https://tothepointmedia.com/multimedia-home daily 0.75 2017-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dafaba414fb5546045b00a/1490749835268-JBH6TOM6BZWCMFY5GI4C/image-asset.jpeg Multimedia - TBS News (Japan) -- Roanoke, Va. shooting Breaking news coverage immediate following the murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward, employees of WDBJ news in Roanoake, Virginia.   8.15.2015 -- Roanoke, Virginia ENGLISH TRANSLATION VO: This footage was taken during a live broadcast from the state of Virginia, in the United States, on the morning of the 26th. Immediately after this, a shocking series of images are delivered to viewers over the airwaves. After 8 gunshots and screams of terror, the camera falls on the ground. TELEVISION ANCHOR: Okay, not sure what happened there. We will of course, let you know as soon as we find out what those sounds were from. VO: The footage is switched to a shot of the studio, and the anchor is unable to hide her shock at the sudden turn of events. CORRESPONDENT STAND-UP: The tragedy occurred at this lakeside building behind me. Normally a quiet resort community, the area is now abuzz with activity as national and international media pour in. VO: The live report was taking place at a lakeside shopping mall in Moneta, Virginia. A reporter and cameraman from a local station affiliated with CBS television were interviewing a representative of the local chamber of commerce. Then a man suddenly appeared carrying a gun, and began firing on the three individuals. After the cameraman was shot and collapsed, his camera captured this image of the armed man. The female reporter, Alison Parker (24) and the cameraman, Adam Ward (27) both died. The woman being interviewed was also wounded in the attack. VO: The suspect in the attack is Vester Flanagan (41), a former colleague of the two victims who worked at the same television station. He fled following the incident but his car veered off the road while being pursued by police, at which point he committed suicide with his gun. Flanagan posted footage of the attack on his own Twitter and Facebook pages. We can see him edging closer and closer to his targets. Because the interview took place before 7 a.m., there were no bystanders around, and he is able to walk up unnoticed behind the cameraman with his gun drawn. The gun briefly disappears from view in the footage, but soon after it reappears, and he begins firing. VO: “Alison made racist comments.” Flanagan had made posts on social media pages expressing personal resentment against the two victims. He also sent a fax to ABC Television, in which he expressed anger at White discrimination against Blacks, citing as an example the attack on a Black church by a White supremacist in South Carolina. CORRESPONDENT STAND-UP: This is the TV station where the suspect victims worked. At the entrance, visitors are laying flowers in memory of the two fallen journalists. WDBJ STATION MANAGER: He did not get along with other people that he worked with, and some preferred not to work with him. We asked him to leave—and in fact, it was his anger that led to his dismissal. VO: Alison Parker had been engaged to marry one of her colleagues at the station ALISON PARKER’S BOYFRIEND: We had just moved in together, because we had desires to get married and buy a house together. VO: The day of the incident, her fiancée says he woke up early to fix her breakfast and see her off on her assignment. PARKER’S BOYFRIEND: The last thing she said to me was, “Goodnight, sweet boy.” VO: This shocking incident, taking place during a live television report, has reverberated in American society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dafaba414fb5546045b00a/1490993361072-K8U7T99HBYYKT4VMGWWT/P1010072.JPG Multimedia - Old Havana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dafaba414fb5546045b00a/1491428440968-3QD1PFHFUFZV0F20LZVN/image-asset.jpeg Multimedia - West Virginia Coal Feature A feature story about the coal industry. As President Donald Trump keeps promising to "bring back coal" jobs, we spent time in West Virginia with a coal miner and state senator, Randy Smith, to show what life is like in the industry and find out if Trump's promises can make a difference. We also spoke with a fourth-generation coal miner-turned-environmentalist, Junior Walk, who now spends his time trying to stop mining, and an energy expert who also comes from a coal mining family in West Virginia.   ***ENGLISH TRANSLATION*** March 2017 STUDIO INTRO: On the 28th, American President Trump signed an executive order reversing global warming policies promoted by the Obama Administration. What effects will it have on the environment? TRUMP: Today, I’m taking bold action to follow through on that promise. My administration is putting an end to the ‘War on Coal!’” [00:20] VOICEOVER: On the 28th, President Trump signed an executive order completely revising US global warming policy. The order sets out a review of restrictions on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by coal-fired power plants and resuming approvals for mining on federally owned land. [00:42] The order aims to effectively utilize domestic energy resources and promote the recovery of coal industry jobs, but how will it affect the environment? [noise / drive shot] VO: The Appalachian mountains, which cut across the eastern United States.This area is dotted with around 700 coal mines. Here, we meet Mr. Randy Smith, a 40-year veteran of the coal industry. His workplace is about 100 meters below the earth. [01:15] SMITH: Are you ready? Goodbye sunshine. CORRESPONDENT: “That wall behind me is coal, currently being mined by a machine drill and place into this truck here and bringing it right over there.” VO: In West Virginia, the third lowest ranking state in America for average household income, coal mining is one of the few jobs where workers are ensured a high enough salary to support a family without a college degree. However, for some 10 years, Appalachian coal mining production decreased by roughly half, with frequent mine closures [01:58] SMITH: Gas prices got real cheap, you know. And a lot of it too was that people got real scared because President Obama, he wasn’t passing laws. He was just making ‘em up. VO: As a result, people placed their hopes in Pres. Trump’s promise to put coal miners back to work. MINER: “Trump all the way! He’ll put coal miners back to work and change America!” [02:27] VO: His fellow miners are optimistic but Mr. Smith, who is also a state senator, confronts the reality of his situation. SMITH: You know, coal will never ever be back to where it was. SMITH: I just think there’s a happy medium we can meet, a common sense where we can still have clean coal technology The coal industry will never be back to its former level of activity.” VO: As the only state senator to concurrently work as an active coal miner, he made a campaign pledge to diversify the state’s coal-dependent economy while paying heed to environemtnal concerns. SMITH: I just think there’s a happy medium we can meet, a common sense where we can still have clean coal technology and keep jobs. [03:05] VO: On the other hand, there are also young people in the state who warn about the environmental damage from mining. Mr. Walk comes from a long line of coal miners. Unable to stomach the environmental damage of strip mining, he left his job to join an environmental protection organization. WALK: Anything that they do that tears up the earth this bad is just wrong, blatantly. VO: The Trump Administration is also considering leaving the Paris Agreement, a global agreement on the reduction of greenhouse gases. [03:36] We asked a specialist in the field what the impacts of such a move might be. DR. JEREMY RICHARDSON: The fundamental economics has shifted away from coal and toward cleaner forms of generation. I think [promising the return of coal jobs] is misleading at best, and I think it’s very dangerous. VO: President Trump has sharply altered the course of the country with his “return to coal.” SMITH: “Black gold!” VO: This move is also aimed at shoring up his base of support among blue-collar workers, but the ultimate impacts remain unclear. 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