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On death row in the nation. >> i'm 22 years old. and this is it for me. and... there is so much more that i wanted to do with my life. and... just sitting in a room by myself 23 hours a day. i should be going to school or working and having fun with friends. >> at the tennessee maximum prison for women, fox files goes beyond barbed wire, for a behind the scenes look at krista's live on death row. >> butterflies and angels. i love angels. that is my mom and step dad. and i love my dog. ed. these are the only stuffed animals we can have. we can't have ones that are stuffed with things in them.

If only for a day. what you are looking at is skid row, los angeles. the streets here are overflowing with mental illness, addiction and just last year, kenneth chancy lived here in a homeless shelter. >> my mom used drugs. my step dad used to hit me. >> reporter: sometimes resilience can overpower even the darkest situations. it was on skid row that kenneth dared to dream about going to harvard and becoming a neurosurgeon. i decided to surprise him with a day in the life. >> kenneth has seen so much. through all that he became the president of his class and this athletic star. i wondered how ...

His future. one of the dreams is to become a neurosurgeon, a brain surgeon. i decided to make that dream a reality for him, if only for a day. what you're looking at is skid row, los angeles. the streets here are overflowing with mental illness, addiction and desperation. >> it's no place to grow up. >> reporter: just last year, 18-year-old kenneth chancey lived here in a homeless shelter. >> my mom used drugs, my step dad used to hit me. >> as we'll learn, sometimes resilience can overpower even the darkest of situations. it was on skid row that kenneth dared to dream about going to harvard a...

Next story. he came up the hard way, living in a homeless shelter on skid row. but he wants to go to harvard and he wants to be a doctor. and our very own dr. sanjay gupta surprises this ambitious young man with a day on the job. take a look. >> reporter: what you're looking at is skid row, los angeles. the streets here are over-flowing with mental illness, addiction, and desperation. >> it's no place to grow up. >> reporter: just last year 18-year-old kenneth chance si lived here in a homeless shelter. >> my mom used drugs. my stepdad used to hit me. >> reporter: as we'll learn, sometimes res...

People who led apparently normal lives living in the united states turning to extreme radical islam getting radicalized on the internet, getting radicalized with small groups of friends, listening to an extremist message, listening to rebel rousing rhetoric from a small handful of radical tons streets of new york and other places, and then pursuing this idea of attacking u.s. troops or civilians in the united states by coming to pakistan and getting training in camps. >> nic robertson, thank you for that. we want to tell our viewers, american al qaeda, a cnn special investigation, airs this we...