bullet-proof vest. she said he didn t say much first, started shooting everyone. told people to come to the center of the class and i ll let her take over the story from there. i really don t know how i survived. i just i don t know. i was actually planning on just, you know, waiting to see the black light, you know, just waiting not to see anything anymore. reporter: tracy lived because she played dead. i was sitting in front of the classroom, facing the teacher when everything happened. he just came in and shot towards the back of the wall and told everybody to get in the center of the room. reporter: it was one of her fellow students. he showed up on the fourth day of classes with gun, not books. he set his sights on classroom 15 in snyder hall at umpqua community college. he seemed happy about it. he didn t seem stressed. he didn t seem nervous. but when he came in, he told
hand, she thought about her three children and waited to die. the warmth of the blood that was all over me, that s when i knew that it was real and, i remember whispering to only one person next to me. he s just one person. we have to do something about it. reporter: then she heard the shoot eer make a promise. he would spare one of the male students. what did he say exactly? he said, you re the lucky one. i m you know, i m going to let you live, but i m going to need you to go and tell the police everything that happened and give them this. reporter: he handed the man an envelope to give to police. and then started asking his victims about their religion. he just asked, are you christian? do you believe in god? they said, yeah. he said, good, i ll send you to god. you ll be visiting god pretty soon. and he shoots them. and he asked them about being
my neighborhood is doing pretty good. a lot of them like my husband, we couldn t get the car into the neighborhood because couldn t drive through the water. nobody s homes were flooded, fortunately, but a lot of us have a lot of water on our lawns and the roads were covered with water. you know, it s just kind of shut everything down. a lot of tree limbs down. we re starting to get wind, and that has me worried with the ground being so saturated, the trees could start falling. have you seen anything like this before? no. i ve lived in south carolina and i ve been through hurricanes and tropical storms, but i ve never seen it like this, ever. unbelievable. well, thank you for sharing everything with us. your thoughts and your pictures and being our eyes and ears on the ground. we appreciate it. we do wish you and your family and your neighbors there the very best. we re with with you there in spirit. just hoping for everything to be
going forward. the national transportation safety board will lead that investigation. the coast guard will be a part of that and will probably also conduct a separate investigation. that s down the road. my focus right now is on the search and rescue efforts. reporter: you concluded that the ship has sank and you mentioned last week that the ship lost power reported losing power. what happens in that kind of sea. 50-foot waves, i think you said. what happens? yeah. the worst spot for any ship to be in, when you re disabled, lost all propulsion, have you no means to move that vessel. you become very susceptible. you fall into the trough, basically, between the waves. you fall to the waves so everything is hitting you from the side. you look at 140-mile-an-hour winds, 50-foot seas hitting you from the side. the vessel was carrying 391 containers so it had a lot of topside height to it where the winds and waves could hit it.
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