i'm sure we'll h >> woodruff: let's take closer look now at kamala harricaand heer up until this moment of her as joe biden's running 'ste. lisa with that. >> reporter: when kamala harris tells her storeys it starts with parents who raised her with a sense of honor. >> my parents were at the civil rights movement. my mother used to say -- i think she was basically ying, you've got to get up and stand up and don't give up the fight. [cheerin >> reporter: harris was , rn in 1964, in oakland, californ immigrant parents. her mother, shamala, came from india to study ,cience at u.c. berkeley and her father, donald, immigrated from jamaica to teach economics at stanford. >> they p came inursuit of a dream. and that dream was a dream for themselves, forc for me, and for my sister maya. row she was an early participant in a school busing program, and when she was 12, with her parents separated, she moved to montreal with her mother after decades of attending schools, harris ae change. in 1983, she enrolled at howard university an historically black college in washington, d.c. it waat howard that harris explored her nnterest in politic