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Doubled worldwide since 2003. in north america, sales have tripled. in 2013 nearly 20 billion wipes were sold and 9 billion of them were in the moist toilet tissue category. many of them are marketed as flushable. and they are. pull the lever and it disappears. but it does go somewhere. >> every bit of water, when it goes somewhere, it comes here. >> that's right. >> reporter: in new york city where toilets are flushed 10 million times every single day, whatever you send down the toilet ends up here. at one of the city's 14 waste water treatment plants. we visited the largest in north brooklyn...

Them more difficult to rake and remove. they just get into these big knots. >> why is this more problematic for your system, the sewage system here and across the country than just toilet paper? >> toilet paper is tree pulp, it is organic, it falls apart, it gets absorbed. ? the treatment process we have a digestion system that breaks down organizics. these are synthetic and plastic based. they don't break down, we have to physically remove them and that is an extra cost that we didn't anticipate years ago. >> a lot of them are being advertised as flushable, right? >> they are flushable to the...

Senator lipped say graham called for investigation calling them the taliban dream team it. this is surrounding the controversy of the release of sergeant bergdahl. he was held by the taliban five years in captivity. and in a return the u.s. flowed these five guys. they were held in guantanamo bay and the pentagon gave us an update to bergdahl's condition. >> sergeant bergdahl is in stable condition and receiving treatment for conditions that require hospitalization. part of that treatment process includes attention to doitary nutrition needs after bottom five years in captivity. >> new questio...

People. it wasn't about tom being on the set, being the famous guy that everybody knew from nbc news. so i think in that regard he probably loathes the fact that this has finally become public, all these months after he's been dealing with it privately. but he will do what he always does, which is soldier on, be the graceful, elegant man who lives in gratitude as he express thad inn that statement that you shared. honestly that will be important for him as he goes through this treatment process. there's every reason to believe it tom will be able to beat this. there is so much good work going ...

Attending physician in the bronx, dr. patti. what is the process? >> it's a complicated one. for the people who respond at the scene, jenna, they need to first secure the area and make sure that it's contained prior to allowing the first responders to go in and administer first aid and get these injured ancic people out. then once they get them out, and they do a triage process where they decide who is serious, who needs to be transported immediately, and who could probably be treated as a safe tree age area that they set there up at the scene, removed from the danger zone, then they'll start ...