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Reason, hes the only man whos got my back. i am my brothers keeper. and weve lived by that motto since we was kids. >> the last blood relation to my father. im my brothers keeper. im my brothers keeper. >> before i met ezekial, the way gabriel used to talk about him, i just assumed the two were twins. and then when i actually saw them together, the way they were together, they would finish each others sentences, they knew each others histories, they just had such a bond together, that i was very...

>> hes in a pissy ass mood today. hes starting to piss me off. >> they had a lot in common. they grew up in oaklands foster care system. they had both joined a gang, but dropped out shortly before we met them. and they both told us they were finally ready to give up their revolving door relationship with jail. >> one of the things about both gabriel and ezekial was their honesty. and i appreciate it. they were pretty honest about their lives. and when i asked ezekial how he made a living, how he...

And he basically was just the person that gabriel described him to be. >> whats up, bro! >> ezekial was back in jail due to a probation violation on his original conviction for burglary. he was assigned to the same protective custody unit as gabriel, because he, too, had recently sworn off gang life. >> we tell each other every day, if i walk by here, point at me and do a little heart to me. im like, my girlfriend. >> weve been together my whole lives. we can probably count on one hand how many ...

>> thats right. one of the clips that you played there was edward snowden talking about civil disobedience and that was something weve seen in the countrys history and whether its martin luther king, jr., or foreign affairs where people like nelson mandela. those people in the civil disobedience was seen by history as being the right call and those people still were in prison and there are many people who were out there saying that edward snowden is in russia and if he wasnt in russia he would h...

A car. >> stick around for this story. homeless and in high school. a teenager boosted from the foster system, finally finding a family. >> a wonderful ending. >> it is just fantastic. welcome back to "early start." im john berman. >> im zoraida sambolin. 31 minutes past the hour. this morning a better sense of the devastation across the midwest after dos of tornadoes ripped through a wide swath of the nation. a live look at washington, illinois. much that city now in ruins. near st. louis, ...

>> the video of my wedding. >> reporter: there really is nothing as impactful when you take a look at the map of all the storm reports out there. we have seen those firlltered t 70 tornadoes. one statistic of all the tornado warnings in the state of illinois more than half of those reports all came in just on sunday. that gives you an idea of how impressive this system was, especially late in the season. we typically, of course, talk about tornadoes in the springtime and unfortunately it looked ...

See with it. >> the study says there are about two million children in this country right mou being raised by gay parents. is there a scenario as you look at it under which being raised by gay parents would be bad for a child? >> i think the truth is that were not going to know for a very long time because we dont actually have a large number of families and large number of children have been raised in these families over a long enough period of time. lets say people who grew up in zero to 18. i...

>> -- i think thats really true. >> bill: this personal responsibility business is on the wane in this country. i think thats destructsive. even though this woman was in the foster system. even though she is probably a dopey 18-year-old. she doesnt have a high level of sophistication. she knew, in my opinion she knew. dr. walsh, last word. go. >> i think this young woman may even have been sexually abused herself and this is what she knows to please people. this is what she knows to make money a...

True. >> bill: this personal responsibility business is on the wane in this country. i think thats destructsive. even though this woman was in the foster system. even though she is probably a dopey 18-year-old. she doesnt have a high level of sophistication. she knew, in my opinion she knew. dr. walsh, last word. go. >> i think this young woman may even have been sexually abused herself and this is what she knows to please people. this is what she knows to make money and survive. if this young l...

>> -- i think thats really true. >> bill: this personal responsibility business is on the wane in this country. i think thats destructsive. even though this woman was in the foster system. even though she is probably a dopey 18-year-old. she doesnt have a high level of sophistication. she knew, in my opinion she knew. dr. walsh, last word. go. >> i think this young woman may even have been sexually abused herself and this is what she knows to please people. this is what she knows to make money a...