the show that started all of it wgn news @ 9 pastor corey brooks rooftop 94 days today the money to come down >> to me is like god saying well done here is something extra >> of voice breaking with emotion thanking the community along with dozens of individuals three months of on wavering support >> all of the people who have given $1 $10 $100 $1,000 on what to say thank you >> $98,000 short today to knock down an abandoned hotel had purchased the property it fortunately for pastor corey brooks entertainment mogul tither perry heard about the efforts promoting his new film committed to the $98,000 >> this is all legitimate? i will give him the $98,000 i will do that. if this is all real and community center corps to help stop some of the crime i love the people of chicago. >> extremely grateful tonight for brother tyler perry. com on we can do better than that let him know. after the news conference pastor corey brooks with his family to change and take hot shower looking forward to for a long time he and family to a movie theater to watch a movie good deeds tonight. >> thought i wanted

pastor corey brooks finally off the roof top back into the pulpit and being showered with praise. >> want to celebrate him for such an amazing display of sacrifice, godliness righteousness, humility. >> your pastor had a strength that moved us all. >> for more than three months brooks lived in a tent on the roof of a bacon motel across the street from his church he refused to come down until he raised $450,000 to buy the eyesore in demolish it and on friday he got his wish, a good deed from hollywood mogul tyler perry the 100,000 donation pushed brooks over his fund- raising goal for the first days of the project today he thinks those who offered support including mayor rahm emanuel. >> but the pastor did over the last month to raise our consciousness is to remind us that one individual voice one individual action can say an entire ripple effect throughout a community. >> and in a community that has been plagued by gun violence and crime pastor brooks is committed to building a community center, he promised to share details of his rooftop revelation, with the church and the city in t

. >> reporter: for the first sunday in three months pastor corey brooks is back home, in the pulpit atbeginnings baptist church on chicago's south side. >> you got to forgive me, i haven't been to church in a long time. >> reporter: he spent the last 94 days across the street in a tent on the roof of a derelict motel, a place more familiar to drug dealers and prostitutes. >> we're living in a killing field. we're living in a place where you can just be walking to the store, the corner store, going to get a drink, going to get something for your kids and you can be shot and killed. >> reporter: brooks believes desperate times call for desperate measures, so he took to the rooftop and vowed not to come down until he raised enough money to buy the building, knock it down, and build a community centre. what did you endure up there. >> i was a little terrified because i thought this tent is going to fly off this motel and i'm going to die in a tent on top of an abandoned motel. >> reporter: what did you learn. >> people have great hearts. and if you can somehow be creative enough, to bring

>> they're cheering in chicago because reverend corey brooks finally came down from the roof. gun violence and raise money for the cause. actor and producer tyler perry put up $98,000 and the pastor came down. jacqui jeras with a look at the weather. >> it's been a mild winter in chicago. i'm just saying, 94 days in chicago? yikes! weather not so great across the northeast. the winds really driving in snow showers here. wind advisories are in effect. they are gusting 50 to 60 miles per hour. we've got more than 1,000 people without power in connecticut from these high winds. if you're trying to travel today, take a look at

corey brooks is waking up this morning after 94 days camping out on the roof of the south side chicago motel. brook vowed to remain on the roof until he raised $450,000 to buy and tear down the building. he wants to build a community center in its place. the motel has become a magnet for drugs, prostitution and violence. >> to all the people who have given $1, $5, $10, $100, $1,000, i want to say thank you. >> actor and director tyler perry helped put brook's mission over the top friday, donating nearly $100,000. >>> in california, the days of the milkman may soon become extinct. the recent rise in gas prices threatening to spoil jimmy pastor's business. gas prices have forced rockville milk to cut back deliveries from twice to once a week. >>> in oregon, dressed in all black armed with two books, a nerf gun and some extra bullets, 7-year-old liam hit the street to catch some bad guys. >> i had no idea he was gone until my husband opened the door and there was a police officer. >> luckily, liam never ran into the bad guys. he did, however, later visit the police station for a lesson in