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Injured and the families in dayton, ohio. joaquin oliver would be 19 years old today, if he wasn't gunned down at high school in parkland, florida. it's one of the safest cities, despite admonitions from the president that it is not. cal perry is with us from mexico city, clint watt is back with us. cal, what manuel said, it's something that important. people want to come to america, to make it a better place. they dream of america. they don't come here with the idea that they're going to destroy society. there's a sentiment of gun laws and they come together to create 20 deaths in el paso. >>...

>> on the one hand, he's stacking rocks on top of rocks. on the other hand, he's defying physics. laughing at gravity. and communing with nature in a way that i'm neither equipped to mimic or explain. i know what i'm looking at. i just -- it just doesn't make sense to my brain. i mean, did you see someone do this? >> there's a long history. i was living on the streets. >> you were homeless? >> yeah. i was living at the beach. >> manuel arrived on the beach after he lost his five-year job at a factory making helicopter parts. >> no i.d., no money, no nothing. it's tough to find a job we you don...

>> i start to -- >> so do people come down here to the beach and just sit and stare at them? >> most people, they like it. some people, they think it's, like, my wage or something like that. >> word of manuel and his amazing sculptures began to spread. finally it landed him in the pages of the "vc reporter." the stones have endured him to the people of venture are county and they've been generous offering manuel work and even a place to live. now he's pitching his tent on the safety of a neighbor's property. >> stacking rocks made my life better. i don't sleep no more on the streets. >> you kn...

>> so do people come down here to the beach and just sit and stare at them? >> most people, they like it. some people, they think it's, like, my wage or something like that. >> word of manuel and his amazing sculptures began to spread. finally it landed him in the pages of the "vc reporter." the stones have endeared him to the people of venture are county and they've been generous offering manuel work and even a place to live. now he's pitching his tent on the safety of a neighbor's property. >> stacking rocks made my life better. i don't sleep no more on the streets. >> you know this guy? >> ...

>> no crazy glue. of course, there's no competing with the master. get the hell out of town. that's great. very zen. i suppose we could talk at length about the spiritual undertones of what manuel's doing but there's also a lesson in practicality, by working with his hands manuel found balance in both the rocks and within himself and the world responded with opportunities he needed. what better way to say good-bye as the rock towers backlit behind me, the sun streaking down the sky with just a hint of magenta and fuchsia left, as manuel demonstrates what balance really is all about. thank you....