anyone can remember cedar hill high school bussing kids to vote. the voting place, mountain creek library in dallas, some may not have been able to get here on their open, and others just excited to vote for the first time among classmates and friends. >> it's actually good that we can experience this, not just as just an individual, but as a class. >> reporter: students have been talking about the election in class, and in a contentious campaign season, we were anxious to make their voices heard. >> i made a difference. that's what went through my head, and my mom's going to be proud, and my dad, and i voted, yeah. >> i finally voted, and it was -- i mean, it was really good. >> reporter: teachers and volunteers helped registered 70 students to vote this year. they hope it'll inspire these teens to become part of the political process for years to come. >> makes me so happy to see these young people have the motivation to get out and vote. and just because they are our future. >> the school says it had such

students on this they hope to do it again next presidential election. in dallas, monica hernandez, channel 8 news. >> early voting in the dallas area has more than doubled from the previous presidential election. thanks to monica hernandez there at wfaa. coming up, how a drug addict on skid row turned himself into the owner of a juice empire. >> a man's amazing journey from homelessness and destitution to multi millionaire status. that's next. "world news now" continues after this from our abc

? well, we've seen plenty of inspiring stories about people turning their lives around, but you're about to meet. >> just a few years ago, he was a drug addict on skid row in los angeles, and today, he's the owner of a multimillion dollar juice empire. we're "up all nightline" with abc's nick watt. >> reporter: skid row, los angeles. >> why you here? >> just talking. >> why? >> we're here because for a year and a half, this was kalil rafati's home. >> i'm not scared of any of this stuff.

smell i'm now sweating, you know. >> bringing you back? >> bringing me back. >> reporter: life as a destitute, hopeless, heroine addict. >> real homelessness where your teeth are rotting out of your head and you have a smell on your body that is so disgusting that it's unbearable. the only thing that you can do at that point is get high. >> reporter: that was 13 years ago. rafati now has a juice and smoothie empire, some like organics based in malibu. >> sure. thank you. >> reporter: i'm getting a mildy culty feeling, not in a bad way. >> i'll take it. >> reporter: 200 employees, six stores, two more coming, and devoted celebrity clientele, no cindy crawford, jaden smith,

no more smacking crack. it's smoothies now. >> bananas in there? >> all organic? >> everything is organic. >> beet pollen, seeds. >> almond butter. >> we're in malibu now. >> you're definitely in malibu. >> yep. >> smoothies. it is still a reflective of a slightly addictive personal. >> massively addictive personality. >> i appreciate you being polite bass you're scottish, but you can just say it. i'm an addict through and through. that's never got to change. >> reporter: his daily fix? hot yoga and that stuff. >> that's the million dollar smoothie. it has vegan, protein powder in it, ghost cloft rum. that's mother's milk from a ghost when she first gives birth. >> reporter: he wrote a book, "i forgot to die." >> why put this down in a book? >> to let people know they can change, if you truly want to, you can change. >> reporter: finally, he truly wanted to. found sobriety and juice. >> my friend, shawn, he would

newly sober and he sort of nursed me. >> reporter: it worked. he met haley. girlfriend and current business partner. >> thank you for doing that. >> not everybody can open a chain of juice stores to keep them clean. >> it's not just juices and superfoods that saved my life. it's a healthy lifestyle that saved my life. >> reporter: l.a. has many juice bars, many fail, but not this one. why has it worked? >> because it's authentic. it's real. >> reporter: nightline in los angeles. >> thank you. thank you so much. >> i like to hear that. it is inspiring. someone who had fallen so far can come back and make something huge -- >> absolutely. >> -- then we can all make something happen. >> we can. skid row is, like, blocks and blocks of homeless people. my first chat with abc, done with the live chat, wow, i made it, i'm at the network, a homeless guy came up to me, clocked me in the face. >> nothing like humility.

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>> despite a 65% approval rating on rotten tomatoes, the critics are mixed. andrew barker writes, before the flood may not tackle too much new ground, but it's ability to assemble such a watchable and comprehensive account gives it an undeniable - get this -- focus on elite solutionism effectively erases the role of popular acknowledge station in formulating social change. i'm not really sure what that means. i think it means enough with the celebrities and rich people tell us what to think, just get our anger in line. let's get in formation, as queen b would say. >> absolutely. save your money and watch it on nat geo this weekend. it's going to premier on sunday, as well. >> an important topic. and i love leo dicaprio. he's my fantasy husband. not that my real husband is not a fantasy. next, tom hanks following a trail of clues tied to the great poet dante to try to save the world in "inferno."

finds hapgs racing across europe, trying to recover his memories and stop an extremist billionaire from unleashing a virus that could wipe out half the world's population. >> it's dante's inferno. >> dante defined our modern conception of hell 700 years ago. why dante? why this map of hell? >> someone created a plague. >> even with that star power right now, can't save inferno from critics who just panned the film. it's a 21% splat on rott julian writing, the historic babble and endless chase scenes blur into a two-hour post. card for italian travel. how about our friend, peter travels, more blunt, there's something wrong with a movie that makes you envie a squashed corpse. >> ouch. >> ouch. >> i think you got it wrong. that's not tom hanks. it's bill murray. >> looked like bill murray. >> that's the news this half hour. follow us on facebook.

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