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Number 1 in just 60 seconds. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Tonight, the great gun debate. A tale of two cities determining to save young lives. In kansas city, missouri a mayor fighting for stricter gun laws. And in oakland, california operation ceasefire. How this is fueling conversation and becoming a reality no one can ignore. Pisss me off. And it should. It should piss everybody in this country off. Theres no reason for a lot of these people to die. None. Why do we accept it in. Reporr kansas city mayor sly james is a man on a mission. Desperate to decrease the number its obscene. Reporter and in his city 2016 is not off t a promising start. We had four, five murders in the first four days, five days. Of this year. Of this year. Reporter the debate over whether or not stricteter gun laws save lives is no more clear than here in missouri. In the past decade missouri has relaxed their gun lawsand in that same time span gun deaths have increased 16 . Mayor james has had enough. Too many people die, and they dont have to. And somebody needs to say that, and somebody needsds to care prrpt the debate over how to protect americans from guns while still protecting the right to bear arms is a major issue on the campaiaign trl. And i will continue to take on the gun lobby. The Second Amendment is so theyre not going to take your guns away, folks. Eporter this week the president issuing his own executive actions for gun control. And becoming emotional when recalling the victims of mass newtown. Those kids it gets me ma reporter r mayorly james has innocent child killed. I went to the scene of a 3yearold who had gotten killed in a drivebby shooti while he slept in his bed. Reporter and on the streets the calls for the police to respond to gun violence come all too frequent. Shots fired calls. That comes to about 16 a day. Reporter 16 a day . Thats what it averages out to, yes. Reporter that seems like a lot for a city like kansas city. A realityhat the preside could not ignore. Meanwhile, since missouri repealed a law requiring comprehensive background checks and purchase permits, gun deaths have increased to an almost 50 higher than the national average. What was your sense when in the president s remarks the other day you mentioned your city by name . We always like to have our city mentioned by the president but not necessarily in that light. We have an issue here with gun violencece. Limit the sale and proliferation of guns. Reporter lifelong kansas City Resident ralind temple knows all too well the pain caused by gun violence in this cityty. In november 2011 her 26earold son Antonio Thompson was shot dead in his own home. Your face lights up when you talk about him. It does. He used to always make me laugh. He was always byy his mother. He was one of the mama boys. Reporter the homicide rate is so high here that mothers of together. We call on 60 mothers weekly to check on families to see how theyredoing. My main focus this week is to get them to come into our human support. Reporter rosalind leads a group called mothers in charge. Let me know if anything we can do, come out and call. Reporter a group of individuals who provide support violence. Community. We fight back. Reporter you okay . Yeah. Im okay. Reporter its hard still. Its hard. Reporter rosalind actually keeps a hotline fwoenerphone with her at all times. The calls comee in 24 7. Every time my phone rings once a homicide occur, the murder squad, they call me and i meet them out there. Because if its not no one there, im there for that loved one. Reporter how wld you describe the pace of the killings here now . Theyve been fast. Reporter missouri as you know has some of the most lax gun laws in the country. Whats that mean here in kansas city for you and your organization, the families you work with . Whe that law changed last year, it devastated me and mothers and families in this community. Reporter nearly 2,000 miles away in californiaia, a state with far stricter gun laws than missouri, gun deaths have decreased slightly since the introduction of stricter laws in 2013. But gun laws only goo far. Still ravaged some of its toughest neighborhoods, residents tell us. How old was he . He was a young cat, right . Yeah. The guy who died last week was 17. Reporter to combat growing crime in 2012 oaklaland implemented opoperation ceasefire, a coation formed by groups in the community, lol government and clergy. Led by pastors mike and ben mcbride. So here were spending a lot of our work here in the bay area, particularly here in oakland oakland, building relationships with those who are highest at risk to commit acts of violence, providing them service and onramps to change their lives. We find they are actually able to stop shooting and see their lives transfmed. Reporter they view their work with the utmost urgency. This is an act of survival for us. This isnt an act of charity. This is an act of altruism. We do this every day because we know if we dont our own lives may very well be at risk and certainly the lives of our children. Reporter they lead whats oakland, engaging personally on the ground with atrisk youth. Were walking these neighborhoods, trying to really see, you know, who are folks that are actually hanging out in sosome of thspaces that we can connect with. Its the consistency of showing up in the same places, building the relationships. Reporter as a result of this strategy, oakland has seen a 20 decrease in homicides. Its a program that has worked for 27yearold clarence ford. A mentee of michael mcbrides for the last decade. I try to lead by example. And like let people know that, you know, change is possible. I had my hardships. It was difficult. But its possible. [ applause ] reporter tonight, president obama is back at it, headlining cnns guns in america town hall. Theres nothing else iour lives thatat we purchase where we dont try to make it a little safer if we can. Reporter and in the audience families who have lost loved the bottom line is is that it doesnt matter what the reason, it doesnt matter what the color. It doesnt matter what the economic, socioeconomic status is, theres too many peopl dying in this country at the end of a gun and theres too little being done to change it. Reporter the mayor did admit to us there is still no easy answer. Next, could race be a factor for women looking for love . And later, you never want to have to part with youret. So if you could, would you clone your furry friend . Get hungry just thinking about em. And at red lobsters big festival of avors you can savor 2 of 7 new and classic creations on one plate for 15. 99. Like delicious new mapleandbacon grilled shrimp, because cmon, what doesnt bacon go with . Get a little kick with these new ghost pepper bbq grilled shrimp. 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Reporter but for monae happily ever aer was short lived pf. If were going to call each productive. Thats not a name. Thats a legitimate characteristic. How did that work out . It didnt work out. Reporter monae and her husband Vaughn Copeland called it quits afterust five weeks. You got my keys . Got the keys. Y havee almost 5,000 looks. Reporter since then monae has tried and failed at finding mr. Righght. I feel like i deserve Something Better than what ive been getting from the men im dating. Reporter its ann issue tt black women in particular have a lot to say about. It is verhard for black women to find love. In fact, just abo every black woman you ask that question will say that its almost impossible. Reporter accorng to the census, black women are far less likely than their white counterparts to get mayorrried. People dont want to admit what the reality is. Professional black women are not making it up. Reporter at 34 monet is still on a queuest for true love, this time on another reality blacklove is selfhelp meets sex and the city. An inside look at the dating and ama of five single black women living in new york cicity. All attempting to discove whats keeping them from finding love. What i really want is a gentleman. Reporter relationship experts and therapists coach them along the way. As a woman of color sometimes we hear that black women are too strong in a relationship. I guess my question is why do you have to go tough training in order to date and get married . Well, im still single. So if im still sisingle, i need to look atyself and say monet, like what are you doing wrong . Are you projecting something o out you that dont really wt to project . Or what is it about me thats eitherurning men off or not getting men or not having not meeting a man whos in a space where he wants to commit . Reporter the shows title was born out of the overwhelming social media use of that hashtag during the first season of married at first sight. As viewers rooted for the the two black participants. A lot of the black twitter or the Africanamerican Community would hashtag black love in support of us. They wanted us to make it. We are hungering to see a healy black relationship on television. And there are more and more. You need to focus. Reporter relationships like the one portrayed on the abc show blackish. Maybe youre right, babe. Thank you. Youre welcome. E. Love you. I love you too. Theyre funny. Theyre down toearth. Theyre struggling to raise their kids. President . Here. You can see a little bit of yourself in that if you are married and you can see a little bit of your hope for the future if youre not. Reporter whether black women really do have a harderr te finding love is a provocative subject and one nightline has debated before. I would be lying if i said that i dont have fleeting thoughts of okay, im 32, my clock is ticking. Reporter in 2009 chateau waters was a 32yearold highh school counselor. Brains, beauty, stable career. And she was also single. A lot of our white friends are married about 25, like happily married. Kids by 27. And were like what is the deal with the bgs . And thats the black girls. Reporter since then chateau has gotten married and has two kids. A lot of my black professional educated friends say that its so hard to find love because the pool of black men is so small. Reporter 75 of blackck wom will eventually get married. And like with any race or gender, finding the right partner can take years. Its a social catastrophe that were in the midst of with respect tolack men. Imprisonment numbers, the unemployment numbers, underperformance academically. These are crises. Reporter stanford professor Ralph Richard banks found the statistics so troubling he wrote a book aboutut them called is black women have fought the good fight. Theyve engaged in a noble endeavor of trying to lif black men. That strategy hasnt really worked. I i really enjoyed this reporter the idea of black women giving up on black menen only served to make some angry. Theres no other ethnic group anywhere advocates annihilating their own race. Reporter but bank argues if you look at the numbers theres simply a shortage of eligible black men. Black women are faced with a shortage o black male peers would do well to expand their options in the same way that people of other races have and to look beyond black men in their search for a partner. Reporter monet says shes open to dating outside her race. I just want lov and i just want to be happy. And if it comes with a black man, i think that would be amazing. But if it came in a differentnt somethg other than africanamerican id be okay with that as well. Reporter so the search goes i am going out with this guy. Weve been hanging out, dating for a couple of months now. Le is good. I know. And i like him. I think hes a good guy. Hes grounded. Hes a gentleman. And hes handsome. I love these. Reporter in the mantime, shes making plans to freeze her eggs. The moment i made that decision was the moment it alleviated so much stress. Reporter and if she doesnt find true love, shes learning to be fine with that too. Finally im coming to the place to realize that im okay and that im enoh and whomever this man i is if he doesnt like it im done, like im at a place where im tired. Its too much work. Reporter for nightline im linzie davis in new york. And next, how mans best friend just became twice as loyal. Good thing geieico offer affordable renters insurance. 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You know, never in his life would he dream of even the slightest growl at anyone. Reporter the dna that made him was harvested 12 days after his donor died, making scientific history. Weve been able t amass special knowledge,e, sort of personal knowhow regarding the method and cloning of best cloning of a dog. Reporter pet cloning is becoming a big business the seoul Scientists Say theyve cloned over 700 dogs with a 40 pregnancy success rate, the worlds highest. About the process. Pet. Oh, look at how cute you are. Reporter for many grievg pet owners its a way to connect with their furry loved ones side. He cannot have been happy he looked very, very handsome. Reporter danielle tarantova told my nightline coanchor dan harris that cloning her dog trouble was worth every penny. I couldnt believe it. Its amazing. Everything is the same. Everything. Even his personality is the same. What trouble used to doe does. So his names double trouble. Yeah. First ones trouble. Second ones double. Reporter but critics have major concerns. They say there are tons of other potential pets out there who are looking for homes. There are some who worry this could be a slippery slope to human cloning. Plus for those people forking over major money theres no guarantee your cloned pet will have the same personality as your original pet. Nature versus nurture. So genetics also plays an Important Role in it, but also the environment of it. There aree very cracteristics as well that are very similar to those of the original dono reporter but laura and richard seem like perfectly ppy customers. And just to get that piece of dylan, i mean, ill basically be able to see dylans face. And just having that part of him like a member of his family just means the wld to us. In this year of president ial politics we are reminded tonight about dogs. It was harry truman who said, if you want a friend in washington, get a dog. Thank you for watcng. America first thing tomorrow. 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