has nothing to do with you you are paying the benefits for people who are already retired to dave parker you hope when you come to retirement you hope there are those that our behind you to support you. it is like the pyramid scheme the people on the bottom support the people at the top and generally the first retirees get off pretty ball -- well. but now the pyramid is inserted we had 16 people paid for every person but today is about three and now we are heading slightly less than two. now we are making higher wages but still ultimately the system will break down you could only tax them so much before they resist. and in fact, that tax burden is enormous so after that but we are living longer. >> but rate -- retirees are living a lot longer in retirement. we could expect to spend one-third of our working lifetime in retirement that is a long time to collect. >> host: when the program for started retirement age was 65 life expectancy was 62. now the retirement age has moved up at 67 that many people are living into their 90s. >> people discuss we do need to raise a said they become soci

in moneta, virginia, dave wagner, nbc news, back to you. >> as we mentioned, alison parker and adam ward were in relationships with colleagues. their significant others each have ties to our area. tonight, one of them issued a statement on social media. melissa ott posted on facebook earlier to want, ott was engaged to photographed a dr adam ward. she started her news career as an intern at nbc 10. her post reads "i'm not okay and i won't be for a long time but the enormous outpouring of love and support from some many of you near and a is so much appreciated." today her uncle told us melis melissa's parents left immediately for virginia to comfort their daughter. he says she and her fiance were looking forward to their future. >> loving girl, loving guy. a tragedy for the family. they were making plans for the wedding and it was going to be, like, a down in virginia p home style, you know? >> reporter: ott posted about her fiance an hour before he died. "adam brought balloons to work and co-workers brought flowers and a cake to celebrate her last day before starting new jobs together in

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in virginia, dave wagner, nbc news, now, back to you. >> alison parker and adam ward were both in relationships with colleagues. we've learned their significant others have ties to our area. melissa ott was engaged to adam ward. ott grew up in gibbstown and started her news career as an intern here at nbc10. today her uncle told us melissa's parents left immediately for virginia to comfort their daughter. the deadly shooting unfolded on what was the last day of work for both melissa and adam. >> loving girl, loving guy. they were making plans for their wedding, it was going to be down in virginia. >> ott posted about her fiancee an hour before he died. adam brought balloons to work, and co-workers brought flowers and a cake, to celebrate the couple's last day before starting new jobs together in north carolina opinion we've also learned alison parker's boyfriend was from our area. chris hearst went to conestoga high school in better win. hearst called parker the most radiant woman he ever met. a memorial at the museum remembers fallen journalists. nbc10 will continue to follow the latest develo

co-workers of the man who gunned down alison parker and adam ward described him as having a temper, being very difficult to work with. joining us is sports reporter daveavalle in anchorage, alaska. you were the morning anchor in tallahassee, florida, when a new weekend anchor named vester flanagan was hired. what was your experience with this guy? what was his personality like? >> initially, wolf, really didn't have too much of an interaction with him. nothing stood out. however, one thing i did notice is that shortly after he started after i got done with the morning newscast, i would go out and report and vester also happened to be a day side reporter, and at first it seemed like a joke but the photographers would say do you have a story lined up because i don't want to go out and work with vester. and at first it just seemed like a joke but then i would ask the photographers what's going on? they just said he happened to be difficult to work with, did not seem prepared, and so it was like, okay. and then i witnessed some stuff on my own that he would do on air and it's like, wow. he would ask me a question about a story that i did that he's reading

dave. we're learning more this morning about the final farewells planned for virginia journalist alison parkerhe two were shot and killed earlier this week during a live news report. friends and family will gather to remember adam ward tuesday and the parker family holds a private memorial for alley monday is. mean while her father is vowing to become an advocate for gun reform and calling on other law makers to join in the fight to reform and calling on other law makers to join in the fight to strengthen gun laws across the alison was a force of nature. she was an absolute force of nature. and i think that her life is going to have meaning not just as a journalist, but if we can affect meaning full changes in our gun laws here this senseless act senseless murder will not go in vein. >> obviously a lot of social media response to this trueman writes guns don't kill people humans do and debra says more and more of us are in danger than you think. for the sake of a ten second spotlight someone is willing to kill anyone. god help us. more guns means more death. no one deserves to die. and this co