"It was really hard that day. We still continued to work and try to get whatever information as it was coming through. But I needed a moment because it brought me to memories of just being in Castro, being with my friends. It could have been here, it could have been anywhere. And that's what hit home," said Sade Brown, a production assistant at ABC7 News.
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