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So what do you think about that squirrel? >> anthony: oh man, it's good. >> lola: it's good, ain't it? >> anthony: thank you. >> drema: they call it "wild and wonderful west virginia." >> anthony: it is. and, your girls are how old? >> lola: my girls are nine, eight, six, and three. >> anthony: taught any of them to shoot yet? >> lola: yeah, all of them can shoot. >> anthony: all of them? >> lola: all of them. they think their mommy is a big hero, too, 'cause she killed that big buck last year. >> anthony: yeah. how big was this thing? >> lola: 250, it weighed 250 lbs. >> anthony: you dragged ...

People here. that damage is lasting. >> elaine: when you come in and keep telling us how poor, fat -- how all these things are -- i think we've all felt it at some point. shame. >> anthony: what should people know about this area that they don't know, that they're not getting? >> nick: well, i think it's been said, but it's just not been hit home. it's just how much that people in this area have been exploited. [ bells ringing ] [ machines whirring ] >> nick: the land agents who came in and bought up all the mineral rights. the coal and timber companies that started extracting and taking every...

Before you can kind of feel the dreariness that kind of lingered around the community. but now, you know, with these boys winning, the work ethic they're putting in, you can feel the support. you know, like, we did a few community outreach programs this summer. we went down to the park and they painted, and they feel it, they feel that sense of pride. >> anthony: how has this football program changed your life? >> micah: it gives me something to do to stay out of trouble. >> coach mike: some of these guys have changed 100%. they had no guidance, no discipline. and as a team in here relying on ...

♪ >> anthony: lola cline is a single mother of four children. and in many ways, emblematic of both the difficulties and inherent strengths of people around here. >> anthony: where do you find them? trees or on the ground? >> lola: trees. >> anthony: mostly up in the trees. >> lola: squirrels are more like -- it's a waiting game. find us a place and see -- and watch for movement. >> anthony: she and her best friend, leshawna huff, hunt together, raise kids together, and do their best to get by in a changing world that can get very hard. >> lola: we gotta keep our eye out, too. >> anthony: whe...

Faced head on, that shortly after we filmed here, a gunman in las vegas with a perfectly legal weapon fired off 1100 rounds in 10 minutes, wounding 422 people and killing 58. shortly after that, 17 students were murdered in parkland, florida with legally purchased semi-automatic rifle. and the list goes on, with victims of mass shootings that have happened since this conversation measure in the hundreds. so there is that to think about too. >> anthony: i don't know whether the founding fathers anticipated the kind of firepower that we're playing with today. we live in a different world. >> ant...