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Are some of these stunts as dangerous as they appear . But first the nightline five. When salon pas ge best gan in 1934 a single patch created a category of pain relief. 80 years later, it has evolved in to a family of pain relievers. Perfect for back muscle or joint release. Perfect for relief. Get more rewards the more you spend. Use macys money on top of sale prices. The more you buy the more macys money you get. Shop in store through sunday. Tina sorry i was day dreaming. About becoming a pastry chef . Uh. Yeah. Specializing in custom cakes . Right and opening your own bakery . Howd you know . Youve got the new instant game from the pennsylvania lottery. Yeah king of cash with top prizes of 100,000. [male announcer] want to see your dreams come to life . You could scratch your way to instant winning. The pennsylvania lottery. Bring your dreams to life. Good evening. We begin tonight with a story provoking outrage. Its about massive corporations some accused of being driven by greed are raking in huge profits while regular americans suffer. This has to do with the medicine many of us need to survive, and prices that are skyrocketing. Not by 100 or 200 but sometimes by 3,000 even 6,000 . So whats going on here . Abcs Gloria Riveria investigates. Im calling to check the price on a medication, please. Reporter trishcia is calling pharmacy. Since she last checked her pain medication has gone up. Im stunned. Absolutely stunned. Thats way more. Reporter gone up again. I thought 25 was a lot. 37 is what is this stuff made out of. I mean reporter tricia was only 18 when she first found the crippling pain that would come to define her adult life. There was no cure for it. There was no relief from it. Reporter she was diagnosed with endometriosis, a chronic disease where the lining of the uterus growing outside of the womb and causes legislations that can worns over time. I liken it to moms that have a screaming child on their hip and they are trying to have a conversation here with somebody but you have a screaming baby on your hip. You cant always focus on this thing in front of you. Reporter her husband vincent said he feels helpless watching her suffer every day. Im a fixer. I cant fix her. And to not be able to help her just tears me apart. If it wasnt for the pain medication i wouldnt be here. Reporter tricia started taking fentanyl citrate the generic version actiq, a powerful pain killer in 2010. She takes three doses a day. Back then she said she paid 50 cents a dose and today 30 a dose. An increase of 6,000 . What changed in the formula the manufacturing, what changed that justified such a cost increase . Reporter these are questions asked across the country as patients and pharmacists report alarming increases in the prices of certain jenner in i drug generic drugs. In 15 years i have never seen a price increase like this. Reporter in the span of one year Blood Pressure medication captopril jumped 2700 . The prices are ridiculous. They are like i cant afford this. I have to feed my children and they walk away. Reporter generics have served to make drugs affordable. Now americans are asking why prices are trending the other way. Raw material shortages, manufacturing disruptions, due to factory closings or violations. Companies that leave the market or merge with competitors. It all reduces supply and competition n. A statement the chief executive of the genericic pharmaceutical association said some may occur for individual producting unique circumstances. By the big red barn in the great greenfield. Reporter hani hamden said he had to break the law to afford the meds he needed. This is a big red barn. Reporter a dentist from jordan he had to look overseas when doctors prescribed him a drug which was 5. 92 a dose in 2010 rang up at 119. It shocked me as being expensive. My deductible was very high. Over 12,000. So i would have probably had to pay the entire amount. Reporter so he turned to relatives abroad to help him find a cheaper version of the drug. He said it was surprisingly easy. They found it for, close to 100 for a threemonth supply. Just 100 compared to for three months it would have been 15,000. Im fortunate to have somebody who lives overseas that can send me the drug. I know most people dont have that privilege. I started taking money out of my i. R. A. And thats how we had to pay for it. Reporter and now, three years and 80,000 later, the saleses are struggling to keep their nest egg. Savings is running out really fast really fast. It has taken a toll on our marriage. It has taken a toll on our plans. We planned to sail around the world. You know thats gone. It cant happen. Reporter we asked mallinckrodt, the drug maker who makes the painkiller and they tell abc news that pricing has remained stable since 2010 and do not comment further specifically on pricing matters. Its nice for pridoviders to know why drugs are going up and what ones. The chief resident of internal medicine at regents hospital in saint paul, minnesota, and a coauthor of a new england journal of medicine article that brought the issue to light. You get outraged. I think as the Health Care System as a society we need systems in place that help to combat what is happening. Whats the one thing that has to change for this problem to be solved . We have to tell the Drug Companies they cant get away with murder, and cant raise their prices to any level they want. Reporter last week senator sanders introduced a bill aimed at curbing jen generic price drug prices. You cant force folks to be in a situation where they cant purchase the medicine they need. Thats what we should be doing. Reporter tricia started a new job with a technology company. Shes waiting to hear if her new insurance will cover her muchneeded pain medication. I dont know what else to do. Im praying, praying that my new insurance will cover it. Reporter for nightline, im Gloria Riveria in washington. Our thanks to gloria for that report. How much are you paying a month for your prescription drugs . Share your thoughts with us on our facebook page. Coming up next hear what maybe the craziest commute on earth. Why this 90yearold does it every day. And later the man whos built an empire on sixsecond viral videos. If youre an adult with type 2 diabetes and your a1c is not at goal with certain diabetes pills or daily insulin your doctor may be talking about adding medication to help lower your a1c. Ask your doctor if adding onceaweek tanzeum is right for you. 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Reporter deep between the mountains of southwestern china, theres Something Different imagine this as your daily commute. For untold generations, this was the only way to cross the nujiang river. But in this new era of high speed trains and choking pollution, these ziplines are disappearing. To see the last of them we decided to journey to the remotest parts of nujiang. The last free flowing river in asia that carves from the tibetan plateau, china, myanmar and thailand before emptying in to the andaman sea. This is a part of china ive never seen before. This is called nujiang, which means the first bend of the new river. Its the most amazingly beautiful place i have ever seen. As we pass bridges and towns, ziplines were actually hard to find. On our journey to discover them taking a bath in the springs and others showed me their cross bow. First shot ever. Bulls eye. These guys love me. Reporter the nujiang cuts so deep this area is sometimes known as chinas grand canyon. Its getting more and more remote. Reporter which presents the farmers here with a challenge crossing the river. When you ask them about ziplines when is the last time you used it, though . Many point the bridges. Many told us they used to take the ziplines back and forth but now they use the bridge now. Old and new ones. The ziplines are a deep tradition here. At this lunch spot we found this old movie playing on their hdtv. The casting for the movie which is called zipline doctor. Thats three times in a row the last ten minutes of the movie. As we go deeper in the canyons, along the narrowing dirt roads, fewer and fewer people and suddenly we hear it. Villager, after villager suddenly arriving from across the nujiang. Qiu maqian of course she doesnt speak a word with of mandarin, so we recruit someone from a Younger Generation to translate. How old are you now she has been crossing the zipline since the 1930s. Shes 90. You have been doing this since you were 10 years old. Was it always metal . Or bamboo. They were bamboo until the 1970s. The only breaks, this no one has been hurt not even on the bamboo. Never she says. My dream is when i turn 90 years old, i want to do the same thing. This zipline was built by the government but even now the harnesses are makeshift and homemade. It is not exactly something you can buy at the stores. Not only do they use it to get to work or shop. They also take their kids to school. This mom told us her son will not be allowed to cross the river alone until he is 10. Our translator 17 years old and invites us across the river to see how he lives. Tell her i have a bad knee though. Reporter and the villages offer to give us a ride. Okay. Here it goes. Oh my gosh. This is beautiful i was really nervous when i started to prepare for it. Once i held on to it and knew i wasnt going to fall down it was pretty good. Once you start moving, best thing. Not to be outdone, these courageous older, strong e women join in on the fun. Who like the grandmothers before him, grew up here. You live in a beautiful, bufrl place here. He may be part of the last generation of zipliners. Is it changing too fast . Big changes, he says. When he was in Primary School this road wasnt there and now connects his village with a distant bridge. For now the zipline is still the fastest way to get to the other side to get supplies jobs and school. However, even more change is coming. Chinas government is planning on building at least four new hydro electrical dams on the untouched river, although environmental advocates have fought it. Is that good or bad . Is your life better or worse because of the changes. Better he says because they have transportation now so they dont have to walk for miles up hill to haul food and equipment. Do you think your child when you have one, do you think your kids could ride the zipline, or do you think it will be gone by then. He says they will be gone. Does that make you sad . A little bit, he says. As for grandma she says shes going to enjoy this ride for as long as she can. Unbelievable. 90 years old. I dont think my grandmother has ever done this. Ready . Im bob woodruff for nightline, soaring above the river of nujiang in yunnan province china. Up next hes got only six seconds to make magic. The internet star and his blink and youll miss them stunts. Is is my body of proof. Proof of less joint pain. And clearer skin. This is my body of proof that i can fight Psoriatic Arthritis from the inside out. With humira. Humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. Its proven to help relieve pain, stop further joint damage and clear skin in many adults. 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His sixsecond videos, 3. 2 million followers asking how does he do that . Sometimes just simple jump cuts and ill freeze them and come over and change my clothes and whatever. Reporter invisible string and optical illusions create the effects as well as a lot of work by zach and his team. Usually it extends to four or five hours to shoot and edit that video. Reporter he uses tricks to turn a hobby in to an empire. Photo bombing ryan. Reporter collaborating with rappers and plenty of big brands. His talents even taking him to the red carpet of the oscars. One of my favorites that you did is there are two beds and you jump from one 0 the other thats my personal favorite. Get out, really . Reporter we got a behind the scenes look at what goes in to making these videos. The concept is to take this angry bird and put it on the branch and i will throw it and it will be a red sweater. Reporter sometimes the stunts really as dangerous as they seem. I did one where i fell off the roof. It was a tile roof where it could slide. Living on the edge. Do not try at home. Reporter totally. For him, the chance to make magic is worth the risk. For nightline, im rachel smith in california. Our thanks to rachel smith for that story and our thanks for watching us more than six seconds tonight. Tune in to gma first thing in the morning where ed sheeran will make an appearance. Thats tomorrow on gma. As always were online 24 7 at abcnews. Com. Thank you again for watching and have a great night. [dramatic music] yeah hey im terry crews, and its time to get the fun started right here on millionaire. [cheers and applause] ive been told todays first contestant has a very unusual way of saying hello. Im not gonna lie. Im a little bit nervous. But lets bring her out. From midvale, utah please welcome jan brownstein. [cheers and applause] hi, jan. How are you . Hi, how are you . Im well. Okay. Okay. Okay, what was the where is the im nervous. 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