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>> reporter: word that danielle's body had been found was tearing through south view high school. >> somebody messaged me. i can't remember who it was. and they told me, "turn on the news." and i turned on the news, and they were -- it was, like, the video of them pulling the body out. and i called my mom's work and i was crying on the phone. i was just begging her to come home. >> reporter: danielle's family, too, was trying to come to grips with her death. her grandfather, who'd let danielle leave that night, was plagued by guilt. so was her grandma kelly. >> i feel like i failed. i failed m...

And it circled and circled and circled and flew away. i haven't seen the eagle since. so maybe that's my beau. [ applause ] sorry. i shouldn't have gone there. sorry. >> so, adam, that was joe biden today. and for better or worse, by way of explaining the guy to all those of us who have been around him, that's joe biden. and that's why i'm sure this story does hit him hard. >> yeah. there's no question that, you know, his relationship with his two boys was incredibly intense and the relationship between the two brothers was incredibly intense. you know, when he decided not to run in 2016, i th...

Run in 2016, i think, you know, the public explanation for that was that it was because of beau's death. >> mm-hmm. >> and that he hadn't completed the mourning process. but i think part of the decision that biden made was also his concerns about his other son, hunter, who was going through some very difficult personal struggles at the time with drug addiction. and, you know, seeing, i think, you know, from talking to hunter about this, you know, the relationship between hunter and his father is very important to both of them. and, you know, there was one moment. i can't remember if it was in ...

The public explanation for that was that it was because of beau's death and that he hadn't completed the mourning process. but i think part of the decision that biden made was also his concerns about his other son, hunter, who was going through some very difficult personal struggles at the time with drug addiction. and you know, seeing, i think from talking to hunter about this, you know, the relationship between hunter and his father is very important to both of them. and, you know, there was one moment -- i can't remember if it was in the piece that i did. it might have been cut out. but the...

I think it's personal. people's lives are being messed up. we have to step in and provide hope. >> it's so tough in the hours and in the first few days that follow because you were saying to me you were hoping sort of that you would wake up and it will be a bad dream. i'm sure you're not alone in that. the shock is giving way a little bit so the mourning process can begin. what are hearing from the folks in your church community what folks need and what they want to give? >> i think people are ready to jump in and they want community and want to be around each other. i think when there's someb...