showing how he walked up, stalked up on the live shot that was being conducted by the reporter alison parker on your left. adam word on the right the videographer and then showed the firearm being raised in the left hand and he opened fire first on alison parker and then opened fire on the videographer adam ward, also wounded in that melee was vicki gardner, the chamber of commerce member who was rushed to the hospital and taken through surgery. it is expected that she will survive. late this morning, though, that s when cops and investigators were able to catch up with the person of interest that they wanted in this which is vester flanagan. they were able to find him along i-66. he drove the car off the road and trying to take his life and reported that he was deceased. it was then quickly updated by virginia state troopers that he was alive and in critical condition. my colleague francis riviera is
as pete was pointing out what happened in charleston, with the mother emanuel nine happening in june and also talking about what happened in virginia tech. specifically talking about sung wi cho and i believe if i m correct, correct me i m wrong, colin godard is with us. you had a statement out earlier today about how your haesht goes out to the friends and family of adam, alison and vicki and gives us a true insight into the growesqueness of the violence that happens with guns and illustrated by the fact not only of a live shot on tv but that flanagan used his own first person perspective with an iphone or a gopro to record this assault. yeah. so much of the rhetoric and the talk around gun violence is people lost to gun violence and
quick pause on the political beat today. live pictures in iowa. we are waiting to see hillary clinton. she just spoke at a community college there, and she will now make herself available to members of the media and the key question i m sure at least one reporter will ask is the fact that she cut her vacation short. she s now back out on the trailed with the potential of a vice president joe biden showing his hat in the ring for 2016. would there be any worry about her front-runner status for the democratic party so we ll watch for her and any comments on that. meantime, if you are just now joining us here, just absolute tragedy this morning in virginia unfolding on live tv, two young journalists lives cut short covering stories in their own communities and the sheriff moment ago made the announcement that this gunman, vester flanagan, was his legal name, went by bryce williams on
situation very often where you have a manifesto on live or an individual who wants attention for their crime, and now we are covering this story for a number of reasons, including, most importantly, the pursuit of this individual. perhaps someone watching will see this and tip police off or notice, and we ve seen that play out over and over. that s exactly right, tamron. he s in the virginia area on 64. i-81 goes to 64 from i-80 richmond. if their spotting is accurate, we thought we had him before when the governor talked, but apparently they don t know where he is. but they do know where his phone is, because he s talked to people he knows or some relatives, so police negotiators can text him and say, look, flanagan, we need to talk. or they can call him up. and even though they don t know his location, they can leverage the negotiator back the other way. he wants attention, just like
there may have been one about alison or adam, i frankly don t remember. but about members of the staff making racial comments. he was african-american. none of them could be corroborated by anyone. we think they were fabricated. but just as an insurance policy, we went around and talked to all of our employees who might have been able to be exposed to this and we have a pretty diverse workplace. and we got nothing about that. and the equal employment opportunity commission dismissed that and that was that. that was wdbj president and general manager, jeffrey marks, giving a little background information on the former employee, vester flanagan, when he worked for that station over two years ago and what it was