does not condone his actions two days ago. dan abrams owns a media website but it s not a gay porn website, to make that clear. there s no difference. they re both legal. so, you know if dan abrahams or anybody else wanted to start a gay porn website, as long as they re abiding by the law, there s absolutely nothing wrong with it. you may look down upon it and judge it but there s nothing illegal about it. i don t see why it s relevant in this particular case. fair enough point. jeff, let s talk a little bit about what we know. wdbj referred to flanagan in that employee assistance program for employment issues. can think do more to encourage unstable employees to seek mental health? yes, especially if they want to keep their job. and that is part of the law that you just can t fire someone if you suspect that there might be some mental illness or mental health issues, that you have to give them the opportunity to address this illness as we
get a house and a ring. and we we were not able to really even start that process. and i can tell you that, you know what? you need to do that process, anyway, no matter if you have someone in your life or you don t have someone in your life. you need to start now doing the things that you need to do in order to do the things that you want to do. and with alison, we did both. we worked hard at our relationship, and we had so much fun in it. we had so much fun. we had a blast every single day. chris, could i ask you to stick around for just a minute? i want to take a quick break, but i have so much more that i want to talk about. i want to talk about what you are going to put in that book going forward. independent to talk about your colleagues at wdbj, and how you re going to work through this with them and talk about the community, so please stick around. we ll be right back.
awesome. thank you so much for joining me today. i m carol costello. at this hour with berman and bolduan starts right now. hello, everyone. i m kate bbolduan. i m john gberman. today the entire country in mourning over the murder of two young journalists shot and killed while on the air. wdbj s morning show paused for a moment of silence for their colleagues the very minute that alison parker and adam ward s lives were taken yesterday. as we approach that moment, we want to pause and reflect and we want to share with you once again what made these two so special not just to us but all of our hometowns that wdbj 7 serves. please join us now in a moment of silence. and you see the words right there, in memory and that is
employer there at the chamber of commerce saying they are confident that she will recover and they are going stand strong with her through this. good. victor blackwell, down in roanoke, thank you so much. next wdbj s general manager joins us what has to be the longest dave his life. to talk about the people who knew alison parker and adam ward and are now coping with this loss and dealing with the notion that a former colleague is the one who took their lives. one who took their lives. e possibility of a flare was almost always on my mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go. and how to deal with my uc. to me, that was normal. until i talked to my doctor. she told me that humira helps people like me get uc under control and keep it under control when certain medications haven t worked well enough. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis.
anything regarding what happened yesterday. vester flanagan was employed by wdbj 7 as a reporter between march 2012 and february 2013. he applied for the position using the air name of bryce williams. as part of wdbj s standard policy and protocol for background checks, we received only positive references. flanagan s job performance and interaction with his coworkers led his manager to place flanagan on a succession of performance improvement plans. only slight improvement was noted each time. flanagan was placed on a final warning in december 2012 for failure to check facts in a news story and generally for poor news judgment. in january 2013, he accused one of the news photographers here of making trouble for him by questioning a decision to go on