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Especially omaha beach in the epic of world war ii, place it within that epic. >> well, if you can imagine07 years ago today the weather is not nearly this nice. there are 156,000 soldiers, american, british and canadian, trying to get ashore. the seas are very high, the winds are high. there are lots of germans here. there are 200,000 sailors and seamen who have brought them here secretly. the germans don't know we're coming until it dawns and they look out there and see this armada, this staggering flotilla of ships. this, omaha beach, is the tough youest of the five. none of them were easy....

Succeeding waves of men pour in. commanders ready to right off omaha has atotal failure say it's a miracle. >> veterans make their way to france for 70th anniversary of the battle of normandy, or d-day, 156,000 allied troops descended on the french coast to deliberate europe from the nazis. 9,000 allied soldiers wounded or killed that day, june 6, 1944. the largest amphibious attack in history. that day, general dwight d. eisenhower broadcast this message to the people of western europe. >> people of western europe, the hour of your liberation is approaching. all patriots, men and women, young...

Realities that heroin users and their families can face on a daily basis because of the devastating addiction. 669,000. that's the number of americans that reported using heroin in 2012. 156,000 is how many people started using heroin for the first time that same year. that was nearly double the number of first-time heroin users in 2006. that's how many people were addicted in heroin in 2012. that's double the number of heroin addicts from ten years earlier. 770% is how much of a heroin epidemic has grown in just the state of vermont since the year 2000. 45% is the increase in the amount of he...

To work on prevention, try to teach parents how to -- teach them about how they can talk to their kid, how can they prevent their child from going down the same path as my son. we just tell our stories, which are all very powerful. different but similar. and we just started doing this, going to different schools and speaking with parents. we are going to be speaking with kids as well. but if i had to say the most important thing is to really get to know your kids, their friends, and the parents of their friends. that's so important. >> well, the numbers are staggering. the department of health...

Is cheaper than the prescription drugs at this point. >> exactly. and what has happened is people, particularly in the suburbs, have begun to use oxycotton. once they can no longer access that, they kind of revert to a cheaper drug, which is heroin. it's a lot more cheaper than purchasing an oxycontin pill. you can buy heroin for as little as $5. >> steven, heroin abuse is also -- it's a huge problem in this country. we were showing abuse among first-time users increased nearly 60% in the last decade from 90,000 to 156,000. you know, in addition to this addiction to oxycontin, what other facto...