prayers and telling them we stand with you. we're with you in this time of grief. some reporters from a sister station in missouri have traveled out to virginia here to report for the station, to allow these employees a little room and a little time to mourn the loss of their two colleagues, those young journalists, alison parker and adam ward. jose. >> thank you very much. reaction continues to pour in from around the world, around the country, of course, including from president obama. let's go to the white house now and msnbc's kasie hunt. good morning. what's the president been saying? >> jose, good morning. we haven't heard too extensively from the president. he is preparing to head to new orleans today, as we head towards the anniversary of katrina, but he did speak with a local tv station and he raised concerns about gun violence and what happens in these incidents. take a listen. >> it breaks my heart every time you read about or hear about these kinds of incidents. what we know is that the number of people who die from