welcome back to our viewers this united states and around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom. good to have you with us. i m george howell. the headlines we are following this hour, in the u.s. state of virginia, people held a vigil on thursday evening for the two tv journalists killed on air wednesday morning. an activist group organized the event honoring their lives. the lives of reporter alison parker and photojournalist adam ward. the group is calling for an end to gun violence. a horrific tragedy at sea near the libyan coast. reports say 200 people are feared dead after a ship filled with african migrants bound for italy sank on thursday. at least 200 people were reportedly rescued. u.s. president obama greeted residents in new orleans while looking at the effort s to rebuild the city.
and you want to do something to change things. what do you think needs to change? what do you believe can change? well, i think what can change is we need more help from you guys in the media. because you just lost someone in the fraternity. alison was one of your own. with the crews that i talked to and the other reporters that i ve spoken with today, you know, they have all been shattered because they realize and they all have been it struck a chord because they realize that could have been them. so, you know, what can t happen is, you know, here s another tragedy. sandy hook, after sandy hook and the theater shootings, everybody thought, gosh, this is terrible, virginia tech, we ve got to do something to keep people that
because they were in the business just like alison and i were in the business. i worked until about midnight. would come home around midnight and would stay up for her and be there for her as she woke up and got started with her day. yesterday morning, i made her her favorite scrambled eggs and a smoothie and packed her a lunch. i had never done that before, for any woman, for anyone. i wanted to do it for alison. i just took so much joy and something so minor as cutting strawberries to pack for her lunch. and you know, she was the most important thing in the world to me. so i did worry. i worried about her just like anybody would worry about the person that they love the most. and so we would text each other when we got to work like so many other couples do. she would have to go to work in the middle of the night. so of course, i wanted to hear
the next day. if you want to move up, you can t stay in the same location. it was her last day of work. alison brought her a bottle of wipe and balloons to say good-bye. you guys have the most amazing memories. thank you so much for sharing them with us. thank you. thank you. we ll be right back. to folks out there whose diabetic nerve pain. shoots and burns
manager jeff marks and alison parker s boyfriend in an extensive interview about this difficult topic. we want to play that conversation for you in its entirety. chris, wow, i feel like i think a lot of us feel like we know you and knew alison by just the jobs you had, the life you shared. reading about you, looks like on your late shift and her early shift, you had a way of communicating. you would ask her to text you when she got to work. could you just tell us about that? thank you for asking me that question. yeah, it s tough to be in this business, right? and we lost two of our own. two of us. and we get each other. and that s why adam and malieli were such a strong couple and will remain a strong couple