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Im carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we do continue to follow breaking news out of a tiny little town near roanoke, virginia, where something happened on their morning television station, their local station there. that reporter, alison parker and adam ward were doing a live shot when they were shot to death on the air. you can see the picture on your left. s that -- that is the gunman, that image captured by adam ward, the photographer, after going down. his camera was still rol...

That. we -- i dont think alison and that individual even overlapped here. alison had been here a little more than a year. adam had been here some time longer. is i cant figure out any connection with those people who were among the kindest, nicest people who worked here and im not exaggerating when i say that. this place is in shock, as you might expect, theres a lot of crying and hugging going on. we just cant even reckon with that people are asking who was shot first and what video there and a...

It then came to light that one of the last acts that adam ward did was use the camera to capture the face of vester flanagan and there you see it right there as that camera is tipped on the ground giving us a different perspective and altered right side up and see the man holding the gun over the body of adam ward. police were able to quickly put this together. i.d. who the suspect, the person of interest was. able to find him later this morning along i-66. and thats when things all started to c...

He was attempting to record and report this entire crime. >> it is one of the strangest and saddest things i have seen. because of the power of modern smart phone technology while he is rolling down the interstate with police in pursuit and maybe not he would have been able to upload the videos he shot himself aapparently or filmed himself of him shooting this camera crew he had this beef with. he could have done that using cellphone technology as he is rolling down the highway and that is appar...

We know he had anger. im not trying to avoid it. its just we have bigger fish to fry right now, and thats the well-being of our people and the families of our loved ones. >> jeff marks, our hearts go out to you, to the entire community, all the friends and family of these two wonderful people. alison parker, only 25 years old, adam ward only 27 years old. much more on the breaking news coverage when we come back. rheumatoid arthritis like me... and youre talking to a rheumatologist about a biolo...

If you can help authorities any way, it would be much appreciated if you recognize this man. please call virginia authorities or call the fbi. even your local chapter, theyll get you in touch with the right people. i just talked to the general manager, jeff marks. he made an announcement on the air to viewers in virginia who saw this go down. lets listen to that. >> breaking news this morning out of franklin county, news thats affected our wdbj family very deeply. we were live this morning when ...

Until 50 years ago and they were doing something about the 50th anniversary. why someone was there, i dont know. one could assume that he -- we dont make a secret of where were going to be reporting from. we may start now. but he could see them on the air and know where they were and go be there with them. >> right. and a final question for you because youre in for one very tough day. how will you handle this? youre the general manager. i cant even imagine that. >> im here trying to answer as ma...

This appeared after the shooting. lets watch that now. >> we are following breaking news this morning out of franklin county, news that has affected our wdbj 7 family very deeply. our morning crew was life this morning at smith mountain lake when shots were fired at 6:45. our general manager jeff marks is here to tell us more about what happened. >> kim, it was my very very sad duty to report that we have determined through the help of the police and our own employees that allison and adam died ...

Eastern in the morning. the gunman is believed to be a man who fired six the station itself is not running video of the incident at this time. but i have the general manager on the phone right now, jeff marks. are you there? >> yes, i am. >> thank you so much for talking with me. i cant even imagine how youre feeling at the moment. >> you send people into war zones and into dangerous situations, into riots and you worry that theyre going to get hurt. you send somebody out to do a story on touris...

Location. nobody asked him to, he just did it. and his attitude was unfailingly positive. two less deserving people -- not that anybody is deserving of this but if you looked at people who give their all and would never hurt anyone these are those people. >> jeff, i heard you say live on the air at the end of your morning show this morning that you were going to have a celebration and a meeting later today that has now turned tragically into an ad hoc memorial. is this still the plan? >> right. ...