>> wow! >> we're off! >> are you registered to vote? >> that was racial. >> trying to find a silver lining here. >> that was really rude. >> my daughter's first pictures were on the third floor. >> everything is all right. >> got a couple questions, ask a muslim. what do you got? >> according to a pew research study, 62% of americans have never met a muslim before. the image of what islam and muslims are like comes from what the media portrays.

>> when i see ademonstration, of 10, 15, 20,000 muslims, at that point i'll have respect for muslims. >> i'm a pediatrician, i'm a muslim, and can you ask me anything. >> thanks to the youth association, this is going to be fixed. personally introducing americans to different muslims across the country. i wasn't familiar with the ahmadiyya muslim community, just like they requested. i asked. >> we belong to the ahmadiyya international community, founded in the 1800s on the precept of bringing humanity together. one of the founding principles humanity islead our actions how we serve god. >> you need to beat your wife, did it is a that? >> it says you have to do it

with a brush. >> you think that the actual verse of the koran says you have to beat your wife with a brush? i read it a million times, it doesn't say that. reporter: this past weekend, the amya, the short name for the associati an incredible campaign called hashtag meet a muslim. with over 10,000 members in the united states and tens of millions across the world, they needed to make their impact heard here in america. their goal, answer as many questions about the muslim faith as possible to debunk the myths portrayed in the media. >> i think the one that we had was do all muslims hate christians? reporter: interesting. and the answer? >> obviously not. it was a quick answer. reporter: they do not support the belief of extreme muslims like we hear in the news like isis. they on the other hand, respect kindness and service to others. >> do you feel welcome here?

>> absolutely. reporter: you're an american? >> yes, exactly. reporter: not a question. >> the organization put together a platform where youth are going to go out two days a month for the rest of the year so more americans can meet a the problem is the media portrayals or the behavior of the muslims? >> reporter: i'm glad you said that, they think it's a subset within islam. the extremist organizations are a small pt larger muslim community. >> this comes off as distracting propaganda. >> no, it doesn't. >> the only thing i get from this, the group of 10,000 is only a small member of the rest of the muslims. whether it's terrorists or persecuting christians or killing homosexuals, these are rampant problems in the muslim community, is tolerance when it to things like that. reporter: in christianity there is catholicism, they

received a lot of heat for problem children. those pcepts decide they want to act outside of their religion. >> wait, wait, wait. are you comparing it to terrorism? >> what? >> that made no sense. >> plenty of sense, sibile. >> you are talking about governments -- you can be killed for not followi law in t majority countries. there's a huge difference between wayward kids as you call them or wayward people, and organized religious leaders advocating the execution of homosexuals, the persecution of women, the persecution of christians. there is no comparison between . >> this particular subset of islam does not believe that, does not support that. that's the message i need to be clear. >> i wish i asked that. >> you forget about the

crusades, a direct result of muslim aggression. read your history. >> great to have a conversation with muslims to understand the religion and for those extremists, there is always jail. >> okay. good, i like that. >> love him or hate him, president trump is keeping his words when it comes to building the wall between the united states and mexico. he says the reason it's so important is to prevent the influx of illegal immigrants into the country. how we're going to pay for the wall is a major issue. the president of mexico made it perfectly clear he's not paying for the wall, that leaves the taxpayers to fund it. we put up a huge fight when it comes to opening the united states wallet to fund it. a small business owner wants to step into the ring and play and end up with marshall robert, the owner of robert consulting in asbury park and submitted an application to help build the wall.

as you can imagine, the hate started pouring in right off the bat. >> they weren't thrilled a company in asbury park was involved in that. reporter: i asked marshall what role his company would play in building the wall? >> to help the contractor execute the project in a way that ecosystem, sensitive and recognize the needs of the local community. >> i asked marshall what would it be like to build that wall? >> it is complel to place. reporter: that makes building the wall challengeing? >> of course it does. the walls have to stand up. lot different construction tryio anchor it to rock, or trying to anchtor in a swamp. reporter: some asked him if heo wanting to be involved in a project like this? >> when it comes to value my va judgment when i started the company. i try to improve the environment as part ofporter: h

community, so when it comes to the project, he wants to put more people to work. >> contractors are all over the country are looking to cash in. the wall is avy train. the border patrol want towers and cameras and drones and groups coming across the border. the guys patrolling want technology and cameras. >> the illegal crossings have dropped 40% over the pastmonths is very similar what happened when thee freed when reagan was inaugurated. i don't want to get there and get tossed out, this president is talking a lot tougher than anyone else. reporter: the lot more than the wall you will use. >> if you practice your promise, it becomes empty. we'll see. diana you're chasing a story of a giant intern. in new york side the wealth

city, it's new york giants star jonasillas, what's the linebacker doing here? >> i'm jonathan casillas, capital of the new york giants, i'm interning. reporter: the average athlete will make more in one season than most of us do our entire lives. according to one research, 78% of nfl players will blow it all. >> doesn't freak me out. right now where i'm at, going into ninth year in the league, and having a decent contract in the last few years, and having a good team, you know, figuring out where i want to go after ball, that's where i'm at right now. reporter: what does a typical day look like for casillas? >> i sit down and trying to learn more about the stock market and fixed income mutual funds and things like that. i listen to them talk. >> it's not part of our official internship program.

these are clients. they have assets we manage, we give them an open door policy so they're not taking the place of another collegiate or graduate student. they come and go as they please. it's ultimately their money and we want to give them as much access and transparency to understanding their money. >> looking over 2016, if we compare your spending from 2015. i can tell you obviously it's going in the right direction. >> good for this guy, this is one of the smartest things i've seen. i'm always haunted by the story of william refrigerator perry who won a super bowl in 1985 with the chicago bears and ended up working construction, ended up having to sell his super bowl ring, and stories like that, hundreds of them all the time. you hear about athletes who had it all and lost it all. >> if you have a long productive nfl career, maybe you're retired by the time you're 28 or 30. if you don't plan your money

wisely during the years where you're most likely to be reckless with your money, you're going to be broken. that's why this happens constantly. >> the person we can thank for make nfl players think about financial literacy when they have the money is dwayne johnson, the rock. the show ballers shows what they go through. they spend a lot of money on strippers, fast cars and huge apartments and all that disappears and they spend that fast. financial literacy is key. >> spadea versus the muslims. i feel like it is a sitcom. hey, it's the muslims. >> brace yourself, bill. draft 2017. >> so sick of this stupid giraffe. [laughter] >> he got you. >> guess what? still no baby giraffe. >> it's a fake. >> it's not a fa pmise you. >> the giraffe. >> the giraffe.

>> i promise you the giraffe. texas burger and chicken. >> the giraffe is pregnant ipromise you, also warm thanks to indoor heater in her barn. two to three feet outside in harpersville, new york, we await for her to give birth ontr office giraffe pool. >> we've all seen the mummer's parade, have you seen the parade of alligators. thanks to bobby warmer from trophy, florida. we have a six minute video of alligators crossing the road. >> why do alligators cross the road? >> to get to the other side. [laughter] ♪. >> the appalachian trails is one of the great hikes america has to offer. the riordan boys have been makp together for years. >> i have seen dan once a week, it's a big change. >> i fantasize about this,

leaving everything and going into nature. >> let's make it

>> michael, the trail to glory. >> sure, if you want to call it that. >> what they told me. i don't make this stuff up. >> the appalachian trails, one of the great hikes america has to offer. millions of people traverse parts of the mountain range

from georgia all the way to maine. only a couple thousand attempt to hike the whole thing. a quarter of those are able to actually make it all 2,000 miles. >> it's actually 2190 miles. >> 2193.9193. >> no, wait, 2199.93. whatever. meet dan and jonathan riordan. a pair of 30 something-year-old brothers from linden, new jersey who began this trek eight days ago. jonathan is an audio visual guy by trade. dan is a glazier and they're going to spend time with nature and themselves. i asked them if they were used to spending this much quality time together, and they were like, no. >> no. [laughter] >> no, for the past five years, i've seen dan maybe

once a week or maybe less traveling with my job. it's a big change. >> the riordan boys have been talking about making this trip together for years. they finally had the time and the money and the desire to check this off of their bucket list, and guess what? they picked a great time to get started. weather that's been bad here, it's bad in georgia, too. >> really? that stinks. >> chilly evening. >> we were expecting it, not this early. when we first started it was sunny and in the 70s. we both got sun burned. and now it's winter again. >> even though they've only just begun the hike, i asked what they're already missing from life in new jersey. >> my mom, but we're pretty close so. >> i would say coffee. i used to drink three cups a day, and now i don't drink any. >> mom and coffee. those are two.

>> mom and coffee, pretty much all you need in life, i think. >> exactly. >> they didn't bring coffee? >> yeah, you can make coffee. >> every campfire has it, right? >> the first thing. >> exactly. that's the most important part. i fantasized about this, leaving everything and going into nature and spending time, a month out there. i hate camping, like shopping and like to go restaurants and sit down and relax and watch tv. >> can't do the appalachian trail with heels. >> no. >> what about bathrooms? could the bear poop in the woods? >> i'm asking are they digging holes or stops along the way? >> i guess i'll go first. i won't go first. go ahead. um. >> where are the rest stops? >> nice, mike, good. >> excellent. >> one hand you are claiming you are trying look out for

the best benefit of the child, but showing complete ignorance as to how that actually happens if you're thinking that money is the answer, it's not. >> fathers and mothers alike who are divorced have a responsibility to meet child support payments, whether or not you are gainfully employed, that can be difficult. in new jersey and many other states, comes with additional penalty, the immediate suspension of driver's license. it put them in a catch-22, you no longer can drive but have to drive to work. no license can mean no earning capacity which puts them further behind on the child support payment. >> because mind-set is he's a deadbeat, he's a bad person, doesn't want to take care of his children, i would argue that is not the majority. >> in new jersey, one lawyer is trying to change all that. david perry davis files a class-action not to allow parents with not paying child support but give judges discretion as to whether or

not the license should or should not be suspended. if successful, the lawsuit would change the rules to differentiate between those who can't pay and those who won't pay, and actually the impact could huge, 21,000 licenses could be restored in a single day. why was the former marine corps engineer who has a degree from stockton university not able to pay child support in the first place? goes back 20 years between a domestic violence incident between himself and his wife on a military base, so the battery charge is federal and not able to be expunged. >> i make no excuses for my situation. i own up to all of my actions. >> the charges followed him around since, making it impossible for him to be hired by the big firms his education and skills would normally allow him to work at. he makes a living doing consulting work based on contract and not steady 20

month a year work. education means earnings potential is set at $80,000 and child support payments are assessed accordingly. he's been in situations he was out working to make the money he needs to make the child support payments only to be pulled over to find out he's gotten another license suspension. >> at that point the job is over because i'm getting arrested. i would find out license was suspended while i'm driving. >> gives him sky high insurance premiums, he is healing his relationship with his son and remarried to a woman with whom he has a different outlook on life. >> i don't fight, i don't argue. i don't argue. you can say whatever you want to say to me. if everything can be discussed, negotiated, everything can be reasoned. reporter: judge mary jacobson heard arguments on the case last year and we're waiting for her decision. >> i don't see the logic ofy th

license, you are undercutting the ability to earn a living and pay child support. it's defeating. >> driving is not a right, it's a privilege and you have to earn the right. when you have a child, you have to figure out how you're going to pay child support. >> what are the available resources for the courts to enforce child support payments? what are you going to do, throw the dad in jail? you got an issue there, too. >> that does happen. >> i know. it's a challenging issue. >> the issue is can't versus won't. there's a difference between the two. >> after two years he was confined to a wheelchair. >> here's a look at 55-year-old thomas braddish after being misdiagnosed for years, he found out too late he had lyme disease.

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>> you throw him out. >> messed up so bad on that. >> i know, i was thinking that. like your truck.

>> thank you. >> he's honorable, he's always with me. >> this father is battling a monster, at the radio station i met up with one of bill spadea's guests. >> it was devastating to learn, not only is my son terminally ill but the way the disease is going to ravage his body is incomprehensible. >> his son is battling duchenne muscular dystrophy. >> we've raised $400,000. we've funded one therapy that may save his life and engaged in another one. >> he wants to save his son's life, he started jar of hope, wants to raise money and awareness for this disease so you can learn more on jar of hope.org. >> one of the theories of tyrannosaurus rex, as earth cooled their little arms made it impossible to shovel snow

and they perished. if only they had what this tyrannosaurus rex in minnesota has, a snow blower, they may still be on the earth. >> right, left, right, left, right, left. >> here's a look at 55-year-old thomas braddish, a month before he passed away, literally taking one step at a time, after being misdiagnosed by several doctors. sadly he found out too late he had lyme disease which you can also develop from a tick bite. he passed away june 16, 2015, from respiratory complications. >> you know, tommy's story needed to be told, because this is so unfair that people are being misdiagnosed and

that you can go misdiagnosed that long and you suffer and end up in a wheelchair and not able to even speak, when all he needed was antibiotic two years prior. >> his sister eileen valeria who i caught up in mount laura where she is a school nurse, the centers for disease control estimates that 30,000 people in the u.s. are infected each year with lyme disease, and new jersey has the second highest amount of cases in the whole entire country. eileen says her brother who was a businessman and lived in the poconos was training for a triathlon when his health took a turn for the worse. >> he was confined to a wheelchair. robbed of his voice, wasn't able to walk. we found out a dear friend who was a physicians assistant came to visit him and could not believe what happened to her friend.

given the fact he was training in the woods for triathlon was getting weaker. that was enough to realize this is a good responsibility it was tick--borne illness. >> did congressman chris smith come up in the conversations? i feel he should meet. he spent 12 years fighting to get the recognition what he calls and medical experts congress call a chronic condition, a chronic disease, something that's not only misdiagnosed but there's a reluctancey on the part of the federal government to recognize what the condition is, they can't get the funding. >> she didn't bring up his name specifically. she's most frustrated about the testing is not adequate in the u.s. there's no test. it's after the fact. >> she doesn't know congressman smith, she should

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