. these steps will save lives. at the same time, much more needs to be done. protect civilians and to make sure that the humanitarian assistance reaches them. far too many palestinians have been killed. far too many have suffered these past weeks. and we want to do everything possible to prevent harm to them and to maximize the assistance that gets to them. and that secretary of state antony blinken this morning. right now, israeli military is giving civilians in northern gaza a six-hour window to evacuate south. it comes after israeli officials have agreed to daily humanitarian pauses after facing pressure from the white house. this morning, we have been seeing thousands of palestinians, including families with small children, streaming

through gaza city as they make their way south. the window to get out is about to close in an hour. the footing has not stopped everywhere. new video shows israeli tanks at a hospital in northern gaza. you hear the sound of explosion, heavy gunfire. hospital's director is pleading for help to evacuate doctors and patients as the fighting intensifies. >> hamas has continued to fire rockets at israeli. our team on the ground witnessed the iron dome system intercept around ten rockets over tel aviv this morning. social media videos are emerging of people injured at a hospital in gaza. at this time, cnn cannot verify if it was airstrikes. a arlette, this comes at the same time we are learning about a stark warning in a diplomatic cable delivered to administration about what contacts are saying in the middle east. what can you tell us? >> this cable speaks to the profound concern among some

american diplomats and u.s. officials about the frustration bubbling up in the arab world over the u.s.'s spr to for israel's campaign in gaza. in that cable that was object taund by our colleagues, an official in oweman working for the united states said that the robust u.s. support for israel's actions is seen as, quote, material and more culpability in what they consider to be possible war crimes. this comes as the president has been facing growing pressure since the beginning of this conflict as you have seen these dire images of the situation in gaza and the humanitarian crisis that has been playing out there. of course, there are not just concerns on the world stage, but back at home, just yesterday, president biden was in illinois and there were pro-palestinian protesters outside of his event. one audience member at the

president's event related to unions actually interrupted the president calling for a ceasefire in gaza. of course, u.s. officials refrained for calling for a ceasefire, instead pushing for additional pause toss get more aid into gaza. it comes as the president is grappling with this growing concern of not just here at home, in the arab world, about the u.s. support for israel. >> an important meeting that president biden is going to have with chinese president xi jinping next week in san francisco. such a crucial time, given the downward spiral we have seen for u.s./china relations. what couldo you know? >> reporter: yes, the date has been set for president biden and chinese president xi jinping to sit down in the san francisco ab bay area on wednesday next week. this will mark a key test for president biden as he is trying to prevent the relationship from deteriorating any further as we've seen the tensions and strains over the course of the past year. now, this meeting, aides say,

isn't expected to bring a total thaw in the relations between the u.s. and china, but aides believe the fact that the two hen are sitting down is a positive step. this will be their second meeting since president biden took office. officials at the white house say the president is ready to press xi on a number of issues, talking to about the need to restore military-to-military communications. he will bring that up with xi. also the conflicts in israel and ukraine as well as some of the issues where the u.s. and china don't see eye to eye. think about human rights and also all of the tensions surrounding taiwan. so this is shaping up to be a major consequential meeting for president biden as he is looking to manage this relationship with another superpower in the world. >> crucial meeting for sure. thank you for reporting from the white house. so we are out just a week away from a potential government shutdown. there is your favorite clock.

no clear progress how to report it. a source tells us that republican leadership is aiming to post legislative text tomorrow on the plan to avert a government shutdown. that would set up a potential floor vote on that plan as soon as tuesday. the source warns things are fluid. republicans left washington for a three-day weekend after leadership scrapped a voten a measure that would have funded the treasury and other financial agencies. the republicans were divided. >> this assessment, the house is a mess, nothing surprises me any more. speaker johnson will have to thread a difficult needle while walking a high-wire fence in gale-force winds. other than that, things are great. michael lawler serves on the foreign affairs committee. i joke, and i appreciate the laughter. at some point we have to find humor in all of this. >> it was a silent laugh. >> sorry.

lauren fox is reporting there will be bill texts tomorrow. everything is fluid. do you know what's in the -- like what's the plan? >> we have had a number of discussions this week. i don't know yet exactly what the speaker is going to put forth. my advice and, you know, opinion to this is to do a clean cr with aid to israel so we can, you know, move the ball down the field here, make sure that israel has the support that it needs in the media, and that we give ourselves more time to finish the appropriations work. obviously, governing can be messy, and when you're going through an appropriations process that has been broken over 30 years with only u bus and everything skbramd in that it takes time to pass the single

subject appropriation spending bills. there is debate even within the republican conference about the measures that are in them. but ultimately we need to get to a point to pass these appropriation bills, force the senate to do the same and conference them. you need more time. obviously, the speaker battle and fiasco that ensued over the last month wasted a lot of time on that 45-day cr. so we need to get back to, you know, the process here. we started passing bills. we did a lot of amendment work. but there is still a lot of work to do. and so from my vantage point, let's pass a clean cp, extend the timeframe a bit, get aid to israel, and focus on the real fight, which is on appropriations, the border, and, obviously, ukraine. >> okay. awed to israel. you said that a couple of times. we know where you stand ton that.

you want funding for ukraine. what the republicans have put forward so for tying that 14.3 billion in aid to israel to cuts in the irs, chuck schumer called that a non-starter. >> i think what is fascinating about the battles in washington is this. coming from a state legislature, nowhere else in america can you put forth a bill and not show how you are going to pay for it. and in washington, they just want to spend without any means to pay for it. that doesn't work. this administration increased spending by other $5 trillion in the first two years. we are facing a $34 trillion debt, national debt. republicans got elected to serve as a check and balance and to start to rein in the reckless spending. obviously, i and my colleagues support aid to israel. and i want to see that get done

as expeditiously as possible. i also support aid to crane. but you have to pay for these things. >> the hissue is can you pay wih it that something the nonpartisan cbo says -- >> you i don't -- sure, there are lots of ways. and choouchl with all due respect has spent an entire year not really doing very much out of the united states senate. so if chuck schumer has a better way to pay for for aid to israel, aid to ukraine, put it forward. i haven't seen him pass anything. >> are you opposed to anything that's not offset. >> no. my -- >> the reason i ask is because i understand what you're saying about spending. both parties would acknowledge that's the reality over several parties over decades to some degree. but you are talking about fiscal restraint. in this particular context, you would pass it if it wasn't offset? you would support it? >> i would, but, again, the

objective here is to start to break the fever in washington on spending. obviously, the appropriations process is the best way to do that. just passing supplementals adds more spending without anyoff set here. he would love to have anoff set. we passed a bill through the house. the senate has not passed anything. and so, you know, the objective is to find compromise and advance the ball forward. in the immediate, we need to pass a cr to keep the government funded and open, and, obviously, i would like to get the aid to israel as quickly as possible. >> on that issue, you recently introduced a bipartisan bill. it has an important distinction in language for the federal government. why is that necessary? >> sorry? >> on antisemitism. >> oh, the antisemitism awareness act? >> yeah. >> the antisemitism warnawarene act requires the department of education to adopt the working

definition of antisemitism to allow them to use that for enforcement cases on discrimination. we have seen a rapid rise in antisemitism on these college campuses and we need to crack down on it. this is not a free speech issue. this is hate speech. it is putting people in jeopardy and it's part of the reason why i vote today censure rasheida tlaib. chanting from the river to the sea was not aspirational. it was absolutely vial and intended to undermine israel and, frankly, call for the extermination. and that cannot be tolerated anywhere in this country. >> congressman mike lawler, appreciate your time. >> thank you. senator joe manchin says he will not run for re-election to the senate. why some think the west virginia democrat could be getting ready to launch a presidential bid. and federal law enforcement is on high alert after suspicious letters sent to

election offices across the country, some laced with fentanyl. brad raffensperger was told to look out for one of those letters. he will join us next. this is domestic terrorism and it needs to be condemned by anyone that holds elected office and anyone that wants to hold electeted office a anywhere ini americica.

federal law enforcement is on high alert this morning as public officials in multiple states, mostly election offices, have reported suspicious mail and some of those letters contained fentanyl. officials say more than a dozen letters have been reported, california, georgia, nevada, texas, washington state targeted. investigators are treating the letters as connected given the time. joining us is georgia's secretary of state brad

raffensperger. sir, we appreciate your time. you talked about this yesterday. there were a lot of details that seemed unclear. do you have more insight into the letters, who they were addressed to and what they said? >> for georgia, not yet. we have been informed by the postal officials that there is a letter in transit. so it's a three to five-day transit through their system. and so, obviously, they will try to intercept that when it comes to the atlanta processing facility. but it hasn't arrived to georgia yet. so it will be intercepted, and that's why we prepared staff at the fulton county election office, if it makes it through the system and arrives -- this is what you do and how you handle it. >> how do you know it's in -- weighs the information that lets you know it's in transit? how do officials know that? >> the postal official has some capabilities, i guess, they don't talk about much. but somehow they are tracking -- and based on other locations,

they identified another letter was, obviously, postmarked for georgia. >> and you haven't heard of any suspects or who may have sent these at this point, right? >> not at this time, no. understand from just readings that they do have identified potential suspect, but they are going to keep that close to their chest. >> more broadly, the fulton county commissioner said this is, quote, probably a forerunner for what we could see in 2024. do you think that's accurate? >> we are going to make sure we prepare all 159 counties and prepare them for events such as this. so make sure that there is narcan available for all of the election offices that do receive, you know, incoming mail, and train them in the use of that. so we will be doing that in the next election conference we have coming up in december. >> could i ask you, the idea that you need to make sure that your election officials have narcan available, would you have

expected that when you got into this job? >> no. there is a lot of things i wouldn't have expected when i got to this job. i ran just to get new voting machines with a verifiable paper ballot, and we did that. we have been thrown a lot of curveballs. this extremely distressing to think people behave this way and threaten people doing their job. >> have you seen any tangible impact? there is concern for what this means for these types of threats on poll workers, election officials, willing to do the things like you d did in 2020 that were so critical. have you seen people unwilling or not being willing to step into those jobs because of things like this? >> by and large, we are in pretty good shape in georgia. i think really because the governor and i ran for re-election, we addressed a lot of the 2020 issues and had great

conversations with people. i know still many people were disappointed. we understand that. but i think that by and large we are in pretty good shape. obviously, we could use more poll workers and election workers because, after all, when you show up to vote, if there is no one on the other side of the table, how would you be able to vote? we need pole workers. if you have any questions about the process that you don't really know if you can trust it, become a pole worker. you will have, you know, the training and understand all the checks and double checks to make sure we have security in the system. >> the former president, you talked about, there are a lot of things you didn't expect when you entered this job. some of the stuff you dealt with the former president probably qualifies in that space. i want to play something he said last night when asked about the idea of the justice department and what they have done in some of the indictments so far. take a listen. >> something that allows the next party, i mean, if somebody -- if i happen to be

president and i see somebody who is doing well and beating me very badly, i say, go down and indict them. mostly that would be, you know, they would be out of bids. they'd be out. they'd be out of the election. >> sir, the idea, you know, chris sununu said we shouldn't be surprised when the former president says stuff like that. my question, is given your experience, do you think he means it? >> i don't know as an elected official. i follow through -- i follow the constitution. and i think the voters should hold everyone accountable and make sure that the people they are voting for follow the law and the constitution. that's the number one duty. and make sure we always do what is right and always follow the law. these laws were put in place slew the legislative process, signed in law by governors or president of the united states if it's a federal law. it's important we have to lean into that. i think we also need to look at, you know, how we lead. i think we need to lead with

care, integrity, honesty, civil discussions with everyone. if we do that, that's our way back. >> georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, appreciate your time. thank you. . thank you. israel announced today's humanitarian pause in gaza will be six hours. a potential breakthrough. also, maybe for getting hostages out. and as the israel/hamas war continues, antisemitism is rising sharply in america and around the world. dana bash joins us to discuss. l

pledging to protect the jewish population from antisemitism. he made those comments at the 85th anniversary of kristallnacht, the organized violence and destruction targeting juice in nazi germany, antisemitic threats around the world and in the united states are on the rise. dana bash looks at this critical issue in a new episode of "the whole story with anderson cooper." that airs sunday night. we are so glad that you are doing and continuing to shine a light on what is happening in

this country, and as part of had episode you spoke with amba the ambassador how to come pat antisemitism. here is part of that. >> since the attack on israel, october 7th, how has your role become more vital? >> in the wake of the attack we began to see first a surge and then a spike and then an explosion and now a tsunami of antisemitism. worldwide. in paris, in london, in germany. in australia, it was gassing the juice. ge jews. let's have a jew-free zone. it's not being pro-hamas or anti-israel. it's about antisemitism. >> she was appointed because she is one of the world's foremost academic experts on antisemitism. >> you know how when the yellow

light is flashing? antisemitism is like that amber light, and what it is signaling is that antisemitism is coming and it's a threat to democracy. >> she is really sounding the alarm. what else did she tell you about how urgent this danger is? >> you know, she and others incredibly urgent. the last time we did this hour, it was in 2022, and we were trying to shine a light on the fact that antisemitism and by the way lot of experts say we should call it jew hate, not antisemitism, because that word sounds too fancy, and that's what this was. it was more latent. if you didn't know, you didn't know. now it's not. it is part of our everyday news cycle because it is so overwhelming. just some statistics blew my mind. since october 7th, poppy and

phil, the adl tracked a 388% increase, so almost 400% increase in harassment, in vandalism and violence in america against jews. and you talked about kristallnacht, and it was 85 years ago yesterday that the -- it was called the night of the broken glass. it was a concerted effort to go in and vandalize and jewish businesses and homes. part of this special, we talk to a woman who is 90. ruth steinfeld. and she remembers being in europe as a 7-year-old girl. she is a holocaust survivor. a 7-year-old girl, they came into her home and started smashing things up. now 85 years later, she is living had texas and she is as worried as an american now as she has ever been. >> dana, we saw your conversation or pieces of your conversation with ambassador lip

stat. who else did you speak to her? your last iteration of this, so many critical voices, key players. who else did you talk to? >> college students. and that is one of the biggest storylines. alarming storylines. we have been covering it on the show almost daily. and the issue is that you are seeing -- the last time we did this, it was very clearly violence 'interrupting from the right, from the hard right. the white supremacy. we did a segment on what was happening on the left, which was slow going and we got some pushback about the notion of anti-zionism being really antisemitism, meaning you could say you are against israel, but not really be full of hate for jews, and nobody pushed back on that now because of the connection to the violence here in america, the threats in america, and around the world,

specifically after october 7th. and what is happening on college campuses is very much now an explosion because of unchecked bias and, in some cases, down right prejudice on college campuses at the professorial level, student level and university presidents are starving some of them to speak out, but not enough, and that is very, very much something that we learned needs to be a part of a solution. it is really systemic at the university level, and it is a huge, huge problem that became dangerous. i spoke to a student who was at a rally, a peaceful rally, ended up getting violent. his nose was broken. >> wow. >> dana bash, thank you for being with us. can't wait to watch. everyone should watch dap a's new episode of the "whole story

with anderson cooper." it airs sunday 9:00 p.m. eastern and spask here on cnn. could 2024 be the year a third-party spoils the race? and you might know him from dropping the people's elbow on wrestlers in the ring. could he be the people's reference? that was a wwe reference. the rock may be entertaining a shotot. peoplele are talkiking to him m ththough. ththat's next.t. >> thahat's the onone sport i i.

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michigan, 19% nevada, 21 wisconsin. high teens, low-to-mid 20s across the board. that is historic. independents who polled over 20% within a year of the election, we got rfk jr., hasn't been anybody polling this high since ross perot, john anderson, and all those folks ended up with at least high/single digits if not all the way up to near 20% in the case of ross perot. >> i think george w. bush had some thoughts about ross perot. what impact could rfk have on the biden/trump matchup? >> those "new york times" polls that we spoke about earlier this week, they were such bad news for joe biden. but look at this. the biden versus trump margin without kennedy, we see trump up by five in arizona, five in pennsylvania, 11 points in nevada. you add kennedy, look at this. a tie in arizona, a tie in pennsylvania, and that lead gets cut to six points in nevada. so kennedy could be a spoiler for donald trump at least

according to this poll. of course, i will note, phil and poppy, he is not the only potential third-party candidate. joe manchin announced he is retiring from the senate from west virginia. there are thoughts of him as a no labels party candidate. 10% of registered voters said that they may in fact vote for him. this year we could end up with a major party candidate winning the race with far less than 50 and maybe less than 40%. >> that number is from even before, you know, last night happened. >> exactly. >> harry, that was so good we'd like you to hang out for a little bit long. >> oh, thank you. >> is there a bar to be invited to the table, phil? >> bring back in cnn's john avlon and cnn political analyst and vice president of the digital content at the a"the gr weekly, natasha. rfk jr., just to ask kind of the obvious, what's up with that? >> what's happening?

>> i don't mean that in a drought resistant it's fascinating. it has been consistent and not, like, a two-week thing. >> i am sure the democrats would love to dismiss this candidate. he is inconvenient. i think it's the name recognition. i think people's hunger for something else. polls told us again and again, even though we are a year out, people are not excited about the trump/biden matchup. and so maybe he evokes, you know, sort of nostalgia for an america of the past with the kennedy name. he has very interesting bag of policy proposals, raising the minimum wage, he is an environmentalist, interested in criminal justice reform. maybe for voters who were never going to vote for biden or trump, they want to throw their hat in the ring with this one. >> the third-party dream, perennial is alive and well, harry mentioned ross perot, he that's the high-water mark for third-party votes. polls show 66% of americans say

they want a third party or other option. you have potentially four under pent candidacies impacting the two-party election. bobby kennedy jr. and joe manchin, cornell west and jill stein. that takes the potential threshold of third-party candidates to an unprecedented level. and just to play this out, the downside of that third-party dream is embodied by ralph nader, 2000, florida, he gets 47,000 votes, bush wins florida by 537, ralph nader's green ticket for people who thought al gore wasn't good enough on the environment, delivered george w. bush. >> pennsylvania and wisconsin, jill stein need that difference for hilary clinton and people are still, you know, salty about that today. >> i just think it's -- the thing i should note is donald trump, you know, when he won in 2016, didn't come close to crossing the 50% threshold. what will be interesting is we could end up with a winner of this presidential election at least in the popular vote who

could get south of say bill clinton's 43% he got in 1992. we could end one a president who really doesn't have much of of a mandate from anybody given how unpopular biden and trump are. and that, let's be real, is the real reason why the third-party and independence candidates are doing, these are the two most least like major party candidates this the campaign basically ever. >> i want to play something from maybe another potential third-party candidate, maybe not. we don't know. the rock. >> 2022, i got a visit from the parties asking me if i was going to run and if i could run. >> wow. >> it's a big deal. it kim out of the blue. >> wow. >> it was one after the other. i was moved by that. the reason why i had given that response, if that's truly what the people want, of course i would consider it, and after that response that's when the parties came.

>> the rock/obama. >> very good. >> that's the energy he gives. >> the parties are not wanting -- >> listen -- >> autonomous being that approaches people to ask for things. that could mean a lot of -- i don't doubt he was approached. could of been -- >> the rock, right. >> right. >> you are going to ask a serious question now? >> look, here is why i would ask a serious question. i don't think this pertains to 2024. the reason i'm fascinated by it is because of that. people love the guy. the score i assume is positively enormous and, but the way, we have seen a celebrity win a presidency. >> and jesse ventura. >> yeah. >> ronald reagan, lest we forget. important difference that ronald reagan was a two-term governor of california before he ran for president. look, there is this fascinating perennial fascination with the rock running. and i think he is a disciplined, engaging, expressed an interest

in civic service. two things. one, it shows people are desperate for non-politicians to run. two, why historically up until donald trump that celebrities who want to run for president run for some other public office to get some chops. jesse ventura another example. arnold schwarzenegger couldn't run for president but was a two-term governor for california as well. there is a gravitational pull or trying to draw the rock in. it's a symbol of people's dissats faction, they want people outside of politics. i would like to see people if they are interested, run for another office first. >> an international example. president zelenskyy is leading ukraine through a time of war and he was a comedian. that's what he was known for. and i think when you have people who are so dissatisfied the two-party system, they are willing to try something very, very different. they figure the politician as usual, simply put, aren't working. >> great point. >> donald trump, i think,

lowered the bar for some people. never served before. if donald trump could be president, some people think the rock could be president. >> thank you, guys. stay with us. ahead, federal law enforcement this morning on high alert after the suspicious letters were september to election offices across the country. some laced with fentanyl. the latest on that investigation ahead. and the three pandas that left the united states this week are arriving in china. we will have more next.

story of the week. update on our international panda watch. giant pandas that left washington, d.c., on wednesday, they have arrived in china. my mom asked if they flew delta. their departure marked the end of more than 50 years of chinese pandas housed at the zoo. it's sad to see them go. the zoo staff called it a hiatus

and they are wildly popular panda program. chinese fishes have yet to say whether they will ever return to the zoo. another serious update. earlier this week during the show i revealed my affinity for a different species of mammal native to asia. [ laughter ] >> i have to say, david, if you don't mind, because i know how well sourced you are in china and here, potential diplomatic middle ground to be proposed. maybe we get a couple of sun bears. i am a big sun bear guy. i want to know your take on this. an astute observer of all things politics in both countries. what do you think? >> to back up my point. there are 14 zoos in america with sun bears, but two dozen of them in those zoos. that's not nearly enough in my humble opinion, if i could have one. >> that graphic was amazing. >> yeah. >> am i supposed to read this? [ laughter ] >> i'm checking out of this one.

>> 8:48. phil's love of sun bears caught the attention of the principal of a school in el paso. this is the best thing that happened this week. and that principal emailed us after the segment. >> hello, mr. mattingly. i'm the principal at don haskins pre-k 8 in the el paso independent school district. we have 1,500 sun bears here and we, too, wish there were more sun bears. [ cheers and applause ] >> how great is that? making our morning. bob haskins, hall of fame coach from texas western, was nicknamed the bear, and he el p is known as sun city. naturally, the sun bears were the perfect mascot. we actually have a panel on this now. >> look, to be clear, it was the response from the principal which is extraordinarily kind. >> she is amazing. >> and that was cool. we don't actually have a --

>> they called you mr. mattingly. >> itself, you know. >> that's big. >> yeah, no. i don't deserve it. i appreciate it. >> this seems like a very sinister evolution. don't we get to keep the pandas that are born here? >> it's a program. the irony of this is david culver, who an extraordinary reporter and has great -- this is my point, in china and here, the diplomatic ties to this that go back to nixon are very real. i think there is just -- including places like russia, and the newakis that has described. there as serious piece. i chose not to focus on it. >> but you were the >> but you were the chief correspondent. thank you for waking us up. is biden going to bring us up.

>> he mentioned that he brought the administration up, which i thought was interesting. i think this is going to come up. officials talked about this last night. they did not mention this. i did not ask. >> we also have another important update. >> that's right. she published this with me while raising her own children. now she's written her second children's book. it's not toes do this job all the time. it's really not easy to do it when you have kids. her job to do it really well and write a children's book is not only annoying but really awesome. it's called "the color of love." she co-wrote it with jared and

the story is about love in all its forms told through the eyes of a young girl. it's already available for preorder. i think it's pretty clear how you feel about this to do this. >> thank you, phil. thank you. do i have to actually admit i wrote this way before i started anchoring this show? we wrote this together. thanks for giving me the extra credit. i also raised half as many children as you and chelsea. ok, ok, as wooerd as -- but i appreciate it. this book was a pandemic baby of laura and i is such a dear, dear friend and former cnn anchor as you know, and colleague. we came together during covid and after the murder of george floyd. my own town of minneapolis. and we wanted to teach our young children and talk to them about love, not hate because there was so much focus on hate. that is had you this came to be. it was a total joy it write it with laura, and we can't wait.

we hope people have fun and gain a lot reading it with their kids. it's available may 14th. you can preorder it now. it's fun. as a former teacher, i endorse this book wholeheartedly. it's beautiful. i did read it. the images are stunning. >> it was the first book i read in years. >> congratulations. dave for you, may 14th. you can preorder it now. >> oh, i have to mention, the last book was for luka so seen in a, this sienna, this one is for you. >> harry, josh and tom, thanks, guys. we'll be right back. >> that was fun. thanks, guys!

welcome back. the top ten cnn heroes of 2023

have been announced. one will be voted cnn hero of the year by you, our viewers we will be introducing each of them over next five weeks like dr. kwani stewart. -- pets that belong to unhoused people on the streets of california. watch. >> i've seen people give up their meals for their pets. they will give me the last $3. they see me with my stethoscope and my bag. >> oh, yeah you look good. >> this dog was days away from dying. >> they share store business their dog and history. >> he makes me feel good and he loves me. i know he loves me. >> i can treat about 80% of the cases i see out of a really small bag. >> oh, that's really cool.

>> it's antibiotics. it's anti-inflammatories, flea and tick, heartworm prevention. it's all. there it's no cost to them. it's free. i'm building a network of trusted tiers, technicians -- volunteers -- with hospitals and clinics we can call on. it doesn't matter what your situation is or what your background or past is. i see a pet in need and i see a person who cares for them dearly who just needs some help. >> how great is that? you can, of course, vote for your hero. go to cnnheroes.com. by the way, you can vote as many times as you want. we'll keep introducing you to these amazing humans every week right here. >> it is friday. we are done. you should have a great weekend. just if you couldn't make our jobs more complicated for our wonderful tech and stage team, we brought a bunch of kids? >> hi, guys! packed studio. have a gre