Local Student Interning In Brussels Gets Crash Course In Covering Terror

(CBS) -- While others were running from the explosions, part of her job was to go towards them.

A local student studying abroad details her time through the terror.

CBS 2's Jeremy Ross has her story and her family's reaction.

He may be at the office, but it is not business as usual for Jeff Kummerer as he video chats with his daughter, Samantha.

"I've never experienced anything like this before," she said.

Samantha is a Reuters video intern working in Brussels as part of her University of Missouri journalism education. Those studies now include a crash course on covering terrorism.

"We got into work and our coworkers were like flying out the doors with cameras and they were like, 'Hey, we need someone to go to the airport," she said.

Soon after she sent her parents a text they may never forget that said, "I'm alive and well and at work love you all."

A day after, Samantha describes an area filled with grief, vigils but also resiliency.

"Right now all of the shops are back open and school are opened again I feel like walking back home from working you don't really know what happened yesterday," Samantha said.

The Kummerers are planning to visit their daughter when she finishes her internship late next month.

It was all part of Christmas gift that now has even more meaning

Samantha says she works minutes from the blast sights and often walks by the metro stop that was under attack.