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I want to get it all out there. And they are the high profile tv couple who have been there, done that. Tonight our own Deborah Roberts and her weatherman hubtssband al roker are sharing their secrets. But first, nightline five. I work for the dogs 24 7. I am the butler. These dogs shed like crazy. Its like being inside of a snow gleb. Keep the house clean. I dont know what to do. Whats this . Offensiver er swifr sweeper and duster. It really sticks to it. Fit in all the tight spaces. Does this look familiar to yoy . Im just one of the guys. Good evening. President obama who can sometimes seem cool and distant broke into tears today at the white house talking about the victims of gun violence. Not just talking, in fact, taking action on gun control. The reaction was fast and fierce from survivors to the streets of chicago to the nra. My nightline coanchor byron pitts was tracking it all. Reporter it was a rare glimpse at americas parent in chief. From every family who never imagined their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun. Reporter camera clicks the only sound in the white house east room as the normally stoic president obama openly wept and paused to compose himself. Every time i think about those kids it get me mad. Reporter surrounded by families of gun victims today children shot to death at sandy hook elementary and all the times he had to respond to a mass shooting. Ft. Hood, bingington, auroraaurora, old creek, newtown, the navy yard, charleston, san bernardino. Too many. Reporter but today it was the same subject but differere words. Announcing new executive actions aimed at tightening gun law, rbing gun sales at the heart of his new plan to side step congress and close a loophole that allows weapons to be purchased without a background check at gun shows and online. The gun lobby may be Holding Congress hostage right now but hostage. The folks in this room will not rest until congress does. Reporter the words turned advocates around him. Monday morning, gunman burst in and started opening fire. Reporter like colin, survivor of the 2007 virginia 32 of my classmates and teachers that day were killed in what has become the worst mass shooting in American History so far. Reporter leading him to become an advocate for everytown. Org. I kept seeing Mass Shootings happen in this country repeatedly. And seeing elected officials, some of them say that, you know, theres nothing we can do about this. Thoughts and prayers and that was it. Just became, you know, unacceptable. Reporter for the last six years hes been raising awareness in what he calls gun sale loopholes, going under cover to show how easy it can be to purchase firearms at gun shows. And todays announcement, he sayses, was a moment, a sign that grass roots advocates like him were cutting through to lawmakers. It was incredibly moving and emotional in that regard. Encouraging to hear that the hard work weve done over the years cut through to the Person Holding the highest office in this country. Reporter reaction from some and fierce. These orders today i believe are not worth the piper they are written on. President obamas executive actions limiting gun rights will restrict our law abideing citizen unconstitutional, saying the proposed executive actions are right for abuse from the Obama Administration which has made no secret of its contempt for the second amendment. I think everybody should be concerned but i dont think it will ever happen. But just to make sure we want to get our permits right now. Reporter today fears of losing the right to bear arms sent this father and daughter to apply for gun permits in new york. I think its better to be safe than sorry, to get it and sosohat you have it. Reporter the expected high sales sent gun stocks like smith wesson on a upwards tear. Gun control remains one of the countrys most divisive issue. The public split almost even between protecting gun rights and control laws. Gun safety. Long overdue. Define it. Reporter divisiveness i saw firsthand last month when we asked a group of young activists to discuss the biggest issues facing the nation. If someone wants to cause you harm theyre going to cause your harm whether they have a firearm or spoon. Somebody comes into a classroom with a spoon and kills a bunch o o people, then we can talk about spoons. Reporter among them Colin Goddard and christi messinger. Were not afraid of inanimate objects. Were afraid of the people behind the inanimate objects. Reporter a youtube sensation teaching women to shoot saying its empowering. Christi sent us this video. Mr. Obamas executive order is not intended to nor will it reduce violent crimes. This is an attack on ourreedom and our privacy. Second amendment rights are important, but there are other rights that we care about as well. And we have to be able to balance them. And pursuit to happiness, those rights were taken from college kids in blacksburg, High Schoolers in columbine and first graders in newtown. Reporter he also spoke of gun violence becoming engrained in daily life like in his hometoto. By the way, it happens on the streets of chicago every day. [ applause ] this i my son, my baby. Reporter pam bosley knows the pain of losing a loved one to gun violence. Her oldest son terrell would have turned 28 today. The last time they talked, guess where he was. He was at church. I was like, baby, be careful. He was like, ma, come on, you always worry, you always worry. Im good. Im good. I dont know why youre trippin. Aint nothing going to happen to me. The next call was my baby had been shot. Reporter 18, college freshman, gunned down on his way pastors feet. The songs that once soothed pams soul now only add to her suffering. I cant watch no more. Thats my baby. I really dont watch the videos because hes supposed to still be here singing. Reporter pams son just one of the thousands who have died here in the last ten years. Chicago has one of the nations highest murder rates. A city known to some as chirack because there are more deaths than casualties during the iraq war. Pam and her husband built in backyard patio. This is the safe haven spot that i put together for terrell. Reporter it didnt protect terrell. So now she keeps an even tighter grip on her two remaining sons. As lovely as your home is, it seems like a prison. It is. My middle son told me one day, ma, you got me living inside this box. I try to let him out a little bit but it is a prison. Reporter sense her sons death pam found purpose over pain. A grass roots antigun Violence Organization in the hopes other parents wont have to suffer a similar tragedy. You going to be okay . You know what, im going to be okay when i die and go to heaven with my son terrell and with god. Reporter today is the nation refocuses attention on gun control, pam visits the grave of her son, taking the social media to post his photo next to her sons headstone with a message, thank you, president obama, for using your power to save lives. But with many in this country saying tonight the president is abusing his power, and his proposed gun control plan wont save lives but will trample them, the right to citizens. Even the president says theres a long road ahead to any resolution. For nightline, im byron pitts in new york. Next, he made global from the rubble of an earthquake after 80 hours. Months later we reconnect with him as his life may be about to change again. And later, abcs Deborah Roberts and nbcs al roker share their behind the scenes tip from a very public marriage. Huh. Introducing centrum vitamints. A brand new multivitamin you enjoy like a mint. 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The hand of fate, thats what it feels like, for the lucky ones. But we also witnessed something else, a kind of miracle, a rescue. More than 80 hours after the quake struck in this dramatic video shot by rescuers themselves, you see a young man pulled out of a collapsed building, rising through the rubble like lazarus from the dead. Its just after 10 00 p. M. Here. More than 80 hours since the earthquake. And after an incredible all day effort this team has brought this young man out of this and he is alive. His name, rishi khanal, hes 28 years old. We saw him the next day in the hospital. Rishi, how are you . Reporter his left leg crushed by a beam in the rubble had been amputated. He was alive but he faced such a struggle ahead, like nepal itself. And that is usually the end of these kinds of stories. The news moves on. But not this time. We went back recently to see how rishi khanal rescued from the rubble is recovering and how his country is coping, too. Rishi walks with difficulty now. Hes still getting used to his artificial leg. And when we zito talk he recalls his ordeal and quietly the memories pour out of him. What was it like to be trapped in there for all that time . Translator i thought that i could not survive. I thought as though im going to i cried. I wept. I remembered my family. I could not figure out if it was day or night and i thought i would starve to dealt. Reporter but survival is only half the story. Rishi struggles now. Its a long road ahead. And you need to know this about rishi. He had plans for a better life. When the quake hit he was staying at a hotel preparing to leave nepal for dubai and a 220 a month job as a cleaner at kentucky fried chicken. I have fixed feelings, he tells me. Im happy because im alive but im sad because i cannot go anywhere and work anywhere. We went back to that hotel with him. His first time. Its rubble now. It would have been his grave. Do you feel like this is the place that you came back from we h thought he was going to die. Cannot speak a word. Now hes back. There. Reporter as we are there with rishi, a crowd gathers. Everyone knows rishi . Youre famous. Reporter he has become a symbol of hope for this country. This is your hotel, yeah . Reporter by sheer luck the owner of the wrecked hotel is here, too. You were here that night, too . Reporter he wants a picture with his most famous guest. And then this. He offers rishi a job, a desk job, when his new hotel opens. You will give him a job here . Yes. Why . Reporter the owner tells us, i need staff to run my hotel so i will give it to him. Hes a skip from the jaws of death like all of us, so we are together in this. Reporter others have reached out to help rishi, too. His leg paid for by the nonprofit disability assistance sarah blen is the country director in nepal. Rishi khanal is somebody who represents the hardship of having to suffer an injury that will lead to a disability. But also hes a symbol of how possible, you know, it is to recover. Reporter and as we saw with him at the handicap International Clinic where a big part of recovery is reaching out to others. Once he receives the necessary care and he understood that there was hope for him, he really gains he gained popularity also, in the center he was also helping others be more positive about their own situation. Reporter so rishi khanals long journey, it all just might turn out okay in the end. Across this shattered city and beyond, we saw more of the hard work of recovery, like the cleanup mission, villagers hauling sand and rock to help rebuild. Long after the world stops take care of each other and move forward withinone step at a time. Next, they work for competing Television Networks by day and by night they have often competing agendas in their marriage. 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We dont like the same foods. We dont like a lot of the same music. We dont like a lot of the same theater or efshtsz. But we love each other very much and we have a deep and abiding respect and feeling for family. Yes. Reporter they credit that deep and abiding love to their ability to weather lifes every day storms in their new joint memoir been there, done that the couple share the funny and difficult lessons theyve learned on their journey through was it your idea or were you approached to write this book . How did it come to by. Every time al and i would get together with friends and we Start Talking about the dinner table about our opinions, of course were very different. I would always have a different opinion from al, he was wrong and i was right. Our friends would stand in awe and they write this stuff down. Reporter they share how they learned from their mistakes. There was a time when we really had a major competitive argument over a story. And it took a little chunk out of our relationship. It was difficult. And i think we learned a valuable lesson at that time about how important work is versus how important our relationship is. At the end of the day, gets will come and go but our relationship is more enduring. Reporter and that its important to keep it all in perspective. In the world of he said, she said, should you wear matching outfits to events . No, absolutely not. Lets define matching outfits. Matching hawaiian shirts. At a formal event i may pick out a tie that accents that color. Its fine but its annoying. Lets talk about driving. Living in new york city. Be aggressive. I just zip ahead. Yeah, well. Yeah. I believe in allowing space. Im not in that grit. Marrowio andretti, little old lady. The kids love it when i drive. They do. Lets face it, who doesnt like being on the indy 500 going down 50th avenue . Reporter but at the end of the day its not about who wins the argument, they say its all about find that person who brings out the best in you. Nicely done. Thank you. Nicely done. We couldnt be more different in terms of where we came from and just really love, i think, for each other that at the end everything. Reporter for nightline, im lara spencer in new york. Our thanks to lara and deborah and al and our thanks to tonight