First up we're reporting from North Korea. A major political gathering is going on there.

It's called the Seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, and it's a rare event.

The last time this meeting took place was 36 years ago. This event brought more than 3400 party

members to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. It started on Friday and doesn't have a formal end date,

though it's expected to last a few days. Supreme Leader Kim Jong- un,

who heads up the communist state, didn't announce any major policy changes in his three-hour speech.

But he did outline a five year plan to help his nation's struggling economy. Increasing coal output,

automating jobs in factories, and mechanizing farms were all part of it.

He also discussed the need to generate more electricity, promoting renewable energy and nuclear power.

In Pyongyang, which has the highest standard of living in North Korea, many people only

have electricity for a few hours of the morning and the evening.

So what's it like for international reporters to cover an event like this

in a country whose government controls its media?

It's day three of the party congress. And we've been waiting here in the parking lot of the Yanggakdo Hotel

for almost an hour. We see a lot of the government officials on their phones.

Perhaps trying to figure where exactly the group of press is gonna be going today.

We took a short drive through Pyongyang. A beautiful Sunday morning, didn't know where we were going.

And we've just arrived at the People's House of Culture. We don't know who's inside the building.

But if you look at this row of shiny black Mercedes here and specifically look at the license plate numbers,

that would indicate these are some of the highest level members of the Workers' Party of Korea.

We've been told to bring all of our gear, including our backpacks inside.

We've been given our passports as well for some kind of a security check. What happened, what happened?

The program has changed.

Program changed, where are we going?

Back to hotel, eat lunch, and rest.

Well, there you go, we're heading back to the hotel,

the program has changed. After three hours of waiting at our hotel we were all told to rush

and gather in front of the television for this. State TV broke in for a special report which turned out

to be the leader's full spech that he gave on Saturday to the Workers' Party Congress.

It's been going on for well over two hours. Of course we already read the full transcript,

it's the first eight pages of the morning paper. Coverage on the front and back pages.

If you're looking for any major policy changes or announcements, you won't find them in this speech.

The leader talked about North Korean history from 1980 until today. He did say this country won't use

its nuclear weapons unless provoked first, but we've heard that before. So in the end,

even though we're inside this country covering the Workers' Party Congress, the state-controlled media

continues to be our best and only source of information.

A man who was evacuating Fort McMurray in Alberta Canada over the weekend says

it looked like a scene out of a disaster movie. A wildfire, whose cause is still being investigated,

has forced at least 90, 000 people to evacuate their homes. Most of them in Fort McMurray

and surrounding communities. It has spread to an area of more than 770 square miles.

The blaze is about half the size of the US state of Rhode Island. Even with 500 firefighters, 15 helicopters,

and 14 air tankers involved, officials don't have it under control. But they hoped that nature could help out.

There was a 70 % chance of rain in the area last night, and more possible this morning.

That could make a noticeable difference in a province that's been described as tinder-dry and windy,

two conditions that make wildfires more dangerous. Fort McMurray has had its power grid damaged,

the water's undrinkable. For some residents, everything at home is lost.

It's heartbreaking cuz I don't know if I have anything to go back to. I really don't know.

When I was seven years old, I went through the same thing. I left the Congo to come here,

so it brings back those memories so bad. The last few nights, for me, I haven't slept, I'm up all night.

I realize that I'm a refugee again in a country that I thought I won't be a refugee. So it's so hard waiting.

So far, no deaths have been blamed directly on the disaster.

Plumes of smoke can be seen as far away as Iowa, though. And that's not the only atmospheric effect of a wildfire.

If you've been watching this wild fire video, you noticed the smoke rising up into the sky.

But you may notice something else. You may find a pyrocumulus cloud. So how does it happen?

Well, you have the ground and in the summertime the sunshine heats the ground

and you get big white puffy clouds. But with a fire this is rapidly rising air.

This isn't sunshine. This is really hot air going straight up into the atmosphere and then you get the condensation.

The condensation makes clouds. The clouds can become a cumulo-like nimbus cloud,

but we call it pyrocumulus clouds because it's because of the fire. But you can get lightning,

the lightning can create more fires. Also, when the storm dies, you can get wind blowing out of

the thing and taking the embers from one fire, blowing it downwind and making more fires.

So that's the danger of a pyrocumulus cloud, look for the puffy clouds that look like a thunderstorm,

it's created by the fire itself.

It's time for a quick check of who's watching this Monday, this is the CNN student news roll call.

From Omaha, Nebraska, the Packers are here.

Omaha South High School leads things off for us. Moving east we're making a stop

in Gnadenhutten, Ohio. Great to have the braves of Indian Valley High School watching today.

And last but not least from Liberty, South Carolina, we're looking up to the Falcons.

Liberty Middle School rounds out our roll. The US government estimates that every year,

opioid painkillers are linked to as many as 19, 000 deaths in America.

And that the number of overdose deaths has quadrupled since 1999, along with the sales of prescription drugs.

An advisory panel to the US Food and Drug Administration is recommending that doctors

should be required to get a special form of training before they're allowed to prescribe opioids.

Critics, including some national doctors' groups, say that mandatory government training isn't the answer.

That physicians already have extensive training, and that a new FDA program wouldn't cover

some causes of the problem. Like when a patient doesn't use opioids correctly,

or when someone illegally gives his painkillers to someone else. Many doctors, health officials,

and experts do agree, though, that more needs to be done to address opioid addiction.

Every 19 minutes, someone dies from an accidental drug overdose.

Most of the time it's from prescription drugs like Oxycodone or Hydrocodone,

these drugs all belong to a family of drugs called Opioids.

They are prescribed to dull pain, but they also boost dopamine, giving some people a high.

They can also slow down your breathing and are highly addictive. So why is it so easy to get hooked?

Well for one your body can build up a tolerance, so the more you use the larger dose you need to get

the same effect. Secondly you can become dependent on them, in fact your body creates natural opioids

that are released when you hurt yourself. But if you habitually use pain killers,

your body stops producing its own and relies on the drugs instead.

If you try and stop then, the body goes through withdrawal. Consider this, in 2012

there were 259 million prescriptions written for opioid painkillers. Nearly enough

for every American adult and child to have their own bottle of pills. Look, we need to treat pain,

but we also don't need to treat everything with a pill.

The public has spoken, but Britain's government didn't like what it had to say. Boaty McBoatface

is what people voted to name a new $ 287 million research ship. Boaty got 124, 000 votes,

but Britain's Science Ministry says it wanted something that fits the ship's scientific mission.

So it torpedoed Boaty and chose a fourth place name that got 11, 000 votes.

So yeah, Boaty McBoatface didn't win that infamous ship naming contest.

Boo.

Come on.

I know, I know. McBoatface became a household name when UK officials made the mistake

of asking the public for input on naming their newest research vessel.

Boaty quickly shot to the top of the list and spawned countless imitators like Horsey McHorseface,

Trainy McTrainface, and so forth. So who did win? Well, the ship will be named the RRS Sir David Attenborough,

after the knighted English broadcaster and naturalist.

I guess he's worthy. But don't worry,

Boaty isn't making a total Abouty McBoutface and sailing out of our lives forever.

The moniker will live on as the name of one of the ship's small submersible vehicles,

aww, Subby McSubface. Bon voyage, Boaty.

So while some might put on a Pouty McPoutface saying subbing the name for the sub is

a subliminal and unaccsubtable way of sinking public opinion. Others might say

it's fitting in the name of science to Attenborrow David's name. It all begs the question,

what's in a name to keep a ship in ship shape? Guess it comes down to whatever floats your boat. I'm Carl Azuz.