News for Thursday, November 19th, 2015 (updated)

• WPMI-TV had parts of an interview with a candidate for the presidency of the United States during his visit to Mobile on their local 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. news programs (the name of the candidate was Benjamin (Ben) Carson). 

• WALA-TV had parts of a speech by the candidate for the presidency of the United States mentioned in the first paragraph of this report broadcast live (both audibly and visually) on their local 4:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m.") today (the official World Wide Web site for WPMI-TV had parts of the speech that were not broadcast live by WALA-TV). 

• One of the news presenters for WALA-TV (Bob Grip) said a former student (and football player) for a college he used to attend had "suffered a most unbelievable loss" while presenting a report about the parents of the former student for WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. news program this past Wednesday, November 18th (the name of the former student was Douglas Flutie; the name of the college was Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; the name of the news program was "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m."). 

(update for Friday, November 20th, 2015: video of the interview mentioned in the first paragraph of this report was added to the official World Wide Web site for WPMI-TV about 22 minutes after this report was originally published)