Bill Hemmer, the co-host of “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News, was absent from the show for several days.

As happens whenever a popular TV news personality isn’t on the air for more than a day or two, questions arise about where they are and when they are coming back. In Hemmer’s case, the answer is easy: He returned to co-host the show on Monday, Feb. 10.

Hemmer co-hosts the show, which airs at 7 a.m. in Arizona, with Dana Perino. He also operates the network’s “Bill-Board” during election coverage, an analyst role similar to that of Steve Kornacki on MSNBC or John King on CNN. Hemmer, 60, joined the network in 2005 after working at CNN since 1995.

Where was Bill Hemmer?

Hemmer was gone because of the death of his father, William R. Hemmer, who died on Feb. 1. Bill Hemmer’s Fox News colleagues, Perino and Bret Baier, offered an on-air tribute to the elder Hemmer.

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And Bill Hemmer posted his own tribute on Instagram honoring his father. It reads, in part: “I loved this man and every single moment I had with him. He was wise, funny, ethical, graduated top of his class from the School of Sarcasm.”

William Hemmer was 85.