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Have given away $35 billion since 1994. thats about $4,859,000 every day. he talks about his biggest emergency grant ever. $50 million to fight ebola. >> this gift to fight ebola. how important that the world get involved in this fight? >> the disease is out of control in the three countries right now. >> reporter: a health system he and his wife melinda are determined to help build. he grew up in seattle. he organized the family competitions, reading with the siblings at an early age. a lot of ...

Ive had three years. and my daddy passed away, and i ran. and i was running, gunning strong ever since. so im going to do it again and stay that way because if my mom was to pass away while i was in prison, i would never forgive myself. and shes not -- shes not healthy. shes sick. so -- and i want to regain the respect of my oldest daughter. i dont want them to be all, moms just another convict, addicted, jerk-off, worth nothing. so ill show i am worth it. so thats -- yay. im stuck on stuff toda...

Im going to do the hard thing because anything worth it is worth working for. and ive been sober before. ive had three years. and my daddy passed away, and i ran. and i was running, gunning strong ever since. so im going to do it again and stay that way because if my mom was to pass away while i was in prison, i would never forgive myself. and shes not -- shes not healthy. shes sick. so -- and i want to regain the respect of my oldest daughter. i dont want them to be all, moms just another convi...

Self-absorbed, addicted, distracted, and ignorant people. therefore, we are a country in decline primarily because 320 million american citizens arent paying attention. they do not seem to be interested in the welfare of their country. they are primarily interested in their own welfare. >> were going to get back to oreilly in a moment. we had our own toxic mess up on t "the five." >> look at this. >> how can i talk without my notes? >> eric and his exuberance as he usually is, went to wave. and ...

Theyre cutting it with sugars and things like that, and other ingredients. for example, xanax, even tylenols or things like that. they put quinine in it to cause an itchy, scratchy feeling, which there is a mythology is if you have an itchy, scratchy feeling from the haeroiheroin, good heroin. you know, the dealers were adding quinine to the heroin back then. >> in terms of treatment, what kind of treatment is it, is it effective? >> the treatment is controversial. youre a harm avoidance advocat...

Desperation. sometimes a lot of celebrities, the photos are much classier. they dont show as much. they dictate the terms of which theyre going to do these photo shoots. dana plato did it because she needed to. she needed the money, and she needed the exposure. >> narrator: instead of leading to calls from major studios, danas pictorial led to calls from the adult film industry. fed up with hollywood, plato fled l.a. determined to make a fresh start. >> brown: by the time dana was 25, she really...

Personal life. we may be in a world soon where all we have is moral legislation without the law. is there anything that anybody could have told you that would have stopped you from using drugs? >> i became an addict because i started as a teenager and i had the genetic predisposition to become an ad iktd because it ran in my family. i worry about that and it is the law. i think we do certain things because they protect society at large. and i dont want someone who thinks it is no big deal on lig...

And ive been sober before. ive had three years. and my daddy passed away, and i ran. and i was running, gunning strong ever since. so im going to do it again and stay that way because if my mom was to pass away while i was in prison, i would never forgive myself. and shes not -- shes not healthy. shes sick. so -- and i want to regain the respect of my oldest daughter. i dont want them to be all, moms just another convict, addicted, jerk-off, worth nothing. so ill show i am worth it. so thats -- ...

>> but what many found was a far cry from what they had been led to expect. >> it would just seem so different than what we saw in the movies. the movies were so exciting. then especially when you got to your living quarters. the living quarters was totally different. you had a few other people in the living quarters that you thought you were going to be in by yourself. >> deep in the jungle with one dirt road in, jonestown was now jim jones solitary kingdom. a heart of darkness far from the pry...

Ive had three years. and my daddy passed away, and i ran. and i was running, gunning strong ever since. so im going to do it again and stay that way because if my mom was to pass away while i was in prison, i would never forgive myself. and shes not -- shes not healthy. shes sick. so -- and i want to regain the respect of my oldest daughter. i dont want them to be all, moms just another convict, addicted, jerk-off, worth nothing. so ill show i am worth it. so thats -- yay. im stuck on stuff toda...