. >> reporter: for the first sunday in three months, pastor cory brooks is back home.he pulpit at new beginnings 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 are living in a killing field. we're living in a place where you can just be walking it to the store, the conditioner store, going to get a drij, going to get something for your kids and you can be 1409 and killed. >> reporter: brooks believes desperate times call for desperate measures so he took to the rooftop and vowed not to company 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 the tent is going to fly off this motel and i'm going to die in a tent on top of an abandoned motel. >> what did you learn? >> people have great hearts. and if you can somehow be creative e

answered the congregation of new beginnings at church today celebrating the return of their pastor, cory brooks with help from chicago mayor rahm emanuel. jubilee in this sanctuary at the church this morning. 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 communit

reverend cori brooks is waking up after 94 days camping out on a roof of a motel.mained 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. it's a magnet for prostitution and violence. >> for those who have given $5, $10, $100, $1,000, i want to say thank you. >> actor and director tyler perry helped put the mission over the top donating nearly $100,000. >>> in california, the days of the milkman may become extinct. the gas prices are spoiling his business delivering milk to 5,000 customers. he's cut back deliveries from twice to once a week. >>> in oregon, dressed in all black, a nerf gun he hit the streets to catch bad guys. he had to smeek out of the house first to find them. >> i had no idea he was gone until my husband opened the door. there he was with the police officer. >> he visited the police station for a lesson in police work. >>> gutsy little kid there. taking medicine to remote areas isn't keeping this cnn hero from making his rounds. take a look. >> i'm dr. benjamin la brot. i don

. >>> after living four months on a hotel roof, a pastor comes down in triumph, cory brooks wanted to raise $450,000 to turn the hotel, a drug haven into a community center. he was $98,000 short of his goal. when tyler perry held about him and donated the difference. >> wow. >> very nice story. >> something to turn that community around. >> yes. they will make the movie about it and get his $98,000 back. >> plus and then some. >>> all right. coming up -- on eyewitness news saturday morning -- ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> five days of first warning weather. 46 degrees. and tonight a good bit of sunshine. tomorrow, a light breeze. 58 on monday. the sun stays with us, 53 on tuesday. showers on wednesday, the temperatures go up to 65 degrees. and back down into the 50s after the rain calves us down heading into thursday. >>> when the boys of summer arrive at camden yard, there will be al new voice. >> jessica kartalija introduces us to the new voice of the baltimore orioles. >> now, for your baltimore orioles. managed by buck showater. batting first. >> reporter: 26-year-old brian wagner lands