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. >> reporter: after logging the same route day after day, year after year, herron notices things. >>e some customers that just don't like to pick up their mail, so i know those people and i know the people that pick up their mail every day. >> reporter: so when an elderly woman's mail began piling up this week on her route, herron got a strange feeling. >> when i'm delivering the mail on monday, there was mail there. so that was weird to me because she always picks up her mail every single day. >> reporter: after a couple days and even more mail, herron started knocking on doors in the neighborhood to see if anyone knew the woman. >> so i'm like, well, i think we need to get in there and see what's going on because something is wrong with this lady. i believe she's in there and she's not okay. >> reporter: so she had never even spoken to the woman before. her hunch was right. >> they called the police and the police came and luckily the back door was unlocked and she was in there on the floor and she had been there over three days. she had a stroke. >> reporter: thursday the paramedi

and that herron our professional development is built around using our teachers as experts to increase student performance. we generate targeted cross curricular interventions for at-risk students and reinforce the vertical alignment of our disciplines to challenge all students, no one finies their crosswords in this space. it's eagerly anticipated and an opportunity to hone our mission of closing the achievement gap. and this is why i know that i don't make the promise to close the achievement gap in vain. it is possible, and it's happening as we speak at herron and hundreds of other schools acrossed united states. but action has to be taken now for ourtudents to properly inherit what we all aspire to, which is the american dream. and it starts with me. it starts with me testifying here on the importance of stronger evaluative tools for teachers. it starts with us, allowing local schools and school districts the flexibility to innovate and retain talent to drive student success. and it starts with reaffirming the right of every student to a high-quality and rigorous edation and it mus

dara richson herron, the ceo of the ywca and with a welcome to you, doctor, i'm glad to have you herethis initiative, what does it do to help women and girls throughout the world? >> now that everyone is focused on eliminating violence in all forms against women and girls across the country, we hope there will be a concerted effort to really take steps to eliminate the violence. you know, the paper is good. but it's really the implementation that's going to be critical, but now we actually have been agreement to move forward with this initiative. >> and that's the point that i think is so interesting because having agreement, having this con shen sus, that wasn't necessarily guaranteed from the outside. you and i can look at this and say lodgelogical of course, but you have a lot of different cultures involved here which ultimately though signed on giving their governments license now to do what? try to protect women? help them out? >> well, to protect women from sexual violence, to protect women from gender-based violence and that's the decision that's been made. countries have to pu