Casualty vent is not to release victims names for 24 to 48 hours. Reporter not again. Yet another scene of despair and chaos on a School Campus after a gunman opened fire at a Community College in oregon this morning. Active shooter, ucc. Reporter when it was over multiple People Killed or critically injured. At this time were reporting and can confirm ten fatalities in the shooting. We know there are conflicting reports of the numbers of casualties. I can tell you that this number is the best, most Accurate Information we have. Reporter it happened at umpqua Community College during a seemingly normal morning of classes. The gunman targeting students and faculty and multiple classrooms. The entire school immediately went on lockdown. A teacher had come running into the room in a very big panic and telling the students to come into a teachers room and hide and duck down. Reporter the wound eed were transported to one area hospital. The gunman, a 20yearold male died at the scene. The active shooter was engaged by Law Enforcement and later confirmed to be deceased. Reporter president obama expressed his outrage at the latest mass shooting. Each time we see one of these Mass Shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough. It does not capture the heart ache and grief and anger that we should feel. It does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in america. Reporter the students were only four days into the fall session at the college when todays shooting took place. Reporter once again authorities naming the shooter as 26yearold chris harper mercer. Last year one of the biggest debat debates whether or not to post armed guards on campus. They ended up needing that preparation. Back to you. Thank you. Regardless of your views on gun control, millions of americans are disheartened and frustrated tonight. This is the 41st School Shooting this year alone. President obama addressing the nation late today and challenged the news media. I would ask news organizations because i wont put these facts forward, have news organizations tally up the number of americans who have been killed through terrorist attacks over the last decade and number of americans who have been killed by gun violence. Post those side by side on your news reports. Here are some of those numbers now. Data from the state department shows nearly 230 private u. S. Citizens were killed by international terrorism. Thats 227 there in the past decade. Military deaths are now included. Domestic incident led to 57. More than 92,000 people died from firearms in the United States during the same time period. Gun violence has decreased in the United States since 2005. The annual tally still reaches more than 8,000 deaths per year. Since that mass shooting at Columbine High School back in 1999, theres been 45 Mass Shootings in the u. S. And five of them were here in california. That includes the shooting three years ago in oakland where a mentally ill former Nursing Student shot and killed seven. Last year in Santa BarbaraCollege Student killed uc Santa Barbara students before taking his own life. Three of those victims were from the bay area. George chen was among the first victims killed. Christy smith continues our Team Coverage from san jose. A few hours ago i know you spoke with chens mother about this attack. This must bring horrible memories back to her. Reporter thats right. Kelly was deeply saddened to hear what happened. She said she can relate to what family will be going through but she also believes much more needs to be done to prevent these tragedies. Painfulness is beyond peoples imagination. Reporter todays mass shooting at a Community College in oregon hits extremely close to home for kelly wang. I lost a child in similar situation. Reporter her son, george chen was one of six People Killed last year in rampage last year just outside uc Santa Barbara. Uc Santa Barbara is peaceful college. Oregon is very rural Community College. It can, the bomb can explode any time, any place. Reporter since her sons death shes called on families to do more to address warning signs in people especially signs of mental stability. Shes also called for stricter gun laws. Its hard to have gun control as you see many people fight for that. We should have gun control on those very mentally troubled person. I think the whole nation need to do something instead of waiting. Reporter three family did file suit against the county and other officials alleging that warning signs about the suspect in that incident were ignored. Kelly says speaking out may not help her but she does hope it helps others. Thank you very much. We invite you to stay with us us for continuing coverage. Hell be reporting live from roseburg. That will be tonight at 11 00. Were following some breaking news overseas in afghanistan. 12 people have died after a u. S. Military transport plane crashed. This happened after midnight afghan time. Were just now learning within the past 30 minutes five of those 12 victims are americans. Five were Service Members and five were civilian contractors. The other two victims were afghan civilians. The plane was taking off from an airport in jalalabad. U. S. Authorities dont know why this plane went down but they say there were no reports of any hostile activity in this region. Well continue to monitor the story throughout this newscast and on our website, nbc bay area. Com. A developing story tonight, a High School Student arrested for murdering three members of his family. They were found dead last month in their burned out vacation cabin. They had to be identified by dna. Late today the Sheriffs Department announced they are chargie ining his 16yearold s with three counts of murder. Deputies arrested him today at high school. They believe he shot his family members before setting the cabin on fire. The rain clouds are hovering over the bay area these past two days. Now appear to be clearing out. I want to show you this. Clouds dumped a bit of snow in the sierra too. Nbc bay area chief meteorologist joins us now with more on the rain, snow and another weather change that could be coming this weekend. We may have a few more showers once we get at sundays forecast. Right now i have the satellite radar picture pulled up. It wasnt very much snow. A quick burst that happened just around this afternoon right there south of south lake. You can see a bit of pink mixing in. We were tracking that strong thunderstorm headed right toward tracy. They dead get some rainfall and produce hail. Lightning and heavy downpours. The thunderstorm has now started to diminish. That is great news. Nothing in terms of heavy rainfall left in this area. It was very, very dangerous for quite some time. That storm system did bring us 3500. Impressive rainfall. Well have full details on what is Hurricane Joaquin coming up in 15 minutes. Humiliated and angry. They want 11 million. The story with the Napa Valley Wine Train is far from over. The book club that was kicked off the train in august has filed lawsuit against the company claiming racial discrimination. You might recall the 11 women were escorted off the train for reportedly being unruly and too loud. Nbc bay area is in San Francisco this evening. 11 million bucks. This is a big lawsuit. Reporter it certainly is. These women say they were humiliated not just that day but the judgment continues. One woman cried as she relayed the story about her college age son who asked her if she had done something wrong when heard about it on social media. The women say they filed this lawsuit today because no one should have to experience what they are going through. The 11 Member Book Club was emotional has they shared their experiences. Good friends they are professional women who say they were respected members in their community until this incident happen preponderance of the evidence two of them claim its cost them their job and say public scrutiny is harsh and continuous. There are things that are happening to us that people on the outside dont see. This is our life. People contacting us and just assuming all the things that were said about us in the media are true and they absolutely are not. Reporter when this happened in august the train employee posted facebook statement claiming the women were removed from the train after being verbally and physically abusiva. The post was removed and the women were offered an apology. The women say that didnt stop the comments from continuing. One of the members is ka indication and shade she never experienced anything like this before. I truly believe from the moment we were singled out. It just should not happen. I truly feel that if this would have been 11 white women that it would have been no problem. Reporter state issued by the company reads this part we take the allegations of discrimination very seriously. Were conducting our own investigation into this matter. Train officials do not believe this incident was racially motivated. They have hired a former fbi agent to conduct an independent investigation. Reporting live in San Francisco, nbc bay area news. The investigation into Santa Clara County correctional officer goes national. The fbi and others now involved. The story is coming up. The city is removing more dried, dead trees. Raj vo the man accused in the bizzare vallejo kidnapping case has now been indicted by a fe g the man accused in the bizarre kidnapping case has been invited by a federal grand jury. A graduate after harvard law school. Hes being charged with kidnapping. He broke into the home of these two back in march. He allegedly tied up quinn, kidnapped huskins and sexually abused her. He held her for ransom briefly. This case was so bizarre that police first called it a hoax. Hes being held at the Sacramento County jail. Hes scheduled to be arraigned next monday. A local jail getting some national attention. The feds are paying a visit to the em battled santa clara jail. Three deputies have been charged with murdering an inmate. Five more deputies are on leave in a separate investigation. Reporter the list of investigators with Law Enforcement resumes scrutinizing whats happening. The list is getting longer. I sat down with john. Hes the fellow who supervises more than 700 Correctional Officers at the jail. It was sheriff who did most of the talking. What is the extent of the fbis involvement. They are looking at criminals. Were reviewing policies. We asked the National Institute of corrections to come in and to do a top to bottom review of our policies, procedures and our practices. I think that correctional offices and the jails need to be held responsible for their interactions and relationship with the inmates. Reporter president of the Correctional Peace Officers Association calls it a witch hunt. Harkens back to the salem witch trials. It has a direct and unequal adverse effect in our work environment. Reporter in addition to the three Correctional Officers suspended and charged with murdering michael tyree, ithes one of five more officers put on leave. We cant comment on that. We have not commented on that. Reporter the sheriffs investigation has also brought in retired internal Affairs Investigators to review complaints against Correctional Officers filed before his death. Reporter the latest on another jail inmate death. It happened after a earlier incident last week in which Correctional Officers used pepper spray and fired plastic projectiles when he refused to come out of his cell. The coroner was inconclusive a to the cause of his death. Thank you. Lets talk about the drought. Its killing lawns across california but also killing trees. Lots of them on the peninsula. Nbc bay area is live in palo alto. The city is asking people dont water your lawn so much but try to get water on those trees. Reporter thats right. Its reaching a critical point. Trees like there one here in greer park. The tree is completely dead. Its one of many as the city works to save the others. Reporter a sound becoming more and more common in palo alto. Another day, another dead tree being removed. People are sad about the trees going. Its not good. Reporter according to the citys urban forester, the drought is to blame. We know we need to take additional action before it becomes a crisis. Reporter 400 dead trees have been removed over the past year. The year before that, 350 were cut down. Both numbers well above the average of 250 per year. We need help from all of our partners in order to get over this short term until we start having natural rainfall again. Reporter people who live here are noticing the changes not only dying lawns but the dead leaves and parched trunks. The amount of greenery has come down. We dont want bay area to be like los angeles. Reporter the stipsays let your lawns brown but keep trees green because the roots help protect ground water reserves and reduce run off. A city wide effort to save the trees through this dry time. I think its a good move on their part to make sure the trees are getting taken care of. Grass can be replaced but trees cannot. Reporter the city even sent out fliers like there to everyones home. They have deployed water to help those people and the trees in need. Thank you. I have a tree in my front yard that could have problems. Lets bring in jeff and some good news behind you. I see some green there. It will put the south bay at 84 degrees. Trivalley, 87. 88 expected for the north bay. As we head into saturday, it will cool slightly and keep the sunnier skies with us. This whether put San Francisco at 68. Trivall trivalley, 82 and the south bay, 80. I want to take you to Hurricane Joaquin. This storm system is massive. It stretches over 550 miles wide. Some of the outer rain bands getting closer to florida at this point. Winds of 130 miles an hour. The next big question is where is this storm headed . Weve had lots of storm changes. Right now we have this moving up the eastern seaboard as i understood and monday. Could make a landfall or a glancing blow towards boston with a category one or a strong tropical storm. The biggest threat will be the flooding potential. We could see isolated amounts of ten icnches or higher. Hurricane joaquin is growing in strength. It is moving closer to land in the United States. How towns ravaged by Hurricane Sandy are preparing for this potential disaster. At first people realize they are a little shocked. Safety rules for private schools. So far they have been absent but now San Francisco is the first city in the state to make them for private schools. Exactly what kind of shape are those schools in . [announcer] right now at sleep train, get up to 48 months interestfree financing on tempurpedic. Save 300 on beautyrest and posturepedic. Or choose 300 in free gifts with Stearns Foster. The triple choice sale is on now at sleep train. The 49ers now lost two straight and things wont get easier when they face a packers defense that surrendered just four touchdowns in three games. As if that challenge isnt enough, Aaron Rodgers off to another stellar start. The star of the niners missed in the 2005 draft completing 73 of his passes with ten touchdowns and no int. Earthquake safety in schools. As weve shown you before in class action, Public Schools are highly regulated for seismic safety. Private schools are not, except in San Francisco. Its the first and only city in hypely regulate ed serks ismiy safety it is the first and only city in california to require private schools to seismic evaluation. Its tightening the safety rules for private schools. San francisco Friends School has an unusual seismic story. It was built two house levi strausss assembly plant. Reporter before the school moved in it has to do a massive retro fit. Put the entire building on stilts and lifted it up off of its then foundation. Reporter everything inside this hold building is basically new. You see a lot of steel everywhere. Youll see these huge steel beams that are holding up the building in addition to the original foundation and preparing it to with stand an earthquake. Reporter an earthquake no one wants to experience but every one knows is coming. It may not happen tomorrow, may happen the next day or 15 years from now. We know that it will happen. Reporter as part of San Franciscos ongoing effort the city has put in place the first law of its kind in california. Private schools have to evaluation seismic safety. At first people realize they are a little shocked this isnt required. Reporter Public Schools have been regulated since the early 1930s, but not private schools. Especially the parents we surveyed and you ask them and they assume because they were in private school and writing the check it must mean the same standards as Public Schools and thats not the case. Reporter that doesnt mean private schools are dangerous. 43 of the private School Buildings are likely to perform well in earthquakes. 33 might perform poorly. 24 there just isnt enough information. I think a good first step is evaluating the buildings and assessing the nature of the risk and the magnitude of the risk. Reporter many in older buildings. Schools occupy a move theater, a victorian mansion, a former mayo factory. A wild variety of campuses facing the same deadline. They have two years to complete the earthquake review. Thats what happened at the archdiocese of San Francisco which operates more private schools than any other school group, 34 total. We got a call one day that an engineer had identified one of the sites. Based on the configuration of buildings and initial review. Reporter its permanently closed. The school was closed by the end of the day. That particular site and the children were removed. Reporter they evaluated all the schools ahead of the deadline. Its not the only private School Entity already correcting deficiencies. The fixes are voluntary. Schools are not required to retro fit. The law simply doesnt go that far. To come up with a uniform standard, way to retrofit this is not fair. Some schools will be cheap and others might be very expensive. Reporter experts say if the laws first action its an important first step. Putting our hand in the sand and ignores the risk isnt going to help us but knowing our vulnerabilities and addressing them and mitigating them will help. Reporter how is your Childs School . Private schools are filing seismic evaluations and they will be public information. If you want to see them, you will be able to see them. We continue to follow the School Shooting in oregon. Were getting updated information now on the suspected shooter. 26yearold chris mercer. An intense investigate on what motivated the shooting. Im scott budman standsing to what is likely the future of genetic testing. On its way to Research Institutions well tell you what it can do and how much it will cost, coming up. Supposed to happen here, yet they did. And it leaves tons of questions in our minds. Runs 10 raj contvo its become common. These sort of tragedies arent supposed to happen here, yet they did. It leaves tons of questions in our minds. Its become common, another School Shooting this time in oregon and this time a difference response from local officials all the way up to president obama. Right now the death toll stands at ten people, and in the past 40 minutes weve gotten new details about the 26yearold gunman. Its so tragic and sad. The school was only in its fourth day of classes for fall session when the gunfire rang out this morning. We understand he didnt go to that school, this thooes they dont think so. Sgr the gunman is 26yearold chris harper mercer. The shooting happened at umpqua Community College. Here is what we know so far. There are ten confirmed deaths, at least seven people are injured. Three of them are in critical condition. Hes not a student. Survivor say that he demanded to know his victims religion before he began to open fire. Students say chaos just erupted and those that could run, did. Then next thing you know we hear three or four more gunshots and everybodys looking at each other. We knew. We knew something was going on. Like this is real. Other students say when they heard the shots they turned off the lights in their classroom and hid. Three female victims are being treated at a hospital in eugene, oregon where a hospital official told nbc news that altogether the three of them that had been hit between 18 or 34 bullets between that range. The governor has ordered flags to be lowered to half mass to honor the victims. Its horrible. Our coverage continue on our website. Click on the top story box. A slide show, thats nbcbayarea. Com. Preparing for the worst. Right now Hurricane Joaquin is barrelling towards the east coast packing 130 miles an hour winds. Joaquin pounded populated island. Theres no immediate reports of casualties or major damage. Category 4 hurricane is expected to turn towards the u. S. Coast late tonight. In fact in just a few hours or perhaps tomorrow morning. Forecasters continue to pour over the ever changing commutei models. People on the east coast are waiting hoping that joaquin misses them. Models are struggling with when and in what direction joaquin exits the bahamas in association with the effects over the eastern u. S. Its expected the flooding could stretch from South Carolina all the way up to massachusetts. En estimated 65 Million People could be impacted by the storm. A troubling discovery at a San Carlos Hotel today. Two men in grave condition and now police are trying to figure out why. Deputies found the two men in a room at the lia hotel on string street this morning. Both had injuries to their upper body but police arent providing any detail. The men were rushed to a hospital where one of them died. Investigators are treating the case as suspicious. New details tonight on the outbreak of legionnaires disease. Its been traced to roof top cooling towers. The inmates were lining up to get drinking water. Showers and zincs were turned off for days. 81 inmates were diagnosed as well as several employees. Well show you live pictures now. You can see the looming side of the bridge. The far side of the modern new span. Cal tran has green lighted the project to implode part of the bridge. The date is november 7th. It announced today some half a dozen regulatory bodies have granted the appropriate permits for the underwater pyrotechnics. It would be over within minutes and safer for the environment than years of dismantling piece by piece. Ive been building 42 years would a permit. I should be punished. A man is building an elaborate structure but theyre illegal. Hightech healthcare, and its a story youll see only on nbc bay area. A new machine that can test its peak in future of hightech health care and a story youll see only on nbc bay area. A new machine that could test your dna and possibly save your life. Our Business Reporter scott budman takes us inside a local lab and shows us the machine that sent the stock price soaring. Reporter it could be the opening of a new era in health care. Its in these smart cells. Reporter pacific bios scientist gave us a first look at sequel, its new gene sequences machine. Faster, smaller, able to analyze and handle more patients data. Really get on the path to the Precision Medicine that we want to get to where the doctor has a complete picture of your dna. Reporter the potential for this kind of at the timing is lucrative and life changing. Investors like it boosting shares by 50 on news. Doctors still have to be convinced. A lot of times youre left with might have the possibility of having this. How do you change your life . We have been right at the forefront. We dont know where its going and where it will take people. Theyre on their way to Research Institutions. Its like 350,000 a pop. Scott budman, nbc bay area news. Fascinating science. We have some science with this weather coming up. Today we had a strong thunderstorm moving towards tracy. Its started to calm down. Its all about the clearing. Check it out. If youre making dinner and listening to us, a good five seconds to get to your tv. This is one of the best sunsets we have seen all week long. Were tracking more of this beautiful weather on your weekend and slight chance of showers. For more than 4 decades and homeowner in west marin, has defied county rules by building unusual things on his land. A homeowner in west marin has defined initial things on his land. Depending on who you talk to hes either a visionary or lawbreaker. Come on, ladies. Ive been a builder all my life. Call the last resort. 42 years ago this exotic tea importer and land. Ive wanted to create this vision i had of an environment that was scenable. This is one of the first structures in 1973. Its called the go down. Reporter he started building and building. I conducted these storage rooms. This is the tea house. I started this about 40 years ago. Reporter a concrete boat named the titanic two lords over a pond of rain water. Hey. More water. Reporter he envisioned his home as a laboratory for his experimental sustainable system. In place of the garbage disposal. The sink flows to a worm palace. This are any composting worms. Reporter recycled water flows down a mote to his garden. Composting toilets replace traditional septic systems. Its the rolls royce of the composting toilet. Reporter among the 30 something diverse structures he built on his land, one thing was missing. I never had a permit. Reporter thats where things got complicated. Ive been building 42 years without a permit. I should be punished. Reporter officials fully agree for more than two decades they have read his creations. You can see the stack of documents on my table. Reporter the stack of fine just as high. Somehow 350,000 seems a little excessive. Reporter now after decades skir skirting the law his last resort may be on its last run. It has no connection to the rules that the rest of our Community Live by. Reporter this friday they will consider placing his property under a receivership. The receiver would take over the property and dd which buildings must be torn down and even if he can stay. Reporter said he would rather lee than watch his creations torn down. If they tear it down tho one will ever make this again. Youll never see this again. Its a one of a kind uniquely bay area. Well see what happens this week. Well continue to follow that story. How about this now, some visitors are drawing crowds at halfmoon bay. Looks obvious. We spotted these whales near the coastline. They were surfacing pretty frequently and word got out fast. A lot of ahs. Everyone on the sand watching this unfold. Locals say the waters have been teeming with whales for the past few days. Turn it over to jeff. It was nice and clear to be able to see the whales today because the rain washed right out. It definitely did. I bet the whales are coming up for a little bit of extra air now. We want to take you to the south bay first. Our weather under ground sky camera. Beautiful shot across the silicon valley. A few high clouds. Currently 73 degrees. The second stop we want to take you to here is in wood side part of our Weather Underground network. Looking brilliant. One of the best shots, we showed it to you earlier. If you werent able to come out of kitchen and you want to get a view of it now and hoping ill show it again, we are. Our guys in master control are fine tuning this. This is looking right back across the bay. Theres the Golden Gate Bridge right there and in the north bay hills this is just a stunner. Thanks so much. Its back there in master control. Lets get you to tomorrow mornings forecast. Mainly clear skies right now. We will start off with a bit of patchy fog near the coastline and also in San Francisco. Temperatures will also be cool to begin down to 53 in the north bay. Peninsula 56. The storm system weve been tracking is now begin kicking off toward the east. No rainfall left after tonight. Were going to see the dry conditions continue. We have sun by the afternoon. I think saturday will look even better as we keep the sunny skies in the forecast. Once we hit sunday we have another change coming. Well be tracking right off to the north. Dropping down here from washington and oregon. Temperatures three to six degrees cooler and a slight chance of showers, maybe a little bit of thunder. It will be more scattered in theytu nature. You can see San FranciscoBeautiful Mission district. 72, financial district. Up toward the south bay, 86. San jose 83. The north bay, east bay and trivalley it does heat up. Danville, 87. Awesome day in oakland, 78. A little warmer friday and saturday. As we head throughout sundays forecast temperatures cool off and we have the possibility of light showers. Ill post this sunset on my twitter. If you didnt get enough you can head to my page. We mentioned during our 5 00 newscast warriors head coach is taking a leave of absence. Also Standing Ovations and tears at this afternoons giants game. Back to back titles. Has already taken a minor step good evening. The warriors journey for back to back title has already taken a minor step back due to a bad back. Thats right. Head coach steve kerr has decided to take an indefinite leave of absence from the team. The reason, the second year leader needs his back to heal after two surgeries during the off season. The coach appeared to be in healthy discomfort during the opening week of Training Camp. Assistant luke walton takes over on an interim basis. You can see it every day how bad he wants to be out here with the guys working. You cant control your health sometimes. Right now hes going through a tough stretch. He released the following statement, after the first two days of Training Camp i realized i need to take a step back in order to be ready frr the grinds of another nba season. My summer was difficult and no fun due to the multiple back surgeries. At this point i want to get healthy and back to my normal daily routine on and off the court. Its been fun. Ive had so much fun over the last 17 years. Today was a really special day for me. Very few enjoy 17 years in the big leagues and even fewer walk away on their own terms with the world series title and our beloved by everyone whose paths they crossed. Thats the story of tim hudsons career. Giants final game against the dodgers this season and it was indeed emotional. Making the final start of his career. Hudson received a standing ovation and one final curtain call from his teammates, family and friends. Adrian gonzalez at the dish list a flare to left and that ball is fair. Anderson scored from second to a 20 lead. Dodgers win it 32. Afterwards reality zset in for the beloved lefty. I have some really good friends. A few i would consider closer than a brother and one of them here now. Not being able to be a part of his life the way id like to be, will affect me the most. Thats something that i dont know how im going to do the thing on sunday if i cant get through this. The relationships mean a lot to me. It will be tough on me. Powerful stuff. Very vealing how the guys in this clubhouse feel about each other and all the success theyve had over the last five years. They are so tight those two. They do a lot of stuff with their Families Together too. We have gotten to know them really well the last 15 years. Really quality individuals on and off the field. Thank you. Before we go should we check in with jeff and this beautiful sunset weve been raving about. We have one more reverse angle. The sun is not as golden. 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