missouri sisters krisha and brenna couldn't wait to get started on their trip to france. >> you know, i could almost visualize them on the plane having a good time. there wasn't going to be any sleeping, i don't think. >> reporter: older sister, krisha, had plans to be married. >> i looked at it as their last chance to be sisters and do silly things together. >> reporter: in pennsylvania, 16 students from a high school french club and five chaperones were headed to paris for what was meant to be the trip of a lifetime. these snapshots were taken only minutes before they boarded the bus for the long ride to jfk airport that day. cheryl's mother took the photos. >> she was excited about seeing the eiffel tower and taking in all the sights and she had her pictures all lined up. >> reporter: pictures, what do you mean? >> she was going to stand under the eiffel tower a loaf of french bread. >> reporter: at age 23, rookie flight attendant jill was following her passion for travel and making her mom nervous. >> i didn't want her to fly. i was worried about it. >> reporter: how long had she

it was just like an a-ha moment of this little girl named brenna needed one. >> reporter: brenna wasg a rare skin disorder. so robyn sewed her a cape with a big yellow "b", and she loved it. super brenna was born. word caught on. soon there was anthony in illinois, suffering heart and muscle problem, who became super anthony. there was super mable, super andrew. in just six months, robyn sent 700 personalized capes to sick children in 45 states and 11 countries. each one with a handwritten message, shipped by robyn -- >> superhero cape! >> reporter: and opened like a gift on christmas morning. >> a cape! i'm a superhero! >> reporter: meet 10-year-old super ke. >> super ke! >> reporter: battling a severe gastrointestinal disorder. his mother says he never takes his cape off. >> he has taken the cape into his biopsy, to the emergency room. he showed other patients. it just helps him, gives him a sense of comfort. >> it makes me feel strong and brave. >> reporter: robyn now gets 10 to 20 requests a day. >> thank you. >> reporter: she's quit her job and has pulled in friends to help. >>

that came back and i kind of laughed and, yeah, brenna knew what she was doing, i guess. >> it was a mixed blessing for helen when the official noti notification came. >> he said, we found her. i can remember hanging up the phone, and running through the house so happy they found her. but in the same moment, i realized that she was gone. >>> holy cow! >> get an ambulance. get an ambulance! >> scared to death. >> get them back. get them back. >> stretcher! >> by the summer of 1996, the word terrorism was entrenched in the american vocabulary. >> this was an environment charged with terrorism. >> it was absolutely charged with terrorism, and we were at a very high state of alert. >> three years earlier the first attack on the world trade center and the first islamic attack on american soil. in the summer of '96, its mastermind ramzi yousef was standing trial in new york for a separate plot, a plan to bomb american jetliners. in atlanta, the opening of the olympics was only days away. security officials were on edge for good reason. this bombing in the park also was only days away. and

that came back and i kind of laughed and, yeah, brenna knew what she was doing, i guess. >> it was a mixed blessing for helen when the official notification came. >> he said, we found her. i can remember hanging up the phone, and running through the house so happy they found her. but in the same moment, i realized that she was gone. >>> holy cow! >> get an ambulance. look at them kids. [ sigh ] they have no idea what it was like before u-verse high speed internet. yeah, you couldn't just stream movies to a device like that. one time, i had to wait half a day to watch a movie. you watched movies?! i was lucky if i could watch a show. show?! man, i was happy to see a sneezing panda clip! trevor, have you eaten today? you sound a little grumpy. [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible. >> get an ambulance. get an ambulance! >> scared to death. >> get them back. get them back. >> stretcher! >> by the summer of 1996, the word terrorism was entrenched in the american vocabulary. >> this was an environment char

. >> brenna, before i ask you the question, let's play another clip that sets up my question. >> whyo you do this? >> we love -- i love my job. it does -- it's something with adrenaline that gets you pumped up. [ bell ringing ] >> gets him pumped up. my question is why do these firefighters stay, given the volume of fires that they're fighting and looking at the clips that we've been showing since this segment began, it's a harrowing job? >> it is. but, you know, they're not like us. if they were like us, we wouldn't be fascinated by them. their fathers and grandfathers and brothers have done it before them. they're all very type a guys. they don't take no for an answer. they don't take we can't do this for an answer. if you put them on a horse and gave them a bucket, they'd put a fire out. they're just -- they're not cut of the same cloth as the rest of us. and so they go so much further beyond what any of us can relate to. i think that's where this film lives, in that it's beyond the depiction of film and television before. it gets to the heart of who they are, what they do. sees t

telling local voters local governments what to do what what we kind of requirements they crept out brenna just to give their workers a very very quick question where or just have a half a minute left here but but what you know this is this is the american legislative exchange council how can it what can people do to help expose those sure well i think spreading the word is the is the most important part of the day transparency is the most important part about alec they work hard to keep their operations in the shadows so the more that you can spread the word about alec and pressure your legislators to drop their elec membership to be transparent about their relationship with al it's going to be extremely important as far as the paid sick day preemption bells again it's really just expressing your displeasure to your elected officials that they are supporting something like this alec pretty much tied to the republican party. in many in many cases i mean the vast majority of alec members are republicans there are a handful of democrats but they you know they they claim to be a nonpartisan a

. >> reporter: brianna was battling a skin disorder, she sewed a cape with a big b, super brenna was and muscle problem whose became super anthony. super mabel. super andrew. in six months, robin sent 700 personalized capes to sick children in 45 states and 11 countries. each one with a handwritten message, shipped by robin. >> super hero! >> reporter: opened like a gift on christmas morning. >> a cape! i'm a super hero. >> reporter: meet 10-year-old super ke. battling a severe gastrointestinal disorder. his mother says he never takes the cape off. >> has taken the cape to the biopsy, emergency rooms, showed patients. it just helps him and gives him a since of comfort. >> reporter: robin now gets 10 to 20 requests a day. >> thank you. >> reporter: she has quit her job and pulled in friends to help. >> reporter: she has quit her job and has pu >> if you would have told me six months ago this would be my life, i would have paid $1 million to make this my life. i wouldn't believe you. >> reporter: robin rosenberger, unlikely caped crusader and america strong. >> how great is that story?