aunt colette got to know the girls and got a kick out of levi. >> levi had a quirky personality.s a pranks ter but had my sister's sweet spirit. >> what's the matter, levi? levi had problems inle school. he and karl began to butt heads. >> i think levi bucked the system a little bit. he was a typical teenaged boy who matthew the answers. thor more levi struggled in his world, karl held him down rather than pick him up. >> the rift widened. in may of 2002 when levi was 17 he left home. uncle mike watched it happen with sadness. >> he dropped out of school which didn't help things at all. he jumped and didn't look where he was jumping to. he didn't have a job. he floated from house to house. different family members. >> levi eventually met a girl named cassie and was living with her when disaster struck the karlsen family again. it happened in november of 2002 as cindy hepburnremembers it karl was just coming to bed. >> he sat up right, looked out the window and said, oh, my god, call 911, the barn is on fire. >> cindy called 911 and her brother-in-law. >> what did karl say when yo

my name is colette barnes. i'm a single parent. i used to receive the childcare voucher, so voucher, so i no how important it is. we lost it and the lot of sisters of the help made choices whether or not to pay for before school care of our afterschool care because we had to work and needed it. >> this was not a plan but it so happens that we are actually proposing is part of my budget package to triple the child credit which would translate to potentially an additional $900 per year per child command that's going to make a big difference. you know, so at the federal level at least this should be one of our top budget priorities and serve. it's in everyone's interest to make sure that our kids nsa our because the one thing i really believe is that even if you're single single, even if your kids are going community if your kids are like mine on the way to college soon become boring and not want to hang out with me as much as they used to your kid is important to me to. and that is not out of charity. that is because your child son o

here is what i read three times to make sure i was reading colette ali.at a conference in 2013 at johns hopkins university vice provost jonathan bagger pointed out six miles separate the baltimore neighborhood of roland park and hollins market. but there is a 20 year difference in the average lasix can see. we have learned in the last few years that life expectancy which is a measure of the quality of life in communities and countries manifest the same inequality we see in so many other parts of our society. women white women without high school education are losing lasix actin fee. black men and black women are seeing their life expected the go down in so many parts of our country. this may not grab headlines, although i was glad to see it on the front page of "usa today." it tells us more than i think we can bear about what we are up against. we need to start understanding how important it is to care for every single child as though the child were our own. david and i -- [applause] started our conversation this morning talking about her grandchildren. h