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truth. >> reporter: there are people all over the city trying to give kids a shot at something better, whether it's pajama day or in boxing gym in inglewood. >> donovan, get on the scale. >> reporter: if it wasn't for sally hazelgrove, boys might be in the streets dodging bullets in the stead of the ring dodging punches. >> someone half tried to kill me. i try to get to the jil to avoid all the bull crap. >> keep your guard up. >> reporter: sally started this bokzing program in the church addict to give inglewood's most hard core kids a fighting shot at changing their lives and saving their neighborhoods. >> i've been working in inglewood for 15 years for at risk youth. i decided to survey them in the corners. what would get you off the block. boxing was one of the activities that they said they would like to have access to. i got trained myself. and i started grabbing them off the blocks and going to the schools and saying, give me your most dangerous poise, the ones
swiping thousands of dollars from the salvation army. but how did they do it? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." all that coming up. we begin with an american held captive in cuba since 2009. now begging president obama to personally intervene. 64-year-old alan fwroes sa gros country, quote, abandoned him after he was imprisoned for bringing communications items. joining us, jill dougherty with the latest. jil, what are you learning? >> alan gross says he's in a small cell with two other inmates. he gets about an hour a day outside in a very small courtyard. and he says other than a few phone calls and visits, he is completely isolated from the outside world. at the gates of the white house, the wife of alan gross pleads for the president to help her husband. >> please, mr. president, don't