volunteering as a decoy is not glamorous work. jimmy spends a lot of his time getting bitten by dogs over and over again. this dog is wearing a custom-made bulletproof vest that spike s k-9 fund got for him. it s lightweight so it doesn t slow the dog down but will protect him. these vests aren t cheap. they cost about $2,500 apiece. all this training helps the dogs and their police handlers get better. though the dogs look scary, they can actually save a suspect s life, stopping him before he gets shot or tasered. the better trained the dogs are, the safer everyone is. training is how just like when i was in the militait s the same thing. you train, train, train, train, train, and your odds of success go up. spike s k-9 fund is a small
thanks to spike s k-9 fund, officer mcany of s new k-9 officer has the vest that krueger did not. what s cool is he s wearing the vest that you provided for the dogs, so that s bullet proof vest and he wears it to work every day. jimmy somehow convinced know suit up so i could experience the power and discipline of these dogs. i got him. let s get up. feel so intimate that is. he s talking to you. and anderson joins me now, intimate that s how they described it. yeah. it s just so surreal, you know, this dog was just nice one moment and the dog was looking right at you. it s really intense. the dog named after you. yes, a.c. a.c. in all the years i ve known you you take reporter involvement in these stories to a whole different level, including in this particular piece which we ll get to the see. jimmy was very persuasive in terms of getting you to do something you ve never done before. jimmy sky dives pretty much
charity. jimmy runs it along with his director of operations emily. currently we ve helped dogs in 26 states. i would like the whole map to be lit up with dogs that we ve helped. their office is jimmy s kitchen table and to keep overhead low. jimmy says more than 80% of the money donated goes to dogs vests and medical expenses which sometimes aren t covered by local police departments. he s gotten vests for at least 288 police dogs so far. by the end of the year, he d like to be able to say he s outfitted at least 500 police dogs. last month i met up with jimmy when he was working with the norfolk police k-9 unit. anderson, come on in here. listen to this dog, man. see how he keeps biting to get deeper. one of their police dogs, krueger, was shot to death in 2016. and through spike s k-9 fund, i was able to help get bulletproof
something about jimmy that he s a, you know, he s an american hero. he had some difficult times when he got back trying to figure out his life. and that s how the auspices under which i initially met him and interviewed him. i just think the police dogs are look, i have a lot of respect for police officers. police dogs are sort of unsung here rose of police deptsds. in the budgets they often some dogs don t have bullet proof vefrts and i started i was doing a speech down in nor foal being, virginia, and jimmy called me about a week before and said that a police dog had been shot to death there named krueger and that s how i started getting involved. and that unequivocal loyalty. it s incredible. for the police officers who work with k-9s, it s their partner and when a k-9 is killed in the line of duty, it s like lose a partner. amazing pieces,around, thank you so much. you can watch the full segment about spike s k-9 fund at cnn.com/champions for change along wault other st
effectively in the middle of nowhere. did you ever imagine a place like this could exist? this is the chief nursing officehere at the hospital. how does this hospital stack up to what you ve seen over there? it s equivalent to what i ve seen. that s an amazing statement. there are people who say that shouldn t have ever been possible. i love it. i love when people say that because there s one thing i could tell my staff. there s rad kag and there s ridiculous. when we propose it, it s ridiculous but when it happens, it s radical. from ridiculous to radical to real. exactly. just to give you an idea of how busy things can get in the middle of haiti, a 3-year-old boy in a motorcycle accident, he has a fracture in his skull. that s going to need surgery, and a 61-year-old man who has a large hemorrhage in his brain. he s also going to need surgery. both those surgeries need to