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WKRC CBS Overnight News January 8, 2016

Militant war cry allahu akbar, god is great. Police said there were wires coming out of his jacket, as if from a suicide vest, shot him dead. An examination of the body found no bomb, but police say they did find a handwritten note claiming allegiance to isis. Jawad rabi runs a Clothing Store nearby. I was really concerned because there was a school, you know, just near the police station. Reporter the attacker was later identified as a local petty thief known to police but with no known connection to any terrorist group. He apparently acted alone. Paris was already on edge before the incident. It took place as president Francois Hollande led a ceremony commemorating the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre a year ago. And the memories of the second wave of attacks less than two months ago are still vivid. Was now living under a constant threat and Charlie Hebdos typically defiant anniversary cover suggested why. A godlike image carries an Assault Rifle murder in the name of religion. The killer, it said, is still on the run. As terror attacks go, scott, this one, an apparent loner with a knife and fake bomb, is less deadly than the others which have taken place here, but it still sends a message the enemy is among us. Be afraid. Mark phillips in paris tonight. Mark, thank you. Late today in oregon, the Harney County sheriff met with the leader of a group of protesters who have been occupying buildings at a National Wildlife refuge. The sheriff offered them safe escort out of town and is waiting to hear back. The protest is in support of ranchers who were sent to prison for setting a fire that spread to federal lands. The cbs overnight news almost sixty million americans are affected by mental illness. Together we can help them today, we saw new evidence that the barbarity of syrias civil war has not lessened, even after five years. A town is being starved by the dictators forces. Men, women and children are dying in slow motion as one resident put it. Heres elizabeth palmer. Reporter months of deprivation have pushed the smallest and the poorest to the very brink. A mother feeds her child with what looks like broth, but its jam. In an online appeal, a man explains, we have no food, no water and no power, and then he bursts into tears. Please, world, he says, we are dying. Activists say the most wretched are making soup with grass, and some have died of starvation. And all this just 30 miles from the capital, damascus, in fertile hill country. We traveled there in 2012 when it was still safe enough to visit the rebels who control the area. Now they and more than 40,000 residents are trapped, surrounded by Syrian Government forces who have sealed off all the roads. This video, posted by activists, shows the residents begging the government soldiers to let Food Supplies in. But the last aid convoy they allowed to pass was back in but suddenly today, scott, after those pictures of the starving people had caused international consternation, the Assad Government announced that it was going to allow one humanitarian aid convoy into madaya probably some time over the weekend. Liz palmer reporting from the london newsroom tonight. Liz, thank you. A runaway natural gas well in los angeles has been flooding a neighborhood with methane for 76 days. 2,000 people have been evacuated as Southern California Gas Companies struggles to stop the flow. Mireya villarreal is following this. Reporter this infrared video shows you what you cant see with the naked eye, a geyser spewing at least 70,000 pounds of gas every hour into Southern California neighborhoods less than two miles away. We call this the bp oil spill on land. Reporter environmental activist Erin Brockovich was findings. A new study commissioned by a law firm suing the utility says gas is now reaching porter ranch neighborhoods 18 hours of the day. This isnt a onetime assault. This is an ongoing assault every single day. Reporter the source of the leak is a hole in a 62yearold pipe. Southern california gas chief operating officer brett lane. I personally apologize to the residents. This is something that, you know, the nuisance that they face, the different issues that they have faced, we do apologize for that. Again, our focus right now is to try to eliminate that nuisance or the issues that they face by stopping the leak as fast as we can. Reporter to stop the leak, the Utility Company needs to drill down 8,000 feet. Theyre using a relief well to intersect the leaking pipe and plug it up. The gas Company Estimates the process will take until april. Christine soderlunds home is less than two miles from the gas leak. She moved after her children unexplained headaches, nausea and nosebleeds. I am worrying about the gas every day. Im worrying about my familys health. Reporter there are 115 wells in the hills that you see behind me, including the one that is leaking, and, scott, of those 115, only ten have safety valve shut offs. Mireya villarreal reporting for us tonight. Mireya, thank you. Last night, we showed you remarkable pictures of people lining up down the block to collect painkillers at a doctors office. An office the Authorities Say is really just a front for drug dealing. Well, tonight jim axelrod and producer ashley velie continue their investigation in West Virginia, where the state is suing, accusing pharmacists and drug distributors of making millions, pushing narcotics to anyone who wants them. Reporter no state has had pain pills than West Virginia, and no town in West Virginia more trouble than kermit, population 400. This undercover video of kermits main pharmacy shows scores of people picking up prescriptions inside and at the drivethru window. They fill more scripts for oxycodone than all but 21 pharmacies in america. Reporter in the country . In the country. Reporter jim cagle represents the state in the groundbreaking lawsuit against pill mills and wholesale drug distributors. What you have is some bad doctors and pharmacies who are willing to turn a blind eye because of the money thats involved. Reporter more than three million doses of hydrocodone were ordered by a kermit pharmacist, james willie, in one year. He paid drug distributors hundreds of thousands of dollars, while netting more than in 2012, willie lost his license and served six months in prison for illegally dispensing drugs. But cagle told us the problem persists. This pharmacy, tug valley, is now being sued for negligently filling prescriptions. Records show tug valley was filling more than 150 pain prescriptions a day from one clinic alone. Hi, you mr. Bellengee . Im jim axelrod with cbs news. We decided to ask owner randy bellengee about the charges. Youre named in a lawsuit, alleging substandard care. You have nothing to say to me directly . At his lawyers direction, he wouldnt respond. We would think an alarm bell would go off. Reporter West Virginia secretary of health Karen Bowling says until now, the drug distributors have escaped scrutiny. If youre a distributor, if youre providing medication to pharmacies, someone would say, wow, this is a lot. Reporter thats the premise behind the unprecedented lawsuit. Under West Virginias law, distributors are legally bound to report suspicious orders from pharmacies. If that distributor has good reason to believe that the filled are not for legitimate medical purposes, then they are not to make that delivery. They have an obligation . They have a duty, yes. Reporter Amerisource Bergen is the Third Largest drug wholesaler in the country and one of 11 defendants in the states case. Over a fiveyear period, they filled orders for 118 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills, enough to supply every West Virginian with 13 pain pills a year. Thats scary math. It is. Yes, it is. It is actually the product of what i would refer to as a Business Plan, a Business Plan people. Reporter we reached out to lawyers for Amerisource Bergen. They told us they couldnt comment because of this ongoing litigation. This potentially precedent setting trial is set to begin in october. Remarkable reporting, jim. Thanks. The military has identified the green beret who was killed tuesday in afghanistan. Mcclintock of new mexico. Hes 30 years old. He leaves a wife and their threeyearold son, declan. Mcclintock was killed in a firefight with the taliban on his third combat tour. Theres more news ahead. New dietary guidelines from the government wont sit well with anyone who has a sweet tooth. And well take a fine italian sports car for a dive. The cbs overnight news will be right back. Phil oh no. under his breath hey man hey peter. unenthusiastic oh. Ha ha ha joanne . Is that you . Its me. If youre peter pan, you stay young forever. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. You make me feel so young. Its what you do. You make me feel so spring has sprung. Hey buddy, lets get these dayquil liquid gels and go. But these liquid gels are new. Mucinex fast max. Its the same difference. These are multisymptom. This one is max strength and fights mucus. That one doesnt. Uh. Think fast you dropped something. Oh. Ill put it back on the shelf. New from mucinex fast max. The only cold and flu liquid gel thats maxstrength and fights mucus. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Today the government revised its advice for a healthy diet. The headlines lean meat and eggs may now be okay, but sugar and salt still bad. Heres dr. Jon lapook. Reporter the new usda guidelines recommend people consume less than 10 of calories per day from added sugars, about 12 teaspoons. Less than 10 of calories per day from saturated fats, about a fastfood cheeseburger, and less than 2,300 milligrams per day of sodium, about a teaspoon of women should consume between 1,600 and 2,400 calories a day. Men, 2,000 to 3,000. Lets see how this sample of daily meals stacks up. If you have cereal and coffee for breakfast, a cheese wrap for lunch, an apple for a snack, salmon, vegetables and a glass of wine for dinner, add small piece of cake for dessert, you consumed about 2,150 calories. But the soda alone exceeded the recommended sugar limit, and the turkey wrap and chips contain about 1,100 milligrams of sodium, already half of the recommended amount. Sharon zarabi is a registered dietitian at lenox hill. Is honey added sugar . Honey is added sugar, although it is natural, but youll notice that milk products, such as milk or even a yogurt, has 12 grams of sugar per cup, and then when you are making it a fruitflavored yogurt, that doubles the sugar from 12 to 24 grams per serving. Reporter we also asked about sodium. The same type of flavor dressing, which is italian, in one bottle can be 450 milligrams of sodium versus 300 milligrams. Reporter thats a huge difference. Yeah. Reporter scott, its so easy to get faked out. You might think this spinach wrap is better than this piece of white bread, but the bread has 90 calories and no saturated fat, and the wrap, 210 calories and two grams of saturated fat, so you have to read the label. Read the labels. Dr. Jon lapook. Doc, thanks very much. Coming up, were going to remember an actor that got a lot tonight arizona is getting the el nio rains that flooded Southern California this week. In san diego, a driver turned a 200,000 lamborghini, the white one there, into a speedboat. But believe it or not, the engine did not stall. And near san francisco, a man watching waves roll in got pounded by one. Actor Pat Harrington has died. He was schneider, the super on one day at a time. I got a little present here its something that all the ladies in the apartment are fighting over. Its a whispersilent flush valve for your can. Pat harrington died of alzheimers disease. He was 86. In a moment, defying the americans pursuing a dream have driven the jackpot for saturday nights powerball to more than 700 million. Heres mark strassmann. Those are the winning numbers right there. Reporter not much got done at the office today. Reporter everyone was out working on a retirement plan. There was definitely a buzz about it. Reporter jeff rosen organized his office pool in atlanta. Lets look at those numbers one more time. Reporter last nights 500 million drawing was the 18th time the jackpot has rolled over since the last winner in november. Have you watched it climb 300, 400, 500. You drive down the interstate and see those big billboards and youre like, wow. You sit in traffic in the morning and think, man, if i won that. Reporter this 700 million jackpot for a single winner could actually mean a onetime cash option of 428 million. To win, you just got to defy odds of 292 million to one. Just one . Reporter you have a better chance of being hit by lightning while drowning. Why do i play . Because i want money. I only play when its 700 million. 50 million . Im not interested. Already a record by 110 million, and players in 44 states will drive it higher by saturday nights drawing. I feel lucky today. Reporter which is why so few people felt like working today, and tomorrows not looking much better. Were trying to win the big one. Thats it. Reporter mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. Thats the overnight news for this friday. For some of you, the news continues. For others, check back with us just a little bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im scott pelley. Captions by vitac the is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. The federal government has come out with its latest guidelines on what you should eat to stay healthy. Most will come as no surprise. Less sugar, less salt. Dr. Jonathan lapook has the rest. Reporter the new usda guidelines recommend people consume less than 10 of calories a day from added sugar, about 12 teaspoons. Less than 10 of calories per day from saturated fats, about a fastfood cheeseburger, and less sodium, about a teaspoon of table salt. Women should consume between 1,600 and 2,400 calories a day. Men, 2,000 to 3,000. Lets see how this sample of daily meals stacks up. If you have cereal and coffee for breakfast, a cheese wrap for lunch, an apple for a snack, salmon, vegetables and a glass of wine for dinner, add small piece of cake for dessert, you consumed about 2,150 calories. But the soda alone exceeded the recommended sugar limit, and the turkey wrap and chips contain about 1,100 milligrams of sodium, already half of the recommended amount. Sharon zarabi is a registered dietitian at lenox hill. Is honey added sugar . Honey is added sugar, although it is natural, but youll notice that milk products, such as milk or even a yogurt, has 12 grams of sugar per cup, and then when you are making it a fruitflavored from 12 to 24 grams per serving. Reporter we also asked about foods with unexpectedly high sodium. The same type of flavor dressing, which is italian, in one bottle can be 450 milligrams of sodium versus 300 milligrams. Reporter thats a huge difference. Yeah. Reporter scott, its so easy to get faked out. You might think this spinach wrap is better than this piece of white bread, but the bread has 70 calories and no saturated fat, and the wrap, 210 calories and two grams of saturated fat, so you have to read the label. Dr. Jonathan lapook, cbs news, new york. The family of a florida woman who died after being forcibly removed from a hospital by police say they want a federal investigation. Barbara dawson went to the e. R. Complaining of stomach pains. When the doctors tried to discharge her, she refused to leave. Police were called and placed her under arrest for Disorderly Conduct and trespassing. Collapsed and later died. The family obtained the dash cam recording. Either walk out of here peacefully oh, my god. Or i can take you out. Barbara dawson said she was in pain and couldnt breathe. But officer john tadlock tried to remove her oxygen mask. Lets take this off. You cant take that off i can. No, you cant yes, maam. You have to leave. Dawson arrived by ambulance to Calhoun Liberty hospital eight hours earlier. Angela was with her niece throughout the ordeal. I said she need her oxygen. No, she dont. Shes fine, shes fine. Leave it alone i cant even breathe the officer suspected dawson was trying to avoid going to jail. Put your hands behind your back. I cant breathe. You seem all right. Dawson collapsed outside of the hospital just feet from the police car. Falling down like this, laying down, thats not going to stop you from going to jail. Shes sick. Shes okay. Dawson remained next to the police car for 18 minutes. Officer tadlock and medical staff tried to get her in. Shes just dead weight. Lay her back. Somebody grab her feet. Minutes later, a doctor demanded dawson be readmitted to the hospital where she died. Calhoun Liberty Hospital said they continue to grieve the loss of the patient and we are setting up a medical and Community Task force to review best practices and better communication. In that tape, she was begging for help. Martha smith dixon said her cousin was a pillar of her community. Everyone knew barbara. She was a jewel. Benjamin crump is representing dawsons family. Today it was barbara dawson. If we dont speak to this, it will be someone else tomorrow. The medical examiner determined she died from a blood clot in her lung. Hospital staff said they had not discovered that problem when they discharged her. State and local authorities are investigating. The restaurant chain chipotle is promising to cooperate with a federal criminal investigation into the safety of its food. The probe focuses on a norovirus outbreak at a restaurant in california. The company is reeling after it was linked to outbreaks of food born illnesses in at least nine states last year. Police are asking for the publics help in finding a pair of Jewelr

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