when one mom worried her own daughter might fall into trouble, she opened her front door and invited area kids and gang members inside. now they call her miss diane and we call her this week's cnn hero. >> guns, guns, and more guns. these are our young people. these stones represent them. we're losing a generation to violence. >> everybody is scared to come out. >> when they start shooting, you have to grab the kids and run in the house. >> people run in the house and close their doors. >> but there are some people who are not scared to go outside and i'm one of them. my name is diane latiker. we opened a community center called kids off the block. we're known as kob. there are kids in gangs, they're homeless, some of them drug dealers. so they got a lot of issues going on. who signed up for youth ready chicago. i tell kids this is a peace place. this is a safe place. >> i really -- >> we have leadership workshops,