let's talk about this with alison evans, a senior analyst for the asian pacific region at ihs economics, and she joins us via skype from york in the u.k. thank you for being with us. first of all, what do you think is going on, as the clock ticks down on the deadline, the south, to remove the loud speakers. do you think that the north could back up the threats? >> i think that the threat from north korea are nothing new. again 48 hours across the dfc towards the loud speakers. they said the important part is it's an opportunity to de-escalate the situation. a lot of this rhetoric coming from north korea is for domestic instruction. deflecting attention from the problems at home. gi truth to that. >> the message is quite chromed. the important thing to recognise. it may seem a strange trigger for attention. north korea views this assist psych logical warfare, it's important to come to an agreement. >> we have been down this road before, tensions from time to time. is there something particular about this that you see this time around? >> yes, there is. the important thing to note is ofte

alison's boyfriend, one of the tweets, i am numb. obviously the question is trying to figure out why would somebody do something like this. evan perez is standing by with some information as far as this man who then jumped in a car after committing heinous crimes plural and hit the highway. what happened next. >> that's right, brooke. we expect that we'll get an update from the local sheriff there in just a little while but here's what the virginia state police say happened. we know that local state and federal law enforcement were swarming the virginia region looking for vester flanagan after the murders live on television and surreal twist of flanagan using his on air name bryce williams was sending out these tweets and facebook posts as he fled north from roanoke. among the social media posts was the video that we're not showing of the shooting from his perspective, and apparently those social media posts helped law enforcement figure out exactly where he was. they were tracking his cell phone. the virginia state police say that this is how the pursuit ended around 11:30 this morning. state troopers saw his gray car headed