samari was full-term but substantially underweight. she has several birth defects, including a cleft lip and palette. >> once i saw her, it made me like sad, kinda depressed, but it's something that i eventually got over it, because i mean she's gonna be here regardless whether her lip gets fixed or not. i mean she's my daughter and she has to be taken care of. >> areil was still homeless and waiting for her public housing to come through. but now with a newborn baby to take care of. >> so what kind of future are you hoping for for samari? >> i definitely want her to have a better education, a better group of people to be around, a better society to live in. i mean for the time being we're here, so we make the best of it. but when i definitely get a chance we definitely moving, somewhere away from here. >> welcome to al jazeera. i'm john siegenthaler. here are tonight's top stories. a three-year-old boy was shot in the face in chicago, expected to survive. the boy was one of a number of victims that were shot after a basketball game in