people, hire this kid. you will not regret it. he messaged me last year asking maybe what his future would be getting out of the business, clearly he was getting ready to move to charlotte with his fiance and i would have gone out of my way, i would have said hire this kid, he s a great person. he will work hard for you. he will do a great job for you. it s just sad that, you know, he s not here anymore and these memories are great and i want people to talk about him because he was such a great kid and you want to hear more about him and i hear there are more stories and i ll tell anybody that wants to listen about adam ward because he was a great, great person. alison parker, 24, adam ward, 27. so young. i think that s what pulls on the heart strings of so many people. just mentioned adam ward as this eager kid wanting to learn, wanting to soak everything up. what do you think would be the lesson of adam ward for kids coming up in the tv business or high school football players out
the tv station wdbj right now. meanwhile, friends and family of alison parker and adam ward are preparing to say their final good-byes to two television journalists killed wednesday in a sudden shocking act of violence by a former co-worker. adam s family will receive friends monday at high school alma mater in roanoke where guests are encouraged to wear his high school colors. funeral service will be held the following day at nearby first baptist church. grant is the former sports director at wdbj and one of adam ward s mentors. grant, thanks so much for making the time. very tough last few days. adam ward, from everything i ve seen and read, he seemed to be a loving, free-spirited guy who liked to have a good time, diehard sports fan. kind of somebody in the room you would gravitate towards. you see these pictures. and i don t think there s any one that he duoesn t have a smie on his face. he would come around the corner into the sports office and just
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understand that we are there for them today, tomorrow, and any time in the future. i say if there s anything, the resources, the common wealth of virginia, we will be there for them. alison s father said he didn t want her life to be lost in vain and he wanted to impose gun laws, and people mentally unstable from getting guns. he said he talked to you about that. what are your plans? well, he did. and we just had another long conversation. he s going to do, as he told me, what alison would have wanted him to do, to fight to make our community safer. he wants to be very vocal advocate for universe is background checks. and this is something i ve advocated and talked about every single day. i ll talked about it. i introduced legislation. and he really wants to be involved in those efforts. because he said that s what alison would want. something came out of this horrible tragedy, some good to
here in puerto rico getting back to normal. people are vacationing, as you can see, back in water. at least for this island the worst of the storm is over. luke, back to you. good to hear that, janet, thanks so much for your time. enjoy your time in puerto rico. coming up, hillary clinton is about to speak in minneapolis to a crowd of democratic leaders. many of whom just can t keep joe biden off their mind. first, roanoke remembers hundreds came to the wdbj studio to honor alison parker and adam ward last night. we ll talk to adam ward s mentor next. this is andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. here is a simple math problem. two trains leave st. louis for albuquerque at the same time. same cargo, same size, same power. which one arrives first? hint: it s not the one on the left. the speedy guy on the right is part of an intelligent system that creates the optimal trip profile for all trains on the line. and the one on the left? uh, looks like it ll be counting cows for awhil