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Heroes, an all-star tribute honoring top ten heroes, naming cnn hero of the year. right now here is an update on last year's top honoree. anderson cooper has that. >> in 17 years, chad and his team have picked up 8 million pound of trash from america's rivers. >> yeah! >> last november for inspiring work, chad picked up a big honor. >> the 2013 cnn hero of the year is chad prokraken. >> yeah. >> one year later we caught up with him to get an inside look at what he does and how heap does it. at the heart of his work is a massive 800-ton barge, stores the huge piles of trash chad's team collects...

Either old buildings, old barns. >> the goal is serious, but there is definitely quirk in this work. >> so this would be a creepy doll collection why. do we have it? i don't really know, have any idea other than we find a lot of creepy dolls. >> trash isn't all he need to look out for on the river. >> one of the safety concerns is actually the flying carp. they really do fly out of the water. high speed. they get rather big. >> yeah. >> all part of chad's work. work that also include growing trees. chad started this environmental effort in 2007, but was able to expand it after being named cnn ...