could see her looking out the window, she could see her family and her sister crying. this picture of people being with their hands on their heads, remember, when law enforcement first arrived, even if it s a hostage situation and they see you being released, you are kind of considered suspect until you re cleared. and even when you have been through a trauma, when you run out of a building where guns have been fired, and arriving law enforcement don t know that you re friendly because it s a hostile environment. we re joined by oregon state senator jeff cruz. is this your district? yes, it is. what can you tell us to add to what we already know? well, i don t think we ll get a whole lot more information probably relative, which i think is appropriate. i think the state police and county sheriffs really do have
man named jeff cruz, republican from oregon s first district, which includes roseburg. senator cruz is in the area at this moment and is on the live line with us. senator to you and all of those in your district, our heart-felt are so rove this afternoon. sorrow this afternoon. do you have in the information? it ms. we choice to stay away from college. this is a situation where the less number of people interfering with the experts who are doing the work, the better off. but what i have heard at this point is the death toll is somewhere in neighborhood of 15 to 17, about 20 injured, and the last report i heard was it s no longer an active shooting situation, that the shooter is in custody. so, at this point in time, basically, what s going on out there is they are checking all
expect that sort of information probably won t be coming out for a while senator kse, forgive me forn. this just in from this is the first official word that we have gotten from the spokesman for the sheriff s department. the spokeswoman just confirmed to fox news and others there is no more threat from the shooting. that s the first official information we have gotten and it s the best news of the day. senator, do you have any information whether this happened in one classroom or multiple? i believe while it was in one of the buildings, i have a feeling that most of the buildings have quad areas, so i could make an assumption i don t know that by the way, the college is umpqua community college but not southwest. it looks like the
coming from the former attorney general, eric holder, who was attorney general up until recently, on his twitter account saying, enough, now oregon, what reason now to oppose safety measures? 5:00 hour here in the east. this is normally the time slot of our friend and colleague chuck todd. but we are in live rolling coverage of this horrible, latest mass casualty event that the nation is coming to grips with. it was 10:38 local time this morning in oregon, when the first 911 call went out from a community college. the death toll, we re now reporting, at 13, though we have reason to hope that that number perhaps goes down with some good news. over 20 wounded. the gunman, a 20-year-old male killed in an exchange of gunfire with police. it is, like so many other community colleges, mostly populated by older part-time students but there s, of course, a student body of 3,000 who just graduated from high school this past september and have started their studies there. the fall se
went into a classroom, and began shooting. we do not know whether anyone in that classroom was targeted. we do not have any information about who was hit. we don t know whether that the shooter then left that classroom and proceeded to others, and whether he moved next door to the science building as has been suggested by some social media and other authorities. we just don t yet have that confirmed. i can tell you we re getting new information through associated press . this is from associated press, and we now have an official confirmation from the douglas county board official, just told rate tiers at least 15 people have been shot and killed at umpqua community college. less than 20 but i don t have an exact number. 20 withouted 20 people wounded and we have just had confirmed that at least seven people are dead and 20 people are hurt. this is the reason i m never confident with reporting numbers in the early going on matters like this, because otruth is, diffe