Suspect. The shooting happened on Live Television during an interview, heres what their colleagues had to say. Today was just like any other day, they did great work every day. Put their all into what they did, im going to miss them. Wards fiancee was in the control room as the producer of that morning show, melissa ott was celebrating her final day at the station. She and adam ward both planned to move to charlotte. Ott is from south jersey, an intern here at nbc10 in 2010. Cydney long spoke to otts relatives tonight and joins us live from gibbstown. Sydney . Melissa ott grew up in this home and spent her summers working at her uncles bar just down the street, picking and packing fruit. Today was to be the day she would pack up and start a plan new journey with the man she planned to marry. They were making plans for their wedding, was going to be down in virginia, home style, very upsetting, i just i dont know what to say. John held back tears as he looked at a photo of his beloved n
Weeks ago. Reporter police say the man who opened fire on them. Vester lee flanagan also knew them. He was recently fired from the wdbj. The gentleman thinks that things tran spired and spiraling out of control. Reporter after the shooting flanagan fled the scene. In the aftermath he posted a video of the shooting. Police found his car at the roanoke airport. Flanagan then left the airport in a Chevrolet Sonic that he rented earlier in the month. Reporter flanagan fled north on i81 and then onto i 66 where a state trooper located him in Northern Virginia Fauquier County through a license plate reader. In your view how instrumental were the license plate readers in catching the suspect . License plate preceders are a great tool. The state police threw several others throughout the state and it helps. Reporter and that is what identified flanagans vehicle. When a state trooper tried to pull him over, he refused and police say he shot himself right there on i66. Now as far as the other pe
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
Publicly sharing her grief. Our coverage begin with nbcs dave wagner live in moneta, virginia, tonight. Dave . Reporter 16 hours after the shootings here, that tv live truck thats been surrounded by police tape all day long has been moved. Its a surreal crime that played out on social media and live tv. Reporter a routine earlymorning interview on live tv turned violent. Gunfire then a cut to the studio anchor, unsure of what just happened . Okay, not sure what happened there. Reporter reporter Alison Parker and photographer adam ward were shot and killed. Vicki gardner, who was being interviewed, was hurt. The gunman turned out to be vester flanagan, seen here through the photographs camera. He was disgruntled former employee known as Bryce Williams when he worked as a reporter at the station. When he was fired two years ago, he was so angry police were called and escorted him from the building. Eventually after many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him. Reporte
Philadelphia wentzsylvania. He tweeted this earlier today one year ago i got that call, crazy how fast, best of luck to those boys waiting to hear their names this weekend. Fly eagles fly. Heres carson with the whole experience. I just remember being tired all the time. It was an exhaust continuing time. You are flying around every where. Working out all the time. Just being tired but also mentally because you have no idea what will happen. It is a big question mark. Then finally ill never forget the draft, that night hearing my name called knowing i was an eagle and getting to celebrate with my friend and family. It still gives me chills talking about it realizing how much my life changed that night and how fortunate i amie cant even imagine. Amazing, that was a year ago. I know. Eagles traded up twice in the first round to take carson wentz and it has turnout well for them so far. It is turning out well for us as well. We are here on the red carpet, prospects of rolling by and we can