to subscribe to our msnbc prime-time newsletter or for information on upcoming programs go to prime.msnbc.com. if there were one foundation they should establish for the homeless, it should be socks for the homeless. >> it's the thought of losing it that scares me. >> everybody's looking for someone that they can have out here that's going to stick by their side. >> josh? wake up. >> this is a house we stayed in. >> we don't know if it's even safe to enter. >> this is our hell hole where we sleep at. >> we sleep right here. it's even more stressful when you go and do things that you know you can get in trouble for. >> but you are better off by yourself. >> this is the knife i sleep with. it ain't much of a knife but it will do the job.

>> we live in an abandoned building where people have died. i hate living out here. >> in jacksonville, florida, it it is illegal to panhandle, to sleep or camp in public spaces, or to obstruct a sidewalk. >> you can't sleep in the park. you can't sleep on the corner, you can't sleep in the street. you have to stay hidden, which means you know, you're pretty much trespassing. >> at night, young runaways sneak into abandoned buildings or camp in the woods at risk of being attacked by others on the streets or being arrested.

>> staying in construction zones, eating at shelters, not staying at the shelters because there's a lot of people that do drugs there and i just don't want to be in that scene. >> anthony spends his days in jacksonville's downtown public library, formerly an aircraft mechanic in the marine corps, he was discharged a few months shy of his full enlistment. >> i got out of the marine corps because i just really didn't want to be in anymore doing what i was doing. so i kind of whined and cried until i either got my way or they kicked me out. and, well, they kicked me out. >> his father was a marine, so the family moved around a lot. >> it was kind of a rough childhood. a lot of it was my fault. and when i went into the military, our relationship got better, but since i got out, honestly, we haven't talked at all.

i don't think i could face him yet. i want to be able to say all right, i'm doing okay before i actually talk to him. otherwise, i'd feel totally ashamed of myself. >> anthony has been on the streets for ten months, two of those in jacksonville. >> this is the front lobby to the salvation army. welcome to a homeless feeding line. >> i came down here with a friend of mine. >> i've been homeless. >> okay. >> he's really from houston. he says he has an older sister, but they have lost contact. >> it gets to me sometimes where i don't want to be on the street because i know i ain't got nobody. that's what everybody's looking for, someone they can have out here that's going to stick by their side. >> i worry about my child now, you know, child comes before me.

>> 19-year-old teanna is five months pregnant. she and her mother carla have been on the streets for three weeks. they lost their home because of carla's drug use. >> my mom was on crack. rent was due. she wasn't worried about that. >> she and her mother moved to jacksonville from indiana 3 1/2 years ago. teanna was desperate to get out of her mother's house. >> that house is hot, first of all. polices are always in that neighborhood watching that house. i didn't smoke the crack. i didn't want to go to jail. i wanted out of that environment, you know, because i couldn't handle it. so i met this guy at the grocery store. i was thinking about using him, getting out of that house, going to live with him, whatever. well, it didn't work that way. i ended up falling in love with him. >> teanna is due to have her baby in four months and says the father are no longer in contact, despite running away before, she says she is rebuilding their relationship now that carla claims she isn't smoking crack anymore.

>> she's not heavily on drugs like she was before. >> teanna says her priority is finding a place to live before she gives birth. >> i want to be in a house, i want to be somewhere where i know i can just stay, not have to get up and leave because we might get in trouble for being there. have a place for my baby to sleep. >> grew up here in jacksonville. i've been out here for two weeks tomorrow. >> josh says he was raised in a religious home and began to rebel at an early age. >> i started smoking pot when i was 13. from there i moved on to coke. a few months down the road, i was actually dealing. >> two weeks ago, josh says his father, who was training to become a southern baptist preacher confronted him about his drug use. >> the second week of january, i came home really high. my dad asked me, are you high. i was like, hell, yeah, i'm high. that's when they put me out.

so it sunk in, wow, you actually are homeless now. >> when contacted, josh's father refused to verify the events that left josh on the streets. josh says he regrets everything he's put his family through and is desperate to make up for his mistakes. >> my parents want to see me do something to prove to them that i'm not leading a double life still. you can only get so many chances before that's it. >> there is safety in numbers on the streets especially at night. josh must surround himself with people that can protect him and teach him how to survive. >> i am pretty green at this but i am learning. but it's one of those things if you ain't got the experience, you're pretty much road kill. >> next stop is central station. >> anthony heads to his sleeping spot across the river from downtown. he's been there for two weeks. >> i sleep in a building that's under construction, out of the way, up on the second floor.

>> hey, james. hey, buddy. i met james a few weeks ago. he kind of helped me out with a place to at least lay my head at night. >> here's a pair of pants right here. >> i trust james the most out of anybody here. >> james is a 31-year-old crack addict who says he's been clean for about a month. he's been living on and off the streets of jacksonville for 15 years. >> i'll go up here, grab my stuff. this is the knife i sleep with. ain't much of a knife, but it will do the job, you know. i open it up at night, put it in my hand and that's all i need to protect myself at night here. >> this is pretty much it. this is where we live right now.

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21-year-old runaway anthony is up at 4:00 a.m. he wants to try to get work today at a nearby jacksonville, florida, day labor agency. >> i just woke up, and i am on my way to allegiance day labor. the goal of me going there is to try and do something during the day, get some money for a place,

clothes, food, cigarettes. >> anthony, a former marine and his friend james, a recovering crack addict are saving money for an apartment. anthony has shown up at the labor pool four days this week, but this is his first time to go out on a job. >> right now, i'm on my way to the construction yard working on a ramp, be working for about eight hours, get $8 and save up money so we have a place to live. >> james has been working and saving his money all week. >> i made $233 and he got $100, $333 total this week. we're going to the check cashing place to cash these checks, leave there and go to st. james place and get a room. >> james and anthony have earned enough money to share a room at a low cost downtown hotel. >> we are now at st. james inn.

>> 22-year-old runaway bam and 19-year-old teanna met on the streets and are now in a relationship. bam is determined to get teanna off the streets before her baby is due. she is five months pregnant. bam isn't the father, but he is willing to hustle for money to better their situation. he's come up with a plan to pose as an attendant at a nearby parking lot. drivers will then give him money for a parking spot. >> you go right over here to where the parking spot is, the parking lot and after 10:00, the guy leaves right there and all the cars that come through to get a parking spot will pay you $5 to get a parking spot. >> bam has a list of ways he can earn good money fast. he prepares crack to be sold and also deals other kinds of drugs. >> go to the southside, cook some dope up for my home boy. a bunch of illegal stuff. was making?

probably not much, about $500 a week. and then past this week, it's just went downhill because i've been with her. i'm wanting to do it, go back, but she's wanting me to work and work every day. >> if he wants to be with me, he's wanting to do illegal stuff. then what if he gets thrown in jail? you know what i'm saying? i don't need that. >> that's the [ muted ] i put up with right now. >> bam and teanna are going to meet up with teanna's mother carla who is also homeless. she sleeps in a tent in the woods with a couple of friends. >> home sweet home. >> teanna has been collecting baby clothes from the local missions and keeps them in a plastic bag by her mother's tent. >> here's the baby blanket. it needs washed, though. all this stuff needs washed. here's this one.

i got a bunch of little onesies. >> teanna does not have regular prenatal care. she had a sonogram at a local hospital and found out she's having a girl. teanna refuses to go into a shelter because men and women are not allowed to sleep in the same quarters and teanna does not want to be separated from bam. when she delivers, she risks having her baby placed in foster care if she is found to be an unfit mother. 18-year-old runaway and jacksonville native josh has been on the streets for two weeks. before leaving home, he says his father gave him one last piece of advice. >> the last thing my dad told me was, he said if you want to try to repair what damage you've done, go to trinity because they've got a program where you can detox. i went to trinity rescue mission. >> trinity rescue mission helps people who are addicted to drugs

or alcohol. while there, josh began making friends. >> me and logan trained together in the program and both left at the same time. we've kind of slept together, watched out for each other. >> going to salvation army, get something to eat. >> this is their daily routine. after spending the day at the library, josh and his friends head to salvation army to eat dinner. with the help of those around him, josh is beginning to learn the realities of surviving on the streets. >> i am sort of new at this and it has been kind of a shock to me and it's one of those things that i'm learning firsthand as i go along. >> it's 117 apiece, plus -- >> anthony and james have just finished talking to the manager of the st. james inn. he won't allow them to share a room. >> getting frustrated. that's what it is. about getting something. >> the manager is willing to

rent them separate rooms, but they're $5 short. james and anthony head to the palms hotel to see if they can get a room there. >> that place there, see if we can get a room together. >> we're going to scotty's first for a cigarette. >> we can't afford cigarettes, man. you don't understand. if we need $5 more to get that, you're worried about a cigarette, i'm worried about a roof. >> the friends have a unique relationship. james helps anthony survive on the streets of jacksonville while anthony supports james in his efforts to stay off crack. but now the frustration over renting a room is getting the best of them. >> you're being a little rude walking real fast. if you want to get a cigarette, you can. >> no, i'm not. >> i'm not telling you what to do with your money. i'm just trying to think smart here. >> i want to see about getting a room. >> there are no rooms available at the palm tree. james and anthony will have to wait another few days to get off the streets.

>> you all right? >> what? >> you all right. you're in your own world or something. we're supposed to be together in this thing. >> i'm perfectly fine. >> it don't seem like it. >> okay. >> i'm trying to help you. what i got is yours. that's what home boys is all about. that's what being on the streets is about, being partners. what's mine is yours, yours is mine. >> james says he is tempted to spend his money on crack but getting a roof over their heads is more important. >> it's not about drugs, it's about us. it's about us getting that. >> well, since we still have an hour, i'm going to go to the library real quick. >> anthony and james agree to meet back up at salvation army for dinner in an hour. they'll be forced to spend another night outside a building that's under construction. coming up, josh suddenly falls unconscious while getting a crude homemade tattoo. >> josh, wake up. >> and his friends aren't sure

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21-year-old run away and former marine anthony arrives at hemming plaza, a park in downtown jacksonville. he's just come from a motel room his friend james rented so they would not have to sleep on the streets. james told anthony he'd rented the room for the entire week, but this morning anthony found out that he had only paid for one night. anthony also realized that all his money was missing. he believes james stole it. >> when i woke up this morning, all the money that i had was gone and james is nowhere to be found. he managed to lie and steal from me. >> when asked by the production team, james denied taking the money. anthony also suspects that james is using drugs again.

>> he's not known to stay up very late at night because he likes to work during every other day or every day. but last night, he was up all night. now, i don't know if he was on drugs, but i'm pretty sure he was. and that's probably another reason why he took all my money. >> anthony doesn't know where he'll sleep tonight. he's broke and he has no one to turn to. >> now, i am stuck out on the street back to where i was two weeks ago about, with no money and no idea where to stay. and one less trusted person. >> what? >> are you all right? huh? >> don't matter what i am. >> 22-year-old runaway bam and 19-year-old teanna who's five months pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's baby head to an abandoned nightclub where they

sleep. >> i can't deal with the stress. >> well -- >> i got a child i got to worry about. >> when we get off the streets, everything will be all right. there's so much stress right now. >> it's even more stress that you go and do things that you know you can get in trouble for. >> you have to do what you got to do. >> i wish you didn't do what you got to do. >> you got to do what you got to do. >> they arrive at the nightclub. it's pitch black inside. they use lighters and candles to find their way to the room where they sleep. >> this is our hell hole where we sleep at. >> we sleep right here. i sleep on the cushion. he sleeps right here on the floor. >> i've been living here off and on for about a month and me and her stayed here together for about a week now. >> that's what i'm guessing, about a week. >> about a week. it's warm.

it's warm and it's not -- >> sometimes it's warm. >> it's warm. >> it gets cold. >> bam and anna are at risk of being arrested for trespassing if caught inside the nightclub. they also are under the threat of other homeless people coming into the club at night to rob or assault them. >> each night, they lock everything up before going to sleep. >> people come all through the night, people come knocking on that door. other bums. >> three people. >> we lock them out. we got everything secure where they can't come in here. >> so how do you all like our home? that's home. well, going to the library. >> rodney is originally from camden, new jersey. he heads to the library where he spends most of his days. he says he was taken away from

his parents when he was 12 years old, but he isn't sure why. >> i guess a neighbor called family services and said i was running outside barefooted. so they came out and said, oh, this is not fit for a child. the parents were fighting and everything so they just took us out and we went into foster placement. >> oh, look at the front of that car. >> when he was 19, his father died and for a brief time he lived with his mother in jacksonville. when she moved into a new apartment a few months later, she told him he couldn't live with her anymore. >> that night i slept in the church and slept in the stairway, freezing cold. i went on the streets. became homeless, you know, officially first time being homeless. >> rodney has been on and off the streets for five years. recently, he applied to a couple of local schools to become a patient care technician, a health care professional who provides direct care to patients. >> i'm like man, i'm tired of this.

i need to make something happen and make something happen fast, you know. i got my diploma. i'm smart. just looking for a chance. >> new friends, anthony and 18-year-old jacksonville native josh, are hanging out in the park with a group of their buddies. anthony is preparing to give josh a stick and poke tattoo. he prepares the rudimentary tools, a staple with the end filed sharp, inserted into a pencil eraser and ink from a ballpoint pen. >> get one cross on your shoulder with a phoenix in the middle. >> the tattoo josh picked out has special meaning for him. >> i'm half irish. i've always had a thing for keltic stuff and i'm a christian and like crosses so i figure i'll combine the two and get a celtic cross. >> hey, why don't we get a tattoo so we can remember each other by when we split up.

>> anthony begins the slow process of tattooing. >> stop shaking. are you cold? >> a little. >> need me to stop, let me know. >> i'm good right now. and i'm pretty [ muted ], too. >> he's passed out. >> hey. josh, wake up. coming up, josh's friends become increasingly concerned as he struggles to remain conscious. >> look at his lips, man, they are white. >> swallow. >> go to the hospital? >> breathe. >> josh. holiday joy,

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>> pay attention. drink some mountain dew. >> you need some sugar. dude, you need some sugar. >> got to get your glucose up, dude. >> drink, you need some sugar, dude. >> the group asks josh if he wants to see a doctor. >> swallow. swallow, josh. >> you want to go to the hospital? >> no, don't need to go to the hospital. he's getting better. >> they urge josh to wake up. >> keep your eyes open, dude. keep your eyes open. >> don't roll your eyes to the back of the head. >> josh's body is in shock from the tattoo. he hasn't eaten since breakfast and he regularly donates blood plasma for money. >> i'm starting to make out shapes. i can see somebody walking up. anthony's right there. and justin is sitting next to me. >> very good. >> as josh struggles to regain consciousness, a man nearby in the park is upset by the

commotion. he doesn't want police attention. >> you all need to get the [ muted ] out of here, man, because these guys are getting ready to call the police already. you all got sitting there filming them. that's [ muted ]. you do what the [ muted ] you've got to do and get the [ muted ] out of here, man. >> several of the young runaways are prepared to fight to hold their ground while josh tries to pull it together. >> what you saying, red. >> you got to go. you got to go. >> i been gone all my life. this ain't your [ muted ] park. >> no, they ain't. what you saying, red? >> what up? what are you saying there? what are you saying there? >> both of you all want to jump on me. >> what are you saying there. >> the police are already coming. >> so -- >> come on, josh. let's go. >> i can see colors, man. >> come on, we got to go. >> i don't know if i can stand up.

>> sirens blare off in the distance, setting the group into motion. after leaving the park, josh did not seek medical attention. things are looking up for 24-year-old runaway rodney. he's still homeless but he's been accepted into the patient care technician program at concord career college. this morning, he has an appointment to meet with a financial aid counselor. >> right now, i'm seeking help from the state. they say i'm approved already but i still, i don't have a job right now. >> rodney is prepared to juggle school and day labor to finish his program. i want to say, here, this is what i know. this is what i'm good at. this is how i'm going to do it. let's do this. you know what i'm saying? they like people like that. i feel confident. i know i'll get it. you know what i'm saying? that first day of school, when i get my scrubs, i'll put my purple scrubs on, i'm going to look in the mirror i'm going to

say, that's what i'm talking about. >> that's our new home now. that's where we're going to sleep from now on out. >> 19-year-old teanna who's five months pregnant and her boyfriend bam are moving into a tent in the woods next to where teanna's mother carla sleeps. >> don't come tonight, i'm sleeping there. >> i'm sleeping tonight here. i am not going back to that building. >> teanna and bam did not want to sleep at the abandoned nightclub anymore. there are rumors the police are watching it. >> i don't know if it's true but i don't care. i'm not taking chances. i'm not going to jail. >> it rained last night and everything in the tent is soaked. >> and all of our stuff got wet. >> teanna wants to check to make sure her sonogram picture wasn't ruined. >> all right. that's the main thing i was worried about. >> thanks for watching my stuff. >> anthony has invited josh and

his friends to sleep in abandoned hospital downtown. being alone means being vulnerable. it's safer to sleep in groups. the production team of this program gave anthony a disposable video camera to independently record the realities of life as a runaway. he used it to shoot video of the inside of the building where he and his group sleep. >> now we're on the second floor. at night it gets very dark. there's no electricity, no plumbing. no real anything, just kind of where we stay. it's got a bunch of holes in the wall. beat up. yeah, very rugged looking. the ceiling is a little cracked. >> anthony found the place so he makes the rules. no sex, no drugs and no drinking. anthony also tries to ensure the safety of the group while they sleep. >> this is where we come in at.

this is kind of the security system. when somebody comes inside, it gets pushed down. go ahead and knock it down. that's why we keep it up. anybody that comes inside has to make that noise. >> before heading into the abandoned hospital for the night, josh says he's taking small steps toward repairing his relationship with his parents. >> i mean, i try and contact them at least once a week, just call them and let them know i'm doing okay. my dad, he's kind of excited because he really is glad that i actually am trying to get straight and my mom, it's one of those things that she's glad, but you can tell there's more apprehension there. >> nighttime is the hardest on josh.

he used the video camera the production team gave him to explain how hard it is to be on the streets at night. >> you never know where you're going to put your head down at night. and even if you do, in our case, we don't know if it's even safe to enter. i mean, who's to say one of these days we aren't going to pop our head in here and get it [ muted ] cut off by somebody or get shot or stabbed in the middle of the night. we live in abandoned building where people died. it's an abandoned hospital. we live in a place that we're sleeping on the floor on blankets. i hate living out here. coming up, teanna threatens to leave bam if he doesn't stop his illegal activities. >> i don't want to be with you if this is what you're going to do. [ dad ] ok, do you see my location on your phone son?

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19-year-old run away teanna, who's five months pregnant, has almost decided on a name for her baby girl. >> i think i'm going to choose adrianna or tatiana rose marie. i'm stuck between those two names. >> teanna's on her feet most of the day. it is hard on her this far into her pregnancy. >> when i get to walking really fast, it starts hurting real bad. everybody tells me i need to settle down on walking because it could put me in labor early.

>> teanna says the baby has been kicking a lot and gives her peace of mind. >> she's been moving around a lot, though. i know she's okay. i don't like when she holds still. i don't like that. i want her to be kicking. that way i know you're still in there, you're okay. >> teanna says her baby is her first priority and says she will choose her little girl over bam, her mother or anyone else. >> she's the only one i'm worried about right now. you know, he's talking about doing illegal stuff all the time. don't make me have to worry. i care a lot about him, but i ain't going to put up with it. no man's worth anything, you know, over my child. and my mom's worth a lot but she ain't worth my child. >> that's the feet of a homeless person. >> smells like the feet of a homeless person. >> 18-year-old run away and jacksonville native josh is in bad shape. he's run out of socks and his feet are cut up from all the

walking he does during the day. josh shuffles his way to dinner with his new girlfriend, brandy, who says she has run away from home. >> i'm used to my family screwing me over. i mean, there will always be a my heart that loves them because they're my blood, but josh told me this yesterday, enough with the blood bull [ muted ]. i need to make a family of choice. >> josh's group of friends has bonded into a family-like unit. >> we're basically like brothers. i mean, we watch out for each other. we share food, we share water. >> if there were one foundation they should establish for the homeless, it should be socks for the homeless. >> 24-year-old rodney, who's just enrolled in school, heads to the place where he's staying. for the past month, a friend has let him stay at her house for free. rodney says he will give her money when he finds work.

>> the place that i sleep at it's a floor, well, i don't have my own bedroom. i stay in the room with a couple people but it's on the floor. so if i could, i would take you over there. but i can't, so i won't. i don't want to mess up my place to stay. i had [ muted ] hundreds in my pocket before i met this chick. >> 22-year-old bam is fed up with his girlfriend teanna, limiting what he can and can't do to earn money. he vents to his friend at the bus terminal. >> you're better off by yourself. i should never have gotten that started. i should have just looked out for myself. >> we told that you from the get-go. >> i know. now since i've been with her it's been the same [ muted ] every day. every day.

>> cause she was too young, fresh to the streets, and all you were going to do was break her heart. and that's what you're doing. >> i ain't breaking nothing. she's doing that to herself. she knew about me before she started messing with me. that i had been out here breaking the law. >> bam, teanna and their group head toward hemming plaza. teanna is upset with ben because he wants to hustle at the parking lot tonight to make some money. she isn't sure if she can continue to be in a relationship with bam. >> you know, i haven't done no crime since i've been with you. none. none. i've been broke ever since i've been with you. i haven't done nothing. >> if you're a man, you should get out and get a job. >> you can't say i've done nothing. i don't need you to tell me what the [ muted ] i need to do. all right? i'm man enough to know what the [ muted ] i got to do. >> don't be with me.

>> are you smoking? you going to smoke this with me, right? >> i'm not going nowhere. the worst thing that could happen is that i get locked up out here. you'll get over me. you hear me? >> i don't want to be with you if this is what you're going to do. >> let's go. >> you don't -- >> let's go. let's get you high so you'll be all right. >> the group walks to a quiet spot off the st. john's river to smoke a blunt, a cigar hollowed out and filled with marijuana. teanna, who is five months pregnant smokes as well. afterwards, bam is ready to see if he can hustle for money at the parking lot. he's been watching the attendant and has memorized her schedule. >> usually 9:00 she goes. the whole hour on break. as predicted, the attendant

leaves her stand at exactly 9:00. bam stands by her booth, but he isn't there long enough to make any money. the attendant is on her way back. >> i thought she was going to be gone longer than this break. boy, let me tell you, i'll make a killing on this. >> bam vows to return later tonight after the attendant goes off duty. he and the group head to hemming plaza. bam says that letting go of life on the streets won't come easy for him. >> once you get used to it and you're in it, you're making money, it's hard to just walk out. it's kind of in you. you all right? >> but bam says he will do whatever it takes to make his relationship with teanna work. >> i'm going to try my best to stick this out with her and see what happens. >> she and her soon to be born baby and her mother carla are

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22-year-old runaway bam has

vowed to stick by his girlfriend tiana even though he's not the father of her baby, but tiana who is five months' pregnant says she is tired of bam's empty promises. >> he said he would have me off of the streets a long time ago. if he was a real man he would go out and get a job like a real man should, grow up. you mature. tiana looks for the baby clothes given to her in the park. the clock is ticking for tiana, she could lose custody of her baby if she's deemed an unfit mother. >> i don't want to take the chance of losing my kid. and what is killing me is just the thought of losing it that scares me. because it is part of me. it's my blood. it's my baby. ♪ ♪ >> tiana is too far along in her pregnancy to bet a job. she's relying on the others in

her group to get her off the streets. they've been talking about doing day labor to be able to afford a place. >> they were talking, i guess, my mom and bam that if they worked from monday to friday, combine that money, we can get into a place. i'll just watch and see what happens. tiana has not made any efforts to get off the streets to ensure that her baby will not be taken from her. she said as a last resort she will reach out to family members in indiana to see if anyone will take her in before her baby is due. 21-year-old runaway anthony is taking steps to leave jacksonville. he's looking into a government-run program called job corps that gives at-risk youth transitional housing and vocational training. >> i'm getting set up in job corps to see if i can get off the streets and get a helping hand and get back into the job force. i just went to orientation

today. my goal is to just become -- i guess, typical member of society, working every day, living and contributing back to society. >> for now, anthony remains the leader of the group that sleeps in the abandoned hospital. he says it will be difficult to leave his friends behind. >> i know everybody that stays there, so i've got a soft spot for everybody. >> i want to see them get out of the same situation that i'm trying to. >> anthony is optimistic about his future. i'm going to look back on this as a good learning experience. it's a very humbling experience. >> if anthony is accepted into the job corps program, he'll be assigned to a school in kentucky. >> in the end, i know that everything will work out somehow, some way. it's going to happen. ♪ ♪

>> a few days later anthony and 18-year-old runaway josh head to the job corps office in downtown jacksonville. anthony has been talking to josh about the program. >> do they have, like, a pamphlet with different jobs in it? >> i'm pretty sure. i don't know. >> i knew i needed to get the hell out of here. >> when they come out josh says he will attend an orientation session later in the week. >> i'm mainly interest interested in the medical field be onning payings because i've always wanted to do with science or health. >> josh calls home every sunday after his family gets home from church. >> every time i call them it's a little bit less formal and a little more familiar. so i really do think that i'll eventually, it may not be back the way we were before i left, but to the point where i can be in their lives again. >> josh says he has renewed

faith in god, and the disposable video camera the production team gave him, josh says he tries to stick to his morals even while out on the streets. >> it's like the bible streets, if you train up a child in the way she should go, heel not depart from it when he is a man. my parents raised me right and in a godly way and because of that i'm stronger for it because you know what? even though i'm on the streets i'm doing my best to live up to the way my parents raised me. 24-year-old rodney has moved out of his friends' apartment and into a homeless shelter. >> i left the place i was staying at because i didn't like the environment. he's also quit doing day labor. he has a new job that is paying him a good hourly wage. >> i now have a job that does work on the house. call it what you will. but i get paid $15. 80.

who cares? he plans to work from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and starts school. >> i'll start school, concord, patient care technician. for me, i think it was a long road coming, and it's a long road going, but still, it's a road i can travel. >> the sky, oh, my god, it's beautiful. rodney, a full-time job and going to school. sounds good to me. what do you think? net ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪