personal cause. she is hoping to put the brakes on the fatal lung disease that took her grandmother's life, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the fourth leading cause of death in the u.s. danica joins us live from miami today to tell us about the national health initiative that aims awareness to the disease. danica, good to see you. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. how is it going? >> good. you're doing this and doing this push and spending your time and energy in tribute to your grandmother. tell me first off what affected her? how was her life affected by this illness? >> well, the illness affected her a lot. quality of life was -- was really -- was really not very good by the end. she had oxygen 24 hours a day. she was in a wheelchair because she couldn't walk and she passed away in her 60's so all those things are not good so this disease is -- there's no cure for it. as we like to refer to it copd as you said the long version,