More Fallout From Cosby Abuse Claims
ROMANS: Breaking overnight, gunfire on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee. At least three people are being treated at a local hospital for gunshot wounds. Officers say the unidentified gunman was shot and killed by campus police after firing at them. Classes on campus are canceled today. Stay with CNN all morning for continuing coverage of the shooting at FSU. More fallout this morning from rape allegations against comedian, Bill Cosby, NBC has killed an upcoming project with Cosby and TV land has pulled reruns of "The Cosby Show," a stunning fall for the once beloved comedian who has faced allegations of sexual assault for decades now. I want to bring in our senior media correspondent and host of "RELIABLE SOURCES," Brian Stelter. Are these companies doing right thing to pull? His reputation right now is really, really tarnished.</s>BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: It seems the companies had to distance themselves from Cosby, whether they wanted to go forward with these projects or not. I think there is an interesting wrinkle about that with NBC. A deal like this, he had been developing a sitcom with NBC all year. It hadn't actually gotten filmed yet. So it's pretty early on. But when NBC walks away from a deal like that, they probably had to pay Cosby a lot of money. I've seen a $1 million floated as a possible number. So I suggest there is a darn if you do, darn if you don't situation for these companies, but it make so much then so they have backed away, 24 hours, Netflix walks away from the special they will air and NBC. And then TV land pulled those reruns of "The Cosby Show" that have been running for years on that cable channel. They just took it off the schedule and deleted the web page off their web site about the show so essentially all of those corporate relationships are gone.</s>ROMANS: Let's talk about this. We are looking at the newspapers this morning. The front page of five of the seven newspapers has a story or picture of Bill Cosby. This story is -- this guy is America's dad from the '80s, right? These are very graphic allegations, but nothing has happened in court. Some of these allegations are decades old. What happens from here? I mean, is his reputation tarnished irreparably?</s>STELTER: I personally think he does and will continue to have a base of fans that love him and support him and are going to want to go to his comedy specials. He is still performing a stand up. He is scheduled anyway.</s>ROMANS: On Friday, a sold out show.</s>STELTER: And I don't think that part change. I think these corporate relationships are more complicated. This was the most interesting headline I thought this morning. It's on the "Daily News," the "New York Daily News." It says, "It's time for America's dad to talk." This is an editorial on "The Daily News." But that tone I think we have seen throughout the media coverage. What is Bill Cosby going to say because silence doesn't seem to be an option even though he has been silent for a long time?</s>ROMANS: So far his attorney has been doing all of the talking. I wonder do you think it would be advisable for him to say something before his sold-out show. I could imagine there will be a lot of reporters there, you know.</s>STELTER: Well, the other new development overnight, the "Associated Press" came out with a couple of weeks old, but he was interviewed about his art donations. An AP reporter asked him about these allegations. He declined to comment. He basically badgered the reporter off afterwards trying to say you are not going to show that or hear that. That kind of behavior is only going to worsen this for him especially now that the AP has shared that video and went viral on YouTube last night. So I do think that ups the stakes even further if he is shown to be trying so hard not to comment on this.</s>ROMANS: All right, Brian Stelter, really interesting, a story that continues to evolve. Thanks, Brian, for that. It's 48 minutes past the hour. Happening now, tensions rising in Israel, fears of religious war breaking out after a deadly synagogue attack, we are live there next.