suspected thief. how you doing, baby? i love you, man. i love you too. good people, that s my man. reporter: just about everybody between u.n. plaza and civic center knows duane kemp, working for urban alchemy, a nonprofit offering safety and service. practitioner, means i m practicing being a good citizen. reporter: a hero, friday night catching a suspected thief. i heard a woman screaming, running after a guy. stopped that guy, he took my phone. reporter: kemp confronted the suspect. i told him, give her back her phone. he says, what? give her back her phone. he reached in his pocket, handed back her phone. duane, you re the hero. reporter: the man got a8 but the woman who said she got the phone as a gift was overcome with gratitude. thank you, thank you. duane does a great thing every day. reporter: duane s boss says duane is an ex-con turning his life around thanks to alchemy, who puts former offenders to work making parts of the city safer
ambassador helping to keep areas safe. recently, he had no choice but to confront a suspected thief. this woman is thanking duane camp for stepping in and getting her new iphone 11 back from a suspected thief. how are you doing? that s my man there. most everybody knows kemp. he s a practitioner working for a city contracted nonprofit offering safety and service to the community. to me what practitioner means is i m practicing being a good citizen. he helped catch a suspected thief. i heard a woman screaming. stopped the guy and he took my phone. he says he confronted the suspect running towards him. i just told her give me back the phone. he said what? i said give her back her phone. he handed her back her phone. the man got away, but minutes later the woman who said she just got the phone as a gift was overcome with gratitude. i had no idea. thank you. truth be told, duane does a great thing every day. duane s boss says the back story is almost as
can he keep the government from shutting down and keep his job at the same time. good day to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, september 19, i m kasie hunt. good to have you with us. in a few hours president biden steps back on to the world stage addressing the general assembly at the united nations. president biden is expected to stress the themes of diplomacy and democracy. these are thoughts that he recently shared at the g-20 summit in india and like the g-20 he will be speaking in a room without representation from china or russia. biden is spektsed expected to dm up support for ukraine and their efforts to defeat russia as volodymyr zelenskyy makes his first in-person experience at the u.n. since the war started. jasmine wright is joining us from washington. thank you for being up early with us. what are we learning about what bine p biden plans to say. reporter: he was make the case for american leadership on the global stage. and
hours of travel. president biden confronts multiple crises on the world stage. back at home, some republican colleagues saying they are lunatics. the speaker is not quitting. more autoworkers on strike on the horizon. the union chief says if there s no progress by noon this friday, more workers will walk off the job. and that missing fighter jet, it has been found in south carolina. crews are now working to recover the debris. an investigation is under way into the, quote, mishap that forced the pilot to eject. cnn this morning starts right now. of course, this is where we begin with the breaking news. good news this morning. after five years after years in prison, five u.s. citizens released by iran have just landed back on american soil. the plane landed moments ago right near washington, d.c. in the deal with teheran, the u.s. released five iranians in custody and returned $6 billion frozen money. this was a long trip home, but they are on the ground. wha