we simply have to issue the invitation. temperature rising. the president feels the heat on health care reform, and i head out to a town hall myself to get to the truth. four-letter word, vick, as in michael vick. at least to some. his second chance rub something people the wrong way. could the uproar kill his comeback? vanished, a small town in fear. who's killing women yn? cnn investigates. bought and sold. a drug war creating new, horrific ways to make money selling people. it is a michael ware special report. good evening, everyone. i'm don lemon. at first glance, it might look like a campaign rally. president obama's health care town hall today included a stomp speech, audience questions and plenty of applause lines.

but bubbling just beneath the surface is much, much more than that. a president fighting to regain his footing on his number one issue. he took some of the toughest questions he's faced so far and for the first time, he shows the kind of passion that his political opponents had been using. he talked about claims that his reform agenda includes provisions for so-called death panels for senior citizens. >> first of all, when you make a comment like that, i just lost my grandmother last year. i know what it's like to watch somebody you love who's aging deteriorate and have to struggle with that. >> even as the president forged ahead and tried to answer his critics, he acknowledged that his reform plan is not perfect. but he argued it is the best hope for helping the most people. >> the truth is, i want to be

completely honest here, there is no perfect, painless, silver bullet out there that solves every problem, gives everybody perfect health care for free. there isn't. you know, i wish -- i wish there was. i wish i could just say, you know what, we're going to change the system. everybody will get as much care as they want any time they want. everybody will have it, and it won't cost anything. and doctors will be happy and nurses will be happy, hospitals will be happy, insurance companies will still make a lot of profits, drug companies will be able to charge as much as they want. i can't do it. nobody can. >> this was one of the most fascinating town halls i have seen by the president and the people. a smart question, some of them

critickricritical of the presid none of the tempers were shouting as we have seen at health care forums in other parts of the country. i'm joined by now by three of the people who were in the audience. once is chad middleton. he's assistant professor at mesa state college. he supports the president's reform plan. bill huggingburg is a retired attorney and he's more on the fence about it. he's not sure. he says he likes some of the president's ideas on health care but not all of them. and then there's debbie shum. she's a small business owner. she's against the president's plan to reform america's health care system. thank you so much for joining us. listen, i want to talk to, let's start with debbie real quick. debbie, what is your position in regards to the question's health care forum and the plans today? did you see anything about it that you liked in all of this? >> no, i did not. as a libertarian, first of all and foremost, i'm opposed to the government intervention in it to begin with. one of the things that i find particularly offensive about this is i don't have insurance,

and i don't want insurance. there's no provision for me or people like me in this plan. >> you don't want health care insurance? >> mandatory insurance plan. >> you don't want health care insurance at all? >> i would like to have some insurance if it were affordable. in my opinion, it's insurance that has caused the problems in health care to begin with, and when we have a mandatory insurance program, this is basically a corporate welfare subsidy for insurance companies. >> yeah, you know, i hear you, debbie. i'm not exactly sure if what you're saying about this is accurate because a lot of people need health care insurance in this country. just because you don't want it doesn't mean that the millions and millions of people who are uninsured and need it, that they don't want it as well. i'm going to move on. i will let you think about that. i will go on to chad.

chad, you said you support the president's reform plans. and no one has proposed health care reform before. not even the former president has proposed that or at least has taken up this issue. the clintons did before that. so if the government doesn't come in and work on health care reform, then who's going to do it? >> yeah, that's a very good point. i do believe that the health care system is broken, and something needs to be done. i mean, the inflation rate is increasingly at a greater rate with insurance premiums over wages. and if something's not done, like the president said today, i do believe we will be going into the red, and i do believe doing something is the answer. and detail from all of these plans -- yeah, i think somebody needs to be done. >> hey, bill, did you get anything specific that might have changed your point of view today, because you said you're on the fence about it. anything that the president said that may won you over or push you back on the other side?

>> the president did not have to win me over. i'm fully supportive. >> you're fully supportive. you're not on the fence? >> oh, on the fence about specific details. they haven't been identified yet. as a result, kind of agree with both chad and debbie, that there are -- there are issue that's need to issues that need to be addressed that go beyond the jenality of today. >> we're having issues with your satellite. this is live television. it is a satellite feed. not a big deal. if the satellite goes out, we'll move on. debbie, did you have time to think about what i said? just because you don't want reform, it doesn't mean that people around the country don't want it and don't need it. do you think that's a selfish approach or a selfish attitude towards this? >> i never said that i don't want reform, but my opinion -- i think that the system is broken as well. but the approach that is being taken is not reform.

it is corporate welfare subsidies for the insurance companies. how does that fix -- how does that benefit anybody? how does that benefit me as a patient? how does that benefit my doctor? that only benefits insurance companies. and if we're to say, okay, well then we have the public option, well, as a small business owner, i have many customers all over the world, and my customers in england, who also have a mandatory insurance program there, have informed me that their national tax rate is 78%. >> yeah. >> how can -- i don't believe the president when he says that this isn't going to cost any more money. >> okay. debbie, we really appreciate you joining us. bill as well. and also -- we have debbie, bill and chad. chad, thank you very much for joining us. we had some problems with the satellite there. we're very sorry about that.

i hope it wasn't distracting but i think you all had very good points and we appreciate it. okay. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. opponents of the president's health care proposal had their say in atlanta today in a rally billed as the largest health care town hall so far. the few of 7,000 people that showed up at centennial park can be summed up by a single phrase, hands off my health care. and i was there for the rally, and i talked with two of the organizers. take a listen. >> where was the outrage five years ago, ten years ago, 15 years ago? why all of a sudden this outrage now? at least the president is trying to reform health care, so where did the outrage suddenly come from? >> don, this is the second town hall that he's done in the last week that i actually saw real americans get up and ask questions. it wasn't a preselected group. >> hang on, before you do that. real americans, that's another term that really sets people off. we're all real americans. everybody. >> anybody can get in and anybody can ask a question. you have seen a completely different tenor in -- in the town hall he held on tuesday and

today than town halls we have been seeing so far in this debate. that's what i mean by real americans. >> you know what, the whole real american thing. can we lose that? >> sure. >> everybody in this country, we're all real americans. >> absolutely. >> and that is part of the issue that really sets people off and divides people. let's get rid of that real americans. i'm real american. you're real american. conservatives, liberals, independents, poor or rich. continue your point. >> here's my point. if we're going to open this debate up and have everybody come in and put their ideas forth, virginia's absolutely right. he said it himself, this is a hard issue. so we need to -- we need to bring everybody to the table. let's hear everybody's ideas and concerns and come up with a consensus. >> all right. well the atlanta rally was sponsored by the americans for prosperity foundation, and hosted by former republican house majority leader dick armey and several conservative radio hosts. when it comes to health care, there's so much out there, so much to cover, an hour simply isn't enough. so make sure you check out

cnn.com/health care. we feature ongoing coverage of the health care debate, lace of town hall meetings from across the country and how health care reform might affect you no matter where you live. cnn.com/health care. president obama was all business at his town hall today but he's mixing work and pleasure with a visit to hold faithful. first family made a pit stop at yellowstone national park in wyoming to catch the geyser's famous show there. the president was apparently impressed. he was overheard telling first lady michelle obama and first daughter sasha and malia, quote, that was pretty cool. is there a serial killer at work in rule north carolina? local police certainly think so, and we will take you there. also, from trafficking drugs to trafficking humans. and worse. mexico's violent cartels are targeting a new market. plus this for you -- >> the one place that i never worried about was church. i never worried about him being at church. ton get a phone call that your son got shot coming out of church, it was just

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if you're worried drug trafficking is going to harm your family and your community, wait until you hear what else is spreading north of the mexican border. a report by our michael ware will floor you. plus, michael vick. he is a millionaire again and back on the field. but he's only one in a string of sports figures lately being given another chance. is it right? but, first, people are trembling behind locked doors tonight in rocky mountain, north carolina. the fear there is is that a serial killer is on the prowl, ready to strike again. all of the suspected victims are women, and their bodies dumped along a desolate stretch of rural road, and that's where cnn's david mattingly begins. >> reporter: if someone were

looking for a place to get away with murder in north carolina, edge comb county's seven bridges road might be the place to go. >> nothing, nothing but trees and pastures. >> reporter: since 2005, the remains of five women, all african-american and suspected prostitutes, have been found here among miles of woods and crops. there are any number of places where you can pull off here. like this spot right here, you can just drive off and disappear into the woods in a matter of seconds. sadly, that's what's been happening to these women. they disappear, never to be seen alive again. is this the work of a serial killer? >> yes, i believe it is. the fact that the bodies have been found close together really would argue for a serial killer. >> reporter: michael teague was once the state's top forensic psychologist and believes the killer is someone who could have a lot in common with his victim sfw s. >> their economic level, their background. again, the same race. so i think it is a person that

would fit very easily within the environment. >> reporter: all of the victims were last seen in the town of rocky mountain. we went to where they came from, an area where prostitutes work neighborhood streets. >> typically this is the area. >> reporter: but we found the streets deserted, cleared by fear. prostitutes are easy targets for killers, living fragile lives on society's fringes. still, councilman andre knight says it shouldn't have taken years for the town to take notice. is it just a matter of race, or is it possibly because of what they do for a living? >> i think it's a combination of both, because even what a person does, they still have human rights. >> reporter: a turning point in public awareness and the investigation itself was the fifth victim. hargrove, known to her friends as sunshine. friends and family publicly demanded justice. local authorities asked the fbi to assist. like the other victims, hargrove disappeared from rocky mount. her body was found in june off

seven bridges road. from the streets of rocky mount, it's only about a 15-minute drive to get to places just like this. for all practical purposes, it's the middle of nowhere, and it is where investigators say that the victims are being killed. they won't give us a lot of detail about what they're finding, but they do tell us that two of the victims were strangled. one was stabbed and beaten. three other rocky mount women who police say are not prostitutes are currently missing. the sheriff of edgecomb county calls this a critical time in the investigation, leading many to hope that this lonely country road will soon lead to a killer. >> cnn's david mattingly joins us now. david, all of these women are turning up missing, but is it really a serial killer? do police know what they have on their hands here? >> they are not using that word serial killer. that's just something that is unusual at this case. even though the experts are looking at this saying it has all of the markings of a serial

killer case, the authorities who are investigating are not willing to take that step and say it publicly. they're saying that because they don't believe they have all of the facts that they need to say yes, there's one person responsible for all of these murders. >> but they're all being found in a remote area. do they know why this area? >> this area is known as a place where prostitutes take their customers. it's only about 10, 15 minutes outside of town. they go out there. they're looking for privacy to conduct their business and this is the place where these women are being murdered. >> okay. critical time. why do they keep saying, critical time in the investigation? >> the sheriff is kaulcalling i critical time in the investigation. he said that is a reason why he doesn't want to put out any more information about what they have and don't have in this case. but they say they do have leads and they're following up on those. this is something they may not have been able to say just a few weeks ago. >> cnn's david mattingly. thank you very much for this story. thank you. a grisly new side business rises from the drug war, selling people. it is a michael ware special report. and he's back.

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some people in chicago are afraid to leave their homes. they say there is a war waging on the city streets. nearly 300 people gunned down this year alone. tonight, the people who have lost their children in the senseless violence. after meeting them, you will want to hug your own children. but, first in kuwait city, dozens of women and children are burned alive after a fire ripped through a packed wedding tent. at least 41 bodies have been pulled from the smoldering tent and the death toll could rise. more than 70 other people are hospitalized. no word on what start thad fire. in afghanistan, a suicide

bomber, apparently taliban, set off a powerful bomb today outside nato's main gate in kabul, killing more than seven and wounding more than 90. the afghan government believes it's an attempt to keep people from voting in next week's presidential election. now to a battle only the criminals are winning and the where the victims are lost in the shadow of a escalating drug war. fair warning, some of what you're about to see and hear is very disturbing. recently we introduced you to loss zetas, mexico's most feared and dangerous drug cartsle. tonight cnn's michael ware uncovers a side business. a highly lucrative one at there, where people are bought and sold. again, this is graphic. >> reporter: this is a tale of kidnap, imprisonment and worse, much worse. it is the story of those who fall prey to mexico's drug cartels because of their hope to come to america. i cannot tell you her name, nor

anyone else's in this story, nor can i show you their faces or tell you where i met them because if i did, they say, they would almost certainly be killed. that's because the violence drug cartels have a new and lucrative business. think of it as a hostile takeover, the people smuggling business. this woman fled the poverty of her hometown, the 7th of 12 children. as hundreds do every week in central america, she headed north to mexico, bound for the u.s. only to be seized by one of the most brutal cartels in the business, los zetas.

the cartel ransomed them off for whatever they can get, selling them back to families who barely can pay. >> they control of the route. they have the infrastructure. they have the money. they have the people. they have the guns. they have everything right now to control everything. >> reporter: this man is one of few working with the cartels' victims. he tell is us the cartel's new business, human trafficking, is flourishing. >> yes, it's not only a drugs issue. it's getting money. where it comes from, the money, they don't care. >> reporter: and some of the money is used for bribery. when the car carrying the young woman in our story arrived at an immigration police checkpoint, she hoped her ordeal with the cartel was over, but she says, the immigration officials were in on it.

this is another women who was held by a cartel. her family was unable to pay a ransom. so for four months, she was forced to work, cooking for the other hostages and the cartel kidnappers themselves. she said she was also ordered to take food to prisoners shackled in makeshift torture chambers and to wash the clothes of the cartel jailers.

the men chopped into pieces, she says, were hostages who could not pay. or more often, they were the men they called coyotes, the mexicans who specialize in smuggling people across the u.s. border. the cartels literally butchering their competition. and anything that makes cartels like los zetas stronger is a threat to america, particularly when it offers a new means of importing more drugs. >> the zetas are a prime example of an organization that has -- from a traditional perspective, looked into other areas of making money, specifically with the smuggling situation. it's a means of introducing drugs into the united states. >> reporter: and that means only one thing -- many more horror stories to come. markal ware, cnn, mexico. >> we'll hear more from michael ware on this story tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern. he will join us right here in the cnn newsroom. he's a huge ballywood star

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all right. so michael vick's two years away from the nfl hasn't hurt his throwing ability. he took to the field today for the first time to practice with his new team, the philadelphia eagles. the 29-year-old quarterback still sports the number seven jersey as he did during his days with the atlanta falcons. and that was before dogfighting and the dogfighting conviction tland ethat landed him in federl prison. vick says he now wants to move on. >> in the past, i made mistakes. i have done some terrible things. i made a horrible mistake. now i want to be part of the solution and not the problem. >> so reaction to that apology and his return, as you might

imagine, mixed. >> i think he should be out of the nfl altogether. >> i think it is awesome, awesome. i'm really looking forward to it. we're going to get season tickets now. >> i love it. love michael. can't wait. we need zblu you. >> i think football's second. it's a privilege to play ball. there's a lot of talented people out there that don't get the chance to play ball. this man, i think he messed up his chances. he had it all. >> so with his legal problems behind him, he now faces a challenge of rebuilding his career and really his life. a career that once placed him in the nfl's $100 million quarterback club. that's a lot of money. joining me now is sports attorney david cornwall. his agency has represented many professional athletes, and we're going to talk about a couple of them who had been in trouble recently. so, how would you advise michael vick right now if you were representing him?

what would you tell him to do? can he win public support just by being a good guy? >> he can, but i tell him first of all, change is a process, not an event. take it slow. it seems like you lost everything overnight but you won't regain it overnight. >> what's the challenge here? what's the biggest challenge he faces? >> there are a few. first of all, he's not going to be the same player immediately that he was before. does he have the commitment to put in the time to become what he used to be? he has financial difficulties. but now he's going to work harder than he ever has and make less money in doing it. and there are going to be critics out there. in the past as we know, he's responded to critics in various ways. so now he has to carry himself graciously and with dignity and not react. >> he has a very, very well respected mentor, tony dungy, who is supporting him and trying to help him get back on track. let's take a listen to what tony dungy had to say, and then i want to talk to you about it. >> well, i talked to andy reid a lot. i talked to the eagles' organization, and i just talked about a lot of young men who

make mistakes, who go down the wrong path and what you got to try to figure out is if they changed, if they're different? are they going to be a good teammate, a good person in the locker room and the community? and i told the eagles i thought he would be. i thought he would be very positive and i hope that bears out. >> how much does that help him, having tony dungy on your side? >> i think it helps him immensely. tony is a man of great character and great faith. but, remember, he's also a football coach and you can't fool him. the fact tony is standing behind michael means michael is authentic and he's going to make the commitment to earn the trust not only of his teammates and his coaches but the public. >> so stay tuned. let's turn now to rick patino, another apology this week. >> if you tell the truth, your problem becomes part of your past. if you lie, it becomes part of your future. and i made a very difficult decision to tell the truth to the federal authorities, the local authorities, to university officials and most important, to

people that love me the most, my family and friends. >> all right. so he apologized. he faced it head on. he said i was wrong. does this help him at least in the court of public opinion? >> i think it does. but what we also have to remember, while rape is a vicious, vicious crime, the false accusation of rape is also a tragedy. this man had to go out in public and talk about a private -- his private life. now, it's just inappropriate. it's a difficult circumstance but he stood up with the university and his family, and i think he showed leadership. >> you know, apparently i hear -- and you will know this, that the court -- the coach had warned some of the potential recruits this might be coming, maybe something coming out and also talk to the parents about this. so there was fair warning at least. >> yes. and i think that's the leadership. leadership is the quality not just in good times but also in difficult times. and he stood up there and faced parents and young men that he wants to lead and said, i made a mistake and i admitted it. let's see if we can move forward

together. >> is there a double standard, at least separate standards going on, because some people seem to get into trouble and then get out of it and all is forgiven for the most part? and others it takes a longer period of time and they never redeem themselves. why does that happen? >> it's hard to explain and even more difficult to compare one case to the other. it's really apples and oranges. it's just how people react to individuals based on how they present themselves and the conduct they engaged in. >> you represented a number of these people. is there anything you want to tell us about anything that my be coming up we should know about? you know i have to ask you that. >> that's a fair question. right now we're involved in the ben roethlisberger case. and we did a pretty good job last week in demonstrating that the accusations against him are false. and we're not going to let up. we're going to get out on this one. >> again, what i find being a high-profile person when you look at these people and athletes, lots of accusations all the time. some turn out to be true. others turn out not to be true. so you really have to wait until the very end to find out exact

think what it is, until it either goes to court or is settled. >> it's difficult. fans react immediately to what goes on the field. it's difficult to ask them, but we hope they will to reserve judgment until the entire story's told. >> david cornwall, sports are attorney making news tonight. thank you very much. we appreciate you joining us here. >> my pleasure. thank you. you know what, the tropics are heating up. not one, but two storms strengthening out in the atlantic. meteorologist jacqui jeras is in the cnn hurricane headquarters. she's tracking those storms for us. also, mandatory evacuations in california's fire zone. plus this for you -- >> someone went out there and took away his ability to make his mark on the world, and the only way that anybody who never met him is ever going to know him is through me. >> this is all she has left of her son, the unbearable reality for parents touched by gun violence. we will take you to chicago's killer streets.

well, there is little left in the taiwanese village of xiaolynn. only throngs of those wounded and weeping mourners. nearly two-thirds of the town's 600 residents died when this was obliterated last weekend. rain spawned by the typhoon triggered mudslides, sending two mountainsides tumbling down. today friends and relatives of victims gathered where the village once stood, burning incense, carrying photos and, of course, crying and mourning. nationwide, the death toll reportedly stands at about 500 people. hundreds of people are still awaiting rescue in washed-out townes. and tropical storm ana is churning in the atlantic and tonight it is not alone.

meteorologist jacqui jeras, you're saying folks along the gulf coast had better start paying attention to the meteorologists here at cnn. >> and the east coast, too. it's not a sure thing where this will be hitting the u.s., even if it will at all. we have two named storms. we had two months of the hurricane season thus far and we had pretty much nadia and now things are starting to heat up. >> let me get out of here. ly go this way. >> let me put this in perspective. one is on the heels of another. there you can see the atlantic. there we have tropical storm ana. here we have bill behind it. so those are the two areas that we're talking about, still thousands of miles away from the u.s. now, the difference between the two at this time is size. they're both the same for strength, 40 miles per hour. there's ana. check out bill. bill is so much bigger and right now has the potential to become a much stronger storm down the line. we'll show you our forecast track now as we look at ana, and it is expected to head towards the lesser antilles and move

through the greater antilles. right now the best system it will move over land. that's good news in the fact it will keep the intensity of this thing down just a little bit. but bill is expected at this time to move a little bit further up to the north, which will give it a chance to become possibly the first hurricane of the atlantic season. this is something we really need to keep our heads up on. we're also watching an area of disturbed weather here across the coast of florida. right now we don't think it will turn into anything more tropical than a waefr but it will be bringing in very heavy rainfall. all right. our other big top weather story today. the fire is still burning in california. there are literally 12 large fires which continue to burn, the worst of which, you're looking at the video from the lockheed fire in the santa cruz mountains. eight square miles have burned. it's 30% contained. thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. weather conditions, don, for this will be warming up over the next couple of days but the wind is pretty steady, with gusts around 20 miles an hour. >> jacqui, thank you very much for that. she is a nobel peace prize winner, living under house

arrest. and he was her uninvited guest, her houseguest. now the man who sparked an international incident by going on a bizarre swim goes free. and he has a u.s. senator to thank for it. first -- >> when i think back to what kind of child i had, it hurts me so bad. it hurts so bad. >> the heartbreaking reality for families coping with the loss of a child. we'll take you to chicago's deadly streets.

tonight in what matters, we're talking about the more than 250 people who died by the

gun in chicago just this year. many of them are teenagers. some of them were innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire. they are someone's son or daughter. they had names. they had dreams that they never realized. i sat down with their parents, whose pain never seems to ease. is he right, it takes you back? is it always just walking pain? >> every time we talk about what happened that day, it breaks me down all the time. >> i'm just as numb as that night and that afternoon they called and she told me he had been shot. you talk about the worst feeling in the world. instant trauma to the emotions. >> and you know, when i think back to what kind of child i had, it hurts me so bad. it hurts so bad. >> most of you are carrying some sort of memento or something.

what are you guys carrying? >> my son was killed 3 1/2 years ago. as you can see, i still have his cell phone on. i just can't bear to turn it off because i keep having that stupid little thought in the back of my head, when he walks back in the door, if he doesn't have a phone, he's just going to die. >> does it ever ring? >> i leave it on for some of his friends who text him. they text him a lot. >> just call him. i love you. i miss you. things like that. >> do you want to read it? >> i don't want to lose anybody else. this hurts a lot. i love you. >> you brought something of yours -- >> a program, obituary and also a newspaper article. this was in the paper. >> this is what was in the paper. >> yep. >> this is the city's 500th homicide of the year. this isn't how you expected your

son to be in the paper? >> no. >> tell me your story. >> terrell was a bass player, gospel bass player. he was at a church, coming out to help his friend get there on time and somebody drove and shot terrell. >> i drove him to high school four years. i drove him every day so he wouldn't have to take public transportation. the one place i never worried about was church. i never worried about him being at church. and to get a phone call that your son got shot coming out of church, it was just unbelievable. >> i got a call from a complete stranger. they're -- her and her friend were coming from a church function, and i get a call, you know, on my cell phone. it has her name. so i'm calling to get an update. how is your afternoon going? it's 5:00 in the afternoon. a complete stranger telling me that my daughter is laying in the alley bleeding.

>> we almost lost christina. i feel very lucky that we still have her. >> if i could say anything to that parent whose child -- whose child caused my child to lose his life, i hope you never feel like i feel. >> shootings happen everywhere in the united states. we know that. we report it to you. some of you have experienced this kind of violence firsthand. but right now in chicago there is a problem that we cannot ignore, and next week we will take you in depth to try to find some solutions. we will talk to members of the community. you will hear more from families affected by this violence. and city officials who have had enough. they are working to make changes there, and we will talk about all of it right here, 10:00 p.m. eastern, next saturday on cnn.

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taking a forbidden swim in myanmar is free thanks to the intervention of a u.s. senator. john ettow will be officially deported tomorrow, side stepping a prison sentence. senator jim webb negotiated for his release with myanmar's rulers. he swam to the home of imprison imprison imprisoned nobel laureate suchie. he was under 18 months house arrest for hosting the unexpected swimmer. now our hero of the week. new york-based chemistry teacher spends his spare time saving disguarded computers from america's landfills and shipping them to kenya, where most schools don't have them. as he sows the seeds for a nation's prosperity, students and interns are planting some of their own. >> i was coming from college at

night, and i see these computers thrown out. and i found everything was perfect. so many computers are thrown out. and so much computers are needed where i grew up in kenya. so i said i must do something. my name is jude ndambuki. i get computers and send them to kenya. even a pencil is very hard to get. any part that i can play that makes the life of kids better, it's great. these computers are tested to make sure that they are working. then we label the name of the school on each box, and then we ship it to kenya. the computers are saveford poisoning the environment, and they're going to be used for 20 years by some school. every school is going to plant 100 trees for every computer. and yet planting a seed,

teaching the kids to conserve the environment and be engines of change. ♪ it's like giving the kids a new life. computers are getting new life. and trees are being planted to bring a new life, too. it's all connected. >> you can find more about jude or any of our heroes at cnn.com/heroes. that's cnn.com/heroes and be sure to keep an eye out. in just a few weeks, we will be announcing the top ten cnn heroes of 2009. that is always exciting, especially when announcing a winner. in tough economic times, an education is really more important than ever. but in some historically black colleges, really colleges all over the country, the money crunch can put dreams of a higher education in jeopardy.

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but especially at historically black colleges and universities, where in some cases, up to 95% of students rely on financial aid to fund their education. president barack obama has moved to increase financial aid with stimulus and budget funds. but still many black colleges expect enrollment rates to keep shrinking, as families and students struggle in the economic downturn. >> many students want to come but will they be able to afford to come? >> reporter: since 2004, $238 million of federal funding was earmarked annually for historically black colleges. and in the last two years, those institutions also benefits from an extra $85 million each year under the college cost reduction act, which ends in may 2010. so those institutions may feel the squeeze even more. >> we're underresourced. we try to keep our costs as low as possible. that means that our margins are always very tight. >> reporter: in the atlanta area alone, morehouse college laid

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