every day people each changing the world in their own way. these are the extraordinary men and women we honor as cnn heroes, but tonight we salute the not so everyday individuals who are dedicated to doing the same. celebrities and public figures making a difference by shining a light on important issues and working to find solutions. >> right here. >> everything will be better. >> chef jose andres feeding those in need.

sean penn responding to international disasters. >> we watched people learn they matter. they can make a difference. >> reporter: mila kunis organizing support for her native country, ukraine. and glenn close, break down the stigma surrounding mental health. don lemon and dr. sanjay gupta join us as we recognize the humanitarian work of those who are using their star power for good. ♪ going to be brighter days, brighter days ♪ >> this is "cnn heroes salutes." i'm erin burnett. for more than 15 years we have celebrated remarkable individuals as cnn heroes. these so-called ordinary people work every day without access to fame or power, and they do it to make the world a better place. well, tonight we're doing something a little different. for the next hour we'll be featuring celebrities who are

taking action on issues close to their hearts, whether helping people in war torn ukraine, destigmatizing mental health or responding to global disasters, these public figures are using the power of their platforms to help those in need. kicking us off is chef jose andres. this culinary innovator has built an empire of restaurants across the united states and beyond. but in the last dozen years he's given away millions of meals through his non-profit, world central kitchen. and now whenever disaster strikes, earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, even school shootings, andres and his team mobilize bringing hot meals where they're needed most. in february after russia invaded ukraine andres and his organization also pushed into new territory, operating for the first time in a war zone. don lemon caught up with andres to find out more about his passion to serve others. >> i'm here in the southern

border of poland. you're going to see people don't stop arriving. they are bringing children. it's freezing cold. for us coming to ukraine was coming to the border in poland but we realized we could do more. that's when we came into ukraine to start partnering. >> the couple weeks i was in ukraine you were in and out, back to america, other places. you're still there as of this interview i'm doing now. >> we're here north of chernihiv. we have some bags of food. >> how do you find the time and the energy and the commitment and the will power to go to the front lines of catastrophes and run businesses at the same time? >> because in my business i have

amazing individuals. they know how to run my company. they know how to run the restaurants, and i can dedicate myself to things that i believe are very important, too. we have a team of over 7,000 people across 200 cities in ukraine. boots on the ground. they make decisions on the fly. they're empowered to make those decisions, and at the end of the day that's what i'm learning that emergencies can only be run with people that are local, that know their situation, that you empower them to be successful. >> a lesson andres says he learned after the deadly earthquake in haiti, his first time in the field. >> chronic hunger in the middle of an earthquake.

it was the moment that i decide not to be in the comfort of my home watching the news on tv. it's one moment i began seeing big problems actually have very simple decisions, very simple solutions. you send doctors and nurses, you send emergency experts w. when you need to feed people who do you think are the best people to feed people in emergencies? >> world central kitchen was born during their trip and has been filling the void in government response to catastrophes ever since. >> we're going through very high water. it's the only way to be delivering food. we have here around 1,000 meals. >> once on the ground andres and his intrepid wck team partner with local volunteer chefs. >> how many people do you have

here? >> 300-plus. >> we're able to respond quickly why because we use local restaurants, local food drives and we support them with logistics and money. this way we can do it. >> how do you decide where to go? >> how do we decide? we don't decide. the events decide for us. where we're going in many ways was the beginning of what world central kitchen is becoming. >> the team fine tuned their operation when hurricane maria decimated puerto rico in 2017. >> puerto rico was very important because we show up, and first day we did 1,000 meals in one restaurant. we went from one restaurant to more than 36 restaurants. we are doing 150,000 meals a day, almost 4 million meals. >> evolving over the last 12

years from grassroots volunteers to one of the most highly respected humanitarian organizations in disaster relief. you're all over the world, but i just remember here in the united states during the pandemic what a huge role you played. >> i cannot believe that i opened this place 27 years ago and that today it's closed. >> in march 2020 as states ordered public spaces closed andres converted nine of his acclaimed restaurants in washington, d.c. and new york city into community kitchens. >> i'm going to open on the site. people will be able to stop for pickup right in the back entrance. my challenge is how we can keep nimble as we grow old, but it's

still keeping the spirit of being fast. we've been in the last few days alone in bangladesh, unfortunately after the shootings in buffalo, in texas. >> andres' incredible drive and resilience is captured in a new documentary aptly called "we feed people" directed by ron howell. >> i was fascinated by how he instigated this amazing program, and in a short period of time grew it into something so substantial, so meaningful. also the spirit of the organization. he's problem solving challenges. and then his personality. he's charismatic. he's funny. >> here we are cooking from home

because when we cook together, we thrive together. >> honestly before any of my friends ever meet my dad i'm usually already saying sorry because who knows what he's going to do. he's just very unpredictable. like he's not embarrassed of who he is. >> to this day i remember the many aromas coming out of my mother's kitchen in my house. >> how do you balance your professional and personal life? >> i came as an immigrant. i love the country i came from, spain. for me as a cook i fit the field. but it's an opportunity to fit the many in a very difficult time. my daughters believe in that. they join me at times, and they understand that sometimes we're not together as much as we should. but they do understand that if we want to fix the big problems

we have around the world, eventually all of us, we're going to have to show up. >> does it ever get too dangerous for you or your crew? >> jose, it's good to see you. first of all, how's everybody who's working at that facility? >> we keep assessing i'd say hour by hour. >> we got a kitchen destroyed by a missile in kharkiv. the men and women of that restaurant they did not stop cooking. why are we here? because i have a feeling that everybody wants to be here. not all can come, but the few of us that can, we are. >> what he's done is really nothing short of extraordinary. like the red cross, it's on that global scale.

>> in his own way in my mind he's a kind of asu super hero. >> how do you feel about people calling you a hero? >> i'm not a hero. there's more than 7,000 people making this happen. we came from world central kitchen on that front i'm super proud. we're here to motivate people, and we're seeing this brings people together and doesn't solve any problem but at least sends a message of love, we care, we're here for you, and you're not going to go through this alone. >> chef andres and world central kitchen say they have served up nearly 70 million meals worldwide. to donate to the organization and learn more about everyone you'll meet tonight go to c

cnnheroes.com right now. coming up -- >> next thing i knew i was in the tunnel of a railroad track with a train coming and i just couldn't get up. >> dr. sanjay gupta gets to the core of actor sean penn's humanitarian work aiding communities in the face of crisis. >> i have gotten a front row seat to what heroism is.

welcome back. on january 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck haiti, devastating its capital city porto prince. the tremor lasted just 35 seconds but the impact on the nation, the poorest in the western hemisphere, was profound. more than 220,000 people died. more than 1.5 million were left homeless. donations poured in from around the globe, and thousands of volunteers came to haiti to help. among them actor and director sean penn. the experience led him to start a disaster response organization along with aide worker anne lee. dr. sanjay gupta sat down with them to find out how their work

has evolved since those early days. >> a magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked the poorest most disaster prone nation in the western hemisphere. >> this is going to be a catastrophic disaster. >> focus shifts from search and recovery to making sure the people who survived tuesday's earthquake survive the aftermath. >> coming over here to give you an idea what's happening. >> it's hard for me to believe still that haiti was over 12 years ago now -- >> it's where you and i met. >> they say hey you and i say hey you back. hey you. you're just the age of my daughter. >> sean penn, a bonified movie star with a film career spanning four decades is there with me in the rubble. >> this was a river by itself at the time, and then it would flood over, go through the bottoms of these tents. >> haiti is also where he met anne young lee who already lived and worked there, one of the

poorest countries in the world, years before the devastating earthquake. >> very quickly anne became my mentor in that world of development and disaster relief. >> anne already had years of experiencing managing large scale humanitarian responses. how did that first interaction take place? >> with so much love. >> i think significantly in most peoples minds in haiti at the time the actor who what the hell was he doing here, and what was he going to have of value added? i would say no one or no face i saw in those early days occupied more skepticism than the one sitting next to me. >> do we have the baby number posted anywhere? >> i was skeptical because we'd seen so many people fly down, take photos and then leave, and it was really disheartening. but this one stayed and was in a tent for nine months, you know, right on the place where we had

60,000 people displaced. >> i'll admit my idea was to be there for two weeks. the next thing i knew i was in the tunnel of a railroad track with a train coming and i just couldn't get off. >> he comes in as an outsider and came in and said why aren't we bringing people outside of the camp and returning them back home? i have this idea it's like the greenhouse. what the hell is this greenhouse approach? but it was genius. it was essentially how do you attract people to go back home? >> that's the priority to be able to do that, to provide clinics and education and hopefully ultimately jobs. >> from there it was a huge amount of collaboration and scheming to make things happy together. >> born in haiti, sean and anne cofounded core, a non-profit that stands for community organized relief effort. a team of 1,500 staff and volunteers with one mission bring immediate aid and recovery

efforts to underserved communities across the globe. >> i had a great teacher who told me in junior high school the rugged individualists are all either dead or in prison. the rest of us are out here trying to work with each other. >> you got to work with each other. how does it work between you guys and core? you're watching something on tv, it's unfolding. what happens next? >> well, usually either anne will get a text from me or i'll get a text from anne. and it'll have the name of a place that likely we both would have heard is suddenly is in some kind of immediate peril that we feel our skill sets as an organization would be adaptable to. >> core skill sets have been adaptable time and time again. >> hurricane matthew battering the florida coast with 124 mile

per hour winds. >> florence is far from done with this area and much of the this area surrounding us. >> puerto rico humbled by hurricane maria which made landfall. >> some of the nations overwhelmed by coronavirus, a wave of new cases and a critical shortage of supplies. >> when it came to covid in the united states we sat down afterwards july 2020 and you were ramping up testing sites. >> you need to have a huge volume of people tested, and trying to rely on the existing infrastructure is just not possible. >> now more than 6 million tests have been administered, ramped up vaccines when vaccines were available. now close to 3 million vaccines have been administered in the united states and around the world. we spent $4 trillion a year on health care in the united states, and yet we needed "core" to come fill the gaps. what should people take away from that? >> it's scary. we've always focused on the

reality that every disaster is just really uncovering the long-term disaster that's been sitting there, and that social inequality, they're at the heart of everything that we do. just watching what's happened in our lack of health care systems and even now. there's still neighborhoods where we're covering the cost of the uninsured to get tested. >> for sean and anne, crises know no bounds, whether it be an earthquake, a hurricane, a global pandemic or a war. >> the fate of ukraine is being decided right now. russian forces gathering for what is now expected to be an assault on the capital. >> in the case of ukraine as in the case of haiti, initially, it was us coming and saying, hey, we think we can help. right now they're in the fight of their life. >> since russia invaded ukraine on february 24th, "core" has placed their resources in neighboring countries. in order to respond to the critical needs of those fleeing,

"core" setup teams in poland and romania. they offered urgent goods such as cash assistance, food, hygiene kits and baby supplies. do you think of your work as heroic? >> i think that i have gotten to have a front row seat to what heroism is. when i was walking back over the border after the trip during the invasion, into poland and almost every car that was lined up and almost every adult person was a woman with one more multiple children who had no interest in leaving their husbands who both by choice and also by mandate had to stay in the country from

18 to 60. you know, what's a hero? i've never felt particularly brave in my entire life, but, you know, if your eyes are open, if your heart's open, boy, it's not hard to find it in this -- in this world. >> sean and anne have found more heroes. they lie in the hundreds of "core" staff and volunteers also on the front lines. >> and we saw that in covid. when we started we didn't know how scary or how bad it was, and we never had a shortage of volunteers who wanted to put on that crazy hazmat with the goggles, gloves and everything, not knowing what that meant, how much they would be exposed if they would get sick, what that would mean, bringing it home to their families. we never had a shortage of people who came to raise their

hands to say i'm in this, we're going to do this. >> the young leaders that came up became, you know, the cutting edge of "core." we watched people learn that they mattered, that they can make a difference. so i hope to be proudest of what we built and that in the next ten years i'm going to be watching some of those people become senators and -- and other things that might matter more. senators are going to have to learn how to work with each other, but these guys already do. >> at a recent event "core" raised more than $2.5 million for its humanitarian response in ukraine. and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy thanked the organization for its efforts. to donate to "core" and learn more about all the organizations featured tonight go to

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welcome back. since the russian invasion in february, roughly one-third of ukrainian citizens have been forced to abandon their homes, and more than 5 million have sought refuge in other countries. for actor mila kunis the tragedy hit close to home. she was born in ukraine and it impacted her deeply compelling her to take action. i caught up with kunis to hear how she's supporting those affected by the conflict through her stand with ukraine campaign. >> there are big explosions taking place. >> this place is completely

destroyed. what happened here is horrible. >> when russia launched its war on ukraine in late february, ukrainian born actress mila kunis did her best to avoid the images of her homeland being ripped apart. >> i don't do well with imagery. i try to avoid it because it makes me feel really hopeless instead of, like, inspiring me to do change. but it was unavoidable. >> raising temperatures with no food, no water, no bathroom, with little children. >> what kunis was seeing and reading triggered an immediate change in how she viewed herself. >> i came to the states at 7 1/2, so when people would ask me where are you from i would always say russia because when i came it was still the ussr. war starts and instantly i found myself being, like oh, i am not russian. i am ukrainian who speaks russian. and i turned to my kids and i

was like you are ukrainian. you are not russian. >> those children with husband ashton kutcher are part of why kunis knew she had to do something fast. >> as a mother any time you see children in any facet of harm it is indescribable pain because all you want to do is help a child. >> did you know immediately what you were going to do? >> no. no. i think it was like two, three days went by. once i realized this thing is not going to end tomorrow, i could wrap my head around the refugee situation and getting supplies into the country. and i knew my husband and i could facilitate that. >> within a week kunis and kutcher had a plan and a goal. >> we need to get housing and get supplies and resources into the area. >> so ashton and i have decided to match up to $3 million worth of donations to airbnb.org and flexport.org through gofundme.org in an effort to raise $30 million. please go to gofundme, find our

page, donate what you can. >> they wanted to raise $30 million to pay for shipping supplies and for temporary homes for refugees. how did you get all that together so quickly? >> man, oh, man, did i marry up. i have an incredible partner who never once questioned my gut, and he has the same morals that i do. >> those morals required the fund-raiser be accessible to average people. working with gofundme made that possible, and for kunis and kutcher, partnering with a proven fright company, flexport, meant all donations would be used as intended. >> they had already done due diligence to make sure those n dprngos with the right people, stuff was going into the right hands. >> we have raised over $20 million. >> we just want to say that we

hit our goal. >> over $30 million raised. >> over 65,000 of you donated. >> that's 1.2 million people that are being reached by the shipments minutes by flexport and this number will continue to increase. >> all your donations can provide to 35,000 refugees. >> the effort caught the attention of ukraine's president, volodymyr zelenskyy, who reached to kunis and kutcher for a video call. >> it was very mart. there was no chat. it was get down to business who do you know this, can you call this person, connect with this person? it was fortunate i feel like our rolodex is really fat, and that is probably one of our super powers we can get one of the people on the phone. >> the cupt met zelenskyy

earlier in kyiv and left that meeting believers. >> sometimes you meet a magical unicorn and you go i hope you succeed because you're a normal, nice human being who has the best intent. >> it will take more than best intentions for ukraine to continue its fight and to rebuild towns marked by bullets, littered with destroyed buildings and missing residents killed in the war like this man's stepson. >> translator: he dreamed of a house, a car, he dreamed of living on. >> how do you -- how do you go from here to what the next steps are for you philanthropically in such a chaotic and disastrous situation? >> there's a two-part solution to this. one is get the public involved. right, if you feel like you donated $5, $2, $10 you feel like you have a vested interest in your donation. part two we are doing and forever do that we don't talk

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welcome back. in the united states nearly 1 in 5 adults lives with mental illness. that's more than 52 million people. but fewer than half of them get

treatment. one major reason for that is stigma, a fear that others will think less of you or discriminate against you if you admit you have mental health concerns. that's exactly what actor glenn close is working to change. when her younger sister jesse was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, close realized fear can prevent people from seeking live saving treatment. so in 2010 she and her sister started bring change to mind, helping people realize mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. >> i've always said mental health is a family affair. when my sister jess came to me and said i need help because i can't stop thinking of killing myself, it was like a bolt out of nowhere. our family had no vocabulary for it. we didn't really understand it. we never talked about it. now we know that she had bipolar

disorder. when you look back i saw evidence of jesse's mental distress when she was very young. she would rub her fingers like this, you know, when she was anxious until it was raw, sometimes bleeding. and now that would be a major red flag. >> you face a stigma that can be as painful as the disease itself. >> we have over the last ten years learned a tremendous amount about stigma, about how toxic it is. her son was diagnosed with schizophrenia. >> i've been living with schizophrenia for 11 years. >> we have found that the best way to start ending stigma is to start talking about. >> it's time to talk about mental illness. start the conversation and pledge to end stigma. >> when he came out of the hospital he lost all his friends, and they never came back. the stigma is the trickiest to change.

i remember when i was little cancer was the terrible word. if you had cancer you had the big stigma right there on your forehead. well, now i think mental health needs that same normalization. we need to talk about our mental health as easily as we talk about our physical health. and we need to get funding for it on every level. they ten years ago decided to help me start bring change to mind with am help of wonderful friends. bring change to mind is a wonderful non-profit organization that fights the stigma that surrounds mental illness. >> it's hard to talk because i have to because no one else does. >> it seems simple but it takes courage, and it takes a lot of support. we are empowering people to have the courage to talk about and to seek help. >> you're thought going crazy. >> you're not alone. >> i don't know how it feels.

>> i don't have the right word. >> we have created clubs in high schools now across the country where kids are empowered to talk about it. >> you can talk to me whenever. cool? >> cool. >> bring change to mind now reaches 12,000 young people from 30 u.s. states, and this spring they brought together their clubs for student summits across america. >> i've been struggling with mental illness from a really young age. it was just something as a latina wasn't really talked about in my family, so i really started to connect with "bring change to mind" and i can definitely see a change in just how those conversations go with my family members and how i can not only help them but help them help me. >> it's a chronic illness. it's not who you are. it's something because we have this amazing wondrous whereby fragile brain that's part of

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welcome back. while cnn heroes are every day people changing the world many celebrities to often share a

passion for the same causes have been motivated to join forces with them. over the years famous supporters have enabled our heroes to expand their work in ways they couldn't have imagined. and some have even been so inspired that they've gone the extra mile. one of them is actor gerard butler. >> please join me in honoring cnn hero and i'm proud he's a fellow scotsman. >> i was actually a little star struck when i met him. this is an organization my mother has been telling me about. mary's meals is such a wonderful organization, i wish you'd get involved. >> he followed up by vizzsitings in scotland and we've been friends since then. >> the first trip was to liberia. >> liberia has huge needs. so many children out of school. >> magnus started mary's meals

with the mission to serve one nutritious meal a day at school to the world's poorest children. >> we're meeting the immediate need for food, but we're tackling the underlying causes of poverty by getting them into the classroom. 5 plus 9. 14, yeah. >> it's been incredible watching gerard in action. >> how do we spell lion? rawr, rawr. >> he's a man with a huge heart. >> ever since that visit to nigeria we decided to do it again. even just climbing up to one of the villages we visited was hard and, you know, just thinking about those people who are carrying that food up there every day.

>> i remember going to one school and we went just before lunch, and they were tired. then they had lunch, and oh, my god it was like different people. energy. laughing, he's like my brother and he's developed this incredible organization. >> mary's meals is now feeding more than 2 million children in 20 countries. >> the real beauty of it is watching these children grow and becoming the people they are meant to be. >> thank you. >> thank you, aunt mary. >> she returned to her family home in malawi into a school for or fan children.

>> these children understand that education is a way out of poverty. >> we need lots of nurses. >> reporter: since then, marie has expanded the jack ran da foundation, the school and its programs with a little help from madonna and her nonprofit, raising malawi. she has a special connection to the country through her work and her adopted children. like marie, she and her organization are helping improve children's lives. when raising malawi built a specialized children's hospital, some of marie's students painted murals and danced at the opening ceremony. >> it's an honor to be here. i heard about it and i was very, very, very interested in the art work on you did. >> she said she would help us with paying our art teachers and buy us art supplies and provide us with music instruments. and really we did not expect that she would come up and say i'm going to build you a dance studio.

>> this place really holds a special place in my heart, and the founders are so passionate about what you do. >> when she came to open the dance studio, it was really fun. she was dancing with the kids, singing with the kids. ♪ >> what the arts do is they help the kids academically. who wants to go to college? >> me. >> they overcome trauma, they overcome grief. they're able to empower themselves, feel good when they're dancing, feel good when they're singing. ♪ >> when you give the kids the tools, anything can happen. ♪ >> she's delivered thousands of babies, and that is why they call her ebu. >> in 2011, midwife robin limb

became cnn hero of the year. before presenting the award, christy turlington burns traveled to bali to meet her examines first hand her work with a foundation. >> i had heard about her before we had the opportunity to meet. she's just so committed to that idea of gentle birth, of loving birth, of a transformative birth experience for all. >> you're the one that kept me up all night, yes. >> it's a very busy clinic and birthing center and community. >> big baby. >> she got to meet the people here in bali. we had a great connection. and that connection continued. >> reporter: because christy and robin have a shared vision. >> i founded every mother counts in 2010, really, after having had my own personal post-partum complication. it's focused on making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every

mother everywhere. >> reporter: today, 830 mothers will die on earth, and those deaths are largely preventable. our mission is to take care of all of these mothers and their babies, and to give them the support they need. >> at the foundation, nurses and midwives are available 24/7, and all services are free. >> translator: for the poor, we are the only place they can call on. >> every mother counts has supported the foundation since we first met in 2011. we first were able to support the building of a laboratory to test mothers for hiv/aids. throughout the years we were able to provide emergency funding, support. in the l.a. few years we've been able to provide unrestricted funding. >> christy helps to make sure all six of our locations stay open. >> birth is an incredibly life-affirming event when things go well. that's what gets her the energy to make sure that families have

access to her kind of care and love. >> so proud of you. >> thank you. >> individuals like robin are models in how to live a life of purpose and how to really contribute to this world. >> i was literally sitting in my trailer at the office, and i was looking at the cnn website and they had the cnn heroes. i think it was the first year. and i saw this story on this guy, aaron jackson. >> rainn wilson was inspired by aaron's story in 2007. >> this is a young kid from florida, grew up on a golf course. he went traveling. he saw poverty and he decided to just devote his life to making the world a better place. >> reporter: aaron cofounded the nonprofit planting peace. it started by opening orphanages and deworming dmirn haiti. >> the average worm para site,

it costs one penny to deworm a child. >> reporter: rainn traveled with him to haiti. >> i took him around the different villages. >> you broke my wrist, look. >> he helped us hand out medication. >> so many kids can be eating their fill, but because they're so filled with worms, they're unable to adjust to the process of that food, so it's a waste. >> you see a kid that's highly anemic, not alert at all. once you remove them of worms, they come back to life. >> we can all look at the nature of aaron ice sacrifice and what he's done to be of service to the world. >> it's been great to be able to help out aaron jackson by the doing fundraisers. >> because of people like rainn wilson, somewhere there are 23 million children around the world. one of our missions right now is helping ukraine refugees. we housed over 300 refugees and right now we just opened up a dog rescue.

rainn not only give us a nice donation, but he has put us in contact with important people that have helped us further our mission. >> okay. all right. au voir. >> to see aaron jackson who's just devoting his life to being of service to the betterment of humanity, it inspired me to step up my game and try and do more to help the world. >> ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to present cnn hero. >> in 2010, anarata was named the cnn hero of the year. after meeting her, demi moore traveled to nepal. >> so with your life to be here. >> reporter: to see her tireless efforts to save thousands of girls and young women from sex trafficking. >> so how is it that she ended

up being trafficked? >> she had gone for shopping in the city for her brother. and then she never returned home. >> reporter: through her organization, mighty nepal, she provides a safe haven, a home where survivors and those who are vulnerable can go to school and learn a skill. they also receive medical care, counseling, and love. by helping to raid brothels, her organization rescues women ask girls. >> now they will go with us to the transit, have food, and then they will travel back to nepal. >> reporter: an important part of her work is to raise awareness in remote parts of the country. [ speaking foreign language ] >> we need to hear their stories. we need to know that they're not just a statistic. >> before i came to nepal, i had given up hope. but now i know i have the courage i can do something for myself and i can take care of my child. >> the incredible beauty was in

seeing what anarata, herself a survivor of domestic abuse, the power of a survivor-led organization. it just continues to deepen my commitment and i look at you and just how tirelessly you work, your dedication, and the effort that it takes, really, to really fight this. >> when you see that pain, that keeps you going. we still have to live in the hope that one day we will end it, one day we will end it. >> mighty nepal has helped saved tens of thousands of girls from trafficking. by the way, christy turlington burns partnered with another cnn hero. to see that story and learn more about everyone you've seen tonight, or to donate directly to any of their organizations, just go to cnnheroes.com. while you're there, please tell us about someone in you are community who is making a

difference by nominating them to be a cnn hero. that's our salute to those using the power of their platforms to help others. thank you so much for watching. and good night. ♪ ♪ imagine what it was like back when the rolling stones could shock parents everywhere. my, how times have changed. >> i see hustling. i see killing. that's what i rap about. >> you can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto up out of me, dog. >> it's a tough time to grow up in. and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect the angst. >> i learned how to write for myself, and it's pretty ironic that most people related to it. >> boom, there it is, platinum record. >> country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. >> the honeymoon's over. now we're getting down to real commerce. >> aren't these girls just crazy?