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We're joined from washington with a stunning report. evan, talk about this. a lot of people just weren't aware of this. and you have spoken with dea officials and drug rehab centers about this problem. and how big it is. >> well, yeah, a rising problem, something i think has taken a lot of people by surprise, suzanne. the dea and the federal government has been tracking this for a couple of years. and they say the number of users has gone up dramatically. in 2002, 166,000 people who reported using heroin. in 2012, the number had risen to 355,000. now, obviously, that's a number that is still s...

>> it's huge. rampant. the readily availableness of heroin is astronomical. >> nationwide heroin use is skyrocketing. yearly government drug surveys shows in 2002, 166,000 americans over the age of 12 said they had used heroin. it jumped to 335,000 users in 2012. rehab facilities are seeing it front and center. >> this is the first year i can remember seeing this many people coming in with an addiction to heroin. >> del rey beach florida is dubbed the recovery capital of the u.s. >> people are losing their lives. >> in 2012, they had three overdoses with one death. in 2013, 27 overdoses with t...

Breaking tonight the government may still be shut down but some of the national treasures are open for business. how can that be? grace gallagher is live in the west coast newsroom with developments. trace? >> what's happening is the federal government is leasing back the national parks to the states at least for a short time. in return the states get to keep all the money the parks generate. so the governors have to sit down and figure t out if the math works and if it's worth it. the governors of washington state, wyoming have said no thanks. several other states struck deals. take a look at...

Government may still be shut down but some of the national treasures are open for business. how can that be? grace gallagher is live in the west coast newsroom with developments. trace? >> what's happening is the federal government is leasing back the national parks to the states at least for a short time. in return the states get to keep all the money the parks generate. so the governors have to sit down and figure t out if the math works and if it's worth it. the governors of washington state, wyoming have said no thanks. several other states struck deals. take a look at this. utah is paying...

Absolute saddest shutdown photo you will see. erin mcpike, cnn, washington. >> a lot of people effected. >> don't mess with the beer. really. because they can't get the labels approved they can't get their seasonal beers out there. >> small businesses losing money here. the partial government shutdown, of course, or not, utah's five national parks are actually reopening. that's going to happen on saturday because the obama administration is allowing states to use their own money to reopen some of the national parks. so utah is going to pay the national park service $166,000 a day for up to ten...