It was a somber moment for NBC journalists the morning of September 16 as they mourned two of their own.
In a fatal helicopter crash the night of September 15 in Los Angeles, NBC Los Angeles anchor Eliana Moreno and NewsChopper 4 pilot George Marciniw were among the three identified victims.
"It's a sad story this morning," Savannah Guthrie started off saying on NBC's TODAY, with her and co-anchor Craig Melvin covering the news of the crash on the morning news show.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the pair were covering a fatal bus crash in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Chatsworth when their helicopter went down, taking both their lives and that of a third person, who has not yet been identified.
While George identified himself as a "news pilot" and had decades of flying experience, Eliana was the network's bilingual reporter, covering for NBC Los Angeles as well as Telemundo 52.
"Two of the reporters were our NBC colleagues," Savannah noted during her broadcast, and after reporting from the scene, they spoke with Lynette Romero, a co-anchor of NBC Los Angeles' early morning broadcast, who emotionally paid tribute to her two colleagues.
"We are heartbroken," she tol...