American Heroes - Behind the Scenes

I just wanted to follow up on what Chris Suchan was saying about Molly's packages this past week.

As a producer on the morning show, we write most of the stories for the shows - with the exception of stories done by reporters. So normally during the show, I'm in the control room doing other things, and not really paying attention to what John and Lenise are saying on air.

But when you can get a producer to stay still for 3 minutes and do nothing but watch your story - you are doing an EXCELLENT job. And that's what Molly and her photographer Trent did.

And behind the scenes - it was even more amazing.

Trent was having one of the hardest weeks of his life - his grandmother passed away early in the week and was buried on Friday. Now as a person who has lost all of his grandparents - the last two being this year within two months of one another - I was both amazing and impressed with Trent.

Trent, who is a former Navy guy, took such a strong interest and had such a connection with the Veteran stories that he came in every day to make sure he edited the stories. He wanted to make sure they were done the way he'd envisioned it.

And he did it well. This is a business where you don't just sit around, and when you can make two anchors, a weatherman and your producer stop everything and watch - you must be doing something right.

We spent a week saluting Veterans, and this morning - I'm saluting our former overnight photographer, Trent Faris.

Good job buddy!