he did make us smile. jay is survived by four children tyler, colton, ka rinn, and carlie. it s a sad day for us. we at cnn newsroom will miss him very much. poppy is here with me now. poppy, he was a good guy. yeah. i mean, he was a great guy. you and i both saw him just a few weeks ago full of smiles, full of laughs, the best hair on television. you re second only to jay, jim. and he was warm and he loved his children. if they re watching, he loved you so much. you brought him so much joy. he loved you too. he loved the team at cnn very much, and he expressed it. folks, if you didn t know him, look at those pictures. you can see the personality coming right across. and what a life. what a life he had. and he got to meet aerosmith, and he was our rock and we will always remember him. he was.
screaming, how you doing, everybody? every single day. the daily routine of tv news never got old for jay. in his free time, jay was known far and wide as an aerosmith superfan. he d seen more than 120 of their shows and when he discovered my first show ever was in 1978 aerosmith show which, of course, he was also at, well, that earned me jay s enduring respect which i treasure. you know, you ve known jay a long or you knew jay a lot longer than i. but coming to new york in june, he was immediately welcoming. right? sometimes when you do a job for a long time you can become a little jaded and newcomers are outside of the box. but he immediately was welcoming. talk about him walking up on to the set with that sheet of paper. i saw him doing that, coming up with the same paper and one day i looked at it. it was a press release from april of 2020 that he kept tucked away just for this.
of the people you re saying i helped whipped up is saying i didn t intend to help him. right now the case isn t great against the president, but again, we don t know what the justice department will uncover. elliot williams, thanks for joining us. thanks, jim. we lost a dear, dear member of our team this weekend. jay conroy was our stage manager, someone just out of the camera frame making sure we get you the news every day. far more important, he was a good friend, a deeply special person. he was kind, sincere, he was generous, and trust us, just so funny. and he looked out for us. when we had to evacuate in 2018 due to a letter bomb threat, it feels jay, there he is on the left, who shepherded us, ordered us, in fact, off the set and out of the building to safety. it was the people around us. i mean, there are people jay,