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captain mcbroom heads towards the only unlit spot he can see below between the housing. >> the planearely clears an apartment building. >> i thought we were landing at the airport. i was very delighted, and then the delight turns to fear because i had no idea what was going on. it just felt like it was never going to stop. >> as the plane tears through the trees the front section violently rips away. >> it wasn't until after we had stopped moving that i really grasped the enormity of what had just happened. >> the aircraft is destroyed. ten people, all sitting in the front section that separated, die from the impact trauma. the rest of the passengers are dazed. >> it was so cold. although when you're running on adrenaline you don't really notice those sorts of things, but we walked off the plane, and then we were in this neighborhood. nobody knew where we were. we just were milling about, like what do we do now? >> the four-engine plane went down five miles southeast of the airport. it missed a large apartment complex but smashed through two vacant houses. >> once on the scene, ntsb

. ♪ >>> this is kimberly mcbroom. is one of the news anchors on a local tv station in roane oklahoma, virginia. her father died suddenly. he had a heart attack. when that tragedy struck her family, one of the very first people to show up at her house with condolences with food and a shoulder to cry on was a young reporter named alson parker. they were that kind of close as friends. first one there after your dad dies close. and early this morning when alson parker was shot and killed, as she was reporting a story live on the air at wdbj, it was her friend kimberly mcbroom who was in the anchor chair who was watching, live, shocked. we won't show anything graphic here. we do not need to broadcast murder, especially one that the murderer wanted to be broadcast. but this was the live interview that alison parker was doing when she was shot and killed this morning. because it was a live shot, her dear friend and colleague who was anchoring this morning's broadcast from the studio, and everybody else watching the newscast

kimberly mcbroom was on the air when parker and ward was murdered. >> we have held hands and hugged, and we are family. >> reporter: alison parker's father who spoke to his daughter every day said his heart a broken. >> she would be texts me right now, dad, what did you think of my story? i'm never going to hear that again. >> reporter: vicki gardner who was shot in the back is recovering in the hospital. her husband says gardner called him from the ambulance and wondered how she was able to survive. maurice and kristine. >> the strength and grace the community is showing is unbelievable. matt, thank you. >>> in other news now, fire destroys an iconic east village pet house today. the rooftop villages catching on fire just before 4:00 it this afternoon. the cottages sit atop of a historic building that dates back to 1865. one witness was worried about the fire risk. >> i did see debris like falling from the building, and i thought someone could get hurt, and i was like, i don't know, why they didn't dispurse everyone. >> the penthouse has been featured in several magazines and it was

. >> reporter: a moment of silence marking the void left by anchor kimberly mcbroom was on the air when parker and ward murdered. how powerful was that moment of silence? >> it was powerful to me. we've relied on each other, all of us have. we've held hands. we've hugged. i mean, we're family. we are a family. >> reporter: the tragedy has moved many to pay their respects at a growing memorial in front of the station. adam ward's fiance, melissa ott, posted a touching tribute on facebook. >> your life changes. but in their memory, you want it to change in a way that something positive comes out of it, and that's all you can hope for. >> reporter: parker's parents, barbara and andy, say they will now advocate for stronger gun laws. >> i'm going to do whatever it takes and i'm going to be relentless about it. get change. >> reporter: vicki gardner survived the shooting and today was upgraded to good condition. tim, her husband of 40 years, thought he had lost her until she called from the plans. >> she told me she had been shot in the back and she didn't know why she was still alive. the g

. >> the look on the anchor lady's, kimberly mcbroom that was on the story, the look on her face juste -- i was at home, and you could just tell. >> the first thing i was thinking, maybe the car backfired. there is a lot of traffic, a busy entertainment complex. a car backfired. i thought maybe something happened with the camera. maybe a light had blown or something. anything but this. >> reporter: tonight many passing by wdj 7's station, leaving their well wishes, a vigil, remembrance. >> we woke up this morning. so did they. they went to work. they didn't think twice about it. >> i think adam, i didn't know him personally, but i consider him a hero, because he got a picture of the gentleman that did this. ♪ >> reporter: behind me, you can see where that terror unfolded early this morning. still closed off to folks here in franklin county. and a lot of the residents i spoke with say today, today was difficult. but the days to come should be even more challenging. jim, doreen, back to you. >> david culver, thank you. vester flanagan apparently didn't just want tv viewers to see what h

anchor kim mcbroom was on the set when the shooting happened. she is now struggling to move on. >> we got support, i think, just from the love and outpouring of community support that we have gotten here. >> reporter: anchor nadia singh worked with adam ward just last week. >> he had that wit. he had that charm. he had that ability to light up a room. and so did alison. >> reporter: alison's dad holds on to his last memory of alison celebrating her birthday with family on the river. >> we are going to go down there after, you know, memorial services and we are going to spread her ashes in the river, which she would have liked. [ crying ] >> reporter: in the meantime, investigators are looking into flanagan's troubled past. on "cbs this morning," former fbi deputy director john miller called him an injustice collector. >> this final act of leaving behind this long treaties about what everybody did and risk every tiny slight, that's the classic injustice collector. >> reporter: flanagan as ties to the bay area. he grew up in oakland, his family li

. >> reporter: this morning began with the same wdbj anchor kimberly mcbroom but it was a very different day. >> it was yesterday around this time that we went live to alison parker and photo journalist adam ward. >> reporter: with a moment of silence marking the time her colleagues were murdered on live tv. and now it looks like the shooter may have been trying to run. according to documents obtained by nbc, the police searched vester lee flanagan's car and found six magazines of am knic-- ammunition, 17 stamped letters and a wig. >> this kind of act although it is letters and a w. >> this kind of act although it is happening more often is so rare that being able to come up with a profile or understanding is quite difficult. >> reporter: flanagan did have a history of angry outbursts at work. >> he would get angry about things he had no reason to be angry about. >> reporter: justin mccloud is a reporter. >> he came to blows with a reporter in a live truck on a story. >> reporter: at a tallahassee station more than a decade earlie a similar story. >> he wanted to take it outside and i wa

. >> reporter: morning anchor kim mcbroom says it's difficult to move on. >> that's the only thing we can do is just go forward and -- and tell their story and hopefully this never happens to anybody ever again. >> reporter: wdbj's staff stood united behind general manager jeff marks, who told reporters about how flanagan had to be removed from the building by police when he was terminated in 2013. >> on the way out, he handed a wooden cross to the news director who was at that time dan dennison and he said you'll need this. he made a derogatory comment to adam ward who died yesterday. >> reporter: flanagan had been fired from other jobs but wdbj says it had only received positive references when he applied. police say he became a person of interest after texting a friend he had done something stupid. flanagan grew up in oakland graduated from san francisco state university and worked at kpix as a production assistant and intern in the 1990s. people here who remembered flanagan recalled an eager college grad looking to break into the business, a much different person from the man that

and for kimberly mcbroom and lee on hurst brenner to do what they have done the past two days are remarkablethey are broken. all of the behind the scenes staff, the production staff, the editors, photographers, we are broken. . our station is on the other hand by a great ownership group out of south bend, indiana, and they jumped at the chance to have our sister station from wichita, kansas, come and help us out, because we needed the help. i -- i think i probably could have gone back and done the news, but what -- what's the point? and they've got plenty of people to cover it, and i think my platform as a broadcaster and journalist is to share alison's story, because i know her story. i know her story without attribution, i know it to be true, and i have shared it with the station and trying to share it with as many different people as possible, so that everyone knows about the shining light that she was. and adam was, too. they were a -- >> adam -- i've been watching these clips of adam, and, you know, i do the same work you do. i've been looking at them like that's the kind of guy i would

. >> reporter: morning anchor kim mcbroom says it's difficult to move on. >> that's all we can do isust go forward and tell their story and hopefully it doesn't happen to anyone again. >> reporter: the staff stood united behind the general manager who told reporters about how flanagan was removed from the building by police when he was fired in 2013. >> he handed a wooden cross to the news director on the way out, who was at that time dan dennison and he said you'll need this. he also made a derogatory comment to adam ward the news photographer he killed yesterday. >> reporter: flanagan had been fired from other jobs but wdbj had only received positive references when he applied. police say he became a person of interest after texting a friend he had done something stupid. craig boswell, cbs news, moneta, virginia. >> the general manager of wdbj says flanagan did not have any confrontation with former coworkers when he saw them around town in the 2 1/2 years since he was fired. flanagan worked here at kpix as a production assistant in the '90s and graduated from san francisco state u

. >> reporter: the stunned local anchor, kimberly mcbroom, unsure over what just happened. >> and i heard this "pop, pop, pop" and it did not register that it was gunshots. it probably should have but, you know, she's doing a feature story, so my mind did not immediately go to that worst case scenario. it just didn't. >> reporter: this freeze frame caught in the dying cameraman's lens reveals the shooter's image. we now know that is bryce williams, aka vester flanagan. police quickly arrive at the scene but the gunman is long gone. now heading down hardy road for about 25 miles to this fedex where he faxes to us at abc news that 23-page manifesto and suicide note. meanwhile back at the station -- >> we are following breaking news this morning out of franklin county. >> reporter: the rest of the news team struggles to balance grief and reporting. >> our wdjb crew was live this morning when shots were fired. >> reporter: what is it like, kimberly, to be on the other side? that's hard for a journalist. you're used to being detached. >> our job being journalists is hard and it's so important,

mostly anchor kim mcbroom said she's just sad. >> please join us now in a moment of silence. i just know if it had been me that they would be telling my story. they would be trying to honor me. >> reporter: employees cloaked back dealers as they told their friend -- choked back tears as they told their friends' life stories. a former wdbj news executive answered reporters' questions for hours. >> yesterday was the worst day of my career and for most people in this newsroom. >> we're supposed to be on that side of the story, not on the front of the story, youen. we're supposed to be looking at the -- you know, we're supposed to be looking at the story and we've now become the story and that's a strange place to be. >> reporter: ribbons employees were wearing, blue for alison and maroon for adam who loved his alma mater virginia tech. nadine was going to be in adam's wedding. he had proposed to morning producer. throughout the day people brought more flowers, plants, balloons, flowers to the memorial out front. >> kudos to all those people in there who are carrying on and doing

one of the anchors kimberly mcbroom said she didn't realize the sound during the live broadcast was gunfire. >> you have to understand they were doing a feature at beautiful smith mountain lake, it was a beautiful morning, this was not a standoff, this was not a hard news story, this was a morning feature. so when we heard those sounds, when i heard those sounds i do not think gunshots. as time went on, as people in the control room were trying to get in touch with them through texting and the longer it was that we didn't get a response from either of them, the more it was very, very clear that something had happened. that something was very wrong. >> again terry mcauliffe arrived at wdbj late this morning to meet with family members and colleagues. cnn correspondent polo sandoval is joining us from outside that station in roanoke, virginia. >> we've seen many people stopping by outside the memorials of wdbj 7 and most recently terry mcauliffe spending an hour with station staff, station management. even the family members of those two murdered journalists. a few moment that was he spoke to

. >> when you see these reporters in the morning newscast and kimberly mcbroom can tell you, alison does multiple live shots from one location throughout the 5:00 to 7:00 hour. >> exactly. >> so you're maybe wondering how would this guy know? how could someone get in place and find a crew? we are in a position where we work in a very public industry. we are out there. you know where we are. alison is live every morning. >> it's a two-hour show, so you can pick it up at 5:00 a.m. and then get to where she is. we're looking at live video of interstate 66 where vester lee flanagan's car was where he apparently was pulled over. and shot himself. again, he is not dead as we reported earlier. state police corrected us on that. he's in very critical condition. we'll stay on top of that and let you know if anything changes with his status. this has been a noogt maightmar. this has been going on for about five hours since we first found out. that's the location delight in faulkier county, northern virginia. interstate 77 and mile marker 17 to give you an exact location. so he apparently drove fro

. >> and when you see these reporters in the morning newscasts and kimberly mcbroom can tell you, alison does multiple live shots throughout the 5:00 to 7:00 hour. you're maybe wondering how would this guy know. how could someone get in place and find a crew. we are in a position where we work in a very public industry. we are out there. you know where we are. we are live right now. so alison is live every morning and she might be live at 5:00 -- >> all right, you've been watching wdbj, the local affiliate in roanoke. the two journalists murdered this morning worked for and their latest on the coverage regarding the suspect, bryce williams was his tv name. off of air he was known as vester flanagan. conflicting reports about whether or not he in fact did kill himself. that's his image right there. so for a reset, if you're just joining us now, around 6:45 a.m. this morning, two local journalists, a reporter and a cameraman, were killed and now it seems they were killed by a disgruntled ex-employee of that station, wdbj, down there in roanoke. that individual, the suspect, then uploaded v

we did speak with the anchor there kimberly mcbroom. air. here's what she told us. >> we are keeping each other together. we are hugging, we are crying, we are holding hands during the newscasts. we are a family. and i have said that probably a million times in the last couple of days, but we are. that's what's getting us through this. and the out pouring of love that we've gotten, not just here in our community, but from all over the world through social media. i've heard from people all over the world, all over the country through e-mails, twitter, facebook, you name it. we've gotten food, cards, flowers, balloons. if you've seen what our station parking lot looks like, it's a lovining tribute to two fine people that we lost. i know that alison and adam would want us to keep going. this is what we do. we are wdbj7. adam's twitter handle was do work. and he believed in that. and this morning the meteorologist and i were looking at each other, like, do work, do work. it is hard. >> we can only imagine. it is remarkable to many of us tha

kim mcbroom was on the air yesterday, back this morning talking about heavy hearts, their two colleaguesilled. an area outside the station, people lighting up candles, setting up memorial for alison parker and adam ward, the balloons and american flags there. as for vester lee flanagan, the former reporter who killed parker and ward and killed himself, long history, erratic behavior in the workplace, clashes with his colleagues. it's all coming out now, these types of things, allegation of racism. the two journalists killed are remembered by their own loved ones, we had alison parker's boyfriend, how it was magical, they just moved in together, and adam ward was engaged to be married. his fiancee is a producer at wdbj, yesterday was her last day, she was working in the control room at the time of the shooting. that's it. they did pull themselves together nicely, dagen, put together a morning broadcast after the horrible events of yesterday. dagen: unthinkable, thank you so much. still ahead, look at oil, majorly up today, finally cracking through the $40 a barrel mark. barely higher. gas