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Blinken warns deadly fentanyl crisis will spread globally

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says the U.S. is "a canary in the coal mine" as deadly synthetic street drugs spread.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Friday that countries around the world will soon face the kind of fentanyl drug crisis that's killing tens of thousands of people each year in the U.S.

Blinken spoke at a United Nations conference in Vienna,

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