And everything was gone. Sometimes the bigger they are the bigger the price they paid, and thats certainly true of kobe bryant. With everything thats going on these days. It is sometimes easy to miss the dramatic positive changes that are happening in the world across commerce and Technology Health and the arts. Vast improvements are taking hold, driven mostly by ordinary people who dont often make headlines. But they sure do make a difference. And tonight hell meet them this is champions for change. Welcome the champions for change. Im dr. Sanjay gupta. In the next hour, youre going to meet some really innovative people. Each one quietly reshaping old ideas and dramatically improving the way we all live our lives. Later, ill introduce you to my champion for change but first, were going to hit the waves with one of hawaii is renowned surfers who also happens to be a top scientist. Hes inspiring a new way for researchers and everyone else to look at the ocean its a familial relationship that we have as native boyens with the coral reef we have a Creation Story that emphasizes life the starts with the coral its like greatest grandmother my name is cliff cupp bono. Im from ela, hawaii and im a surfer and a scientist this one beat, one big lego is a Science Research group, essentially, but were not the average scientists where a bunch of surfers and skater prison artists, we developed technology to protect our ocean and we provided to communities who need it the most ive come to realize that some of the most creative individuals are not necessarily formally trained in academia and not to say those degrees arent important. Ive just filed especially here in the islands, theres so much Creativity It Intelligence at surrounded by being a part of nature we met many years ago and we shared a feeling that in the conventional science framework you were expected to be very one track. Cliffs, renowned surfer. I loved to fish, serve skateboard like all these things that we kind of had the hide as being parts of ourselves, you see all these little me and dryness though . Yeah. And so early on in that academic journey, we sort of valid like, have we ever get to the position that we we have phds and lets do it differently if you have a particular skill set that can help us develop technology to protect our ocean, whether theyre artists who also love chemistry, or whether theyre musicians who also enjoy doing statistics the weirder you are, the more we want you here we wanted to create the worlds greatest underwater observatory, which was ambitious for sure, but we love a good challenge over oneandahalf Million People watch this we should be able to see john panini of the camera is given no good wipe down the heart of it is a camera that streams live 24 7 right away, we started capturing Wildlife Interactions and organisms that are typically never seen when theres a human in the environment coral reefs are foundational to stabilize an ecosystem there are estimates that by the year 2050 up to 80 of the coral reefs could be lost. So we have this ambitious goal over the next six years to map 1 million reefs by 2030. And how we want to get there . Despite training 10,000 mappers with a simple iphone or gopro, anyone can do it i like to think about my ancestors who ive never met, but they were thinking about me seven generations before me. And i want to make sure that seven generations down the road can enjoy what a beautiful place we have today. Tomorrow while the ocean is majestic, it can also be dangerous and powerful. There arent many Natural Forces stronger than a hurricane but a mothers protective instincts might just be one of those forces cnns chief climate correspondent bill, were met a mom on a mission with a new way to Fortify Homes against storms the most powerful storm ever to make landfall on the florida panhandle. The window to evacuate wait. Is closed. I remember watching tv and thinking if this stays on the same path, were not going to make it and its too late to leave. Im originally from seattle, washington, and i met my husband up there. I was bartending and he was Playing Freshness Football for the seattle seahawks. We were having our first baby and so we purchased a home in the gulf coast right outside of destin. We had ava my first baby girl. When Hurricane Michael hit 12 weeks later doors stay away from windows when code actually where i live is about 115 miles an hour. And Hurricane Michael was well beyond that already, the storm continued to shift. And then unfortunately hit Mexico City Beach its where it was complete and total devastation and absolutely heartbreaking the next morning when i woke up, there was a fire in me that this isnt right. I cant live from june to october every single year, hoping that a storm does not come and kill me in my my kids and so driven purely by a desire to protect her own family that rubin became an accidental pioneer in the field of disaster proofing construction. He had no experience in construction or business of lists it all no. I went down this rabbit hole of how do we build a 45 structure . Some of that, and thats church brought up medulla or m2, say 40 yearold italian in Company Created by an engineer who discovered a really easy to construct method to build a home. I could stand up to an earthquake. Basically came up with a styrofoam and steel mesh sandwich on concrete. Read, first you make these panels any shape you want, round, straight. It can be a roof that could be stairs, it could be a party french, it could be an airport. And then it is covered with Scramble Concrete would these panels have thats great. Is that theyre way more waterproof. Than a traditional coconstruction tail. So if you see that building over there, the roofs not even finished, its not even waterproofed and it just rained like three days in a row and not one droplet got into the second floor . We have a 250 mile an hour wind rating, tours 50 yeah. Which theyre actually has never been hurt. Right . That would be a category not but yeah, theres never been a hurricane that passed before as a climate reporter slash dad, i tend to measure Global Trends against lifetime of my kids just in the four years since my Little Boy River was born, there have been over at separate billiondollar disasters. Just in the us as the planet over were heats under a blanket of Fossil Fuel Pollution it is clear the way we think about shelter has to evolve. I think people are hungry for something different, and i thank as a construction community, theres theres enough people coming up in the next generation that really want to learn these new innovative things now what we saw over and over again protecting family, thats a powerful motivator when it comes to innovation and when we come back, were going to meet such a family. They built this thriving business from the ground up, specifically designed to make sure theyre autistic son and other people on the spectrum can really shy jellybeans, virtue is presented by Charles Schwab bone, your tomorrow. Goh to cnn. Com slash champions to learn turnabout the pioneers using courage, grit, and creativity to move Society Forward and exciting and Inspiring Ways Trees dont have hearts, but they do have Something Like a heartbeat every. In night, a tree gets a little bit bigger. And every day when the suns on its leaves, it actually shrinks just a teeny. And that motion which is less than a human hair is what we measure that the treatment all right, so im gonna go ahead and put these two tree tags thats pretty well in there. Start the tree tag, right so this is row 21 tree nine im graham hein, cofounder and ceo of the plant. Im roger hi in grams, younger brother and cto new land treys cat cry out for help. So how do we get is they have this tree tag on them . Yeah, so we give them a tree tag and now they can ask for help the real challenges how do we look at the data from millions and millions of trees together we spent a long time figuring out how to he likes data from the ocean as a completely different environment, but its a really similar technical problem one of my fondest memories is roger in the garage cranking away on nuts and bolts on the way glider. This is the pressure activated relief and dad with a Foam Surfboard carving away at it covered in phone there are a wave letters and erosion that the planet bringing data back as we speak values really come from our parents. Lets ones next, dads invented airplanes and wheels for lunar rover and snow vehicles. Hes still an inventor at heart and we have the narrative from him. Are mama i think has always been trying to get us outside she just loves the outdoors, which really led us to create things which could help the environment so how. Long do you think these trees are trees are . The lungs and he planet. With the plan our mission is to help keep the worlds Trees Healthy us as a connect tariff for the Tree Universe to the cloud and ai, whose trees that this transition from being people on a planet to being actually the caretakers of the planet is something that i feel really passionately about welcome back the champions for change if you dont, wind experts can find a variety of nuances in a single bottle. But at the same time, theres never been much diversity among the people running the industry. But now a bold winemaker is fermenting some big changes in the business traveling wine or so synonymous with each other its more African American begin to see the world and it had these great experiences. Wine is becoming much more of a pinpoint or passion point for their lives. The age of the old white man drinking wine is over we dont start to make this industry look the way the world works. Its not going to go much further. Theres a berry and wine that goes beyond just whats in the bottle. Theres a communication disconnect, theres a lapse and the two entities knowing how to speak to each other being the black community in the Wine Industry i launched a brand with the intention to really just diverse the body one inch fee. We believe we are the connector. The Fet Wind Company now is the number one imported luxury french wine company from the south of france i started in the business and 2000, 1002 that i was always one of only one in the room from a black person stamp or a black male in particular its super rare to find black owned Wind Companies in the us. Theres less than 1 . How do we help be a steward for this changing every aspect from the Wine Industry . And bring more people of color and especially more black americans introduce trillion Dollar Industry that to the post george floyd movement. And we saw a lot of Racial Injustice in the world. I was made aware of the route spine for me. They shared a mission when we had or i had which was how do we make the industry more diverse . I appreciate all of you for coming tonight and supporting our organization. The roofs when is creating a way for people of color to get the education . So get the mentor ship so that they are ready to be out working and then to get a career in this business. As part of our participation in the roots fund, we are huge supporters of the rooted in france initiative. My winery and winds are in france and i know the beauty of the old world to hear that they were wanting to send students to burgundy into work in this historic winemaking region. I had that experience. It was important to be able to foster for minorities, especially black kids who wanted to learn more about wine to give them that cultural experience of france, while also giving them the experience of working in the Wine Industry a lot of people think im over there just tasting wine and frolicking through the vineyards. Youre doing accounting logistics, supply chain, marketing, things of that nature with one and spirits based case studies dong nai, the roots fund, theyre giving seeing opportunities in terms of employment, internships mentorship, a network or community for me to see these kids come back and then further themselves to now go work okay. Wine is amazing from day one. Its been our goal to disrupt the industry and take down the big boys and when you have that sort of mission in place you recognize the underdogs and you want to give opportunities to the underdogs and we will forever foster those programs and initiatives they give a voice and a platform to those that are not expected to succeed and you know that expectation to succeed can also allude people on the Autism Spectrum, especially in the workplace. But one family designed a car wash specifically with neurodivergent workers in mind. And now theyre concept is cleaning up recreation arising tide hey guys, doesnt go as day. It was love and duty im michele rising tide is to empower people with autism and related disability through Gainful EmploymentCar Wash Industry Andrew is my younger brother, and andrew has autism. Andrews diagnosis came when he was about twoandahalf to three years theres all as he got a little older, it became obvious that in order for andrew to to live a full adult life, wed have to take action so you. Start to say to yourself, whats going to happen when im gone. I was sitting in a car wash one day. They said, andrew can do that so i decided i would create a the business help andrew where he could work. He needed community be surrounded like people like him this truly is a Family Business so andrew is yet the makes his lunch and hes ready to go to work andrew has a life, he has an identity flavor rising tide was amazing for me. About 80 of our staff is on the Autism Spectrum the first thing that we do is try to look at the workplace through our employees eyes we designed to paddle. Now, instead of having a lot of difficult social interactions, we have a smooth process for both our team our customers. We clarify the workplace for our team members through a variety of systems and we try to embed training into the work please wherever we can, if a team member forgets how to do something, they can quickly scan a qr code, review the training, and get back to work. We use color codes as much as possible. Tube wells going arising, tide car wash. Here, i feel like hey guys, ive just been able to learn more and grow as a person and as a professional, i want to be a manager. My new my new goal is travel. By saving money it is an accepting place, is like a proof that people with autism can leave. You can just see noem judge, witches by one certain aspect of autism because everybody with autism is different our team members are incredibly talented but this world has not been designed for them my hope is that they find the confidence that they can do the thing things they want to do in this world empowering society. One person at a time that is a consistent theme among our champions for change and after the break, and engineers breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence is now helping veterans who lost limbs hold on hope trees, dont have hearts but they do have Something Like a heartbeat every night, a tree gets a little bit bigger and every day it actually shrinks just a teeny bit. And that motion which has less than a human hair, is what we measure for what the tree tag all right, so im gonna go ahead and put these two tree tags so this is row 21, tree nine, trees are the lungs of the planet with the plan, our mission is to help keep the worlds tree this is healthy. Think of us as a connector for the Tree Universe to the cloud and to ai from being people on a planet to being actually the caretakers of the planet its something that i feel really passionately about engineered to minimize noise and built for adventure which can also be your own quiet kanban in the ones the fully electric qa in charge in an Electric Vehicle that recharges. You how again . Matters weve the lazy declare that we will reply. We feel inclined. Weve checked off our to do list. Now were checking off hard to don list we the lazy or taking back lazy and are lazy boy and theyre all coming . Those who are still with us, yes. Grandpa whats this . Your wings. Light em up gentlemen, its a beautiful. Day to fly. Absolutely free text him. Oh yeah unt the 369369 Artificial Intelligence technology that can help machines learn isnt and mimic human intellect. Well, it soon, maybe able to help amputees feel whole again our next champion for change is at the forefront of that, helping veterans from his country who lost limbs during war the not sure homeless. One of the missions at night, up to walking through the passage, i had grenade thrown at me which when i regained consciousness in the er room, i didnt have hands what you can say and i was hoping until the very end that it wasnt him once the war started, we understood that has per hand can help a lot of ukrainians im which will need from ukraine i left one day before the war started we started as probiotics because we believe robotics will unlock many technologists four all humanity to live longer and feel more active wife as per hand, is a bianna cant and it can give who back many functions as per hand, understands User Behavior and helps to choose right grip and advance because of ai also it detects muscle select tv2 since my start off working in prosthetics, i was always looking for a product that will be more reliable in aesthetically fit. When v matt v is dima v said a huge potential of working together for this foundation is one of our favorit