. >> woodruff: thank you, charlayne.olutely. she was a pillar of strength for everyone out there and for us at the "newshour". charlayne hunter-gault, kevin merida, john dickerson, amy walter, we thank you all. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: now, more remembrances of gwen, from rick berke, executive editor at stat news, and worked with gwen at the "baltimore evening sun" in the 1980s. pete williams is justice correspondent for nbc news, where gwen used to cover congress and politics. karen tumulty is national political correspondent for the "washington post." she and gwen covered the jesse jackson presidential campaign together in 1988. and reverend william lamar iv is pastor of the metropolitan african methodist episcopal church in washington. he has known the ifill family going back decades. and yamiche alcindor of the "new york times." gwen was a mentor to her. pastor lamar, i want to start with you. you knew gwen in a way none of us at the table did. besides church every weekend, coming up through the church, the ifil