. >> reporter: emmitt richner is 3 going on 4. for no particular reason, he is driving with his eyes closed, which would not appear to be going particularly well. fortunately, emmitt has a mentor. >> i've got a bagger that sits on the back. >> reporter: this gentleman is 89, going on 90. and this has been going on -- >> ready, set, go! >> reporter: -- for nearly a year. emmitt's parents had to laugh. >> he blocked me out. >> reporter: the first time they saw their preschool racing a man who fought in the second world war. >> i told you he was fast. >> i'm super fast. you want to play kcroquet? >> which stick are you going to have? >> reporter: the man they waved to but barely knew from the house -- >> right through. >> reporter: -- next door. >> they're together pretty much every day. >> reporter: emmitt first cross ared into the yard when he caught a glimpse of his favorite food. >> these are yellow flowers? >> reporter: of his >> those are going to be tomatoes. >> every time he saw me out there, got any matos? >> can you throw a

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yesterday federal judge emmitt sullivan in washington, d.c.because of the hard drive crash. prove it. >> also why weren't paper copies printed out, which is under the irs manual handbook. any sensitive information, federal information is supposed to be printed out. so hard drives went vanishing and missing. the only reason we know about this is freedom of information requests which seems absurd. listen to charles krauthammer. >> the absurdity of all this is that all of this is being discovered through the freedom of information act, which is never intended as a way to uncover that kind of thing. it was a way so people can be transparent. but because the president and irs have literally shown contempt for congress, ignored subpoenas, not given the required information it's being asked, report two years later that e-mails were destroyed, hold on to that information for months and months without disclosing it, because of that, the only way we've been discovering all these things is through the freedom of information act by this tough judge on the

. >> trayvon martin will forever remain in the annals of history next to medgar evers and emmitt till as symbols for the fight for equal justice for all. >> this verdict still has nothing to do with civil rights. civil rights has been talked about but not in the context of the george zimmerman verdict. >> even the president weighed in with a deeply personal response after the acquittal. >> when trayvon martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my son. another way of saying that is trayvon martin could have been me 35 years ago. >> after all this you'd think george zimmerman would have wanted to recede quietly into the woodwork but in the year since has become a lightning rod for more controversy. one month after being acquitted zimmerman toured the headquarters of the company that makes the gun he used to kill trayvon martin. and the following month he was the subject of a frantic 911 call from his then estranged wife shelly who said zimmerman was threatening her and her father with a gun. neither shelly nor her father pressed charges and divorce proceedings between the

his name is emmitt. and 89-year-old world war ii veteran, early kindom.s morning, and it's about love, and it's about a connection, and it's about an unlikely friendship. >> let's not tell the ending. >> it's by kare in minneapolis. >>> we're changing things up around here because that's the way we roll. we're changing the rules to our fan of the week. tell them about it, hoda. >> here's the deal, usually you just have to -- we pick you, and you win. you're going to cozumel or far-away beautiful places. we decided we had to make it a little more difficult because we're giving away so many trips. so, what we're going to do now is ask you a trivia question, and if you get the question right, then you win the trip. you don't just get it by calling in. >> and we want you to know that hoda and i are completely against this. >> we want to give it away. >> give them -- >> give them the trip. >> if you have a problem with that, e-mail -- >> trust me, when you call in, we'll make sure you get it right. okay? >> okay. all righty. we've got a big show, as we told yo