reporter: still, as authorities tried to calm fears, the gunman was ramping them up, apparently urging his hostages to use their social media accounts to publicize this. he s going to twitter, through radio announcers, it is a very bizarre situation. reporter: radio announcers? yes. four times a radio announcer says he was called by a 23-year-old hostage apparently at demands by the gunman. he was calling me a scumbag for incorrectly reporting isil as being murderous bastards who have no regard for human life. reporter: authorities scrambled to shut down the gunman s social media outlets, but with so many in play it was not easy. and after the hostage situation in sydney, many
reporter: four times the gunman apparently forced hostages to record video of his demands and post them online. in the final one, a woman says urgently, this is all he wants. it s not hard. why are we still here? please help us. i m begging. but the gunman also used these messages to say he had bombs planted elsewhere, and to imply he had outside operatives to set them off. police have found no evidence of that. to the people of sidney, this was an isolated incident. it is an isolated incident. reporter: still, as authorities tried to calm fears, the gunman was ramping them up, urging his hostages to urge their social media accounts to publicize their plight. this whole thing is playing out on facebook, twitter, you know, through radio. it is a very bizarre situation. reporter: radio announcers? yes, four times a radio station host says he was called by a
whenever they want? that s exactly right. many of them have been on social media. one hostage in particular has posted a very horrifying message on social media with a list of the demands. and they have also been texting family and friends from the inside to say look, i am inside, i am okay at the moment, these are the demands, and if they re not met, you know, threats to kill and, you know, some other very horrible threats have been made against the group. interesting, isn t it, that this gunman didn t take their phones away. they re sitting there texting whomever they want, it seems, and presumably they could reach out to the police or be texting with the police. we just don t know, do we? you re right. it is bizarre. this whole thing is playing out on facebook, twitter, you know, through radio announcers. it is a very bizarre situation. and police have actually
thank you. gary sinise paying tribute to ronald reagan at the reagan presidential library. recalling ronald reagan s beginning in radio back in the day. ronald reagan s first job in davenport, iowa, his next job for who paid him $75 a week. we continue our conversation with bill bennett, gloria borger and david gergen, it was during a trip to cover the cubs a studio called warner brothers gave him a test and the rest is history. it was. he and walter continue cite were both radio announcers back in their youth and loved to swap tales because covering some of those games they had to sit there with a ticker coming in from western union and make it up as they went along. they weren t at the game. they would go with western union
situation taking a toll on parts of australia. would you look at this videotape? the dramatic pictures are just incredible, and we are told that it is about to get worse. plus, he became an overnight sensation, and today ted williams known as the homeless man with the golden radio voice is doing some talking to police. we ll tell you why. kind of listened to one of our area radio announcers, and i went there are you struggle to control your blood sugar. you exercise and eat right, but your blood sugar may still be high, and you need extra help. ask your doctor about onglyza, a once daily medicine used with diet and exercise to control high blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. adding onglyza to your current oral medicine may help reduce after meal blood sugar spikes and may help reduce high morning blood sugar. [ male announcer ] onglyza should not besed to treat type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. tell your doctor if you have a history or risk of diabetic ketoaci