setting for it other than the only thing i know you can use it s just crazy. there s nothing here. it s just normal living, friendly people that take care of each other. curry martin, thank you very much for being with me on this trag tragic. governor terry mckohliffe just moments ago said he believes the gunman was a disgrujdi disgruntled employee. nbc is not able to confirm that one way or another, but that s what the governor said on a radio broadcast just moments ago. we ll take a break and be right back on the rundown.
television station, and to quote the governor s words, we are in pursuit of the suspect. the governor has just said i m sorry, i m being told as we speak go ahead. that the governor has just said an arrest is imminent in this case. so, clint, to bring you back to the issue here of the possibility that the suspect has been sighted and there may be a chase. that was a quote, the governor s words. this could all come down very, very shortly after what has been now more than four hours, almost four hours since the incident took place. well, i think the advent of a picture for law enforcement to be able to put this together, as you indicated, this is a very small television station. should this individual s picture be this former employee, somebody in the station would, of course, know that person. they would be able to put two
participating in a live shot. on the left you see some video we re just getting into our newsroom and it s just coming out. let s come back to that other second picture which is the one i wanted to show you. this is what appears to be a gunman, and this was captured as a still picture captured from the live broadcast from that local cbs station about 6:45 in the morning. it appears to show a gunman. the camera clearly had fallen on its side. this is a vertical picture taken from the horizontal camera, horizontal television screen. that s why you see the graphics on the left there and the right kind of on their side. but what appears to be a gunman. the governor of virginia has said there is a pursuit. the governor has also said that his information is that this person, the shooter, is a disgruntled former employee of that television station. and here you are watching some video that we re just getting into the msnbc newsroom of this
apparently called a friend and is very troubled. a former employee of the television station. it could be, anthony roman, that this situation assuredly is finalized with the capture of this suspect. well, that would be very good news. my staff is reporting to me as we speak that the police have helicopters, they understand exactly where the suspect is, they have contained him, and hopefully they could bring this to an end through negotiations very, very shortly. but, you know, jose, the governor s statements bring to mind the responsibility that businesses have with regard to background investigations for employees, understanding employees who may be suffering from mental illness, providing
they re obviously, from what he said, the fact he s making phone calls, they re obviously making some efforts to monitor his phone calls. so i think that s why the governor says that they know they believe let me put it this way. in terms of a suspect, they know who that person is, where that person is. now, we ve been talking about this still frame . as adam ward, the photographer, was shot, and he falls to the ground, his camera is turned sideways as he falls to the ground, and it captures a fleeting image. and we don t know whether this was the final act of photojournalism of adam ward of capturing the image of who authorities believe fired the fatal shots that killed the photographer and his reporter, or whether the camera just happened to grab these images. i would certainly like to think it was the former, that he was