tonight, we preview a moving hbo documentary, "the education of dee dee ricks," which premieres tomorrow night on hbo and showing that kind of imbalance may even determine who lives and who dies. dee dee ricks was young, only 38, when she found out she had stage two breast cancer. the divorced mother of two young sons pulled herself out of poverty and made a fortune on wall street. how did you make the decision to have a double mastectomy? >> i was told my chances are better by having a double mastectomy. you do the most radical street possible. i want to be around for my boys. >> reporter: as dee dee fought for her own life, she took on another fight, as well. to help poor women have the same chance for a cure that she did. that battle is at the heart of a new hbo documentary airing tomorrow called "the education of dee dee ricks." >> i felt it was my obligation to give back to those who didn't have what i had. >> reporter: so, just one week after a double mastectomy, dee dee travels 60 blocks forth from her penthouse apartment to harlem, a world away. to meet with renowned surgeon dr.

the first timing dee in filing two weeks. >> thank you, rick. >>> we turn oversapps this evening after that attack that killed one of al qaeda's most prominent voices, anwar al awlaki. he's a ligrowing list of terrorists that the u.s. has killed. this evening, a new threat emerging. a criminal clan that specializes in extortion, murder and kidnapping. abc's nick schifrin in the region tonight. >> reporter: deep in the pa pakistani tribal areas, there is only one law -- the gun. the area is controlled by militants, a network of 5,000 called the haqqani. as al qaeda as weakened, the haqqanis have used bombs, crimes and murrer to become the region's most powerful terrorists. >> my name is bo. >> reporter: for two years, they have held u.s. soldier bowe bergdahl. they ambush u.s. troops along the border. and their most audacious attack? they fired rockets into the u.s. military headquarters and the u.s. embassy in kabul. >> you got muzzle fire from that brown building! >> reporter: all the while, they were supported by the organizations that get billions of dollars of u.s. aide. pakistan's

dee blaze, a hispanic republican group dedicated to increasing the latino republican voting bloc, but she recently left the party, becoming an independent because of the all the extreme anti-immigrant receipt ricksporter for "the washington post," you can following her election 2012 blog on postpolitics.com. thanks to both of you for being here today. dee dee, you were a republican and you quit the party. tell us what happened? >> well, the straw that broke the camel's back for me was in addition to the anti-immigrant sentiment, the straw was marco rubio. a cuban from florida, whose family has benefited from amnesty, and government benefits, who decided to sponsor lamar smith, a republican from texas, his large government idea via the national e-verify program. both these people claim to be less government, but they are supporting large government ideas. now, we were already sort of getting used to the anti-immigrant and the anti-latino sentiment, but what did it for me was marco rubio sponsoring a large government idea. not only did he do that, he does not support our kids, our youth via the dream act, and she embraced arizona's harsh anti-immigrant law, and he's hispanic. >> his family ben phe