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Anything regarding what happened yesterday. vester flanagan was employed by wdbj 7 as a reporter between march 2012 and february 2013. he applied for the position using the air name of bryce williams. as part of wdbj's standard policy and protocol for background checks, we received only positive references. flanagan's job performance and interaction with his coworkers led his manager to place flanagan on a succession of performance improvement plans. only slight improvement was noted each time. flanagan was placed on a final warning in december 2012 for failure to check facts in a news story a...

>> march 2012. the number six train is headed uptown with a man and woman battling it out in a closed subway car. if you were there, what would you do? move away from the explosive melee? wait till the next stop and call a cop? or try to intervene possibly at great personal risk? >> i was just like, whoa, this is crazy. i quickly reached for my phone and started videotaping. >> well, without that response we wouldn't have our story, but then a new subway super hero comes to the rescue, snack man. >> he just seemed real cool. just walked right in there. kind of didn't say nothing to anybody. ju...

>> march 2012. the number six train is headed uptown with a man and woman battling it out in a closed subway car. if you were there, what would you do? move away from the explosive melee? wait till the next stop and call a cop? or try to intervene possibly at great personal risk? >> i was just like, whoa, this is crazy. i quickly reached for my phone and started videotaping. >> well, that's atan's response and without it, we wouldn't have our story. >> he just seemed real cool. just walked right in there. kind of didn't say nothing to anybody. just walked right in, smooth, eating his chips. >>...

>> to fake a real patina, you need time. you need years and years. maybe 50 years. maybe 100 years to develop this patina. by growing the micro organisms that form the patina. >> every day new evidence is presented. >> there were more than 120 witnesses in this trial. many of them leading scientific experts. >> the case itself lasted for almost eight years. >> geology, physics, chemistry, stone, glue, ink, you name it. >> i don't think there was ever any case like this in the world. >> the judge said to each of them, look, if you, the best experts in the world, can't tell me whether this is a ...

>> to fake a real patina you need time. you need years and years, maybe 50 years, maybe 100 years to develop this patina by growing the microorganisms that form the patina. every day new evidence is presented. >> there were more than 120 witnesses in this trial. many of them leading, scientific experts. the case itself lasted for almost eight years. >> geology, physics, chemistry, stone, glue, ink, you name it. >> i don't think there was ever any case like this in the world. the judged to each of them, look, if you, the best experts in the world can't tell me whether this is a fake or authenti...