my name is leo mccarthy. i give kids tools to stay away from drinking.y top five in drinking and driving fatalities in the country. the drinking culture, it's a cyclical disease that we allow to continue. mariah's challenges, be the first generation of kids to not drink. in the eulogy, i said if you stick with me for four years, don't use alcohol, don't use drugs, i'll be there with a bunch of other people to give you money to go to i apostsecondary school. >> i promise not to drink until i am 21. >> i promise not to get into a car with someone who has been drinking. >> i promise to give back to my community. >> i think mariah's challenge is something that makes people think a little bit more, to say we can be better. mariah's forever 14. i can't get her back but i can help other parents keep their kids safe. if we save one child, we save a generation. >> incredible. i'll be talking to leroy mccarthy about his mission in our 3:00 eastern hour. he's one of our top ten honorees eligible to become cnn hero of the year. cast your vote at cnn heroes.com. the

at that point, i had leo mccarthy who was the speaker at that time of the assembly because it belongedto the state. and then they told me, you know, since we are building the next building with the hill burton grant from the federal government for an out-patient facility, and i said, yeah, very nice. we are building a clinic, but they are shutting down our main hospital. so three years up and down the state. they changed the legislation and grandfather clause, the hospital to be exempted from those requirements, changed the federal law, and moved this building from a clinic and put the hospital in. we are literally already have the building and just forced the hospital in and i keep on thinking, that is, you know, somebody willie brown's shoes that he had a nice pair of shoes he didn't wear, except for church every sunday. one day he couldn't fit the shoe, you know? that was the only pair of shoe he had. so, he said, rose, i just shoved my foot into the shoe, even though it did not quite fit. but it looked nice when i was sitting down. so that is exactly what we did with the clinic nex

i want to bring in our cnn hero leo mccarthy joining me from butte. leo, welcome.but i have to begin with your daughter. can you take me back just briefly october 27, 2007, what happened? >> sure. two of her friends were just walking on a designated pedestrian pathway about half a block away from our home and they were mowed over by an underage drunk driver who came back to the scene and did nothing for them and later drove off. unfortunately, mariah didn't make it, but the other two did. >> i am so sorry about your daughter, but the way you've turned this around here. just some background for our viewers, i know someone from butte and she was explaining to me how this is a drinking town. this is a tough drinking town. a lot of people wear it as a badge of pride. a lot of folks saw the inside of bars before they could walk. drinking in middle school. how do you reach these kids? >> well, first of all, butte is a very gracious town. it's a town of hard living. has some great people here with deep hearts and deep souls. unfortunately we have a portion of our history

my name is leo mccarthy. i give kids tools to stay away from drinking.otoriously tough on drinking and driving fatalities in the country. the drinking is a cyclical disease we allow to continue. mariah's challenge is to be the first generation of these kids to not drink. >> in the eulogy, i said if you stick with me for four years, don't use alcohol, don't use illicit drugs, people will give you money to go to a post-secondary school. >> i promise not to drink until i'm 21. >> i promise not to get in a car with someone who has been drinking. >> i promise to give back to my community. >> i think mariah's challenge is something that makes people think a little bit more. they say, we could be better. mariah's forever. i can't get her back, but i can help other parents keep their kids safe. if we save one child, we save a generation. >> and i had a chance to talk to leo mccarthy about what it means to be a cnn hero and how mariah's challenge has helped young people achieve their dreams. >> i do see my daughter in her friends, and you always wonder how she wo

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