now this is bob evans giving some 100,000 plus to support the uso.till continue to do this for our troops? >> you know, griff, we can never do enough as far as i'm concerned for the men and women who defend our freedom and protect our cities, so i just try to do what i can. i use my public platform to do something. i try to show up and pat them on the back. i have vietnam veterans in my family, so it goes back to the veterans in my own family, especially the vietnam veterans who came home from war and were not treated very well when they did return, there weren't services provided to support them and i wanted to provide some services for the men and women who were deploying and who have served our country. so i team up with a lot of great organizations. one of the ways i wanted to get more done was by supporting a lot of military nonprofits, support companies that support our military and that's one of the reasons i've supported bob evans in their work with the uso. >> well, our hat's off to you, gary, we have to leave it there and you also built mor

evans. >> reporter: when covid came for the horabczewski family, all five got it, but bob got it the worsty close to being dead. >> reporter: rushed to the hospital, doctors put him on a ventilator and only one thing could save his life. >> we need to get him to st. joe's hospital to get him a lung transplant. >> reporter: a double lung transplant. and while they prayed for a match, at home, his wife monique tried to hold the family together. >> mommy... >> my kids were hurting and ther were struggling. our life was falling apart. it's so easy to get, like, caught up in all to have the fears of the what-if, and, um... and thinking that maybe, like... maybe i would have to live my life without him. >> reporter: after four months in the hospital, they found a match. >> someone had to die for you to live. >> yeah. that's what saved my life is somebody was willing to donate their lungs, and i'm able to breathe because of that right now. >> reporter: do you look at life differently now. >> oh, tremendously so. every day counts so much more than it ever did before. ( cheering ) >> reporter: and

evans introduces us to him. >> reporter: when covid came for the horbaczewski family, all five got it. but bob got it the worst. >> i was pretty close to being dead. >> reporter: rushed to the hospital, doctors put him on a ventilator. and only one thing could save his life -- >> we need to get him to st. joe's hospital to get him a lung transplant. >> reporter: a double lung transplant. and while they prayed for a match, at home his wife monique tried to hold the family together. >> mommy? >> my kids were hurting, and they were struggling. our life was falling apart. it's so easy to get like caught up in all of the fears of the what if, and -- and thinking that maybe like -- maybe i would have to live my life without him. >> reporter: after four months in the hospital, they found a match. someone had to die for you to live. >> yeah. that's what saved my life is somebody was willing to donate their lungs, and i'm able to breathe because of that right now. >> reporter: do you look at life differently now? >> tremendously so. every day counts so much more than it ever did before.vereatis a gift.

evans. he served in the police for 22 years and is currently the brooklyn bird president at the forefront to his platform is a commitment to come bobbing gun crime. he supports police reform, but as against the funding, the force if black lives really matter, it can only be against police abuse and has to be against the violence that's sitting apart our communities. people want to feel safe. right now they don't feel safe. crime is happening all around them. shootings are up. robberies are up, homelessness is up. they see in the subway. they don't feel safe nor subways. they see it out in the streets, in their homes, in the neighborhoods, and they want to feel safe. so this gentleman ran on a platform of public safety and making people feel safe in their resume with them. and that's it. you know, the defined, the police movement has been a large failure. demonizing, an attacking cops has been a failure. and people are ready for change and hopefully this is the capital is to some sort of change. well, it's not just new york polling shows concerns about violent crime or a 4 year high nationwide, with homicide rates climbing across the u.