Stay updated with breaking news from Bryce williams. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i m randall pinkston. we are learning more about a man believed to be behind the shooting deaths of two virginia journalists live on television this morning. police have identified the fan as fester flanagan. he is believed to be a former employee of the station, working under the name bryce williams. he is believed to have shot two former colleagues as they were reporting live on air this morning. reporter allison parker, 24 years old, and cameraman adam ward 27, interviewing a guest when the report was interrupted by gunfire. news room across the country have been shaken by this. what is the latest? reporter: it s lurid, it s graphic. it s horrific. it s about five miles southwest of virginia year. rowen oak virginia one of the steps along the way that many journalists have stopped at. allison parker was on the air at 6:45 this morning, interviewing the chairwoman of the chamber of commerce there, victory gardner. ....
in doha we have all your sports. two runners failed drug tests at the world championships. it s a toll which keeps rising, now another 50 refugees are known to have died trying to make it across the mediterranean. they were discovered in the hull of a boat off libya. hungary is considering sending troops to the border after fighting broke out. the tensions peaked after some refugees refused to be fingerprinted. in germany, germany chancellor was jeered an. and thousands arriving in macedonia every day. unrest of the european union border. u.n. troubled registration center. with the build. of security forces there are fears of violence here. police are trying to play down the crisis. there was a small conflict that erupted as several people tried to approach the fence. the police tried to stop them, and they used tear gas. a three meter high fence is being put up on the border, but right now thousands of people are getting through sections with where there is o ....
and we begin with the search for answers in virginia after a tv reporter and cameraman were killed this morning. the gunman was vester flanagan, a former colleague of wdbj in roanoke, and he shot himself after killing them. what s the latest? reporter: tony, good to see you as well, and good evening, and the latest, within the past few minutes, we have learned that the alleged shooter, vester flanagan, allegedly used a 9-millimeter bloch pistol to carry out the shootings this morning at the plaza, and we re told that he legally purchased the weapon back in july, according to his simple manifesto, which was released two hours after the killings. he said that he bought the gun two days after the shootings in charlton, south carolina. the thing, tony, you have to remember that this is a very small community. we re in the town of monita. and it s a small television station as well. so alison parker and adam ward s work is known here, and the deaths are beginning to reside ....
first to our lead another wild ride on wall street. this one with a good ending, stocks rallying the most since 2011. i want to get straight to matt miller in new york. matt, when it comes to tech, the fab five all up. but talk to me about volume into his buying. if you look, for example, at the first six gainers, only exxon is a non-tech name. all those you mentioned plus microsoft, apple, google, facebook, amazon. the buyers here were people who believe that we have put in a bottom, if they are not daytraders. with such incredible drop over the last seven days, we have seen the dow erase 2000 points. it takes a while to put in a bottom. technicians will tell you after a drop like that over such a not period of time it s necessarily fully in today but maybe this is the inflection point, and the buyers believe the u.s. economy can withstand it, the chinese economy is stabilizing, and that commodity rises may have bottomed. emily: matt miller in new york, thanks so m ....
the horizon with energy experts. plus, the drop in crude could be seeping into the banking system of our neighbor to the north. the royal bank of canada s ceo joins us in a cnbc exclusive on the back of his company s earnings. also ahead how much of what we see in the rally is the result of the fed trying to calm market volatility. we re live in jackson hole with the latest headlines. don t forget, of course, the new york fed president, importantly, spoke today. he did. and markets are reacting. let s get to full team coverage of these markets. bob pisani tracking the moves here at the stock exchange. courtney reagan over at the nasdaq. how do you feel going into the close today? better than yesterday. i want to show you the dow. at this time yesterday, we were fading going into 3:00. that is not the case right now. dow jones industrial average is essentially almost at the highs for the day. i think 16,100 right off the open. we re essentially there back to the ....