and welcome to today on this monday morning, i m ann curry. and i m lester holt, in for matt this morning. welcome back from cannes. okay, thank you so much. the story that they made you go? they made me go. they made me stay for two days. it was so hard. but no, it s really fun. great to be here with you today. we re talking about what happened in chicago over the weekend. things got a bit rough and tumble. this is the last day of the nato summit there with new protests planned, some downtown businesses have actually told their employees to stay home today. exactly. you can see why in these images from sunday. dozens were injured, including at least four police officers and demonstrators voiced their opposition to the war in afghanistan and other issues. protests that provided a rather unusual backdrop to one couple s wedding day photographs. she does not look particularly pleased about that. we ll have more on this straight ahead. also we re going to get the
and welcome to today on this monday morning, i m ann curry. and i m lester holt, in for matt this morning. welcome back from cannes. okay, thank you so much. the story that they made you go? they made me go. they made me stay for two days. it was so hard. but no, it s really fun. great to be here with you today. we re talking about what happened in chicago over the weekend. things got a bit rough and tumble. this is the last day of the nato summit there with new protests planned, some downtown businesses have actually told their employees to stay home today. exactly. you can see why in these images from sunday. dozens were injured, including at least four police officers and demonstrators voiced their opposition to the war in afghanistan and other issues. protests that provided a rather unusual backdrop to one couple s wedding day photographs. she does not look particularly pleased about that. we ll have more on this straight ahead. also we re going to get the
but for now, at least she was alive. whitney s mom was hoping and praying that her daughter had also survived. and then the phone rang. right. coming up difficult news about whitney and something puzzling about laura. we didn t recognize the shoes. we thought she must have been wearing someone else s shoes. a twist of fate continues in a moment. what makes the sleep number store different?
i just don t know how strong a parent i am. would i be able to handle taking care of a daughter in a serious accident knowing that maybe she s going to be a vegetable for the rest of her life. i ll be honest with you. at that point we just said we re thankful that whitney s gone and that the van ryns are strong enough to deal with the situation that they re dealing with. he couldn t know at the time how deeply ironic his words actually were. coming up laura begins to wake up. her boyfriend looked at her eyes and said the color appears different. when a twist of fate continues. [ male announcer ] talking a big game about your engine is one thing. having a proven history that can back it all up is a whole other story. unsurpassed torque. incredible towing. legendary cummins engines.
there they met the university official who had identified whitney s body. he s a good friend of ours. we thanked him for what he had done, and my heart was just praying for him for him not to have it hurt too much. we felt bad that he was the one that had those visions in his head. and no questions about what did you see no. how was she, nothing? no. i never even had an inkling of even asking him anything like that. i just felt really bad that he had to do that. we grieve, and we mourn. laura s family left her bedside for a few hours to attend the service. what do you remember about that memorial service? powerful. the place was packed. one of the most powerful speeches came from whitney s father. the lord jesus excite has her in his presence right now and that one day we ll see her again.