>> KIERA: I'm just gonna sing it through
one time just to like
remember it.
>> OFF-CAMERA VOICE: All right, let's do it.
Okay, um, so as you saw me before I'm gonna be
singing "Can't Help Falling in Love With You"
so just enjoy it please.
Wise men say
only fools rush in
but I can't help, falling in love with you.
Like a river flows
Surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes
Some things are meant to be.
Take my hand
take my whole life too
oh, for I can't help
falling in love with you,
oh, for I can't help falling in love with
you.
>> OFF-CAMERA VOICE: Bravo.
[clapping]
>> KIERA: Thank you.
>> NEWSCASTER 1: Alright, kickoff coming up with Lowell and Ahmad.
We leave you now with the eyes of Texas.
>> NEWSCASTER 2: Travel times are all looking fantastic at the moment.
>> NEWSCASTER 3: There was a
special Veterans Day ceremony today in
Sutherland Springs, Texas.
>> NEWSCASTER 4: You are still watching Good Day Austin,
but we've got Dr. Oz here.
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>> OFFICER LATULIPPE: On November 11th, 2017, 
I received a phone call
from a hospital social worker. She
was calling from Austin, Texas, and she
was asking me questions about
my cousin, Scott Latulippe.
She's confirming that I know him, and 
that I am the right person to be talking
to. She advised me that Scotty was involved
in a traffic collision, 
he was badly injured and it was very
confusing. 
I recalled a week earlier that my cousin
and his family were going to be
traveling to Austin, Texas.
It started to sink in that this could be
real.
She advised me that Scotty was badly
injured, but Kiera was okay and
in a separate hospital all by herself.
This led me to ask the question of
where are the other two? Where's Nancy
and Jackson?
At that moment I hung up the phone. Oddly
enough, my own CHP training
kicked in it and I almost started
responding to a collision.
We got in the car, my wife was arranging
plane tickets.
There was one last flight to head from
San Diego to Austin
and I made it to the airport in time and
got on an airplane.
I walked into a hospital room with
a 10-year-old who,
who I'm pretty sure knew what was
happening.
But as soon as she saw me, absolutely
knew what was happening.
>> KIERA: So, we were in the car, we were all silent and
we were just driving and
we're going to the airport obviously
to go home
and then it happened.
And then I look up and then
all I see,
is like it's all slow motion, I see dust
and glass flying and
a...
I just remember looking
at everyone and I was
and all I was thinking I was like I was like
I love you I love you I love you
because I didn't know what's going to
happen next.
Police say the driver who caused
Saturday's deadly crash shutting down
US 183 for several hours,
was drunk.
Police say Guy Brasted was
driving north, Saturday around 3:30 in
the afternoon
when his Jeep broke through the cables
in the median and crossed into oncoming
traffic. He hit a Fiat carrying a family of four
from California.
I look around and I saw I was the only
one up.
And the police came and then the
firefighters took me then I was on the
back of their truck. And they were
talking to me saying
everything was gonna be okay and deep down I
knew it wasn't gonna be okay but-
In a moment that will haunt me for the
rest of my life, I had to
tell her that her mother and brother
were dead,
her father was in grave condition, I had
no idea how bad he was.
>> KIERA: When he told me that my mom and my
brother had passed away
it was hard, it was insanely hard
but
the only good thing was that they
weren't in pain
it was, it was pretty quick.
>> OFFICER LATULIPPE: Once I got a few more family members there with Kiera
we, my other cousin and I were able to
go and visit Scott
and
walking into a room and seeing
his, the state that he was in, I instantly knew that
suddenly this child was now going
to be in my hands.
Scott Latulippe was the front seat
passenger when a wrong-way driver
hit the family's rental car.
His wife Nancy and son Jackson died at the scene.
KXAN's Erin Cargile
now joining us live from the scene of
the crash on 183 and Erin, that means that
10-year-old daughter is the lone survivor.
That is right just to put that into
perspective, she lost her entire family
in one car crash.
>> OFFICER LATULIPPE: Scotty died in that crash, 
his body survived
gave Kiera a chance to say goodbye,
say a proper goodbye to him,
but he died in that crash
with Jackson and Nancy.
[School bell ringing]
>> OFFICER LATULIPPE: Hey guys, let's get rolling.
>> RYAN LATULIPPE: So, alright thank you guys for coming.
Some of you guys I know aren't
in leadership, so thanks for
making it. So Molly's going to pass out all your
scripts and stuff to those of you that
have
speaking roles and stuff in this.
>> OFFICER LATULIPPE: I try
to honor my family members by continuing
to speak about this and by
standing in front of crowds of people
and
whether that day I cry, whether that day
I don't cry
I will tell the story in the hopes
of
getting one person in that crowd to not
make the same mistake
that was made, the same bad choice.
Good people make bad choices.
A lot of times we do have other people make 
an impact statement
kind of similar to what
you know my family had to do.
You know, maybe the injured party
what's your injuries?
>> STUDENT: I have a broken leg.
>> OFFICER LATULIPPE: Broken leg?
Okay, so we may we bring you in crutches
or something like that
and then you get up and and say what
this has done to you.
Okay, my leg is permanently damaged, I
can't run track anymore.
I can't, some of my dreams were crushed
by what happened.
So right after the crash, right, have a
thought about what you're
supposed to be doing. Are you
groaning?
Are you saying, oh my god? Are you saying,
oh I'm bleeding, I'm bleeding, I'm bleeding.
>> STUDENT: I can't move my legs.
>> OFFICER LATULIPPE: I can't move my legs.
I hope that I'm helping, I hope,
you can't measure something that doesn't
occur so I don't know if it's working or
not.
I think it is, but you never know for sure.
Here comes the waterworks.
>> OFFICER LATULIPPE: You're never ready for, to take over as someone's parent
and that's not what I'm trying to do.
She'll have to deal with this at some
point in her own manner,
but I don't know how that is yet.
We keep, she has to keep moving.
My family needs to keep moving
and we all play a part in that.
I have a very, very, strong family and we
are
resilient and we won't give up. 
There is no choice for us
but to keep moving.
[Kiera singing]
>> KIERA: It takes me away from real life and
I'm just in my own moment and
everything around me is silent and all I
can hear is my voice and
it makes me really happy and proud.
I forget about every
everything that's going on in my life.
[Kiera singing]
It fixes it for just that tiny second,
but that tiny second is like
a moment, one moment where you don't have
to worry.
[Kiera singing]
[Church bells ringing]
>> OFFICER LATULIPPE: The last couple of years have been so,
just non-stop that it,
I don't know if you could say we've
grieved really because we've,
all I've been doing is trying to 
keep their little girl above water and
not fall too far into despair.
And try to keep my own family from
coming off the hinges as well.
DUI, one guy took this all away. Just amazing
people that should still be here. I shouldn't
even be telling the story, I shouldn't
even be talking.
I should have just the common DUI
speech about point zero eight and don't
do it. Have somebody else be talking, but no
it's me that's okay.
That's what I'll do, but I shouldn't be
doing it.
>> OFFICER LATULIPPE: When a DUI crash occurs, the effect goes far beyond those
involved in the crash, those cars that are
on the street.
I'd like to show you how DUI affected
my life.
[Kiera singing]
