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Reason, he's the only man who's got my back. i am my brother's keeper. and we've lived by that motto since we was kids. >> the last blood relation to my father. i'm my brother's keeper. i'm my brother's 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 other's sentences, they knew each other's histories, they just had such a bond together, that i was very surprised when they actually told me they were a year apart. >> "keeping up with the kard...

>> he's in a pissy ass mood today. he's starting to piss me off. >> they had a lot in common. they grew up in oakland's 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 used to make a living, he was very forthright and he told me he made a living robbing drug deale...

And he basically was just the person that gabriel described him to be. >> what's 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. i'm like, my girlfriend. >> we've been together my whole lives. we can probably count on one hand how many things i don't know about him. that's my brother. >> we grow up together, through the foster syst...

>> that's right. one of the clips that you played there was edward snowden talking about civil disobedience and that was something we've seen in the country's history and whether it's 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 wasn't in russia he would have rather have been in venezuela or cuba and to some people that remains a problem for them. >...

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." i'm john berman. >> i'm 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, a grandmother and her brother died when a tornado ripped their home apart. the home was gone and t...