the local authorities are saying there was indeed. they have the mall on complete lockdown. multiple reports that, in fact, this gunman may be dead but they haven t confirmed that there is only one gunman on scene. a lot coming from twitter. this rifle has been described to us as an ar 15 by multiple sources. now multiple witnesses are saying that the mask the camo guy was wearing was a white mask and that he was carrying this rifle when at one point it jammed, an employee at avon bath and beauty a store located right across from macy s says she was at her locked store customers that 18 month old daughter. heard back-to-back shots there a pause and six to eight in a row before the guy appeared to move on. law enforcement has just confirmed that there are people dead on scene. listen. in. did he tell you how many people he saw hit? yes. he said he saw two people that
and the scene, think of this. the first shot report we were saying 3:29 p.m. local time in port land. now they are saying the first call was at 3:20 p.m. that time of the afternoon, moms and kids at the santa store, the foot court full of people. christmas shopping going on intrps to macy s there. the food court and this camera shop and in come ins this man clad in camo mask on his face carrying this weapon and just begins shooting apparently in the early going at random. walked by a game shot and shot there according to their witnesses walked around by this macy s and shot there according to witnesses. all the while running and screaming. you heard reports from mall employees and mall managers saying that some stores were closing their gates. others didn t know what to do. jewelry store employees according to a report you heard somebody was going on.
gotten there. as far as we know, the last police report was that the gunman is still on the loose inside this mall and what they are trying to do is get any potential victims out of his way. whether he is hold up in a store with people, we can t yet know. but we know this is an active scene and we ll continue to go back for updates through the this hour. global pressure over the crisis in syria now. may have forced that regime to back away from a potential chemical weapons strike. citizens are not out of woods yet. far from it we re live at the pentagon. plus two high profile airlines struck a deal today. wait until you see what s about to happen to delta airlines. it s growing. what it means for you and your frequent flier miles as they hook up with a virgin.
sheriffs here and there. we re talking to them. my manager is talking to them right now to make sure that we go get out or what s going on. i could hear a loud voice in the background. three officers at the front of our gate right now. what are they saying? they are just telling us to basically what we need to do just to basically stay in our store, keep the doors locked. we obviously have to keep the customers that we have. we have 10 customers in our back room. ashley, when you went out to shut your gate excuse me my name is katie the store manager. we just were directed we need to leave the store immediately we are getting escorted out right now so we have to leave i m sorry to cut this short you guys god bless the people that were injured. shepard: those of you just joining us there has been a shooting in what appears to be multiple shots as many as 20 in a mall in the portland, oregon area. it s our understanding at last check this shooter, a man with
were shot face down and there was blood oh my gosh where is your store on the upper or lower level. lower. we understand this happened on the upper level. the shots were loud enough that you could tell something bad had happened. i mean we all just froze. i thought maybe something fell or something like that. but we all just looked at each other whnd and when we saw the people running a flood of people running we knew people were screaming people are being shot. get down, get in the back, get safe. that s what you did. you went to the back of the store and sort of locked yourself in back there? yeah. we tried to do that we stayed back there for as long as we could and then we decided executively that wield shut the gates. so we went out there and shut the gates which was very scary because we had no information. i mean the shooter could have been around the corner. and did other stores appear to have the same idea? we also heard tales of people