>> love you too. bye. ah. now, i know as well as anyone you should always listen to your mother in life and on "the ridiculist." hey, that does it for us. >> the following is a cnn special report. >> i'm andersson cooper. welcome to this special report "extraordinary people." >> i'm robin mead. if you look back and weren't sure if you had that in you. we look at that aspect in extraordinary people. >> people who rise to occasions and in some cases didn't know they had it in them. in the next hour, you meet people like gary donilon. who plunged his helicopter into thick smoke to lead away from certain death. and ron johnson, the state highway patrol captain. he took a unique approach to demonstrators this summer when tensions in ferguson, missouri,