>> many of these involved targeted informant led stings. >> to them, everyone in the muslim community is a potential informant or a potential terrorist. >> grant, did you think you shared all a the times you shared your work with your daughter that that would thwart off her being exploited? >> it was. as a parent we're told to give more information. more information is good. give more information earlier. in this particular case that i can't think of thing that we didn't provide for michaela or did provide michaela of information, how young women are exploited, and pathways that led to that exploitation, and it did not do anything to stop her. >> michaela, were you connecting the dots between the work your dad does, what happens to women, and what you were engaged in? >> at the time, no. because i thought that it wasn't anything bad even though i knew it was bad, i thought it was normal. everyone was doing it. now i know there is a huge connection. >> grant, when she was bullie bully, shamed by her peers. you got a mixed reaction between kids and their parents. is this something that they do not want to see from their kids, who are only in the seventh grade? >> i spent a lot of time reflecting on the reactions that we got. not only from the parents but from the parents. there was a real sense of what do we do now? how are you going to help us to try and protect michaela? because obviously when she's in our home we know she's okay, or we thought she was okay. but in the school a lot of bullying took place on th on the school bus, and we were not protecting her. there were a lot of adults, in retrospect, of adults with their heads in the sand, not wanting to acknowledge that it could be my child. trying to look at this as a problem that is somebody elses. >> michaela, this is how young people date now. you said all your friends did it. do they still do it after what you went through? >> i'm not in the same group of friends now. but my group of friends do it, and a lot of people in my grade do it. it's just a social norm now, and it's not okay. >> what clicked for you when you stopped feeling like a victim and you field empowered to speak out to groups and law enforcement and explain what you went through? what triggered that? >> my whole trigger was that it really did come from my parents. it came from that i need to show people that this is work. i need people to know that it's not okay, and i just want to help anybody that i can. >> brentgrant, you and your daughter have been talking about these issues. one of the things that you confront people with is the role of online pornography. >> this is an extension of pornfication of our children, the connection phoeni the pornography of women, exploitation of children, it's undeniable. this is the same mechanism at work. the advance commercial exploitation of young women and adult women. >> michaela, there is no count in the study that we reference that girls are not innocent in all of this. about 42% of girls in the study request inappropriate pictures from boys, but it seems more often than not that the girls are the one who is are the shamed. they're called out. they're bullied. that happened to you. what is the message to boys? what is the message to parents of boys. >> you should not be asking for stuff. it's not okay. >> i would add onto that. she tapped me on the arm, so i think she wants me to. i think its time to confront the young men and old men, we have malfunction malfunctioning in our society. when we have behaviors so socially accepted that young women believe that this normal, and this is an obligation that they have to fulfill at such an early age we have to confront that. we can't start too early to do that. we have to be starting before middle school, because that's where a lot of this begins. >> thank you for speaking out on this subject. grant and michaela. thank you. >> "consider this" will be right back. >> between 1990 and 2003 nasa launched four satellites to photograph our galaxy across the >> between 1990 and 2003.oss the orbiting telescope saw things a little differently, and now the youngest of the four satellites has just finished its mission. the spitzer space telescope is an infrared camera, it detects objects that our eyes can't see and it has taken 2.5 million photographs over the course of almost 10 years in operation. >> 2.5 million photographs stitched together into one big view, which allows you to zoom in incredibly far to see all the way out past the dust and so forth that blocks our normal vision and look through infrared through all of that dust out at stars that are all the way out at the edge of our known galaxy. >> and being able to see all of it in infrared means we're seeing distant stars, stars at least 100 times larger than our own sun. the ability to navigate among these stars is invaluable to astronomers, but even to a casual observer it's pretty mind-blowing. >> the ebola outbreak has made many realize that it could be revived as a terror weapon. according to the who the naturally occurring small pox occurred in sow mall why in 1977. small pox also lurks on the internet. the sigh against for the small pox genome was stored in the early 90's, and still can be found online. we go to kyle olsen a terror expert. kyle, very good to have you with us. a well-equipped bio technology lap might be able to replicate the small oh poxvirus today. and create an artificial small pox virus, and a small lab might be able to do this. >> the working word is "might." we've worked and moved so fast in genetic engineering that we can now literally essentially set a printer to work putting together the coding to create what at least is the molecule. that's a remarkable achievement, whether we're talking about the small pox or synthetic hormones. being able to go from printing the molecule to inserting it into a cell and suddenly having an inacted virus i think the article was a little over-simplistic on that, but i think where we're going to be tomorrow is going to be down that track. >> small pox killed 03% 6 it's victims and it was described as one of the most efficient killers, and i'm certainly old enough to remember the fear because there was no cure. we know that al-qaeda cass interested in small pox, it could be a terror weapon if revived? >> the reason why small pox--let's step back. we irradicated small pox because 6 vaccinatio of vaccination, we stamped the disease out because we made it impossible for it to continue in existence in the human population. we eradicated small pox about 30 years ago. we have not kept up that global vaccination program. we've not continued to follow up with boosters as necessary. today we've got a population, even the people who are vaccinated 30, 40, 50 years ago, a and they think that they're safe against small pox, their immunization against that disease has probably license licenselapsed to some degree. you have a population who would be susceptible to small pox. it's not unbeatable, but there is a danger. >> people like me who have had the small pox vaccination, but we probably could start it up again. >> there is small pox vaccine. we know how to make it. we have technology that works, but people have been letting it slide. >> there is a best selling novel that suggests that small pox could be created in a small lab. >> mother nature alters viruses all the time. certainly scientifically credible that you cocoa that. but when you're tinkering with these things you're likely to destroy it's viability as you are to create i it, with you manmade weapons stays on the minds of homeland security all the time. >> there are some people who think that north korea may have some. should we be concerned? we've seen mistakes made by labs and hospitals in the ebola case. >> i don't worry about the stock piles that are in russia or atlanta. those stock piles. we know where they are. they're well maintained and taken care of. rumors of north korea were floating around a couple of decades ago, and that's the kind of thing that people keep their eyes on. you know, keep in mind that we have stock piles in both countries for largely three reasons. one, military. the u.s. did not want to get rid of small pox if the russians were because there was talk of weaponnizing. there is a scientific reason, which again you don't necessarily want to get rid of that because of mutations or whatever else you need to work with the source of material. and there is an ethical reason to destroy the stock piles. these are a form of life, if not semi life and the ethical issues of randomly saying we're going to destroy the last organisms there are ethical organisms. i don't worry. labs tinkering with small pox because mother nature is tinkering with viruses all the time. >> i know there is debate to destroy the existing viruses between russia and the u.s. thank you. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. >> we'll be back with more of " "consider this." people are... in ways that you don't get to see from the short appearances >> unconventional... >> if i can drink this... i don't see why you should be able to smoke that... >> unscripted... >> we gonna do this? 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>> lisa, it's a possibility. it really could be unlimited energy some day. you need to basically be creating more energy than it requires to put into the process. no one has been able to do that before. people have been able to make big amountings of energy using processes like this in the past, but it takes endless amounts of energy to create the conditions. if as lockheed claims they can put together a relatively portable, a practicer-trailer-size reactser, put energy in it and get massive amount out on the order of 100 megawatts, enough to power a small town, it could be a big game changer. the question is can they do that? >> what is it that sets lockheed apart from everything else that working on fusion? >> they have taken huge, huge amounts of machinery to experiment on this. iit's like it's only little city to do this. to be able to smash this down into a reactor that could fit into tractor trailer, if they could do that, that would change the game. >> none of the others have come if fruition, that's why many are skeptical about this announcement, but the fact that it's coming from lockheed martin make it credible for you? >> it's hard to investigate for many reasons. they're also a military contractor, so they're not in the business of sharing their data, and no data was shared with this. no data. when you look at fusion claims you have a lot of data lookeddality and the whole business of science has to do with reviewing other people's data, refining it, experimenting and none of that will apply here. on the other hand lockheed is in the business of creating stuff that does not work. and they don't typically advertise their stuff early. there really is a--it's an interesting claim. the idea that they're being bold with this, ands coming from a company like this, we don't know. >> there is a lot of priorit propriety information involved, why are they keeping so much of it to themselves. >> i think it has to do with the cultural of being military contractors. i went to the facility, plant 42, it's private contractors renting space from the air force surrounded by guards and guns and they're guarding state secrets. oftentimes other contractors, boeing and lockheed, they may be on the same facility, but they don't talk to one another. there is a whole culture of secrecy here that no one appreciates fully. for this thing to benefit from human kind is an unusual thing. i think that's why there is such a tight lid on it. >> jacob washed. thank you for joining us. >> we'll be back with more on "consider this." >> we heard about the need for a conversation on race for years. and a new film may have started one. "dear white people" look at hypocrisy on elite college campuses. >> dear white people. the minimum requirement of black friends to not seem racist has been risen to two. and your weed man does not count. dear white people, stop petting my hair. does it look like a petting zoo. >> eppy join us from los angeles. the movie points out the hypocrisy of many college who is think they're open-minded about race but they're just as divided as answer other school. it has started a major conversation about the subtle prejudices that students face every day. you have great reviews and celebrities. >> thank you. >> you have two award nominations on thursday. what why you think that the film and it's ideas are resonating so much for people from so many different backgrounds. >> thank you for that. we're excited that people have respond sod well. i think one of the reasons that people have been resonating with this is it's a subject in a he ihehe ihe is sow esoterical way. >> the film brings up parties on campus where is white students dress up as the worst stereotypes possible, and it's something that has been happen forgive years. >> it has been happening, and unfortunately it's been happening now. i think that this movie will actually shine a light on this is a micro aggression. what are you doing? and where i don't feel like a lot of people are doing it with malicious intent, i don't think that they really understand the repercussion of it. >> do you think it has gotten better? >> you know, i personally think that i'v i've--it's been a long time since i've been in college. i think it's gotten a little bit better but it's got a long way to go. it's subtly moved where it's not so overt where it is someone wanting to touch your hair, or you don't need sunscreen because you don't burn. because you're black? random stuff like that that makes you think, what? what do you mean? do you know what you're saying? >> it's at as overt as might have happened in the past. >> it's not as overt. >> the hair and appearance the film tackles the subtle jabs. here is a clip why one student rants about white students talking about her hair. >> so, i hate to do it to you, but i'm going to have to get real black with you for a second. the other day a girl had the nerve to ask me if my hair was weaved? first of all, if your regoin you're going to fix your mouth to say something like that, say it right, it's weave, now, present tense. >> the film brings it up. white people say things that they don't think is prejudiced but it is. really, there is an educational side of it. but it tackles things that african-americans say to each other. >> it does. i think that a lot of times people don't we don't talk about within our own communities this racial tension within our community. but i do feel that cocoa is a great example when she's bringing up the other girl who is talking about her hair or even her relationship with troy is really interesting as well. >> and really it addresses so many different issues, including the diversity of the black experience and the diversity of racism. >> exactly. that's one of the things that i really appreciate that is in justin's descrip script. there are many, many ways to be quote/unquote black, and a lot of times we don't get to explore that. in this movie we have different types of students who are looking within their own racial identity of how they're fitting in. are they black enough? are they not black enough? what does that mean? and i think these characters pull it together. you have lionel, who does not want to be labeled black or gay. he just wants to be himself. then you have coco, who is by any means necessary trying to go into this celebrate culture and how to get there. so i feel that this really does tackle an entertaining and educational in a very entertaining way the diversity of racism within the community, and how also it gets perceived throughout. >> "dear white people" is playing nationwide. eppy brown its great to have you with us. best of luck with the movie. >> thanks for having me. >> the conversation continues on our website. we're also on facebook and twitter. and you can tweet me @amora tv. we'll see you next time. but it's not a crisis of illegal drugs. it's one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all related to opium. collectively, they are called opioids. >> these are the opioid painkillers. and prescriptions for drugs like these have more than quadrupled over the last 15 years - to the extent that the us now consumes more than 80 percent of the

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