[Barnett:] A warm welcome back to our viewers watching in the U.S. and those of you tuned in around the globe. This is CNN Newsroom. I'm Errol Barnett.
[Church:] And I'm Rosemary Church. We'll check the headlines now. Forty two senators in Brazil say they will vote to hold an impeachment trial for Dilma Rousseff that would give the president's critics in the legislature a majority. The lawmakers have been debating the measure all night and are expected to vote in the coming hours. Now if they start impeachment proceedings, Mrs. Rousseff would have to leave office for up to six months.
[Barnett:] Donald Trump is under fire for refusing to release his tax returns. Trump says he will make his taxes public once his audit is complete. But that's unlikely to be before the November election. Trump meets in the coming hours with top republicans in the U.S. Congress.
[Church:] A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the east coast of Taiwan on Thursday. This video shows the aftermath inside one store. One eyewitness says tremors in Taipei lasted about 10 to 15 seconds. So far, there are no reports of any casualties or major damage. Now we are getting new details of the investigation into the death of music legend Prince. Officials want to know how he got the painkillers that were found in his home.
[Barnett:] Our Sara Sidner reports, investigators are looking for answers in Prince's inner circle, including his doctors.
[Unidentified Female:] They're asking for a medical at Paisley Park [muted]. Person down, not breathing.
[Sara Sidner, Cnn Correspondent:] That was the 911 dispatcher sending paramedics to Prince's a compound the day he died. Now new details have emerged about that day, and the days leading up to Prince's death. The details revealed in a search warrant published by The L.A. Times and star tribune. The search warrant request was filed May 6, and eventually served on this medical center, which is about 23 miles from Prince's Paisley Park compound. In it, it asks for any and all of Prince's medical records. Dr. Michael Todd Schewelenberg shown here in unrelated video on YouTube worked at the facility and was treating Prince. A detective notes Dr. Schewelenberg said he did prescribe Prince's medication, and the prescriptions were to be filled at Walgreens. The warrant said the doctor saw Prince on April 7th and April 20th, the day before Prince died. And it states that Dr. Schewelenberg was actually at Prince's Paisley Park compound to drop off test results the day prince's body was discovered in an elevator. We checked on Dr. Schewelenberg's medical license, and there were no complaints against him. It was clean. We also called North Memorial Medical Center to try and talk to him, but we were told by a spokesperson that he no longer works here. So far, no one has been charged in this case. But the investigation is still going full throttle. On Tuesday, the DEA and sheriff's deputies were back inside the Paisley Park compound, executing another search. Sara Sidner, CNN, Chanhassen, Minnesota.
[Church:] The U.S. is facing a massive epidemic of painkiller overdoses. So, CNN hosted a special town hall on prescription drug abuse.
[Barnett:] Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Anderson Cooper joined experts and recovering addicts. We want to show you to some of the highlights here.
[Unidentified Male:] This is a public health epidemic. But it is completely manmade.
[Unidentified Female:] How can we get the doctors and hospitals to stop overprescribing these addictive drugs? Doctors have to own the problems and we have to be careful ourselves about prescribing medication.
[Sanjay Gupta, Cnn's Chief Medical Correspondent:] These are designed for acute intervention, not for chronic use. And if it's going more than two weeks both doctor and patient that are really think hard better about it.
[Unidentified Male:] Ninety one percent of people who overdose and survive are given another prescription for those opiates.
[Unidentified Female:] We have this culture of giving a pill for every problem, this culture of a quick fix. And that's something we have to change. At 16 he began experimenting with opioids with friends, and we saw nothing. So, what are what are we missing?
[Unidentified Male:] Opiate addiction, opiate misused is something it's not always obvious. I was a functioning addict.
[Cooper:] You could function?
[Unidentified Male:] Functioning addict. My family was greatly affected by my addiction.
[Gupta:] The one thing I would tell family members is, don't go it alone.
[Unidentified Female:] I've been on daily opioids that have given me a very full and productive life.
[Unidentified Male:] Opioids have a real role in the management of pain. But sometimes they're overprescribed. And sometimes alternative therapies will do. Even if someone is not breathing, you still put this in their nose and go ahead and spray. And that's the medication that comes out. And within just a couple minutes it can reverse an overdose.
[Unidentified Female:] The shame and the stigma is a huge blocker to patients and families seeking health.
[Unidentified Male:] It's a brain disease. I think more doctors say that out loud, the more that stigma goes away.
[Barnett:] And you can see the entire town hall later today, Prescription addiction, made in the USA, as noon for those of you watching in London, at 7 p.m. for those of you in Hong Kong.
[Church:] And abuse of prescription painkillers is not just an American problem. In fact, researcher says Canada has the highest per capita use. The U.S. is number two followed by Denmark, Germany, Austria, and Australia.
[Barnett:] By one estimate, the U.S., Canada, and countries in Western Europe consume 95 percent of the global opioid supply, but make up less than 20 percent of the global population. That leaves just 5 percent for all other countries combined. Same sex civil unions are now legally recognized in Italy, the last major western country to do so. Gay rights groups gathered outside parliament in Rome on Wednesday as lawmakers adopted the bill. Same- sex couples can share a surname and inherit each other's assets.
[Church:] Still, critics they are limits. The law does not recognize gay marriage. Many Catholics oppose it. And conservative lawmakers say they'll try to repeal it. Another lawsuit has been filed over North Carolina's controversial bathroom law. A group called North Carolinians for privacy claims that the federal government is bullying the state by threatening to take with to take withhold education funding.
[Barnett:] Earlier this week, the Justice Department filed a suit calling the law a civil rights violation. But North Carolina's Governor rejects that statement.
[Pat Mccrosy, North Carolina Governor:] It's an insult. It's a political statement instead of a legal statement that it's an insult toward our state and 10 million people that has no relevance to this issue regarding whether a gender identity individual or a boy could go into a girl's rest room. To correlate that to the Civil Rights marches in the '50s and '60s is totally irresponsible of our chief l
[Church:] The latest bathroom law complaint is the fifth suit seeking judicial input.
[Barnett:] Now severe storms on Wednesday produce so much hail in one U.S. city that snowplows had to be called out. It's likely there will be more wild weather across the country today.
[Pedram Javaheri, Cnn Meteorologist:] Yes.
[Church:] That's ridiculous.
[Barnett:] Our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us now to give us all the details on that.
[Javaheri:] Yes.
[Barnett:] Snowplows.
[Javaheri:] Snowplows. Yes. In the month of May. This is in Omaha, Nebraska. So, they had upwards of 30 centimeters on the flip of hail accumulate on the roads in the morning hours. So, snowplows literally had to be brought out and clear the roads. And the temperatures made it up to 70 Fahrenheit, 20 Celsius or so. So, incredible to see this much hail accumulate. And the video pretty impressive as well to show what folks were dealing with across this region. So, we'll put the maps in motion to show you what's happening. Here is the scene of folks literally digging out of the hail that accumulated across this region. Right before sunrise, of course the temperature is pretty mild you. And then you begin to see this melts rather quickly and it becomes a flooding concern so the snowplows again come right through and try to move some of the hail out of the way. but for the first time since last Friday, actually the United States did not see a report of a tornado. And that was excellent news. But of course, almost 100 reports of damaging hail, about 84 reports of damaging winds across the area. And you go just north of St. Louis, the town of St. Charles, one of the northern suburbs there, hail the size of grapefruits. Four inches in diameter reported across this region. So, you don't get tornadoes, but it get something this destructive certainly could be a big story if it impacts you. And you notice 21 million people across this region. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Nashville, Memphis. Some of these cities in line for severe weather. On a scale of 1 to 5, a 2 for the likelihood of the severe storms across this region. But the hail and damaging winds really the main concern. Still could see some isolated tornadoes pop up across this area. I'll you up towards the Western United States, summer-like heat coming in. About five weeks early. Temps soaring into the 80s and 90s over the next of days. Look what happens in Seattle. It could be the record high temperature there tying a temp of 84 which occurred on that date in 1973. That is 20 Fahrenheit above what is normal. Portland is getting up to 90 degrees with a 67, which is what is normal for this time of year. I want to show you something here. Because we know Death Valley, California among the hottest places on our planet. Yesterday, they reach the high of 99 Fahrenheit or 37 Celsius. Oftentimes when I go to schools and talk to kids about weather, one of the interesting stats they're always surprised by is California is one of the most extreme places in the United States when it comes to temperatures. Not because of the hot temps in Death Valley, but look what happened that same day yesterday, just about 170 miles to the north that was the national cold spot in Bridgeport, California, in the mountains and Sierras, 18 Fahrenheit, 170 miles away, almost 100 Fahrenheit. California always impresses when it comes to extreme temperatures.
[Barnett:] Yes. JAVAHERIL And a lot of people are interested to hear that because you think of California and tranquility. Right.
[Javaheri:] But the temperatures are as extreme as anywhere else.
[Barnett:] It's a huge state as well.
[Javaheri:] It is.
[Barnett:] As all that topography, you've got the coastline you've got mountains, you've got kind of everything in between as well.
[Church:] Yes.
[Javaheri:] Absolutely.
[Barnett:] All right, Pedram.
[Church:] Thank you so much.
[Barnett:] Leave it to the kids. Heading out of school. Good to hear. Thanks, Pedram.
[Church:] Thank you. Well, pay really close attention. Because if you blink, you'll miss it.
[Unidentified Male:] Three, two, one.
[Church:] Blink a few times. So, just what is this speeding object? Coming up a little later, find out why this could be the future of transportation.
[Barnett:] Plus, Donald David Cameron is about to host a summit against corruption. We're going to do that. But first, the British leader is explaining why he called two countries fantastically corrupt. Stay with us.