What was happening, myself at that time. Reporter Police Identified the shooter as vester lee flannigan, who was a former reporter. He was known as Bryce Williams on air. But officials from the cbs affiliate wdbj7 says he was difficult to work with and caused an incident when he was fired two years ago. After many, instances of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him. He did not take that well. We had to call the the police to escort him from the building. Reporter after the shooting a manhunt ensued involving several Law Enforcement agencies. While on the run, flannigan tweeted out grievances he had claiming parker made racist remarks, and ward complained about him to human resources. If this story was not gut wrenching enough, flannigan then put video of his shooting on to twitter and facebook. He was apparently recording as he pulled the trigger. Both social networking sites quickly suspended the accounts. After several hours of running from the the authorities, flannigan tur
Gunned down on live television. The shooting sent shock waves across the country ton night authorities are still trying to piece together why this happen. Hello, im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. The gunman shot and killed himself after leading police on a chase and tonight new details are owing about him and his connect to the victims. We want to come together reporter Allison Parker and photographer adam ward were on the live wednesday morning conducting an interview when their former coworker ambushed them. Both died. The woman they were interviewing was wounded. Police identified the shooter as 41yearold Vester Flanagan. He posted his own view of the shooting on social mia. Police say he shot himself as they closed in on his car about 200 miles away. He later died. Flanagan used the name Bryce Williams on the air. Live in henry county Bryce Williams. Wdbj7. They fired him in 2013 and police had to escort him from the building. Toward the end, there were issues with temper and ab
The live wednesday morning conducting an interview when their former coworker ambushed them. Both died. The woman they were interviewing was wounded. Police identified the shooter as 41yearold Vester Flanagan. He posted his own view of the shooting on social mia. Police say he shot himself as they closed in on his car about 200 miles away. He later died. Flanagan used the name Bryce Williams on the air. Live in henry county Bryce Williams. Wdbj7. They fired him in 2013 and police had to escort him from the building. Toward the end, there were issues with temper and ability to work with other. This is hard day for all of us here. 27yearold ward was engaged to the morning producer who was in the control room when her fiance was killed. 24yearold parker had just moved in with anchor chris hurst. We wanted to get married. We were determined to be a news couple. Parker family said in statement although her life was brief she was so happy with it. Parkers boyfriend chris hurst who you saw in
How is weather. It is chillier this morning. No humidity. We have that low humidity thing going on again and we are in line for another gorgeous day out there, everybody. It is just great news again in the weather department, and, i love to be the the one to bring it to you. And we are at 63, up in mount pocono, 67 in philadelphia and, 62 in at atlantic city. Nice and calm. That makes it a lovely day. So is this, radar that looks like this, storm scan three picking up barely anything on the radar, you can see a little bit through great lakes. That means more blue skies coming our way. We will see highs very close to yesterday, very lovely in philadelphia. High of 83. Seventynine heading to the shore. Another fantastic, beach day, the the park knows, 72 degrees, a a few cloud work their way in there but we are looking good. Sunny stretch continues, heat and humidity will, creep back in toward the the weekend and will we start september, with some 90degree weather . I will answer that qu
The win, brunt of the storm came through, about 45 minutes to an hour ago, that is when the eye wall crossed over the top of us. That gave way to a surreal several moments worth sky were blue. Forgive us as we wiped off the camera lens as it gets socked with the rain as you see pelt ing in the back of me. Irmas now 5 miles north of naples. So about 30 miles south south east of fort myers. It is now a category two hurricane. It was every bit category three as it roared a shore sustain winds of 100 miles an hour. We have gust ted to 142 at one point and destruction has been widespread. A few moments ago when eye was above us and it had been calm, we took out drone six for just a couple minutes and try to launch it. Lets roll that now and give you a sense of what we saw. This is on the front side of the hotel, the commercial corridor, route 41, known as the trail, not a lot of people live there, fortunately. Destruction there limited to trees coming down here and there. Not the case on th