slen: are the apple tvs, the google tvs, compatible with comcast and the charters and the fios? mr. tayer: are they compatible? i'm not sure exactly what you mean by compatible. they do allow some of the same content, but let me put it this way because i think this gets into the cord cutting discussion carte content. for a consumer who doesn't care much about sports, and in particular for millennials, and also for people who don't really care about seeing the first viewing of a hot new tv series, cord cutting can make a lot of sense. you can get a lot of that content now through the internet, through netflix, roku andulu, and it is apple tv that bring in the content. and but it is not really a wholesale substitute, and in that sense, maybe not compatible per se for one of the cable or satellite tv boxes, but it is compatible in the sense that the same subscriber, consumer household, can have these two side-by-side. you can have your satellite or cable box and watch espn live. you can also have your apple tv box or your roku box and watch netflix on your own schedule. and a sense, ev

we've gone from black and white tv to color tv over the air to cable, as dick hud. once coming up, mr. tayer? >> guest: well, that's really interesting. but a lot of activities going on simultaneously, and you read all the time in the media, and this is one of the reasons i felt i had to write this book, that netflix and youtube are really digital. and they are, but they were really the fifth generation of digital. first big win over satellite, then over cable, then over terrestrial broadcast and then over dsl and fiber. and fifth ones of the internet which maybe is the most exciting of all, but it's certainly not where it started. and so this 25 year arc really traces that whole history. so what's next? hdtv is now very mainstream. one of the important technologies developed right now inaction going out into the mark is called ultra hd, or four k. those two terms are synonymous. is still very much early adopter phase of that and there's a lot of chicken and egg situation is being worked out, pretty much like how hdtv finally broke through about 15 years ago. so i w

>> digital tv is really the the intersection of computers and tv. it means that the entire chain of digital tv production and distribution is con visiterred into the 0's and 1's of the computer world. 0's and 1's are representing the visual and sound information. of course on the receive side when the consumer is viewing the picture it has to be converted to analog so that the human visual system can per see the -- perceive the signal. that's in what simple terms digital tv is. as opposed to analog tv, which is really a continuous waive, so the best way to think of the transformation from the continuous waives from analog and to the 0's and 1's of digital. >> host: it's not necessarily high definition tv; is that correct? >> guest: that's correct. it to be over a decade for that market to develop. high definition television really met a dramatic increase in ri -- resolution of the picture, and in our case it was based on digital, but we anticipated early on that high definition as a market would take many, many years to develop. that's actually in t

marc: digital tv is the intersection of computers with tv. of itss the entire chain adult tv production and distribution is converted to the zeros and ones of the computer -- such that they are receiving the information. the consumer is reviewing the picture it has to be converted back to analog so that the system can perceive the signal. all the zeros and ones representing the tv signal from start to finish. tv, which to analog is a continuous wave area the best ways to think of the thesformation from continuous wave of analog to the zeros and ones of digital. but digital tv is not necessarily high definition tv. marc: correct. high definition television was the original to this for this here. high definition television really meant a dramatic increase in the resolution of the picture, the number of pixels in any given frame such that it was a better picture to the consumer. our case it was based on digital. thatticipated early on high definition at the market would take many years to develop. that is in the original business plan i wrote fo

olivia: you already pay verizon for a tv bundle and internet. pimm: if you get the tv bundle.d cutting is people saying, i just want the internet. reporter: there's a lot of people thinking, maybe this $80 or $90 a month i am paying for cable tv isn't so bad. when you think about being a cord cutter you have to buy the internet, then pay eight dollars a month for netflix. hbo will be another $15. if you pay apple tv $40 a month -- it starts to add up and in some ways it might cause -- cost more than if you paid for your traditional keep -- tv service. olivia: is there any chance that cbs will go for that? reporter: programmers have a lot of leverage in these situations. there's a lot of people cutting the cord. these television companies want to have a new distributor that is a new source of revenue. not bean they afford to on an apple tv service that will be in next number of homes? -- an x number of homes? enters a when apple market, they are very influential. the tv programmers have to be careful because typically they sell bundles of 20 of their channels and now you are lo

a lot of people don't pay for tv as we know it. we take away some of those points with sling tv so you don't have a contract, equipment to buy. you can go on vacation and take your service off for a month or two. you can go in and out of the service through the internet without any cost. it is immediate. betty: you can do it right away. charlie: you don't have to wait for an installer and somebody to come by. betty: you don't have to take a day off and wait for the cable guy. charlie: and it is less expensive. our basic package is $20. we have premium channels. it attracts a lot of people, particularly younger people who are not paying for tv today or maybe at one time paid for it and said it was too expensive. we certainly are encouraged by the start of sling tv but we have a long way to go. we're not perfect yet. we knew it would be difficult but it is difficult because we are on lots of different devices and live tv is really hard. we are doing things that have not been done before. it reminds me a lot of when we started satelli

one, tv itself is transforming. people are looking for more of what they want to watch and not paying for what they do not want to watch. they want to watch tv everywhere. part of that is technology of over-the-top allows customers to do that. and the second transformation is wireless. the wireless industry where the world will be connected all the time and there are only two ways , to do it. one is through the wire and the other way is through wireless, and we started on a mission about five years ago saying we want to be a part of that revolution. the best place to do this in the marketplaces in the wireless side because we are a wireless company. betty: unless you have accumulated $50 million or $60 million in wireless assets? charlie: it is only really worth money when you put it to use and when you ultimately build a business around it and get discounted cash flows. that is what we are looking forward to doing. betty: charlie, does this remind you at all about the transformation of television and the on boardin

or where paying for tv and said it was too expensive and dropped off the tv universe. we are encouraged by the start of sling tv. but we have a long way to go. we are not perfect yet. we knew it would be difficult, but it is technically difficult because we are on a lot of different devices. live tv is really hard, and we are doing things and inventing things like dynamic ad insertion that we haven't used before. it reminds me a lot of when we started satellite. when we started satellite and dish, we had all kinds of technical problems. and night by night, we had to knock them down one by one by one. it took six months. we occasionally have a technical problem today. betty: but you pretty much resolved it. you believe you will resolve it now in the same timeframe. charlie: there is no question we have resolved problems and we have resolved most of them, but we had a choice to make. it was either get out there and do what we don't know or wait and try to be perfect. i think we got a little ahead of our skis, but i think it will pay off for us. for the people who are wat

tv is everywhere. part of that is the technology is ott, over the top that allows customers to do that. the second transformation is wireless. there is only two ways to do this, one is through the wire and the other way is through wireless, and we started that about five years ago. we wanted to be part of that connectivity revolution. the best place to do this in the marketplace is in wireless technology. betty: this is why you have accumulated $50 million or $60 million in wireless assets? charlie: it is only really worth money when you put it to use and when you ultimately build a business around it and get discounted cash flows in the future. that is what we are looking forward to the future. betty: charlie, does this remind you at all about the transformation of television and the on boarding of so many people wirelessly. does this remind you of the early days of satellite television? charlie: it does. the incumbent said why would anybody pay? back in the early days, people wanted to pay the premiu

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many feel as if they knewa, lison, they saw hoar tv every day and were -- her on tv every day, and were forced d to witness her murder. >> eye tell you, it's something i don't want to see again. >> reporter: flanagan drove to the airport, switched cars and was spotted driving on interstate sixty-six. he shot him as police closed in. late in the day, the dead man's family issued a statement. >> reporter: surviving victim, vicki gardener was shot once and is recovering after an operation here. and sources tell us that lester flanagan -- vester flanagan purchased two glock pistols and one of them was the murder weapon. >> our thoughts and prayers with those families and the employees that remain there at the station. and i know that for us in this news business we have to be respectful that they were able to focus and the strength they showed to get through this day. what was it like in that newsroom? >> reporter: well, very somber today, but they were working, doing their job, they were very courteous to us, but they were breaking down in tears quite frequently. and the thing that struck

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outside their tv station. wdbj. and tonight we have team coverage from roanoke to monmon. what could have led to this senseless tragedy. >> we're looking through records that vester flanagan's rough exit and the chilling message he left behind for the news director when he was fired. >> tonight, we're also hearing from flanagan's family for the first time, and we're watching the outpouring of love and support for alison parker and adam ward. that's where we begin tonight with news4's david culver, who attended that vigil in franklin county. >> as the sunset over franklin county, hearts were illuminated, one candle at a time. ♪ amazing grace, how sweet the sound ♪ >> reporter: just a few miles from this morning's tragedy, a local church turning this parking lot into a space of healing, a space of prayer. a space of love. >> where we can't understand, we can't explain things we have grace. >> reporter: lisa hall, holding tight to her daughter crystal, her grandchildren close by. wondering how could this happen h

sling tv. and buying up billions to dollars of wireless assets, assets he says can be used to build a legitimate competitor to at&t and verizon. when we first sat down for an interview at his colorado headquarters, i asked him to describe this new frontier. charlie: now we are in another transformation. tv itself is transforming. people are looking for more of what they want to watch and not paying for what they do not want to watch. they want to watch tv everywhere. oft of that is technology over-the-top allows customers to do that. and wireless -- the wireless industry, people will be connected all the time, and there are only two ways to do it. one is through the wire and the other way is through wireless, and we started that about five years ago. we wanted to be part of that conductivity revolution. -- of that connectivity revolution. the best place to do this in the marketplace is in wireless technology. betty: unless you have accumulated $50 million or $60 million? charlie: it is only rea

police say it was a former reporter vester flanagan known on tv as bryce williams fired from the tv station two years ago. he took social media posting the video of the attack and complained about the people he just killed. they think he headed to the airport where he switched out his car for a car he rented. 4 hours later a trooper identified the vehicle on i-66. minutes later vester flanagan crashed and shot himself. >> obvious that there was dis-- he was disturbed in some way, it would appear things were spiraling out of control. >> reporter: more evidence of thatane manifesto he fax -- that ma manifesto he faxed to abc, said he was the victim of discrimination at work for being a gay black man. he fired vester flanagan because he was difficult to work with. >> he was looking out for people to say things that he could take offense to. he -- and -- venchially after many -- venchially after many incidents -- eventually after many incidents we dismissed him. >> reporter: now, also injured in the shooting was the woman they were interviewing at the time, she was shot in the back and is in st

this was digital hd-tv. and then our competitors were going into those labs next to test, and they also were following us and developing digital systems. but we wanted to make a big pr splash. and so don rumsfeld lined up a situation where our engineers would do an over-the-air broadcast in d.c. to the u.s. capitol building where there were quite a few senators and congress and fcc commissioners all waiting there to see if this would really work and what it meant for the country. it was a very patriotic moment, actually. >> host: and how did that test go? >> guest: it went flawlessly. it -- they flipped the switch, and it went from standard definition to high definition, and there was an american flagawaying in the brilliant colors -- waving in the brilliant colors and high resolution of hd-tv. i wasn't in the room at the time, i was back this san diego, and from what i heard, a lot of jaws dropped, and they felt that one of the biggest technology breakthroughs in decades had just been proven. >> host: in te

want to pursue reality tv because i want that larger doing it? >> you have to visualize it and write it down and visualize what it is you want to do. >> hi. i'm 18 years old and in the future i plan to get a degree in fashion design and have a chain of beauty salons. >> before i did this i wanted to produce reality shows about hair and beauty. it involved me behind the scenes because i am a behind the scenes person. i saw this as an opportunity so i told myself. speaking of which, when you're pitching a show make sure you have dotted your is and crossed ts as far as ownership and registering registering. people have short term memory. they will forget it was your show. they will forget you walked it in the door. it has happened. that's why i say go to the network first and get the network execs to believe in you. and then what they are going to do is partner you potentially with one of their partners who they trust and who successfully delivered in the past. >> i love that because you are almost reverse engineering it. a lot of people go through

his name, vester lee flanagan, also known as bryce williams a former reporter at wdbj-tv. it is a difficult day for anyone who has worn the journalist hat so we begin this hour by sending our condolences to our broadcast colleagues down in roanoke. >> still so many angles to this story unfolding right now. we are going to get to them in just a moment. but we are also following a breaking story right now at the national zoo, where officials say the smaller panda cub has just died. vets are about to hold a news conference to provide more information. they say the larger cub appears to be strong and behaving well his mom. as soon as we get more information from the zoo, we are going to bring it to you live on news4 and, of course, the nbc washington app. jim? >>> erika, viewers in southwest virginia were just waking up today when out of nowhere, they heard the sounds of at least eight gunshots on air. a gruesome ambush that unfolded around 6:45 a.m. this morning as wdbj, near the end of its morning newscast. the news crew was conducting an on-air interview, something they do

. >>> tonight, deadly shooting targeted on tv. a young reporter and her cameraman gunned down. the shooter, a former co-worker stalked them from behind, opened fire on live tv and taped it all himself. the gunman's motive, range, race. we have the document he sent before the shooting. team coverage tonight. >>> donald trump's heated exchange kicking out a top journalist, grilling him about his immigration plan. >>> on the stand, the former student accused of raping a girl at an elite prep school makes his case. did he convince the jury. >>> and ten auto makers face a major lawsuit. the new device used by millions of americans, why some say it may be putting lives at risk. >>> good evening. i'm george stephanopoulos in for david tonight. we want to get right to that deadly shooting in virginia. a gunman targeting two young journalists with cameras rolling, theirs and his. two journalists killed, another victim expect to survive. the gunman killed himself after a police chase. we'll never know why he set out not just to murder but to broadcast the crime on live tv and by filming

>>> making news in america this morning, a deadly shooting on live tv. a news crew gunned down in front of cameras. overnight, the tributes pouring in. the reporter's father speaking out and new details about the suspect. we're live in virginia with the latest. >>> tracking erika. the caribbean bracing for the storm. on track to hit the islands today and likely impacting the u.s. soon. >>> determined driver. a man behind the wheel not getting towed without a fight doing whatever he can to keep his car. >>> and dynamic duo. taylor swift brings a friend on stage, and it nearly broke the internet overnight. >>> good morning. i'm phillip mena. >> and i'm reena ninan. we begin this morning doing what we know many others are doing in newsrooms around the country, thinking about those two young journalists killed on the air in virginia. >> alison parker and adam ward were known at their station as the "a" team, both of them just a few years into their careers. vicki gardner, who was shot while being interviewed, is hospitalized in stable condition. >> and last

she's gone from reality tv to tv and broadway act tes and beyond, but she's confident that she'll alwaysone of the leading housewives. >> this season on the real housewives of atlanta. >> see these legs there, honey. >> i love you, cynthia, you're my sister. >> tell us what is going through your mind right now as you are about to embark on a whole new career. >> it's exciting. i'm a little nervous about it. but i also am the kind of girl that likes a bit of a challenge. i'm really happy. i feel like it's an honor. a lot of people know me from being a housewife. they know me from the reality world. they don't really know me though. they have a different idea as to who i am because they've seen me on the housewives show. they don't know my level of professionalism. they don't know my real at any time. they just know me as a girl on a reality show that is, you know, hold on, wait a minute. >> right, right. >> but they don't really know who i am. >> so who are you? >> i'm a strong black woman. i'm very educated and very professional. when i go to work, i go to work 100% professional. i don't

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more and more people are starting to cancel their cable tv subdescriptions and watch tv over the internet. over the last quarter, pay tv distributors lost more subscribers than they have ever lost before. the timing for this service is actually very good. >> can you explain what is apple tv currently, and what is this idea to offer live streaming television in addition to what you can get now? >> apple tv is a set-top box you have in your home and you can watch very apps on there. >> you can watch a variety of television programming as well as any kind of movie you want? >> right. what apple is trying to do with this live tv service is a little different. this would be for about $40 a month, you would get maybe 20 or 30 chance. the sticking point with the cbses and the foxes of the world is price. if apple wants to charge $40 for this service, but at the same time they want to get as many chance into the service as possible. >> where would you get the connection to get the live tv? right now you can't use apple tv without some kind of internet connection? >> right. this would be live tele

or where paying for tv and said it was too expensive and dropped off the tv universe.e encouraged by the start of sling tv. but we have a long way to go. we are not perfect yet. we knew it would be difficult, but it is technically difficult because we are on a lot of different devices. live tv is really hard, and we are doing things and inventing things like dynamic ad insertion that we haven't used before. it reminds me a lot of when we started satellite. when we started satellite and dish, we had all kinds of technical problems. and night by night, we had to knock them down one by one by one. it took six months. we occasionally have a technical problem today. betty: but you pretty much resolved it. you believe you will resolve it now in the same timeframe. charlie: there is no question we have resolved problems and we have resolved most of them, but we had a choice to make. it was either get out there and do what we don't know or wait and try to be perfect. i think we got a little ahead of our skis, but i think it will pay off for us. for the people who are watching,

that is almost it for this hour of bloomberg tv.ake you what we should be watching for the rest of the day. standard charter us out with earnings and it is the first set of numbers. the new ceo reports and in 20 minutes, we will get the answers. what are we expecting? stocks generally the best profit since 2007. not expecting that. >> standard chartered is a very different beast from stock gender and we're are looking at how that revenue has fallen and our concerns they are not making enough money anymore. we will be looking very closely at that and we will be interested to see the amount of capital that they have to raise. they will -- potentially be cutting their dividend. jon: is that something we could get in 15 minutes time and will be given honeymoon period to the ne ceo? maybe try to get all of the bad stuff out of the way and clear the debt if you will. the dividend may be announced in a maybe cut today but we are unlikely to see anything about it capital raise. could certainly see the direction of travel over there and how

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is an apple tv something consumers are clamoring for? >> i do not think consumers are clamoring for that product necessarily. there are enough good aexpensive televisions that luxury tv is not something that people even need or even want. matt: let's move on to the apple music story. >> they reported some numbers that came out, they had millions of streams and they sold 7 million downloads through the itunes store -- story itself. willints to the stuff that we be doing to get people to subscribe to a whole music, have things that are exclusive to the service. someone who is on spot if i cannot get a copy of the new dry album, so they may go to a whole music itself. you can do more and more of that, it will give you a leg up on some of the other ones. that is a tough thing to do for a lot of artists, especially because it has lower subscribers than spotify. matt: we are showing video of you when you took apple music for a test run. once you have spotify there is no real reason to get anything else unless you are a dr. dre diehard. switch

each had found love with someone at the tv station. jenny joyce had been looking into. >> this hey, jenny? >> reporter: good morning, mike, alexment fox news channels talk to allison's boyfriends and father last night. he said he had been feeling arrange every emotions, grief string, sad, now starting to feel angry. >> alison parker and adam ward shot and killed doug the job they love. >> this yes team every morning reporting for wdg7, roanoke, just moved in with mal vin native chris hurst, told they were planning future together. hurst told us that he alison worked opposite shift, when he got home late at night he made her breakfast, and made sure she got to work safely. yesterday, he woke up to the horrifying news. >> she would always text me when she got to work, she texted me good night sweet boy. that's the last i heard from her. then i was startled awake this morning from phonecalls from the station telling me that there had been a shooting on live television and i needed to come to the station. >> allison, she was only 24 years

top of sling tv.e wants to buy assets of what he says can be used to build a legitimate competitor against at&t. when we sat down at "titans," i asked him to describe his plan. charlie: people are looking more for what they want to watch and not paying for what they don't want to watch. tv is everywhere. part of that is the technology is over the top that allows customers to do that. the second reservation is wireless. there is only two ways to do this, one is through the wire and the other way is through wireless, and we started that about five years ago. we wanted to be part of that kind of technology revolution. the best place to do this in the marketplace is in wireless technology. betty: unless you have accumulated $50 million or $60 million? charlie: it is only really worth money when you put it to use and when you ultimately build a business around it and get discounted cash flows. that is what we are looking forward to the future. betty: charlie, does this remind you at all about the transform

it all happened live on tv. the murder, a disgruntled former reporter at the virginia news station where the murder victims worked. the murder of allison parker and adam ward also playing out on social media as the killer posted the video he took of committing the two murders. vester lee flanigan went by the on air name of brice williams and fled the murder scene driving 175 miles before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life. we have live team coverage. but, first we go to fox news correspondent rick leventhal, rick? >> former coworkers describe him as off kelter, bizarre and threatening. the sheriff called him disturbed and his former bosses called called 911. he became agitated slamming doors and threatening people. adam ward, one of the victims today, videotaped flanigan's tirade. and flanigan told him to lose his big gut and flipped off ward's camera. 6:had 5 this morning adam ward had hesitate camera back on his shoulder, doing a live shot with reporter allison parker in virginia. parker was in

it was a 12 hours miniseries on tv which people had to actually tune in to follow the story. it beat out "gone with the wind." for the 1970's, 36 million viewers. that is a big deal when you think about -- now we have network cable and all sorts of tv channels. for all of these people to tune into one show and even for an entire week, even the other episodes are high in the 30's area maybe the first one was high 28 billion viewers. the rent -- million viewers. the rest took off. it struck a chord with people in the country at that time. it forced people to face the american past, dealing with slavery and everybody tuned in to watch it. black, white, you know immigrant, you name it. when we were processing the collection from reading some of the letters, the way he wrote it and made it -- i do not want to say relatable in the way that anybody could relate to be enslaved but the story itself. he really made it about family and family connections and what people would do for family and trials and tribulations. he just wrote it in a way that's really made people really wanted to

. >> the tv reporter and cameraman shot and killed. the unspeakable scenes playing out on tv and social media. and the grief at a virginia tv station. >> also the subject's manifesto faxed here to abc news. what was going on in his mind before shooting former co-workers before taking his own life? we're live in virginia. >>> also ahead, trump's tirade. the demands for apologies after the confrontation with univision anchorman jorge ramos. the political spectacle. >> later confronting cyberbullies. could hateful online message be stopped with a smartphone app. it's the invention of a techie nerd you just have to see. it's thursday, august 27th. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning. i'm reena ninan. >> i'm phillip mena. just unspeakable tragedy in virginia. >> could never have imagined. we've heard about isis terrorism in the middle east. never spengting something to happen live on television. the shoot ter actually faxing to abc news a manifesto suicide note saying that he was a human powder keg just waiting to g

the early shift at wdbj tv, roanoke, virginia. two reporters, driving to work, leaving their loved ones. >> i said, have a great day, honey. she said, i will. good night, sweet boy. and that was the last i ever heard from her. >> reporter: vester flanagan. he had been hired and fired there. a loose cannon, plotting his revenge. desperate for just one more closeup. he got it. >> okay. not sure what happened there. >> my brain wasn't thinking gunshots. >> reporter: neither was the morning producer. >> reporter: tonight, we're t k taking you fthrough the man hun. going job by job to the breaking point. >> he gets all of this attention the last few hours he's alive. and that's what he was looking for. >> reporter: could he have been stopped before two innocent lives were taken? >> good evening. i'm debra roberts. david and elizabeth are on assignment tonight. for so many of us that started off in small tv stations, this tragedy hits close to home. 15 gunshots turning a workplace into a sort of war zone. but one bit of good news tonigh

action news" tonight is the latest on this morning's explosion of deadly violence seen live on virginia tv. a reporter for roanoke tv station wdbj was conducting an interview with a tourism official when a former employee approached with a gun and fired at the reporter, allison parker, age 24 and photographer adam ward age 26. the shooter is identified as vester lee flannigan, he used the name bryce williams on the air and several hours after the shooting police spotted his car and gave chase and lawmen say he shot himself and died at a local hospital. the station manager says that flannigan was difficult to work with and looking for people to say things he could take offense to. in the manager's words, we dismissed him. walter perez is in the satellite sender and both victims were involved in relationships with people from this area. >> tv news a small business and from the delaware valley to virginia and across the country, many people are mourning this hideous crime. they were living out their dreams as tv journalists. >> i'm allison parker -- >> now photo journalist, adam ward and 24-y

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being gunned down on live tv. wdbj morning news reporter allison parker and photographer adam ward both died in the shooting during the morning showed. parker and ward's colleagues will on air with heavy hearts this morning. >> we have had flowers and notes and social media and people are offering their thoughts and prayers and we appreciate each of those. >> other stations have sent employees to help wdbj keep the newsroom working after the tragedy. employees from the parent company have flown in to help, vicki gardner the woman being interviewed during the time of shooting suffered serious injuries. >> gunman grew up in the bay area and a history of anger over race issues in the work police co-workers called vester lee flanagan disgruntled employees and accused the victims of racism an accusation the boss denies. vester lee flanagan said he was a gay man the victim of homophobia and said he admired mass murderer like columbine shooters. we have more on his history from vallejo. >> to his friends and family in th

playing out on live tv. viewers saw it at home, heard it at home, all of their colleagues at the station saw it from the control room. heard it in the control room. we're also getting new information in this morning about possible suspect. a person of interest that authorities want to speak to. i want to get over to pamela brown who's in washington who's been following all this with more on the person that they are looking for. there's a little bit of confusion, pamela, if you will. the name he is known as on air an the name -- and his actual name. what do you have at this hour? >> reporter: that's right. right now, authorities are looking for a vester l. flanagan who is a former employee of wdbj. he was fired about a year ago, not sure why. but his on-air name at the time when he was a reporter for the station was bryce williams. so he is being sought in connection with the shooting. right now, the fbi, u.s. marshals, atf are all looking for vester l. flanagan. they believe he is driving a 2009 gray mustang

the career in tv began as an intend in san francisco. he went to work at other stations across america. >> we are getting our first look at the cover of the roanoke times, the local newspaper in virginia, you can see the headline "state of shock," showing people hanging their heads in somber tribute to the victims. >> journalists across the united states and around the world are posting tributes to parker and ward with #westandwithwdbj. reporters and photographers and news teams have been sharing photo with hashtag created immediately after shooting by a reporter in texas calling on her colleagues to stand in solidarity. you can see they are, with stations as far as away as canada and europe joining the effort. >> as the story continues to develop, stay with abc7 for complete coverage on air and on-line and follow us on twitter@abc7newsbayarea. also on abc7news.com. >> users on a social media site are getting perspective on the mass shooting since the start of the year they have kept a running tally and we have seen 247 mass shootings in

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