Jenna Bush Hager returned to The Today Show Thursday (Sept. 4) morning after her mysterious absence to share an emotional interview highlighting how the families of the Camp Mystic victims who were killed by the Texas floods in July are attempting to prevent it from ever happening again.

Bush Hager, who previously shared that her own mother was a counselor at Camp Mystic, was present on The Today Show to introduce the moving segment.

“Jenna just back from Texas where she sat down with seven campers’ families for a really emotional conversation about loss,” Craig Melvin explained.

The segment featured the parents and loved ones of seven of the young girls who were killed in the floods: Hadley, Cile, Mary, Molly, Virginia, Lila and Abby. One such parent, Carrie Hanna, was an acquaintance of Bush Hager’s from her childhood.

“These seven girls are just seven of Heaven’s 27, taken too soon from their loving families and their bright futures at a place all their families treasured: Camp Mystic,” Bush Hager explained in the segment.

The parents mobilized together to get the Heaven’s 27 Camp Safety Act, which pushes for better safety measures to be implemented in Texas youth camps. The bill could be signed as soon as this Friday, Sept. 5.

“What’s being laid out in this bill should be the bare minimum for what these camps should be looking to implement,” Ryan Dewitt, parent of victim Molly Dewitt, said.

Bush Hager praised the parents for pursuing their “truly remarkable” goal amid their grief.

“Watching you all from afar and the depths of your grief advocate on behalf of my kids who go to camp here in Texas and everybody else’s kids has been truly remarkable,” she told the parents during the interview.

Speaking to Melvin, Laura Jarrett and Carson Daly on The Today Show, Bush Hager continued singing their praises, noting their work “shows you that change is possible even in a polarized country.”

“When you think about how fast they mobilized and how they rely on each other as a family that they never wanted to be part of, but they said this grief it could not stand. But at least they have each other,” she said.

Today airs weekdays at 7/6c on NBC.