work, but again, this is just a little more into this man s background, the person they are pursuing right now. well, he claims on this twitter that he filed another eeoc complaint against perhaps one of the current station employees as well. i m sure what s going on here is he wants attention for the shooting and they don t want him to have it. but right now it s unavoidable attention given that there is a pursuit going on right now, and you obviously have national interests in what is an unbelievable thing that played out on live television. it s impossible to shut down all of social media and the responsibility of reporting that we have going on here. let me go to nbc news and msnbc news analyst jim cavanaugh. he s an atf special agent. picking up on that, to pete s point, we run into this
true his version of events to be known or to be made public but if he s taken his own life he did not want to be questioned regarding his motive and why he would carry out such an awful crime. we re going to a break and will be back with more breaking details on the news playing out in virginia. reporter alison parker and photographer adam ward both killed during a live television report. we ll be right back. whsay real e first ingredient, it is number one. when we say there s no corn, wheat or soy, it s not there. learn more at purinabeyond.com no student s ever been the king of the campus on day one. but you re armed with a roomy new jansport backpack,
quick pause on the political beat today. live pictures in iowa. we are waiting to see hillary clinton. she just spoke at a community college there, and she will now make herself available to members of the media and the key question i m sure at least one reporter will ask is the fact that she cut her vacation short. she s now back out on the trailed with the potential of a vice president joe biden showing his hat in the ring for 2016. would there be any worry about her front-runner status for the democratic party so we ll watch for her and any comments on that. meantime, if you are just now joining us here, just absolute tragedy this morning in virginia unfolding on live tv, two young journalists lives cut short covering stories in their own communities and the sheriff moment ago made the announcement that this gunman, vester flanagan, was his legal name, went by bryce williams on
in these postings before they were taken down, he made a number of complaints, including one specifically against the reporter he shot here today. we continue to follow the breaking news as this suspect, vester flanagan, is still not in custody this hour. the shooting took place around 6:45 eastern time. the virginia state police obviously using all of its resources to locate this person who has chosen, according to police, to communicate at least at some point this morning through social media. we ll follow this story and bring you the latest on this manhunt. it was absolutely horrific, a crime that played out on television. we ll go to a break and be right back. luscious crab lover s dream or savory snow crab bake. i m just getting started so hurry in and get crackin
way, that s entirely fine. what i m pointing out is we try to figure out the motive behind somebody who is a disturbed psychopathic individual. they have reasons for doing things like i never got the attention i wanted, i never got the position i wanted, the woman never showed me any respect. they re going to have a bunch of them because they have a whole different world they live in, so we don t really need to worry too much what the moeftive is. what we do know is he wanted to feel power and control and just weed out the people he felt had dissed him in some way. that s all we really know. jim, let me bring you in. we don t know if there was contact this morning between the two victims, and again, the third woman who is now in surgery, and this suspect. we do know, though, that this played out on live television, that he is a former disgruntled employee. this individual would have known this was playing out on television as it happened. he s an employee, a former