Yesterday at Umpqua Community college in oregon. Some were fresh out of high school, new to college. Others were returning to education to make a new start in life. President obama this evening has ordered flags across the nation at halfstaff. Nine others were wounding, including chris mintz, a hero amid the horror. He was shot three times as he tried to stop the gunman. John blackstone is in roseburg, oregon, and begins our coverage. Reporter the Smiling Faces of the victims are now known ranging in age from 18 to 67. They include three 18yearolds, recent high school graduates, rebekah carnes, lucas eibel, and quinn cooper. Carrie boyd spoke for coopers family. Quinn was funny, sweet, exapgzate and such a wonderful, loving person. He always stood up for people. Reporter 19yearold Lucero Alcaraz hoped to be a pediatric nurse. And 20yearold Treven Anspach was a fire and e. M. S. Member. Douk fire chief marl delivered a message from trevens family. Treven was larger than life and brought
Good morning. Im allison kropff. Im ian reitz. We have a lot to get to but first, heres meteorologist bobby deskins. We have low 40s up north. Generally in the upper 40s to lower 50s as we wake up first thing this morning. It is chilly. It is rainfree. It is mostly cloudy. Well stay that way through the day. 48 clearwater. 45 brooksville. Lakeland 50. Sarasota 45. A couple showers well to our south. Well stay dry today. Isolated showers today into this evening. Strong storms tomorrow morning early and into the first half of friday. Well track those for you. Well talking about the weekend forecast coming up. Lets get over to road warrior hilary zalla. Good morning. We have a couple accidents this morning. One is in pasco county in port richie. This is an westbound ridge road it was originally reported north of this intersection. This is on westbound ridge road. At fowler avenue the signals are not working at 50th street north. Be careful out there. Breaking news from indonesia. Seven pe
Pickup engulfed in flames. He even managed to talk to the 43yearold driver who escaped with burns. I jumped tout window because i was on fire and rolled three times. You had an angel. Reporter the witness was stunned when he saw a chevy impala flying down the street before hauling interest a truck hauling cans of gasoline. I dont know how he made it. It happened so fast it was like a movie. Reporter minutes earlier police heard another crash and then spotted the impala take off. As they tried to stop him the speeds get faster, and theyre going through stop signs. Reporter speeds exceeded 90 miles per hour. The officers called off the chase. This is way too few. Were in a neighborhood, its 9 00 at night, theyre blowing stop signs. Lets stop. Reporter a mail down the road the horrific crash happened. But was captured behind a church. His 17yearold passenger had to be pulled from the wreckage. Both suffered head injuries. And that stunned innocent pickup driver taken away to be treated fo
Were following breaking overnight news from norfolk. Crews put out a fire at a home on marlboro avenue. Thats off kimball terrace. Our overnight photographer got this video of firefighters on the scene. The fire started around 2 00 this morning. No one was hurt. Investigators havent happening today, its the last day of work for hundreds at the Newport News Shipyard. More than 700 workers are losing their jobs management announced the layoffs several months ago. Rico bush is live outside the shipyard with the reasons why. Rico. Don, katie, since the layoffs began at Newport News Shipyard last september, the president of the company has maintained the reductions are based on a lack of workload, after all other options have been exhausted. President of Newport News Shipbuilding Matt Mulherin made the official announcement to reduce the workforce in early december. The company sent pink slips to 7 hundred 30 hourly workers and eight salaried employees, but the shipyard let them work for 60
Hampton. This is near several businesses so police are evacuating those nearby until they can figure out what the package is. We are working to find out the latest details about this. As soon as we have more information well pass it along. Now to chesapeake where we are following more breaking news. First a mobile home fire. The Fire Department says a mobile home caught fire on military highway. Thats not far from north battlefield boulevard. The latest we know so far is that firefighters are still on the scene. When crews got there a little after 10 15, they say the mobile home was fully engulfed in flames. We are working to find out more details like if anyone is hurt, and what may have started it. Well pass that along as soon as we get it. Now to a breaking time saver Traffic Alert the onethousand block of waters road in chesapeake is closed. Thats because an accident caused downed power lines there. Crews expect to be working until two now lets talk about the weather and showers mo