>> when skylar started nursery school, she made her first friend, morgan lawrence. morgan was drawn right away to skylar. did she kind of light up a room? >> oh, yeah, she had the giggle and the laugh. >> the girls'families became good friends, too. morgan's parents say morgan and skylar were like sisters. >> what are your memories of skylar when she was this high? >> she giggled all the time. it just filled our house. >> she had the biggest eyes. you'd just want to hug her. >> they were good girls, got good grades. morgan dreamed of becoming a meteorologist. skylar, a criminal lawyer. they also had a pact, that they would always be there for one another. and you would both be in each other's wedding parties? >> everyone has a sister to put in their wedding, and we had each other. >> as freshmen at morgantown's university high school, the two girls drifted apart a little. with a new school came new friends. classmate daniel hovater said the bubbly skylar fit in right away. >> friends came first for her. she was always about hanging out with friends if she didn't have

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morgan: learning loss, ron desantis had more learning loss during cody, fourth grade reading, fourth grade math, 8th grade reading and math. we outperformed you. >> ainsley: that's not true. we talked about the numbers yesterday, right, lawrenceeld up -- we went on that big board over there and showed efficiency in math yesterday and the numbers were better in florida this the is time where parents were figuring out what was being taught to their kids. there was a point in the debate and we played that in the flashback there where he is questioning -- ron desantis brings one of the books and he says do you support this? pornography being taught to our kids and all newsom does is accuse desantis of being a hateful person. never addressing should kids be having that material in their classroom. so it was really a debate of facts vs. emotions. and i just wonder if the independent voters are going to buy the slick guy or are they going to buy the facts that happened in florida. >> i don't think desantis is vulnerable on covid. is he not vulnerable when it comes to taxes, zero tax in the state. people come there because they want additional opportunities. is he not vulnerable on illegal immigration. they thought it was gavin newso

morgan, so much for being with us in the studio. i have shared with you my immense pride in my beloved father air force co lawrence e.country in a segregated unit in world war ii. now a young air man from that unit missing for nearly 80 years is finally home at last. the tuskeegee airmen, fighting for america abroad when they didn't have equal rights back home. they were america's first black military aviators who served during world war ii. but some never came back home. >> ready, aim, fire. >> reporter: in 1944, lieutenant fred brewer was just 23 years old, one of the 57 fighters assigned to escort bombers to their targets in southern germany. while in route to one of the target, brewer's plane crashed in italy. but brewer was declared missing in action, and no remains were found. >> i went ahead and submitted the dna. basically, in my mind, why not? a tuskeegee air man in my family? oh, wow. this is special. >> reporter: but generations later, a surprise discovery of unidentified remains from the area were sent to the defense pow mia accounting lab in omaha, nebraska, who used dna samples to make a positive i.d. >