--- title: WFAA News 8 Gloria Campos Surprised by Ke onte Cook Who She Featured description: A Dallas news anchor helped a young boy find new parents, and he surprises her on air in this viral video. canonical: https://time.com/32532/watch-this-boy-surprise-a-tv-anchor-whose-story-helped-him-get-adopted/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-20T20:16:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:59.927Z og:title: Watch This Former Foster Child Surprise a TV Anchor Whose Story Helped Him Get Adopted og:description: The journalist bursts into tears of joy on air. og:url: https://time.com/32532/watch-this-boy-surprise-a-tv-anchor-whose-story-helped-him-get-adopted/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Former Foster Child Surprise a TV Anchor Whose Story Helped Him Get Adopted twitter:description: The journalist bursts into tears of joy on air. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Boy Surprise a TV Anchor Whose Story Helped Him Get Adopted  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 20, 2014 8:16 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 20, 2014 8:16 PM CUT At around the 2:50 mark of this video, [watch news anchor](http://www.wfaa.com/community/wednesdays-child/wed-child-248681261.html "undefined") Gloria Campos of [WFAA](http://www.wfaa.com/community/wednesdays-child/wed-child-248681261.html "undefined") in Dallas break down in tears of happiness when she is surprised — on air — by a 14-year-old boy who used to be in foster care and has found a new home after his adoptive parents saw a segment she did about the youngster five years ago. In 2007, the Dallas newswoman featured eight-year-old Ke’onte on Wednesday’s Child, a TV program that raises awareness about abused and neglected children in foster care. When he did not find parents willing to adopt him after the 2007 report, she did another one two years later. After watching the 2009 report, a couple named Carol and Scott Cook decided to adopt him. And he was in bad shape, too, having taken so many medications in foster care that his new mother would find him disoriented, walking around in circles in his room. Now, [WFAA reports](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frqSWmtOWmA "undefined") that he is off medication and is an avid runner, hiker, and dancer. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/32532/watch-this-boy-surprise-a-tv-anchor-whose-story-helped-him-get-adopted/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/32532/watch-this-boy-surprise-a-tv-anchor-whose-story-helped-him-get-adopted/"},"headline":"Watch This Boy Surprise a TV Anchor Whose Story Helped Him Get Adopted","datePublished":"2014-03-20T20:16:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:59.927Z","description":"The most heartwarming video you'll watch all day","url":"https://time.com/32532/watch-this-boy-surprise-a-tv-anchor-whose-story-helped-him-get-adopted/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/32532/watch-this-boy-surprise-a-tv-anchor-whose-story-helped-him-get-adopted/","name":"Watch This Boy Surprise a TV Anchor Whose Story Helped Him Get Adopted"}}]}] ```