Transcript for Fox News Sued for Airing Man's Suicide on Live TV

The mother of three children who watch their father commit suicide in a -- first aired live on Fox News. It's suing the network -- -- kids suffer extreme emotional distress now. -- on -- -- was being pursued by police and felled by a news chopper on September 28 2012. When he left out of his car stumbled into a desert clearing. Pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head. Fox News tracking the chase live and without delay showed it all anchor Shepard Smith apologized after the incident -- human error was to blame. In the lawsuit the children's mother says that since watching the video they had been unable to attend school and suffer from quote sleep disturbance and intrusive thoughts.

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