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WTKR Up To The Minute January 15, 2016

For your joints, cartilage and bones. And unlike the big osteobi flex pills, its all in one tiny pill. Move free ultra. Prescription drug abuse is fast becoming a plague in our nation. About 2 million americans are hooked on prescription painkillers. In 2012, 259 million prescriptions were written. Thats one bottle for every american adult. So how can that be . Jim axelrod and producer ashley vely found out in West Virginia, a state thats attempting a drastic solution, allowing addicts to sue the doctors who got them hooked. Reporter 17 years ago, willis duncans life changed forever, when a coal mining accident left 4i78 with a crushed sternum. If i didnt have ten pain pills, i wouldnt go to work. Reporter duncan developed a lifelong addiction to painkillers when his doctors only treatment was a neverending supply of pills. In to see a doctor was to get your pills. Reporter you would go in to get looked at, but the examination isnt done by a doctor . No. Reporter duncan would wait for hours to be seen for just a few minutes at this clinic where 150 patients line up every day for pain med prescriptions. Did you ever say to a doctor, this has gotten out of hand, and i need help . No. Because you done got used to them and you didnt know how to function without them. Reporter this cashonly operation allowed doctors to clear as much as 100,000 a week. Were in mingo county, West Virginia, executing a search warrant. Reporter the clinic was raided and shut down in 2010. Theres the exam room. Reporter these are what past for exam rooms. Main office. Reporter piles of trash and files, loose prescription pads, syringes. Roachinfested cages. Hundreds of patient records were seized, along with thousands of updated and presigned prescriptions for addicted pain meds like vicodin, xanax. The doctor in charge went to jail for six months for negligence. Do a driveby and take a look. Reporter dea agent gary newman is investigating dozens of doctors, pharmacies and distributors throughout the state. We are talking in a certain sense drug traffickers and they are doing nothing but writing and cranking out prescription after prescription after prescription. Reporter theyre pushers. They truly are. Reporter West Virginia has the highest rate of Overdose Deaths in the nation. Each year, doctors write the equivalent of one painkiller prescription for every man, woman, and child in the state of 1. 8 million. In the last year, the West Virginia department of health 12 were told to shut down. You can actually be so stressed that you cant sleep at night. Reporter one is run by dr. Michael kastenko. Hes written more than 40,000 pain kill prescriptions over the last two years at his clinic. He was among those ordered to stop operating as a pain clinic, but remains open. After weeks of trying to reach him, we drove out to coal country clinic, located at the end of this narrow twomile logging road. Instead of finding the doctor, we came facetoface with a rottweiller. Shutting down these clinics can often take years, because these are licensed doctors, writing legal prescriptions. Therein lies the problem. You have to be able to prove in court that their prescribing was for in such an egregious amount that it was negligent. Reporter among the 30 West Virginians now suing their doctors and pharmacies for enabling their addiction is willis duncan. They hurt a lot of people. I mean, its just a bad deal all the way around. I have nothing for them. Nothing for none of them. The state of West Virginia has begun the process of shutting that clinic down. When the overnight news returns, well have hart two of jim axelrods investigation. cell phone rings where are you . Well the squirrels are back in the attic. Mom . Your dad wont call an exterminator. 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This undercover video of kermits main pharmacy shows scores of people picking up prescriptions inside, and at the drivethrough window. They fill more scripts for oxycodone than all but 20 pharmacies in america. Reporter in the country . In the country. Reporter jim cagle Ground Breaking 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 3 million doses of hydrocodone was ordered in more than one year. In 2012, he 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. We decided to ask the owner so your name is in a lawsuit, alleging substandard care. You have nothing to say to me directly . No. Reporter at his lawyers direction, he wouldnt respond. We would think that an alarm bell would go off. Reporter West Virginia secretary of health Karen Bowling says until now, the drug scrutiny. If you are a distributor, providing medication, you know, to pharmacies, that someone would say, you know, wow, this is a lot. What do we need to do about it . Reporter thats the premise behind the unprecedented lawsuit. Under West Virginias law, distributors are legal from pharmacies. If that distributor has good reason to believe that the prescriptions that are being filled are not for legitimate medical purposes, they are not to make that delivery. Reporter they have an obligation obligation . Reporter amerisourcebergen is one of 11 defendants in the state. They filled over 118 million orders for pain pills, enough to supply every West Virginian 13 pain pills every year. Thats scary math. Yes, it is. What i would refer to as a Business Plan. A Business Plan by people that are not honorable people. Reporter we reached out to lawyers for amerisourcebergen. They told us they couldnt comment. This trial is set to begin in october. Jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. In just over a month from now, the Music Industry will honor its brightest stars at the grammys. Anthony mason sat down with one of the fresh faces up for best new artist award, james bay. Ago, 25yearold james bay was playing london pubs, just trying to get noticed. But 2015 changed all that. You had a Pretty Amazing year. 2015 was pretty strong. I had a good time, yeah. It was great. Reporter his debut album, which features his hit song hold back the river, went to number one in britain. He performed his other hit single let it go with ed sheeren. And he impressed the Rolling Stones ronnie wood. New people dont often do that to me. Reporter who gave him britains gq award for breakthrough artist, then joined him on stage at a london concert. If they happened but they did. Reporter at the end of the year, he heard he got a grammy nomination. We were in the back of the car with our manager, losing our minds. And he said, did you see about the other two . 2015 was great. Reporter now hes the latest british musical export trying to make it in america. Its a big prize. Thats exciting. I cant get away from that, and i dont know if it ever makes me sound naive or anything. At the end of the day, im willing to take it on. Reporter its a little like guitarer in nirvana in here. Im always drawn to the weird color. Reporter this is a beautiful color. He picked up his first guitar when he was 11. North of london, he taught himself to play and joined a local band. It was a big deal. This is the holy grail of gigs in hitchen. Reporter but bay had greater ambitions. Giving myself a shot at something more than the buzz we got from playing in a pub to a lot of people. Reporter he started performing solo. When i first got in front of a mike on stage and it was just me, i started to, you know, find out about what i cou do. Reporter did you like being up there . Yeah. Yeah, i really did. Reporter then a fan posted a video to youtube. It had like 20 plays on youtube, 22 maybe. But we got the call from a record label in new york who found it somehow. And really liked it. Reporter what were you thinking at that point . I was thinking, new york . Reporter signed by republic records, suddenly james bay was on his way. Did you have a plan b . No. Well, drawing. Not the best plan b, i dont think. Reporter he still draws on the road. Band mates, rock heroes, selfies, featuring his now signature headgear. Where did the hat come from . Everybody asks. Where did the hat come from . It was a very sort of kind of teenage fashion move. [ laughter ] no other way to put it. Reporter and you just liked it and it stuck . Exactly. I would like to hang around a hung around and ill go a new strain of dog flu is causing concern across the country. So far, at least,000 dogs have been affected in 25 states. Adriana diaz is in chicago, site of the first outbreak of that virus. Reporter here in chicago, the flu spread so quickly last year, that some shelters had to close their doors to prevent it from spreading. Here theyve treated more than 300 sick dogs and housed some temporarily while they recover. All of these dogs are healthy, but vets are paying close attention to make sure none develop symptoms. Ashley lease walks dogs in the seattle area. Shes paying extra close attention to her four legged friends. After warnings about the new strain of dog flu. They can get sick just like us. I know how much i hate being sick. Reporter county Health Officials say up to 90 dogs in this kennel may have been exposed to the virus. Flu, but further tests are needed to confirm its the new strain. None of the dogs have immunity to fight it off, so you knee large numbers of dogs getting ill. When dogs are going to dog daycares or dog parks or boarding overnight in fennel facilities, it can spread rapidly. Reporter cases showed up last march in chicago and spread quickly. Around 2,000 dogs in 24 states have been infected. A vaccine was made available in november. Vets say the disease is rarely fatal, but owners should see a vet right away if their dog shows symptoms. If your dog doesnt eat well, and this is a meal, you see coughing, just being tired, moping around, it could be a sign of a fever. If you see that, schedule an appointment, because theyll need to get on some special medications for it. Reporter pet owners in the seattle area are concerned. Facebook posts outlining the symptoms has been viewed 189,000 times since tuesday. Local vets are now stocking up on the vaccine. While the virus is no laughing matter, this viral video features a chicago pup named herbert who is putting on a brave face while recovering from flu. Dogs are household members and often times theyre like kids in the family and people want to take care of their pets and keep them safe. Reporter humans cant contract the virus, but they can spread it to healthy dogs after close contact with a sick dog. By the way, all of these puppies are available for adoption. So guys, just let me know which one you like. Thats the overnight news for this friday. 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 this is the cbs overnight news. The gop president ial hopefuls gathered in South Carolina last night for one of their final debates before next months iowa caucuses. It was a smaller cast on the main stage, just seven candidates. And at the center of it all was the frontrunner, donald trump. Heres some of what they had to say. You know, back in september, my friend donald said he had had his lawyers look at this from every which way, and there was no issue there. There was nothing to this birther issue. Now, since september, the constitution hasnt changed. [ laughter ] but the poll numbers have. [ applause ] and i recognize i recognize his poll numbers are falling in iowa. But the facts and the law here are quite clear, under long standing u. S. Law, the child of a u. S. Citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen. If a soldier has a child abroad, that child is a natural born citizen. Thats why john mccain, even though he was born in panama, was eligible to run for president. If an american missionary has a child abroad, that child is a natural born citizen. Thats why George Romney mittstad was eligible to run for president when though he was born in mexico. At the end of the day, its straightforward. But i would note that the birther theories that donald has been relying on, some of the more extreme ones insist you must not only be born on u. S. Soil, but have two parents born on u. S. Soil, under that theory, i would be disqualified, marco rubio would be disqualified, and disqualified. Interestingly enough, donald j. Trump would be disqualified. Not me. Because donalds mother was born in scotland. She was naturalized. Now, donald but i was born here. On the issue of citizenship, donald, im not going to use your mothers birth against you. Because it wouldnt work. Youre an american, as is everybody else on this stage, and i would suggest we focus on whos best prepared to be commander in chief, because thats the most important question facing the country. [ applause ] and if, for some reason he beats the rest of the field, he beats the rest of the field see, they dont like that. [ crowd booing ] they dont like that. No, they dont like that he beats the rest of the field, because they want me. [ laughter ] but if for some reason he beats the rest of the field, i already know the democrats are going to you have a big lawsuit over your head while youre running. And if you become the nominee, who the hell knows if you can even serve in office. So you should go out, get a declaratory judgment, let the courts decide. Why now . Why are you raising this issue now . Because now hes doing a little bit better. No, i didnt care before, no, its true. Hey, look, he never had a chance. Now hes doing better. Hes got probably a 4 or 5 chance. [ laughter ] thank you, mr. Trump. The fact is, theres a big overhang. Theres a big question mark on your head. Listen, ive spent my entire life defending the constitution before the u. S. Supreme court and ill tell you, im not going to be taking legal advice from donald trump. You dont have to. Take it from lawrence tribe. Now on the democratic side, it doesnt get much tighter than this. Hillary clinton just two points ahead of bernie sanders. Its virtually a tie because of the polls margin of error. Heres nancy cordes. And i have felt for the last several weeks that we had the wind at our back. Reporter sanders feelings were confirmed today, and the latest poll brought back vivid memories of 2008, when clintons commanding lead in iowa slipped away at the end. I congratulate senator obama. Reporter then and now, her powerful campaign, and its war chest, were supposed to overpower insurgent opponents. But its sanders who is holding larger rallies while clinton sticks to town halls. I will fight for you. I will work for you. Reporter sanders is also airing more tv ads, reaching voters like tim pool of topeka, iowa. I totally agree with senator sanders. You cant have 2 of the people more than everybody else. Reporter today, sanders surprised clinton with this ad that seemed to be aimed at her. There are two democratic visions for regulating wall street. One says its okay to take millions from big banks and then tell them what to do. Reporter the Clinton Campaign accused him of violating this longtime promise youre looking at somebody who has never run a negative tv ad in his life and never will. Reporter Clinton Campaign manager robby mook convened a Conference Call with reporters to drive the point home. Reporter but even that was reminiscent of 2008, when clinton routinely tried to convince voters that senator barack obama was just another politician, not a visionary. Scott, she can take heart in the fact that shes still leading in iowa by ten points among those who say they will definitely nancy cordes, thanks. Of course, the campaign will be dominated by the economy, and today oil closed at just over 31 a barrel. Since june of 2014, the price has fallen about 75, taking the price of gasoline along for the ride. Cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger is with us. Jill, thats good news for most people. Reporter absolutely. Consumers reap a great benefit from low oil. Last year, the average household saved 660 at the pump. Its like an unexpected tax refund. And cheap gas prices, along with low Interest Rates and an improving job market, helped boost auto sales. Last year, automakers sold a record 17. 4 million cars and light trucks. But for a lot of folks in the country, its bad news, too. Reporter absolutely. You know, after a big boom from 2010 to 2014, there is pain in the energy sector. The Mining Industry that includes oil, gas and coal lost 129,000 jobs last year. And thats just the direct hit. Like a waitress working in a restaurant near a fracking site, may have been laid off. Or a Convenience Store worker near an oil well had to be let go. But the ripple effects go even deeper. Today, realtytrac released its final foreclosure numbers for 2015. While activity is down nationally, it is up in places like te

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