Everybody recognize that these folks are the true heroes.
I know that obviously we're just talking about it
that you've been running
but I know you wanted to share some pictures
of during your runs, you, you you've hooked, you hooked
into frontline workers in moment,
You know, it's
I just think it's so interesting.
It's so great. One of the other things
Different during the pandemic
I think is social media, you know, so much of what we do
is so much about ourselves. Look at that Yay Postmasters
I thought like on the runs, look it look it
and you can see the World Trade Center behind him.
These are the folks who we waved everyday.
You know, you, you still see their faces behind the masks.
And you know, in the beginning there were no cars
in the city.
I was just going for the runs and I would see the
same faces every day. Oh, that's so great.
And I'd ask them, UPS
do you mind if I take your photo, look at ups
1800, but you know what?
They never gave up.
They always smiled.
And I was always like, Hey
do you mind if I take your photo?
And they never did.
And the comments on, on my Instagram
underneath those photos really remind us, Rachel
why you and I do what it is we do.
And that is everybody recognize
that these folks are the true heroes.
They're the ones who really did keep things going.
They still are keeping things going, and they never stopped.
Do you know what I mean?
Everything has sort of stood still in so many ways
but there are select flu- few, our frontline workers
the doctors, the nurses, and, you know, authorities saying
we're almost there, but don't give up now.
We've all been trying to be so responsible.
We've kept a distance.
And, and, and if we can just hold
on a little while longer,
just We're almost there
think about those pictures.
Yeah. All those workers.
Yep. If this is for them
if we just hold on a little bit longer
You went to the studio every single day
during this whole pandemic.
Is that true?
Well, you know, I have, and, and
I've done so with, you know
this dedicated crew that comes in as well.
And, you know, I have a makeshift studio
at home just in case there was COVID exposure along the way.
And we had all the protocols set up
but I thought it was important that if you know, members
of the crew and the team here are coming in to
try to put the news on every night that
that not only do I come in for them to show my support
for that, but also, you know, it's funny, Rachel
you and I have talked
about this so many times over the years, I, you know
sort of it's in my DNA, my reporting DNA
I like to be out there in the field.
And it's sort of, what's driven me ever
since I was, you know, 13 interning at the local TV station.
And I recognize that
over the last year during this pandemic
that what's been most important is actually the inverse
of that is just showing
up here at the news desk every night.
And I just thought it was the way to connect
with everybody at home.
Something they could count on, even in the midst
of all these really difficult headlines that I would be here
for them too.
And so I hope it's made a difference.
It's made a difference for me knowing
that I'm having that conversation every night.
And, and I can start to see the light
at the end of the tunnel.
I'm sure you can too.
And you know, we've done it.
Haven't we with the love and the support
of the people at home watching.
And for us, we learned the converse
to how much people loved seeing us in our home.
We have very different programming.
I mean, I'm cooking
and we're chit chatting with folks and being intimate.
And we discovered a new relationship
with something we were always scared of
which was cross crossing the threshold of our home.
And you learn to appreciate literally the thing
you were most afraid of being chained to a desk
but it brought you closer.
You built intimacy in a new way
and that's the important part, isn't it?
That we learned new ways to connect
with people that we care about.
It's really true.
And you know, I, I will never forget.
This has been more than a year, as you mentioned
13 months from your home.
And I just want to say, I know
that you don't like to make it about yourself
and you never do, but we all know the tragedy that you went
through this last year
the burning of the home and, and, and, and so much loss.
And I know that you like to focus
on others and what they've been through
but I just want to say the gift that you've given people
the strength that you're still smiling, that
and that you kept going.
And I think that, that that's an inspiration too.
And I, I never want to diminish that.
And I certainly know that I've been rooting you on
and I just love the fires going behind you.
And the smile is back on the face and you just kept going.
We are still at home and thank you, my friend, and we've
we've suffered much less than so many.
And we feel so grateful as I'm sure you do.