School resource officer. The officer went to the threat as trained and the responding deputies and Police Officers also activated our regional active protocol. That is to go to the threat and try to eliminate the threat while keeping students and staff safe. Within 20 minutes of the time of the report of the shooting our deputies found the suspect dead inside the school. Currently right now it appears to us that shooter is dead as a result of a selfinflicted gunshot wound. However, that determination remains under investigation, and we will continue to look at those details. At this point in time we have victims advocates with the families and the victims at the hospital, and we have investigators with the family of the shooter. Were beginning our investigation now as a crime scene. We have evacuated the entire school. The school was evacuated very slowly, deliberately and meticulously. We wanted to insure that all of our students, number one, were safe, and secondly, we wanted to ensu
We are starting to see the pictures from centennial colorado. The thought was not again. Not another School Shooting and not in colorado. This shooting took place in Arapahoe High School just a short drive from aurora, colorado where 12 people died in a theater shooting and near columbine where people were killed in 1999. Lets join a press conference. Im grayson robinson, the a ron hoe county sheriff. We are here to update you on the tragic shooting that happened today at Arapahoe High School. As you are probably well aware at 12 33 this afternoon, a School Resource officer assigned to the Arapahoe High School called out for assistance on some type of situation on the west side of the school. The deputy immediately realized that an armed student had come into the school and had shot one student in the immediate entry area of the west area of the Arapahoe High School. The deputy and security staff from littleton Public Schools immediately responded to that area. Along with responding de
Central African Republic on the growing humanitarian crisis. Tonight we have a better idea why a teenager opened fire at his colorado high school. The sheriff said karl pierson meant to kill as many as he could. Paul beban has the latest outside centennial. Another press conference from the sheriff. He said it will be the last. Giving a tremendous amount of new detail and insight into what happened in the events leading up to the shooting, and how things will proceed going forward. A few of the highlights. The shooter purchased the shotgun, a pump shotgun legally a week ago at a retail outlet. Its legal for 18yearolds to buy shotguns and he purchased the ammunition, yesterday morning, the day of the shooting. He was wearing a bandolier, with shotgun shells, and a back pack, with three molotov cocktails, one of which he detonated. He came in through a door, close to the library, where he believed the target may be, the librarian, the debate coach. He encountered clair ester davis, a you
For the vulner dangerous for vulnerable. The scene reminds you for some, the cold snap is something to fear while others get to embrace the scenic sues. A frosty Mount Hamilton was a gliltery picture people saw from glittery picture that the cold weather had taken a drop. People had to come see it for themselves. It was a nice time too come up. What is impressing you the most. The frosting on the trees, just the view of the valley both north and south. Too cold . Not cold at all. Cold, but not unbearably cold. The cold weather began to leave its mark as black ice began to form on the roads. The conditions can be very dangerous for icy roads, sharp turns very cold temperatures. And as the homeless were delivered blanketings, it can be life threatening to the vulnerable. People live out here. I talked to people just a minute ago ive learned for 20 years and he combhu 5 people that died this knew 5 people that died. Blankets help a lot. It gets very cold. It helps me stay warm. We will se
The opening day is september 3rd, less than three weeks from today. The decision hung on three separate and independent reviews of the socalled quick fix which is temporarily stiffening up back up earthquake shock absorbers until a retrofit of the permanent one is done in september. They were all unanimous. We see no delay. With that can it resist the largest earthquake that might hit it in 15 centuries . It provides the required strength of the 1,500year return period seismic motions plus reserve beyond that. Since the rest of the bridge is finished, cal trans can back up those into primary ones before september 3rd . The actually actually installation of the shims, is rerouting and repaving the roads. A job thatll take the entire weekend. All that notwithstanding some commuters are still worried about crossing the new bridge when it opens. The existing bridge is the one folks ought to be worried about and thats the one they shouldnt be trusting. Connecting the new span to the tunnels