At the white house easter egg roll. Developing right now, major issues on the rails. A train struck someone on the tracks near newt carrollton station. Derrick ward is live to tell us what happened and the big effect its having on travel. Derrick . Reporter first off, this will disrupt service on the penn line. That service has been disrupted. If youre familiar with the area just outside the beltway, route 450 splits off, part of it becomes atlanta severn road. You can see that is an amtrak train moving through that spot, but this was a scene of something definitely tragic earlier this afternoon. It was about 8 00 a. M. When someone was hit by a penn line train on these tracks. We dont have an identity of that person, but we do know that train has since dd. We have people here from amtrak, people here from Prince Georges County and the Maryland Transit Agency as well. We have seen some trains come through here at very low, deliberate speeds. I dont know what that means for penn service
At mercers home. Right now, looking for writings left behind to get some clues as to why he went on this rampage. Wayne joins us live in oregon. Reporter the Community College is closed right now. Its behind me. It remains behind me. Its likely to remain closed until next week. But it is ground zero for the pain in this community; pain that has radiated everywhere. Once picturesque, the day has not come easily. It really makes you stop and think, like, what are we doing wrong with this society . Reporter there are reminders everywhere. Residents remain on edge. It was scary when you first heard about the shooting. But its different when you find out he lived next door to you. The sheriff is concerned for families of victims. Also, today, orr oors governor game to town and praised this community. I am proud of how the Roseburg Community pulled together to care for and comfort each other during this horrific crisis. Heres a picture of the shooter identified as chris Harper Mercer. Police
Know at Umpqua Community college that we are thinking about them, were praying for them and i have to say, having a new baby puts this in perspective. Doesnt it . I was feeding her yesterday, you know, you hear this news and you look down at your precious innocent child and you just think when this politics aside, when is enough enough . When is enough enough . So that you can send your child offer to College Without being scared. Or Elementary School or anywhere. Yeah. Speaking your adorable baby we missed you so much. Thank you. Were so many that youre back today. Tell bus this little one. Shes could cute, her name is poppy louise. The name is perfect. Just look. Look at her. Look at mila. She is loving being a big sister. What happened on day one when she first saw poppy . Day one she came to the hospital that was milas first day of preschool. The first day she came to the hospital and we let mila pick the baby out of the nursery. We guide it had. Pick any one of these. So we let he
Conference in the past hour revealing much more about the shooter chris harper and joins us with more. Danielle. Reporter the college is closed until monday. Police have not released a motive in thursdays deadly shooting but we are getting a closer look at how it was all carried out. Cbs news has learned that investigators found a note left by Chris Harper Mercer the gunman who killed nine and injured seven thursday on the campus of Umpqua Community college in roseburg, oregon. Law enforcement sources say it is several pages long and in it, the 26yearold made statements suggesting that he may have been depressed and angry. Police say mercer was wearing body armor when he walked into a classroom and opened fire. So far we have recovered 13 weapons. Out of those 13 weapons, we currently have in custody six recovered at the school, seven recovered at the shooters residence. Reporter the rampage continued until officers arrived a few minutes later. The police chief calls them heroes. He fi
Here is sal at 7 00 unless i missed something. So far okay . Yeah its been okay. There has been some slow traffic but right now we are looking just okay and we have slow traffic to deal with. Lets start off with a look at the commute in the east bay. We start a lot with the bay bridge toll plaza because it will be slow there as you come up to the maccarthur maze. About a 25 minute delay. As we go to the maps i want to show you highway 4 and 680. Slow traffic on highway 4. It looks like the antioch commute has cleared up. Not a lot going on in antioch. Westbound 580 is better than it normally is. And 680 is actually a lot lightener dublin down to fremont as we look at the south bay you can see there is slow traffic here and there. 101, 280, and 85. 280 is not too bad. Lets take a look at it from our camera. There is a little bit of slowing getting up to highway 17. Lets go back to the desk. Sal, thank you. Umpqua Community College is closed this morning and you know why. Windy after a g