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To sell back home. today it's basically empty. we spoke to six different business owners in this area who told us since the sanctions went into effect, business has plummeted. though none of them would talk to us on camera for fear of wading into a sensitive issue. to be clear, trade is still happening. we still see trucks loaded down with goods arriving from north korea and the president recently told reuters china could still be doing more to curb pyongyang's ambition. one example, tackle smuggling still rampant all along the border. in september, we saw illegal north korean seafood being so...

Do i think that they are sincere in their desire to denuclearize the peninsula? absolutely not. russia is a classic example along with china as a nation acting in its own best interest. russia offer to step in and assist for their own reasons. part of the reason is -- it is for their own good. >> leah: i should point out that china looks like it is enforcing sanctions according to china's own customs data. we'll see about that. >> that's a very good point. happy holidays. >> jon: prices at the pump could be on the rise. we'll tell you what's behind a spike in oil prices coming up. plus three u...

In the first month and a half as they did on average during the month and a half last year. >> twice as many, wow. >> increasing. yeah. >> talk about the bill and what it does. >> well, what's unusual about the fentanyl as compared to heroin which comes over land, from mexico, fentanyl comes in the mail, mostly from china. we are told by law enforcement officials, sometimes from inld ya. so these are chemists in laboratories in china putting this in the mail and sending it into our communities. so to keep this poison out of the communities, we're trying to come up with ways to be able to ident...

You do business? >> it's not affecting the way you do business now. we saw it start to go up. we got several doses of it. and a supply to -- so that we can respond when we need to. >> reporter: thank you so much for talking to us. we appreciate it. kate, what they're telling us over and over again, this is an epidemic that's affecting every zip code here. it's not a specific part of this county. so certainly a story that we will continue to cover. kate, back to you. >> absolutely. we've been covering it for years unfortunately and we will continue to, thank you so much. the fight to keep some ...