shoot me again. and then it was quiet. >> reporter: at home her husband watched, live. telling our willie geist after the shooting -- >> i immediately tried to call her on her cell phone. >> reporter: after the video cut away to show a stun anchor on set, tim gardner waited 15 frantic minutes before his wife called from the ambulance. >> i spoke with vickie for about three, four minutes while she was being transported to the emergency room at roanoke memorial. she explained what had happened to her and that she didn't know how she survived but she did and that she loved me. >> reporter: that day as doctors rushed gardner in to surgery at the hospital, the gunman, a former reporter at the news station, killed himself. >> we have a long way to go on understanding what would possess somebody to have that much anger. >> reporter: but instead of anger, she and others in roanoke are choosing to focus on healing. >> it's good to be back, folks.