[Skit: News reporters, politicians and citizens]

Return now to the gripping images of first responders in action, that are taking us into the dark trenches of a deadly and growing epidemic in this country

It comes just as the federal government is launching a new initiative to curb the opioid crisis, that claims tens of thousands of American lives every year

When a Cleveland, Ohio woman saw this man slumped behind the wheel of a parked car, she feared the worst

I felt I was staring in the face of death

It’s become a nauseating a common occurrence in America, another mass shooting, in a year of mass shootings

I heard them shouting, like “get down, get down on the floor, get down now, don’t move”

Schools and work places now conduct active shooter drills, for a scenario that seems far too likely for many

Mass shootings, unfortunately have become part of our culture, part of our psyche, in America

Today’s shooting, the 154th, just this year

The police here, say “it’s the nation’s gang capitol”

Neighborhoods, like Compton, Inglewood, Watts, made famous by rappers, named notorious by deadly gang wars

This is our whole, little, square area

And, it’s crazy, cuz, you know, you literally had times, where you could walk across the street, and, and have a shootout, and then, run back across the street, and you’re back in your neighborhood again