Straight days of losses, is a rally really on . Fast food friends, burger king offering to komg up with the ultimate burger together. Are you ready for the mcwhopper . Welcome today. This is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. We want to talk about this breaking news in virginia. Youve seen the video, ive seen the video. A local news crew from wdbj ambushed by a gunman as they interview a woman live on television. The video is incredibly disturbing to watch. We arent showing it in its entirety. The victims have been identified now as a 24yearold reporter Alison Parker and 27yearold photo journalist adam ward. To say this is a shocking occurrence is an understatement. We want to get right to justice correspondent pete williams. What do we know . Good morning, savannah. This happened at 6 45 at a shopper center 25 miles southeast of roanoke. The reporter, the one you just identified Alison Parker w
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Reporter the first accused Alison Parker of making racist comments. Then that he had filed a complaint. Then questioned her hiring. Reporter they were followed by a similar accusation against her photographer. And most chilling. I filmed the killing. See facebook. A short time later, flanagans car was spotted on an Interstate West of washington, d c. Reporter the killer ended up crashing the car and when police approached, he shot himself. Flanagan was flown to a nova Fairfax Hospital where he died at approximately 1 30 pm today. Reporter this afternoon. The family of the gunman. Vester flanagan. Made this statement quote pam it is with heavy hearts. And deep sadness. That we express our deepest condolences to the families of Alison Parker and adam ward. Pam we are also praying for the recovery of Vicki Gardner. Our thoughts and prayers at this time are with the victims families. And the wbdj7 news family. Pam words cannot express the hurt that we feel for the victtims. Our family is a
Gunmans past. Jr stone has the chilling final words he left behind. Pam the shooters bay area family spoke to kron 4s alecia reid. We will check in with her in a minute. But first, we go to ryan nobles. Pam he is live tonight in roanoke. male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Reporter tonight were learning more about the shooter Vester Flanagan who went by the name Bryce Williams on air. He was a native of oakland. He was not going to leave willingly on his own free will permit it was a tough situation creek reporter 1 would have guessed disparate this is the last image before the feed stock split seconds before, Allison Parker and cameramen ward was on location. People that were among the kindest nicest people that work here. Reporter about two hours after the attack desexed a suicide note to abc news creek he says he was voted for being gay and black. And was inspired after the Charleston Church shooting. France and families are now remembering the
Allison parker and adam wards coworkers are wearing ribbons tonight in memory other fallen colleagues. They lined up outside the studios about two hours ago as the station general manager addressed questions about the man who killed them. Vester flanigan shot them while they were on the air live in virginia. He was eventually caught along interstate 66 near markham and later died at a hospital. Brad bell is live with the latest of what we learned about flanigan today. It seems that every hourly goes by your nine we are learning a new wrinkle about this guy. Reporter and none of it is pretty. The station general manager confirming that Vester Flanigans time here was so troubling he was ordered to seek counseling. His behavior did not improve and he was fired. On the way out the door the general manager said flanagan essentially made a red against the station made a threat against the station but never thought he returned to the sort of violence we saw yesterday. The memorial continues t