that is still man and michael robins i will do a quick reading to pick up part way through the book headed segues for europe to parts of the history that these into this story of the founder of the association one of the first black firefighters in manhattan from 1919 and how he found his way and it will segue between his story and of modern day vulcans and the civil lawsuit in 2005 and the department of justice was involved so we pick up with the history of paul and michael and this is when they used to go out in the '90s into recruitment in the streets of brooklyn there would go out and set up on the corner if they saw a young looking black person that looked fit they would go to them to get them to sign up to take a fire department test purpose of lot of times the applicants could want to know what is it like in the firehouse? at that time $50,000 a year sounds good and the pension sounds good but what happens to me inside? so we will start with a story of capt. in washington and what he would tell some of the guys if they would ask that question he would tell them stories of his days i

> brendan. >> roseann p lange. >> finessing lang. >> peter j. >> thomas michael l. >> michelle bernadette. >> ruth sheila. >> robindith. >> christopher randall. >> scott larson. >> john adam larson. >> natalie jenna. >> gary edward. >> paul. >> charles a. >> stephen james. >> maria. >> dennis francis l. >> mary. >> anna mae. >> stephen. >> robin. >> nathaniel l. >> and my beloved brother alejandro. we roto- love letter that is too long. it up i read i will start crying and you said to me there is no crying, you have to be strong. i want to say that i love love you and i miss you very much. mom and dad are here, your son can't make a, it is hard for him. it has been 14 years. he is 27 now i27 now i know you would be very proud of him. he always says why but he has faith that he will see you one day, we love you, and we miss you. >> and our beloved john, we think of you every single day. your light and spirit shine so brightly through your daughter. i know you so proud of her. she hopes that you see here and i tell her that you do. i love love you and you are unforgettable. >> david w. >> eugene. >> james patrick l.

robin lynn. >> alvin peter. >> charles h. >> william. >> douglas g. >> charles l. casper. >> andrew. robert michael crawford. >> john, jr. >> edward.ing. leo russell the third. chandler raymond keller. >> joseph john keller. >> petter kellerman. fed -- joseph a. kelly. >> thomas richard kelly. >> thomas michael kelly. >> timothy kelly. >> thomas, william hill kelly jr. and my husband ana a.lavarty. we think of you with love today but that is nothing knew. we thought about you yesterday and days before that too. we think of you in silence, we often seek your name, all we have is memories and your pictures in a frame. your memory for which will never part. god has you in his keeping and we have you in our hearts. >> and my cousin, words can't express how i feel. we love you and miss. we will never forget. >> thomas j. kennedy. >> ivonne e. kennedy. >> john richard. >> ralph francis. >> ronald. >> howard. >> douglas d.ketchum. >> ellen keltur. >> sarah khan. >> michael keeper. >> andrew kim. lauren kim. >> mary joe. >> karen m. >> amy r. king. >> teresa king. >> robert king, jr. >> lisa king johnson. >> ryanj. kennedy. >> chris michae

robin lynn. >> alvin peter. >> charles h. >> william. >> douglas g. >> charles l. casper. >> andrew. robert michael crawford. >> john, jr. >> edward. >> richard n. king. >> lisa ivonne. >> carl kiesler. >> bÁrbara keeding. leo russell the third. chandler raymond keller. >> joseph john keller. >> petter kellerman. fed -- joseph a. kelly. >> thomas richard kelly. >> thomas michael kelly. >> timothy kelly. >> thomas, william hill kelly jr. and my husband ana a.lavarty. we think of you with love today but that is nothing knew. we thought about you yesterday and days before that too. we think of you in silence, we often seek your name, all we have is memories and your pictures in a frame. your memory for which will never part. god has you in his keeping and we have you in our hearts. >> and my cousin, words can't express how i feel. we love you and miss. we will never forget. >> thomas j. kennedy. >> ivonne e. kennedy. >> john richard. >> ralph francis. >> ronald. >> howard. >> douglas d.ketchum. >> ellen keltur. >> sarah khan. >> michael keeper. >> andrew kim. lauren kim. >> mary joe. >> karen m. >> amy r. king. >> teresa king. >> robe

(laughter) my son michael (laughter) (clapping). >> and the two granddaughters whom i've said robin produced 5 grandchildren and all of them are here ma at a it is all part of the family group that we have and a couple other kids they're part of them i want you to see who those kids really are i must tell you a number of people ♪ room that worked with me for years and years and years they too deserve the, however, u honor because you don't get to anything or any place without an incredible bunch of people i had the pleasure of being very cold may be mayor in 1995 i was the first person are that person the human rights executive director it was ed lee he's steeled moved up to run the city many of the days when he was running the process of moving up he did the process of what makes me landmark good throughout the city and county of san francisco and he still makes we look good in the city and county of san francisco except when we introduces me (laughter) but mr. mayor i'm really pleased with the relationship that all those staff people that you talk about who had with the city you're right t

. >> censure, michael weinstein, thank you, are connected to the robin hood foundation, let's have some fun with it. you are bringing together very wealthy people who, as you can tell the our, our motivator for different reasons to come and it could be social reasons and not necessarily concerns of people. and then you gather a lot of resources and have to outpace them. and how do you make choices, which charities are the most valuable, which advantage people to juicy benefiting and so on? how do you play with this as a market? >> so i regard this evening as -- let me say couple of words about markets. i often portray what i do at robin hood, i portrayed as a market. into this market come ideas. people, domestic violence shelter or michael and programmed or a job training program or hep c program are would've you want to do. those ideas you are building win-win of the. they can come out of the heads of the report of the new times, i think that went on in san diego. we think we can do better. the ideas at the table, it just happens. now the fun begins and now we impose a set of algorithm

langone >> thomas michael langone >> michele bernadette lanza >> ruth sheila lapin >> ingeborg lariby >> robin blair larkey >> christopher randall larrabee >> hamidou s. larry >> scott larsen >> john adam larson >> natalie janis lasden >> gary edward lasko >> nicholas craig lassman >> paul laszczynski >> charles a. laurencin >> stephen james lauria >> maria lavache >> denis francis lavelle >> jeannine mary laverde >> anna a. laverty >> steven lawn >> robert a. lawrence jr. >> nathaniel lawson >> and my beloved brother alejandro castello. your niece wrote a love letter. i know it's too long. if i read it, i'll start crying. to me, there's no use crying. you have to be strong. i just want to say that i love you and i miss you very much. mom and dad are here. your son can't make it. it's hard for him. it's been 14 years. he's 27 now. i know you're going to be very proud of him. he always says why, but he has faith that he will see you one day. we love you and we miss you. >> and our loved sean gordon o'neil. we think of you every single day. your light and spirit shine so brightly through our dau

. >> michael, have you that big switch with facebook. >> yes, i do. robin, facebook, they tell us that there are about 7 billion likes every day of pictures posted on the site but did everyone really like those posts or was there just no other way to express their opinion? how about a dislike button? yeah, and the company town hall at facebook yesterday founder ceo mark zuckerberg dropped the big news that another choice was on the way and here's the perfect example. >> we kind of have come to understand it's not -- people aren't looking for an ability to down vote other people's posts. what they really want is to be able to express empathy? a perfect xal of that most liked photo ever is this one of vin diesel expressing grief over the loss of his friend paul walker. it got more than 7.8 million likes. it's a case where dislike wouldn't be the right choice either but now something new is coming. now, what do you think of the new plan. do you like the new plan? what dogs everyone here think? >> it's not going to be a thumb's down. >> no one like's the thumb'

(laughter) my son michael (laughter) (clapping). >> and the two granddaughters whom i've said robin produced all of them are here ma at a it is all part of the family group that we have and a couple other kids they're part of them i want you to see who those kids really are i must tell you a number of people ♪ room that worked with me for years and years and years they too deserve the, however, u honor because you don't get to anything or any place without an incredible bunch of people i had the pleasure of being very cold may be mayor in 1995 i was the first person are that person the human rights executive director it was ed lee he's steeled moved up to run the city many of the days when he was running the process of moving up he did the process of what makes me landmark good throughout the city and county of san francisco and he still makes we look good in the city and county of san francisco except when we introduces me (laughter) but mr. mayor i'm really pleased with the relationship that all those staff people that you talk about who had with the city you're right this is an incredible

michael gardner is a former falls church democratic leader and husband of robin gardner, former falls church mayor and council member. he's charged with two counts of aggravated sexual battery of a child in 2009. those allegations would be secret until september of last year. a few months after gardner was released from prison, seen here in this exclusive wusa 9 video. he was set free after his conviction in a high profile 2011 child sex assault case was reversed. new allegations about prior abuse come from gardner's niece who was 12 years old at the time. now she's 18 and will be testifying against her uncle. prosecutor nicole whitman told potential jurors today that the niece's allegations against her uncle trickled out over time, with a full disclosure coming when she was 17. in the transcript of a phone call between the niece's father and his twin, who is robin gardner, mrs. gardner appears to believe the niece's allegations. in the 2011 case, gardner faces a retrial. charges of sexually assaulting a 9 and 10-year-old girl at his daughter's slumber party. >> more than 140 people f

>> that is perfect time for "the speed feed" and you've got a football player, michael, who is an overcomer. >> he is, robinld whose dream is coming very true. jake was born with a rare cancer of the retina ultimately losing sight in both eyes and when he was 12 years old the dedicated usc trojan football fan he got to meet his favorite players and hung out on the sidelines with them and on the day before his final surgery he wanted to see the trojans one last time so they invited him on to the feel and hugged it out which is a beautiful thing to see come together like that. in fact, he's leading the team. now, jake, he never got football out of his blood, even becoming the long snapper on his hi school team. >> wow. >> but his dream was to play for usc and now against all odds that dream has come true. jake tweeted on wednesday, first practice so much fun. love this team. thanks to everyone. now, jake talked to espn's shelley smith and here's what he had to say. >> it's something i've been watching ever since i can ever remember and it's to be -- have that on my head will be absolutely insane. >> incredibl

(laughter) my son michael (laughter) (clapping). >> and the two granddaughters whom i've said robin producedall of them are here ma at a it is all part of the family group that we have and a couple other kids they're part of them i want you to see who those kids really are i must tell you a number of people ♪ room that worked with me for years and years and years they too deserve the, however, u honor because you don't get to anything or any place without an incredible bunch of people i had the pleasure of being very cold may be mayor in 1995 i was the first person are that person the human rights executive director it was ed lee he's steeled moved up to run the city many of the days when he was running the process of moving up he did the process of what makes me landmark good throughout the city and county of san francisco and he still makes we look good in the city and county of san francisco except when we introduces me (laughter) but mr. mayor i'm really pleased with the relationship that all those staff people that you talk about who had with the city you're right this is an incredible

robin williams. >> we are. i always called this sort of the songs or the movie found in a drawer. this happens with famous dead celebrities which i feel i'm always talking about. people like michael jackson, elvis, whitney houston, someone always seems to find something in a drawer or whatever that is additional material or things never released. >> tupac. >> right. in the case of robin williams, there are all these outtakes from alladin which is an animated classic. was brilliant in that. there's a lot of extra robin williams and it will come to the new dvd version of "alladin" in a few weeks. people are excited about that. >> big sales on that what's happening to the box office? >> not a super exciting weekend. nick asked me before what's the number one movie. "hotel transylvania 2" which i'm sure you both ramp out and saw. >> neighbor -- ran out and saw. >> maybe next week. >> it's the biggest september opening. it did about $48 million. it's an adam sandler movie. he's one of the voices in this. not a lot of animated stuff out right now. people always want to get the kids out of the house so that's why it did well. we're so close to halloween, too, so people are looking for t

michael" at 9:00. morning am >>> is that -- john, that is american sweetheart robin roberts -- >> i love being a bella. >> wait a minute. is this on? is this thing on? >> how about that? welcome back to "gma." that is an exclusive look at an extra from the new "pitch perfect 2" dvd that goes on sale today. of course you have the bonus scene with robin. >> very funny and this month we have launched the "pitch perfect" dubsmash competition. thousands and house of you submitted entries and here's the winner, vanessa angeles. take a look. >> don't be tied down by anything. i'm on a walkabout. i'm a free range pony that can't be tamed. >> well, she nailed it. way to go, vanessa. she gets a walk-on role in "pitch perfect 3." way to go. thanks to everyone who submitted an entry. >> congratulations. we have a story from our friends at yahoo! health, a former football player that tackled his weight problem and is inspiring others. >> javon jackson is a remarkable young man. so many people try and fail again and again to lose weight. but once he made his life-changing decision he dropped more than 100 pounds in

(laughter) my son michael (laughter) (clapping). >> and the two granddaughters whom i've said robin produced all of them are here ma at a it is all part of the family group that we have and a couple other kids they're part of them i want you to see who those kids really are i must tell you a number of people ♪ room that worked with me for years and years and years they too deserve the, however, u honor because you don't get to anything or any place without an incredible bunch of people i had the pleasure of being very cold may be mayor in 1995 i was the first person are that person the human rights executive director it was ed lee he's steeled moved up to run the city many of the days when he was running the process of moving up he did the process of what makes me landmark good throughout the city and county of san francisco and he still makes we look good in the city and county of san francisco except when we introduces me (laughter) but mr. mayor i'm really pleased with the relationship that all those staff people that you talk about who had with the city you're right this is an incredible

robin, over to you. >> busting me like that. good going. way to go. >>> over to michael. the new season of "shark tank" starts tomorrow and we have some great "deals & steals" from the show. >> that was great. >> all right, thanks, guys. and tory johnson is here with "deals & steals" and "shark tank," the perfect combination for big bargains, up to 50% off items featured on the hit show so -- >> are you ready? okay. >> what do we have. >> fromlori greiner invested had this company. it seats one adult or opens -- there you go. perfect. the bed -- it's -- he doesn't come with it. >> i don't come with it? >> it's comfortable. >> i thought i was an accessory. >> we'd sell a lot. normally $240 all slashed in half, 120 bucks. >> my kids love bean bags and they could open it up and have a bed. >> what else do we have. >> spin it around. so from biagi. big, big hit on the show, big hit with "gma" viewers. lori invested in this one. all foldable luggage so everything stores neatly when not in use, tote, wheelers, big, big, assortment starting at $80, everything slashed in half, 40

michael, you're hovering close right here. >> everybody at home is probably going george has sure changed. no, it's me. that's right, robin.e ultimate back to the future toy becoming a modern day reality. reality but there is a war over who can sell those hoverboards and will it affect your holiday shopping? we'll find out in our "speed feed." >> now to oscar winner shawn penn slamming "empire's" creator lee daniels with a $10 million lawsuit claiming he defamed him during an interview by comparing him to the star of that show, terrence howard, who recently admitted to hitting his first wife. abc's david wright is here with that story for us. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, robin. this began as a story about race and reputation, not on the campaign trail, but in hollywood. "empire" is one of the biggest hits on tv right now and the show's creator is under fire for defending his lead actor by throwing sean penn under the bus. >> mr. daniels, what -- >> reporter: this morning "empire's" creator lee daniels faces a $10 million lawsuit for comparing his lead actor -- >> you hear me out because your life could d

michael brown's killing and the violent protests in ferguson. it calls for major changes. pierre thomas is in washington with that. >> reporter: good morning, robin. critics will say this new report lace out a disturbing picture of inequali inequality. among the findings, the ferguson commission, blacks were 75% more likely to be pulled over in missouri than whites. the findings similar to those of a blistering justice department review that also found african-americans much more likely to be targeted in traffic enforcement than whites. police and local officials were using traffic stops not so much for public safety but as a means of collecting revenue. this is about race. they suggest that blacks, at least some of them in missouri, are not living the american dream. robin? >> all right, pierre, thank you. >>> the race for president now. "your voice, your vote." and our brand-new abc news/"washington post" poll. trump and ben carson surging. hillary clinton and donald trump neck and neck. >> reporter: we're just two days away from the next big republican debate. a new poll this morning shows trump and carson's tiest numb s highest numbers yet. t