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Community. ultimately as we've talked about before, this is about reducing demand. and unfortunately, that is increasing right now which is a more difficult problem that congress is also attempt to address legislation until the last several months. but this small bill, the stop act, is very important. and it is bipartisan, amy and i introduced it today. we're hoping to get it through very quickly in committee and get it to the floor. and get it passed. it's also been iroduced on the house side. we have a an job bill there as well. >> before i let you go, i have to ask you about the news of the...

And that's what i heard yesterday from the folks in dait season they had that information, it would much more successful in targeting the suspicious packages and trying to keep some of this terrible poison out of our communities. >> does that sort of mean that we the u.s. postal service is relies on china and india to tell us what's in the packages? a cynic would say, would that really work? >> yeah, well, it will work to the extent that the package is going to the right place. if you don't say where it's going,not going to go there. that helps. with regard to what's in it, you're right, there...

Introduced this, it's called synthetic tracking and overdose prevention act. nice to see you again. >> thank you. >> talk about the purpose of this bill. i hadn't realized what can get through the u.s. postal system without really being checked. >> yeah. kate, what gabe was talking about in louisville is happening around the country. i was indayton, ohio, where i had a silar story, but you notice gabe mentioned fent nol, not just heroin, what gabe will tell us, what you have reported on so well is changing. that the fentanyl is coming in, synthetic form of heroin and other synthetics. it's som...

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 ...