Nightline will be right back. Caring and lovable. So when did you first allow yourself to dream of being adopted by the hawthorns . Probably about a year after being in foster care. When my sisters told me about them and told me how nice they were and i saw them at visits. And i just really wanted to be adopted by them ever since then. Reporter it would take this group six months and require the help of their state senator for the hawthorns to make it official to become a forever family. So youre the hawthorn 15 . Hawthorn yeah. Hawthorn 15. Reporter micah is terri and mikes youngest biological child, now 21. I remember the day so clearly. We came and sat down at our Kitchen Table and they were just like, you know, this is a really big commitment and its a big commitment for our age. Its a big commitment for this many children. And its an even bigger commitment with their behavior issues. Reporter an aspiring actress, micah was then weeks shy of moving to hollywood. And we are well pas
-i m sorry? -what teach here isn t telling you is that snapshot rewards safe drivers with discounts on car insurance. -what? -or maybe he didn t know. [ chuckles ] i m done with this class. -you re not even enrolled in this class. -i know. i m supposed to be in ceramics. do you know -room 303. -oh. thank you. -yeah. -good luck, everybody. finally, she saved the dogs, and you saved the shelter. last night, you met chella phillips, who runs a shelter called the voiceless dogs of nassau, bahamas. she showed us the nearly 100 dogs she sheltered during hurricane dorian in her own
Home. every room. under her bed. in her kitchen. in the living room. they had lost power and her home began to flood. she wrote they were scared. that the wind sounded like a train that would not pass. we won t forget what chella wrote, that she even sang to the dogs to calm them. and tonight, so many of you responding. the shelter s donation page overwhelmed. more than $100,000 donated in just the last 24 hours. chella writing to us from her friend s home, her power is still out. i am so grateful so many people reached out with donations. now it s possible for me to move to another location. chella told us last night she planned to build a larger shelter. tonight, saying, thank you for asking about us, that sent people in our direction to help us and now rescuers are wanting to help take my homeless and help them. god bless you all. thank you at home. new at 6:00 we re learning