We just want to adopt a donkey backstage. Theyre so cute. Now, do not go away. We have more to come. Coming up next, powerful performance by andy grammar, the kids from ps Staten Island 22. And we will announce our 2019 cnn hero of the year. Somebody is about to get 100,000. Stick around. Cnn heroes, an allstar tribute is proudly sponsored by subaru. Love, its what makes subaru subaru. elderly man 1 ill be alright. man ok. elderly man 1 ok. man ok george, see you again soon. elderly man 2 bye bye. elderly man 3 ah dell, and you brought the family this time vo it feels good to help those in need. You can choose meals on wheels to get two hundred and fifty dollars from subaru when you get a new subaru, like the all new outback. vo 2 get 0. 9 on a new outback during the subaru share the love event. My skin hurt, i felt gross. But then i started cosentyx and i havent really had to think about it. Real people with psoriasis. Look and feel better with cosentyx. 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Our final guest, a song about perseverance and love. Please welcome me in joining proud supporter of the Justice Center that works to end violence against women and girls. Multiplatinum performing artist, andy grammar performing dont give up on me joined by the Staten Island ps22 chore rus directed by greg steinberg. I will fight i will fight for you i always do until my heart is black and blue and i will stay i will stay with you well make it to the other side nik nik like lovers do and ill reach my hands knute out into the dark and wait for our hands to interlock ill wait for you ill wait for you because im not giving up im not giving up no not yet even when im down to my last breath even when they say theres nothing left so dont give up on im not im not give willing up no not me even when nobody else believes im not going down that easily so dont give up on me and i will hold i hold onto you no matter what we go wont shake me loose and ill reach my hands out in the dark and wait for yours to interlock ill wait for you ill wait for you because im not giving up im not giving up yet even when im down to my last breath even when they say theres nothing left so dont give up on im not giving up im not giving up giving up no not me even when nobody else believes im not going down that easily so dont give up on woo oh ohh ohh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i will fight i will fight for you i always do until my heart is black and blue were just 30 seconds away from announcing the 2019 cnn hero of the year Walter Mcmillan is to face death by electrocution. Sit down, young man. Sit down. He didnt do nothing wrong. Sit down. Not if youre going to kill my dad for no reason. I know you didnt kill rhonda morrison. What they did to you is completely illegal. Your life is still meaningful. And im going to do Everything Possible to keep them from taking it. Just mercy receipted pg13. See the full trailer online. Its time for us now to reveal our 2019 cnn hero of the year. In addition to the 10,000 theyve already won, each top ten hero will also receive free organizational training from the annenberg foundation, a leading supporter of nonprofits worldwide. In los angeles theyll participate along with the board member of the annenberg board member customized version of the Alchemy Program that offers Leadership Development for longterm success. Its the eighth year of cnns collaboration with the annenberg foundation. We gave you the opportunity to vote for the hero that inspires you the most. The hero with the most votes will receive an additional 100,000 to continue their lifechanging work. All right. [ applause ] ready . All right. Ladies and gentlemen, the 2019 cnn hero of the year is Freweini Mebrahtu so dont give up [ cheers and applause ] dont give up on me [ cheers and applause ] dont give up on me [ applause ] thank you. Thank you so much. I dont even know what to say. Im so humbled and grateful for cnn to do this recognition for me. This is for all of the girls and women everywhere. Dignity for all. Dignity for all girls, finally period is getting this moment. I so much appreciate it. This moment is not just for me. This moment is for every girl. We have not spoken this thing we say period for a long, long time everywhere in this world. And i truly, truly appreciate for cnn being the voice for all of us to be heard loud and clear. Dignity for all. [ cheers and applause ] congratulations. Congratulations. [ applause ] thank you. What an honor. What a beautiful girl. Thank you. What a night this has been. The world is filled with great people who make it better every single day. You can support all our honorees by going to cnnheroes. Com and donate. Each donation will be matched dollar for dollar. If you know someone as amazing as tonights honorees, you can nominate them to a cnn hero in 2020 right now. We hope these stories inspired you to do your part because you, too, can be somebodys hero. Thank you very much. Good night. So dont give up on me so dont give up on me [ applause ] so dont give up on me so its a time of enormous turmoil. Shut up in here the 60s are over, dad. Heres michael at the foul line. A shot. Good we intend to cover all the news all the time. We wont be signing off until the world ends. Isnt that special . Any tool for human expression will bring out both the best and the worst in us and television has been there. They dont pay me enough to deal with animals like this. People are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. We have seen the news, and it is us. Slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. The 1980s will be upon us. And what a decade it is coming up. Happy new year as we begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, nine out of ten people watching only one of three networks. More than 30 Million People are addicted to it. Social critics are mystified by its success. What is it . Its televisions primetime prairie pot boiler dallas. A move like that will destroy all of ewing oil and ruin our family name. I assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. Brother or no brother, whatever it takes, ill stop you from destroying ewing oil. Dallas established new ground in terms of a weekly onehour show that literally captivated america for 13 years. Dallas is a Television Show which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, j. R. Ewing as a pop phenomenon. Tell me, j. R. , which slut are you going to stay with tonight . What difference does it make . Its got to be more interesting than the slut im looking at right now. He was such a delicious villain. Everyone was completely enamored by this character. At this point, so many people were watching television that you could do something so unexpected that it would become news overnight. Whos there . [ gunshots ] the National Obsession in 1980 around who shot j. R. Its hard to imagine how obsessed we all were with that question. But we were. Who shot j. R. Is about as ideal a cliffhanger as you possibly could get. Who did shoot j. R. . We may never get the answer to that question. I mean, the people who produce that program are going to keep us in suspense for as long as they possibly can. We shot j. R. , and then we broke for the summer. Then coincidentally the actors went on strike, and it delayed the resolution, and it just started to percolate through the world. I remember going on vacation to england that summer and thats all that people were talking about there. Well, we know you dont die. I mean, you couldnt die. We dont know that. Well, how could you die . You couldnt come back next season. Thats what i mean. I couldnt come back, but the show could still go. But you wouldnt. What is that show without j. R. . Well, thats what i figure. Well, i guess if you dont know by now who shot j. R. , you probably do not care, but last night some 82 million americans did and they swatwatched the mu touted dallas episode. It could become the most watched Television Show ever. Who shot j. R. Is a reflection of oldfashioned television. Its a moment that gathers everybody around the electric fireplace, which is now the television set. One special American Television program. Critics said it transcends in popularity every other american statement about war. And Something Special happened today to mobile Army Surgical hospital 4077 that will touch millions of americans. It was the kind of eeventd event that would grab the worlds breath. The end of the korean war. The Television Version m. A. S. H. Its been an honor and a privilege to have worked with you. And im very, very proud to have known you. There were those landmark times when shows that had been watched through the 70s and into the 80s, like m. A. S. H. Had its final episode. And we were all sad to see them go. Ill miss you. Ill miss you. A lot. All over the country, armies of fans crowded around Television Sets to watch the final episode and to bid m. A. S. H. Farewell. The finale of m. A. S. H. Was unprecedented. 123 Million People watched one Television Program at the same time. You know, i really should be allowed to go home. Theres nothing wrong with me. When we ended the show, we got telegrams of congratulations from Henry Kissinger and ronald reagan. The size of the response and the emotional nature of the response that we were getting was difficult for us to understand. Who shot j. R. And the last episode of m. A. S. H. Are the last call for the precable world of television. Its like they are the last time that that huge audience will all turn up for one event. All right. Thats it. Lets roll. Hey. Lets be careful out there. Dispatch, we have a 911. Armed robbery in progress. When quality does emerge on television, the phrase too good for tv is often heard. One recent Network Offering that seems to deserve that phrase is hill street blues. Hill street is one of the changing points of the entire industry in the history of tv. We had all watched a documentary about cops and had this real handheld in the moment quality that we were very enamored of. The minute you looked at it, it looked different. It had a mood to it. You could almost smell the stale coffee. We didnt want to do a standard cop show where, you know, youve got a crime, and youve got your two cops. And you go out and you catch the bad guy, and you sweat him, and he confesses, and thats it. Cops have personal lives that impact their behavior in profound ways. Well, what about it . Is he here, or is he elsewhere . Dont get excited, counselor. Were working on it. How is this for logic . If hes not here, and if hes not elsewhere, hes lost. We didnt say that. You lost never in my entire life have i listened to so much incompetence covered up by so much unmitigated crap. Find my client, or, i swear, ill have you up on charges. There would be these ongoing arcs for these characters that would play out over five, six episodes, sometimes an entire season. And in a way, for certain stories, over the entire series. And no one had really done that in an hourlong dramatic show. These past four months, ive missed you. I had to find that out. Come home, pizza man. I think in the past, people had watched television passively, and the one thing i think we did set out to be were provocateurs. Fill out an accident report. You fill it out. What the hell is the matter with you, man . Ill tell you something, they dont pay me enough to deal with animals like this. The first thing they see is a white face, and all they want to do listen to me. It was a white man that pulled the trigger, not a black one. It was a white one it set a trend. The idea that the audience can accept its characters being deeply flawed, even though theyre wearing this uniform. I thought that was important to finally get across. Dont do it no biting we wanted to make a show that made you participate, made you pay attention. And i think that worked pretty well. And the winner is hill street blues. We got 21 nominations and we went on to win 8 emmys and it put us on the map, literally. And thats when people finally checked us out. Programming chief of one of the networks used to say to me about shows like hill street and st. Elsewhere, what the American Public wants is a cheeseburger and what youre trying to give them is a french delicacy. He said, your job is to keep shoving it down their throat until after a while theyll say, that doesnt taste bad and maybe even order it themselves when they go to the restaurant. Nice for you to join us. The success of hill street blues is a critical phenomenon and influenced everything that came after. Then you saw shows like st. Elsewhere. You know what people call this . Not st. Allegis. St. Elsewhere. A place you wouldnt want to send your motherinlaw. When it first came on, it was promoted as hill street hospital. You gave your patients the wrong antibiotics. You dont know what medications theyre on. You write the worst progress notes. Youre pathetic. Pathetic bill . What . The doctor needs you right away. Im sorry. St. Elsewhere broke every rule there was and then built some new rules. Bonnie, the blood bank called a little while ago. They ran a routine panel on that pint of blood. Tcell count was off. They would have tragic things happen to these characters. There was real heartache in these peoples lives and you really felt for them. Ive got aids . Television at its best is a mirror of society in the moment. St. Elsewhere challenged people, and they challenged you as an actor, much less the audience, to think. The stuff they gave you was extreme, and what they did, whether they were dealing with aids or having one of their main doctor characters raped in a prison. They tackled lots of difficult subjects. St. Elsewhere was run by people who were trying to stretch the medium, and in the 80s, Television Producers were encouraged to stretch the medium. Okay. Clear. the enchanted disney fine jewelry collection. With exclusive bridal styles at zales. I try to live my life on his tombstone we wrote, let the work that i have done speak for me. You gotta take it seriously. I do, i take my job very, very seriously. You gotta be detailed. You cant miss a step. We sign off, so you can sign on. The wait is over. Tmobile is lighting up 5g nationwide. While some 5g signals go only blocks, tmobile 5g goes miles. Beyond the big cities to the small towns. To the people. Now, millions of americans can have access to 5g on tmobile. And this is just the beginning. Tmobile, the first and only nationwide 5g network. A lot of people used to say, i was there. Now people say they watch it on television. Theres just a lot of excitement connected to sports in the 80s. You used to have to depend on the five minutes at the end of your local newscast. There just hadnt been enough, you know . Give us a whole network of sports. Theres just one place you need to go for all the names and games making sports news. Espn sportscenter. What happened in the 1980s is sports becomes a tv show. And what are tv shows built around . Theyre built around characters. You cant be serious, man. You cannot be serious you got the absolute mcenroe, the perfect villain. The new yorker that people loved to hate. Borg the cool swede, never giving any emotion away. What tennis really wants is to get its two best players playing over and over again in the final. Whether they are john mcenroe and bjorn borg or chris evert and martina navratilova, thats what we want to tune in to over and over and over. Oh, goodness me. Net court and three match points to martina navratilova. This man has a smile that lights up a Television Screen from here to bangor, maine. And then there is magic johnson, this urban kid from michigan, and larry bird, this guy who worked carrying trash. One plays for the lakers. The other plays for the boston celtics. Its a great story. Lakers had several chances. Heres larry bird. Jumping down the court. Magic johnson leads the attack. Look at that pass. Oh, what a show what a sweet play. When those championship games are in prime time and people are paying attention to that, television feeds into those rivalries and makes them bigger than theyve ever been before. I didnt challenge him with primitive skills. Theyre just as good as dead. Every mike tyson fight was an event because every fight was like an ax murder. When he fought michael spinks, the electricity, you could just feel watching it on tv. Here comes mike. He leads with the right hand. There he goes tyson was made for tv because there was drama. Its all over. Mike tyson has won it not a lot of Junior High School kids can dunk. Especially at 5 foot. But everybody tries now. I think. Everybody tries. I think he is starting to transcend just a sport that hes becoming something of a public figure. Michael jordan becomes the model every other athlete wants to shoot for. They want to be a brand. And thats what television does for these athletes. Turns them into worldwide iconic brands. The inbounds pass comes in to jordan. Michael at the foul line. Good the bulls win it athletes in the 80s became part of an Ongoing Group of people that we cared about. We just had an enormous pentup demand for sports, and the 80s began to provide, thank goodnes