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the suspected gunman is also dead after shooting himself following a police chase. what next for the euro? in a weeklong look at the future of the eu, we will get a look at the perspective on the currency. is it helping or hurting relations? i m sarah kelly, thank you very much for joining us. we begin with the deepening migrant crisis in europe. the people risking their lives to reach the eu and those telling them to go away. numbers keep growing. some 50 dead bodies have been found in the hall of a boat rescued off the coast of libya. they were discovered by the crew of the sweetest swedish ship that rescued over 400 survivors. 2400 people died this year trying to cross the mediterranean to europe. many who do reach the other side try and make their way to western europe through the balkans. hungary now says that they will send the army, police, and dogs to the border to stop the influx of migrants. asylum-seekers are making increasingly desperate attempts to cross ....
today, the suspect died in fairfax, nova hospital in northern virginia as a result of a self-inflibblingted gunshot wound. flanagan sent a lengthy multipage fax to a national news organization in new york about this incident, and our investigators now have a copy of it and it s used in the course of this investigation ill be continuing. laura: cathy clifford has the report. cathy: it was a live morning report. 24-year-old reporter alison parker was interviewing a woman at a shopping center. all of a sudden shots and screams were heard as the two women ducked for cover. the cameraman catched the gunman s face on camera. soon after they announced the two employees had been killed in the attack, and the interviewee was injured. a manhunt began for the suspect, former employee at the station identified as vester flanagan. he d been fired from the channel two years ago. he was sort of looking out for people to say things that he could take offense to. eventually after many ....
a gruesome ambush that unfolded around 6:45 a.m. this morning as wdbj, near the end of its morning newscast. the news crew was conducting an on-air interview, something they do every morning, at a shopping center in moneta, outside of roanoke, when the gunman attacked, firing off, again, at least eight rounds that shooter was tracked to the north and was eventually found off of i-66 in fauquier county suffering from a gunshot wound. we have live team coverage for you at both locations this evening. we begin with david culver and the latest from investigators in roanoke. david? reporter: jim behind me, you can see a very active scene several hours after that attack, as you mentioned, captured live on tv. this is the plaza, a scenic place that overlooked smith mountain lake. the sheriff, we just heard from him a short time ago, the sheriff in franklin county, pointing out how close knit a community this s he recently done a similar live interview with the reporter aliso ....
parker and ward were shot and killed during a live television interview outdoor shopping mall near mow net at a, virginia this morning. the woman being interviewed also injured. she is out of surgery and in the hospital. the gunman former employee of the same roanoke tv station where the victims worked drove off from the scene before posting video of himself carrying out the killings on social media. he also apparently fax add manifesto explaining his motives to abc news. after chase the shooter drove off the road, officers found him with a self inflicted gunshot wound. he died at the hospital. we have team coverage of this developing story tonight. chris o connell looking what may have motivated the gunman we begin with dawn timmeney with the timeline of a morning we won t soon forget. dawn? we certainly won t, lucy. tonight we are learning someone claiming to be the shooter fax add 23 page manifesto to abc news which may explain his state of mind this morning. it ....
the walt whitman bridge or 295, five minute drive time. check in with area bridges and mass transit when i come back. breaking news in following. a man s dodd, a shebody, a shelt no gun. police are trying to federal government out who killed a man inside his home overnight.!yac katy zachry is live. reporter: crime scene detectives have been out here about two hours and enter what i can see it looks like they might be wrapping up their investigation inside this third floor apartment. investigators say the victim was found by a couple of his friends who had stopped by his apartment right near 15th and poplar in the early morning thundershowers where they found the 24-year-old man lying inside his third floor apartment bleeding from the head. when homicide detectives arrived they found a single gunshot wound to the victim and they say there was no sign of forced entry into the apartment. what is interesting is we did find what appears to be some residue on a countert ....