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>> that's exactly what happened with the bumstead family. they were at the hospital the same time we and grace, and her daughter hazel, immediately became friends. they are similar in so many ways. so it felt great to have that connection. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday dear gracie ♪ >> and we found out that we lived within 20 minutes of each other. >> and i kept meeting other families, and they'd say how about that, we live around the corner, two blocks over. three miles, five miles. >> then several other moms and dads in west hills, thousand ...

And the people of los angeles deserve better on such a critically important issue. we've got a lot of facts. we know the facts. we're all intelligent people here. but what i think is lacking is courage to do the right thing. and so i wanted to bring you my daughter's beads of courage. my daughter is a two-time cancer survivor at 9 years old. i heard a lot of good news about nominal exceedences, but you need to understand that these exceedences affect us. we've come to find out that our area is above the national average for childhood cancers. we've had several who have passed away, and this is...

There is something wrong. they have not been transparent in exactly what is going on up there, even now. >> how can one person be diagnosed with thyroid cancer at age 4, two recurrences and end up with an extremely rare uterine cancer with no family history of any kind? >> we were four women. we're all cancer-free, and now fast forward, we're only one cancer-free. >> i had stage 3 to 4 bladder cancer. i just was shocked. and then i was so angry. >> my mother was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2001. she passed away seven weeks later at the age of 58. and my father was diagnosed with chronic lym...

Diagnosed with goiter and that turned into thyroid cancer. my father survived his cancer and my mother suffered with ovarian cancer and colon cancer and she couldn't take it. so my mom actually ended up committing suicide. my oldest sister was diagnosed with brain cancer and glioblastoma. as she was dying two years later, her own daughter was diagnosed with cancer, too, and she passed about just eight months after my sister. >> to hear that your child has a life-threatening disease absolutely shakes you to your core. >> it was really, really devastating to the family. every day was like the ru...

I know you're sore right now. my daughter, grace ellen had just turned 4 years old, when we found bruises all over her body. took her to the pediatrician and found out she had an incredibly rare and aggressive form of childhood leukemia. she had a 20% survival rate. she really endured a lot of suffering that first year. and then she had a year and a half of just wonderful cancer-free childhood. and then gracie's cancer relapsed, and it came back.