of people being shot all the time. and so now we realize first hand what so many of you have sadly gone through. that when it is someone you know and someone you love. all day people have been teary. they ve been hugging and they ve been doing their job as journalists. and somebody said, how can you reconcile all of that? he said we can t. it is just, you have to deal with it. just a horrible tragedy today in virginia. the people closest, the people caught in the middle, continue to do their jobs in reporting it even as it happened to them. local journalism is always necessary. some days it is also heroic. wdbj in roanoke, virginia today. we ll be right back. start with a positive attitude. and positively radiant skin. aveeno® positively radiant moisturizer.
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today was the woman being interviewed on the air. her name is vicki gardener, a local fwl the claim better of commerce. she s survived. she went through surgery today and she is expected to recover from her injuries. we know the gunman was a former employee. it is clear he discussed the shooting publicly. it is clear he was intent on carrying out this attack in a way that made it as made for tv as possible. he not only committed the murder on live television, he also filmed the attack himself and posted the resulting video on facebook. we will not be showing any of that tonight. i don t want him to help him do what he wanted tooted. this terrible story was the national news story today, understandably for all the obvious reasons. it is also the national news story that that local used in station wdbj will to cover while being at the center of it. they had to first report the news here and then grieve
killed, as she was reporting a story live on the air at wdbj, it was her friend kimberly mcbroom who was in the anchor chair who was watching, live, shocked. we won t show anything graphic here. we do not need to broadcast murder, especially one that the murderer wanted to be broadcast. but this was the live interview that alison parker was doing when she was shot and killed this morning. because it was a live shot, her dear friend and colleague who was anchoring this morning s broadcast from the studio, and everybody else watching the newscast at home, everybody saw the crime as it happened. confused and stunned and fearing the worst and not understanding. alison park he, 24 years old when she was killed today. her cameraman adam ward you a also killed of he was just engaged and planning his wedding to another employee at wdbj. a third victim of the shooting
publicly, all in real-time. all on live television. we are following breaking news this morning. news that has affected our wdbj family very deeply. our morning crew was live this morning at smith mountain lake when shots were fired at 6:45. kim, it is my very, very sad duty to report that we have determined through the help of the police and you were on employees that alison and adam died this morning shortly after 6:45 when the shots rang out. the gunman, state police, the suspected gunman, the virginia state police caught up with on instate 66 in fauquier county, a former employee who was let go two years ago whose legal name is vester flanagan. this is the scene in fauquier county near mile marker 17 where virginia state police apparently close in the on his rental car. we realize we cover stories