heroes who have dedicated their lives to helping people in need. none of them wear a spandex leotard or cape, at least not while working, not that i m aware of, but they are true heroes. we are live tonight in los angeles and around the world and we have a group of famous folks joining us tonight. they ve generously given their time to share our hero stories with you. some have journeyed to see our honorees. jerry seinfeld, will.i.am. he went to meet one of our heros in wisconsin. my colleague dr. sanjay gupta is streaming live all night with our presenters and honorees. also ice cube, laura dern, christie turlington who went to indonesia. to learn more about one of our heros. if you would like to share these amazing stories with your friends, follow us on facebook, on twitter, use hash tag cnn heroes to bring more attention to these important issues. as i said, we are live tonight. i promise i ll try very hard not to giggle. i laugh like a 13-year-old girl meeting justin b
chris s injury all over again. how are you doing, luis? i m eddie. that s my son, chris. it s all gone in an instant. someone s gone from being so independent and at the prime of his life, now becoming very dependent on some of the basic things, the simplest things that we all take for granted. they can be mad at the world. but i ll go in there to help them just to let them know that they re not alone through this process. never give up that faith, man. this is something that we have to do. we know that this is our purpose. and so we do it. who else you got here? i like to collect sports history. so for me, like, i got some of the older guys like terry bradshaw. got the steel curtains. you know i m not a big fan of the steelers. you know that, right? in all the time i ve been with them, they don t talk at all about themselves and their struggles. they talk about how can they help someone else? how can they support another family? and to me that s what a hero is
tell me just a little bit about gridiron heroes, how it got started. you know, it started after chris suffered a spinal cord injury. it was our last home game. we had to win this game to go to the playoffs. about four or five guys missed the tackle and i made the last touchdo touchdown. along with that, i broke my neck. he just reached his one-year anniversary date of his injury. chris was going through some hard times. he started to shut down on me. depression hit, and i was still in the wheelchair. so just to get him out of the house, i said, let s go to a football game. there was a state championship game. and at that game we ended up witnessing another spinal cord injury. as soon as chris saw that young man being put on that cart, chris turned to me and said, dad, we ve got to go help him. i know what he s going to go through. you know what the family s going to go through. that was the inspiration behind starting grid iron heroes. gridiron heroes, we provide
captive was a very remote place, basically a jungle. and see, i was praying to god to bring me home safely to my family. and look at these guys, they risked their lives to save mine and i am very thankful. the country s justice minister has issued an arrest warrant for colombian man believed to be behind that alleged kidnapping. on his way to tonight s presidential debate, herman cain made a stop in his hometown of atlanta today. he avoided any references to the sexual harassment allegations against him and tried to get back into campaign mode. there s a political class in washington, d.c., and then you have we, the people out here. they believe they know better what we need than we do, but the american people are saying we re tired of them being the political class, and they treat the american people like the underclass, not when herman cain is president. the candidate also took a jab at president barack obama. cain says the president has an arrogant disregard for th
they step outside of that comfort zone. his impact will continue to affect us all for the rest of our lives. there are moments where they can all reflect, followed by that time where they feel like they re living life to the fullest. my little sister wrote taryn. she didn t know how to get me through the loss so she wanted me to find other sisters. from my first event i went from feeling completely alone to not anymore at all. you get up that high, you see the world a different way. i think as widows, we see our life a different way when we land. these military widows give me new life again. they teach me so much and show me how far i ve come and to know one day another widow will come along and they re going to be the one that s changing that widow s life. that s pretty amazing. the american widow project has connected almost 800 women through its online community and retreats. now, remember every cnn hero is chosen from people you tell us