. >> reporter: on vance, patrisha fantes, news 4 producer, 7 years. >> vance treated everybody like familyi've only been here for seven years and there's people that have known him for decades, and he treated everybody the same. i remember he threw a party for our p.a. who got her first reporter job, and he had everybody there. and her parents were there and it was somebody who had only been at the station a couple of years. and somebody who he mentored, and he does that a lot. >> he was a presence in this market. he was like the d.c. sky line. you just expected to see him and the fact that he's gone, there's a big hole there. it's like, wow, i mean he's no longer here. that's really hard to grasp. imprint is all over this place. >> and will be always. >> indeed. so, some rocky weather out there, amelia. >> i thought it was so poignant tonight. bob came in for that service that we had and he said just how meaningful it was. he was driving in, saw the rainbow over the station. and if that wasn't symbolic, i mean, what is. >> it was a message. >> absolutely, yeah. so, as we look to the next