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Traffic jam on mt. everest. heres nbcs miguel almaguer >> reporter: as stunning as the view is atop mt. everest, tonight just as jaw-dropping is the line to reach the summit a record number of mountaineers waiting for hours to reach the 29,000 mountaintop. the wait perhaps contributing to the death of five climbers this week alone a soaring death toll who includes american don cash, who joined the seven summits club climbing the highest peaks on seven continents but after reaching the summit, ca...

About an emergency declaration to go around congress and sell weapons to irans rivals the fda approves the worlds most expensive drug. the price tag over $2 million. tonight our interview with the drug makers ceo how do you respond, though, to people who might say that your company is asking a ransom, almost, for these kids lives? how he justifies the cost for this livesaver and the traffic jam at the top of the world at least five dead as climbers get stuck in some of the most dangerous con...

Climbers are forced to wait for narrow windows of good weather. when it clear, they are locked in a rush hour traffic jam. longer waits mean the climbers are spended a death zone above 28,000 feet where the lack of oxygen can be lethal.pp last memory. tom. >> thank you. if you booked summer travel, check again. the major airline cancels more flights. and mar i have weinstein, thee class of 2019. or could it turn out differently? i wanted to help protect myself. my doctor recommended eliquis. e...

Working with chelsea manning in violation of the s peespionage . his attorney calling it an attack on freedom of speech. assange is currently serving a 50-week sentence in a british jail and hes fighting extradition to the united states. next here tonight, to a father from utah who died on mt. everest after reaching the summit and reaching a goal few have ever been able to do. don cash had quit his job to pursue his dream. everest was his seventh and final summit. abcs clayton sandell with the...

Nothing made sense in the environment that i lived in, in the world that i lived in. in was insanity. >> august 30, 1994, bobbi parker, wife of the deputy warden at a prison in oklahoma, said she found herself in texas with a convicted killer. randolph dial, serving a life sentence, had broken out of prison and escaped in the parker van. and he took bobbi with him. she says shes not sure how it happened. that he may have drugged her. and he had a knife. >> i just respect remember -- i

Them off, a team of police officers set out on a cross-country trek to a remote area near the swiss border. >> in the distance, we could see a man walking around a tent. >> did he seem startled to see you? >> yes. >> and what does he say? >> there were not wearing the uniform. they approached, asking him, what are you doing here? he answered, i want to live a quiet life. >> i want to live a quiet life. >> yeah. they asked him, who are you? he answered, my name is mark weinberger. >> and that was...

Top-notch equipment, a stockpile of food and medicine. >> cialis, like viagra. and some survival medications. >> under italian law, weinberger could be held for 24 hours while police verified his identity. so mark weinberger was taken back down the mountain to the police barracks in courmayeur. >> he was in very good shape, very kauai e. i asked him, are you married? im divorced. whats your job? im a surgeon. >> a surgeon. >> did he say anything about the charges against him? >> no. >> while at ...

Larry beaumont successfully snuck informant jimmy keene into springfield prison in 1998. he just didnt expect to lose him there. >> goes off your radar. >> yeah, disappeared. couple weeks we didnt know what happened to him, trying to find out, we were getting frantic. >> two weeks later, only after keenes psychiatrist returned from vacation did they finally find jimmy. >> i knew the fbi was there, and she kept apologizing, kept saying i am really sorry, something happened with the message. >> at...

>> a customer. >> yeah. he came to bring milk, bananas, some cheese. >> he was buying milk, banana, cheese from you. >> yeah. >> monica spaconi, a transsexual, had recently had an operation to become female. she said the man who walked into her store bought groceries from her more than two dozen times in the winter of 2007-2008. sometimes he paused to make small talk. >> what name did he use? >> mark stern. >> then she says she didnt see him for a while. >> in the springtime, disappear. summerti...

The rust belt region of northwest indiana where he made his fortune. mark weinberger was not from indiana. he didnt grow up on hoop dreams or the hope of a union job. in fact, he didnt even live here. according to this pulitzer prize winning writer who consulted with "dateline" on this story mark weinberger was a nerdy kid from a wealthy new york suburb driven by sibling rivalry to out shine his brothers. >> mark figured the way to be the apple of my parents eye is to do very well in school. he ...