>> the lady was like who got in the car? i turn around. he's in the car and closed the door. >> reporter: in florida another mother is seen on video fighting off two armed men allegedly trying to steal her car with her 1-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son inside. police say the girls here in atlanta slept through the whole ordeal and were uninjured. the father warns others it only takes second and never leave your car unlocked and running like he did. abc news, atlanta. >> thank goodness happy ending. >> yeah. experts apparently say carjacking happens more frequently on the weekends for whatever reason. they say be extra vigilant and friday, saturday and sunday. >> getting kids in and out of car seats is a hassle. i'm just going to pop in for a second, what's the worst that can happen? that's it. >> there's your answer. >> yeah. that is the worst. coming up, the inspiring story of one man's rise from poverty to power. >> how one family's legacy paved

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>> "the gentleman from ohio" is a book written by congressman louis stokes who's brother karl stokes was the first black mayor of a major city. >> robin roberts sat down to talk about the legacy. >> reporter: good to see you, lori. just tell us the kind of man he was. >> humble. gracious. warm. funny. aggressive in a way of what was right and what needed to be done, particularly when it came to his constituents and living his life. >> he was considered a champion to the people and of the poor, but he didn't set out to be a politician, did he. >> no. he did not. he set out to be a lawyer, and that started when he was 12 years old.

meeting, and he was pulled over by police who asked him where you going? why are you here? where have you been? he sort of had this dream that he, too, could be a great lawyer. and he would also be able to defend those who had had right or wrong, been accused of something, but that he knew that that was his destiny. >> reporter: and tell people about your uncle, his brother. >> and they're so different. >> reporter: i know. i know. >> my uncle karl was the first african-american mayor of a major u.s. city. he was my father's baby brother. >> reporter: how does it feel, the president of the united states, barack obama, before his election, pointed to your father, and your uncle, saying because of them he could become president of the united states.

>> he said, i just have to say, senator obama, i am 83 years old, and never in my lifetime did i think that i would see a qualified african-american to be the president of the united states. >> reporter: how did your father influence you in the decisions you've made and where you are here, a prominent anchor here in new york city? >> he always drummed in all our heads, do what makes you happy. i don't care what you do. just do what makes you happy. i followed the dream to go into journalism and went to howard university. he also got a kick of being able to say that i was no longer lou stokes' daughter but that he was my father. we had a beautiful relationship. >> what do you want someone picking up the book to get from the story?

this is the story of a little black boy who was born in 1925. he was born to a single mom who was a domestic who would take several trolly cars to leave him and his younger brother to go clean other people's homes, who had a grandmother who would take care of him, who had a dream to walking from poverty to the halls of congress. to having so many beautiful stories and a family that he loved to the core. he would always end by saying that he was so blessed. >> reporter: it is palpable, your love and pride, and i know it was returned. i know how proud he was of you. >> yeah. thank you. >> reporter: thank you for sharing this. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> and carl stokes in 1972 also became, her uncle, the first

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retired in 2014 and died last year. what he left behind will never be forgotten by the school that he loved so much. >> reporter: bob moren spent nearly half a century cataloging books here at the new hampshire library. >> he would come to work every day in his 2003 honda with over 100,000 miles, and he'd have his breakfast, a coke, and maybe >> and he had a secret. he saved and invested nearly every dollar he earned, and it paid off big time. >> he ended up with a little over $4 million. >> reporter: he left every cent of it to the university. >> i suspect everybody was shocked. certainly by his lifestyle would not have expected he was able to leave those kind of funds. >> reporter: this janitor from vermont had a similar secret. >> never had an idea of it. >> reporter: he played the stock

million fortune to a hospital and library. as for bob, his legacy is the kind of things you might read about in a novel, and it's etched in stone at the library where he made his fortune and made dreams come true. abc news, new york. >> my unc dell something similar. he drove a 25-year-old car, lived in this apartment that was just appalling. died, had all this money in the bank, and he left it to the camera club. >> the camera club? >> yeah. >> his nephew just looked over? >> i got a little bit, but the camera club got more. i'm not bitter. that's the news for this half hour. no more talk of that. >> moving on. follow us on facebook, wnnfans.com.

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