Anderson Cooper Heroes Award GalaWalking the red carpet at this year’s CNN Hero awards tribute show, to be televised on Thanksgiving night, will be movie stars, like Halle Berry, Demi Moore and Jessica Alba, Grammy winners John Legend and LL Cool J, along with the Chilean miners and their rescuers as surprise guests. All to honor this year’s extraordinary citizen heroes.

Rock legend Bon Jovi also shared the stage with the top ten CNN Heros of 2010 on the two-hour broadcast, “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute” taped Saturday. Anderson Cooper hosted the fourth annual show from Los Angeles, where the Chilean miners have been touring Disneyland, Universal Studios and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Online social networking and internet marketing sites saved a family whose child has leukemia from financial ruin. So far Aidan Reed, 5, and his family have sold more than 4,500 prints of his crayon and marker drawings of monsters and other creepy characters.

When a Tempe homeless man found an abandoned backpack at a train station stocked with a laptop and $3,300 in cash, he deliberated about what to do — and decided to turn it in.

Now, over the past few days, Dave has been completely overwhelmed by the donations from strangers nationwide who have sent him checks or dropped off cash.

A Roseville, Minnesota pooch has once again proven that dogs just may have a sixth sense after all — and this particular breed, an historic penchant for lifesaving.

Murphy, a usually quiet Newfoundland dog would not stop barking on Wednesday morning.

His owner finally let him outside. Murphy then darted straight to the fence and continued barking.

The dog sensed that his 95-year-old neighbor had fallen and was helpless in the cold.