university of california president janet napolitano and california community college chancellor bryce harris about the challenges facing their students. first, scientists have uncovered new information on the impact of california's drought. scott shafer spoke with science editor craig miller about the findings. >> craig miller, welcome. >> thanks, scott. >> begin with the study from columbia university. scientists there saying climate change caused by us made our drought worse. how did that happen? what's that connection? >> california had kind of a double whamny. 2013 was the driest year on record. 2014 was the warmest year on record. here we were already two years into drought. any residual moisture just gets baked out of the soil by that excess heat and sucked up by the plants and it's gone. setting the stage for worst wildfires, tougher to grow things, all these drought impacts become that much worse in that situation. in reporting in the past, i've tried to ask the question, yeah, but how much worse does this actually make the drought? nobody really had an answer. >> they say it makes i

university of california president janet napolitano and california community college chancellor bryce harris about the challenges facing their students. first, scientists have uncovered new information on the impact of california's drought. scott shafer spoke with science editor craig miller about the findings. >> craig miller, welcome. >> thanks, scott. >> begin with the study from columbia university. scientists there saying climate change caused by us made our drought worse. how did that happen? what's that connection? >> california had kind of a double am

bryce williams. they're not calling flanagan a suspect. harry, did you want to jump in?> yeah, listen, what's really important here also is, how did he know that she was going to be there at that time doing a shoot? that's important. does he still have access to his computer system when he worked there before and was able to track her at this specific location to be able to attack her and the other persons here? that's something very important we'll have to look at. >> all great questions because this was a live shot happening. a live interview happening at 6:45 in the morning. it looked like it was almost either from an observation deck or even a parking lot outside of this bridgewater plaza near moneta. not a place you think a lot of people will be at 6:45 in the morning. harry, stick with us. art, stick with us as well. there is a lot more information coming in on this horrific shooting taking place of a local tv reporter, photographer and a member of the chamber of commerce outside roanoke, virginia. we'll be right back. the mercedes-benz summer event is here. now ge

. >> harris, the legal name of the shooter is vester flanagain but was known as bryce williams for his air name. according to reports he moments interstate 66 in virginia. we know williams worked in a number of stations greenville, savannah georgia, san francisco, and midland, texas. and in san francisco he said i was hired as a production assistant, liked and able to come back after the texas fiasco, no explanation on what that was. it was a great experience, people were supportive but there were quoting him now some crazies. it is believed he recorded the murder of the reporter and photographer as they were doing a live broadcast. in one hand he had a handgun and in another he had a cellphone camera. as you mentioned he shot dead 24-year-old alison parker, a reporter for wdbj. she was interviewing a woman with the local chal chamber of commerce on hew to improve the economy. you can hear on the broadcast eight shots before the live broadcast was tossed back to the studio. you hear someone saying, a woman quoting, oh, my, god. the reporter alison parker was dating an anchor at the tel