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And that very soon turned to a full downpour. >> that downpour would devastate a large part of the city. some areas of las vegas get close to a years worth of precipitation in less than an hour. for angela, a freeway underpass near her home suddenly becomes a death trap. >> it kind of broke like a wave, like a tidal wave, and it just kind of came down the side of the freeway. where my car was sitting when it came flowing down the side, i was just right in the current. >> as the water rushes towa...

Is always going to be one of primary focus. >> and this new report of the al-qaeda leader, of course in an audio message on a radical website says that the threat is greater and president obama know s it. in a related air, al shabaab issued a threat saying well blow you up until we finish you off. coming up later, new developments on flight 370. and well check back with our team in south korea, where there is breaking news, divers inside the sunken ferry. and then coming up next, a news anchor...

To become a workaholic. >> and it is a high, high, and low, low. >> right, sometimes in the same minute. >> so what led to the moment we just showed. >> so i went to spend three years in places like afghanistan, middle east, israel, gaza, palestine. so when i came home, i got depressed. i wasnt self-aware enough to know i was depressed. i had a low fever, i self-medicated, and after the panic attack, he asked me the question, do i do drugs? and when i said yes, he gave me the look, okay, idiot. ...

Accident? >> i think a lot of it was an accident and unplanned. after the doctor said you are being an idiot. you need to stop using drugs, and your personal choices are destroying your career. i knew i needed to see the doctor. that was a space of curiosity. and then i stumbled on a book by the guru, and that is when things got serious. he had this diagnosis of the human condition that i never heard of before. this voice in our head, commonly telling us what to do, thinking about the past inste...

>> yes he. >> cocaine and ecstasy. >> in hindsight it was a way to replace some of the adrenaline of the war zone. >> in the israelis do invade it will be a difficult site. >> they call it self-medicating you dont feel good and you take the substance and you feel better. did that that take over your life? did it effect your work at abc news? >> it did not take over my life but it did ultimately affect my work, here is why. i didnt know it, even though i was trying to be very careful about separa...

Drank myself to death, or ultimately would have become a statistic and committed suicide. we provide service dogs to wounded veterans with ptsd, traumatic brain injury, or amputees. weve provided 117 now to veterans throughout the country. weve had no suicides. weve had no suicide attempts. what he does for me is my marines watch my back when i was overseas. when i came back home, like i said, you cant turn that switch off, and he is what is able for my brain to relax because he is technically w...

Fashion and say to the russians we want to cut a deal with you and we should both help ukraine and not make it an enemy of you but you ought to explain to the country what the stakes are because, otherwise, his policy is going to look uncertain and mittiving. >> i just had a panic attack because i interrupted you, dad. we will end now then on the stakes because i think that is a perfect way to go here. richard haass and dr. brzezinski and david ignatius answering the same question. consolidate i...

Wanders, which it will a million times, simply return your attention to the breath. think of this act of repeatedly hauling your attention back to the breath like a bicep curl for your brain, even if its just five minutes a day. scientific study shows medication can, among other things, lower your blood pressure and boost your immune system. check this out. brain scans show short daley doses of medication literally grow the gray matter in areas associated with self-awareness and compassion and s...

>> were going now to dan harris whos at the news desk. dan. >> reporter: this is me ten years ago having a panic attack on "good morning america." >> but its too early to prescribe statins slowly for cancer production. >> reporter: my heart racing, palms sweating, i literally cannot breath. this meltdown, i later learned, was brought on by a personal struggle so many of us face. a combination of doubt, drive, depression and drug abuse. so, i went in search of something to tame my racing mind, in...

After 9/11, i volunteered to spend years in war zones. where i covered the heroics of our men and women overseas and got a real taste of the horror and the adrenaline of combat. after years of always barreling forward, when i finally slowed down, it was as if my mind revolted and i got depressed. and so in my free time, i briefly but stupidly began self-medicating. and it was those recreational drugs, my doctor would later tell me, that almost certainly produced the on-air panic attack. but losi...