car license plates. nbc s dave wagner with the latest now from roanoke. please join us now in a moment of silence. reporter: 24 hours after their colleagues were shot to death, a time of reflection and a moment of silence at roanoke s wdbj-tv. the performance this staff has been incredible. they cry, they hug and then they get the job done. reporter: 24-year-old reporter alison parker and 27-year-old photographer adam ward were in the middle of a live interview wednesday morning when police say a former reporter, vester flanagan, walked up and opened fire. parker and ward were killed. vicki gardner, who was being interviewed, was seriously wounded while her husband watched it all unfold on tv. and i immediately tried call her on her cell phone. there was no response. the next time i spoke to her when she called me from the ambulance. reporter: gunman videotaped the shootings himself and posted that video on facebook. police say after killings, vester flanagan faxe
attack since september 11th. 8 people were killed when sayfullo saipov barrelled down a crowded bike path with a rental truck. nine people remain hospitalized. police say the bloodshed could have been worse had it not been for the heroic actions of 28-year-old nypd cop brian nash who takes down the suspected driver with a single shot. he thinks what he did was not an act of heroism. he thinks it s something why he joined the police department. i had the opportunity to talk to ryan last night. he was at the hospital and i don t think we could find a more humble human being. reporter: a note found on the scene had allegiance to isis written on it. but wzy? what was the tipping point? all of that is still being investigated. there s still, of course, sadly after something like this unanswered. but since they caught him alive, we may not have to wait as long to get him the answers. reporter: right. absolutely. pat? our team coverage continues with aaron gilchrist.
off for school. k-9 officers walking through the park. police finished their search of the area just before the school day ended. investigators say nothing was found but they re on a heightened sense of awareness. it was just last month that the officers found the remains of two people less than a mile away. now the principal did send home a letter to parents letting them know that police were searching the area but she ensured them that it had nothing to do with the middle school. back to you. thanks so much. a quick look now at some of the day s other top stories. the trump administration revealed the president s plans to simplify your taxes. there would be a three tax bracket instead of the current seven brackets with the highest of 35%. now the standard deduction would double for married couples to $24,000. charitable giving and mortgage interest would still be deductible. the business tax rate would drop to 15% and the debt tax, that s going to end. fox news channel ke
person caught on camera the night someone strung bananas as american university. a meeting to address the hate crime has been cancelled. students walked out of yesterday s town hall chanting their demands. frustration began to boil over today after a meeting was called off between au administrators and several student groups of color. kristen wright is live in northwest right now with fast breaking developments with this story. reporter: kpamz are going on right now but there is still that unease. today in a statement we heard from the student who was in many ways at the center of this whole thing, tailer dumbson is the new student government association president. first african-american woman to hold that position. she s also an aka, the is a roert named in that hateful banana incident: she she s not surprised by these quote heinous actions, but i was disappointed to realize that in this day and age we must be prepared for the challenges and that were once our parents and
took the recording device used to store data from the surveillance cameras at the surveillance home. police are looking for any duct tape that could have been used to bind the hands and feet of the victims. they re specifically looking for knives. sources have been telling us the victims were held captive overnight and were bound and gagged and the sources have told us some of the victims were stabbed or cut. these new search warrants support those reports. now these warrants are from the car and truck seized by police when they arrest ed arrested wint. thanks. developing right now, a river rescue underway in the potomac. officials say two people were jumping off the rocks near great falls and got swept away. this is a live picture. boats have been deployed. the park police helicopter is in the sky right now. we will keep an eye on this situation and update you as we learn more about what is happening. right now a construction worker in downtown d.c. is under critical c