"america tonight's" sheila macvicar on how the americans from the u.s. mission now find themselves >> even in the seat of america's power, washington, d.c, poverty is a long standing problem on any given night, thousands are in shermts, many lie unsheltered on the streets. there are surprises in d.c.'s homeless story too, having a good job may not be enough to protect these folks and as "america tonight's" lisa fletcher found, they might find themselves much closer to the issue than they thought. >> reporter: around the corner from the nation's most famous residents, charles gladden wakes up before sunrise to the sounds of the morning commute. >> people on your way to work, commuters, when they come into the subway they don't want to look in my direction. they drop their head or turn their head. and you know, like walk past and then hurry up down the stairs or on the escalator. >> reporter: gladden is one of nearly 8,000 homeless people living in the nation's capital. he spends most nielts nights outside this downtown metro station. >> i sleep two blocks

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>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >>> in our fast-forward segment - sparking fear when a train of crude derailed and created an explosion, it reignited a deadly derailment explosion that obliterated a town in canada. it was filled with crude as the north dakota explosion. sheila macvicar looks at the bolt of cargo travelling through north america. >> one of my captain's summed it up the best saying "this is like driving into hell", and it was. >> reporter: this firefighter joch. >> trees, benches, park benches burnt. everything. there was no noise except for the burning oil. >> the fire caused a mile-long train carrying north dakota crude derailed and exploded, killing 47 people, including five whose bodies were never found. the crude came from here. the oil fields of north dakota, ground zero. a lack of infrastructure spurred the rail roads to create pipeline on wheels, oil unit trains with over 100 tanksers, hauling up to 3 million gallons of crude at a time. with so much oil moving over the railways, the united states already has had some close calls. [ sir

a first look at "compass", with sheila macvicar, friday on >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. >>> a final word on the sounds of change. with the city on edge after so many night of unrest baltimore tried to hit the right note. [ ♪♪ ] >>> the baltimore symphony orchestra held a free imprompt u conference hoping to ease the tensions after the death of freddie gray. that's the podium of a leader keen to make a difference. adam may cues up the story in baltimore. [ ♪♪ ] >> reporter: the power of marran sneaks up on you, the music conductor of the baltimore symphony is the first female to lead an orchestra. maestro allsop is considered one of the world's best conductors. baton. she uses the tool to help the audience' imagination take flying, she down to earth. >> classical music became extreme in terms of you are not supposed to clap, to cough. there's so many thing

. >> a lot of people say it is our generalations agent orange >>> "america tonight"s sheila macvicar on the dangers concealed in flames. >>> thank for joining us, i'm joie chen. as memorial day approaches we consider the sacrifices of our veterans, we be given with veterans from iraq and afghanistan. those that have physical wounds of war and life-long psychological scars. there is concern that the military should recognise their wounds from poisons they were exposed to in the line of duty. "america tonight"'s sheila macvicar vets what many believe will be the toxic legacy of iraq and afghanistan. >> i have lost a lot. i don't like being like this. >> reporter: 35-year-old antony thornton suffers a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer. >> i could not tell you my wife's middle name or my daughter's. name. >> reporter: doctors had to take out part of his brain, his left temporal lobe. he has trouble speaking and can't read, and has trouble keeping up with his 3-year-old daughter. thornton believes he was sick from tox jips he was ex -- toxins he was exposed to while serving his cou

a first look at "compass", with sheila macvicar, friday on "america tonight". >> 50 and broke. i live with the consequences every day. >> harsh realities. >> i did two tours in iraq, when i came back i couldn't find a job. >> fighting to survive. >> bein' a man and can't put my family in a home that they deserve... that's a problem for me. >> hard earned pride. hard earned respect. hard earned future. a real look at the american dream. "hard earned". sunday, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> part of our month long look at working in america. "hard earned". just because i'm away from my desk doesn't mean i'm not working. comcast business understands that. their wifi isn't just fast near the router. it's fast in the break room. fast in the conference room. fast in tom's office. fast in other tom's office. fast in the foyer [pronounced foy-yer] or is it foyer [pronounced foy-yay]? fast in the hallway. i feel like i've been here before. switch now and get the fastest wifi everywhere. comcast business. built for business. >>> a final word on the sounds of change. with th

"america tonight's" sheila macvicar on how the americans from the u.s. mission now find themselves abandoned. that's next week on "america tonight". just because i'm away from my desk doesn't mean i'm not working. comcast business understands that. their wifi isn't just fast near the router. it's fast in the break room. fast in the conference room. fast in tom's office. fast in other tom's office. fast in the foyer [pronounced foy-yer] or is it foyer [pronounced foy-yay]? fast in the hallway. i feel like i've been here before. switch now and get the fastest wifi everywhere. comcast business. built for business. >> even in the seat of america's power, washington, d.c poverty is a long standing problem on any given night thousands are in shermts many lie unsheltered on the streets. there are surprises in d.c.'s homeless story too having a good job may not be enough to protect these folks and as "america tonight's" lisa fletcher found they might find themselves much closer to the issue than they thought. >> reporter: around the corner from the nation's most

. >>> more on our >>> on "america tonight" - a >>> "america tonight"s sheila macvicar with a look at the shocking conditions facing some of the most loyal defenders of america. and making work pay. the high price facing low income workers. >> we are saying rite here in the united states -- right here in the united states all kind of workers are sweated. an aspect of being sweated is being robbed of your wages. >>> it's called wage theft - how employers are getting away with it the christopher putzel found it's happening all around us. >>> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. making work pay. now, you wouldn't think that would be a problem, but across the country there has been a buzz since the "new york times" uncovered the short changing of manicurists in salons. this type of wage theft has been found in many other work places and cost workers $80 million. in new york governor como launched a clampdown on wage abuse. but christopher putzel uncovers the unpaid work of others. >> translation: i imagined the u.s. to be a free and democratic country. i expected to see money everywhere.

sheila macvicar on why more isn't done to protect them >>> a sweet deal sinks, why florida lawmakers soured on a deal that could be key to saving the everglades. that's on aljazeera.com/americatonight. >>> in our fast-forward segment - viva los angeles 41 million tourists pouring into sin city, many had cabs to services. then uber came in, and the competition is trying to slam on the breaks. >> reporter: not one now taxi company has opened in las vegas since 1991. if mr swarts has his way, uber will not. >> uber is unsafe. >> swarts owns three cab companies, 20% of the market share, and says uber doesn't have to comply with the same rules he must, involving things like car maintenance, background checks. uber likes to say that they are a technology company, rather than a transportation company. do you buy na? >> i don't guy that at all. they are a transportation company. they should comply with the same set of rules. uber came into the state and violated the law. >> reporter: uber is used to getting its way, legal or not. it's rolled into 41 states, 300 cities world wide. many arguin

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> what happened in baltimore, the death of freddy gray after he was apparently injured in police custody and the riots that followed exposed the injustice and inquts inequities of those living if poverty. researchers found it is a cycle almost impossible to escape. ing dreams deferred from adam may. >> drug dealing shooting poverty. >> kwan finch is talking about his childhood home. >> what's baltimore? the corner, was pretty much my neighborhood write where i grew up on. >> the corner was an hbo mini series, of a west baltimore neighborhood, plagued by open air drug dealing and violence. >> i hate to say it, i wouldn't raise a dog in that town. >> ed kline grew up in pig town, which for decades had some of the highest crime and poverty rates in the city. >> my mother was a single mother on welfare. we had no money. >> you lived on welfare? >> my mother never worked, the only job she had was selling dope. that was it. the things my mom let me do -- >> what was that? >> sold dope at the age of eight. >> eight years old? >> we s

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> we don't have the mentality to pay taxes. >> our taxes are not being put to good use. >> this is not just now, it is a legacy. left from our parents. >>> in greece's current mess a lot has been made of the tax evasion, the government is so desperate for cash, it's cracking down on lower income professionals. most greek teachers give private tutoring lessons to supplement their salary. i met a science teacher, with 30 years teaching. he said teachers are paid such low ages they can't pay taxes and support families on the salaries they earn. explain to me how it works in teaching. when you teach in the school, your salary is recorded and you must pay tax on that. when you tute or outside of school how does that work. >> translation: in most houses we get 10 euro for kid per hour per lesson. if you declare it and are taxed 30%, nothing is left. >> most of the work done off the books doesn't get declared. >> all of it is under the table, as we say, and is a necessity. >> what can the government do if it's trying to get everybody

as sheila macvicar found in here investigation of texas's guardianship system. it can be the first step to isolation, and the end of control of our own lives. >> reporter: which doctor is this now? >> this was their doctor. >> reporter: dorothy's life changed forever with a knock on her door. >> they said this will take about 3 minutes. >> reporter: they were a couple of attorneys, and it was the beginnings of the end of dorothy's freedoms to make her own decisions. first a deposition and a doctor's report saying luck 82 at the time was partially incapacitated, incapable of making cop plex financial decisions. next a judge appointed a lawyer to represent luck in court, a guardian and another to handle her assets. at the time close to $2 million. >> i was not allowed to vote. to marry. to contract. to have my own money. to give gifts. >> reporter: you were under guardianship. >> yes. >> reporter: how would you describe it? >> i would describe it as tyranny, gestapo. >> luck was a ward of the state, one of 1300 in texas, deemed unable to make the most basic decisi

. >> "america tonight"s sheila macvicar is with us. it seems clear from the community's stand point that the location makes burlington an unsuitable place for the aircraft. why would it be the choice the first flays that the national guard -- place that the national guard. >> to be clear, not the entire community is complaining. some think it's a good idea. there has been some lobbying going on and a lot of people are looking to vermont, powerful senators, senator patrick lay hi as someone who is lobbying hard and for his home national guard. >> what is it clear what the deaners would be from the air -- dangers would be from the coding on the aircraft. does it come up if there's a crash? >> we know from one person who worked on developing the f1-17 a. that they were required to wear full body containment suits when they were working, when the plane was cold. it had not been in the air, was not involved in a crash, there was no fire. the pentagon is secretive about the stealth holding, the composite and glues, but we know from some pape

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >>> when it comes to engaging inequality in america, some of the widest gaps come down to geography. the measure of america compared average well being to americans and broke down the data to the level of congressional districts. the wider gaps occurred. researchers gave the 18th congression 52 ranked out of 10. well being in some is ranked out of 10. the gap between the two districts is the widest making california the moment unequal state. the well being rankings take into a town average life expectation si, earnings and access. based on the criteria, some of the top congressional districts in terms of wellbeing are metropolitan areas marked in black, like los angeles, new york city, san francisco and washington d.c. bottom districts are rural areas, colours here, and in the south. a co-authored report, "geographies of opportunities", talks about financial districts, and ignoring health and education give misleading saying nools on how people are doing. wealthy districts have better access to health and education, study? >> y

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> welcome back to tech know. you're about to take us on a behind the scenes look at one of your favorite pieces you've done on goggles that can see cancer. >> it must have been an extra treat, because it's featuring a technique in your field. >> i do have a personal connection to the story. the detection method for the cancer uses fluorescents which i did for my p.h.d. let's take a look. >> so the cancer goggle story was about goggles similar tonight vision goggles, but allows surgeons to use infrared to see cancer cells. my thesis title was fluorescents. i studied nicotine dependence looking for something that i was going to help make a difference. the data that came from my experiments will inform drug companies to design better smoking cessation designs. >> the first thing we're going to do is find the lymph node and that fluorescent dye is going to be visible. >> this is a 72-year-old woman who noticed a lurch and had a biopsy that she'd breast cancer. today we're going to do a lumpectomy and biopsy. where's

to sheila macvicar. >> from an early age sarah wolf has been defying expectations. sarah was born with down syndrome. >> what do you want people to know about you? >> i'm a fit person, i like to know that people have a good heart. >> sarah has college credits works at a law firm, is on several boards of directors and is a gifted public speaker. >> we treat sarah like everybody else in this family. >> her father dennis wolf said the family decided from the start not to let sarah's condition define her. >> do you have to advocate? do you advocate for any child. if you don't get involved in that in the very beginning it's not going to work for anybody. so you have -- my wife made that commitment. you know, she really did -- she worked hard, very hard. but she got it done. >> okay. >> there was never a sense that sarah was in any way unable to do something. she just did it. >> hey todd. >> how are you? >> how are you. >> todd o'malley is sarah's boss. o'malli offered her first job after school. >> she needed something to do. to me it was a natural to have her come down

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america [ ♪♪ ] >>> bnt deficits, bailouts, broken governments - we are not talking about greece. you need go no further an washington d.c. to see serious government dysfunction, a constitutional mandate is to pass a budget setting out the spending priorities of the government. we have seen the past fix years avoiding fiscal cliffs and government shutdowns and imposing sebbing which is tryings. it's a stupid name for a stupid idea. automatic across the board spend gs cuts because the lawmakers cannot agree on a budget. these are the topics we discussed. president obama's director from the office of management and budget. we met last week at the conference in los angeles, where business leaders and policy makers gathered to shmooze and talk. i asked donovan how hopeful he is. they can move beyond partisan politics. this is what he told me. >> the thing that was the low point in the budget was sequestration. this was a process is designed to make cuts so stupid, to effect. >> it was a poison pill. >> exactly, and it was a poison pill th

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sheila macvicar, al jazeera fort worth text. >> and you can see more of sheila macvicar's report on "america tonight" tonight at 10:00 eastern time. >>> now to a show of military might in russia. massive air defense drill. russia says even bigger exercises are on the way barbara serra is here with that, barbara. >> amid perceived threats by russia, in the days since russia's military has begun large scale drills in siberia. all of this is concerning to russia's neighbors which lack the military might of the much larger country. in our next hour we're going to be joined by the foreign minister of latvia. should russia make a more imposing move. the country relies heavily on moscow for trade and has a large russian speaking population all of which puts it in a bit of a tight spot. john. >> thank you barbara,. >> the museum of biblical art will close its doors in june. despite its success the museum has had struggles with funding. randall pinkston has the story. >> it is a breathtaking collection, 23 works of art three by donnatello, considered the greatest sculptor of the renaissance. a

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>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> a liar and a cheat. those are just some of the charges that sports fans are now applying to new england patriots quarterback tom brady, the winner of this year's super bowl and a sport icon is getting hammered in a be controversy known as deflate-gate. a 240 page report commissioned by the nfl, indicates brady was probably aware that equipment managers were lower the inflation rate of footballs. deflation would have made it easier snore a quarterback to grip and accurately throw a football and it's a violation of rules. before the super bowl brady denied any wrongdoing and last night he appeared at an event in salem, massachusetts and basically punted. he said he hadn't had time to digest the report, had not detracted from his joy in winning. reporter jim gray asked brady, why not? brady responded with this. >> because we earned and achieved everything we got this year as a tale and i'm very proud of that and our fans should be, too. >> we are joined from connecticut by espn reporter jim trotter who cove

. >> compass with sheila macvicar >> compass will challenge the way you look at the world >> a different look at foreign affairs >> talking about big subjects >> first hand... >> telling human stories >> giving you a real look at the world today. desperate, hungry and risking it all... >> these people wanna get as far away as they can >> the migrant crisis sweeping europe, are governments turning their backs on those that need help the most? >> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america we are on the trail investigating how walmart's supply chain works here in bangladesh. does the company know when its orders are being subcontracted? is the way they source their clothing- the system itself -flawed? the garment industry is notoriously secretive, so we needed an insider. we're on our way to meet an auditor. he was hired by wal-mart to assess standards at some of its factories. it's very rare for auditors to speak on the record and he doesn't want to speak to us on camera. so we recorded the conversation secretly in bangladesh, government regulation of garment factories is lax,

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>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> the new al jazeera america primetime. get the real news you've been looking for. at 7:00, a thorough wrap-up of the day's events. then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective on the news. weeknights on al jazeera america. >>> welcome back to "inside story". in many ways, the long u.s. embargo has made the 90 miles between florida and havana seem further. most people couldn't get on a jet and head to cuba because of a travel ban, but two exceptions were academics and artists. daphne reed is an activist travelling for years, and silvia, a professor of sociology and american culture at the university of mish gan. thank you for being with us. daphne reed, you were a privileged american that could go down and visit the island. why was it interesting for you to go. why did you want to go. what did you expect to find, and what did you find? >> i was really excited about going because of the afro cuban culture. i was interested in exploring that. their architecture

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america welcome back. every have one of those nights that you surf through 800 channels only to proclaim nothing is on. it made big news this year when it announced it's internet television service said to capture viewers that are looking for an alternative. and a couple of cable outlets and the rest you will add a la carte. is this the beginning of the end of traditional cable? and what does it mean. who won't be carries on internet television at all. the senior editor of a tech block that covered consumer electronics called in gadget and rutger as senior writer -- dish unveiling it's new internet t.v. apparently sony has something similar in the works is this the beginning of the end. >> this is the first time we have seen a service that is designed for the internet that has the popular content that people are used to. >> so what is the advantage of senate how do you sell it to consumers? does it just come down to price? >> i don't think that's the big get for this. you can have it without somebody comin

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america ♪ >>> guys, welcome back to "techknow." ." i am phil torres. so, kyle, you went to vegas to sources. >> right. so, a we pollute the earth, people are going to want sources. i weren't to the deserts in nevada to check out a 600 foot tower with 10,000 mirrors and a bunch of molten salt. let's check it out. >> with its glitz, glamor and endless gambling, los angeles sits at the crossroads of conspicuous consumption and limited resources. 90% is unnon-renewable sources. but they are betting on a new energy source thanks to the sun. in the nevada desert, there is no shortage of two things: land and sunshine. the perfect combination for solar reserves to set up the first of its kind, solar and storage generating plant. >> every once in a while you will read an article that is if only you could store energy. you can do that actually. we can do that now. >> before the crescent dune downs project, the biggest challenges were storage and scaleability. using molten salt as a storage medium, solar reserve found a way to capture and hold s

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> earlier in the program you heard frank bruni talk about the disorks of process of securing a place in american higher education. bruni suggests that a lot more goes into where you go to college. i am joined here, that the casual dismissal of an i'vey league education is misguided. welcome to the program. does it matter where you go to school? >> hi ray, glad to be here. absolutely, for a large cross section of the society especially women especially minorities, where you go to school makes a huge difference. at least to give you the first leg up in life. absolutely, what you end up doing, your final successes depends on your tenacity . id certainly depends on luck and determination as well, but where you go to school is very important to that first step towards success. >> yet you agree don't you the kind of arms race it has had on high school juniors and seniors that there are too much anxiety around the process ? >> i think there's definitely anxiety around the process, but i think telling vulnerable high schoolers that

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america ♪ >> very good to have your company. i'm david foster. this is the al jazeera news hour live from london. in the next 60 minutes saudi arabia closes schools cancels flights in part of the country of yemen the shelling much houthi fighters. >>> we talk to migrants rescued from this dinghy. >>> and hundreds of nigerian

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> i'm joie chen you're watching "talk to al jazeera". our guest is classical superstar lang lang. >> you do quite a bit of work with young people very young talents, who are also interested in piano, and also want to be like lang lang, i guess. is that possible? particularly here in the west. i know in asia it's different. you're still a rock star. do you imagine a moment where classical music will have that kind of rock-star status in america? >> it depends. i mean, the - that - actually that doesn't really matter whether it feels like rock star in america or not. because what i'm thinking about is just - there's no music class in public schools here. and that's - that's really kind of - from day one, when i arrive in '97. my high school didn't have music class. >> and that surprised you? >> yeah. so, i'm like, "what!" wow, in china every school has a music class, at least. >> of course. >> you know? and i'm like why in america? i mean, this is, you know, considered to be the superpower. and doesn't have a music class? i me

. ♪ with sheila macvicar >> compass will challenge the way you look at the world >> a different look at foreign affairs >> talking about big subjects >> first hand... >> telling human stories >> giving you a real look at the world today. desperate, hungry and risking it all... >> these people wanna get as far away as they can >> the migrant crisis sweeping europe, are governments turning their backs on those that need help the most? >> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america ♪ hello again, the top stories on al jazeera, human backed talks on negotiations to end the conflict in syria are underway in geneva u.n. envoy staffan de mistura will meet government and rebel representatives as well as regional players. saudi arabia is speaking with coalition members about a temporary hold in air strikes so humanitarian aid can get in neighboring yemen but jets hit several airports across the country including a cargo plane in sanaa. burundi constitutional court has cleared the president to run for a third term. a peace deal that ended a 12-year civil war this 2005 states a pr

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america ♪ >>> hello again you are with the news hour from al jazeera. adrian finighan here in doha. saudi arabia has been forced to close all schools in the border region with yemen. >>> u.n. backed talks on negotiations to end the conflict in syria are underway in geneva. the u.n. envoy is to meet with representatives over the course of the next few weeks. >>> and dozens of israeli soldiers who fought in gaza last year have been given frank testimonies about the tactics used during the 50-day complain. it describes a policy of indiscriminate fire that lead to the deaths of innocent sieve yals. in riyadh the saad di king announced the establishment of a center to humanitarian aid. >> translator: after the operation achieved its goals, we hope the new operation, renewal of hope can [ inaudible ] parties to engage in dialogue. this will be only achieved through the imimmediate implication of revolution number 2216. >> joining us now is [ inaudible ] thank you for being with us sir. what do you make of this promise by king salmon to set up

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> "inside story" takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the sound bites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". weeknights, 11:30 eastern. on al jazeera america. >> hello again, welcome back, to al jazeera. two men are dead and a security guard is wounded outside a cultural center in being temp, a bomb squad robot is also checking on the suspects' carr. hundreds of migrants have just arrived in the sicilian port of posalo over the past 48 hours as they try reach europe. and thousands of people from the african israeli community protested in tel aviv. tensions rose when the footage of a jewish ethiopian soldier ehe merged last week. >>> the u.s. military have denied that u.s. air strikes killed at least 52 syrianing citizens. seven children died in the coalition air strikes. syrian government forces have been accused of using chlorine gas in idlib province for third time this week. paul treadian has the details. >> in northweste

>> compass with sheila macvicar only on al jazeera america >> sunday on "hard earned". losing control. >> 50 and broke. i live with the consequences every day. >> harsh realities. >> i did two tours in iraq, when i came back i couldn't find a job. >> fighting to survive. >> bein' a man and can't put my family in a home that they deserve... that's a problem for me. >> hard earned pride. hard earned respect. hard earned future. a real look at the american dream. "hard earned". sunday, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> part of our month long look at working in america. "hard earned". >>> rounding out the top stories on al jazeera. austria's chancellor called for an eu-wide quota to accommodate people reaching europe's southern shores. 8600 have been rescued in three days. >>> rescuers in knee pap find more and more bodies as they reach areas cut off by last month's earthquake. in one village people were buried by an avalanche. >>> saudi arabia says it's considering a truce to allow humanitarian aid to reach the country. >>> now to burundi. the red cross said th

oncompass with sheila macvicar we trail it from mexico into the united states. it's something he would not consider carefully, where the drug it coming from. >> it didn't use to come from mexico. that makes the drug cheaper, easier to get to the united states and u.s. officials are overwhelmed in the amount of material that is being moved, the amount of material coming into the country. the people that were selling heroin know where the market is and know that their markets are in mostly small towns. towns like west virginia. >> martinsburg, west virginia coming into small communities, places that we thought were fairly insulated. >> well according to a study published in the journal of american medicine the average hero wix, h 23, and living in a suburb. that is a dramatic change of of the epidemic of 20 years ago. but it is killing at an astonishing rate. 2013, 23 people died because of heroin every day in this country. >> 23. >> every day. >> and the trend is going up. it is not an epidemic that is slowing done. it is an epidemic at the soul of america. >> it