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To be a gap in prevention when we know the harm, the human harm as well as the cost of allowing someone to contract hiv even now that it is not the death sentence that it used to be thanks to these amazing advancements. it's why we need a prescription drug plan like the one i'm putting forward that caps the amount that anybody would have to pay and that sees to it that low income people are subsidized so that cost is never a barrier to the ability to get life-saving medication, and it means breaking the stigma around exposure to hiv and around the lgbtq community in general so there is no reas...

>> reporter: at a sunday morning vigil, music from billy ray cyrus, channing smith's mother remembering her 16-year-old. >> he could walk into a room and smile and light the whole room up. >> reporter: just over a week ago, channing, who had not publicly identified as lgbtq, sent sexually explicit text messages to a boy in his school. friends tell nbc news the boy sent screen shots to a female student and those spread across social media channing wrote on instagram, i really hate how i can't trust anyone because those i did were so fake. bye. within hours, he took his own life >> these message...

Some words of advice for people at home listening as to what the dangers are here? >> absolutely. on the memorial service we had on thursday that was organized by channing's classmates i gave a short little speech and i more or less outlined we live in the day and time where you can assassinate someone's character in one instant by posting something on social media and they need to give it more thought. when you're young a lot of times you don't think through the chain of the events to the end and know what the consequences will be, but things need to be taken very seriously. we can humiliate ...

Student outed him as bisexual, his private messages with another boy were posted for all to see on social media. joining us is josh smith, channing's older brother. josh, as a parent, i just want to say, my heart goes out to you as a parent and sibling. tell us about your brother, just tell us what folks should know about him? he seems like a remarkable kid. >> channing was the sweetest kid on earth. he was 6'3", 230 pounds. he was a big kid. music was his passion. he loved cars like corvettes and motorcycles. he loved his job that he recently got at burger king. he wanted to be able to make h...

states. so we don't expect that to happen again, and in fact, in history when we've seen big booms regionally in the united states they've often not repeated for another half century. so i don't expect that, but it does seem possible that it would be substantial and it depends on a lot of things including political factors. >> youfa know, robert, we've be hearing anecdotally stories that a lot of people investing in real estate is a good way to make some fast money buying properties and then flipping them. does that strategy make sense to you? for people who know what they're doing, ...