv continue tuesday be effective. also good news in new york city,
it s turning some of the best foods we humans have into junkier food. the cannabis craze is here sew stay. as we reported in our documentary, this year was all about cbd. remarkable story es of success as we ve shown you, no medicine works for everyone. not even cbd. it wasn t the benefit that they were necessarily seeking. all of it, though, underlining how much we still have to learn when it comes to cannabis. also we saw major recalls including several popular heart medications including one known at la sarton. also pharmaceutical giant allergan issued a worldwide recall of biocell textures breast implants and tissue expanders found linked to a rare cancer. some of the best news of 2019 came in our fight against hive-aids. a january state of the union,
history sentenced to life today. he s a former nurse. he injected patients with overdoses of heart medications making them go into cardiac arrest and then he would play the hero as he attempted to revive them. the condemned man says that he enjoyed the feeling of being able to resuscitate them. sometimes it worked. in 87 cases those patients died. today he was found guilty of murdering 85 people. he was convicted of two additional murders in 2015. he admitted to killing 43. but he said he couldn t remember the rest. our commemoration continues with corporal sydney walton. he was on the stage with the president of the united states in normandy. he s been traveling the united states in an effort to share his story with anybody that wants to
there, bring resources, bring physical help, you know, those doctors are exhausted. those nurses are exhausted. so right now it s a military operation. and it s not going to stop yet because the island has no electrical power. so right now it s the infrastructure are completely decimated. i can only imagine that people are going to succumb to this, you know, in hospitals because they can t keep people alive. now, once you finish all of that, then you have the medical crisis. right now, you know, 3 1/2 million people in puerto rico, maybe 50% of the island, type 2 diabetics, many of them are on insulin. no refrigeration, no insulin. so the diabetics are you know, you can imagine. people take heart medications. well, again, you know, when you don t have the capacity to go to a pharmacy and get your prescription refilled because most of the pharmacies are not open, you are not going to get your medication. this is not only a catastrophe
san juan s mayor, she said the city she knew no longer exists. people at home are elderly, they don t have their insulin, they lost their heart medications, they lost their blood pressure medications. and if we don t get to them in ti time, it is those that i cannot get to that really worry me the most. san juan s mayor tonight. joining us by phone, carlos ramos. what can you tell us about the extent of the damage to the power grid? well, anderson, the whole island has been devastated and so has the electric power system. you know, we have expect it today on two of the transmission lines, and we found over 40 transmission line towers completely crumbled. and on other areas, we found