in the villages life goes on in a stationary way. reading has shown me things i won t see in my lifetime. my name is luis soriano. my classroom is not traditional. translator: consists of books placed on saddles on top of my donkeys. it s not easy to travel through this valleys. you sit on a donkey for five or eight hours. you get very tired. we go to places where a child has to work or ride a donkey for up to 40 minutes to reach the closest school. when they learn how to read the child discovers a new world like i did. these children need it. of course, they want to learn. that s what keeping motivating me to ride.
tonight. we will do more on this next week. we ll have you back, jack, i promise. we don t have enough time tonight. i really apologize. it s time to meet our cnn hero of the week. in a tiny colombian village, a teacher and father is finding a product i way to use his spare time. he s combatting illiteracy where kids can t get to school. he s doing it in a unique way. watch. in the villages life goes on in a stationary way. reading has shown me things i won t see in my lifetime. my name is luis soriano. my classroom is not traditional. translator: consists of books placed on saddles on top of my donkeys. it s not easy to travel through this valleys. you sit on a donkey for five or eight hours. you get very tired. we go to places where child has
you ve ridden the donkeys like no one has. these children need it. of course, they want to learn. that s what keeps me motivating to ride. luis soriano s work has provided reading instruction to more than 4,000 children read. if you want to follow his journey, go to cnn.com/heroes. time for your top of the hour reset. it s noon in the northeast where the third big snowstorm of february buries the region in knee-deep, misery. they talked but couldn t agree. the president vows to go forward with health care reform even without republican support. and in orlando new home video shows the scene just before a killer whale snatches a trainer into the water, killing her. let s get started. let s do what we should here, which is to get to chad myers in the severe weather center. and, chad, more snow in the northeast, more headaches and
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just how does a dangerous criminal serving three life sentences just walk out of prison? because they released the wrong guy. all this inmate had to do was memorize a jail number, that was his get out of jail free card, pretending he was someone else? that s it? how does that happen. a rhode island high school fires all of its teachers, all of them, every last one, principals, about 80 people. this school is one of the worst in the state. half the kids are failing every subject. half can t read. something has to be done. but is firing every teacher the way to go here? call in. always love hearing from you. the number, 1-877-tell-hln. e-mail us at cnn.com/primenews or join us on facebook or text us at hln tv. just start your message with the word prime. it s your chance to be heard! welcome. this is prime news. i m mike galanos. how is it, how does this happen, a dangerous criminal cons his way out of the baltimore prison just by pretending to be his cellmate, that s wha