Sunday May 20th is a morning I will remember for a long time.

My wife Teresa and I sat down at the KXLY anchor desk nearly two hours ealier than usual for Good Morning Northwest Sunday. With no scripts, and no idea what was going to happen, we went on the air. We had very little information about what had happened: A sniper had opened fire in downtown Moscow, Idaho, and people
--including police officers-- were hurt. it was 5:15 a.m.

We did not get up from that desk until 9:45 a.m. But as the new information continued to roll in, the time just flew by. When we finally wrapped up the broadcast and stood for the first time in four and a half hours, it was not a good feeling. Three people were confirmed dead--including a Moscow cop.

Teresa and I drove straight from work to church.---It's where we always are on a Sunday morning at 10:30.
As we walked to our car after mass, a few people asked us questions about the Moscow shootings. At that point, we had very few answers, and it's not something I really wanted to talk about. But one friend approached us saying her family had been watching. She said her ten year old son had pointed us out during mass and asked, “How do they do that?”

What he meant was, how do they show up on TV every Sunday, and then show up at church a short time later, like normal people... But on this particular Sunday, that question kept coming back to me with a much more profound meaning.

“How do they do that?”

I guess I answer that with another question:

How does anyone do it?