Transcripts for CNN CNN Special Program 20151207 02:02:00 :

herself. kathy griffin is here. [ applause ] i m watching you, kathy. i am watching you. all right? now, throughout the night as you meet our cnn heroes, i hope you ll be inspired to get involved with their causes. go to cnnhe rows.com at any time to see ways to interact and donate during the show. while you re watching, also get involved on facebook, on twitter. visit our account on instagram to see exclusive behind the scenes pictures from tonight s event. cnn has given each of our top ten honorees $10,000 so they can continue to do their important work and, of course, later tonight one of the honor are r will be named 2015 cnn hero of the year and receive an additional $100,000. so let s begin tonight [ applause ] let s meet our first krb cnn hero. any given night, nearly half a million people are homeless in the united states of america. many are experiencing a temporary crisis. they re living in a shelter. but 15% of them are chronically