Two men find purpose on Chattanooga's Walnut Street Bridge

In this week's installment of "Beg-Knows America,"  CBS News contributor David Begnaud took connected a spontaneous mission: find an inspiring communicative wrong 48 hours. With only a level summons and a destination, Begnaud landed successful Chattanooga, Tennessee, wished to meet caller group and observe stories.

A telephone to kindness

The travel began connected nan Walnut Street Pedestrian Bridge, wherever Begnaud held a motion reading, "I'm looking for a story." It didn't return agelong for personification to extremity by. That personification was 22-year-old Ben Pate, a assemblage student and psychology awesome pinch a passion for helping others.

"I deliberation that empathy and compassion are immoderate of nan astir powerful forces successful nan world," said Pate. He shared that witnessing acts of kindness and supporting those successful request "set his psyche connected fire." Recently, he helped a bum female by bringing her h2o and ibuprofen, an acquisition that near him emotion inspired.

"There was besides this portion of maine that was for illustration I wish I could do more," said Pate.

Healing done music

Later, Begnaud returned to nan bridge, hoping to find a vocalist he had heard nan nighttime before. The musician, Matthew Hicks, performs astir each evening arsenic nan sun sets. Hicks has faced individual hardships: he mislaid his mother to crab arsenic a teen and a friend to termination conscionable a fewer years ago. For Hicks, euphony is much than an outlet—it's a measurement to link pinch others.

"I decidedly emotion to sing," he said. "It's for illustration connected a spectrum. You've sewage slump connected this broadside and if you nexus into this, look is connected this side. If you tin get complete here, if you put immoderate expression, it'll propulsion you backmost retired of that."

David Begnaud loves uncovering nan bosom of each communicative and will proceed to do so, highlighting mundane heroes and proving that location is bully news successful nan news pinch his exclusive "CBS Mornings" bid "Beg-Knows America." Every Monday, get fresh for moments that will make you grin aliases moreover shed a tear. Do you person a communicative astir an mean personification doing thing bonzer for personification else? Email David and his squad at DearDavid@cbsnews.com