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KYW CBS Overnight News May 18, 2016

If you were a hippie in the 60s, you need to know. Its the dawning of the age of aquarius. Yeah, and Something Else thats cool. What . Osteoporosis is preventable. All osteos preventable . Right on if you dig your bones, protect them. All cbs cares well, today the isis Bombing Campaign in baghdad killed 69 people in four blasts. As always, isis was attacking neighborhoods of its rival, the shiite branch of islam. Isis is made up of sunni radicals. In six days bombs have killed nearly 200 baghdad civilians. These attacks are designed to destabilize the u. S. Backed government, which is already teetering in a political crisis. Returning now to an epidemic that is taking three lives in this country every hour, the abuse of opioids, including prescription painkillers and heroin. Jason amaral could have been a dead man. The boy next door from a boston suburb got hooked in college. Hes now 30. And were telling his story because we want you to know there is both hope and help for addiction. Last night we followed amaral as he shot heroin for what he hoped would be the last time. As we left him, he was entering rehab. Correspondent Demarco Morgan and producer Jonathan Blakely continue our series in the shadow of death jasons journey. Reporter 24 hours into rehab we found an emotional jason amaral fighting through the first critical hours of detox. He just learned his younger brother andrew, who is also an addict, was back on the streets because he could not find an open bed for treatment. Hes running around boston getting high again. So. You know what i mean . I dont know. Can you guys stop the camera for a second . Reporter it had already been a rough first day for jason. He walked into recovery after a drug binge. All right. Ill see you in like five minutes. Reporter he allowed our cameras to follow him the day before as he roamed the streets of boston in search of drug money and heroin. Yeah. Dont answer your phone, you [ bleep ] dumb [ bleep ]. Reporter that morning he crushed and snorted pills from a toilet seat in city hall. He met friends to shoot up in the middle of the day. I just did some heroin and i was sick. And now i just did a shot and im very, very high. Reporter and then that night we watched him inject more heroin laced with a powerful drug fentanyl not once but twice. My veins arent popping like they usually do either. Why . Reporter before his best friend mike duggin arrived. Mike is a recovering addict whos been clean seven years and came to take jason to rehab. You will die if you dont get it this time. You know what i mean . Its just really what it comes down to. Reporter mike traveled by plane from boston to south jersey to make sure jason made it to Recovery Centers of america in time. How are you . Good. Were so glad youre here. Me and jason ran together. We got involved in a lot of this stuff together. Fortunately, i was able to find it a lot sooner because ive been terrified for him for years. Jason. Hi, jason. Welcome. What brought you in for treatment . I honestly dont know how to live a normal life sober. I dont know how to deal with life. Reporter notice how jason was visibly uncomfortable as hes forced to give up the pills he had in his bag. Were passionate about recovery. We believe in what we do. And we know that people get well. And you can get well. We can help you get there. Youve taken everything from me. Reporter in one of his first therapy sessions jason was given a bat and told to confront his addiction. Never, ever put me in an ambulance again. Im never going to overdose. My brother wont overdose. Hes going to survive. Hes going to get it this time. His kid, my godson, will never see us high again, ever again. It wont take anything from me or my family again. All right. Now im like sweating. Reporter it was that days small victory. I feel better. I took a lot of anger out on it. I never did that before. You had the synthetic high youre getting from heroin. We want to replace that with a natural high, the endorphin kick. Okay . Reporter to get his mind and body off drugs jason is encouraged to do exercise and yoga. Good. All right. Rest. Its going to have to be a bigger part of me wants to stay clean than a part of me wants to get high. Because theres always going to be a part of me that wants to get high. For the rest of my life. Its a disease. Ill want to get high for the rest of my life. Are you afraid of dying . Im afraid of getting high and dying is what it is right now. I dont want to die using drugs. I dont want my legacy to be this kid overdosed, you know. We werent allowed to record jasons medication process but he was slowly weaned off heroin with opioid replacement drugs over the first seven days. And scott, youve heard jason talk about his family. In our next report youre going to meet the people who love him most, his family, whove been affected by his drug use. That includes his brother, who is also addicted to heroin. Great Public Service reporting. Demarco morgan, thank you very much, with producer Jonathan Blakely. There is more on jasons journey and information about how to get help fighting addiction. Help is possible. And you can find it at cbsnews. Com heroinepidemic. In a muchawaited report today the National Academy of sciences said that genetically modified food is generally safe for humans and the environment. Tinkering with genetics does not turn crops into frankenfood, as some have claimed. At the same time, the report says that gmos have not led to higher yields, which was one of their selling points. Rangers are taking chainsaws to rhinos to save their lives. And her lifelong quest to track down her biological mother. The cbs overnight news will be right back. cheering narrator birthday. Dishes. Thursday. game sounds dishes. Every dish, every time, only finish has the powerball to take on anything. But pantene is making my hair hairpractically unbreakable. Ff. 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Rangers at a private game reserve are now taking drastic and controversial action. Debora patta spent time there. Reporter these terrified rhino run for their lives. Their horns have placed a deadly bounty on their heads. But the men hunting them are not poachers. Simon naylor is phinda reserves head ranger. He gives the order to tranquilize the rhino. The drug quickly takes effect. A drunken stagger before the rhino is blindfolded to dull his senses. Its hard to watch. But dehorning the rhinos could save their lives. Theyre not in any pain. Its like filing a human nail. This rhino horn is what this war is being fought over. It is still so valuable to poachers that even after its been removed it is immediately whisked off the property and taken to a secret location out of the reach of criminal syndicates. In some parts of asia the rhinos horn sells for about 150,000. Veterinarian mike toft. Id rather see this little guy upright in two years time than in a ditch upside down and bloated, dead from having had his horn poached. So for me its a nobrainer. Reporter the rhinos are sprayed with a purple disinfectant. The mark of survival. Okay. Right. Were ready to wake up. Hes looking. Looking 100 . Hes nice and relaxed. Reporter the horn will grow back in a few years. Although it will become increasingly rare to see a rhino with its horn on this reserve. But it may be the only way to save the species. Debora patta, cbs news, phinda game reserve, south africa. Those horns are poached to be used in chinese medicine preparations. Well have more in just a moment. Some ferocious storms hit floridas east coast today. A woman driving on i95 spotted this funnel cloud in st. Lucie county. And then came the rain, nearly eight inches in vero beach. Some new tests have caught some old cheaters. Today the International Olympic Committee Said that retests of urine samples from the 2008 beijing summer games came back positive for doping for 31 athletes in six sports from 12 countries. Today the senate voted unanimously to confirm eric fanning as secretary of the army. He will be the first openly gay leader of a military branch. Fannings nomination was held up for eight months by republican pat roberts of kansas. He dropped his opposition when the administration promised not to transfer guantanamo prisoners to Fort Leavenworth in kansas. It took more than half a century, but a mother and child reunion is only a moment away. Finally tonight, a mother and her daughter, separated decades ago, have been reunited. And brry petersen has their story. Im nervous. Im excited. Ive waited 50 years for this moment. Reporter for cyndy burns, the wait is almost over. I started when she was a 10monthold baby left with a korean adoption agency. Amid that countrys poverty, this was a chance at a better life in america, believed her korean mother, sun cha. Did you believe you would ever see your daughter again . No. I dont believe it. I dont know how im going to find her. So thats all. Reporter cyndy grew up in a connecticut family. She had all but given up finding her birth mother. Id gone to korea last year kind of looking for her, and i made peace with the fact that id probably never find her. Reporter when a dna sample led her to sun cha. It says 99. 99 she is your biological mother. I so much wanted it to be true. Reporter there was more. Her mom had been living on the west coast. They had been in the same country for decades. Cyndy flew to tacoma this weekend to meet her mom. My daughter cyndy. Hello. Youre so beautiful. I always say where can i find her . I dont know where she is. Were back together now. I know. Reporter when we sat with them, they couldnt stop holding each other, as if they were afraid they might lose each other again. What does it say about your mother that she was willing to be open about this secret that all of her life she hadnt shared with her family . Its confirmation that she did love me. Reporter at sun chas home there was a family reunion. Cyndy with her newly found sisters and brother. Its what all of us who are adopted want, is for our existence to be validated. Here we go. And to know that our parents loved us. Reporter barry petersen, cbs news, tacoma, washington. Thats the overnight news for this wednesday. For some of you the news continues. For others check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city im scott pelley. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im don dahler. Mosquito season is right around the corner, but the battle against the zika virus continues to be fought in washington. After a threemonth delay the senate cleared the way to fund the fight. But it falls far short of the president s request for nearly 2 billion. Zika can cause birth defects and is mostly transmitted by mosquitos. David begnaud is in coral springs, florida, which has its fair share of mosquitos. Reporter mosquito controllers insist the zika threat is at floridas doorstep. A few infected mosquitos can cause a large outbreak. Here in Broward County in south florida where we are theyre getting 500 calls a day requesting mosquito spraying. Thats ten times the amount theyre used to. When it rains it fills up. Mosquitos grow and four or five days from now adults will be flying around. Reporter on the u. S. Mainland florida is the front line in the zika fight. More than 100 cases have been reported here. More than any other state. Youre not going to get zika in the woods while youre hunting or at the lake when youre on your boat. You might get it at your front door. Thats exactly right. While youre standing next to your car to go on your hunting trip or to the beach or to the park, thats when the mosquitos will fly up and bite you in the ankle. Its not in those typical places that we as floridians think of as mosquito biting territory. Reporter Michael Doyle of the florida keys mosquito district suspects zika cases will rise as summer approaches. As of now all of floridas zika patients contracted the virus from travelrelated exposure. In february the white house requested approximately 1. 9 billion in emergency funding. Congress is debating it. We need to deal with this seriously. Reporter republican senator marco rubio represents florida. Were going to spend a lot more money if we dont deal with this on the front end. If this become a serious outbreak its not going to cost 1. 9 billion. It could cost 4 billion or 5 billion. Reporter republican hal rogers, chairman of the appropriations committee, is a critic. The request they sent us would allow the 1. 9 billion to be used for anything in the government. Its almost like a slush fund. Mosquitos dont know whether their target is a democrat or a republican. The zika impacts all of us. Reporter democratic congresswoman Debbie Wasserman schultz, also from florida, insists part of the money will be used to develop a zika vaccine and raise awareness in a state that thrives on tourism. Were now going into the mosquito season. Every week the chances of having enough of them to start transmitting it from travelers to local people increases. Reinforcements are being sent to chicagos ohare airport, where hundreds of air travelers missed their flights over the past few days because they couldnt get through security. Ohare is getting 58 more Security Officers and four more bombsniffing dogs. But the trouble at the security checkpoints is not limited to chicago. Kris van cleave reports from los angeles international. This airport is telling flyers to be in these lines two and three hours early as the number of passengers are going to go up as the Summer Travel season gets going. Already one airline tells cbs this morning l. A. X. Makes its top five for missed flights because of tsa lines and now flyers from coast to coast are striking back on social media. Security lines that seem to never end are becoming the new normal in chicago. At Ohare International airport were talking about wait times up to three hours. Long enough to strand more than 100 passengers overnight sunday, forcing many to sleep on cots. Whats the problem . Why is this happening . This is absurd. They need to hire more people. They need to figure out the system. Reporter American Airlines says 450 customers missed their flights at ohare sunday alone because of the long lines. This headline dubbed the trip through security a slow march through hell. The tsa blames the issue at ohare on increased passenger volume, but its not just chicago. Flyers around the country are blasting the tsa on social media using the hashtag ihatethewait to post pictures of long lines. At least 6,400 American Airlines passengers missed their flights at the nations top 20 airports. And thats in just the last week. We are trying to work with the tsa. This is an effort to help flag to the tsa where the massive wait times are. Reporter Melanie Hinton with airlines for america, a trade association representing several major air carriers, created that hashtag. Let your fellow passengers know if you have an excessive wait time. Reporter earlier this month the three new yorkarea airports joined seattle and atlanta in threatening to drop the tsa for private screeners. There will be wait times. Reporter friday secretary of Homeland Security jeh johnson said the tsa is looking to hire hundreds more screeners and will authorize overtime for tens of thousands of officers. But that may not be enough. As the peak Summer Travel rush arrives. Three hours is not ideal. We want to reduce that as much as possible without compromising the safety of the american public. Reporter so how did we get here . Well, congress capped the number of tsa screeners, thinking there would be millions of more flyers enrolled in precheck which is expedited screening. Enrollment has lagged. You have seen the tsa experience very high turnover, and theyve struggled to maintain their staffing numbers. This as the number of flyers has steadily increased. On average, one person is killed each day during a highspeed police chase somewhere in america. But a new device could soon make those chases a thing of the past. Dean reynolds reports. High speeds, wet roads. Reporter adrenalinepumping cops and robbers pursuits are something of a tv addiction. Police departments across the country are looking for a safer way to nab suspects on the run. He layed a game of mercedes pinball. Im going to take my loading tool. Reporter and now more than 50 agencies are using a system invented by a Company Called starchase whose president is trevor fishbach. Weve had zero fatalities, zero injuries, zero Property Damage and zero liability. Reporter this is how it works. Compressed air units are installed in the grill of police cruisers, containing two 4 1 2inch projectiles packed with gps satellite trackers and coated with enough adhesive to make them stick to a fleeing vehicle. When a suspect runs from a traffic stop, an officer can fire the projectiles at the suspects car and basically relax. No need for sirens or lights or 90mileanhour chases that could kill people. Computers read the gps signal and track the vehicle in question. A trial of the starchase system has been under way in milwaukee since december. Ive actually had a lot of success with it. Reporter officer kim lastrila controls the projectiles from a button on her dashboard or a fob in her hand. At this point hes starting to make a break for it. Yep. And you do that. Reporter right now the projectiles stick about 50 of the time, though with training milw

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