TODAY'S TALKING POINTS 08-27-15

TODAY'S TALKING POINT S Two journalists were fatally shot on live TV. Vester Lee Flanagan II, known professionally as Bryce Williams, shot and killed Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, during an on-air interview in Moneta, Virginia. A third woman injured in the shooting underwent surgery and is recovering. After a police pursuit, the gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Flanagan, described as a disgruntled former employee, faxed a 23-page racially-charged manifesto to ABC News explaining that he was influenced by the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting and other massacres. He sued Florida news station WTWC-TV in 2000 for racist remarks he said were made by news producers and managers. The shooter filmed the attack using a GoPro camera and uploaded graphic footage to his social media accounts. If you don’t want to watch it (and really, you shouldn’t), here’s how to stop videos from autoplaying in your social media feeds. As news of the shooting broke, WDBJ journalists reacted with grace and poise, delivering a moving tribute to their colleagues that traveled across the web. Meanwhile, demands for gun control reform spread as far as Capitol Hill. James Holmes was formally sentenced to life (plus 3,318 years) in prison. The Colorado theater shooter got slammed with 12 life sentences — one for every person he killed during his 2012 shooting spree. The extra years are for 70 attempted murder convictions and an explosives charge. South Sudan’s president signed a major peace deal. The agreement should end a civil war that has lasted nearly two years, but President Salva Kiir said there remains a bumpy road to peace. Twelve people have been arrested over the Tianjin explosion. The chairman of Ruihai International Logistics and his senior managers were among those detained in China, and now 11 government and port officials are beingaccused of negligence. Nearly 500 people are still in the hospital recovering from the August 12 explosion that killed 139. The Islamic State group could have access to chemical weapons. Doctors reported that residents of a Syrian town are suffering from skin lesions and respiratory problems, indicating that the terrorist group may have used mustard gas in a recent attack. It's making everyone a little nervous about the group's chemical warfare capability. President Barack Obama will visit New Orleans. A decade after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Big Easy, the president will laud the city's "extraordinary resilience" in a speech at a new recreation center in the rebuilt Lower Ninth Ward.

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