[Baldwin:] Remember the throngs of Americans, perhaps you were in the midst of the crowds waiting in line to buy that latest iPhone this past year? Well, if you thought that was a scene, check out China. These two men, they're security guards for an Apple store. This is in Beijing. This mob is made up of angry customers who could not buy the Apple iPhone 4S today because of this, craziness. Apple has suspended now all in-store sales of the 4S in Beijing and Shanghai. It is quite honestly just worried about people's safety. CNN's Stan Grant was in the thick of it all as it went down.
[Stan Grant, Cnn Correspondent:] It wasn't supposed to be like this, eggs pelted at the Apple store, people furious then tempers reaching boiling point. Angry potential Apple customers viscously attacking security. [on camera]: Security are running down here now by the mall, I'm continuing to follow them. This is what happened when they didn't open the Apple store. The crowd are getting angrier and angrier. Punches have already been thrown. They're still following security. Look over here. [voice-over]: It didn't start this way.
[Unidentified Male:] I really like iPhone 4.
[Grant:] The 18-year-old Tom was among hundreds who cued in the freezing cold overnight for the official China release of the Apple iPhone 4S. This store in a popular Beijing shopping center was supposed to be open at 7:00 a.m. As the time ticked past, the mood turned sour then an announcement. The phone would not be sold here today. As people refused to leave, police moved in. [on camera]: So we're here in the middle of the crowd. The police have been thinning them out slowly. And as you can see here now, they're moving in they're shouting on the megaphone for people to leave. If you look over here they're trying to force people away right now. [voice-over]: Those who wouldn't leave peacefully were hauled away by force.
[Unidentified Male:] People are very angry. People are pissed off and that's for sure.
[Grant:] Some people here blame Apple, others even holding the United States to account. But anger also directed at China itself, a country they say too quick to attack its own people, too ready to use force to impose order.
[Unidentified Female:] This is China. We just need don't push. The police push us.
[Grant:] You don't like China police?
[Unidentified Male:] I don't like China police.
[Grant:] What should have been a day of celebration has backfired for Apple, its customers, even the state itself. Stan Grant, CNN, Beijing.
[Baldwin:] Over a phone. CNN's Silicon Valley correspondent, Dan Simon is here just to give us a little context. Dan, look, I mean, I'm the first to admit I have never been in a line for an iPhone, but I know I've seen the video. Americans love their iPhones. But what's with the obsession with all things Apple in China?
[Dan Simon, Silicon Valley Correspondent:] Well, there are a few things that play here, Brooke. First of all, the Chinese have an appreciation for industrial design. That's what Apple is known for. But more significant than that, it is seen as a huge status symbol there in China before these products might have been available only to the rich, but with China's growing middle class they have to have one of these things. They may not be able to afford say a big house or a nice car, but they can scrape together enough money to get themselves an iPhone. So for Chinese people, this is a big status symbol and that's why you're seeing the crazy lines and all that action you saw there today.
[Baldwin:] And Apple does huge business in China, don't they?
[Simon:] Well, it's unbelievable. It's their fastest growing market in the world. They did $13 billion in sales last fiscal year, the year before they did $3 billion. So it comes down to supply and demand. They just can't make these phones fast enough and, in China, we're really seeing unprecedented demand for Apple products Brooke.
[Baldwin:] Amazing. Dan Simon, thank you so much. Millions of young people say they want to change the world and today CNN Heroes recognizes someone who did just that. Justin Churchman is just 18 years of age, but he's already changing lives in Juarez, Mexico. How is he doing it? One house at a time. Take a look.
[Unidentified Male:] To give someone a home is from your heart and it's to their heart. You really change their life forever. My name is Justin Churchman. I work with an organization called "Casas for Cristo" and they build houses in Juarez, Mexico. After I built my first house, I just fell in love with it. It changed my heart and it changed the way I saw the world. It's an addiction.
[Unidentified Female:] We organize the team and at 13 years old led a group of Americans across the border. He built a home and he handed the keys of that home to that family in need.
[Unidentified Male:] This is our first house that we built. We met this wonderful lady and I've just fallen in love with it.
[Unidentified Female:] He had a goal pretty early on that he wanted to build 18 houses by the time he turned 18.
[Unidentified Male:] My parents got behind me and supported me and "Casas for Cristos" supported me and on my 18th birthday, I completed my 18th house.
[Unidentified Female:] He's absolutely a young wonder. He's changing the world one house at a time.
[Baldwin:] That is awesome. Do you know someone who is making a big difference in the lives of others? Just go to cnnheroes.com now to nominate a 2012 CNN Hero today. Be right back.