first 140 public school students have been shot this year in the chicago school district. when one mom worried her own daughter might fall into trouble she opened her front door and invited area kids and gang members inside. now they call her miss diane and we call diane this week s cnn hero. guns, guns, and more guns. these are young people. they represent them. we re losing a generation to violence. everybody is afraid to come out. people run in their house and close their doors. there s some people who are not scared to go outside and i m one of them. my name is diane latimer. we opened the community center kids off the block. we re known as kob. there are kids that are in gang, homeless. so they have a lot of issues going on. who signed up? i tell kids this is a peace place. this is a safe place.
first 140 public school students have been shot this year in the chicago school district. when one mom worried her own daughter might fall into trouble she opened her front door and invited area kids and gang members inside. now they call her miss diane and we call diane this week s cnn hero. guns, guns, and more guns. these are young people. they represent them. we re losing a generation to violence. everybody is afraid to come out. people run in their house and close their doors. there s some people who are not scared to go outside and i m one of them. my name is diane latimer. we opened the community center kids off the block. we re known as kob. there are kids that are in gang, homeless. so they have a lot of issues going on.