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This newsroom come alive. they re going to be missed. adam has been with us quite a few years. i believe started in the production department. he did. we re going to break away from this right now. if you re just joining us, a terrible thing out of the monita, virginia, near roanoke, virginia. a reporter doing a run of the mill, fluffy kind of story at a water park when gunfire broke out. you hear at least eight gunshots in the background. this reporter and photographer were shot to death on air. just a terrible thing. you were just seeing their colleagues talking about them, remembering them. i just can t imagine what shock they are in this morning. brian stelter, you were watching the video. ....
Alison parker and adam ward were gunned down while they were doing a live shot at a water park in monita. the gunman is still on the loose. schools in the area are on lockdown. police are doing what they can to find the gunman. we re going to get back to this story, but first we must check the market. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange with more. opening bell ringing in about a minute. we are expected to see the dow jump higher. we are seeing futures power forward. this may seem like ground hog day. yesterday we said the same thing. by the time the closing bell rang, all the end dindexes turn ....
Terrifying hrks e is ratcheting attention up in the street. the images are so strong of the innocent people with their hand pressed against the window. the location is central, that s a central business core the reserve bank is monita, parliament is not too far away, it is across from a tv station. it s if time s square here, where the good morning studio here, the rockefeller station or columbus circle where we are, the main heart of downtown sydney, that s what difference shats differentiates it from a fear and a crime. one observener sydney said this is something concocted for all of australia, obviously, now, for the rest of the country as well. it provides a moral dilemma for media. we saw how a radio journalist, a broadcaster was brought into this. a hostage got on the phone with him. he smartly chose, larry, not to ....
Or brack flag with the arabic writing on the front of it, forcing them to hold that up. we could clearly see him as well walking in the background, he was dressed in a white shirt, a black cap. he was unshaven and carrying what we think is a pump action shotgun. he also had a backpack on, whether anything was in the backpack, police had been making contingencies in the bomb squads have been called in monita. but as you say, nightfall came two-to-three hours from now the first signs of darkness, he left the lights on inside the building. we could clearly see inside the cafe. he since turned those lights off. it s been pitch black ever since. we can still make out the flack, sitting in the fourth window and about 15 minutes ago, we saw the gunman walk past the window again with what we thought was the gunman holding that shotgun ....
Tried to rescue american photo journalist luke somers and south african hostage pierre korkie. they were being held by the al qaeda group in the arabian peninsula. they say the navy seals team hiked six miles from their drop zone and were spotted just 100 yard away from the militant s compound. that s when a feergs firefight broke out. u.s. officials say one terrorist immediately ran inside the compound and then shot the hostages. the navy seals were able to evacuate somers and korkie and a u.s. medical team spent a half an hour on the ground in yemen trying to save them. one guide on the way to a monita u.s. ship. the other died on the ship. no special forces were killed in the operation. cnn joins us now from the white house with more on this. len, what more are u.s. officials saying about the timing of this rescue mission and why they had to take action when they did? ....