Us live from paramus. She has been there all morning and has more on the investigation. Reporter the county prosecutor here describes the shooter as someone that is depressed and despondent. He says that that was part of the reason he may have come in here not necessarily inflick harm on others but to draw not necessarily to inflict harm on others but to draw attention to himself and kill himself. Police say 20yearold Richard Shoop walked into the Garden State Plaza mall in paramus, new jersey, just before closing and opened fire. These women came face to face with the shooter. Out of nowhere, the guy walks right past the front door and he is shooting shots in the air. He paused for a second and just looked inside the store. I just froze. Reporter Police Quickly responded and s. W. A. T. Team members stormed the facility. The shooter, for whatever reason, instead of staying and fighting, fled deeper into the mall. Reporter officials put the mall in lockdown and began a methodical searc
Aid and other associated cuts. Just gets more and more expensive. Reporter most of the cuts will come at the expense of nontenured professors, less faculty, and more students mean larger classes and it may be tougher for students to get the classes they need. Its not easy because you want to do the best for the students. You want to be loyal to some extent to the employees whove been here for millions of years. And its just not a good way to run things. Reporter i reached out to the administrators today who confirmed the budget cuts but would not comment about them on camera. They do say theres a meeting scheduled here on campus tomorrow morning where faculty members and other Staff Members will answer questions about the cuts. Reporting live in san jose state, scott budman, nbc bay area news. Okay. Thank you, scott. Always bet on big. The Graton Casino opened its doors this morning. Thousands were feeling lucky. Crowds rushed into the new gaming mecca in sonoma county. Within a couple
That include nonother detectivings as well are needed for officer safety and 911 calls. Of a life threatening nature get a timely response but level 2 calls such as a burglary where a suspect has fled may not. Were having issues getting to those calls in a timely manner. The addition of these new officers will help to reduce that. Responding to those emergency calls is really important. And thats the highest priority. Reporter saying this isnt the answer. Calls have to be filled. We have to get to the 911 calls. But its going to happen at a cost. Now Domestic Violence cases will go on hold. Reporter in detectives say they fear the program will become permanent and even expanded. At end of january but acknowledge even with with the added detectives it does not have all the patrol beats covered. Live in san jose ktvu channel 2 news. A dwindling number of officers. San jose is considering hiring retirees for conducting applications. Charging too i guess for the caked then play paying the
But is there any rain on the way . Reporter the Sonoma County sheriffs deputy who shot and killed a santa rosa teenager returns to work. Why protesters of andy lopez are planning to take action later today. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. You are looking at live pictures of highway 4 in the baypoint area. Look at that string of headlights. An injury crash creating a major mess. Several lanes of the westbound direction are blocked. Thats the commute direction and well let you know when the accident might be cleared. Thats coming up in just a second. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Good morning. Climb dave clark. Lets go right to good morning. Im dave clark. Lets go right to sal. Westbound highway 4, right near bailey road. The traffic is narrowing down to one lane and maybe the shoulder. But most of the freeway is blocked. We have a long backup stretching as farther back even in antion. You know how bad it gets without any crashes at all on a monday com
Livermore. The westbound traffic was blocked all the way into tracy. Heavy traffic is still remaining near 50 minutes. That east shore freeway is at 25 minutes now it is twice the commute. There was an earlier our current accident that has now cleared. South bay freeway is already getting slow especially 85 in 101 on northbound from south san jose. The back up almost reaches all the way we have no complaints. Were waking up to blue skies. The frost advisory has been cancelled. The temperatures are mild and the 40s and 50s. We will see a range from low 60s to the low 70s. Tomorrow, will be the warmest day and the temperatures will start to slide. I will talk about the rain coming up. Police say that the gunman at the new jersey mall is dead of an apparent suicide. The body of 20 yearold Richard Shoop of teaneck, new jersey was found in the back area of the mall early this morning. Authority say that he killed himself with the same weapon that he used at the mall. The mall will be closed