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Vaulting into a tie for the lead at eight under par. jordan spieth is at 5 under. for more go to cnn new day.com for the latest. a special ed speechteacher founded our house. meet our latest cnn hero. >> when i was a special ed teacher i taught carpentry to high risk kids. you'd see that spark. they'd go home at nighttime and it would get erased. the tears you would see, the anguish they would go through, i saw a real need. and that's when the idea hit me. don't let them go home. we provide a residential setting

How bad it looks. it's not as bad as it seems, because god is still in control. >> bishop emanuel spearman was pastor to edward lee elmore, the man accused of murdering dorothy edwards. >> i have come to know edward in the late '70s. i pastored his home church. and his mother and i were best of friends. they didn't have a whole lot. >> one of 11 siblings, elmore's father was killed by a hit-and-run driver when elmore was two. he grew up in dire poverty. >> he had a low i.q. i was a special ed teacher so i knew that he was slow. and when i went to greenwood jail and i spoke with him, he really ...

I felt like once this come out, that ed would be free. >> gilliam said the testimony that i gave in these prior trials was false. that he made up this story to try to get better treatment for himself on his criminal sentence. >> gilliam would go on to state that the only thing elmore had ever said was that he didn't kill dorothy edwards. but diana's team also felt they needed to refute dorothy edwards' time of death which the medical examiner had placed on saturday night during the only hours elmore had no alibi. diana hired forensic expert jonathan arden. >> in my opinion the victim died in t...

>> and i think what you said before, she works for these kids in a lot of ways. yes, she works with them. but she's providing a service to them. and so this is the fear that many parents have, because their children, especially young children. and we know there are certain teachers, not all, and i've said this before, view black boys ages third grade and up as the enemy. already. and that's when they start getting tracked out. that's when they start getting put in special ed, even though they're incredibly bright. all of a sudden, their energy is violent energy and it's not just what boys do. ...

Newsreels, and spurred riots across the city freddie gray was struggling to make a life for himself here and building a long rap sheet along the way. >> he lived here toward the end of his life. he'd been here for about a year or so. came and went all the time, always said hello, seemed like a nice guy they say. never saw a sign of trouble. but the baltimore sun reports gray's life was marked by financial hardship from the very beginning. his mother and stepfather raised freddie and his siblings in a home so squalled, they won a settlement over lead paint exposure. it is an issue in older home...