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Senator Clinton visited Portland again Friday morning. I know some people who dread covering this stuff — the redtape, the waiting, the access issues. But, for whatever reason, I love it.

We started the morning waiting for the Senator to arrive and tour a ward at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

She was visiting a super amazing woman named Jordan Kokich who she first met in 1994 when Jordan asked to meet the First Lady as part of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Further details here. They taped a show for Extra, so we had to work around the show’s schedule and restrictions.

The Senator headed downstairs to do a roundtable and stopped to talk with some employees. Medical Social Worker Rowena Moore says, “It was a very real moment…she seems like she is a mom and a genuine person and she was willing to give me a hug…it was a huge event and there is not always a lot of joy around here.”

There was a brief round table discussion that focused on universal health care.

And finally, Clinton spoke with a woman and her 15-year old granddaughter. This young woman has bone cancer and her parents are uninsured, so her grandmother had to get legal custody of her in order to get her treatments covered.