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>> while drugs like marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, abuse of another substance is rapidly filling up jail beds. >> the prescription medication and some of the pill mill problem down in florida making their way up the i-75 corridor into this region has been very problematic. >> joe smithson and john carol, both from rural kentucky, have been charged with a litany of crimes which think say all stem from their addictions to prescription drugs. >> hill billy crack. >> just like heroin, but, you know, stick it up your nose. >> carroll has been sentenced to five years for theft and g...

More americans die each year from prescription drug abuse than from heroin and cocaine combined. according to florida's attorney general, pam bondi, seven people die every day in the state of florida from prescription drug abuse. and while large operations like this one have continued to exist, florida is beginning to put a dent in the pill mill problem. that's being reflected in prices on the state. a tablet of oxycodone now fetches as much as $80. that has created, though, an ironic problem. some addicts who can no longer afford to buy prescription drugs on the street are turning back to tra...

Operation. the investigation began about 18 months ago, it started in vero beach and branched out from there. and one of the most troubling aspects is that the masterminds of this alleged pill mill operation are two firefighters. yes, firefighters from pompano beach. this operation is huge. >> thousands of prescriptions, maybe in the tens of thousands of prescriptions, maybe many and, obviously, pills in the hundreds of thousands, maybe even the millions. and these are pills that are not only going to addicts directly, they're also going to traffickers who are taking these pills up into other ...

There are countless, countless examples of this. there are homes impacted, i am absolutely not prepared to release the number. we do not know the number. it is an active fire and not remotely close to being contained. reporter: the big problem is the heat and the wind. the wind is moving westward. that is a big problem and it was a problem last night. this is interstate 25, a major corridor for the united states. it was closed in both directions last night because it was overtaken with smoke. then you move over here in dc on my right -- you see on my right 2000 people evacuated, you can see ne...

Increasingly irrelevant political conventions or a harsh comment that to some as a political liability? >> i think senator mccaskill deserves more credit than a lot of senators for being frank. that is and her style, and i enjoyed it. gregg: it is rare. >> she is a symbol of the problems that brought obama's going to have with state and voters read more moderate voters that he did not have in 2008. something like missouri, which was a .1 loss for him, a very slim swing state. it is it's going to be very tough for him. almost out of the question that mccaskill is having this much trouble. as ju...