megan mcdowell lost her brother-in-law in the world trade center south tower and since then she started heart works, an organization with the mission to share the same kindness she felt following that loss, and she joins us now. megan, welcome. so your sister s husband died in the 9/11 attacks and you were just so bulled over by the amount of kindness and good deeds that were given to her in those following months. talk to me about what people did for your sister and how that inspired you to start heart works. hi, rachel. thank you for having me this morning. i think it was just that overwhelming feeling that we were in the worst thing that had ever happened to my family. witnessing my sister being upset, her children being upset. we all know it was kind of one of the worst moments in history and yet on top of that, all of these acts of kindness came in from cups of coffee being left
on her doorstep to somebody raking her leaves to somebody picking her kids up to go to soccer. the phone calls, the hugs when we were out in the grocery stores. it changed me on a cellular level. it really did. the kindness overwhelmed me during our worst possible time. rachel: yeah, it seemed to bring out the best of people in the middle of the horrible tragedy. you started heart works specifically to help other people who are going through that grief process. tell me how you do that through heart works. so heart works has become in my town a place where when something is happening tragic in our town or in our community, we can show up with checks, with buying them a getting them a cleaning service. we can help them get rides into sloan kettering for cancer treatment and pay for the tolls and parking and all the small
first ever pig to human heart transplant. this is fascinating surgeons at the maryland medical center in baltimore placed a genetically mott fied pig s heart in a 67 years old man. the man had a long list of, so far, the heart works, they are taking it day by day. that s amazing. that s remarkable. david ignatious, would you do that if you had to make the choice? i think that situation would not be a choice really. i am worried you lost your place in the q for the next, i think you really hurt your chances here. one of my biggest problems is this is what i am looking for since 1957. where do i go from this?
financial center, and that s where the target was on 9/11. ainsley: we each went out to different communities and interviewed different families, see their stories throughout the week. steve: and that organization that was started by that woman, heart works continues to help people in that town who need help, regardless of what is going wrong in their life. ainsley: we all lived here whether it happened i was in south carolina. it s so true what you all are saying when you come to new york and talk to anyone on the street. steve: everyone has a story. ainsley: everyone has a story. everywhere knew someone. brian: especially people who worked on the pile with all those cancer agents they didn t know about that would slowly kill them still dealing with it. ainsley: still ahead, congressman jim jordan, dakota meyer, clay travis, lee brice, they are going to join us to tell us how they are helping our heroes.