you have nowhere kids in the colorado schools smoking weed than cigarettes. and you have the minority of high school juniors in high school is a good thing. >> what about the children, the >> as the industry grows, do you think that the industries providing the drug have a responsibility? mario, are we promoting profit over responsibility here? if we normalize and promote and advertise what is still an illegal drug to children, are there going to be negative consequences here? >> i would not draw the distinction between cannibus and alcohol. i don't hear anyone calling for the legalization of alcohol to protect children, and i don't think that cannibus is a less dangerous drug than alcohol. the problem is not cannibus. the problem is out of control use. which is a problem for a minority of cannibus users as well as a minority of alcohol users. what we should be doing is getting kids ready to control their own behavior. it's a much harder task than telling them to just say no. so i don't think that it takes us very far, and on the other hand, i think that the

the regulations in colorado are changing on a daily, weekly basis. it's one of the things that they're doing really well there. they're constantly refining the regulations to keep tight control over the industry as it transforms from an area of prohibition to a legal market. >> but as a business owner, it's so hard, right? some of the people we talked to said this was legal yesterday and it's not legal today. i have to change my logo. i have to move this. change my packaging. how do you keep on top of everything that's happening? >> well, so we have an internal legal team and external legal team and we have people focused on lobbying and staying in contact with the regulatory boards to ensure that everything we do complies with local and federal regulations. >> what do you say to people who want to jump into this industry? >> in some ways it's exciting. i'm a entrepreneur as well as a lawyer. this is the ultimate entrepreneurial experiment. entrepreneurs love to be nimble and they love to have to react quickly, so it's right for innovation, which is

god bless you all, plus colorado. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> c are some of our featured programs for this weekend on the c-span networks in his 1st state of the state address bill walker talked about the state's state's shortfall for by the recent drop in oil prices. his 40 minute speech comes to us courtesy of kgo tv. >> thank you. thank you very much. president kevin meyer, speaker, lieutenant governor members of the legislature members of the next my fellow alaskans it is in order to stand before you. i am humbled to serve alaska is your government and you have my pledge that i will always put alaska 1st. i will forever be ready to work with anyone shares this value. tonight. tonight i deliver the state of the state address. this is a rare privilege to which i have so much to my family. i want to begin by recognizing my 1st lady of 37 years and now alaska's 1st lady ms. donna walker. [applause] [applause] has as all of you who have met her know she is one amazing, smart lady who truly has a servant's heart

the people of colorado have made a decision. fi have stated the founders of this nation have always intended states to be laboratories of democracy. colorado is deep in the heart of the laboratory right now. >> i want to ask you a question about the economy. there was a report that 600,000 jobs in the last two months unemployment down, we are the envy of the world. is there any danger congress will screw it up? >> never underestimate the ability of congress to screw something up. we have to make sure we change that so that does not become the norm. i'm excited about the numbers. the labor participation rate remains where it was, meaning there are many americans out of the work horse who have given up for work. -- workforce who have given up looking for work. the key to the economy, and this is part of the people who voted for our campaign independents and democrats who voted for cory gardner, they have been working harder than ever. maybe they have two jobs. maybe they're looking for a second job with they are working harder tha

we have no plans to sue colorado. i know others are concerned about that and the -- that is as of today. >> next question. >> yeah. >> the concern for some are, we have a colorado law that's in contrary to a federal law. that's not being enforced. there's issues there that need to be resolved. i expect over time they will be. >> there's a question. >> what are the chances you would run for president in 2016? >> you want statistical chances? one in 20,000. i don't know. that's off the top of my head. i think it's nil. i do think you should ask the question of governor herbert. [ laughter ] i have seen a lot of the republican candidates and personally -- - [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> an endorsement from a democrat is really going to help me. if his is nil, mine are less than nil. >> anything else? yeah. >> just one quick question.i pñ you mentioned that a lot of the governors coming in are coming from the pry vac says tore have that experience. it's something you bring as well. are there particular sort of traits or o

colorado is now a year old. things have not gone as smoothly as expected america tonight takes closer look at the ups and downs of the past year. >> a year on pot brought colorado a new breed of millionaires. >> can you tell me what it feels like. >> i am still not used to it. >> a new breed of tourists. >> at least half of the people here all the time are tourists, so the tourism has totally exploded here. >> and a new breed of jobs. >> jake brown got a job writing pot reviews. >> is there a way without breathing it in you have perfected to taste the flavors in. >> it is pretty much just inhaling. >> it is a pot gold rush, and demand for new products is outstripping the supply. >> these products half a million backlog on any given day. >> put the year on pot as colorado has also seen some lows. >> here is inside the palm so inside the palm that's his skin peeling away. >> people cooking up home brews of concentrated pot. are ending up in burn units. kids and adults are o.d.ing on marijuana food. >> i was starti

we have no plans to sue colorado. i know others are concerned about that and the -- that is as of today. >> next question. >> yeah. >> the concern for some are is we have a colorado law that's in contrary to a federal law. that's not being enforced. there's issues there that need to be resolved. i expect over time they will be. >> there's a question. >> what are the chances you would run for president in 2016? >> you want statistical, one in 20,000. that's off the top of my head. i think it's nil. i do think you should ask the question of governor herbert. i have seen a lot of the republican candidates and personally -- [ applause ] >> an endorsement from a democrat is going to help me. if his is nil mine are less than nil. >> anything else? yeah. >> just one quick question. you mentioned that a lot of the governors are coming in are coming from the pry vac says tore have that experience. it's something you bring as well. are there particular sort of traits or organizational abilities that you are looking for as forme

she could get no credit from any bank and all of colorado. quite remarkable purchase finally went east and got some help there. they opened a price war against her. in which they are paying the other companies -- charging the company under the cost of production to try to get her out of coal. in a dramatic moment in 1931 the miners at rocky mount fuel saved the company themselves. they they loaned her half her wages to make a payment. boy, did that draw good press. the way they press represented her helps explain why her ascension as a captain of industry did not serve as an opening wedge for other women. in many cases, this is not exclusively true. in many cases, roche's work at rocky mount and fuel was represented as the work not of a captain of industry, but that of a humanitarian. a social worker. a joan of arc. of the coal fields whose female qualities of compassion, cooperation, healing were expressed in her leadership of rocky mount and fuel, rather than her qualities of organization, efficiency, and command. rocky mountain fuel is con

the colorado rockies, the first state to leltz legalize marijuana just one year ago. it's been in the middle of a pot boom but there's increasing concern about the darker side of those rocky mountain highs. "america tonight's" lori jane gliha finding unintended consequences. >> i really lost track ever reality and project he can tile vomiting in the car. >> you felts you were going to die? >> i said it, 20 times, i'm going to die. >> he never expected to od on marijuana. >> i felt like i got poisoned. >> the 35-year-old father and video game designer said he and his wife parked their little boys with his father while they checked out the pot pavilion. there wasn't expected to be any pot there because it can only be sold at licensed sites. >> 21 and up you can't buy it or smoke it. >> he found a booth that caught his eye. >> it was kind of a willie wonka ka factor. i started eating some chocolates. >> less than an hour later coombs said he became totally disoriented. he asked his wife to take him to the nearest hospital. you know where a hospital is why are you trying

colorado actually had great loss on the books, protecting coal miners. they were just completely ignored by the coal companies and no one could force them to do otherwise. so workers needed through organization to be able to shut down an enterprise to see that the law was obeyed. aggressive policies were not enough -- progressive policies were not enough to promote greater equality. workers had to be empowered through organizations at the point of production. roche would later say, hope to live to see all workers in america organized in unions. she also came to believe that private enterprise carried public obligations. workers and consumers had as great an legitimate and interest in private companies as shareholders did in her view and must have their interest satisfied if justice were to be served and capitalism survive. this was the creed of a labor progressive and strikes in the 1910's created a generation of labor progressives, women and men like roche, who would in the 1930's create the new deal. sometimes historians us see this alliance between pr

newsmakers his next with ken buck of colorado. we look at public opinion of the congress and white house. at a :00, our conversation with janet madea. >> joining us from denver colorado is congressman ken buck. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> joining after questioning is emma and sean, i appreciate your

we begin with a look at colorado, a year on pod. "america tonight" trained our lense on the rocky mountain high state after it legalized pot for recreational use. colorado is in a gold rush, business is booming. there's a concern about the darker side of marijuana. lori jane gliha found that the state faces frightening unexpected consequences. >> i had really, really lost touch with reality and started project il vomiting in the car >> reporter: you thought you would die. >> i said it 20 times "i'm going to die, i'm going to have a heart attack." >> reporter: when jordan took his family to a county fair, he never expected to od on marijuana. the 34-year-old father and video game designer said he and his wife parked the boys about their father and they checked out the exhibition. there wasn't supposed to be pot there, it can only be sold at licensed sites. >> it was 21 and up, you are not allowed to boy or smoke it. >> coombes approached a booth that caught his eye. >> it looked like a willy wonga thing. i was joking saying there's n

. >> i made a documentary about the colorado river when i found out the colorado river, which is an iconic trademark of america doesn't reach its destination, doesn't reach the sea of cortez. a lot of people didn't know that. they didn't know why. seven states use that one water source. when you add things like golf courses and second-home development and all that stuff plus the fact that people need the water to survive, it is a weight. i thought it would be good to do a documentary that illustrates what the deal is. so that is why i did it. >> i want to turn to a clip that is on one of your websites about the colorado river. it is a kind of conversation between you and will ferrell. >> that was supposed to be funny. >> ok. let's of the audience judge. >> the colorado river is one of the most loved and hardest working rivers in the world. but we have overused it. most years, the river dries up even before it reaches the sea. i adding just a small amount of water to the rivers flow, we can help bring life back to the wetlands and marshes in the delta. please, would you join me and raise th

spread to six counties in the southern california and one in the bay area, colorado, as far west aas washington state. all in all many had not had the measles vaccine. growing concern that parents concerns about their children's health had grown. >> so we don't vaccinate our kids. >> reporter: that might shock many parents but holly bloomhart and her husband shannon are part of a growing minority in southern california. >> i think we are very aware of being very organic nongmo, we want to have the healthiest family we can. >> reporter: instead of vaccines they rely on holistic regimens that include chiropractic adjustment. she and her husband own a chiropractic office that cater to parents. the military required she get several vaccines before being deployed. she linked vaccines to illnesses like asthma and add and there were other concerns. >> i started learning that the vaccines had aborted fetal tissue. and cells from insects. >> it has been shown that these matters, military career. but she has no regrets. >> what would happen if nobody vaccinated their kids at all? >> i think we

as a part of a new series, we look back a the colorado's year in pot. >> a year on pot brought colorado a new breed of millionaires. >> can you tell me what it feels like to say million. >> i'm still not used to it. >> a new breed of tourists. >> at least half of the people here are tourists, so the tourism has totally exploded here. >> and a new breed of jobs. >> if i can be a pot reviewer for years to come, that would be amazing. >> jake brown got a job writing pot reviews for the denver post. >> is there a way of breathing it in that you ever perfected to taste the flavors? >> it's pretty much just inhaling. [ laughter ] >> it's a pot gold rush and demand for new products is outstripping supplies. >> the good news is these products literally we had a half million dollars backlog on any given day. >> the year on pot in colorado has also seen lows. >> here's the inside of a palm, right? that's his skin peeling away. >> people cooking up home brews of concentrated pot are ending up in burn units kids and adults are o.d.ing on marijuana sold in food. >> i was starting to convulse and rea

spear. >> i think the gentlelady from colorado. i to ask unanimous consent to insert my statement in the record, that instead of attacking women's access to healtcare, this house should vote for better paychecks for women. >> i am now pleased to yield for purposes of unanimous consent quest, the gentlelady from alabama, ms. sewall. >> i ask unanimous consent to insert my statement in the record that the house should vote for bigger paychecks and better infrastructure instead of constantly attacking women's access to health care. >> i have no pleased to yield for purposes of unanimous consent request the gentleman from california mr. hoffman. >> madam speaker i ask unanimous consent to insert my statement that the house should be voting for better paychecks and infrastructure incident these limitless attacks on women's access to health care. >> i am now pleased to yield for purposes of unanimous consent request, the gentleman from california, the house of caucus chairman, mr. becerra. >> i think the gentlelady for yielding. i want t

and i would invite anyone in the chamber to come to colorado and see what i'm talking about. protecting the lands with wide-open spaces that are a huge driver of economic growth all across the country. they help to sustain the 600 billion-dollar outdoor recreation economy and a lot of those businesses for obvious reasons are headquartered in colorado. the top of the economic benefits, national monuments that is a part of this and a fundamental part of the fabric of the country in our countries history. it is important to preserve these lands for our kids and our grandkids just as our grandparents preserved them for us and it is worth investing money to do that so that the next generation can experience the greatness that all americans feel when they first visit the grand canyon or rocky mountain national park or chimney rock national monument or the everglades. wherever we find the next beautiful or historically significant area that congress or the president decides to protect. this past december we passed a large package of consummate conservation measures into law on a bip

both teams tied at three had to go overtime but it was ryan o'reilly striking first for colorado. flyers cap off the year with another loss at four-three. >>> they call it grand daddy of them all rose bowl, oregon ducks, florida state seminoles, mark is mar yet owe, jameses winston both heisman trophy winners looking to impress before turning pro. festivities kick off with the annual rose parade floats marching band making their way through the streets of pass dean a meanwhile the game itself is underway now. ducks are ahead 11-three. they went for two after the touchdown in the second quarter. out back bowl in tampa, auburn tigers badgers wisconsin trailing by three. it is field gold in the final seconds of the game. we skip to overtime, it is auburn's turn to make a clutch kick. here we go. it is just a few inches off hitting the the cross bar. badgers win, 34-31. michigan state, baylor in action in the good year cotton bowl classic. after falling behind, the spartans put up 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter, that was enough to pull off come back win 42-41. there is mor

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, john said they have prepared for colorado to tighten the faucet. and you know the relationships between the states, very delicate. john? and thank you. the incredibly brave actions of a firefighter caught on his helmet camera as he pulled three young children from a burning home. >> look at that. the hero firefighter battling flames and thick black smoke to rescue the children left alone at home. >> this is why minutes matter when you see the speeding fire truck in your rearview mirror. three weeks ago three children died after firefighters took 13 minutes responding to a house fire. they were up against an identical situation and listen as you can hear what happens when they find out? we have to get inside. where is she? and how is she, ma'am? >> neighbors saw smoke and called 911. and the woman showed up and said the kids are in the apartment alone. ages 1, 3, and 4 years old. and the firefighter james perkin enters and finds two of the children covered and soot and hands them to a window and the colleagues outside. when the mother said there is

green wound in denver colorado. thousands of people stood for hours to celebrate a moment many compared to the end of prohibition. >> i have been waiting four years the 42 years for this day. >> things look very much different in this same parking lot that's because of basic economics. marijuana supply exceeded the demand. >> in colorado marijuana is now as easy to buy as a beer. places like denver's antique row are being squeezed out to make room for what looks more like the green mile. >> it raised the property values. the people's houses and the neighbors are glad we are here, and we have a good rapport. >> legal weed has created 10,000 jobs here, and brought in 60 million-dollars from taxes licenses and fees. >> and waygood portion is coming from a new kind of tourism. a recent denver post poll reveals most of the coloradoian whose voted for it are happy about their decision. a public health department poll finds fewer colorado teens thinks it is a risky drug. >> it is hard to argue that the increased available

we look again to the colorado experience with pot. and how a new industry took route to go up in smoke. >> every monday night, al jazeera america brings you controversial... >> we have to change those things in order to make our own lives better. >> entertaining... >> there was a lot of laughter. >> thought provoking... >> it doesn't change the world but it does influence the way people think. >> surprising... >> no edits! >> exclusive one on one interviews with the most interesting people of our time. >> you're taking me to a place in this interview i haven't been before. >> conversations you won't find anywhere else. "talk to al jazeera". monday 9:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> these people have decided that today they will be arrested >> i know that i'm being surveilled >> people are not getting the care that they need >> this is a crime against humanity >> hands up! >> don't shoot! >> hands up! >> don't shoot! >> what do we want? justice! >> when do we want it? >> now! >> they are running towards base... >>...explosion

>>the state of colorado is profiting immensely off of this. [[vo]] now, we cut through the smoke and find out what's really going on. >>we can show marijuana is leaving colorado. [[vo]] the highs and lows of a year on pot. [[vo]] rock star astronaut chris hadfield. >>everything i've done has been fun stuff. [[vo]] mind-blowing discoveries & >>it's on the edge of impossible. [[vo]] terrifying near-death experiences & >>if it had been higher, it'd hit us. [[vo]] and an exciting future that's closer than you think. >>go from being an air traveller to being a space traveller. >>you see it as the future. >>i see it as inevitable. [[vo]] every monday, join us for exclusive, revealing and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time. >> among the grievances 69 future of the house is john boehner's failure as they saw it to move aggressively against the president's executive action on immigration, effectively dropping people who are living and working in the country illegally to the bottom of the list of deportation. now will they mov

but isn't pot legal in colorado you ask? >> in colorado, a legal fight over pot is pitting a man against his former employer. companies can still fire employees for using medical marijuana, even in states where it's now legal. but as carol mckinley reports, one man wants to change that. >> if there ever was a test case for someone needing medical marijuana, brandon coates is it. >> i will grab a pinch. >> there's no way for him to do it without somebody. he needs someone's hands. >> when he was 16, a car accident left him paralyzed from the neck down, except for the use of his right arm. >> they were trying to make me comfortable. >> now 35, he depends on his nurse, to drett him and feed him and to help him smoke pot every night to ease his debilitating pain. >> i wouldn't be able to work. >> but his weed use upended his life. five years ago coates took a random drug test and failed and was fired from his service job at dish network. >> i had this job for three years, and that's how i was paying my bills and i lost it. in my

colorado. is this kind of activity everywhere? what do you make of it happening in colorado springs? >> well i don't think it is terribly surprising that it would occur there. skol a bit of a strange state in that it has very liberal enclaves in denver and other 60s. but once you get out to the country, it is a very, very conservative state. and of course colorado springs itself was for many, many years the kind of national camden of the christian right with all kinds of big organizations there. they had another attack in '97. a group of anti-government so-called patriots who fire bombed the irs building in colorado springs and actually caused almost $3 million in damage. >> what are the implications that this is a hate crime? >> well, if it indeed was an attack on the naacp, it was the latest in a very long string of bombing attacks on that organization. going back at least to 1965 and probably considerably before. there have been a whole string of these attacks. in 1981 for instance an office was attacked in 1989 an naeps lawyer

the people of colorado made a decision. throughout the past year, since this amendment passed, i have stated that the founders of this nation that always intended states to be laboratories of democracy and colorado is deep in the heart of the laboratory right now. >> for sure. i want to ask you one question about the economy. the report came out friday morning that 600,000 jobs in the last two months, unemployment down to 5, 6. we are the envy of the world prior to now. i guess the question is: is there any danger congress will screw it up? >> look, never under estimate the ability of congress to screw something up. we have to make sure that we change that that that doesn't become the norm as it is previously excited about the numbers. however the labor participation rate remains about where it was, meaning there are many americans out of the workforce who simply have given up looking for work. they are out, they are not working anymore. historic high did remain historic highs. i think the key into our economy -- and this i

>>we can show marijuana is leaving colorado. [[vo]] the highs and lows of a year on pot. >> a blast in the yemeni exalt sanaa sparks a debate belonging to the heufghts. houthis. >> i'm nick clark many. you're watching the doha news. an election on the eve of an anniversary. >>> it's responsible for a deadly car bomb in the somali capital of mogadishu. and a winter

one example, colorado, where one bakery owner says the state should not force him to cater gay weddings. hari sreenivasan takes a look at the ongoing legal battle between religious expression and equal rights. >> sreenivasan: colorado baker jack phillips estimates he's made 5,000 wedding cakes since he opened his shop masterpiece cakeshop 20 years ago. >> i just like everything about the baking business. with a wedding i get to know the bride, the groom, if i can. you know, as much personality and things as i can. >> sreenivasan: while his portfolio of wedding cakes is vast there's one cake the bakerrer fuses to bake. phillips will not make a cake for a same-sex marriage. >> it's a cake i don't do because of my christian faith. >> sreenivasan: deeply religious, he says he'll bake for same sex couples not just the wedding cake. >> part of me goes to the reception and in this case that part of me doesn't want to be represented in a ceremony that i believe is unbibbicle. >> sreenivasan: that doesn't work for the colorado civil rights division. they say phillips must offer the same services

but isn't pot legal in colorado, you ask? >> i took the chance to get out of that prison camp and with a few others went out to work in another camp. >> mary ann yakabi reads her father's words about his time here at the kooskia internment camp in north idaho. it housed just 265 inmates, all male, mostly volunteers from other camps. >> it was the only camp of its kind in the united states, it was really kind of an experiment... is this gonna work? >> the men were of japanese descent but were not american citizens, some kidnapped by the u.s. government out of latin america and brought to this country after the attack on pearl harbor. arturo yakabi was from lima peru. because kooskia was under justice department jurisdiction, these men were considered prisoners of war. they had geneva convention rights, they knew it and they exercised those rights. >> their food was better, their accommodations were better, the attorneys at the kooskia camp could even get beer. >> summertime digs have produced thousands of objects from the two

>>we can show marijuana is leaving colorado. [[vo]] the highs and lows of a year on pot. >> the u.s. justice department has charged two u.s. citizens for trying to overthrow gambian gambian's president. >>> bangladesh's prime minister has accused the opposition of trying to create anarchy's violent protest erupted. four people have died and many more injured. >>> three saudi arabian security personnel have been killed. according to the interior ministry, a suicide-bomb and gunner attacked the remote area. >>> let's quickly pop over to tel aviv for live picture coming from there. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he's launching the party election campaign ahead of the poll in march 17th. >>> thousands of are expected to take part in four cities. protests have swelled from hundreds to thousands calling for the eject of muslim asylum seekers. we go to cologne where some of the protests are expected. tell us about those who are protesting. >> reporter: the crowd, which is several hundred round now are members of anti-rac

>>we can show marijuana is leaving colorado. [[vo]] the highs and lows of a year on pot. >> it's been a huge factor in driving down global oil prices. tom weak everman reports. the boom is leading to a bust, a traditional u.s. oil wells. outside the mcdonalds restaurant stands a century old relic of the oil industry dawn. in an area where the world's first industrial well was drilled in 1850 fine. this one is still muching. and so are hundreds more scatters around the town. these so called stripper wells can draw up to a couple of parral as day from the huge pool of crude that lied beneath the surface. >> it will probably do this for 1882, will go another 100 years. we don't get regulated with a lot of business. >> looking al them individually these wells don't seem very impressive but there are more than 400,000 of them operating in the u.s. and they account for 11% of u.s. total oil production. in 2012 by comparison these wells matched all of opec member state qatar's output, the latest invasion in drilling and hydraulic fract

purposes, as the push for legal pot across the country all eyes are on colorado. and next week "america tonight's" lori jane gliha takes a look at pot the winners losers and ung expected consequences. >> a year on pot. brought colorado a new breed of millionaire. >> can you tell me what that feels like to say million? interi'm not used to it. >> a new breed of tourists. >> at least half of the people here are tourists. so the tourism has totally like exploded here. >> and a new breed of jobs. >> if i could be a pot breeder that would be amacing. amazing. >> it's pretty much inhaling. >> it's a pot gold rush and demand for new products is outstripping the supply. >> the good news is, these products literally we have a half a million dollar backlog on any given day. >> but the year on pot in colorado has also seen some lows. >> here is the inside of the palm. the inside of the palm that's his skin brewing away. >> the people at home brewing up concentrating pot are ending up in burn units kids and adults are oding on marijuana in food. >> i was starting to convulse.

we have no plans to sue colorado. i know others are concerned about that and the, that is of today. >> same question there. >> yeah. >> the concerns for some are, we have a colorado law that's contrary to a federal law and that's not being unforced. so these are issues that need to be, in fact, resolved. i expect over time they will be. >> do you have a question? >> governor, bloomberg news what are the chances you'd run for president in 2016? >> you want statistical chance one in 20,000. i don't know. >> you mean there is a chance? >> that's off the top of my head. >> you know i think nil. i do think you should ask the question of governor herbert. you know, i've seen a lost republican candidates and personal personally, [ applause ] >> an endorsement from a democrat is really going to help me. me. his his new less than that. >> any help? >> yeah. just one quick question governor, especially, you mentioned that a lot of the governors coming in are coming from the private sector have that experience, that's obviously

>>we can show marijuana is leaving colorado. [[vo]] the highs and lows of a year on pot. >> one purpose of painkiller drugs is to help the millions of americans who suffer from chronic pain. david duhrkoop is one them. for over 20 years, he has been in nearly constant discomfort since injuring his back in an accident. >> it becomes almost like a partner that you walk around with all day. and you don't like that partner very much. but uh you've got them there and they're with you 24 hours a day. i think about being out of pain every day of my life. >> in the late 1990s david was part of the first wave of people prescribed oxycontin for chronic pain. >> i was told that there was a new medication that came out and it was primarily for cancer patients but they were trying it for chronic pain patients. you know if the doctor prescribed it, it's got to be good. i remember on the bottle it says 'do not bite or crush this medication.' well, why not? what happens if you do? well i found out you get the full effect of 12 hours of medicati

there have been at least 50 cases reported in california, colorado, utah and washington state. the airborne virus is so contagious it can stick around after an infected person left the room. >> the virus can survive on dry surfaces for hours. that's most concerning. >> it can lead to blindness it can lead to an infection of the brain. >> doctors say a decrease in vaccination rates is the main reason the country has seen an increase in measles outbreak. >> virginia governor is on the way to a speedy recovery after undergoing a serious medical procedures. they had to drain fluid from around his lungs. he broke seven ribs. he was thrown from a horse while vacationing in africa. doctors thought the injury would heal itself but it doesn't help he's busy right now. he delivered the state of the common wealth address last week. he expects to be back at work within days. >>> we'll get an update from montgomery fire. more than 90% of smoke alarms checked were not working. the most common problems, there wasn't one in the home, or it was older than the usual lifespan of ten years. >> cha

i thank the gentlelady from colorado, ms. degette, for yielding and for her advocacy and work on this issue. today on the anniversary of roe v. wade, which changed history for women in america by allowing them to control their own bodies, i rise against the effort to roll back these rights. though we've come a long way in the last 42 years some politicians want to undo this progress and restrict access to critical medical procedures women may need. why have we been debating whether the government should seize control over a woman's health decision when the american people want us to work together to create good paying jobs, balance the budget and raise the minimum wage? instead this chamber is wasting time with a divisive argument about whether the government should jeopardize a woman's access to medically necessary procedures. politicians are not medical experts. and we should not deny a woman the ability to make her own decisions with those she trusts the most. i ask my colleagues to focus on the economy instead of spending

you have colorado, washington state, oregon alaska and the d.c. have all theoretically legalized theoretical -- >> but the point is the federal government is not recognizing -- not legalizing. and the challenge for some of these businesses is that banks won't work with them. so a lot of them -- >> so eric holder comes out twice and says hey hey hey, no no, we're not going to bug you, because it's still a schedule i drug, don't forget we're not going to make you crazy. banks do business. they'll come in for two months and sake we really don't want to do this and they will literally walk out the door. there's still a huge cache business. a lot of security firms can't hire people fast enough. one guy told me he wanted to pay his federal taxes with cash. one state paid their federal taxes with cash. the guy said here's a 10% surcharge, because we have to process all this money. it's crazy. >> what? >> so often when we hear about problems with legal -- it's focused an edibles, they don't feel it then they eat more and then get way too high. >> you read

james holmes is in the courtroom in centennial colorado. it was the summer of 2012 when he allegedly called himself the joker and entered a crowded movie theater in aurora colorado and without warning began spragying people with bullets from his ar-15 and did not stop until it was jammed. when it was over 12 people were dead 58 were wounded. now, holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. now, listen to this number 9,000 people are getting called for possible jury duty in the case in a trial that may not be over until thanksgiving. anna cabrera is on this for us from centennial colorado. back with us is our cnn legal senior analyst jeffrey toobin. couldn't believe the 9,000 number for the jurors. why is that? >> right. 9,000. to put that in perspective, that's even more than were summoned in the boston bombing trial. but there are a few reasons here. first, this happened 2 1/2 years ago. there has been a tremendous amount of media coverage in the past couple of years regarding this high-profile case. of course, it's happening, thi