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Event Location(s): Cleveland, Ohio | Description: NBC News Senior National Correspondent Kate Snow reports live in Studio 1A with Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Carson Daly. EJ 08:34:06 CLIPS: Clips from documentary showing travelogue footage across the US and filmmaker Hernan Barangan. He says, “The plan is to go to all 50 states. I wanna weave all these teen cancer stories in every region and make a film about their experience from their eyes.” INT MS: In walk and talk, Snow says, “So 50 states?” Barangan says, “Yeah all 50.” Snow says, “How was that?” Barangan says, “Well it was a beautiful experience.” CLIPS: Clips from documentary showing various teenagers with cancer discussing how they discovered they had cancer, losing their high school friends, feeling guilty about how hard it was on their family. INT MS: In interview, Barangan says, “I felt like I was dragging them down with me. It's just a frightening thing that guilt, you know um, not only you know am I possibly dying, but I'm doing this to everybody around me, through no fault of my own.” CLIPS: Clips from documentary showing various teenagers with cancer. INT MS: In interview, Barangan says, “Even in big metropolitan cities I kept running into young people, young patients who would say 'I've never, ever, you're the first person I've met in our age group who is a cancer survivor and--” CLIPS: Clips from documentary showing various teenagers with cancer. INT MS: In interview, Snow says, “That's pretty stunning.” MS: Barangan says, “Yeah absolutely.” INT MS: The Who lead singer Roger Daltrey speaks in press conference. INT MS: Daltrey records vocals in recording studio. EXT DAY MS: Daltrey shakes hands. INT MS: Daltrey poses with teen cancer patient for photos. INT MS: In interview, Daltrey says, “They help each other. They-- they support each other. They talk each other through what they're going through. And it gives them a spirit that-- that is-- is-- wonderful to behold. It really is fantastic.” INT MS: Daltrey plays guitar with teenager. INT BRIEF CUTS: The Who (including Daltrey and Pete Townsend) perform. INT MS: Doorway for teen cancer unit UCLA Daltrey /Townsend Teen & Young Adult Zone. MS: Two teenage boys in the unit watch television. INT CLEVELAND, OHIO MS: Daltrey and Townsend speak in press conference. MS: Daltrey and patient converse. MS: In interview, Diagnosed With Acute Myeloid Leukemia Samantha Krizo says, “This just feels warm and inviting. You've got game rooms. You've got interactive walls. You've got cool, funky-shaped chairs. There is a garden upstairs that we can go to.” MS: Game room in teen cancer unit. MS: Lounge. MS: Indoor garden. Panning shot of the lounge. Panning shot of treatment rooms. CLIPS: Clips from documentary showing various teenagers with cancer. INT MS: In interview, Angie Fowler Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Institute Director Dr. John Letterio says, “Anything we can do to connect them with other individuals, teens and young adults going through the same experience, the better their psychological health will be and in the long run the healthier they'll be.” CLIPS: Clips from documentary showing various teenagers with cancer. INT MS: In interview, Diagnosed With Acute Myeloid Leukemia Nicholas Holmes McGowan says, “Talking to somebody else just makes you feel-- it definitely makes you just feel a lot better.” MS: In interview, Diagnosed With Medulloblastoma Margaux Yerian says, “I want to be friends with-- other people that have gone through this and figure out the next step in my life.” CLIPS: Clips from documentary showing various teenagers with cancer. They discuss what’s next for them having gone through cancer. INT MS: In interview, Barangan says, “Looking back, it really did make me who I am. It's everything about me. It's wrecked parts of my life. And I'm in a wheelchair but hey you know at the same time, my path is mine and I'll own it.” CLIPS: Clips from documentary showing various teenagers with cancer. Snow reports live in-studio and in X-talk discusses the work of Teen Cancer America.