Charged with rape takes the stand. Denying the charges against him, confronted with deleted Facebook Messages that prosecutors say should put him behind bars. An abc news exclusive. A little boy hit by a 1345u8 plane crashing on a beach tells his story for the first time. The amazing survival story from the kid his friends call the miracle dude only on gma. We do say good morning, america and we want to get right to that tragedy that unfolded on live television. Two young journalists gunned down. We have a live look right now at the memorial where people are paying respects to Alison Parker and adam ward, of course, they were gunned down by a former colleague, an angry former colleague. That community and their families are in a state of shock and their station held a moment of silence in their memory this morning . Theyre back on the air this morning, the morning team which they were so much a part of. We have much mo to get to. Many questions about what drove this former reporter to commit such a terrible crime. We have Team Coverage this morning starting with abcs jim avila who is there in roanoke, virginia, for us. Good morning, jim. Reporter good morning, robin. The roanoke morning team is back on the air today grieving with their regular audience of nearly 40,000 who witnessed the unthinkable honoring their two colleagues killed in the act of journalism this morning with that moment of silence. A newsroom tries to grapple with the unthinkable. Trying to get through this together. It was all too real live unedited murder fatally interrupting a simple feature about tourism on local roanoke tv. There is no warning, just bullets followed by screams and after the victims fall, the shooters image briefly captured by the wounded photographers lens. The stunned anchor cannot imagine what has just happened. We will, of course, let you know as soon as we find out what those sounds were from. I heard this pow, pow, pow and it didnt register it was gunshots. Viewers getting realtime updates. Our wdbj morning crew was live this morning at Smith Mountain lake when shots were fired. The reporter, 24yearold Alison Parker and her cameraman, 27yearold adam ward did not survive the attack. Alison and adam died this morning shortly after 6 45 when the shots rang out. Reporter the woman they were interviewing Vicki Gardner shot in the back seriously wounded and still hospitalized this morning. The shooter immediately on the run, Police Chasing leads when a station reviews the tape that freeze frame and quickly identifies the suspect as a former onair reporter, Bryce Williams whose real name is Vester Flanagan fired two years before. We were all like, that looks a lot like him. Reporter but as police are searching another clue from the shooter himself on social media. Tweeting i filmed the shooting. See facebook. Posting two terrifying videos recording himself as he was firing those deadly shots. Abc news is not showing the videos. Suspect is believed to be armed and dangerous. Reporter its now after 11 00 in the morning. Flanagan on the run in a rented car. State troopers spot him on highway 66, the road to the nations capital. But when they try to pull him over, he refuses and careens into the median. A lone trooper approaches and the gunman takes his own life. Flanagan was flown from the scene to a nova Fairfax Hospital where he died at approximately 1 3030 p. M. Reporter overnight in roanoke a memorial service. Alison parker, a good, young reporter destined to be great. For the last couple of hours following how this investigation is going. Reporter the 24yearold had just moved in with her anchorman boyfriend, her father speaking out on megyn kelly last night. Weve got to do something about crazy people getting guns. Reporter and adam ward, the photographer who lived and breathed Virginia Tech sports steady and enthusiastic about coming in to work even on the early shift. Also among the mourners at the station, the cameramans fiancee, a producer on the morning show who was in the control room as those shots were fired. George. Yeah, she was celebrating her last day. Okay, jim, thanks very much. Were not going to be showing the video taken by that shooter but we are learning a lot more about him. A former reporter who worked with the two, he faxed an angry manifesto to abc news, texted with a friend right after the murders and abcs chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has those details. Reporter he was a maltais content, a man who often felt victimized had difficulty getting along with colleagues but no one fully understood how deep the darkness ran. Overnight, police descended on the suspects apartment concerned about bombs and booby trap, all this hours after a nightmare that began on live tv. Flanagans anger had apparently been building since being fired two years ago from wdbj, the station where he and the victims worked. He had been ordered to get counseling, represent prix mapdzed by the stations management for berating a cameraman in public. The station citing him for, quote, aggressive body language when dealing with coworkers. Eventually after many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him and he did not take that well. Reporter the anger had been simmering for years. In 2000, flanagan was involved in a lawsuit with a Florida Television station claiming racism and that he had been called a monkey. Allegations that were denied. And in 2014 he filed a lawsuit against wdbj, but it was dismissed. Wednesday morning nearly two hours after the shooting a man identifying himself as flanagan faxed what he called a suicide note to abc news, 23 pages long, it portrayed a deeply angry man laying out his grievances. Why did i do it . The Church Shooting in charleston was the Tipping Point but my anger has been building steadily. I have been a human powder keg for awhile. Just waiting to go boom. But flanagan apparently never let go of the resentment. In the suicide note he claimed the cameraman he murdered complained to management about him and also said he was a victim of racism and Sexual Harassment suggesting he had been mistreated because he was a gay black man. One of his former bosses at another station suggested he was a problem employee, but that no one thought him capable of this. Shock. Hair on the back of my neck went up. I didnt see that in his personality certainly. Reporter in the suicide note flanagan expresses admiration for mass murders, specifically the columbine killers and the Virginia Tech shooter and in one of his final callous gestures a man claiming to be flanagan called abc news in new york at 10 00 a. M. And said he shot two people. He hung up and we called the police. He said after the charleston Church Shooting jehovah god spoke to him, another case of apparently a man with Serious Mental Health issues with a gun killing the innocent that keep falling through the cracks. Thank you very much. Joining us now are jeffrey marks, the general manager of deflategate and chris hurst, Alison Parkers boyfriend and an anchor there at the station. To both of you, i hope you feel the love and support from everyone all around the country and our hearts go out to you and our sincerest condolences. I know, jeffrey, that the Morning Show Team is already back on the air there, alison and adam were so much a part of that team. How are they doing this morning, jeffrey . Theyre doing as well as can be expected. Theyre choking back tears and their emotions show but theyre covering the news and assisted by some folks from our sister stations in the midwest, as well, who flew in to help us. Were very gratified by that and all the support from the people who have been here all night camped out and have brought flowers and placards and just want to Say Something to us, we are gratified by that. And, chris, for you, i know i can see you Still Holding on, holding on to those pictures, holding on to the book that have all those pictures of alison. I know you have referred to her as the love of your life. What more do you want us to know about alison. I think that i want everyone to know that she was not only a fantastic journalist and was well on her way to a remarkable career, but she was good at everything she attempted. I know she was a happy person at heart. She colleagues said she brought out the lighter side of you even chris. She did. This is something that was for us, we only had nine months together but she gave this to me for our sixmonth anniversary. We celebrated monthaversaries. So exceptional. I hope that book brings you some source of comfort right now. Jeffrey, adam it does. It brings me innumerable comfort. Jeffrey, adam was engaged to the morning show producer who was there at work yesterday. Let us know about adam and also his professional relationship with alison. They were considered the a team. Nobody could beat them. Anything that was asked of them and more, and adam made sure we were laughing whether it was on the softball field or im told in latin class, i cant imagine adam in latin class at the university, he just came in and made us laugh and thats what were trying to remember this morning is our crew goes through the motions of doing the regular newscast and i want to say one thing about alison if youll let me. I dont care what social media says, i dont care what that alleged manifesto says, there was not a hateful bone in alisons body and she would have never made a racially insensitive remark which is one of the things that the shooter accused our team of. We dont have that kind of operation here. Its a diverse workplace full of respect and alison just couldnt have happened. You bring up the note that he sent us to abc which we immediately turned over to authorities and all that he claimed. Jeffrey, were you or anyone at any of the executives aware of his prior behavior . No, he not until after he was employed. He used one name in his previous career and used another name when he came to us and we were not aware at all that he had had problems and had legal issues with other stations. Both of you know as journalists that when Something Like this happens, that the conversation turns to gun control and alisons father has already been very outspoken, and, chris, you were standing next to him when he said hell make it his lifes mission. Have you had a chance to give any thought if youre going to join alisons father in his efforts . As a journalist, my issue that i have looked at extensively has been mental health. There are Mental Illnesses in my family that have affected me personally and its been something that ive been reporting on. I dont have any comments on what her father would like to do other than i intor i support him and i support their family immensely. I told them yesterday for the first time because who would say it to parents of a girlfriend after nine months that i loved them and they told me that they loved me back and that i was a part of their family forever and that they were a part of my family forever. Jeffrey and chris, youre part of a Remarkable Community there and team and family. Thank you very much and were also thinking of Vicki Gardner, hoping she makes a full recovery from her injuries. Yes. But, again, i hope that you feel the immense love and support. Please be well. We do and thank you. Thank you. All right. And theres just so many levels to the story but just well talk about it later in our next hour, watching that and how people how do you go how do you move forward . How do we all move forward . You have no choice to have that inflicted on you and we remember those journalists pulling for that young woman, vicki who is going to survive, we hope. The race for president and a brandnew poll showing Hillary Clinton losing altitude as she interrupts her vacation for a trip to iowa. Striking out at the gop adm admitting mistakes in how she handled the email controversy and speaking out for the first time on a possible challenge from joe biden. Abcs cecilia vega was there for all of it. She joins us now from des moines. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter george, good morning to you. Thats right from those emails to donald trump and everyone else running against her on the right but when it comes to one of americas hottest political debates Hillary Clinton had a oneliner. Things getting a little hairy for Hillary Clinton on the trail in iowa. Most of the other republican candidates are just trump without the pizazz or the hair. Reporter the democratic frontrunner joking about donald trump but when it came to those emails this time it was no laughing matter. Im confident that this process will prove that i never sent nor received any any email that was marked classify. Reporter and issued a mea culpa about the scandal that plagues her campaign. It clearly wasnt the best choice. I should have used two emails, one personal, one for work and i take responsibility for that decision. Reporter but when it comes to joe bidens decision to run against her, clinton says it is his to make. I think he has to make what is a very difficult decision for himself and his family and he should have the space. Reporter biden speaking to Party Leaders during a Conference Call wednesday says hes still undecided following the death of his son beau in may saying if i were to announce to run, i have to be able to commit to all of you that i would be able to give it my whole heart and my whole soul and right now both are pretty well banged up. And that new poll will probably have biden pretty happy and Hillary Clinton pretty worried. Take a look at these numbers i want to show you. Theres Hillary Clinton right there with 45 her lowest numbers so far this campaign, followed by vermont senator Bernie Sanders and biden with 18 who is not even in the race and could wait until october to decide whether to run or not. Hillary clinton losing altitude in that same poll and donald trump flying even higher. Reporter thats right. I want to show you those numbers too. Donald trump so far ahead of the pack with 28 , his highest numbers so far. His biggest lead too followed by dr. Ben carson and you can see trailing with 7 bush and rubio. Packed up. Cecilia vega, thanks very much. Amy with the other top stories. Another Police Officer under attack thats right, george. For the second time in less tan a week a Police Officer has been killed in the line of duty in louisiana. Officer henry nelson was shot with his own gun while responding to a Domestic Violence call in a rural town. The suspect is also accused of killing a woman. He tried to flee crashing his car before ultimately being arrested. Overnight a big turnaround in the Global Financial markets. Stocks in china surged higher by more than 5 , the best day in nearly two months. Concern about chinas economy is fueling volatility worldwide. The dow bounced back wednesday soaring 619 points. Well, scientists at nasa are sounding the alarm about rising sea levels. They say those levels are up about three inches since the early 90s which is faster than previously expected. Theyve released this animation. Areas in red and orange are where sea levels have risen over the last two decades warming water and melting ice are to blame. President obama travels to new orleans today to tour neighborhoods and highlight Recovery Efforts ten years after hurricane katrina. Former president bush visits tomorrow. And finally there may be nothing more frustrating than watching your car get towed, but note to self, this is probably not the best way to respond. A guy in florida, you can hear him there, trying to escape the tow truck. His suv was already hooked up so not sure where he thought how he thought he was going to get away. He was hitting the gas repeatedly trying to make that getaway but theres that hook. He fought the tow truck and the tow truck won. Now even more damage. Got to let the river take you sometimes or the tow truck. Thank you, amy. Ginger tracking Tropical Storm erika heading to puerto rico right now. Hitting heading puerto rico. 50mile an hour max sustained winds strengthened overnight. Watches from the turks and caicos up to the southern bahamas. It is moving north an east. Remember the heaviest winds and rain will be on the right side of the line. Were paying attention to the cone not the line. Now to the local forecast brought to you by kohls. Reporter good morning everybody, im meteorologist karen rogers feels kind of cool out there in the suburbs, were just in the upper 50s, 65 in the city. Lets take you outside, not a cloud in the sky as we look at the center city skyline. 83 degrees for the high today. Beautiful sunshine throughout. Continue to have the low humidity. Tonight cool again with the suburbs in the 50s. 65 in the city. 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