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Its more seizures, more arrests and more overdoses. one high level drug official described heroin as a monster you cant kill. it has always been lurking. it has never gone away. the question, how did it get here? you have to go back to the 1990s when columbian drug traffickers began flooding the city with high purity, low priced heroin. instead of $100,000 a kilo. it went to $60,000 a kilo. it made it much cheaper for people to buy. it was much purer. 60%, 70%, 80% more pure, compared to the old...

Do not change how they prescribe antibiotics, the world could be in for serious trouble. our senior national correspondent john roberts live in atlanta where the cdc has the headquarters. what about this. >> we have been talking about this for a long time. the president bush keeps getting worse and the centers for disease control is issuing an urgent warning about the proliferation of dangerous bacteria that even the most powerful drugs cant kill. they have for the first time calculated the effe...

I just hope that they find it in their hearts to forgive me and to maybe do research on people who have addictions. so they can see how their addiction takes over their lives. >> well, one of the women who escaped castros house of horrors also speaking in court. heres michelle knight. >> ariel castro, i remember all the times that you came home talking about what everybody else did wrong and act you wasnt doing the same thing. you said at least i didnt kill. you took 11 years of my life away. an...

[ inaudible ] i just hope that they find it in their hearts to forgive me and to maybe do research on people who have addictions. so they can see how their addiction takes over their lives. >> well, one of the women who escaped castros house of horrors also speaking in court. heres michelle knight. >> ariel castro, i remember all the times that you came home talking about what everybody else did wrong and act you was doing the same thing. you said at least i didnt kill. you took 11 years of my l...

Therefore, she was -- very scared. >> reporter: this day of judgment started with knoxs emotional plea in court to be freed. her voice shaking so much the judge told her she could sit if necessary. she said, i am paying with my life for something that i didnt do. i didnt kill. i didnt rape. i insist, after four years, after four hopeless years, my innocence. i want to go home. i want to go back to my life. i deserve freedom. knox was taken back to the prison where she was greeted with cheers fro...

Long sentences for the murder of knoxs college roommate the britain meredith kircher. at an appeals trial independent experts testified that the d.n.a. evidence that helped convict amanda knox and rafael was seriously flawed. before the judges went to deliberate today amanda knox spoke directly to them. she said she lost a friend when meredith kircher died. she says she has been paying with her own life for a crime she did not commit. >> im not what they say, the perversions, the violence, conte...

This morning, very interesting. amanda looked like she was absolutely exhausted when she came in and you can understand that with so much riding on it. she was choking up as show spoke and wasnt the only one choking up. her family holding hands and crying as well. she made her case and a very convincing one to the jury before they retired and the original trial, she didnt do a very good job. i would have given her a c, perhaps. today, she definitely got an a. had short declare active sentence sa...

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