Transcripts For KYW CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley 20151001

The shooter, a 20yearold man, is dead. This is the fifth mass shooting to lead this broadcast since june, and ben tracy begins our coverage. This is an active shooter at yuck. Reporter the first call came in at 10 38 this morning, an active shooter on the campus of this Southern Oregon Community College. Reporter students say the gunfire lasted for at least a minute as officers arrived on scene. Reporter and then silence. Reporter Douglas County sheriff john hanlin the shooter threat was neutralized and officers continued to sweep the campus, looking for other threats. Reporter with the 20yearold male suspect now dead, officers searched students backpacks for weapons and used dogs to check cars in the parking loss. Lacey gregory was just 100 yourself away when the gunfire started. All i say was my friend alex. He apparently ran up past the shooting that was happening, up into the library, to let us know what was going on was real, and it was, indeed. People were getting shot, and i saw people running from the english hall across the courtyard towards every direction. It was it was crazy. Reporter authorities believe shots were fired both inside snyder hall and the nearby Science Building on the campus of more than 100 acres. Students inside the school tweeted as the shooting happened, one saying, students are runny everywhere, holy god. And then, scariest thing ive ever experienced. Students were evacuated on school buses to a local fairgrounds where they were reunited with their loved ones. The former president of this Community College says the college only has one Security Officer on duty at a time and that person is not armed. Scott, in oregon, student with the proper permits are allowed to care firearms on the campuses of public colleges and universities. Pelley ben tracy reporting tonight. Thank you, ben. And just a few minutes ago, presume had this to say somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it. Weve become numb to this. We talked about this after columbine and blacksburg, after tucson, after newtown, after aroar aafter charleston. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun. Pelley president obama tonight. Joining us is kenney ungerman, a witness to the shooting. Mr. Ungerman, what did you see . What i saw was i was outside snyder hall in the parking lot talking to a National Guard recruiter that ive known for a few years. We heard a shot go off. We looked up, you know. We saw what looked like a gunman going around the corner into snyder hall in which we heard multiple shots go off and people screaming and running away from snyder hall. Thats when we dropped behind my jeep. Reporter snyder hall being a building where there are a number of classrooms. Correct. I was in snyder hall before the event happened in a writing class. Pelley what happened next . After we heard the gunshots, we heard people screaming. We got up, told some people to get in their cars and get out of there. And i got in my jeep. We drove down the road a little bit, got out, and stopped cars from coming onto the the campus and turned around. Pelley mr. Ungerman, i understand youre a veteran. Can you give us an idea of what the gunfire sounded like to you . It sounded like a smallcaliber hand gun, a. 9 millimeter,. 45. It wasnt loud enough to be an assault rifle, in my opinion. I believe it was a smallcaliber handgun. Pelley did you see the wounded . I did not see the wounded. I was blocked by the building itself since i was in the parking lot, but i did hear people screaming and people running from the building. Pelley as people were running from the building, what did you see . I understand all the classrooms actually open to the outside. Correct. Its an open hallway, and all the classrooms have glass doors and glass windows. The doors arent glass but the windows are glass. And i just i saw i bunch of people running out of hallway, going up towards the library, and thats when i got up and dropped my jeep and got out of there as a matter of fact possible and decided to try to help ask make sure cars didnt go into the campus. Pelley the people who were running out, what were they saying i just heard a fee people saying, he has a gun. Hes shooting. Get out of here. This is real. Pelley kenney ungerman, an eyewitness to the shooting today. Thank you very much. Now, we have just contacted the hospitals involved. Were told that there are 13 patients hospitalized. We do not have their conditions at this hour. Each mass shooting brings new calls for tougher gun laws, and our nancy cordes has been looking at this story on capitol hill. We extend our sympathy, our best wishes. Reporter sympathy and best wishes are about all that the victims families can expect from congress which has not seriously debated strengthening gun laws since 2013, after 20 children and six adults were killed at sandy hook elementary in connecticut. But even then, the senate easily defeated legislation that would have increased punishment for gun trafficking and expanded background checks, something qaept of americans say they support. The loss left thes mostly democratic backers pessimistic. Democratic leader harry reid. Do you intend to bring gun control legislation back up . I would love to bring it back up, but i cant do it until i have the votes. Reporter and he has even fewer votes today. Democrats lost control of the senate in 2014, and cant reintroduce bills to close the gun show loophole, block more of the mentally ill from buying guns or restrict use of highcapacity magazines. And so when 12 were killed at d. C. s navy yard and nine in a charleston church, almost all the talk of gun laws came from the other end of pennsylvania avenue. This type of Mass Violence does not happen in other advanced countries. Reporter Congressional Republicans have long argued felons will find a way to get guns no matter what the laws say. Texas senator ted cruz and weerbled not target our efforteffortsefforts to needlesy restricting the constitutional liberties of lawabiding citizen. Reporter and the National Rifle association spends tens of millions of dollars backing candidates who share that view, despite those polls, scott, that show an overwhelming majority of americans are open to some changes to gun laws. Pelley nancy cordes on capitol hill. Nancy, thank you. According to the web site shootingtracker. Com, there have been 294 Mass Shootings in the first 274 days of this year, including nine murdered at a black church in charleston, five u. S. Service men killed in chattanooga, three dead, nine injured at a Movie Theater in louisiana and the Fatal Shooting of two journalists in virginia. We do not know the motive of todays shooting, but most often, Mental Illness is involved in these mass shooting so we brought in our dr. Jon lapook. Jon, whats being done if this country about Mental Illness and mental had gone . Reporter scott, we know when it comes to Mental Illness, Early Intervention works. It just works. But the big problem in the u. S. And elsewhere is access to care. So too often, a pediatrician or a school or family identifies somebody at risk, and then its months and months before they can get to a child psychiatrist, an dad lessent psychiatrist. There is a Pilot Program in d. C. It started in may. And theyre training the pediatricians, theyre training the schools to evaluate those kids have a telemedicine, have a the phone. And it turns out only 10 of the time do those kids then need to be seen face to face by the psychiatrist. What this does is remove the bottleneck and these children have been evaluated much more quickly. Now, there are a total of 17 such programs in the United States right now, relatively small Pilot Programs, but the idea here is Early Intervention, increased access to care and maybe treating them earlier will make a big difference. Pelley dr. Jon lapook, jon, thank you. In another major story that were following tonight, Hurricane Joaquin strengthened to a category 4 with winds of 130 miles an hour. It is moving slowly through the bahamass where some of the lesspopulated islands are getting hammered, 10 to 15 inches of rain expected. Waves are running up to 10 feet above normal. So far, no injuries reported. Late today, there was a major change in the direction of the hurricane, so lets bring in lonnie quinn, the chief weathercaster at our new york station wcbs. Lonnie, whats new . A lot of change changes frome were talking about this yesterday. From the National Hurricane center we still have a cat 4 hurricane, a big storm, 130mileperhour winds. But its all about where the storms are going and as of yesterday were seeing a trend pushing it further and further to the east. This is yesterday, we thought for sure, going to north carolina, virginia. And today, the cone is huge, from South Carolina to massachusetts. We didnt know where exactly it was going. We continue to push it further to the east and now its a cat 2 on sunday, somewhere off the outer banks, but not even putting the outer banks in the cone for land fall. And you get some time on monday, possibly tuesday, offshore of our area, the skinny red line not making a landfall, but the cone of concern still includes the northeast so you cannot let your guard down just yet. Scott. Pelley but, lonnie, if the hurricane does not make landfall what are the effects likely to be anyway . Youre going to feel this hurricane. Youre going to pick up a lot rain and places that have been saturated already, were talking virginia, north carolina. I think they could end up picking, potentially, associated with this storm, doubledigit rainfall amounts. Flooding is going to be a problem, coastal erosion as well. Pelley lonnie quinn, wcbs, thank you, lonnie. As lonnie said, much of the east coast cant handle any more rain. Spartanburg, South Carolina was swamped overnight. One woman drowned in her car. Several other drivers had to be rescued. Cars at a dealership were tossed around before the floodwaters receded. It has now been 1,506 days since president obama first said that bashar alassads days were numbered as syrias dictator. Tonight, assad is still in charge, even after unleashing a civil war that has killed a quarter million of his own people. Now, russias air force is raining bombs on rebels that were trained by the United States. Heres Holly Williams. Reporter russian warplanes pounded syria again today, targeting groups linked to al qaeda, but also hitting moderate Syrian Rebels who were supported by the u. S. This video appears to show the aftermath of an air strike in Idlib Province on americanbacked opposition fighters. Syrias deadly civil war is now even more dangerous with both the u. S. And russia launching air strikes, but supporting different sides. Russia joined the war, claiming it would target isis, yet, many of the strikes today hit an area over 30 miles from isis control. Colonel abdul jabbar alakaidi is a rebel commander in syrias u. S. Backed opposition and told us russia could easily strike isis if it wanted to but that its real intention is to defend the Syrian Regime they can destroy our cities but in the end well send them home in coffins. Theyre defiant words, but the rebels are underequipd and vulnerable to russian attack. Yet colonel alac told us hes given up hoping for help from the u. S. I dont think president obama is sincere, he told us. The americans let us down, and i dont trust them. U. S. And russian officials spoke today in an effort to reduce the risk of an accidental collision in syrian airspace, but, scott, the bigger problem is that russian airstrikes on u. S. Backed rebels have made the Syrian Civil War more complicated and even deadlier. Pelley Holly Williams for us tonight, hole, thanks. The husband of one of the newtown victims shares with us his despair over Todays School shooting in oregon when we come back. Me eyes. Same laugh. And since shes had moderate alzheimers disease, ive discovered we have the same fighting spirit, too. Thats why i asked her doctor about new onceaday namzaric™. Vo new namzaric is approved for moderate to severe alzheimers disease in patients who are currently taking, and can continue to take certain doses of both namenda and donepezil. 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Pelley a few minutes ago president obama lamented that we as a nation have become numb to Mass Shootings, and though he said many gun owners support tougher laws, the prospects of that seem slim, despite what happened today in oregon. Jim axelrod recalls what weve seen before. Reporter for those wanting to see some form of federal gun control legislation passed, it was the shooting they thought would finally get it done. Evidence in the gym and i heard a loud well, i heard, like, seven loud booms. Reporter december 14, 2012, newtown sandy hook elementary school, 20 first graders and six educators shot and killed by a deranged gunman armed with a bushmaster semiautomatic rifle and a glock semiautomatic pistol. Newtown families went to washington to push for stricter gun control measures. Jillian soto lost her sister, vicki, a 27yearold teacher who hid some of her students in a closet during the shooting and died saving them. Il continue to fight until everything is done because if its not in connecticut, it will be somewhere else. Reporter nicole hockleys son, dylan, was one of those first graders killed that day. Every night i beg for him to come to me in my dreams so i can see him again. Reporter outside the chambers stood survivors of the victims hoping their grief would sway the vote. Inside, Congress Said no. Since then weve seen 1 twroo shootings on School Properties in the United States. Thats an average of nearly one a week. Bill sherloch lost his wife, mary, the School Psychologist at sandy hook. He looked at todays shooting in oregon and the grief and despair came rushing back. Shes kids got up this morning and went to school and had never coming home. Reporter tonight americans are wondering what will come out of another massacre shot, horror, madness . Sure, but chances are, if history is any guide, you wont see change on that list. Jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. 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Koper and richter think once of nazis had parked the train in the trench in the bank, they somehow covered the whole thing up with earth and then removed all traces of the track. The nazis did occupy this part of poland during world war ii, and they had to retreat in a hurry as the soviet Army Advanced in 1945. So it is possible the germans wanted to hide something from the russians. You lay it down on the ground. And then you move it . Richter and kopers groundpenetrating radar machine produced an image that does look like train cars with a cargo not of gold but of tanks. The polish government has gone ahead and had the site cleared. Now, the army is checking for nazi booby traps. And then what . Well, no one knows, though richter and koper are hoping its not a bust but a bonanza. How much money do you hope to make . 5 to eight Million Dollars he says as our finders fee. 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Police officers rushed to the scene. Gunman was shot dead during a firefight. Late today, a visibly angry president obama renewed his call for tougher gun laws, noting that the u. S. Is the only country that sees these kinds of shootings every couple of months. And thats the cbs evening news for tonight. For all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org tom hanks tr son breaks his silence, his shocking drug profession. Plus did sand zamor bull lock adopt a new child. Coming up on entertainment tonight. What hes now saying about growing up in toms shadow and where we found his dad as he went public. Are these the last photos with his girlfriend . The autopsy and her secret scientology path