lisa and bobby smith were elated when their daughter, haley, arrived on august 20, 2000. she was the perfect little baby, or so they thought. >> can you play some more? her first seizure was when she was five months old. >> five months? >> yeah. >> up until that point? >> normal, happy, developmentally, right on track. but she was also my first child, so i could have had blinders on and didn't see some of the signs that were there. >> haley's seizures became more frequent, more violent. >> she didn't get diagnosed till she was 7. that was a true roller coaster. >> yeah, 7 years old. >> awful, the first seven years, because we didn't know what was wrong with her. >> yeah. >> reporter: over the years, haley's mystery only deepened. she was eventually diagnosed with dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that can be fatal. treating it, quite often epilepsy drugs don't work. sometimes they do more harm than good. >> she was actually in the emergency room every week and that's not exaggerating, every week from january to april in 2005. >> come on, sweetheart. >> reporter: by

smith. here with us is melissa francis. fbn, daga mcdowell. lisa booth. also chief political anchor and executive editor of "special report" bret baier is here. he also the author of a new book "three days in moscow, ronald reagan and the fall of the soviet empire." i love it. we're psyched you're here. >> thank you. >> thousands joined funeral processions a day after deadly protests at the gaza border. new protests in the west bank. earlier at a u.n. security council meeting, nikki haley defended israel. >> i ask my colleagues here, who among us would accept this type of activity on your border? no one would. no country in this chamber would act with more restraint than israel has. in fact, the records of several countries here today suggest they would be much less restrained. those that suggest that the gaza violence has anything to do with the location of the american embassy are sorely mistaken. rather the violence comes from those that reject the existence of the state of israel in any location. >> meantime, president trump is getting support for tha

day, and rosalieferrer, lisa golden and ayana bennett, robert lynch, barb wismer, and joseph pace, anna delgado, i don't say chase and todd may, and david woods and david smith. winnie see, tina leigh, valerie chan, steve solman, and jackie haslan. as a result of their collected efforts, we have made significant strides on improve our data, and we have met 57 of 57 measures. [applause]. >> earning 100% of the 34 million available for fiscal year 16-17. greg, what do you think of that? where is's greg, so thank you so much for all of your service and your fantastic work. [applause]. [ inaudible ] [applause] >> before i recognize the next two honorees, let me apologize any advance for any harm that i do to your last name. the only one i'm sure about is my own, so having said that, here i go. the next nominee for dph 2017 award is douglas obana, a senior environmental health inspector. he was nominated by stephanie cushing, the director of environmental health. [applause]. >> douglas obana has been with dph since 2010. he has worked in many programs within the environmental health branch, such as refuse lane, food safety permitting and inspections, medical cann