Thank you. Its so nice. Thank you all for being here. Welcome to cnn heroes an allstar tribute. We are coming to you live from the hall of o ocean life. The American Museum here in new york. We want to welcome all of you watching around the world. Tonight well see just how much good there really is in this world. People, youll meet people involving problems doing extraordinary things in their community. For the next two hours were about decency, goodwill and lifting people up. I remember watching this show for the first time back in 2007. With my family. We all sobbed on the sofa and i sent you a text that you were onto something special. When you sob it makes me deeply uncomfortable. We were raised to push emotions deep down inside. Doesnt work. I love you do this with me every year. Thank you. I love you. Im deeply uncomfortable. Deeply. Thank you. I love you so much. The heroes were meeting tonight are thoughtful. Inventive. They help sick kids, they support women. And children. Who are struggling. They protect our oceans and so much more. They even rescue donkeys. We have donkeys, people. Donkeys people, people. Donkeys are yeah. I recently met a friend of ours has two donkeys. Theyre lovely. We have friends with donkeys. Theyre lovely people. Theyre watching tonight. Hi to hamilton. We have given a Global Platform to share work and each heroes 10,000 to continue the work. Later ton one will be named the hero of the year and receive 100,000. So great. And we are so grateful to all of the artists and entertainers who are giving their time to help us honor their work. Welcome to the cnn heroes family. Lets get started. Im ready to wreck my face. Do it. What does that mean . Sobbing. Yes, i know. Uncomfortable. I love you so much. Last year was california deadliest and most destructive fire season on record. The images. No fire causes as much damage as the paradise campfire. 85 people killed. 14,000 homes destroyed leaving 50,000 people homeless and today a year later the majority of the people are still displaced. Here to share how our hero is helping people rebuild. Is research net work spokesperson and Academy Award winning actress from the new film richard jewel. And the films leading man and proud supporter of the atlanta womens foundation. Kathy baits and paul walter houser. On november night, the nation watched as the fires ravaged this beautiful california town. Woody faircloth sat in his home in denver, colorado. And with the horror unfolding on his tv he heard that whisper. Do something. He went online and saw that people were desperate for place to stay. He created a go fund me to purchase an rv. And by thanksgiving he put together enough money and bought one. He drove it with his 6 yearold daughter nearly 1,200 miles. To paradise. When they arrived they saw scorched everything. And again he heard the whisper. Do more. So he started rv4campfirefamily. Which takes in donations and buys rvs and fixes up used ones. To date hes given 75 free mobile homes to people in california. So they can have a place, a place for them that is close to the charred ruins of the town they still proudly call home. The master bedroom was back there. With the bathroom. And my daughters bedroom. This fire is destroying everything in its path. Kitchen here. Living room over there. It is just complete devastation. It was home. The fire burned everything i own. I have no baby pictures. I have no pictures of my mother. Its like in one day your life changes. Heavenly father, please help us. It was an apocalypse scene. Everyone was in shock. People want to help. They dont know how to. We saw a few finishing touches. We tapped in to a way people can help. Its been eight months since i have had my own home. How to you organize a disaster. I have been living in my car for about a month. So, we picked up this rv. Now well drive it up to the grandmother and were superexcited to get her home. Im about to jump out of my shoes. I cant wait. Oh my god. Wow. How are you . Thank you. You have a place to call your own now. This will be my lifesaver. I can fold my clothes and put them away. And those little things. Somebody who had no idea my life even existed and they give me my home. Its really cool. When you can change the channel its easy to avoid the emotions. When youre staring face to face with someone. That Human Connection is so powerful. Shelter is such a basic need to provide that. Thats the why i continue to do it. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please join us in honoring cnn hero woody faircloth. Thank you. Thank you so much. We have learned on the journey the way too many people fall through the cracks of traditional relief organizations. Shelter is the most basic human need. So thats what we provide. We have he we have helped firefighters college professors, nurses, children with special needs, families just like yours and mine. We still have over 150 families on our waiting list. I want to say that campfire survivors, your resilience inspires. You have not been forgotten. Please join us, help us help them. Thank you. Now tonight not only are we celebrating heroes. And age is never a factor when it comes to making the world a better place. We call them young wonders. Here to introduce us is the first a proud supporter of foundation which works with young people to strengthen their Mental Health. And the star of stranger things. There is nothing more powerful than these two words together. We and can. Thats why 15 yearold grace put them in her organizations name. The we can serve movement. She was fighting cancer she got an idea to bring happiness to kids in tough situations. She delivers fun baskets to them in the hospital. Started a boutique to give kids in foster care a Free Shopping experience and launched a summer camp for those experiencing homelessness. 20,000 have benefitted. And her work shows us when we put we and can together we can change a Young Persons life. I think of happiness i think of smiling and laughter. Or tears of joy. I like making other people happy. Knowing i have a positive effect on others. I was 7 when i was diagnosed with cancer. That was the longest three and a half years i have faced. She absolutely lost a normal childhood. What i learned during the journey was that you can make your own happiness even in a bad situation. Theres always opportunity to bring happiness to other people. The main projects we have with hospitals are bucket. We put everything you need for a beach party in a sand bucket. How are you feeling today . I know it gets really hard and tiring. To have your mom and team. I want to encourage you. And your dad, yes. You have to keep fighting for all of them. And yourself. It feels amazing to know i was able to bring happiness to a kid. Going through a similar thing as i did. I created camp happy in 2015 when i was ten. For a local shelter. The children here have experienced enough significant amount of trama. I want to bring joy to them in the sad situation. I want to be an astronaut and discover planets myself. I do feel like the happiness fairy. Knowing that i have this idea and now its helping thousands of kids. Every year. If you try hard enough and have the right attitude, you can find happiness. Theres always a way to do it. I have to tell you something. We just looked at each other and said that you created a camp at age ten. And we couldnt find our way up the stairs without somebody helping us. You reached a special personal milestone this year. Can you tell us about it. After being five years in refission. February 7 i was declared cancer free. Awesome. To learn more about the story and the young wonders go to cnn heros. Com. 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Throughout the night as you meet the top ten heros. Click on the donate button. Were grateful the go fund me charity is working with all of them tonight. We are here in this hall of ocean life. Under the gorgeous foam and fiberglass whale. Im not sure if you saw the story about the whale that died with a 220 pound litter ball inside of it. It was a terrible story. Fishing lines and. It was awful. We all have to do our part. Government, corporations, all of us to protect these beautiful species. 8 million tons of plastic floats in the ocean. It kills more than 1 million sea boards. 100,000 mammals and countless fish each year. He decided to do something about it. The actor, director, producer who sits on the innocence project. Tony gold win. We all know someone who is dedicated. And it is a humbling experience to watch them give their heart, their soul and so much more to a cause greater than themselves. In 2015, afroz shah returned to his home in india. He moved away to become a lawyer and was excited to see his favorite beach. He walked to the edge expecting to see beauty and saw garbage. Piled high and five feet deep. So he got a bucket, some gloves and started to clean it with his hands. Weekend after weekend, bucket after bucket, he worked until it was a beautiful stretch of sand again. Since that fateful day, he has created a movement that inspired 200,000 people to remove 60 Million Pound of garbage from beaches in water ways. He did all this with his hands. And with a dedication to this planet that knows no bound. Ocean is actually a love affair. Its life to billions of people on this planet. You see plastic in the ocean. I moved in march 2015. The beach was like a carpet of plastic. For the first time in my life i didnt want to be near the water. Because the garbage was like five and a half feet. The ocean is telling us. We have no choice at all. Were attacking habitat and food. Finally they die. Plastic in ocean is a killer. Pollution created by us. And with this in my mind i started to clean the beach. For me it was a journey. I told myself i will take this journey to others. People will skeptical initially. It caught on. This is the best. No need to go to the gym. Sometimes solutions are simple to complicated problems. This huge ocean. We have to have huge numbers. Every saturday and sunday i do it. Its a long journey. We love it. Lets have fun on the beach. Its clean. Just not about cleaning beaches. Go to communities and so much plastic. This is one of the source. What do we now . Its a basic human conversation. Plastic. Give it back to recycling centers. This is a mind set change. We are smart. We learn. We must be in for the long haul. I can talk less and do action more. Please join me in honoring cnn hero. Afroz shah. Good evening, new york. Good evening, cnn. Yes. Should i do the tell prompting talking or speak from the heart . The producers must be i feel about ocean as anderson and kelly feel on the stage now. Warm and love. But to tell you the fact, the this award is drawing a very delicate bridge between us as human and as marine species existing on the planet. This award to my mind is a journey which all of us have to take to exist peacefully with others. This award to my mind is standing against the confusion that we will mess up the planet and others will clear the mess. Theres a award stands for the imperative our rights are not on a higher pedestal than the rights of other species. I must thank cnn for bestowing this honor in me. I hope it feels safer and sound because whatever plastic we use lands up in the bellies of whales and sharks and stuturtle because of the life of convenience we have chosen. Thank you and god bless you. Amazing. Each year more than 3 million kids are admitted to a hospital. Many fighting kansz cancer and other diseases. A hero from michigan is making sure they can hold onto part of their childhood. Part of the resistance in star wars the rise of sky walker. Kelly marie tran. When i say the word gamer most people kbo to the stereo type. They think unemployed, pajamas. Parents basement. Well, meet zach wigal who is proving that to be wrong. He caught mono and playing games made him feel better. He wanted to host a gaming tournament to bring people together. The police shut it down. They called it hazard to the Public Safety of the community. He took that and created gamers out reach when brings games to children in 150 hospitals across america and canada. Games that put smiles on kids faces. Kids who are in the fight of their lives. Kids in pain. Kids deserving this joy. More than 400,000 are playing and connecting because rebel zach took his passion and turned it into the cause of his life. We have 300 kids signed up for the tournament. Our event got shut down by a Police Officer who believed that games were in his words corrupting the mind of the youth. Most High School Kids look for an excuse to stick it to the man. So to speak. Theres negative stereo types around games and the gaming community. I thought wekt illustrate the positive. When gamers get together. Once we started getting involved with the Children Hospital we want to create a portable video game that the healthcare staff can use to make sure games were easy to move around. We started calling them go carts. Having that distraction just makes it so much better. You might forget that you even are sick. Most of the time. You can press b. It does a secret move. I use it to smash the big laser. You did. We started recruiting to come to the hospital environment. And they play games with kids. We have seen anxiety go down. Prescription painkillers are being used less. Even doctors are sometimes now prescribing the video game time as part of the patients treatment. Team work. Theyre intimidated by many kinds of bandages they have. Or holes that might be attached to them. They forget about that and focus on the game. Whats up. Games can be a gate way. To socialize with friend and help people regain motor skills or get up and move again. This made such a difference. The pain was no longer the primary focus. It was enjoying himself. Being a kid. It was as a mom this is a beautiful thing. To people who think games are just games, theres so much more than that. You dont have to talk about me being sick. We can play the game. Its way more cool. I feel like a rebel. Than a do gooder. Thats part of the story. I think any time you can give back, refreshing for your soul. Please join me in honoring cnn hero zach wigal. Thank you. Last year i had the honor of meeting grant who you saw in the video. He was a full of energy and a big fan of video games. He passed away a few days ago from cancer. He was a special guy and loved by his family and friends. Kids like grant are the reason im so dedicated to this cause. In hard times, they deserve a chance to be themselves. Its my belief games are represent an opportunity for us to connect with each other through activity and story. The kids were working with have few other out lets. Thankfully gamers are here to help. I want to dedicate this award to the children and families and hospitals around the world and the gamers making a difference in peoples lives. Youre my heroes. Thank you so much. Tonight were also honoring some remarkable people who made headlines this year. People who gave so much and acted in the moment with incredible courage and decency. And we begin with the story of an unforgettable high school coach. On may 17, a student walked into Park Rose High School in portland, oregon. Carrying a loaded firearm. Suffering from a Mental Health crisis. He intended to take his own life. When he opened a classroom door, football and track coach was standing there. Coach low looked at the students face and eyes and acted. First he got control of the gun as others ran from the building. And he pulled the student out of the room and handed the gun off to another adult. Initial reports said coach tackled the student. Surveillance footage shows something very different. He hugged and consoled the student before Police Arrived to take the teenager into custody. Coach low did this because he believes that part of his job is to love and protect his kids. We honor him tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome coach keenen low. Wow. Still to come. A special performance by andy grammar. Cnn heroes an allstar tribute is sponsored by geico. Proudly supporting the military and the families. For over 75 years. Ive slain your dreaded dragon. For saving the kingdom what doth thou desire . My lord . Hey good knight. Where are you going . 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A rock and roll hall of fame legend. Grammy award winner. Cofounder of the soul foundation. John bonn jovi. Thank you. When you havent serve nd the military and decide to serve veterans, you have to take on the mission with a purpose that instills pride in those who have worn the uniform. This is what my mom and dad taught me as they both served in the marines. Its a powerful promise and one that bradly ferguson embraced at 14. Many of us li