party and change the topic away from her e-mail server. a.b. stoddard, thank you so much. associate editor at the hill. carlos, thank you for hopping on with me. coming up next on cnn, much more of our special coverage of the tragedy at roanoke, virginia. members of the newsroom wdbj will be holding a news conference. we ll bring it live to you when it happens. you re watching cnn. we ll be right back. as easy as . wouldn t it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters and even piano tuners. were just as simple? thanks to angie s list, now it is. start shopping online. .from a list of top rated providers. visit angieslist.com today.
not just to us but all that wdbj serves. please join us now in a moment of silence. i said it yesterday and i ll say it again, wdbj, we stand with you. hours after stoic coverage, these journalists broke down over what they saw, who they lost. these pictures showing just overwhelming sadness, grief, taking comfort in one another. alison s father talked to my colleague chris cuomo. i didn t want to cut this interview up or edit it. so here it is in its entirety. mr. parker, thank you for joining us. this is an incredibly difficult time for you. how are you this morning?
and about anything regarding what happened yesterday. vester flanagan was employed by wdbj 7 as a reporter between march 2012 and february 2013. he applied for the position using the air name of bryce williams. as part of wdbj s 7 standard policy, protocol for background checks, we received only positive references. flanagan s job performance and interaction with his co-workers led his manager to place flanagan on a successive of performance improvement plans. only slight improvement was noticed each time. he was placed on a final warning in december 2012 for failure to check his facts in a news story and generally for poor news judgment. in january 2013, he accused one of the news photographers here
you for believing in this community. we got a heads up from the mayor here and also adam ward was a virginia tech fan and an alum. that will be a way in which to pay tribute to these two journalists who were killed here on live television. that is lovely. two scholarships for these two. drew griffin, looking into the background of the shooter, what more have you learned? that this guy just had a trouble work record just about everywhere he went. hostile work environment, which he seemed to create and then would turn the table and the last of which was wdbj. he worked there for just a year and there s stacks and stacks of internal memos, reprimands from
gardener, she was shot as well. she s recovering in the hospital in stable condition and i m sure investigators will speak to her once she s able to speak and recover from all of this. but we ve learned a little bit more about how this newsroom is coping with this and also a little bit about the shooter and his past. so i have victor blackwell. he s standing just outside of that tv station in roanoke where that news conference just took place. victor, i was taking a lot of notes. i think especially the detail, the general manager who said it was the day that the shooter was fired and walked out of the building and on his way out he handed the then news director a wooden cross and looked him in the eye and said, you will need this. reporter: yeah. i mean, there were many details that we heard from the general manager at wdbj about that day i believe it was in february 2013 in which he told the news director then, you ll need to call the police because i m