Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. And by the time this broadcast is over, three people will be dead, victims of an Opioid Epidemic thats taking 140 lives in america every day. Opioids are responsible for the overwhelming majority of drug deaths, which these maps show have grown dramatically from just under 17,000 in 1999 to 52,000 in 2015, a more than 200 increase. Today, President Trump declared a Public Health emergency to fight the epidemic, but critics were quick to say that does not provide the money to get the job done. Heres Major Garrett. We owe it to our children and to our country to do everything in our power to address this National Shame and this human tragedy. Reporter President Trump stopped short of declaring the Opioid Crisis a national emergency, opting instead for a Public Health emergency declaration. It will streamline some access to addiction treatment, but provides few new resources. Financing comes from the Public Health emergency fund, which has a balance of just over 56,000. The federal government estimates the crisis costs 75 billion annually. Nearly 12 Million People misused opioids last year. And im saying officially right now, it is an emergency. Its a national emergency. Reporter in august, and again this morning the president said he would declare a National Opioid emergency, which would have provided access to billions in federal funds. Without any additional resource allocation, i think it really doesnt make a difference what we call it. Reporter michael botticelli, drug czar under president obama, said todays announcement did not go far enough. Its largely rhetoric, and very shallow in terms of really taking major actions against the epidemic. Reporter in his speech, mr. Trump talked about addiction in personal terms. He cited his brother, fred, who died at 43 of alcoholism. And he would tell me, dont drink. Dont drink. He was substantially older, and i listened to him. Shifting the way that our society thinks about this disease. Reporter gary mendells son, brian, committed suicide after years of struggling with addiction. What he spoke about today is a great first step in reducing the shame and stigma that goes along with this disease. But i want to emphasize first step. Its not one speech or one remark. Reporter the president lacks key leaders on the opioid front. He has yet to name new nominees as health and Human Services secretary, drug czar, or administrator of the Drug Enforcement agency. Anthony. Mason Major Garrett at the white house. Thanks. Insys therapeutics is at the center of an alleged opioid kickback scheme in which doctors were bribed to prescribe a cancer pain killer to noncancer patients. Today, federal authorities in phoenix arrested the billionaire founder and majority owner of the company, john kapoor. Hes the most prominent pharmaceutical executive to be criminally charged in the Opioid Crisis after a lengthy investigation by federal prosecutors in boston. Jim axelrod has the story. Reporter the voice belongs to a saleswoman from the insys drug company. Shes impersonating a staffer at a Doctors Office and shes lying to an insurer to get a prescription approved. Reporter the patient was sarah fuller, but she did not have cancer. Point the nozzle into your mouth and under your tongue. Reporter subsys is a spray version of the opiate fentanyl. Fuller would become addicted to fentanyl, fatally overdosing 15 months later. The spray that we developed. Reporter now the companys billionaire founder, dr. John kapoor, is facing charges of conspiracy and bribery that he personally recruited doctors and helped design a scheme to offer kickbacks to illegally prescribed subsys to furl and more than 1,000 like her. The real tragedy is that people were dying. Individuals are taking this drug, and they were dying of overdose. Reporter Michael Canty is a former federal prosecutor who now advises states on suing opioid manufacturers. In illinois, there was a doctor. He was responsible for about 60 of all subsys prescriptions, and when the Sales Representative went to his supervisors and said, this guys running a pill mill. Hes not looking at patients. They said, stick with him. Hes your goto guy. This is a doctor they paid over 85,000 in speakers fees to because he was one of their tob prescribers of subsys. Reporter cbs news has identified headache doctors, back pain specialists, even a psychiatrist who received thousands of dollars to promote the drug last year. Insys made 18,000 payments to doctors in 2016 that totaled more than 2 million. I would say that this is the most egregious case from top to bottom of conduct in promoting a drug for offlabel use. Reporter in 2014, insys had a 10 million budget to pay speakers fees to doctors, but according to the indictment, Many Speaker Program events had no attendees at all. Kapoors lawyer tells us his client is innocent and intends to fight the charges vigorously. Mason jim axelrod. Thank you, jim. Details of the ambush in niger are slowliy emerging, more than three weeks after four u. S. Soldiers were killed. The americans were part of a larger group look for an islamic militant, but his fighters found them first. MargareMargaret Brennan is at te pentagon. Reporter this is the terrorist the patrol was track. Adnan Abu Walid Al Sahraoui is the leader of an isis offshoot that operates in western niger. Today, the pentagon acknowledged for the first time there was a second team of u. S. And Nigerian Forces on the ground. Lieutenant general Frank Mckenzie there was one that had something to do with this operation, but im not going to be able to give any more specific details about what happened until we complete the process of the investigation. Reporter cbs news has learned that second team was on a killorcapture mission for al sahraoui, but it was called off after he slipped across the border. Instead, the patrol with 12 americans and 30 nigerians was told to investigate an area where the terrorist had been. The patrol was also told not to expect enemy contact. The men stopped in the village of tongo tong. They were ambushed by al sahraouis fighters as they left. Sources say the u. S. Team sent an alert to commanders that they were taking fire, but the patrol waited an hour before asking for help. We look at that hour pretty hard ourselves, but, again, there are a lot of reasones yes that time could have elapsed like that. Reporter investigators still do not know how Sergeant La David Johnson got separated from the other soldiers during the attack. His body was recovered two days later. Today, military officials briefed members of the congress. Democrat Richard Blumental said he had questions about the mission of the roughly 6,000 u. S. Troops stationed in africa. One of the reasons for this tragic catastrophe in niger may well have been lacking resources in intelligence that could have permitted them to avoid that ambush. Reporter a French SpecialOperations Team was among the very first Ground Forces to arrive in the area. They were there within three to four hours of that call for help. After the French Military sent mirage jets and helicopters. Anthony. Mason Margaret Brennan at the pentagon. Thanks, margaret. Today was the deadline for the government to release longsecret files on the assassination of the president kennedy, but chip reid tells us theres been a delay. Chip, whats this about. Reporter well, just yesterday, President Trump tweeted that the longanticipated release of the j. F. K. Files was to take place today. But, after we waited all day, a short time ago, the white house announced that while about 2800 documents related to the 1963 assassination in dallas will be released this evening, many of the documents will remain secret for now, subject to further review over the next six months. Why . Well, were told that numerous agencies, including the c. I. A. And the f. B. I. , have lodged protests against releasing certain documents that they claim could endanger National Security or Law Enforcement operations. The key question, of course, in the kennedy assassination is whether Lee Harvery Oswald acted alone or whether there was a conspiracy. One expert told me today that whatever is in these newly released documents, it is very unlikely we will ever know the whole truth. Anthony. Mason so we wait a little longer. Chip reid, thanks. This week, chinas president , xi jinping, completed a remarkable power grab that could keep him in charge well beyond his new fiveyear term. In an interview with fox business news, President Trump joked that some might call xi the king of china. Ben tracy reports that assessment may not be far off. applause reporter even before the communist Party Congress came to a close this week, president rob giordano had become one of the chines most powerful modern leaders. The socalled chairman of everything. Xi broke with press dant by refusing to anoint a successor. Instead he surrounded himself with six Party Loyalists all too old to replace him. Delegates also voted to delegate xi to a status on par with the legendary founding father of communist china, chairman mao zedong. Xis political thoughts or ideology will be enshrined in the constitution and taught in chinas schools. Chinese state media has relentlessly built xis image, while nearly every billboard in beijing proclaims his new era of chinese socialism. And to make sure everyone gets the message, the communist party has ratcheted up the propaganda machine. In this village a couple of hours outside of beijing, they have plastered the walls with the history of the communist party. A large screen has been set up to broadcast the Party Message and loudspeakers reinstalled to tout chinas economic progress. Theres no mention of the governments crackdown on dissent. This man says ro rob giordano ms people rich. Do you wish humore freedoms . He answered, were richer. Life is better. China is stronger. When President Trump comes here to beijing next month, he and president xi are expected to discuss issues such as trade and north korea. President trump will now be negotiated with a man who has unilateral decisionmaking authority. Anthony. Mason ben tracy. Thank you, ben. A disabled girl is facing deportation to mexico after being caught on her way to a hospital in south texas. She had been brought to the u. S. Illegally as an infant. Anna werner is following this. Reporter 10yearold rosamaria hernandez, who has Cerebral Palsy, needed emergency gall bladder surgery. She was being rushed to the hospital in an plans tuesday when she arrived at a texas highway checkpoint, her lawyer says when customs and Border Patrol agencies discovered she was not a u. S. Citizen, they followed her to the hospital and after surgery, took her to a detention facility in san antonio. Hernandez went with her cousin because her parents, undocumented immigrants themselves, were fearful of being detained and stay in laredo. Her mother, felipa de la cruz, said, i dont want them to deports her. Mexico isnt safe, and she needs therapy, her doctors. Hernandezs parents brought their daughter from mexico illegally when she was three months old, hoping to get her better medical treatment. The familys lawyer letiticia gonzalez. You take a 10yearold child with Cerebral Palsy and instead of letting her recover and return to her home, we make it to where she comes to baptist Children Home ministry with no one who is familiar with her, no physicians who have followed her and away from her family. Its a sad day in america. Reporter c. P. B. Told us in a statement tonight their checkpoint inspection found the girl was in the u. S. Illegally, and due to her medical condition she was escorted to the hospital. They say once she is medically cleared, she will be processed accordingly and they have informed the Mexican Consulate of her situation. Anthony. Mason anna werner, thank you, anna. Coming up next, an from formr president george h. W. Bush. And how an electric car company drove the darkness out of a hospital. I had no idea. 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Reporter actress jordan gronlick claims after a stage performer in maine in 2016, the former president grabbed her bottom during a group photo with other cast members and mr. Bushs wife, barbara. Another actress, heather lind, wrote on Instagram Bush sexually assaulted me while posing for a photo. In a statement, mr. Bushs spokesperson said because the 93yearold former president is in a wheelchair, his arms fall on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures. To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke and on occasion, he has patted womens rears in what he intend to be a goodnatured manner. Author and New York Times reporter jodi kantor the word good natured did stick out to me from that statement because part of the conversation were having now is about what Sexual Harassment is. Reporter cantor was one of the reporters who three weeks ago today broke the story about Harvey Weinsteins alleged Sexual Assault of women. When you all broke that story, did you expect it to be what now has become a watershed moment . We are as staggered as anybody else by the impact. We did not anticipate these rolling waves. State department. Reporter just today, veteran political journalist Mark Halperin was suspended as a contributor to msnbc after being accused of sexually harassing five women he used to work with at abc news. We see that there have been a number of highprofile cases, including as recently as the last 24 hours, in which men have had to leave their jobs because of these allegations. So part of this shift that were seeing now is that this can be a career ender. Reporter hundreds of women in politics in california signed a petition saying they had witnessed or experienced dehumanizing behavior by men. Next month, lawmakers plan to hold public hearings on Sexual Harassment. Anthony. Mason jericka, thanks. And well be right back. And exercise, oncedaily toujeo® may help you control your blood sugar. 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