san diego, california, with its world renowned parks, picturesque beaches and a vibrant night life. it is known as a tourist mecca, but it's also a city dealing with an increasing homeless population. many are runaways, and some are young women who grew up right here, like 20-year-old michelle. >> this is a pretty lucky spot to have. most people -- i've seen people sleeping on the side of the streets, abandoned houses. this is a place that cops i don't think would think to look in. >> and 19-year-old danielle. >> i've been coughing up blood, too. well, i am an addict, but i feel like i go down like in down and dirty places to get high. >> their lives are a constant battle.

>> you've got to show people. >> this is a drama i got myself out of it and i don't want to be in it again. >> and a constant test of their will to endure. >> i just don't care anymore. >> like many women who live on the streets, they rely on men for their well-being and security, but those relationships can also be a source of trouble. >> i'm going to be very honest with you. i've gone through your whole thing. >> yeah. >> and it doesn't look very good. >> i don't want to go to prison, i really don't. >> their views can be controversial. >> so this is -- this is my cross. this is -- this is my belief in my faith. >> their choes can be difficult to understand. >> but that's my daughter, and i'm really proud to have her, like even though i'm not currently involved fully in her life right now. >> watch as michelle and danielle struggle to live and survive on the streets of san diego.

>> i was adopted. my birth mom was 15 years old when she had me, so she was no in shape of taking care of a child. i was adopted when i was three days old so they are the only parents i've known for my whole life but i've always wondered who is my birth mom? what did she look like? what does she think about? where does she live? do i have any brothers and sisters, and that was always a touchy subject with my family because they tried so hard to get a child and finally got here and i'm sitting here wondering about another set parents that could be possibly be somewhere else so they kind of found it offensive. but i went to church every sunday. memorized my bible verses, was tout what was good and what was bad. ate meals together, had fun together, went on vacations together, like your original all-american republican family, and -- and i was 14 and i ran away from home, and i ran away from home because my mom and dad said i couldn't talk to a boy,

and it was ridiculous reason. i called my mom the next day and they had already sent out a missing children's report and everything. >> 20-year-old michelle's adoptive parents live in san diego. michelle is still in contact with them, though less and less frequently over the past few months. while she has run away from home before, this time it's different. this time she left behind her infant daughter. >> i try and go see my daughter once a week. i was doing that for a while. then i got into a really bad relationship with somebody, and my visits with my child slowly got like farther and farther apart. i was going to see her maybe twice a week, once every week definite, and then it went to like once every couple of weeks, and then it went to like once a month, and then i didn't see her for two months straight. >> michelle says she couldn't cope with being a mother and had to leave because she was struggling with post-partum depression. >> they believed that i was choosing my boyfriend over my

daughter and the post-partum made it hard for me to give all my attention to my child at first. i love my daughter to death and i don't have post-partum depression anymore and i see where i went wrong, but those are mistakes made in frustration. >> her daughter is now a year old, and despite the situation, michelle says she still plans to become a significant part of her child's liver. but michelle acknowledges she will need to make substantial changes, changes she is reluctant to make. >> my parents didn't picture this for me. they pictured me probably going to school, graduating college, getting married, and i can't live that life. i think there's more to life than just sitting at home and living the all-american dream. i looked at my mom one day when she questioned my situation and told me it's my choice, and i just told her, what if drastically one day you and dad lost the house? you went bankrupt and you had nothing? would you steal to survive? would you eat out of a trash

can? i mean, you do what you can to survive. >> michelle recently starting dating her boyfriend jay who goes by the street name ducky. ducky has been in and out of california prison system for the last few years and is currently on probation for dealing drugs. because of all his legal problems, ducky wants to leave town and head north to san francisco. >> a warrant is going to be issued friday at 5:00 p.m. this friday at 5:00 p.m. a warrant will be issued. >> for my immediate -- for my immediate arrest. >> what's the best way to get up there? to san francisco. >> take a train. >> how much per person? >> i think it's like 30 bucks a head. >> we want to leave within the next five days.

we know that's a little soon. >> how long do you plan on staying up there? >> forever. >> my record will be expunged in seven years. i can stay there for seven years. >> i like to move. >> stay out of trouble. always move. >> you got a cigarette. >> i want to get to san francisco. i don't know how we get up there. i don't care. i don't care what it takes. we're just going to get up here. i'm just going to get away from san diego. >> another reason michelle and ducky want to leave san diego is because they feel drugs here are too accessible. ducky says drugs are the cause of many of his legal problems. >> baby, i want to go shrooming again. >> i want acid. >> it's cheaper. let's go get an acid then. >> it's $5 hits. >> from when i was born to like

i was 4 i was with my birth parents and then i was in foster care until i was 6 or 7 and then to 18 i was adopted. i guess i always pushed people away because so many people in my life abandoned me when i was younger so i guess that's what i did with my parents and finally like fine, y'all, go out on your own and wow, i'm out here on my own and i feel like a little 12-year-old in a 19-year-old's body. >> danielle has an extensive history running away from home, but when she turned 19 it was her family that asked her to leave. they considered her a bad influence on her younger siblings. >> i still don't have the life skills i need to survive on my own, but i'm trying as best as i can. my biggest fears are being left on the streets alone and not knowing who to turn to and who to keep me safe. >> her adoptive parents agreed to pay for one month at a local downtown hotel in hopes that she will get a job and start to pay her own way. >> i live in a hotel called the

golden west. it's kind of trashy. when i first went there, oh, my gosh, there were cockroaches everywhere, eggs, like a thousand eggs in each corner and sometimes you look in the corner and it's like -- i don't like cockroaches. i'd rather not have cockroaches. i don't like them, especially if they are crawling on your face. >> danielle has only two more weeks until the month is up at the hotel. 14 days to figure out how to come up with the money to stay another month, or she may be forced to live out on the streets. >> so look how much stuff i have, dude, in this little room. imagine having to take all this stuff and pack it somewhere and i have nowhere to go. this is 485 a month, dude, 485. look at all this. take a look at all this, dude. this is cockroaches right here, all in this corner, dude. i'm not afraid to carry these little [ bleep ]. they are dead. i've got three or four, dude,

but i want them to see, look. i picked them up. look. those are all dead. >> but the cockroaches are hardly danielle's only problem. for years she's been coping with chronic depression. >> i take medicine, too. i have been refusing to take them. i take tone max for mood swings and celexa for depression and another drug for my concentration, and i'm not taking them because i've been fed [ bleep ] owl my life, that i'm crazy or like, not crazy but i have psychological problems and i'm going to try to prove to my family that i can have a job without medicine to help me. >> danielle has become increasingly depressed about her situation, and she says stopping her medication may be compounding the problem. >> everything is overwhelming right now, especially when you don't have mom and dad toe pay for you no more. imagine being 41 right now and not having a place to stay and being in my situation, really don't have nothing, no one or anything.

that would suck. >> danielle was able to get a job as a telemarketer, but quit after only two days. she says she just found the job too boring. with no real plans to get another job, danielle doesn't know how she'll get the money she needs or what her future will hold. >> like i don't think that this is where i want to be in [ bleep ] five months from now. >> while dan ye's cockroach-filled room is small and even depressing to her, it's luxurious compared to the squat that michelle and ducky call home. >> we're heading up the street towards our house, well, i call it the house. it's my home right now. but it's -- it's generally called the hole. it's a hole in the freeway. >> they will have to cross four lanes of highway to get there, and on any given night 12 to 15 youth will be sleeping inside this bridge. >> one of the things that we realized is that one of the adults here had some tattoos that's primarily known for some

gang activity as far as white gangs. >> tell this guy that a.j. and skinheads will put a bullet in his head.

for women runaways like danielle, looking for companionship is as important as getting food and shelter. being line on the streets of san diego can be daunting. some quickly find boyfriends. but that, too, can be troublesome. danielle's current boyfriend, slick is in jail awaiting trial. this isn't uncommon. her good friend also has a boyfriend who is incarcerated. with the absence of their companions, the two have learned to rely on each other. is we are like twins. this is my best friend. i love her. >> reporter: danielle met carlene who is also homeless at a local drop-in shelter. neither woman has an income, but unlike many homeless youth, they say they won't ask people for spare change. instead, they steal the food

they need to make it through the day. >> i don't like asking for money. unless i really need it. i will steal something for me, myself than ask somebody else for money. i don't want to look like a bum, dude. we don't sit in the corner and ask for money. this is like a subway sandwich, dude. >> danielle and carlene often spend their days hanging around downtown san diego. at night, they sneak into local hotels to use the internet so they can send e-mails to their incarcerated boyfriends. >> right now we have to go in the ramada and pretend like we're guests and act like we've been here before and have a key. >> reporter: michelle and ducky also spend their day just hanging out in downtown san diego moving from one location to the next with their posse so

they aren't harassed by the local shop owners or cops. but at night, they go back to a place they call home. or more accurately, a place they have nicknamed the hole. >> i am going to the hole right now. and what the hole is it's a place where we squat or keep our stuff and sleep, and it's in the freeway. >> reporter: under a layer of concrete with a busy highway overhead, michelle and her friends risk their lives crossing four lanes of highway to get to their secluded spot. a lot of care goes into not getting caught. >> this is about four feet tall. it is probably about maybe 10, 12 feet wide. maybe about 25, 30 feet long. and so we have plenty of room. most of it is taken up by trash now because we can't throw trash down there because caltrans will -- caltrans will survey the area, and if it's trashy, they will discover us, so we try and

keep it as clean and civil as possible. i mean, like we have to make place goes to the bathroom so it doesn't smell really bad. >> reporter: these openings are supposed to be used by engineers to inspect the structural integrity of the freeway overpass. many homeless in the area not only use it for shelter but also to hide from cops. >> this is a pretty lucky spot to have. most people -- i have seen people sleeping on the side of the streets. abandoned houses. this is a place that cops i don't think would think to look in. >> sorry the house is a mess. >> when rush hour traffic comes, it starts getting a lot more louder up here so we wake up to the rush hour traffic. >> reporter: what looks like a layer of black paint, is actually a thick layer of black soot, smoke and dirt that they are constantly inhaling. >> it's all black. see the walls, they are all charred. look at the wood. it's on fire. >> black in our nose. >> it's because of all the soot. >> breathing it in when we're sleeping and stuff. >> yeah.

>> we've got to be careful with what we burn in here because if we start setting things on fire, it will get real smokey in here and smoke will be billowing out on the freeway. this is good living compared to where i have lived or could be living. going to san francisco i hope it will bring a better light on where we live. >> reporter: the move to san francisco isn't just for the hope of a brighter future for michelle and ducky. michelle believes she might be pregnant with dick's baby. >> i know i might have to get a job because my girlfriend is pregnant with my kid. i'm going to be stepping up, and i'll be getting a 9:00 to 5:00 job. >> all of their wordily possessions are ebb tombed inside this four foot wide tomb. michelle's most prized possession is a picture of her daughter. >> this is my daughter my parent's swimming pool last summer, i think. yeah, she was five or six months old, maybe four months old. that's my daughter. her name is adriana justine, but that's my daughter, and i'm really proud to have her, like

even though i'm not currently involved fully in her life right now. >> even though michelle wants to plan for a future with her 1-year-old daughter, she still thinks about the past and desperately wants to know more about her birth family. >> this is my birth mom right here. this is my birth mom with her husband. that's not my father, but he is her husband. >> at 20 years old, michelle is at a time in her life when she's starting to define her identity. while many her age do it in a college setting, michelle is struggling to find herself out on the streets of san diego. but the nagging question about her past, specifically who her mother is, continues to haunt her. >> i want to find her. hopefully i do. i want to search for my birth mom right now. i have been searching for her for a while but hopefully, hey, maybe she's watching this and sees her face and goes oh, wow, that's my kid. i don't know. >> this is no different than getting a cross with a jesus

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danielle has less than a week to go before she has to leave the hotel room she has been living in. she's yet to figure out how she's going to come up with the $485 she needs to stay another month. without it, she will be out on the streets. despite the looming deadline, danielle isn't looking for a job or any other means of raising money. instead, she's preoccupied with another matter. her boyfriend lick is in jail, and she's eager to see him. >> don't we look cute together? i'm headed to the jail to see my boyfriend. he's been there a week and i'm dropping off letters. i'm going to visit him and then i don't know what i'm going to do the rest of the day. of course i miss him. write him like 24/7. look, i wrote him like five letters yesterday. see? one letter, two, three, four five letters, dude, five letters. that's a lot. >> many of danielle's friends

oppose her relationship, warning her that slick is a womanizer, but danielle doesn't believe him. she says they are destined to be together. slick won't allow the cameras to record the visit, but afterwards danielle leaves in good spirits. >> it went good. he thinks -- he said he's going to start writing me now so i'm happy. he thinks he'll in for maybe four months. it couldlonger. i'm going to miss him, but when he gets out it's going to be so much -- so fun to see him, like, you know, when you haven't seen someone for a year or something, like oh, you know. then we'll really see if we're really meant to be together once he gets out and this is a test, i guess, to being like committed. done it before, but i got hurt. let me see if i can do it again. >> hey, leroy. >> so he can get a tattoo. >> we're going to dog park?

>> yeah. getting a tattoo. >> what for? >> just two blocks, over by the federal building. >> yeah, i'll go over there. >> michelle and ducky decided to get matching tattoos. >> i'm getting a swazi. >> they are getting swastikas permanently placed on them. michelle had her tattoo doesn't last night and now it's ducky's turn. >> show them. >> i'll get it in the middle of my chest. >> i love it when he shows his tattoos. >> just for today when i have my swazi. got 100% wood because i'm a pecker wood from east county. >> i'm an east county pecker wood. >> the term pecker wood is a prison lexicon. once a derogatory word used to describe poor white people, it's now used as a point of pride to significant white power. >> my belief is that the white race is slowly becoming less and less, like you get half black, half white, half mexican, half white. i want to preserve the white race.

i want to preserve what i am and what i know and believe and that is white man, marry white man and have white babies. >> by getting the swastika tattoos together, michelle believes that this will solidify their relationship. >> i don't want to speak for duck, but i believe we do, yes. i believe that that's one thing that we completely agree on. it helps me be a better person, really does. swazi is no different than getting a cross with a jesus tattooed on it, so this is my cross. this is -- this is my belief in my faith. >> tattoo mark, who learned his craft in prison, shows how he built his tools. >> this is an electric toothbrush, and i made it myself, you know. it's easy to do. it's got like one aa battery, and it's a single needle. >> as ducky gets a swastika tattoo, he explains his beliefs. >> honestly i believe that any other race other than the white

race is not welcome. >> oh, geez. you get the [ bleep ] out of here. you're way out, dude. >> right? >> i'm totally comfortable. >> it's just being proud of who you are, the race that you are, that's what it should be. that's it. nothing more. >> why don't you [ bleep ] observe it. >> because michelle was adopted, she isn't exactly sure of her identity or her heritage, an irony that's not completely lost on her. >> i don't know what i am. all i know is i'm half irish and a third italian. >> i know my daughter is going to be out to me, mom, why is that on your leg and why is it there, and i'll have to explain it to her, but i don't know how yet. it looks really good, babe. you'll be very proud of the work. right on. >> stand up. >> all right. >> that's kind of cool. i met the man who started the setting in. let me see, babe. baby, let me see. >> i love it. i know. sounds a little corner and cliche but it makes people

closer >> i love it, a lot. >> it's like it's important enough for him to put the swastika on him, it's important enough for me to put the swastika on me, then it must be equally important to both of us, you know? i feel like i'm doing my part because i'm producing a pure white child. i am doing what i can to produce my white race >> exactly. >> it's because right now it is 2008. back in 1945 we were the dominating race. we were the superior race. now the white race is a minority. i'm not happy about that because we were the dominant race for many, many, many, many, many years, and now we're falling into extinction, and i'm not happen we, that because we're -- that's -- >> i believe white -- >> that's what i want to explain. >> white is beautiful. like, to me, being white is beautiful. >> it just means that i'm going to have a lot more issues and a lot more battles in life that i

am willing to take. i'm willing to fight for what i believe in. if anybody has a problem with it -- >> they can talk to me. >> we'll take it to the cell straight up. >> the reason we were called over here is because of a complaint that citizens had seen these kids sitting in a park and possibly passing out what looked like a metal pipe. it looked like they were smoking some form of narcotics or drugs.

>> michelle and ducky are street kids living in san diego who just proclaimed their belief in white supremacy by getting matching swastika tattoos, and ducky isn't finish: there's another one of his convictions he wants permanently inked on his body. he wants the initials dgaf added to his collection. >> dgaf stands for don't give a [ bleep ]. >> the tattoo isn't quite finished and the police arrive. >> does not have a local -- >> the reason we were called over here is because of a complaint that citizens had saw these kids sitting in a park and possibly passing out what looked like a metal pipe. it looked like they were smoking some form of narcotics or drugs, and in this park it's pretty common citizens do see like that and they usually do call us. >> what are you guys doing here? >> hanging out and having a relaxing sunday afternoon. >> a nice day. >> he's getting his tattoo. >> i feel left out. talked to all the other youngsters but left me out. >> see what kind of work you did. >> what is that.

>> dgaf. >> what does it mean? >> don't give a [ bleep ]. >> the swazi. >> okay. >> white power issues or? >> no, i think -- >> or just because you like that. >> proud. >> personal belief. >> 100% wood, i got you, man. one of the things we realized is one of the adults here had some tattoos that represented white power, swastika. east county, what he had on his arm is primarily known for some gang activity as far as white gangs. one of the things i want to do is just document it so we can at least put it on paper and know of it. >> it's actually pretty good work. i kind of like it. >> i have a camera. yeah, i take pictures. >> it's actually pretty good work. >> because ducky is on probation for selling mayor ana, he's considered to be what the street kids call a fourth waiver, someone who cannot invoke the fourth amendment which means that the police do not need probable cause before they can search him. >> it's stressful because like say he had a warrant and they would come and check him, they would be taking him to jail right now for a warrant if he

had one and i can't deal with that. >> if the police find anything that would justify an arrest like narcotics or a weapon, they can have his probation revoked. ducky could be looking at over six years in prison. >> right. >> only six years. >> six years, six months. >> right. >> but that's six years and six months that i won't have you there with me, and that's going to be hard, but i'll do it. >> six years and six months without my kid. >> but i'll do it for you. you know i would. >> so don't think i really want to go because i don't. >> we are finding an influx of kids coming in here who are runaways, addicts and, of course, prostitution. one of the things that the police department is trying to do is try to intervene somehow to try to reduce those measures, because we realize that the kids are actually victimized a lot, and some of the efforts we're doing is primarily this, contacting the kids. see what's going on and let them know there's option other than sitting in the street and not knowing and if we give them information at least they think there's some form of hope or resource.

you guys have any questions before we go. >> not really? >> the only person that got in trouble with the law that afternoon was tattoo mark who received a summons for tattooing without a permit. the rest of their group is relieved and go off to find another hangout spot. danielle and her friend are picking up her first and last paycheck from her telemarketing job. the grand total, $62. she had quit after only two days. she says because she was bored. >> i get a [ bleep ] ticket for greyhound right now and [ bleep ] leave. i don't know -- but i don't know why i won't [ bleep ] go because i can't live on my own. if i [ bleep ] leave and go somewhere else i know it's going to be the [ bleep ] same, just different town.

>> danielle is facing the hard fact that she isn't going to come up with the money she will need so that she can stay another month at the hotel. anxious about the prospects of living on the streets, danielle has been trying to get ahold of a guy she met named roy who offered her his couch for a few days. >> hello. hello. who is this? hi, roy. how are you? okay. well, you're going to like help me out on the 12th, right? no, i didn't. i'm not with him. i'm not with him. he is not my boyfriend. he is with somebody else. i'm sorry. bye. i met this guy at a trolley stop, dude.

at first i was kind of like, okay, why is an old man talking to me, but i told him like what the hell happened, and he [ bleep ] was like, well, you know, he's like trying to help me but for some reason i don't want it because i'm just afraid they are going to leave me anyways. >> the situation with roy sounds sketchy, but danielle feels like it's her best chance of staying off the streets. there are places for kids for danielle to turn to for help, shelters that provide food, counseling and other services, but danielle says that these places actually shoulder some of the blame for her situation by enabling her to continue her life style. >> i don't think a lot of people would be in this situation if they didn't have all these programs, like -- like the homeless shelter, dude. they shouldn't have that. [ bleep ] get a job. my problem is i don't have [ bleep ] motivation to get a job so it's like all these [ bleep ] things make it easier for me to survive without a job. like a shelter, can i just like not have to work for the next two years and live in a shelter.

>> danielle's lack of motivation may be in no small part due to her chronic drug use. she says she has been using crystal meth for some time and it has started to affect her both mentally and physically. >> i've been coughing up blood, too. i am an addict. i feel like i go down like down and dirty [ bleep ] places just to get high. i've experienced some [ bleep ] things out here, an it's not even that far from where i came from. i just don't even care anymore. >> if he brings anybody out to ob, they are going to get killed. >> that's all i know. >> i know. >> just keep raven out of ob.

it is the night before 19-year-old danielle has to leave the hotel that she has called home for the last four weeks. her parents paid for the month and hopes that danielle would get her life in order and possibly get a job. >> this is my last day in this hotel room. i was never really here that much, but i'm hoping that i'll be with -- i'll be with roy for a little while. >> reporter: instead of finding a job, danielle decided to move in with a man she recently met on the trolley named roy, a man she barely knows. >> no. i got up at the trolley stop because i had been trolley hopping. i ran into him and i was like, dang. i can't believe i just -- i just missed that trolley and now i have to do another half hour and then i started telling him what my situation was. he gave me like $5 for a pack of significant sets or something and we exchanged numbers and then from there on he's like, you know, i have little work you

can do for money, and even that i couldn't do. i was like i'll get, but i can't do that no more. >> but for danielle, there are more problems in her life than just finding shelter. danielle is battling addiction. while she has a history of using pot and alcohol, she has recently started turning to harder, more addictive drugs. >> i'm addicted, like i'm getting addicted to crystal meth. it's just like when it comes to crystal meth, you're always chasing that high, and then there's a point when you're high and then, like, well, i want to stay this high so you keep on hitting it and hitting it and hitting it, you know, and then you find yourself hitting that high of weird [ bleep ] ways. like, that's not good. i was so depressed the other [ bleep ] day that i was going to spend all my [ bleep ] money and come here and do that to myself and that's like a sign of, whoa, why would you want to get high by yourself when you could have other people, you know? i like this.

i'm sorry. i don't need that one. sometimes i want to give up on myself and sometimes i don't. right now it's like [ bleep ], just express all of this, all of these feelings and i'm feeling a little bert and maybe i can do this, you know. maybe like, i don't know, i know i can do it. see, i just had doubt in my voice. did you hear it? i feel like giving up on myself. coming back here tomorrow and [ bleep ] get all this and get out of here. take this. good-bye, go to west. besides works wants to sleep in here anyways? not me. >> after getting their matching tattoos a few days ago, michelle and ducky stop by a local drop-in center called stand up for kids.

the shelter provides free food, clothing and computer access to check e-mail. it's also used by many homeless teens as their primary address so that they can receive regular mail, much of it court-related. >> the sta of california versus -- dude, sounds like a felony case and a half. >> ducky has received a letter from the local courts asking him to pay close to $10,000 in restitution from a prior conviction. >> that's for $9,568 for my grand theft auto conviction. summery charges are expensive. >> this is why kids shouldn't get arrested. because you have to pay restitution. >> another service that the shelter provides is access to a local attorney. kristi draper has donated her time once a week to advise the youth with any of their legal issues.

ducky is concerned about an upcoming parole meeting because he hasn't stayed drug-free, and he could be sent back to prison. he feels that his only option is to skip the meeting and flee to san francisco. >> you need to just tell the officer -- >> i'm afraid he'll have me locked up. >> they might do that but you know what, listen? you got in trouble for doing something you weren't supposed to be doing. you need to stay clean. that's important. you know that. i'm not harping on you because you know it and you make your choices. if you test dirty, they are going to retest you, i mean, you know, that so every time you test dirty you're going to get a new test. i don't know if they are going to arrest you or not arrest you but the more you dabble with things that you know you're not supposed to be doing, you risk that that's what is going to happen. can i tell you that you need to go to that appointment because not going to that appointment guarantees you trouble, okay? >> okay. >> thank you. >> you're welcome, you guys. >> when he was put on probation,

he had to fill out certain terms and conditions. ducky hasn't done everything that he's supposed to do, so he's worried about going and being re-arrested, and so what we talked about was that, one, it's important to make all appointments because that's the worst thing that you can do is just not show up, and a lot of kids don't show up because they are afraid. the minute they know they are not doing everything they are supposed to do, they just run away and hide. they don't have positive interactions with adults, let alone authorities, authoritative adults so they tend to bail. one is to get him to go. >> as ducky and michelle are about to leave they run into friends into an argument over drug money. >> tell this guy a.j. and skinhead will put a bullet in his mind. >> the people that brian just got himself in with out there in ocean beach is skinheads. they will [ bleep ] finish you. >> dude, dude, i really don't care. i'm going to try to talk to -- telling me with whoever else, i'll shoot every [ bleep ] people.

>> two people on your side that weren't involved with it, homey. >> earlier that day, raven, a member of ducky's street family, got into a fight in nearby ocean beach after trying to collect for a drug dealer named angel. raven wants to go back for revenge, but their mutual friend ivan is hoping ducky did keep the situation from getting worse. >> hold on. hold on. hold on. >> you want me to bring everybody that angel sent? >> i seriously could. 90% of downtown, angel has already sent for it. i'm the one that collected for angel. >> he's not going to get anything. >> he's going to shoot people! >> brian, i don't want this [ bleep ] dram a. i got myself out of it and i don't want to be in it again and i don't want him [ bleep ] in it. i left east county because of it, just the drama. >> if raven brings anybody out to ob they are going to get killed. >> i know. >> i know. >> keep raven out of ob, dude. >> it's not going to happen. >> i'm cold, duck. i want to go home. >> but if he comes out looking for trouble, he's going to find trouble, bro. i don't want that

[ bleep ] to happen, dude. you know i love you, ducky. >> i'm going to be very honest with you. i've gone through your whole thing. >> yeah. >> and it doesn't look very good. >> i don't want to go to prison. i really don't. after spendi

night out on the streets of san diego with her friend karline, danielle is back at her hotel, trying to get ahold of a stranger that has offered them a place to stay. >> he's not picking up. >> roy isn't picking up his phone, and danielle has to be out of the room within the hour. >> i already know what i want to do. pick up. >> the stress and realization of not having a place to stay is finally getting to danielle. after repeated calls, roy, who she met on a trolley one afternoon, finally picks up the phone. >> i'm already ready. i have all my stuff.

i'm already red did hedy. it's already packed and everything. >> roy agrees to pick them up in 30 minutes. neither danielle nor karline look forward to staying at roy's, but danielle feels this is a better option than living out on the streets or in a shelter. >> hi, you. >> local shelts are state that single females out on the streets of san diego are offered rooms in private homes more frequently than their male counterparts. >> the go through some [ bleep ]. >> while some may do it out of the kindness of their heart. >> don't video me. >> many of the local shelters believe that a high percentage of these youth will end up being sexually exploited.

>> today, i'm going to probation for a compliance appointment. and hopefully, they're not taking me to jail i'm trying to stay positive because i figure if i stay positive, then positive things will happen. maybe that's a little juvenile, but i'm hoping that will happen. >> i'm scared [ bleep ] to go right now. >> i don't want to go to prison. >> i talked to a couple friends and they told her if they do arrest me, to have michelle come and get ahold of them and they'll take her into their house and feed her and make sure she's good until i get out. >> as part of his probation deal, an duckie was supposed to enter a residential treatment program or rtp and stop taking drugs. he's done neither. >> are you checking in?

>> yes, ma'am. >> these two violations can give his probation officer enough reason to send him back to prison for six years. >> i will tell you, i am going to come up for marijuana. i had a relapse about three weeks ago. >> so we'll go ahead and drug test him now and do a presumptive, as well and see what it comes out. >> okay. >> so far, we're showing negative for amphetamine or meth am fen mean usage, negative for cocaine usage, we're showing a negative for opiates and the pcp is coming back negative now. thc, marijuana is showing a single red line, which is indicative of a positive, positive test result. >> jay, you tested positive for thc which is marijuana which is what you told us when you walked in through the doorway, okay? so i'm going to go over a couple

conditions with you. >> yes. >> i'm going to be very honest with you. i've gone through your whole thing and it doesn't look very good. okay? >> i'm just really scared right now. i don't want to screw up no more. >> you've had a lot of failure to appears. this positive test doesn't help. now you tell me you have a ticket for possession of marijuana. it's not looking very good for you, i'llen honest. you can't keep doing what you're doing at 20 years of age. >> i don't want to go to prison, i really don't and realizing that more and more every day. >> you have to complete your whole rt. >> i know but once that's done i'm pretty much done with formal. >> not give us any more negative drug tests and i want to see you get a job. those are your three big things hanging over you. anger management, i looked at your juvenile, you have a history of fighting. you have a history of doing holes into the walls. you have a history of having little outbursts.

so i don't want to overwhelm you right now. first things are first. we're going to take little baby steps, okay? >> yeah, i'll try to do the best i can. >> you haven't done it. you have to do it now, especially like i say if you want to have a kid, you don't want the kid growing up underneath a bridge. >> right. >> okay? so you have to get your act straightened out now before it's too late. you're still young enough that you can do it. >> okay. >> okay, jay, i'll see you on thursday. good luck. i'll see you for sure. >> i've seen kids like jay come in here that you just kind of -- he doesn't have a lot of family support. you heard what he's living neath a bridge. he doesn't have a job, doesn't have money coming in. so yeah, the odds are against him. but i've seen kids do a whole 360. it's how much you want to change and how much you want to be different, and i have concerns because he's still got his swastika tat right on his chest.

so he's till still, i want to do good but i'm showing you something different. you know, my actions are showing you something totally different than what i'm telling you from my mouth. >> we're doing the right thing. we're not smoking pot all the time. no, we're not. we can't do it because if you piss dirty, i'm going to be very angry. >> i'm going to be pissing dirty for a long time. the next test is in july. i could at least smoke till 4-20. but after, i'm done. >> okay, deal. >> as long as 4-20 hits, i'm done. >> and then we're getting in somewhere.

on any given day, 500 teens and young adults called the streets of austin, texas, home. the streets can drive you crazy, definitely. >> reporter: many are women. for one woman, the streets are a playground, an escape from reality. >> you can do whatever you want i don't have like a cell phone bill. i don't have a car payment. i don't have insurance to pay. i don't have to wake up at 6:00 in the morning and get yelled at by my boss. >> reporter: another woman will do just about anything to get on her feet. >> when i get off the streets --