Medical Examiner's Report on Philip Seymour Hoffman
BALDWIN: What happens if you have been homeless for five years without a stable place for your own children to sleep, and then you finally get an apartment or house, but having nothing in it to make it a real home? If you are lucky enough to meet this week's CNN Hero, your life could be transformed in one single day.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm very emotional right now. I'm excited. I'm so glad things are starting to turn around. For like five years me and my kids have had nowhere to go. We just had to go from place to place. We slept in abandoned cars. We moved in here with nothing. When I see my children on the floor going to bed, it hurts me. OK. Hi!</s>MARK BERGEL, COMMUNITY CRUSADER: There's no stability and there's no dignity when you live in apartments that have nothing in them. So how this works, OK, anything it is that you want in here, you put your sticker on and that's what you guys will take home.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK.</s>BERGEL: Once we get the homes furnished, they have a chance to just take a breath and start to create a different life. We pick up the furniture and other home goods from people who have more than they need, and we distribute them free of charge to people who have nothing.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I like this table. As a family, we can just sit down and just eat. Got something to sit on, something to lay on. Now, we are coming back on track. Now, my kids can pursue their dreams.</s>BERGEL: This is a good start, right?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, it is.</s>BERGEL: I help people find the hope that was missing from their lives.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Love you. Good night.</s>BERGEL: And the opportunity they did not know was before them.</s>BALDWIN: Each and every week we will be honoring a new CNN Hero, just an ordinary person doing extraordinary things to help others. If you know someone like Mark who deserves this kind of recognition, please go to CNNHeroes.com and tell us all about them, CNN.com/Heroes. And now to the breaking news on Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, we are getting the news -- this is from the New York medical examiner's office. Let me just read you what I have here, as far as the cause of death here. Remember, he died in his apartment in the West Village just about a month ago. The cause of death in this case is due to, and I'm quoting, "an acute mixed-drug concoction, including heroin, cocaine, benzodiazepines and amphetamines." So, all of those in his system, according to the medical examiner's office, and the statement described his death as an accident. We're going to get our chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta up here in the studio on the other side of the break. We'll give a little bit more context to the news here. Be right back.