cedrick plans to go to college.y has since graduated h school and with a baby on the way avoids temptation says of the environments. >> reporter: how do you feel differently now that you have a kid on the way? >> i feel like i got responsibilities now, because at first i was free, i was wild and do whatever i want. now i got somebody who gotta take the path that i set for them. and i gotta make a good path. put myself in for my kid. >> reporter: the young woman carrying dakar i's child is actually the daughter of someone elsof someoneelse we met last y. derrek spent his nights patrolling the streets as part of ceasefire. derrek took pride in helping mediate conflicts in the streets before they escalated to shootings. today despite ceasefire's lack of funding he's still doing his best to curb violence in the community and mentor young men. derrek's best efforts aside he can't stop the bullets from missing the victims. >> he was one of the first kids a trained the boxing. >> reporter: alla tremendous was shot two mont

we're being joined by colonel cedrick leighton, former member of joint chiefs of staff. colonel, welcome to you. you have been following coverage, listening to discussion. first, what do you make of this tragic news, and does it change the priorities here? does it change the strategy? >> well, randi, i think it's obviously a horrible and tragic event. as we have been discussing here. the key thing is that it will not only accelerate i think in the u.s. and i believe also u.k. response to everything that is going on, but it will also galvanize movements within the pentagon and the u.s. government, especially the white house, to alter the strategy, to make the strategy a much more direct strategy and much more kinetic strategy, i think, than they had originally planned on doing. of i think the gradual approach that the administration has outlined, i would think is -- in essence, not meeting the needs of the moment. and in this particular case, you've got the islamic state, isis, going in and killing all of the hostages they've got. they're basically going down their list.