good evening, i'm vicki liviakis. today's celebration -- giving the public a chance to memorialize the young girl. kron four's philippe djegal is live outside kaiser permanente arena in santa cruz, where the service was held. philippe. >> philippe: this tragedy striking at the very core of this community still obviously in mourning. but what a tremendous turned out here at the arena. some 15-hundred people who now will never forget maddy's name. >> vicki: >> philippe: an afternoon of heartfelt hugs and tears for madyson maddy middleton's family. >> philippe: tissues passed around a bunched up basketball arena, turned memorial. >>: "i would like to thank all of you for your kindness and support." >> philippe: maddy's mother laura jordan speaking briefly. >>: "though she is not with us physically, she will always be with us." >> philippe: before sharing one of her daughter's video blogs. >> philippe: showcasing the bubbly personality so many came to love and cherish. >>: "she was incredibly funny, very witty, very smart

: time. >> vicki: today. alcatraz received a 7-point-3 million dollar donation check from the golden gate national parks conservancy. it was presented during a special alumni weekend. where a number of former guards and inmates returned to the island. they were able to share their stories of life on the island with visitors. today. trip advisor also named alcatraz the number 1 landmark in their 20-15 traveler's choice awards. >> vicki: today marks one year since the fatal shooting of michael brown by former ferguson police officer darren wilson. c-n-n's polo sandoval takes a look at the events marking situation has changed in ferguson. >> reporter: frustrations haven't faded in ferguson. just about everywhere you look in this small missouri city, there are signs of a community still healing after michael brown was shot and killed by then-police officer darren wilson. while wilson was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, his actions ignited a fiery, national debate about race relations. >>: "no justice, no peac

com. >> vicki: at a-t-&-t park.er long were invited to attend the event. the festival features stations education, and reading. kids were also allowed to run in an obstacle course. their summer reading. >> vicki: at the end of the day, the kids were given a free book from the san francisco library. >> vicki: a lost florida dog found more than 700 miles away in kentucky is finally back home. for the last few days.tyson's owner has been trying to raise money through go-fund-me to get his owner says he escaped from a family friend's home and still doesn't know how he ended up so far away. >> reporter: it was a reunion days in the making. a cheerful hello from an owner who missed his one-year-old puppy. >>: "oh, hey buddy." >> reporter: tyson responded by wagging his tail when hugged and rubbed by daniel beverly. eight days before , misty short found the black lab mix 700 miles away in the middle of the road in brooks, kentucky. >>: "we made eye contact and i knew he was scared. i knew something was wrong." >> reporter:

ask your hep c specialist if harvoni >> vicki: still ahead. extreme heat causing people to pass out at a sporting event in arizona. how hot it got. rescue workers are still searching for survivors in a massive blast that released cyanide poison in china. and signs of wreckage from a plane that crashed in indonesia. what search crews are saying about the passengers. >> vicki: rescue crews have found the wreckage of a missing indonesian passenger plane. the aircraft went missing this morning in indonesia's papua province. with 54 people on board. kron 4's scott rates has been following the story. and joins us with the latest details. scott? >> reporter: that to suspender search tonight. authorities believe crashed. the loss service over a remote area. officials say the wreckage has been spotted. locals say they saw the airplane crash. weather conditions and are really nasty so this suspended the search. >> vicki: the federal aviation administration says a technical problem at an air traffic control center in virginia that caused hundreds of flig

>> vicki: a raging wildfire has torched thousands of acres across california. now it is threatening six thousand homes. liviakis. the rocky fire continues to burn north of clear lake. kron 4's scott rates shows us how this fire exploded overnight. >> reporter: the rocky fire and exploding saturday morning. is bringing 54,000 a. and . highway 20s been shut down both directions. the fire is only getting worse. the fire is only 5 percent contained right now. all those people evacuate from the homes. >> vicki: u-s forest service officials say an autopsy is scheduled this week...to determine the cause of death of a firefighter killed at engine captain david ruhl's autopsy will include lab tests that may take up to five weeks for the results. officials say ruhl was in a car thursday... fighting the blaze when they lost contact with him. helping firefighters in california. kron 4's brian van aken has been tracking the fires. >> reporter: there's a lot of dry conditions lots of sunshine. sunday's weather will feature widespread morning fog and some drizzle at times. th

>> vicki : at eight. in just a few hours. a major stretch of highway 101 will be shut down in burlingame as p-g- &-e crews work on a damaged power line. this-- after a construction crew crashed into a transmission pole using a crane friday night. good evening i'm vicki liviakis. kron 4's scott rates is live in burlingame tonight. scott. how long will the highway be closed for? >> scott :ec behind me that highway patrol this year and then in the distance and the p g n e crews they're getting ready for tonight's work, they tell me that there will be stringing about 1,500 ft. of power lines across the freeway and that is what they need to close it it will affect the southbound highway 11 from the military accept all the way to ease popular--millbury exit they talked about the work that they're going to do overnight >>:if you look at the pole to the right of me and actually see where the wires go up and where we can pull the power lines across the road. this is sundanese to be done with the highway closed, so what the crews have

>> vicki : tomorrow is a carbon copy of tomorrow?-today? >> brian :correct, as they go through the week we're going to see some cooler temperatures tuesday wednesday and thursday are all featuring lots of heavy fog turning warmer by the weekend with the '90s returning and we're heading into the beginning of september >> vicki : that's it for the kron 4 news at 11. stay connected with kron 4 news and get the latest news @ www.kron4.com my name is jamir dixon and i'm a locate and mark fieldman for pg&e. most people in the community recognize the blue trucks as pg&e. my truck is something new... it's an 811 truck. when you call 811, i come out to your house and i mark out our gas lines and our electric lines to make sure that you don't hit them when you're digging. 811 is a free service. i'm passionate about it because every time i go on the street i think about my own kids. they're the reason that i want to protect our community and our environment, and if me driving a that truck means that somebody gets to go home safer, then i'll dri

>> vicki : tonight. nearly one- thousand people came together to celebrate the life of 8-year-old madyson "maddy" middleton. she was remembered in both art and song. middleton was found dead in an apartment complex last month. good evening, i'm vicki liviakis. kron four's philippe djegal attended today's memorial, and spoke with those who knew the young girl. >> phillipe :tissues were passed around in a basketball arena that they turned into a memorial >>:i like to thank everybody for their support and love if though she is not with us physically she will always be with us >> phillipe :she then showed us a video blog and shot as the personnel that many came to love and cherish-- showed us >>:she was very funny and windy --witty and very smart >> phillipe :a month ago she was found dead in a dumpster in her apartment complex with a 15 year-old boy charged as her murderer the focus today was on her life, as artists praised the little girl who loved pretzels, popcorn, and had a habit of holding like you bot

>> pa >> vicki : tonight at 11. wildfires burning across northern california triggers a smoke advisory here in the bay area. a spare the air alert is in effect today through tomorrow. good evening, i'm vicki liviakis. more hot, smokey, and smoggy weather is due back tomorrow. kron 4's kate cagle explains what's causing the poor air quality. > >kate : the view from mount diablo was hazy as people stayed inside to get away from me and triple digit temperatures and the smoky air. the bay area--bay bridge was packed bumper-to- bumper >>:today and tomorrow is a spare the air alert > >kate : he says this week and we got hit by a double and me-- whammy a high-pressure system makes with all of these cars in the road cribbing and on health the ozone level the to warnings continue into the start of the work week the pollution was worse in the east bay and santa clara valley, and it should be the same as well continuing on the spreading into other areas smoke can irritate both of the throat and the eyes >> vicki : continuing o

>> vicki : breaking news tonight. a wildfire that broke out in lake county is forcing more residents to evacuate the area. the so-called "jerusalem fire" broke out earlier today near the community of lower lake. is more than 2,000 a. at this point it is only several miles south of the massive "rocky fire" in napa county. good evening, i'm vicki liviakis. kron 4's emily turner has reaction from those who were forced out of their homes. >> emily : the people who evacuated from the rocky fire were just able to get home only to have to turn around and leave again. the jerusalem fire that started last night could get worse firefighters said it today was a bad day. they had jumped to 3,000 a. and was 0 percent contained. >>:we are taking this very seriously and we are mobilizing very resources and there'll be more coming tomorrow to try and stop this fire. >> emily : right now the fire is burning eastward but officials are hoping it will turn north going to wear the rocky fire has already destroyed and already run out if it

vicki he is a champion, she is a fighter. is positive and that's going to help her. >> was she conscious today? were you able to talk to her at all? >>. no the times that i was there she was in surgery or in surgical recovery and so. >> and how is her husband? >> he is strong. he is a great guy. he is very strong and very positive. >> you know, when i came to this community, when i mentioned her name, all the people around here, everybody knows her. >> yeah. >> why does everyone know her? >> vicki gardner is the single greatest champion for smith mountain lake. she has been the executive director for 13 years and has done so much for this community. she is vibrant. she is positive. she is a visionary. i had a meeting with her yesterday at 4:00. and unfortunately, it was interrupted by something else of a similar nature but vicki was there dreaming and planning and we were planning of some big things that she has got working. she is a visionary. she is the single greatest champion we have at the lake. we are going to champion

vicki gardner on the other side of the microphone survived the shootings. her husband gave us her eyewitness account of the surprise attack. did she get a feeling who was the targ sunsetet? >> allison was the target. >> adam was hit next. >> he shot three times at my wife. she was trying to dodge everything. he missed twice. she dove to the ground. curled in a ball. he shot her in the back. >> her husband watched the mayhem unfold. >> i saw what happened. i started getting phone calls from people who had seen that. wondering if it was live. i said, i don't know. i don't know. >> reporter: his wife fighting to stay alive picks herself up and walks to help. >> a fenphone call came in. my wife calling from the ambulance. she called me and said she had been shot. and that -- that she loved me. and she would see me at the hospital. >> reporter: all three victims of a deranged gunman. vester lee flanagan, a former tv reporter with an embattled past with the local tv station. leading to the premeditated killing of two of its employees. >> 24-year-old alison parker

in the jeep, vicki describes what she's seeing. >> come on, sweetheart.turn her and bring her to the side that has the shallow. apparently, she doesn't think that that is a good idea. >> the engine noise further stresses the trapped calf. >> you can imagine the sound of a land rover engine running over. it's basically like shouting at them constantly. oh, baby, i'm sorry. you fell in a well, you silly girl. >> the team members have to coordinate carefully to avoid either man falling into the pit. >> go? >> as vicki waits for the right moment to hit the gas, robert tugs on the rope and nearly loses his footing. >> what they're trying to do is get the rope under the tail as best. the trouble is the water is so deep in the bottom that it floats on the surface. >> 30 minutes later, they've made no progress. >> for a minute there, we just stood there looking at each other. we didn't know what to do really. >> after a few more attempts, robert and mark get the calf turned in the right direction. they secure the rope under its belly and tell vicki to step on the

when all three were gunned down. >> allison was the initial target. >> vicky told her husband allison was shot first and then ward and when vicky started to run, the gunman started firing at her. >> he shot three times at my wife and she was trying to dodge everything and he missed twice and then she dove to the ground, according to vicky, the shooter, former reporter, vester flannigan kept trying to shoot her but his gun did not work. more evidence of an elaborate pan and in his car a glock pivot on and three magazine of ammos, three license plates and a wig and shawl and to do list. >> flannigan shot and killed himself while on the run from troopers, vicky is still in the hospital but expected to make a full recovery. >>> back in this area one firefighter was hurt battling a house fire in berks county last night. it broke out on the 500 block in reading, the first firefighters on the scene had to call for backup because of how strong the flames were, the house was vacant at the time and so far no cause is determined. >> three row homes caught fire in camden this morning, the action

vicki of ms. vicki's kitchen. this is the best i've ever gotten.she is a self-proclaimed 20 for seven talkshow host on everything social media. if at 830 every night i would get hungry and i just decide to do it, every evening she opens up her kitchen to the world. live streaming through periscope and getting hundreds if not thousands of viewers from around the world. if i. >> if i go on and i30 in the morning and do a copy talk people in l.a. are not talking are now watching. >> she allows people on twitter and periscope to help her create her meal. they have suggestions, they they tell her maybe do this, and we tried no baked macaroni. >> easy cheesy macaroni. >> periscope is a live streaming application that allows you to use your phone as a broadcast network. >> i think there's a place in austin that has just frozen banana. >> they're also giving, like hey vicki how's your your cat, or i was whale shark watching, which she went and did in my periscope question. i so she is a very interactive audience. i tried this myself, not only am i learning

they say vicky knows she was fortunate. bill? >> tim, thank you. >>> president obama is in new orleans where he is paying contribute to the city's resiliency 10 years after hurricane katrina. the president spoke at a newly opened community center in the lower ninth ward. 10 years ago this weekend nearly 2,000 people died and one million displaced because of the storm. >> you are becoming a model for the nation when it comes to disaster response and resilience. we learned lessons from katrina. u.s. army corps. of engineers developed stricter standards. >> earlier residents lining the streets to welcome the president and his motorcade. and he stopped for lunch in one of the oldest black neighborhoods in america. >>> a fire this afternoon at a luxury apartment building in the east village. an eyewitness news viewer tweeted this video from flames shooting from a penthouse on east 13th street. the fire was in the machinery room. two firefighters suffered minor injuries. no word on the cause of the fire tonight. the unit had just sold,

vicki feels very fortunate. we're confident had he had more ammo, she may not have been as fortunate as she was. and that she is very thankful. tim and vicki gardener and their family, even though this is a good day for them as vicki has had some good news, their hearts are very heavy today for the other victims' families, alison and adam. >> we know that there was no warning, because, on camera, you can see, he just came up to them and shot them. but, afterwards, the video, sadly, the video is horrific. if you watched, the gunshots go on. was she concerned at all that he was going to return and start attacking again? >> well, again, she's sharing those details with her family. but i think there was serious concern as anyone can imagine that he had shot adam and alison. for a period of time, she was hunkered down, maybe even still there, maybe even close to her. so we can all imagine, well, can't imagine, but we can try to imagine what must have been going through her mind as she was experiencing this and she wi

vicki gardner, the woman being interviewed, was shot. she survived, rushed to the hospital and after surgery listed in stable condition. all of this hitting the wdbj family very hard. the station paying tribute to their lost colleagues on their facebook page. but within the last hour that station's general manager let his personal feelings and anger be known. >> i think i'm going to step out of my role as a former journalist and say i'm not really sure whether i want him to live or die. if he dies, then he took the coward's way out. and if he lives, he goes on trial and goes to prison for the rest of his life. >> that was the general manager, jeff marks, talking right there. moments after that television station was notified that flanagan was alive. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has been following this story from the d.c. bureau. pete, bring us up to speed the very latest on this. the initial reports were that flanagan was sought by police and during that pursuit shot and killed himself. that quickly changed. >> reporter:

kron 4's vicki liviakis went to the "mrs. doubtfire" house.ked with fans who came to pay their respects. >> vicki : it is the house that robin williams started and as mrs. dowd fire--doubtfire >>:is my first day as a woman and i'm getting hot flashes >> vicki : fans have come to pay their respects everybody loves him >>:he was a comedian and i really think he was a great person. he was very humble and very real it's >>:he touched a lot of people's lives >> vicki : fans learned after his death that he had health problems and suffered from depression for years, and they renamed to the tunnel and the robin williams, >> pam :in sports the dodgers get a big night from their superstar while the giants gary has all the highlights for the sports coming up next ♪ ♪ (vo) you can pass down a subaru forester. (dad) she's all yours. (vo) but you get to keep the memories. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. pwhat've we got? 5. bp 64/40 sterilize sites. multiple foreign objects in the body. tweezers. (buzz!) (buzz!) if you're the guy from the operation

but one bit of good news tonight, one of the victims, vicki gardner, is up and talking. her husband sharing details of the shooting that no one has heard before now. here's jim avila. >> reporter: vicki gardner awoke this morning to her brave, new world. a world she is lucky to be the lone survivor of a gunman's killing spree. >> when she came to in the recovery room, the doctor told me that the prognosis is that she's going to make a full recovery. minus a kidney and some other small parts. >> reporter: a tremendously positive prognosis after two surgeries on her back and kidney, since vicki believes the gunman was intent on killing her as well. yet she told her husband she never saw any of it coming. >> there was a bright light in her face. a camera with a light. >> reporter: the trio were focused on filming their interview, the killer set his sights on them. >> alison obviously was the initial target. >> reporter: he then shoots vicki in the back. standing over her, in what could have been her final moments. he came over to do a coup de gras. >> he missed twice and th

w >> reporter: good evening, vicki.e student we're talking about is a sophomore at delmar high school. it all started back in middle school when she got a christmas present from her parents. it was 100 big ones but there was a catch. she had to spend the money in a way that would make someone else's life better. then it a want from there. >> this is my kron-tv's story -- kron 4 story. >> reporter: it's a pretty common saturday chore.-bkç the pile of bottles and cans grows every weekend. >> $2 per pound of cans. a dollar per pound of plastic bottles. $0.10 per pound. >> reporter: she is saving the money for cleft palate surgery. >> it really affects their life. >> reporter: she's been doing this since she was 11. >> they can't talk properly or can't even smile properly. >> reporter: the surgery costs $250. poor families can't afford the price. so senali has been turning these cans and bottles into dollars and cents. the recyclables come from her , e mom's office and nearby businesses. over the years, she has raised enoug

. >> i'm here with vicki gardner -- >> reporter: the day beginning like most any other. the morning crew, reporter alison, cameraman adam ward, doing an interview about tourism with a local official, vicki gardner in moneta, virginia. this freeze frame released by police caught in the dying cameraman's lens, revealing an image of the shooter, quickly identified as bryce william, the professional name for vester lee flanagan ii. up until about two years ago an on-air reporter at the station. >> bryce williams, wdbj 7. >> reporter: flanagan fleeing, at large, places a call to abc news calling himself bryce, saying that he's just shot two people. abc immediately contacted authorities and back at the station this solemn announcement. >> it is my very, very sad duty to report that we have determined through the help of the police and our own employees that alison and adam died this morning. >> reporter: vicki gardner is in the hospital in stable condition. by mid-morning the police in hot pursuit, the shooter on the road east towards the nation's capital. interstate 66. weave

from vicky. these women were screaming. this was a different point and that is after the shooting started. so what we think, and i can tell you from watching and moving and not just the still shot, she is getting shot as you are watching that and you can hear the screams. it is disturbing. if you flip the switch and turn it from the advantage point of the shooter and look over the barrel of the gun it is chilling how someone could carry out murder and shoot it with a camera at the same time if in fact he didn't have help we have no idea if he did. but we have no reason to believe there was anybody else there but the shooter. let's bring in a former nypd detective and pat has been able to do a background check on vester flanagain. tell us what you learned. >> this background is not remarkable at this juncture. but we are still doing a dive on it. we will have more as it develops with the research people report to me. but the fact is he had some significant financial difficulty over the years and h

let's talk about vicki gardner. the executive director of the smith mountain regional chamber of commerce. friends say that was her title, but she did all she could to promote the community she loves so much. she is a wife, mother, a grandmother and artist. we got this message from her employer late yesterday when they say they are confident she will recover. miguel, alison. >> alison parker's grieving father paid tribute to his daughter. he conveyed a passionate message about gun regulation. >> she lived a great life. she did a lot of stuff. she excelled at everything she did. she loved what she did. she loved the people she worked with. she was happy with her place in life. so, you know, we can only take some solace in the fact she had a wonderful life. she was extremely happy. she loved this guy with all her heart. that's the toughest thing for me. everybody that she touched loved her and she loved everybody back. you know, i'm not going to let this issue drop. this is, you know, we have to do something about cra

as for vicky, she is still in the hospital but is expected to make a full recovery. elizabeth hur, abc news, roanoke, virginia. >> reporter: we invite you to stay with eyewitness news and abc news for continuing coverage of the shooting in virginia. and tune in to 2020 tonight for an in depth look at the shooter's history of problems and hear more from the loved ones of victims. that is tonight at 10:00 on channel 7 and the watch abc app. >>> a fire no yonkers, they are saying overloaded power strips are to blame. two people are headed to the hospital. one resident for smoke inhalation. one firefighter for elevated levels of carbon monoxide. all other injuries are minor. the three-alarm fire started just before 5:30 this morning inside an apartment building on valentine lane. two people were hurt inside the apartment where the fire started. >>> a 79-year-old woman in newark is seriously hurt after being hit by an out-of-control driver who is being chased by police. the chase ended yesterday when the driver crashed through a fence on clinton street near branch brook p

. >> reporter: hurt in the shooting, vicki gardner. she survived. 24-year-old alison parker, the reporter, and her photographer, 27-year-old adam ward, did not. >> we're all in a state of shock here. you can hear people behind us in the newsroom crying. >> reporter: ward's camera capturing this final image of the shooter, gun in hand. >> my fellow employee said that's it, that's him, that's vester. >> reporter: vester flanagan, a former reporter at the tv station, wbdj 7, known on air as bryce williams. >> the suspect is believed to be armed and dangerous. use caution. >> reporter: in the hours that followed a chaotic manhunt to find flanagan. police first tracking his ford mustang to the roanoke regional airport, then using a license plate tracker spotting him in a chevy sonic in northern virginia. as officers pursue flanagan he appears to post messages and even videos of the shooting to his social media pages showing how close he got to the journalists. nbc news is not airing his videos. by 11:30, with police closing in he drives off

we are praying for the recovery of vicki gardner. our thoughts and prayers at this time are with the victims' families and with wdbj television station family. >> president obama calls the shooting of the two journalists heart breaking. he is calling congress to stop the bottleneck on the legislation. >> we know the number of people who die from gun related incidents around this country dwarfs any deaths that happen through terrorism. we are willing to spend trillions of dollars to prevent terrorist activities, but we have not been willing so far at least, to impose some common sense gun safety measures that could save lives. >> now the tragedy in roanoke is igniting the gun debate on the campaign trail. hillary clinton calling on congress to come up with legislation to tighten restrictions without infringing on the rights of americans. marco rubio claims there is no need for it. >> it is not crazy people. it is the violent people. it is not the guns. it's the people. here's the problem i have. first of all, the second amendment is i

vicki was telling us bad traffic on highway 17.t another day of bad traffic on highway 17. some 50eu8s too. triple digits in the east bay. perhaps close to 110 degrees. 90s for the south bai. -- south bay. haze and smoke and hot weather. for monday, a little bit of a comaipght sea breeze will get just lightly stronger. still hot inland, and a gradual cooling trend through the week, and it will be very slow to cool down as we get little bit more fog each day. >>> just as use getting a handle on tbiers burning in lake county, concerns are rising in one north bay community people living in santa rosa are worrying about the response time of their local fire department because of a mix-up on federal building regulations. >> i am elena warren. this is my kron4 story. >> reporter: in 2002, a grand jury told the city of santa rosa they needed to move fire station 5 here. while it took -- it took them over a decade to do that, and now that the building is here, it still isn't being used. >> reporter: california is in the heat of fire season

we are also praying for the recoveries of vicki gardner. our thoughts and prayers at this time are with the victims' families and with wdbj television station family. >> flanagan had been fired from several jobs and was known as a troublemaker. >>> now while workplace shootings are not new, we've heard before about disgruntled employees who use violence as retaliation, it is still rare in. 2013 just 9% of all workplace deaths were homicides, but when it does happen most of those deaths were from gunshots. women are most at risk because of domestic disputes and our coverage of the shooting continues. still ahead we'll take a look at what happens when violence l. devira bra alfarone will look at social media and its role in today's attack. >> and you can get the latest on the attacks in virginia by downloading our news app and signing up for the breaking news alerts. we'll have 24 hour updates on the investigation and the condition of the survivor at www.wusa9.com. >>> we have some breaking news to tell you about right now. the coastguard is

what can you tell me about vicky gardner? >> well, she's very much a pillar in the community as well as a great director for the chamber. she's done so many great things and she's involved with just about everything at the lake. she's very well known throughout not only the lake area but the county and the state. from what i can understand, the conversation started inside the chambers there, and they were talking about it being such a nice day and maybe finishing the interview on the deck of the plaza. it's a three-tier deal, the deck they're standing on there, with the lake in the background which would have made a beautiful, you know, shot for the cast. >> the chamber of commerce is right inside or part of this mall? >> yes, the chamber of commerce is there at that mall. >> and she is a member of the chamber of commerce? >> she heads it. she's the ceo/chairman of it. she coordinates all the events and everything that the chamber does and the businesses. and she has just been so super-excellent at it and it's just a heartbre

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i spoke to the husband of vicki gardener. she is the woman who was being interviewed the only survivor of the three there on-site. she remembers every single detail of how things happened. she was literally dodging the gunman's bullets. >> could have been a couple millimeters or centimeters to the left it would have severed her spine and a couple mill meerts to the left of that it would have severed her aorta. she was lucky the way she got shot. >> after flanagan fired at allison parker and adam ward he pointed the gun at vicki's head. she ducked he fired and missed she ducked the other way he fired and missed again. she crouches down in the fatal position that's the shot that grazed her spine and fires back. then she hears the gun click flanagan out of bullets then he fled the scene. canned lit vigil held last night. the virginia attorney general in attendance. tim gardener says he blames flanagan's crazed mental state not his weapon. >> if he had had a gun he would have had a knife or a machete. he was bound and determined

their guest, vicki gardner, was shot in the back.er condition is stabilized, we are told, and there is a fourth person shot, the alleged perpetrator, the alleged shooter, the alleged murderer in this case, his name is vester flanagan, a.k.a. bryce williams, bryce williams being the name he used on air before he was fired from wdbj, before he was called on network television a disgruntled employee and before he was fleeing from the police, crashed his car and then put a gun to his own head. he survived and he is now in critical condition there is so much to this story. cedric alexander is on the president's task force for 21st century policing. joen than gilliam is a former police officer, also fbi agent. brian stelter to the right of jonathan is our senior media correspondent here at cnn and cnn legal analyst danny cevallos on the left-hand side is with me live. i want to begin with you, cedric alexander, if i may. there are so many different scenes to process at this time. but if you could take me in realtime right now as to what po

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the woman parker has been interviewing vicky gardner was injured. there. we will, of course, let you know as soon as we find out. >> camera toppled to the ground it captured this image vesterly flanagan a diseffected former reporter at wdbj flanagan went by bryce williams posted video twitter. we will only o show you this still image. he also railed against his former colleagues parker and ward on facebook. in an extraordinary show of composure and heart, the journalist and general manager at wdbj had to wipe tears and do as they're trained to do. cover a huge story. this one, though, was about their beloved coworkers. >> we have determined to the help of a police and our own employees that allison and adam died this morning. >> short time after shooting a 23-page document park manifesto part suicide note from flan begun arrived at abc news here in new york. in it flanagan described himself as a human powder keg waiting to go boom. flanagan shot and killed himself 200 miles north of the crime scene. jeffrey marx, general manager said the station had many p

please, give vicki our very best. the whole country is thinking about her and praying for her today. tim gardener, thank you very much, sir. >> thank you. >>> if there's any glimmer of good news in the horrific tragedy, it looks like vicki gardener will make a full recovery, according to her husband. >> it's so haunting she remembers everything that happen talked to her. a lot of healing there. >> and that he watched it on live television. >>> a check of the weather now from al. >> all right, guys. thank you very much. let's show you what we have going on. we're watching a lot of wet weather through florida. it has nothing to do with erika. part of a frontal system down there. we are watching some areas picking up to a half an inch to two inches of rain. they needed it. erika could help them get rid of that. we have a risk of a strong area of storms 2 inch sized storms. 50 miles per hour winds. isolated tornados. rainfall amounts from kansas city, omaha, to madison, >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist bill henley. ano

were fired. >> reporter: vicki says the lights were shining in their eyes. they couldn't see him at all. >> allison was the initial target. >> reporter: adam was hit next. and then -- >> he shot three times at my wife. missed twice, she dove to the ground, and he shot her in the back. pulled the trigger several times, only fired once. >> reporter: he fired 17 rounds. the gun empty, he fled. and remarkably, vicki got to her feet. >> she says, if i'm going to get up, i'm going to get up. and walked to the ambulance. >> reporter: she called her husband to say she was alive and to meet her at the hospital. doctors expect a full recovery. >> and we'll have more tonight on "20/20" at 10:00 p.m. central. >>> and hillary clinton facing a new firestorm over her husband's e-mails. asking for the green light to give speeches tied to some of the most brutal regimes in the world for big bucks. jon karl is on the story tonight. >> reporter: with its vast army, nuclear weapons, and the world's most notorious dictator, north korea would seem an unlikely place for a former p

our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of alison, adam and vicki. so a bit of good news. vicki gardner, who is the woman who was being interviewed by alison parker this morning, talking about the 50th anniversary of that lake at that site, she was rushed to surgery and we can now report survived her wounds, his stable condition and thankfully will stay with us here on this earth. all right, we're going to take a quick break right now. stay with us here on msnbc as we continue to follow the breaking news. but first, one of the victims, reporter alison parker, we want to have this piece in her own words. this video posted to her station's website earlier this year, she answered the question when she was younger what did she want to be when she grew up. >> when i was younger, i was really interested in the math and science fields. those were always my best subjects in school, but i went the journalism route, which is okay. but when i was younger i wanted to either become a doctor or become a pharmacist, but as a journalist, i get to cover those types o

my day has been just hectic. >> vicki gardner was shot in the chest. she went through emergency surgery. she's now listed in stable condition and is expected to make a full recovery. >>> the shooting of journalists was on the front page about just -- just about every newspaper across the country. while many decided to actually show those chilling pictures leading up to the shooting, some news managers thought it was in poor taste and decided not to show them. social media full of posts on the shooting as well expressing sorrow and outrage. our wusa9 facebook friend ginger brown writes, having lost my only child when she was 21, i feel for the parents. i pray they find comfort in the beautiful lives they lived, the work they did, and the many, many people who they inspired. ed says adam ward had the face of a man i'm sure i'd like. the dude at the end of the bar that everyone wants to buy a beer. elizabeth burn burrley wrote so, so sad, what a waste of talented people who really had something to contribute. >>> we are continuing to follow this story. an