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It's more seizures, more arrests and more overdoses. one high level drug official described heroin as a monster you can't kill. it has always been lurking. it has never gone away. the question, how did it get here? you have to go back to the 1990s when columbian drug traffickers began flooding the city with high purity, low priced heroin. instead of $100,000 a kilo. it went to $60,000 a kilo. it made it much cheaper for people to buy. it was much purer. 60%, 70%, 80% more pure, compared to the old stuff which was just 6%. it now costs between 6 and $10 a packet. >> wow. what you're getting is ...

Do not change how they prescribe antibiotics, the world could be in for serious trouble. our senior national correspondent john roberts live in atlanta where the cdc has the headquarters. what about this. >> we have been talking about this for a long time. the president bush keeps getting worse and the centers for disease control is issuing an urgent warning about the proliferation of dangerous bacteria that even the most powerful drugs can't kill. they have for the first time calculated the effecteds of nasty bacteria. every year in the united states 2 million people are made sick by antibiot...

I just hope that they find it in their hearts to forgive me and to maybe do research on people who have addictions. so they can see how their addiction takes over their lives. >> well, one of the women who escaped castro's house of horrors also speaking in court. here's michelle knight. >> ariel castro, i remember all the times that you came home talking about what everybody else did wrong and act you wasn't doing the same thing. you said at least i didn't kill. you took 11 years of my life away. and i have got it back. i spent 11 years in hell. now your hell is just beginning. i will overcome...

[ inaudible ] i just hope that they find it in their hearts to forgive me and to maybe do research on people who have addictions. so they can see how their addiction takes over their lives. >> well, one of the women who escaped castro's house of horrors also speaking in court. here's michelle knight. >> ariel castro, i remember all the times that you came home talking about what everybody else did wrong and act you was doing the same thing. you said at least i didn't kill. you took 11 years of my life away. and i have got it back. i spent 11 years in hell. now your. hechlt ll is just beginning...

Therefore, she was -- very scared. >> reporter: this day of judgment started with knox's emotional plea in court to be freed. her voice shaking so much the judge told her she could sit if necessary. she said, i am paying with my life for something that i didn't do. i didn't kill. i didn't rape. i insist, after four years, after four hopeless years, my innocence. i want to go home. i want to go back to my life. i deserve freedom. knox was taken back to the prison where she was greeted with cheers from those inside. she has become quite popular with inmates in that prison. she said her good-byes...