mr. walton, this is unfair. how do you plan to address truancy?laughter] >> i don't know if it's fair or unfair. first, i want it have a moment of silence for joe tatuey, who was murdered. he's a member of the street violence prevention program that provided out reach and connected our young folks to safety and he was gunned down a couple weeks ago. the last two days we've been spent remembering him and memorializing him. i want it ask for a brief moment of silence for him. thank you. with that said, there's -- there are things that we've done that have worked in the past that we have not had the same resources for to address truancy. let me give you an example. we had a program at daniel west elementary school. if we have a truancy program at an elementary school, that means there is something going on in the home that is causing the fact that our children are not going to school. so we put a program together with the department of youth and families where we called the children, we woke them up every day, we picked them up, we fed them breakfast

the waltons, too, said they were grateful for friends, new and old, especially young porsche who beamed when we showed her a picture of her rescuer on a smart phone. >> is that mrat did he do? >> he saved us. >> he saved you! >> hi. how are you? >> good. how are you? >> nice to see you again. >> three days after the worst day of their lives, the walt yonz were reunited with their hero. >> thank you, brother. how are you? >> abdul haji is a father and a muslim. it's not lost on him that he is forever linked to a christian family who chose to live in kenya. >> that's what humanity is all b it happened that i was a muslim and they were christians. but at that time, what i was seeing was a little girl and her mother. i was not seeing what religion that person was. >> lots of emotions. >> as we've been able to tell this story and spend time with haji and, you know, to see the courage of a man like that, there is an inspiration for me. >> and blez walton said he had a new perspective. >> you've seen the worst of humanity and the best of humanity. >> yeah, same day. just a miracle to be able to live both of those in one day. >> and for katherine and her children, as d