Sister station in springfield, missouri. Thank you for being with us. Thank you, jen. The best prayers and best wishes of all of the folks of southwest missouri and northwest arkansas to the wdbj 7 and roanoke area. Our hearts are broken with the viewers. We are here to help you get through this. We need everyones help and love and support. All right. This morning, Law Enforcement officials across the state are continuing to piece together the information about what happened. It started all on the air as a story about the 50th anniversary of Smith Mountain lake. Police say Vester Flanigan is a former wdbj reporter who went by Bryce Williams on the air. The Sheriffs Office says he left the lake area and rented a car and headed north on highway 81. A license plate reader on the Virginia State police car spotted the vehicle. He led troopers on a cahase. He was dead at the hospital yesterday afternoon. Flanigan was fired from wdbj . 2013. The general manager has described him as an unhappy
forms of flowers and notes and facebook messages and social media. people are offering thoughts and prayers. we are going to turnover to meteorologist leo hurst. okay, you have been watching cnn affiliate wdbj. this has been pretty hard on them. this is the first morning back on the air after two journalists who worked at that station were shot and killed on live tv yesterday by a former employee of the station. alison parker s grieving father paying tribute to his daughter last night where he praised her finest qualities and conveyed a passionate message about gun regulations. she lived a great life. she excelled at everything she did. she loved what she did. she loved the people that she worked with. she was happy with her place in