Vester flanagan, a former reporter at the station who grew up right here in the bay area. Flanagan posted his own video of the shooting. And later he killed himself as Police Closed in. Tonight, coworkers are remembering Alison Parker and her cameraman adam ward. Parker had just celebrated her 24th birthday. She had been at the station for a year. Ward had been at the local station for a few years. They were both thought of highly. They did great work every day and put their all into what they did. Im going to miss them. I heard one of my colleagues say alison was ambitious but in a good way, not ambitious to climb over people but ambitious to be successful with whatever it is she was assigned. Adam, um, was a wonderful person to be around. Consistently positive. A really good photojournalist, good shooter and editor. Vester flanagan was fired from the station in 2013. A picture is emerging of flanagan as an angry disgruntled employee nothing like the person people remembered back here
Virginia. The man who killed them a former coworker who got his start here in the bay area. We wont show you the most graphic part of the shooting, but what you will see could be disturbing. Heres don champion reporting from virginia. Reporter with heavy hearts, the morning crew at the cbs station in roanoke, virginia returned to work this morning minus two members of its team. Unfair and unimaginable that were not going to see their smiling faces. Reporter reporter Alison Parker and photographer adam ward were ambushed and killed live on the air wednesday morning [ shots ] by a disgruntled former employee of the station. That employee was a fellow journalist. Reporter Vester Flanagan went by the name Bryce Williams while reporting for the station. The 41yearold was fired two years ago. Andy parker said his daughter died doing what she loved. Its hard to get your arms around it and make sense of it. Reporter before killing himself Authorities Say flanagan went on a twitter rant saying
And karen rogers for weather and traffic. No umbrella on the terrace right now. As we take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan we are getting ready for rain. It will probably be steadier down in south jersey and delaware than it will be in philadelphia overall but at times roads will be wet in the city and that stuff kind of trying to inch up toward philadelphia right now. You can see that on the wide satellite view. It does look like well get something during the morning commute and were already getting it in a good portion of delaware and south jersey. As we take a look, area of low pressure coming up the coast possibly becoming a a Tropical Storm briefly. It will be far enough away from us to prevent major problems. For the second straight day looking at a high risk of rip currents at the shore not that its going to be a great day on the beach anyway. Theres a high wind advisory in Cape May County and down through southern delaware and on into the Eastern Shore of maryland and
Doors of his houston megachurch. What he is saying this morning. Right now hospitals and medical centers running out of supplies. Babies born as their moms are rescued from the floodwaters. Gma live in the middle of it all. Good morning, america. We have never seen a storm like this. Four days after Hurricane Harvey hit as a category 4 hurricane, it is still going strong. That is houston, texas, right now. Roads have become rivers. The rain is still falling in houston. The rescues are still under way. Evacuations under way as well. This is nowhere near over. Lets take a look at that radar image thats over the gulf coast where harvey had briefly gone out to sea but there it is whipping back around for a second hit on texas and louisiana. It is heading east. So many dramatic images coming in overnight. You saw victims stuck in the aftermath of harvey. Desperately seeking to be rescued. So many pitching in to help. Thats right. The Texas National guard sharing this rescue video overnight
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