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As her husband won the second term with her own approval rating skyrocketing, the first lady exuded a growing confidence in her role. >> i dont think anybody could be prepared for the white house unless youd been there before. i watched her get increasingly comfortable both with her ability to be in that space, command it. most importantly how to use it. >> magazines like "vogue" lauded michelle as an icon of style. >> she wanted young african-american girls to look at the cover of "vogue" and s...

Pendleton, a young high school student at martin luther king high school on the south side, had been killed while swinging on swings at the park. it later came out that she and the band had performed at the inauguration right before that happened. >> michelle and her staff attended the memorial service in chicago. >> this was a little michelle. this was a young african-american teen girl from the south side doing great in school. big dreams. michelle was lucky enough to live out her dreams. hide...

And spoke passionately about what he calls a broken system. >> im angry. im frustrated. and im frustrated and angry that were here again talking about another senseless murder. pick out the names, idea pendleton, the list goes on and on this has got to stop. we can put 10,000 police officers on the street and what would happen? maybe well arrest mr. brown 90 times and nothing will happen. maybe well take another 10,000 guns off the street and another 10,000 will fill up that illegal market the n...

>> when first lady michelle obama returns home to chicago to raise money for at-risk kids, she reflects on the recent murder of a 15-year-old band majorette, shot in the back on her way home from school just weeks after performing at president obamas second inauguration. >> hidea pendleton was me, and i was her. but i got to grow up. see, at the end of the day, this is the point i want to make, that resources matter. today too many kids in the city are living just a few "l" stops from world clas...

>> hidea pendleton was me and i was her. but i got to grow up. at the end of the day, this is the point i want to make, that resources matter. today, too many kids in the city are living just a few l stops from world class museums and universities, yet all of that might as well be in a different state, even in a different continent, because many of them dont even know that the university of chicago exists. let alone dream of attending that university or any university for that matter. because in...

>> when first lady michelle obama returns home to chicago to raise money for at-risk kids, she reflects on the recent murder of a 15-year-old band majorette, shot in the back on her way from school just weeks after performing at president obamas second inauguration. >> hidea pendleton was me and i was her. but i got to grow up. at the end of the day, this is the point i want to make, that resources matter. today, too many kids in the city are living just a few l stops from world class museums an...

City. >> when first lady michelle obama returns home to chicago to raise money for at-risk kids, she reflects on the recent murder of a 15-year-old band majorette, shot in the back on her way from school just weeks after performing at president obamas second inauguration. >> hidea pendleton was me and i was her. but i got to grow up. at the end of the day, this is the point i want to make, that resources matter. today, too many kids in the city are living just a few l stops from world class muse...

>> reporter: there were several heartbreaking stories in 2013 including the killing of 15-year-old hidea pendleton, shot after taking a final exam. president obama talked about her in his state of the union. >> she was shot and killed in a chicago park after school. just a mile away from my house. >> reporter: the biggest problem still facing chicago according to mccarthy is illegal guns and the lack of accountability for those caught with one. an example, the man accused of killing pendleton wh...

Passage routes a body was found in a dumpster that man apparently killed overnight and chicago remains plagued with violence. >> a guy laying in the middle of the street. looks like he is shot. >> when the gunshots rang out on chicagos troubled south and west side. someone knows they are coming whether the violence is driven by drug vad or ventricle nate that. word hits the street before bullets fly. >> everyone knows who has guns who is running the streets. everyone knows. its a matter of the n...