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ABC and NBC both rounded out their Minneapolis coverage with the conventional inspirational weekending closer. NBC's Making a Difference featured the same school bus hero that all three networks honored yesterday (text link). Ron Mott accompanied 20-year-old counselor Jeremy Hernandez round his neighborhood as he was congratulated by all--"adulation, the hugs, signs of a job well done"--for making sure his campers were safe. Money troubles forced Hernandez to drop out of college last year and return to work at the community center that runs the camp. Maybe the national exposure really will make a difference and get parlayed into a scholarship.
Charles Gibson named newlyweds Christine and Nathan Lund as ABC's Persons of the Week: he is a dental student and she a nurse; when the bridge fell down they grabbed their stethoscopes and raced to the water's edge, offering first aid, performing triage and flagging down pick-up trucks to transport the injured to hospital. They had to take a boat across the Mississippi to get to the carnage.
UPDATE: sure enough, on August 7th, according to NBC's Ann Curry, the Dunwoody College of Technology offered Hernandez an all-expenses scholarship to complete his course.
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