reporting, in essence, doing his job in his final moments. but that s an important piece of evidence. we ve always wondered how it is that this person knew to be there, why this person was at a closed shopping mall at a 6:45 a.m. live broadcast. now, what we re showing you is an off the tube or off the screen still picture. the actual video is much clearer because it doesn t have all those reflections that you see, the yellow glare in the bottom and the glare in the middle that obscures part of what is apparently the person who fired these shots holding a handgun, aiming right at the cameraman just moments after the 6 to 8 shots were fired. we re not showing the entire sequence of video, but it s clearly the reporter and the interview person, the person she s interviewing, the head of the local chamber of commerce, did not know that this person was there.
of commerce there. he was saying this is a very rural area in gentlemvirginia, beautiful place, the lake celebrating their 50th anniversary next year, so that s what vicky gardner was talking about this morning and during this live broadcast at 6:45 in the morning. cliff van sant is with us still this morning. clint, by now and this screen grabbed what appears to show the gunman includes a lot of information. well, it s going to be a lot of information just by the picture, the clothing, the possible weapon. there are news reports, i guess, unconfirmed at this time, but the governor, as you say, the governor of virginia has gone on a radio program indicating his belief that the shooter is a former employee of that tv
participating in a live shot. on the left you see some video we re just getting into our newsroom and it s just coming out. let s come back to that other second picture which is the one i wanted to show you. this is what appears to be a gunman, and this was captured as a still picture captured from the live broadcast from that local cbs station about 6:45 in the morning. it appears to show a gunman. the camera clearly had fallen on its side. this is a vertical picture taken from the horizontal camera, horizontal television screen. that s why you see the graphics on the left there and the right kind of on their side. but what appears to be a gunman. the governor of virginia has said there is a pursuit. the governor has also said that his information is that this person, the shooter, is a disgruntled former employee of that television station. and here you are watching some video that we re just getting into the msnbc newsroom of this
that was even going to happen. it was something to do to promote the 50th anniversary here at the lake, which will be 2016 it will be 50 years old, and she has been heading the committee for the stern committee, which i m on that stern committee also for the lake. curran, tell me about that area. you can see on the left part of your screen, here is the general area of the mall where the chamber of commerce is located. talk to me about the area, geographically speaking. is it something people have to get a car to get to, or are there residential areas nearby that people can walk from? it s on smith mountain lake. you would be crossing a hails port bridge, and when you leave the bridge you go into franklin county. the plaza is right there on the
we continue covering the story out of virginia. two people killed today, reporter alison parker and adam ward, the cameraman while they were taking part in a live broadcast at the local cbs station at a local mall, which is also the head of the chamber of commerce. that s where it is based. and as a matter of fact, alison parker was interviewing, from what we understand, the president of the chamber of commerce when this shooting occurred. there you see the two of them just moments before the at least eight shots were fired. on the right part of your screen is one of the final moments captured on video from the camera that the deceased cameraman had during his live broadcast. and as he fell and the camera fell, it captured what appears to be a gunman. there you see this is a screen grab from an actual live broadcast from a television screen. so there you see some reflections in the middle of it