Reporter a gunman on a rampage at a Community College in oregon. Ten people killed, seven wounded. Were exchanging shots with him. Hes in the classroom. The campus terrorized. Family of survivors saying he targeted christian students. Samantha is down. Before officers kill him in a dramatic shootout. I have never been more terrified for my life ever. An angry president obama demands action. Somehow this has become routine. We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved ones because of our inaction. This morning full Team Coverage, all the latest on the shooter, the victims and a Community Left reeling. And good morning, america. We have two major stories this friday, the east coast on alert from florida to maine. As youre looking live at states have declared states of emergency. Theyre worried about floods from this storm stuck over the carolinas right now and the impact of Hurricane Joaquin as it moves north in the atlantic. We, of course, also on the ground of that deadly shooting on a College Campus in oregon. At least ten people dead, seven others wounded. Amy is standing by on the scene. Well get to her in a moment but well get to the other major story, ginger starts us off, two storms right now, ginger, causing lots of problems. Yes, two storms in two different places. If in the mainland usa it is now joaquin. It is this low pressure system already causing rain, wind and coastal flooding. Its going to be around for the weekend. This deal did imminent, joaquin, on the other hand still stuck in the central bahamas and so its going to stay there for another 12 hour, its been there for 24. Some of the winds 2k3wu69ing well above 100 Miles Per Hour. The only pictures weve gotten out of this island so far because a lot of communication there but heres the great news i have for you. The track now trending far east, away from land meaning no u. S. Landfall. This has been the trend with some of the other computer models that we like to look at and if it comes to fruition all it would mean is rougher surf. Remember we have that one storm imminent happening this weekend, very heavy rain South Carolina, north carolina, coastal flooding all the way up to coastal new england. Two storms, well have much more coming up on the imminent one this weekend. Our rob marciano is in Virginia Beach and hell have the latest. Yep. Thats right. Going to cover it all for us coming up all right, thank you. Turn to those kills at umpqua Community College in roseburg. Roseburg like newton, columbine, another american town shattered by a mass shooting. Amy is there. Good morning, amy. Reporter good morning, george. This is a sleepy Remote Community about three hours south of portland, oregon, and it is simply devastated this morning. Me the road is closed. This is Umpqua College road, it is the only road leading in and out of campus and you see the police tape lining the streets. Remnants of a day of terror and this morning there are more questions than answers as to why a 26yearold man terrorized this campus here. At 10 38, the first emergency calls start flooding in. Somebody is outside one of the doors shooting through the door. Reporter the 26yearold gunman chris mercer enters a classroom in snyder hall and orders the students to get on the ground and stand up one by one asking each their religion. Are you a christian, he would ask them and if youre a christian, stand up and they would stand up and he said, good, because youre a christian, youre going to see god in just about one second and then he shot and killed them. Reporter as police raced to the scene blocking the only road in and out of the school. Dispatch as many ambulances as possible. Reporter the other students at this campus of 4,000 flee their classrooms fleeing for places to hide. We thought it was a desk or somebody thought it was a firecracker. It sounded like a fight was breaking out. It was intense. You dont think of it as a possibility. Reporter at 10 44, eight minutes since the first reports of a shooting officers confront the gunman. We do know that we have at least two heroic officers who responded into the building within minutes and exchanged gunfire with the suspect. Reporter at the scene they find four weapons including one Assault Rifle. The gunman killed, unclear if by his own hand or police. Tactical teams and bomb squads have cleared all the buildings on the campus. Evidence teams from the fbi and from the Oregon State Police are working to process the crime scene. Reporter overnight, many in the tightknit Community Gathering for Prayer Services and candlelight vigils in honor of the victims and for those and we expect victim identifications later today as this Community Still tries to get a handle on what happened. As one faculty member put it, this is not going to be our defining moment. We will not be terrified. Rockin. Good for them, all right, amy, thank you. Well get back to you in a few mens. Moments ago we spoke to cassandra welding, a student in the classroom next door to the shooter and talked to her mother lisa who was on the phone with her during during the rampage and began asking cassandra what she saw and heard. At around 10 30 i heard a really loud kap ochlt ow noise like a moon popping. We all jumped. We didnt know what it was. We knew something wasnt right and so a classmate of mine went to go open the door to see what was happening next door to where opened the door and unfortunately she got shot twice and fell down and collapsed and we huddled in the right corner of the classroom and were all calling 911 and, you know, its a busy line and i just called it repeatedly trying to get a hold of 911. Hurry up and get here because we classroom. What was the condition of your classmate that was shot . I though that she was shot in the left arm and she was also shot down in the lower abdomen area by her rib cage. And you all were just trying to help her as best you could, i would imagine. Her friend that was sitting right next to her during the class ran over to her and was doing cpr trying to resuscitate her. You said that you attempted to call 911, you got through then you called your mother. Lisa, when you got the call from your daughter, what the emotions you must have felt and what did you tell her to do . Well, first i couldnt understand her because she was crying hysterically and i finally then realized i heard shooting and i said, okay, wait a minute. Somebody is next to you shooting and she said, yes, in the room and i said, first thing, i said make sure all the doors are secured and make sure you start barricading. If theres anything there, i dont care how make sure you guys are safe to keep somebody out. But its not a call that you ever want to get from your child. Lisa, how did you know like you said its a call no parent wants to receive. You stayed so calm and gave her such great instructions. Where did that come from . How did you know to do that . I have no idea. I guess its called being a parent because at that point, everything i thought of was being safe and everybody there, so my first instinct was i knew i had to be the calm person here and the adult, so i was trying to calm her down and in the meantime, just saying, you know, all i knew was barricade. Is that what you did, cassandra . We tried to as much as we could. We were all just terrified to even get up at this point because we were heard continuously gunshots. I heard maybe about 35 to 45 rounds that were shot. Did you ever see the shooter . I did not see the shooter but i witnessed my classmate getting shot. And what were your other classmates doing at that time in the room . You know, a lot of tears were shed. I heard i love you i love yous on the phone. Crying, gasping for air, just a lot of that was heard. And how comforting, cassandra, was your mother on the phone with you . Oh, it was amazing. I knew that either this was going to be my last time talking to her or i was going to see her again and at this point i was just praying i would see her again and my dad. Lisa, what advice do you have for parents who may be watching and they know that this is a scene thats being played out unfortunately . What advice do you have for them if they should get a call from their child like you did . The best advice is, you know, just try to be calm and use your head and use your instincts. Thats what you did. Lisa and cassandra, thank you thank. We are thinking of you and others in your community. All the best going forward. Thank you. Thank you. Take care. Really got me when she said its called being a parent . So clear in that moment of crisis. That was really something. As we mentioned seven people wounded in the shooting. Three of them in Critical Condition fighting for their lives. We are learning more about the victims and the shooter this morning and abcs Neal Karlinsky is at the hospital in roseburg. Good morning, neal. Reporter george, good morning. This is a Small Community and the sheer scope of this shooting initially overwhelmed them. Seven people fighting for their lives this morning, among them heroes including one very brave army veteran. This morning, 30yearold chris mintz out of surgery recovering from seven gunshot wounds, witnesses say the student and army vet charged straight at the gunman trying to save who he could telling others to run. He ran to the library and pulled all the alarms and he was telling people to run, grabbing people telling them, you just have to go and he actually ran back towards the building where the shooting was and he ran back into the building and i dont know what happened to him. Reporter seven people this morning still in the hospital. Three in Critical Condition. Overnight police and fbi swarming this apartment complex in winchester, oregon, where the man allegedly behind the carnage, 26yearold Chris Harper Mercer lived with his mom. Dogs at the scene examining every inch. An officer pictured questioning mercers mother outside. They thought he was an odd guy. Reporter abc news learning he was allegedly armed with three pistols and an assaultstyle rifle and that he left behind writings. An official describing them to abc news as rambling utterances with overtones of racial and social hatred. Neighbors in torrance, california, where mercer lived before moving to oregon saying they had seen him with guns in it. I did see him at the time walking or leaving his apartment and coming home with what looked like gun cases. Him and his mom both and he actually did say that he used to go shooting at some range. I dont know where it was. Reporter mercers father this morning saying he and his family are reeling. Obviously its been a devastating day, devastating for shocked. Shocked is all i can say. Reporter no known motive this morning. Officials tell us there is no known connection to International Terrorism but they continue to pore over the suspects background. The friend of one of them told me he was actually shot in the hand drying to escape and is alive, george. Ill bet. Okay, neal, thanks very much. This was the 15th time president obama has been called to speak out after a mass shooting and when he took the podium late yesterday he condemned the ritual. His voice etched with anger. Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it, weve become number numb to this. Jon karl at the white house. Jesse palmer, the tenth fatal School Shooting this year alone and the president being very clear he is now politicizing this issue. Reporter george, he was explicit on that point. I have been in the White House Briefing room with him for several of those statements i have never heard him angrier or more political as he blamed gun violence in america on congress inability or un unwillingness to pass more gun control laws. He said that thoughts and prayers for the victims are not enough. Somebody somewhere will comment and say, obama politicized this issue. Well, this is something we should politicize. It is relevant to our common politic. Reporter and no comment from the nra. They said their policy is to gather the facts before making a statement on Something Like this. Jon karl, thanks very much. All right there, george. Back to amy and our team in oregon throughout the morning but now were going to turn to the other big story this morning, the potentially lifethreatening weather. The east coast bracing for major flooding. Youre looking at live radar of that storm, five states declaring a state of emergency and abcs rob marciano is in one of them in Virginia Beach. Good morning, rob. Robin. You know, this area over the past couple of weeks has been getting hit with a lot of this, seemingly endless wind and this surf that has just been pounding this shoreline, plus the inland flooding and we got joaquin just out there and this new coastal storm developing. Theyve got more of it coming. This morning, parts of the east coast reeling from over a foot of rain and bracing for an additional foot this weekend. The potential for dangerous flooding across much of the eastern seaboard threatening 50 million americans wreaking havoc in South Carolina, trees down and this road collapsed because of flooding. One man rescued from the massive opening. This storm front fatal already possibly to blame for at least two deaths in the carolinas. All of this as joaquin makes its way up the atlantic. We are dealing with two situations, a major, major severe event of rainfall. At the same time, having to deal with this potential hurricane. Reporter five states already declaring state of emergencies. Now is the time for you to begin to prepare for hunkering down and dealing with the storm. Reporter crews working along the shore building barriers on the new jersey coast and laying sandbags in north carolina. A hurricane does not have to go directly over your town, doesnt even have to make landfall to have an impact on you especially if youre along the coast. Reporter scientists taking to the skies to track joaquin. Air force Hurricane Hunters collecting data for the National Hurricane center flying directly into the storm calling us as they were gathering that vital information. Each time we go through the storm were passing through the eye wall, the center of the storm, outside the window it kind of looks like shattered glass. This storm has been intensifying. Reporter and this coastal storm at this hour is intensifying going to tap some of that tropical moisture from joaquin so we have inland flood watches. We have weigh got coastal flood warnings not to mention this relentless wind. To say the least, robin, no one in this area of the delmarva, czar beach will rest easy until both of these are well out to sea. I can imagine that being the case. Hurricane joaquin may miss us but hitting the caribbean hard battering the bahamas with extreme wind and rain and linzie janis on the scene in nassau. Good morning. Reporter Hurricane Joaquin has been battering the central and eastern bahamas for the last 24 hours and it looks like itll be at least another 12 before there is any letup. The small thinly populated islands getting lashed with 130mileperhour winds, 30foot waves and 2 feet of water in ared frommed. There are widespread power down. People here in nassau say they are worried sick about their george and robin. Thank you. Military plane crash. Six American Service members have been killed in the crash of a c130 cargo plane in afghanistan. The taliban claiming responsibility. Abcs chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz in washington with the details. Good morning, martha. George. This happened just after midnight at the jalalabad pakistan. On board the big turboprop aircraft not only the sixperson crew but five contractors supporting the u. S. Military who were also killed. The military says the c130 went down just after takeoff and that all of the wreckage is contained on the airfield and even though the taliban claims to have shot the aircraft down, the military says there is no indication that it went down because of hostile fire. But theyre obviously trying to figure out what did happen, george and robin. Thanks very much. Incredibly busy friday morning and we have much more ahead. The latest on the tragedy in oregon. As Hurricane Joaquin barrels north millions brace for lifethreatening floods. What to do to protect yourself and your home. Scary moment. 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