. >> my name is dean mcauley. i'm a professional firefighter up here in washington state.toh year -- route 91 harvest fest in las vegas. it's what we do. >> my name is jonathan smith and i am a copy repair technician based out of orange california. i recently just got into country music i know people are like "why is there a black guy at a country music festival, but i've always listened to country. i can listen to any country song and it'll just take me away. >> my name gianna baca and i am a cheer leader. my sister natalia baca, she's sassy like me. the best thing about being a twin is that we're always together and we're never alone so you always have a best friend with you. >> my name's lisa fine. and i have two children, and i'm a professional organizer and personal trainer, nutritionist. and i live in roseville, california. >> my name is michael greenfield. i'm a musician, stage technician, i do a lot of different shows out here. anywhere from corpora events to full on stage concerts. >> i'm nick miller. i'm

like first responder dean mcauley. >> reporter: we're all tryin' to heal.husband duties and my dad duties. i'll be walking with my son and i'll just zone out for ten 15 seconds thinkin' about that night. it's kinda hard for me to get over that hump right now. counselors say that rather than look for closure, establish a new normal. >> i think about sonny all the time. what i've been trying to make myself do is the things that i know he would want me to continue to do. within a few weeks, heather will move into the house she and sonny had spent two years building. >> reporter: every color choice, every cabinet choice, we both did together and so this was our dream. to keep sonny close, she buried him in their backyard. in his favorite eric church t-shirt. >> he loved that land. he loved the property. there wasn't any other place that i felt was more suitable to him. >> we spent a lot of time out of this deck, just kind of watching the sunset. >> reporter: and she's planning one final tribute to her husband a tattoo with the words of the eric church song "why

. >> mcauley from george expressed frustration with the process and i appreciate your response that you can't test a system until the system is a place. the bureau has had a number of problems in terms of failing to adequately test systems and products. and when they do test them they are not using the results to inform their decision-making. >> well, we will. >> that's comforting to know, and i am certain under your leadership that that will happen. but that's one of the frustrations again that we have is that you have the gao, the oig, this committee making recommendations. it's not just the commerce to department. we want to make sure this is such a serious issue, we want to make sure that systems are tested and the results are used in decision-making. mr. chairman, i appreciate the opportunity to submit questions and i yield back. >> and the i.t. part was a very key one in the gao recommendations. and as i had mentioned earlier, our budget is more than what they felt was the minimum required. they required thinking, as opposed to i think it was 36, that the former administration had

we have a message to you from dean mcauley.f you and your strength and your ability to stay calm. you are a very bright moment for me last night. i hope someday we can reconnect and i can give you a big hug and that dog i was showing you pictures of, there she is, she is right there. she says hello to you as well. >> natalia looking forward to that hug? >> yes, dean was an amazing guy. he stuck with me through the whole night and i just give him full props for actually saving my life and, you know, he could have like not acknowledged me in that tent. he was just a volunteer that was taking his time out of that night and saving people's lives and he didn't have to, but he is a very strong man and his family should be very proud of what he's doing. >> while we have you, natalia, do you have anything to say to your sister? >> i just want to -- i don't know, we're very strong twins and i feel like everybody should just be impacted on this and just to be -- just to be thankful that we have lives and just keep believing and you never