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Billions wasted as livesaving meds are literally thrown away. Patients are paying the price. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. President obama has made his move and is tonight locked into had a highstakes staredown contest with Senate Republicans over the future of the Supreme Court. The president has nominated federal Appeals Court judge Merrick Garland regard as a moderate to replace the late conservative justice the late antonin scalia, but even as the president warned against braintree split...

Greatest honor of my life other than leanne agreeing to marry me 28 years ago. Reporter one of his two daughters missed the moment, hiking in the mountains. Out of cell service range when the president called. Reporter grandson of russian immigrants garland grew up in chicago. My name is merrick garland. Reporter as a federal prosecutor he led the team that brought Oklahoma City bomber Timothy Mcveigh to trial. Ononhe bench hes been a moderate voting to uphold environmental laws but often tough on criminals. Ideologically merricicgarland is in the center, maybe a little bit to the left. He see...

[ applause ] thank you very much for that, pat. That was very inspiring to think about health as being much bigger than health kcare and trying to find the solutions to get us there. Now we are going to turn to avic roy who has just returned from his money moon. Hes the opinion editor at forbes. He has an interesting back glund includes both medicine and finance. Hes a leading conservative change agent and a sought after president ial campaign advisor. Hes currently advising senator marco rubio and has previously advised rick perry and mitt romney. Hes the principal author of the apothecary, t...

Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff afghanistans military fought today to take back a provincial capital, the first major city captured by the taliban in 14 years. The militants stormed kunduz yesterday, in a major setback to the government. Today, afghan troops and militiamen launched a counter offensive, with u. S. Air support, and a promise of ...

Hepatitis c, diabetes and oncology are the primary drivers of the spending growth. Prescription growth is 1. 2 for the year. That is a substantial reduction from last year. The primary effect is the rescheduling of hydrocodone to more restrictive schedule which cut that market by 30 . And also you have more chronic care prescriptions are 90day prescriptions. 75 is on specialists. You cant look at that market here or everywhere around the World Without talking specialty. And next year we expect crestor to go off. So these are whats driving spending growth. You can see hepatitis at the top follo...