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Two and a half years ago. and as her abc official bio proudly states dungy has shepherded in a wide variety of programing including the most watched show on television, roseanne. knowing tv networks as i do, especially in the entertainment division, i expected abc to try to tough it out today and survive the crisis roseanne created because the show's ratings are so good. when roseanne tweeted this apology, i immediately said that this was a network forced apology using language that roseanne herself would never use. here it is. i apologize to valerie jarrett and to all americans. i am truly so...

Corporate america turned swiftly. somebody -- did somebody have a plan in advance here in case roseanne went off the rails? >> i don't know if they had a plan in advance. they got together fairly quickly. they notified the production company and it seemed like a cut and dry decision. bob eiger from disney tweeted out the decision. >> shepard: how big a lot is this financially for abc? >> i don't know the exact numbers on it. i mean, they were counting on this to be one of their biggest shows of next year. it was the number to comedy behind "the big bang theory" when it came back this past marc...

Tweets by tom arnold, a friend of hers. tough decision with financial consequences for its company. right for america. now don't bug bob, but maybe someone else will find out if i'm still banned from all of abc network for calling roseanne barr out first. there's a statement by reverend al sharpton on the cancellation of her show. abc television has done the right thing by immediately cancelling "roseanne." whether it was imus calling the rutger's women's basketball team despaisparaging name or a well-refined public servant like valorie jarrett being depicting valorie jarrett as an abe. >> she...

Different. what i've witnessed in recent months and years is companies wait until it's untenable. surely in three hours they hadn't reached that position already. they made this decision ahead of that avalanche. >> they made -- a couple factors going in here. they may have seen the ratings for roseanne that spiked heavily, coming back down to earth in the latter part of the recent season's run. they probably had to pay more money for the cast that is a stellar group of actors. there may have been costs that abc saw and said, we don't need this. >> yeah. it sounds like that that may be exactly ...

Her well-established views. done in quickly. >> shepard: thanks, david. good of you to come on. >> thanks, shep. >> shepard: ahead, a hollywood insider on abc's big gamble. we're also following important stories outside of this one. hurricane maria killed 64 people. 64 people died in hurricane maria. that is what we know from our government. but now we know our government could not have been more wrong. 64 people did? try more than 4,000. how does the government make that mistake? plus, we'll take you to ellicott city, maryland with a community is dealing with a devastating flood. you may have...