charlayne hunter-gault, you have known vernon jordon for so many decades.ry together. give us a glimpse of him when you first met him. >> ha-ha. well, it's funny because i laugh because he treated me like a little kid. you know, he wasn't that much older than me, but he was a very serious, you know, legal assistant to donald hollowell and constance motley, the lead lawyers in our case, and i just remember that he was focused. he was the youngest lawyer involved in the case but they used to send him down to georgia, the location of the university, every day to try and find, um, someone who had applied to the university of georgia at the same time i had and had the same credentials and yet got in and i didn't. and they went, he and a bunch of assistants went through thousands of documents. he finally was the one who found the critical document. >> woodruff: he did make the transition. of course, he went onto be very involved in voting rights and the civil rights movement and then he made the transition to the private sector. he had a presence about him that c

charlayne: i would encourage people to read his book "vernon can read."nto great detail about how he developed to that armor. it was his mother who was this wonderful person who helped to mold him. he was first class, and she guided him even when were waiting on white people. she taught him, you stand on the shoulders of giants, and it was those lessons he passed along to the younger generation. you stand on the shoulders of giants, and you can be a giant if you believe in yourself. judy: pick up on what she said if you would. as a mentor to so many, how did he do that? ursula: he was consistent and clear that to whom much was given, much is expected. literally every important moment in my life, my daughter's birth, important moments in my career, my husband's eventual death, every single thing in my life from the time that i met him was vernon was there, every important moment. how do you do that? how do you be so complete a friend? he was present. he was serious about friendship. he was serious about providing me and people like me shoulders to stand on

vaccine trials it's going to be concerned a lot of people it's going to cross it a correspondent charlayne to ben's piece in paris charlotte was do we know this lunchtime. well astra zeneca is hardly out of the headlines these days and now it's in them because its drug is said to be less effective than originally thought you mentioned the u.s. regulators questioned the efficacy of the astra zeneca job forcing the company to publish additional data to show what happened in trials as a result of that we now know that the astra zeneca jab is 3 percent less effective in dealing with symptomatic cases of covert 19 however it is still 100 percent effective at dealing with severe cases including those that require hospitalization this is what astra zeneca has had to say. the primary endpoint vaccine efficacy at preventing symptomatic of it 19 or 76 percent occurring 15 days or more after receiving 2 doses given 4 weeks apart. well astra zeneca has had a pretty bumpy ride in the e.u. after they were all humans about whether it was a feeling it's called tracked into living the required number 2 say