Cruelty making its way across campus. Digital insults so nasty it nearly sent the principal packing. I left at the end of the day emotionally drained. I said to myself maybe this is a time for me to retire. Its a whole new world. Correspondent christoph on how a simple app brought a high school to a stand still and why this californian campus dealt with it stopping the shooting in californias meanest city. A street calculus that put cash on the line, heading off a handful of killers and their input. If i can engage with 17 different people that could have an impact. Michael oku with a look at rich land california, and why a programme aimed at saving lives runs smack into position. In the black community we make false problems to people of colour. Always. And good evening, thanks for joining us, im joie chen. We begin with a Bob Jones Christian college, an insular evangelical school. A watchdog is investigating how they handled sexual all the allegations on and off camp u. Our ongoing coverage of sex crimes and College Students picks up with an investigation by america tonights sara hoy who speaks to two former bob jones students in their first tv interview. I think they should have not heaped more shame on me. Because i was already filled to the brim with shame. I didnt need any more. Reporter katy is putting the pieces of her life back together. Its been nearly a decade since leaving the Bob Jones University, the flag ship of christian fundamentalist education, and she says a place that fails rape victims like herself. I love my teachers, i love the school. Not sorry i wept there. But what i am sorry about is that they seem they seem so unwilling to age what they have done to acknowledge what they have done wrong. Here is the fortress of faith. Bob jones university. Theres 4,000 students that go to the private college. The teachings follow a literal translation of the bible and the rules on campus are super strict. Theres no tv, theres no hand holding, no popular music. And even a little violation could get you kicked out. Interracial dating was banned until 2000. Most of the students come from feeder schools and closely associated churches. There has been outrage among the students, including landry for the handling of sexual abuse reports. Landrys assault did not take place on campus. She was 19, working for an Ambulance Company in colombus ohio, when she says her supervisor raped her. One evening while counting supplies in the back of an ambulance, she felt the prick of a needle. I couldnt move anything. He came over and took my clothes off, and i could speak, i was telling him no. And he raped me. And my eyes filled with tears, but i couldnt brush the tears away. Reporter scared to tell anyone she returned to work. I had five for shifts. Three out of five shifts he rapeded me again. Two weeks later i left for my freshman year at bob Johns University. Reporter raised in a conservative family and afraid of her attacker she kept the rape secret until her junior year at bob jones, where she sought help. I didnt understand why he picked he. I thought there was something about me. Was there something that he saw that said it was toek do this to her okay to do this to her, was there something inside of me. I thought if he can see it can others as well. I just i needed help. I needed help really bad. Reporter she was referred to jim berg for counselling. The dean of students. She says he blamed her for the assault. He asked if i had been smoking pot. I really i started to get a dizzy feeling. Then he asked if i had been impure with the man and had relations with the man. And i told him no to these questions, but he didnt believe me or he wasnt going to help me. He said we have to find the nipping in your life that thing in your life that caused your rape. And i just ran. I ran out the steps of the Administration Building and he confirmed my worst nightmare, it was something i had done, it was something about me, it was my fault. Reporter now, 31, landry said she wanted to come forward when she learnt others at bob jones shared her experience. In 2011 a bob jones trustee resigned when news reports surfaced that he had allegedly covered up the rape of a 15yearold girl and forced her to confess her sin in front of her fundamentalist church. In the aftermath of the scandal grace was hired godly response to abuse in the environment. To cut a report. It was founded by the grandson of billy graham. Its dedicated to investigating sexual abuse at christian organisations. Our pews and churches are filled with pressure abuse survivors. My concern is we are not talking about it. Reporter the university says. Reporter more than 100 people came forward to grace vet scores. Some of the assaults took place on campus, some did not. Bju students that came forward says theres a culture of victim blaming by the counsellors and administrators. The impact of tow years of counselling i had with her is i felt i had been raped all over again. Reporter this former student asked us to conceal her identity out of fear of retaliation. Whoil growing up while growing up she said a Family Member repeatedly raped her. I grew up in a conservative christian home. One thing we were taught was to obey. I didnt understand what this was. I didnt even know what sex was at that point. Didnt know any appa topical terms anatomical terms, nothingment you will anew, it all i knew, it hurt, and i didnt like it. Reporter when she started at bob johns, in 2000, she thought she would get help. I was having nightmares, flash backs. I was terrified. I just knew i didnt want to live this way. Reporter she was referred to pat berg, the wife of dean brg, the former dean of students. Like landry she was told the repeated rapes were her own fault. She talked about my sin recording it. An example would be shed say that if i had ever experienced pleasure at any point while he was doing this to me, that that was sin that i needed to repent of. I remember her looking at me and saying you know that the nightmares are your own fault. Because you are choosing to replay pornographic thoughts in your mind. Reporter she showed us an email telling her to call her rapist and ask for forgiveness. You are being advised i thing it would be best to say to them since youve been at bju god has been working in your heard and that you were wrong not to forgive him as christ forgave you. I had to ask him to forgive me. Reporter forgive you for what . Because i had failed. Obviously years before to not forgive him. Reporter pressured by professor berg she agreed to call her rapist. It was incredibly hard. Picking up the phone that day and calling him was one of the gut wrempingly hard gut wrenchingly hard things i had to do. It didnt bring me healing or closure, it was like sticking a knife in and twisting hard. Jim and pat are known for their christian efforts on and off campus. You do what you do, because you are what you are. To change what you do, you must cooperate with god to change what you are. Normally the fundamentalist are known for withdrawing from society. Reporter pastor paige brooks of the canal Street Church in new orleans says for members of the rely religion, its common to believe that rape or Sexual Assault is a result of unresolved sin or lack of faith. In their fundamentalist view, they come at it that if you have sip in your life and sin in your life and something happens, most likely you are to blame for the sin in your loof. Reporter pastor brooks coupsled mean victims. The church as a whole we want to be seen a perfect and pure. Because of that culture of silence, that it keeps the culture being propagated and never addressing the truth. Reporter brooks says the grace report has been impact behind the gates of bob jones. Theres more out there about sexual crimes and victims that we wanted to commitment it will show how the church has, perhaps, been involved and covered up things. Demrators at Bob Jones University administrators at bob Johns University declined to go on camera and will not respond to investigations until the grace investigation is complete and results released. We reached out to jim burg aring a former dean and counsellor to one of the women. We are yet to here back from him. However, we did receive a response from pat burg, through a University Representative saying reporter this former student continued with counselling at bob johns despite the unsettling nature of the sessions. The reason i wept was i was i wept was i was desperate for a ray of light. I thought if this is what my life is going to be loib, i dont want to live. Reporter after graduating she took matters into her own hands and appointed her rapist to police. He was convicted of Sexual Battery of a child under 12 years of age. If you told me that dark day when i walked out of this office with no hope, that one day my rapist would be convicted and sentenced to prison, that i would live a stable, successful life and i would be healing from my abuse, i would never have been able to believe you. Those are the miracles that i have seen my god do. Reporter others who have tape a hard step to come forward are waiting with hope and a prayer, that change will come. Some day i would like to see a world where universities, churches, schools, families, friends stand alongside the victim. And not cover up the abuse. Soon after airing the report bob Johns University responded to us in a statement which reads in part ahead in the next segment happening on to every word. The latest app to launch an oncampus crisis is called yikiac. How its vicious exchanges left even the principal speechless. E you back in the good old days when kids were bullied in school. In the world of social media boys are using anonymous technology to target victims. We report on a new app turning high schools into a haven and how a class in california is fighting back. If you click on yickyak they created a platform for the worst cruel horrific Cyber Bullying. Reporter theres a hidden men a yuckiac. It hit with a yickyak. It hit with a vengeance. If someone posts 500 feet from you it pops up on the screen. Reporter with yickyak known with a smartphone can see messages and spread them. Will is a senior at the high school saying the app took off like wildfire when users named names. Within half an hour everyone heard about it, downloaded it and had it on the phone. As the posts came in people would laugh or gasp. It was like a scene from mean girls. Reporter what did you see written on it . Horrible homophobic, racist, islama phobic, sexist remarks. It brings popular posts to the top of the feed. If something was mean or cruel it was popular. The meanest were at the top. Reporter with users protected by a cloak of anonymity, yickyak was painful comments, painful things that no one could stop. The teachers were have you heard about it, everywhere was abuzz. Reporter what was your rehabilitation . We were flawed. We were sick to the stomach, what do we do. Reporter the principal said he learned about yickyak during lunch hour. It hit like a war, that someone bombed the place. Before you know it you heard the tone in the cafeteria change. Reporter he has been an educator for five decades. He didnt know how to handle it. I didnt know what to do, other than to get on the public stress system saying theres such a thing as yickyak and its causing pain, until we figure out what to do dont log on. Saying that to a teenager is like saying theres free doughnuts, dont touch. By the end of the day we had mostly girls crying, and parents calling. I never had seen anything like that. I had seen just about everything. We were very, very lucky that nobody has, to my knowledge, harmed themselves as a result of this. Reporter some say kids are kids, they have bullied. What is different. Theres no way to confront someone because they posted anonymously. As if its not bad enough to see your name, but to be cast rated in your ability to confront someone and say why would you say that about me . What did i do to you . We wanted to speak to students, but they declined. They want to move on. Its tough, knowing that someone in the hallway was thinking these things about them. Even if its not true, the fact that someone said it is embarrass. Its a time when kids are insecure. The cruelty took a toll on the principal. I left at the end of the day emotionally drained. Reporter i heard rumour that you considered retiring. I said to myself maybe this is a time for me to retiement its a whole new world. Staples is not the only school hurt. Mass cyber School Bullying has been reported. In some cases threats from yickyak shut down schools. Dianas daughter was a student at one of those schools. When did you hear about yickyak . I had a daughter in 12th grade. I had a robbo call saying the school was on lockdown. I asked what happened, she said you know, someone posted something on yickyak that they would bomb the school. I said what did you do . She said we all downloaded yickyak yickyak. Reporter diana coached parents for years. In 2010 when her daughter entered sixth grade in a charter school, the School Principal reach out to her for help. My administrative hours were consumed with student and parent complaints about something that happened on the weekend related to a photo that was taken. Thats when i realised we need to be proslentive proactive. With gravers help he implemented a course. We have to remember that kids spend more time with media than with their parents or in school. Their world is media. Most is social networks. They are fascinated. Its a new way to express themselves. What have you found to be the most effective way to reach the kids. What i learnt is the peer to peer learning of kids. We do a lot of role playing, scits and bring in situations that are happening in their life. We talk about them. Cyber bullying, what is happening, and how to respond. Its laying the ground work for how theyll act online. What we try to do is take a step back and have the kids understand that the digital footprint lives with you forever. I want the digital footprint to be positive. Reporter for many of the sixth graders, they are wary about going online. Are you guys on social media . After hearing what happens with people Cyber Bullying and making comment about pictures im hindley street tant. I have been bullied. Thats why im keeping it private. Reporter do you feel the same way . Im scared someone will hack my account. If i see Cyber Bullying i stopped up for that person, and i report the account. Amanda whitticer is a member of gravers class, his father is impressed with results. I know amanned e will get more amanda will get more talking about what the right thing to do is. When others are on the same bandwag scan, it bandwagon, it makes an impact. On campus i have not had one Cyber Bullying or digital drama occur. You credit the programme for it . Absolutely. Why is this not taught in more schools. I wish i had an answer for you. These are essential life skills. Because in the fast paced world of social media and smart phones, the next yickyak is around the corner. Todays yik i take, we cant yickyak, we cant imagine what is next. Kids come into place and are like have you heard about gaggle . Its the same thing as yickyak except its pictures instead of text. I just kind of. Reporter another app. Another app. Well, well learn more about yickyak and the impacts of children who are bullied. We are joined by licensed clinical psychologist. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. I understand you had clients complain about yickyakism. Absolutely. All sorts of social media, including yickyak have been affecting man. Many adolescents and children come into my office with issues. What are they saying about them in. Its a way for Cyber Bullying to occur. Children, adults are spending time on social media. The more likely you are to be at length on the sites, the more likely you are to be bullied or have something written about you. Is there an age group that is more vulnerable or is it a boygirl thing . Its interesting. With physical bullying males are more likely to be perpetrators of bullying, with Cyber Bullying it seems like its more female. Its more passive way of bullying another person without feeling like you are outwardly arming them. Why are kids at this statement, young people, middle school, high school, why are they so vulnerable . They feel like social networks can be the life. They feel they are on a stage, and their peer group is everything, and what is said about them, their reputation, what others think is of importance is the that same. Is this different to the good old days when someone put mary is a, on the bathroom wall. I think it is different because the audience its larger. You have no idea who has seep it and how seep it and how seen it it and how quickly, and with sites like yickyak you are not positive that its about you. Theres app uncertainty that can maybe the effects same lasting and permanent to a young adult. I feel sorry for the school preps pal that got on the pa and said nobody use this, and it backfired. What can administrators do. They have to take action. The sooner you take action and have an antiCyber Bullying campaign, the quicker that happens, the less people will have long term less adverse effect. They can limit the amount of times that students spend on social media, whether its in school or outside of school. There should be a stimulus reduction that the principal iment plements in school. When you have a child thats been bullied in this way, what do you do to advise them . You tell them to tell somebody, to not leave it alone. Research shows most young adults do not reach out to somebody and do something about it. That makes the consequences really, really severe sometimes with students who have been cyber bullied, to have a higher suicide rate than the rest of ado less ents who have not been. Its not as such as an app. Thank you very much for being with us. Thank you. Next taking aim to stop the shooting. Can the lure of 1,000 a month pay out do what Police Crackdown and gaol time has not . 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The Industrial City of 100,000 people has consistently ranked among the 10 most joint in america, with vicious cycles of gun play with neighbourhoods that claimed hundreds of lives. 19yearold kamari used to be a trigger puller. I was one of the guys doing a lot of shootings in richmond, after my cousin was shot. Reporter a drug dealer at 12, he was gaoled for carrying a salt rifle at school. Living fast and loose until four years ago when a hail of bullets caught up with him. One of his own cows jips had set cousins had set him up. I was shot on fifth and silver 22 times. One of the hard ers hardest neption for hardest things for me was to let it go. If i could walk i probably wouldnt have let it go. We wouldnt be talking, i would be on a corner street. Reporter after leaving the hospital he was won over by an agency taking unusual steps to stop gun violence. Among them building violence with some of richmonds dangerous young men, helping them find jobs and counselling them at city hall. What is raising i brourks the ons offers them cash, 1,000 a month, in exchange for better behaviour. Programme director devon boeingan says when the city hired him in 2006 desperate times called for drastic measures. Take me back to the moment when it crystallised in your mind how these various parts of the programme would be put together. Law enforcement believed 70 of the firearm assaults in the year 2009 were committed maybe by 17 people. Im going wait a minute, 17 people responsible for 70 of 45 homicides and 200 plus firearm assaults . Wow. We can wrap our arms around that. If i can engage the 17 people in a different way, that could have a Significant Impact on the narrative of what is really going on in the city of richmond. Reporter to qualify for the stipend fellows must draw up a life map in which they set goals for the future. After six months in the programme they can receive up to 1,000 each month if they prove they are working towards their goals, or nothing if they slip. I wrote some 1 checks. Some of these cats got 1, 2, 3, because thats what they did, nothing. Reporter while sa chaps to make while a chance to make extra money might grab attention, boeingan insists tough love by staff, many of whom are exconvict from the streets, keep him coming back. I think he is young men are literally dying for relationship positive, healthy relationship. They are dying. They are dying as a result of despair and a lack of hope and what these relationships do with the agency is all about, is dealing and delivering large doses of hope. Our theory of change is simple. I want them to desire to live. The numbers backed him up. Assistance the launch of ons richmond experienced a 66 drop in homicides. Last year there were 16 murders, the lowest total in three decades. Firearm assaults are down in richmond, homicides are down in richmond. Is the ons responsible no, the young men are responsible. We are helping to create the conditions for their success. They are ultimately responsible. City officials and criminal experts say multiple factors have helped to reduce gun violence. In recent years changing demographics and lower unemployment have record of interviewed to a drop in resulted in a drop in crime. They agree incentive based outreach primes agreed what decades of Law Enforcement did not. This culture is fixated on punish. And control as a way to deal with crime and problems. Its a military solution. The research is clear that it doesnt work well. Barry is a criminologist at the university of the calve your brkly. He berkeley. Historically he says richmonds high crime rates are connected to poverty. We dont want to go out and do enforce we want to enforcement. We want to focus on the right people at the right time. Reporter this is the deputy chief of police, he credits better policing. He says outreach programs are part of the full court press that made richmond safer. We are part of the justice community. We have the whole incarceration peace in our back pocket of. We also like to persuade young people to choose a different bath. If somebody says it you my goodness, the ons is actually paying criminals. I cant speak for ons. I would tell you they would say that their causes is higher. When it comes to human lich, can you put a dollar value on that. Are you saying that you do give them latitude because you understand the delicate nature of what it is they have to do . Absolutely. That latitude was tested in october 2011, when two rival groups showed up in city hall at the same time. A brawl broke out. No charges were filed. How could that happen. You mean to tell me they dont have enough control. Reporter corgi is a Richmond City councilman and a critic. I need to see Success Stories that are productive citizens. Thats all im asking. Show me where they are working. Show me a check. Boeingan says buzay is missing the point. Instead of pulling guns, two groups locked in a feud use their fists. I saw it as progress. That they fall. Im grateful. I dont want to belittle how grateful they are. They didnt escalate to something more. Is it the onss objective, or should it be to make sure that the me that come through the system ultimately get longterm employment . No. We have nelos who have jobs, and they shoot people. Our job is to create an environment where the young men stop shooting. Reporter when we return, two fellons that might have killed each other go on a roadtrip. We got together and it was luke we was folks we was pregnant, cool, chilling in a room, do you know what i mean . Every saturday, Al Jazeera America brings you controversial. Both parties are owned by the corporations. Entertaining its fun to play with ideas. 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Reporter ranell is on probation after serving time for attempted murder. Thanks to ons hes a custodian at city hall, earning 13 an hour. Its steady work. For a shot collar who used to make big money selling drugs, going legit can be a come down. Were you back on the streets hustling . No. I thought about going back a few times. No, its not worth the pain that you put your family in and yourself through. Now, this is the street that im originally from. Reporter robinson says his situation is harder by the strict terms of his probation forbid ep to go back to his home neighbourhood where authorities believe hes like i to get back into troublement he must navigate areas of hostile groups. Its like im still in gaol out of jail, because they are limiting me where i can go. Ons offers fellows the opportunity to travel outside of richmond. With support from private donors, fellows ventured as far as new york, dubai and cape town. Theres one caveat. To take part the men must agree to travel with a rival. In may, raynell, took a day trip up the northern coast with rashed from the rival southside. They were accompanied by sam vaughan, a popular ons agent who spent seven years in st. Queptin prison. Before the two men signed on with ons they may have drawn guns in the street. Like gladiators. Basically. Yes. Trying to take each other out and be the copying. Reporter in their travels beyond the red lines of richmond the pair learnt that they have more in common than not. We got together and it was like it was like we was folks. We was pregnant. We was cool chilling in a room together, do you know what i mean. Reporter you discovered that someone from central and somebody from South Richmond could get along. At the same time we all me, we like most men like the same things basically women, sports, having fun, being able to enjoy themselves. Reporter would you consider rashed a friend. We cool. I know we are not friends, we are associates. We are cool. We are cool. We know its a different type of understanding. In all honesty i try to expose them to life, not the microcas they live in, the globe. Everything they have to offer. We led them experiences. They have options and use cratial skills and doing what they think they are supposed to. Reporter what if i could produce to you a couple of names much people who went through the system saying as a result of having direct relationships with the people at that office, the ons, they are less likely to commit crimes. If ons goes out of business, how many people would be back on the trip that dont have a job . How many . Where would they go from there. How do they make a living. One thing that happens in the black community that itats the heck out of me is we make false promises to people of colour. Always. Boeingan says the ons has come too far to let it happen. With city officials and private donors that support its mission. It takes a heavy, strong back bone to get though the politics of what it took to create the office and sustain and maintain its existence. Reporter what does richmond look like tomorrow, five years from now. 15 years from now. Gun violence will be eliminated. Reporter no gun violence in richmond. Yes. Reporter you say that without doubt. You cant get up and do the work we do and not believe it 150 . You cant do it. We wouldnt be where we are today in six years ago we didnt believe we would be here. Reporter its believed other cities can learn from this example. When i think about the out of the box approach in richmond, they under violence is not evil acts by evil people, but thats a culture of violence descending on a community. The only way to bring it down is to change the culture. We seen them, my boy told me who he was, i remembered him. I told them tonight will be the night he dies. We got a gun, seep him walking and then i walk upped on him and shot at him and ran. You missed him. I mussed him. Reporter its a good thing you were a bad shot. That might. Reporter four years after lipping up with the ons, kamari has started to lecture young men. Hes honest about his past. When old temptations arise, he says relationships built with ons staff keep him in line. Today im different. Im not the hard head ready to rock killer person. I made clem, im going to college. Im going to be a businessman. I have a business mindset. Thats what the streets taught me. Life is bigger that richmond and life itself. You got to make life that big. You know, you got to leave you got get offside of richmond. Michael oku reporting from ripped california. Ahead in the final thoughts of this hour, a place they know your name and the sounds you want to hear. The last roadhouse, is it a tradition at the end of the road . Stones thrown at them by the protestors an unpopular uprising. These. Violations were part of a systematic tactics by Venezuelan Security forces brutal government crack downs the amount of anger here, you can see tensions between the two sides. Is venezuela on the brink . Fault lines Al Jazeera Americas ground breaking. We have to get out of here. Award winning investigative documentary series venezuela divided on Al Jazeera America what i admire so much about Al Jazeera America is that it is solely committed to journalism. Youre not just giving the headlines, youre also not getting fluff. The gap between the rich and the poor is growing faster in san francisco. Youre going to get something youre not going to get anywhere else, and youre going to get these in depth stories about real people. As an Unsecured Creditor could receive just cents on the dollar. Chronic homelessness has always been a challenge here in new orleanlife is bigger that rd the last roadhouse, is it a road . Road . We recently did a story about a mother who was worried about the air her children were breathing. This is not standard household dust. Florida is an amazing place to work as a journalist. The Rocky Mountain west is really an Extraordinary Part of this country. I worked in nashville for six years, i know the stories that are important to people there. Overcrowding is such a big issue at this school. People in the Outer Islands of alaska picking up tsunami trash, really committed to what they are doing, and they have a lot more work to do. If you really want to tell peoples stories, youve got to go talk to the people. Real reporting. Real news. This. This. This, is what we do. Al jazeera america. Finally from us, back in the old good days a stop at a roadhouse was a comfort, a good meal, music and a bed. Those days are mostly gone, but theres one left in california, and we made a stop there. Its a unique place. We are on the edge of the earth here, you know. Ocean is right across the street. Rooms are upstairs. Its a whole different feeling as soon as you get in the door. Its a small intimate place, and its niece to have that for nice to have that for me where as a club owner i can actually meet everyone that comes through the door. Its something that is lost today. Outline the intimacy is gone. That is what music is. Music is something that you feel it within and close your eyes and get a feeling from it. Theres few clubs like this. This stage is like a foot high. What makes it unique for the artists is it is a small place, where they can catch the eye, stand a bit closer. Good afternoon, katherine. Im robert miller, i go by bobby. Im a guy that my father calls me the jackofalltrades, master of none. My wife and i put a lot of hours in here. We clone the rooms half the clean the rooms half the time, do all the bookkeeping. Were barely making it. We dont want to add up the hours, wed quit. I knew this was a place for music. It had been for years. Janice joplin supposedly played here, the temptations. In my watch i can say carrie swan, some of the wutang crowd. Leon russell played here, the english beat played here. I believe im the only roadhouse left on the west coast, on the ocean. [ music ] welcome to caspe. Home of the super onion rings. No matter who is here, 10, 20, 200, is it the same feeling . Theres many different kinds, a common thread. You are playing in a place with history, you cant walk in and not acknowledge the fact that thousands people as cool as can we have walked no the same building. [ singing ] this is the outskirts. We are in the middle of nowhere. Theres nothing between us and 30 miles to pure for of the and highway 101. [ sings ]. Ism you can play your. You can play your music, do what you want and go to bed and wake up by the ocean. Its totally unique that way. [ singing ] i have to say as time goes buy, this place has something that hunkers back to older times [ sings ]. Youre not playing here because you want to be famous. Yes. You play because you want on experience. [ sings ]. You want to experience the thing that other musicians eyed lies. Thats why you play here, so you can stopped in their shoes. Reporter what does that mean to you . A lot. Its history, i think. My pop played. I seen it go through different owners and years of being shut down. I was stoked to hear that. The reality of owning something is different. They say be careful what you wish for. Its true, but i enjoy it so much. Thats the key. I couldnt think of one thing in my life that would give me fulfilment. I would be lost. I dont know what i would do. Last stop, and its a good one. Thats it for us here on america tonight. Join us this week for dolphins. Mammals are known for their bag of tricks at aquariums and zoos. Real fans are making waves, pleading them to empty the tanks. We explore the plight of the dolphin this week on america tonight. 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