i'll see you then and at 11:00. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. here are tonight's top stories. west virginia's governor says tap water is safe in his state once again. last week a chemical leak contaminated the water supply, it's still in the water but is down to safe levels. authorities say chris christie misused hurricane sandy relief funds. detroit may not have to use

its collection of art to pay debts. a southwest airplane is back in flight after an overnight stay at a tiny missouri airport. the boeing 737 landed at the wrong place yesterday, was stranded on a small runway, no one was hurt, the airline and the faa are investigating. those are the headlines. america tonight is next. remember you can always get the latest on aljazeera.com. i'll see you later on tonight. >> on america tonight. water restrictions slowly lifting for weary residents in west virginia. a long road and many unanswered

questions. what went wrong in chemical valley. >> this could have been prevented. the containment, if this was receipted by the state it wouldn't have happened. >> plastic in paradise. an ecosystem in disaster. we take you inside the battle to keep the hawaiian islands free from debris. >> there's a constant battle. >> combating teen pregnancy. does the answer to reducing the numbers lie in a wildly popular television show? good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm michael okwu, joie chen is on assignment.

west virginia officials are slowly lifting a tap water ban that left hundreds of thousands of people without water since that chemical spill days ago. our "america tonight" team spent the weekend in charleston where local residents have grown increasingly frustrated and concerned about their drinking water supply. here is "america tonight"'s christophe putzel. >> we are currently driving into charles tong west virginia. where thousands have been prevented from using their water, drinking water, how people are adjusting in what people call chemical valley. a black licorice smell in the water was traced to freedom industries a specialty chemical company. the leak happened a mile upriver

from a west virginia plant, shortly after the spill was reported a ban on water was put in place, and a state of emergency was declared. >> the water use ban that is still in place if you are in an affected area, do not use tap water, for drinking, bathing, constituting or cleaning. >> thousands of residents lined up to collect bottled water or to fill containers to drinking water supplied by emergency response teams. >> the crew here, they knew they were coming in, it was going to be a busy day, everybody showed up, they were prepared, they haven't eat -- i don't think they've eaten yet. we want to know it's going to end next week, back to normal in some time frame. that's the worst part, having to prepare, well do i have to wait two weeks, do i have to stock up on enough water for two weeks? you just don't know. >> downtown charleston looks like a ghost town as hundreds of

restaurants and bars were forced to close unable to serve customers. >> how did that happen, when we have so many regulations on how to serve a cup of coffee or make scones or wash your hands and they get by with that? >> locals were frustrated of the uncertainty of when their lives could return to normal but for others it was simply the price to pay for living in an area known as chemical valley. >> this is the financial stability of west virginia. coal, and chemical plants. you see so now, when you move to a place like this you have to expect something bass accident accident -- because accidents happen. >> the term chemical valley, tanks of chemicals line the local rivers and when something goes wrong the authorities usually have established procedures. but this time little was known about the leaking chemical.

4 methyl hexo chlorinol. some not impressed with the local government's response took its upon themselves to find answers of their own. >> i thought it was important for someone to be out check on things and someone to attempt to get samples to figure out what's actually in the water that's in the river. >> rob goodwinner is a consultant with mountain watch an organization dedicated to keeping an eye on the coal industry in the state of west virginia. >> i don't trust any federal agency to be doing their job in west virginia when it comes to enforcing the regulations or appropriately responding to disasters like this. and if there's not citizens there pressuring the agencies to do something much less get sunk.

>> he says they were the first on the river to take samples about 24 hours after the spill was reported. >> what was a big deal is a big deal all the time. not a good contingency plan, if an event like this does happen, how are you going to respond and get people reliable water. >> this could have been prevented. the containment structure failed at the facility. i think if it was inspected thoroughly and regulated at the state, this wouldn't have happened. >> you can really smell the black licorice and your eyes tingle. >> rob wasn't the only one that suspected the problem. >> we employed this threw -- through the entire water column and we pulled it out at 7:30. >> scott when he heard about the

leak here he flew in from boston with his own solution. strips of a green sponge like material that resist clean water and cling to the chemicals. instead of taking water samples from just one moment in time, he believes leaving this material submerged in contaminated water can be much more revealing. we caught up with smith's team while they were taking samples in of all plagues -- places a motel bathroom. >> the smell of black licorice, you can smell the smell of black licorice right now, we smelled it when we ran the water. no one was supposed to use the water. no one thought to finger print what's coming out of the water, we'll be able to find out exactly what's accumulated. >> how common is it for spills like this to occur? >> spills occur every day with every damage.

but 300,000 people are without water as a result. a disturbing thing is how many other communities that have clear colorless odorless chemicals should not be drinking their water. >> while scott smith and rob goodwin are waiting for their own tests, the consistency levels have beentrending downwards. but day six without running water the people of chemical valley have lingering questions about thing industry that gave them their name. christophe putzel, being charleston west virginia. 2009, another explosion killed 29 coal miners at west virginia's upper big branch mine, also that year a new york times investigation found pollution violations, in hundreds of workplaces

throughout the state. are today's troubles in west virginia echos from the recent past? jennifer sass, national resources defense council is with us tonight. jennifer can you talk to me about the recent history of west virginia when it comes to violations and the epa? >> yes, i mean west virginia doesn't actually stand out from a lot of other states, where you have very poor oversight and very poor enforcement of rules and regulations that are made to protect workers, made to protect communities, and made to protect the environment. there's a lot of loopholes and gaps in those laws and even worse, when the few laws that are there aren't followed properly. >> what you're saying is what going on in -- what's going on in west virginia ask consistent in other parts of the country? >> what's going on in west virginia is consistent with other parts of the country and it happens in a daily basis.

what brought this to light is this happened in a large community where there were a lot of people drinking water down streams. but it happen in extraction industries, coal oil and gas industries across the country and it happens because we have poor oversight and very little regulation. >> correct me if i'm wrong. my understanding is in west virginia, there is absolutely no requirement to inspect storage facilities. is that in fact the case? and if so, are we just too lax in west virginia or is that consistent with what you see in other states as well? >> so that seems to be the case here. as i understand it and i just think that's outrageous. in particular because storing large chemicals in one place makes those industries very vulnerable, not only to leaks and spills, but to actually chemical attack. in particular, in this place, it was kept next to a river. and worse, where drinking water was taken out. and that's just outrageous. >> you know the cynics will sea

it's very clear. the state regulators and the coal and chemical industries are just too close together, they're in bed with each other that's what the cynics would say. >> i think that there's a lot of evidence to show that these industries, the coal, oil and gas and chemical industry which are very related, a lot of those chemicals are petrochemicals, which means they are derived from the oil and gas and a lot of those chemicals go back to the oil and gas industry to feed, to extract or process those oils and gases. if you can -- >> maybe we can bring someone in, joe wrote a blog about his memories of chemical valley in west virginia. joe thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> courtesy of the coal and chemical industries in my vantage point there is no hue

and cry. what explains the reluctance from residents to take a stand? >> i think there's a really deeply engrained sense in west virginia. it's very hard to find a west virginian who doesn't know someone who is or perhaps is even related to someone who is really deeply in poverty. and so while much of the chemical valley is in fact a decidedly blue collar to middle class area, many residents i think see themselves and really see their employers as all that kind of stands between them and you know, this kind of crushing poverty. >> so basically what you're saying is these mishaps are the cost of living? >> yes, for many. there's -- yes, there's kind of a tradeoff that you can either -- either put up with the mishaps or you lose insurance

for your children or you know can't send them to college and so forth. so that's in you ways for a lot of west virginians these kinds of risk are just a cost of generally doing business and living their lives. >> joe, i'd like to ask you this question and i'd like jennifer to follow up on this as well. in 2008 two workers were killed in an explosion, the u.s. chemical safety board asked the state to create a program to prevent accidents and spills. but that hasn't happened. is that acceptable in this community which you say depends on its livelihood to that industry? >> well, so is it acceptable, to, it certainly shouldn't be. is it in fact, for many, yes. i mean, it's hard to overstate how much animosity there is among west virginians towards the epa. it's likely that more people in west virginia know who the epa

commissioner is than know that information in, say, washington, d.c. there's a -- so it's a deeply engrained distrust. and a belief that if you regulate, if you crack down on companies, they will just simply pick up and go elsewhere and we'll be left with no jobs. >> jennifer i know you've got plenty to say about that. outrageous, insane, acceptable, of course not. >> so first of all these people are honest, hardworking people. they're going to work every day to earn a living and support their families and they should not be poisoned or killed on the job. that is unacceptable. and there's absolutely no way that a company can make an economic argument that it's cheaper to kill people and poison their drinking water. you can ask freedom industries whether it was cheaper to poison the people and poison the water

versus avoiding the accident in the first place. i don't know what there accident is costing them but it would be cheaper if they didn't have it at all. standard operating procedures to monitor and to alert the community. they failed to alert the community. they failed to alert the drinking water system downstream and they failed to alert first responders like hospital. >> jennifer sass and joe wall street, thanwalters, thank you g us. you can see a slide show on are aljazeera.com/americatonight. after the break, why you might get flooded with trash.

>> as part of a special investigation, "america tonight" traveled to japan nearly three years after that deadly tsunami. according to the japanese government the tsunami unleashed roughly 5 million tons of debris into the pacific ocean. scientists estimate about 70% of that debris quickly sank but the

remaining 1.5 million tons are swirling around the pacific adding to the massive quantity of plastic and debris already there. it's difficult to estimate exactly how much trash is floating through the pacific. but it is easy to see its negative impact even in paradise. "america tonight"'s adam may reports from hawaii. >> reporter: beub beautiful beaches -- beautiful beaches, white sands an pristine blue water. the ocean means everything to leigh. it attracts surfers from around the world who catch waves on oahu's famed north shore. families and couples seeking that perfect ro romantic get aw. on a good year, hawaii's tourist industry brings in well over $10 billion. mark manuel grew up on these beaches. >> this is my home, i feel expobility to do my part to make

sure my children and children's children have clean beaches. >> he works for noaa, the nationafor thepast years noaa hg to keep the islands clean. >> there's a constant flow of plastic, constant battle. >> throughout the main hawaiian islands, we have got major portions of japan's debris, one a seven meter fishing boat that washed up on midway atoll. >> the problem is adding more debris to what's already there. >> i think a misconception is that anything with japanese writing on it is from the tsunami. however, we've been finding numerous items with various languages, korean, japanese, things from the united states as well. >> does it ever amaze you how

far this trash travels? >> absolutely, amazing. especially considering what we find, televisions, tires, lightbulbs. >> some of hawaii's more remote beaches don't see the same treatment. >> every year or so we get a group together and we try to go up to the northwestern hawaiian islands and do cleanup efforts. >> the hawaiian islands act like a filter, pacific gyre, clockwise circle. this creats creates what many ce great pacific garbage patch. close to 90% of that garbage is plastic. it definitely makes for an ugly day at the beach but that's not mark manuel's only motivation.

>> the hawaiian among sale and sea turtles. these guys will go along and eat plastic bags and pieces of plastic thinking it's food. it will get lodged in the intestinal tract, far worse, things leaching out of the plastic to kill them. >> jeff works at hawaii's sea life park. >> if we don't do something and treat our environment with better respect maybe this guy is going to be gone. >> reporter: this plastic problem isn't always evident. at first glance this beautiful hawaiian beach may appear untouched until you dig in and take a closer look. sift the sand and you find endless tiny pieces of plastic from who knows where having a deaf stating effect on wildlife. >> we found out something very staggering last year with a researcher from a local

university. he developed a technique where he can ultrasound living birds without harming them and he found some bird had a degree of plastic ingestion. >> every bird? >> every bird that came through our doorway. >> bringing in birds injured by plastic and other ocean debris. >> this particular guy was wrapped in fishing line and the biggest concern with the fishing line entanglements, if it's too title it will cut off the about a blood flow and we have to amputate. at some point we can free release him but if he becomes a little too comfortable being around people they are not the best candidate for releasing into the wild. >> but the alternative would let the bird sit on the beach, covered in fishing line. the irony is that the birds act as mobile reefs, attracting all kinds of fish and the fish

attract other wildlife. according to the recent study, plastic absorbs chemicals from the water. fish ingesting the plastic ingest the chemicals as well, potentially impacting the fish we eat. >> when we see those big cargo nets yeah, we fish them. we go to them and fish them. >> fishermen like mike ostendorf often get the brunt of the blame. but he says fishermen get caught up in it too. >> it's a hazard to fishing and driving a boat. i remember one incident when the coast guard send me an e-mail asking me if i could go to another vessel that i didn't even know was there because they were so completely fouled and it took them hours to cut it all out. it worries me because i make a living off having a clean environment. if i don't have a clean environment i don't have fish. >> ostendorf does his part, keeping debris out of the ocean,

reusing. >> this was debris. so now we use it as a chair. >> and what he doesn't sit on he recycles. >> so whatever we pick up we bring back and then we deliver it to a special bin. >> a program called nets to energy is hawaii's effort to turn plastic into power. massive clippers used for cutting through steel slice through piles of recovered nets. at the incinerator they join the rest of oaahu'su's trash. that energy powers about 10% of the island but only putting a dent in the debris dilemma. mark manuel says the funding for contaminants isn't consistent.

>> there is a influx of plastics. i'd like to say it's getting better but every time i go up there there's a lot of plastics but we try to do our best. >> but every day there is more. during a recent cleanup mark manuel's team recovered over 300 plastic utensils, 900 flip-flops. 1400 tons of trash in total, more than enough to keep him motivated. >> if you see a piece of plastic on the street pick it up, it will end up in the ocean some way. >> mark manuel may be the one picking it up, al jazeera hawaii. >> according to the energy company in charge of hawaii's nets to energy project, the number of nets is decreasing but nor says it may not mean less

money in the pacific but more remote beaches. >> a program note, this friday, america tonight investigates. >> without it's a big problem. for whole pacific. especially the whole western part if true. >> fallout from fukushima. my special report friday on "america tonight". and still to come tonight: pushing the boundaries. one actress's fight to get a controversial film to the big screen, next.

>> now a snapshot of stories making headlines on "america tonight". southwest airlines granted two of its pilots were landing at the wrong missouri airport. sunday the 737 landed at an unexpected airport in taney county, missouri. was supposed to land at branson

airport, a much larger airport with a longer runway. the ntsb is still investigating the incident. a historic leader of israel, ariel sharon was laid to rest yesterday. sharon died of a stroke that eight years ago put him in a coma. at least 28 people were killed after a car bomb in the city, after a visit by u.n. secretary ban ki-moon. al qaeda vies for control of a sunni province near the capitol. a kind of starter agreement if you will that will temporarily freeze teheran's nuclear program in exchange for limited relief from international sanction he. "america tonight"'s sheila

macvicar joins me with more. >> thank you. 50-50 chance of leading to a larger and more permanent accord. here is the outline, iran will stop enriching uranium above 505%, two moves that would significantly delay any progress towards a bomb if iran were to make that decision. iran also will not install new equipment or build new enrichment facilities and iran agreed to more intrusive inspections of its nuclear installations. the deal is to last six months, that meanings six months for the u.s. and its allies to reach a final agreement with iran on its nuclear program. now we heard from secretary of state john kerry this weekend, he was in paris and he was talking about the difficulties that lie ahead. that the question here, the issue here really will be one of

verification and assuring that in fact iran sticks to its part of the bargain. now in exchange for sticking to its part of the bargain, iran will get some relief, $7.2 billion, the money will be doled out after six months. if the iranians don't live up to their part of it, the payments could be stopped. why is there any hope this can work, because iran has been hit hard by economic sanctions and they need relief. >> an international conference is aimed to establish an agreement, it hasn't start and it's already fraught. >> who's going to show up, the assad regime? no one knows. so there's all kinds of issues here, and listen again to the --

listen to secretary kerry as he again low balls expectations. >> success is defined by a good beginning. it is not defined in the beginning by a final yo -- outc. that is going to take some time and we acknowledge that. we talked today about the possibility of trying to encourage a cease fire, maybe a localized cease fire beginning with aleppo. >> a cease fire would certainly help syria's people. remember 100,000 have been killed. it is a long way from any yeament about what a -- agreement about what a peaceful syria would look like. >> does this signal an end to our problems? >> no, not at all. there are many forks here obviously one big concern for the americans an its international allies beyond the nuclear program iran is shipping tons of weapons to the assad

regime in syria. it is actively continuing to support the regime. in the words of secretary kerry their position has not been very helpful. they think the assad regime should stay. that's one thing. then there's the whole issue of the government of nouri al-maliki which is supported by baghdad which the u.s. needs right now in a very big way to try osubdue the al qaeda linked rebellion in the western provinces of iraq. so there are many, many things going on here. the nuclear fork is just one of those pieces of the piez. >> lots of moving parts and it is all very tenuous and complicated. "america tonight"'s sheila macvicar thanks for joining us. many. >> thanks michael. >> the film icy sun was released late last year but it has been

largely shunned by the afghan community due to the controversial topic and a scene which shows limited nudity. as al jazeera's jane ferguson reports, the star who is an afghan american is hoping this will shed light on the taboo subject of rape. >> reporter: this kind of scene is incredibly rare in afghan movies after being raped a woman stands naked. struggled to ensure it is shown unsensorred. >> it is more powerful than a full on rape scene. we have seen lot of rape scenes, she is just alone in the bathroom with herself and dealing with the wounds on the body and the body is for the afghan woman is not discussed, but those are the things that are violated, that is under

dress and under control the big elephant in the room. >> fereshta kazemi, returned to her native imul t kabul to act n afghan movies. excessive interprets about her-- conservative interpretations of her culture. anything disapproving of what she represents. disapproval comes with a bullet many times. other afghan women with high profile media careers has been killed. chima azari as was akiba, they were both murdered. loneliness is another enemy.

gaining acceptance by locals is tuft. many afghans struggle to accept that one ever their own women is so outspoken. >> i feel that the identity has broughtenned. this hegemony, i feel it depends on their scope. they want to focus on the scope of how afghan are you, and how much am i more than you. and i think that the scope should be, where are we going? like what is it now? and what is possible? and i believe that nobody really owns culture. even if people try to take it by force and we all share in culture and what i do in art and cinema is, i'm sharing in culture. >> preparing for the first ever unsensorred screening of the movie she is having a dress tailored for the event. to kazemi it is an opportunity to make a statement. this outfit may shock how are

afghan women really dress. it was in honor of her mother. it was a more tolerant time although only a small elite wore such clothes then. >> she had the highest grades and it's had an enormous impact on me. it's made me motivated. i'm so proud of my parents' history and i feel it's being silenced. >> but the images of the kabul she grew up with are no longer a reality. lost to decades of war and extremism. pushing the boundaries in afghanistan without having your message rejected can be a fine line to walk. she rejects the idea that she is less of a muslim because of what she wears. >> i'm muslim, i believe in god, i'm modern. there's hundreds of thousands of other afghans that are like me.

>> rahman mohamedi is out of the country but kazemi stays in contact with him through skype and on the phone. the long awaited screening of her icy sun arrives but many seats are empty. kazemi is undeterred. this is such a time that this such an afghan film is being aired. modeli is there also by skype. when kazemi takes the stage at the afghan film festival winning the best actress water, tackling real 20th century issues is an ongoing battle but one this afghan american says she will continue to fight. >> according to human rights watch annual report close to 90% of afghan women face at least

one form of physical sexual or psychological violence in their lifetimes. coming up next a surprising method of birth control. it's a prescription you tune into. the discussion, next. >> they have threatened our lives, our families' lives, i don't think anyone should be subjected to these e-mails and threats. >> the club has alerted the fbi. samuel said this is probably just a

distraction. >> the message is the life of the endangered species is on the line. >> so what is the future? president of the humane seat of the united states join us tonight. i assume its no stretch to assume that your organization would be opposed to this. tell us why? >> well, joie there are many rare species in the world, and the black rhino is one of the rarest. because of poaching and habitat loss we should do everything we possibly can to protect them. the idea of linking a trophy hunting exercise to conservation may make sense to folks who are involved in trophy hunting, but

>> th welcome back to inside story. i'm ray suarez. we're talking about >> the birth rate for u.s. teens has declined dramatically since its peak in 1991, reaching a historic low in 2012 according to the cdc. a new study from the national bureau of economic research suggests an unusual force behind the lower birth rate. the teen show 16 and pregnant and its spinoff series, teen

mom. in 1991, 16 teenage girls out of every 1,000 gave birth. by the time 16 and pregnant first aired in 2009, that has fallen to 39 out of 1,000, the researchers believe that 16 and pregnant could have contributed in some measure to this recent sharp decline. >> i suddenly feel so grown up. in my life i don't come first anymore. and joe's realizing that he doesn't either. we've never been more stressed and it doesn't help that neither of us have slept for days. >> would you wake up and feed him for me? >> if you don't get up first. [ baby crying ] >> a crying newborn is basically the new sound track oour lives and both of our patience is

starting to wear thin. [ baby crying ] ♪ ♪ >> it's definitely taking a toll on us. >> you left the milk out again. what? no, joe. it really (bleep). >> the power of television. can a popular show like 16 and pregnant helps reverse a trend like teen pregnancy? we are join by phillip levine, a professor at wellesley college and one of the authors of this study. mr. levine, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> in a nutshell i'm really curious.

how did you do this study? >> well, we used a lot of data. took two main forms. first we used a lot of birth data, the universe of birth that took place over the last several years and we took focus on teen birth to see whether the timing of the introduction of 16 and pregnant and the locations in which the show was more popular had a bigger effect on the teen birth rate and we found that it did. the other thing we did is use a lot of detail from google trends which describes search activity on the internet as well as tweets on twitter and what we see in those data is that people search for and tweet about birth control and abortion considerably more when the show was actually on, like the days the show was on the air, indicating that that's a mechanism for what's happening. >> why did you do this study in the first place? how does it occur to you we're going to study whether or not

there's a correlation between this show and you know the lower numbers of teen pregnancy? >> it's really a very interesting question. it would never have occurred to us in the first place. but the teen birth rate started falling very precipitously in 2009-2010 and comment tak take s started to talk about it, we didn't think it worked for us. the labor market didn't seem to matter because we were in the middle of a huge recession at that time. but sarah brown the national president of campaign for teen pregnancy, 16 and pregnant maybe there was something there and that's what led us to start this study. >> do you have any fear as you put this study out that you're making something false correlations here? it could very well be that the teens that are watching it that

those teens have a relationship with their parents where their parents feel they're responsible enough to watch this in the first place? so they might not be the type of children who are prone to go out and get pregnant in the first place. >> yeah, the vast majorities of the paper is designed specifically to distinguish between the issue of correlation and causation. we're working very hard to show that this is actually a causal relationship. and so this is you know the sort of relationship that you described would not fit the change that we observed. so you know in the locations, in which the show was more popular, at the time that the show begins, we observe a changing rate in teen births, and it's that change itself not just the people it's the change in behavior that seems to be taking place at that time. >> well teens are notoriously resistant to various forms of manipulation, professional, all you have to do is look at nancy

reagan's just is a no campaign in the 1980s. >> sure. >> what makes you think that the media can be an effective tool in communicating with young people? >> this is a very different intervention than nancy reagan telling people to just say no. first you have a media company whose bread and butter is trying to make shows that are catering to the interest of young people. they are very good at that. this outlet conveying message of teen child bearing, from the women who are doing it themselves. these are happening to the women, the messages they get across in terms of their relationship stress, the instability, the nature of the relationship to their boyfriend, lack of sleep you know, the fact that they have difficulty with their other friends. which they tend to lose over time. difficulty in continuing with their education. these are things that are actually happening to real people. and they focus on that in a way

that the regular public service announcement or nancy reagan saying just say no cannot match that level of resonance. >> phil levine, i have to stop you there. you are the professor of economics at wellesley college thank you very much. very interesting study. >> okay, thank you. >> macy bookout a teen featured on the first series of 16 and pregnant joins us. were you surprised by the conclusions of this study? >> not really, i had always you know gotten my own feedback from the audience and different people i'd meet and i'd always hoped and heard from the girls that are actually watching this show what impact it was having on them. i think just by the study kind of proving it, it just -- it made it more worth it for me. it made the whole experience much more of an accomplishment.

>> what makes it, the show, so effective reaching out to teens? >> i think it's the girls being able to actually put a face on a problem, or conversation that's going on, something they always think about. but they don't know anyone who has actually gone through it or they've never you know actually heard of the stories being told by someone that actually went through it, i think. really just being able to put a face to the struggle and to the issue at hand, really hits home for girls, especially when we do their peers in the same age as them. >> you know when you generally hear about pregnant teenagers the connotation, the image that most of the public has of young teenagers who get themselves pregnant is a pretty negative one. what is it about your personal story you think that people really relate to? >> you know, that is exactly what it was. in the past, i mean girls who became pregnant as teenagers

were always viewed as you know promiscellaneous witpro missmisn sports, had a lot of friends, never got into trouble, that's what i was in high school. this was happening to them but they would as soon as they got pregnant they would drop out of school and kind of disappear. girls like me really relate to that because i'm kind of telling them you know i thought that this would never happen to me. i thought that i was too good to become pregnant as a teenager. and i really wanted to show them you know it doesn't matter what you're doing that's good or what all you have going on. if you don't protect yourself this could very well be you too. it could happen to anybody. >> one of the blessings of being a parent i'm sure you figured

this out by now is being in the position to make sure that your children don't make the same mistakes that you expect. >> absolutely. >> given the study and given your place in it so to speak by appearing on this show, would you make sure that your children watched this show? or at the very least, old episodes of it? >> definitely. i think that you know, it's -- it's a very good educational way to open the conversation. i get feedback from moms all the time who have teen aged sons or daughters and they say thank you for, you know, the show because if it wasn't for your show, i wouldn't be able to sit down every monday or tuesday night and talk to my kids about sex. it makes it a lot easier for parents for parents to use us as subjects and talk about it. i think it will be the same for me. i will be able to talk to my children and tell them what i went through and really help them understand ways to prevent

them from being in the same situation. >> macy we have about 10 seconds. are you glad now that you did this show? is it everything that you thought it would be when you first decide to do it? >> absolutely. i always said, you know, if i could just prevent one pregnancy from happening and one child from going through what my son's going to have to go through then i feel like i've accomplished something. with the study now i definitely think that that's land so i'm very, very glad. >> macy i really appreciate you joining us and telling us your story. thank you very, very much and good luck with your family. thank you. >> ahead in our final thoughts this evening, from classics to politics, we'll take you inside the cartoon where classics are treated like masterpieces.

>> th welcome back to inside story. i'm ray suarez. we're talking about

>> on friday we told you about a controversial option in dallas, sacrificing one of africa's highly prized black rhinos to

munt one old male and not breeding black male for $350,000. the money will go towards conservation efforts in namibia. the auction has discounted the life of the black rhino. right now there are about 4,000 black resign oin the wild a osharp decline from 70 thousand in the 1960s. and finally, tonight, for centuries, cartoons have been clever, comedic even controversial, as when a danis danish's depiction of mohamed. columbus, ohio the new home of a museum preserves the world's largest collection of car toons and come -- cartoons and comics.

>> reverently perched. >> cartoon called congressional puj list. it features an actually fight that took place in congress. >> ohio university's billy island cartoon and comic museum, treats this seriously. >> they can give their collections of cartoons and paper to a higher state and they will be exhibited and accessible to researchers. here is a fantastic franklin delano roosevelt by basil woverton. >> practitioners of light literature. >> this was really the material that everybody had in their

hands. so these are i think important visual artifacts of an era that need to be, well, taken seriously. >> and you came all the way from hanover? >> all the way from hanover, germany. >> housed in the shelves of the temperature controlled, the world's largest collection of cartoons and comics. here in 1883, the british satirical publication punch. the hand drawn strips of charles schultz. >> i like the peants strip, the way it's drawn, the captioning, it's timeless. >> chester gould's original drawings of dick tracy.

there would have been more but the originals were often tossed out. after they were photographed for the newspaper. now a standard original by a person like charles m. schultz may have been worth tens of thousands of dollars. the collection illustrates historical stereotypes. >> you can see that there was a very different sensibility how we portray minorities. >> and historical controversies, drawn together in a home of their own. john hendren, al jazeera. >> that's it for "america tonight", we'll have more tomorrow. real reporting that brings you the worleorge mason university

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