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Some students described as a turning point. >> a new journey for me now. we had a few people cry. they were emotional. i was emotional too. i almost cried. >> reporter: for more than two hours the first lady met with 19 students from harper high school which had 29 current or former struds students shot in the past year. >> she said i am from chicago. these are my streets. i know these streets. she know. there aint nothing in the sun my family havent went through. >> reporter: the first lady joi...

And then maybe, just maybe, today more of our young people would be in classrooms and at jobs instead of in custody, facing even worse odds than they started out with. see, at the end of the day, this is the point i want to make. that resources matter. they matter. that what it takes to build strong, successful young people isnt genetics, or pedigree, or good luck, its opportunity. and i know from my own experience, i started out with exactly the same aptitude, exactly the same intellectual, emo...