65,000 students enrolled at osu. what lead up to the shooting is unclear. here's what we do know. there is a report of an active shooter on campus, and first responders rushed to the school. according to columbus firefighters, at least nine people were hurt. one of them is in critical condition. another's condition is unknown, but everyone else is expected to be ok. we know one suspect is dead, according to police. we do not know how many suspects were involved. did the shooter act alone? that is a question we are working to answer for you now. in the meantime, we will keep you posted for new details as they come into our newsroom. jummy: joining us on the line right now is patrick cleary, a student who was on campus when the shootings to lace. thank you for calling in. where you were. patrick: i think it was about 9:30 and i was eating breakfast in our dining hall on north campus called tradition at scott house. i was about to walk to class and as i was going out the door, a guy stopped me and said you cannot leave right now. i said why not, and he said we are on lockdown and there is an active shooter. my heart sort of jumped in my throat. it was sort of surreal. it was hard to process. dining hall away from the windows, and for a while there, that was the own summation we had. it turns out that the shooter was just about a quarter of a mile down the street from us, so then it became even more terrifying. but then we saw the police come in and surround the building. i think that gave those of us who were stuck in the hall some -- how quickly did you hear from campus officials in terms of emails or text alerts to let you know what was going on and to shelter in place? patrick: when i was about to leave, the guy told me that i was allowed to. i looked at my phone and saw that i had these alerts and had forgotten to look at them. th they evidently did a pretty goo alerts on as quick as possible, and, thank god. jummy: what was going through your mind at the time. we have seen so many of the shootings on college campuses. what were you thinking when you were going through this yourself? patrick: i was thinking about all of the people in my life that i had to call, that i had to reach out to and let them know that i was not one of those people that they would be that is a scary moment to consider that. i also thought about this. this is what i would want to say now, that please, when you are doing your job here and covering this, i beg of you, please do not focus on the life of whatever twisted person committed this crime. instead, please, think about -- tell the country about the victims. tell the country about my poor classmates whose lives were changed forever by this criminal. i think inadvertently or not, the more people talk about horrible criminals like these, the more they are romanticized. and i really hope that in this case we can do whatever we can to stop something like this from happening again. jummy: before we let you go, have you been able to leave where you were? i know classes are canceled for the day, but how is everyone coping with what happened just a few hours ago? patrick: we were allowed to leave before other people because we were so close. immediately there is palpable relief, people letting outsize -- letting out sighs. as i was walking back, people are very of looking over their shoulders and walking in the middle of the street. there are police everywhere and helicopters flying overhead so loud you can barely hear yourself think. everything about this campus is going to be different after this. that is what people are coping with, that our school has changed permanently now. so remains to be seen. but that is the feeling in the air right now. jummy: patrick, thank you. i want to let you know that we just got an update. apparently all those who are injured, the injuries are not life-threatening. we just wanted to let you know, absolutely. thanks for taking us -- thanks for taking the time to join us in washington, d.c. patrick cleary joining us from the phone. bring you updates throughout this newscast and the rest of the day. sign up for breaking news text alerts. really important on days like today. go to wjla.com/text. switching to other news -- today election officials in wisconsin are preparing for a recount, millions of votes. this move by the green party has angered president-elect donald trump, who is calling it all a the state of wisconsin is in the pluses of recounting 3 million votes in the presidential race. >> the presidential candidate has the right to request a recount. mr. trump: we are in a rigged, system, folks. kenneth: donald trump blasted the move, which could a trump tweeted that the people have spoken and the election is over. claiming voter fraud in new hampshire and california -- why isn't the media reporting on this? serious bias, big problem. trump tweeted no proof to back up his claims. the california secretary of state called allegation of voter >> what are all these conflicts of interest? that is the thing that will follow him through this entire presidency. kenneth: there is also turmoil over possible secretary of state contender mitt romney. >> i do not think the call for unity has to be at the secretary of state position. kenneth: he will also meet tomorrow with david petraeus. jummy: we want to turn forecaster there are big changes coming our way. brian van de graaff has a look at the forecast. brian: we are starting off with some sunshine, but that has given way to added clouds. i want to you -- i when you to know that the clouds have come in. only 42 at john champe high , virginia. the key for today is that we remain dry. no need for the umbrella today. but come tomorrow, changes will be moving in here. dry for your drive home, but for the tomorrow morning rush, showers on the doorstep. they will be with us off and on throughout the day tomorrow as well as wednesday. it may impact your commutes. we are six inches down, and we need every little drop. we will talk about how much we will get on the other side. jummy: developing story out of fairfax county, where police have just made an arrest in this morning's stabbing death. this man was the one who killed a woman in a parking lot in alexandria around 4:50 on diablo court in fairfax county. a person heard screaming this morning. when she looked outside, she saw the victim on the ground. police say molina martinez is authorities in prince george's county are looking for the person who they say fired several shots at a popular grocery store. suzanne kennedy has the details from hyattsville. suzanne: we talked with employees inside the store who are shocked by what happened even before the store opened. you can see that the window is boarded up, but that was not the case when we arrived here. take a look at this shattered glass in this 10-foot police say the shooting took place around 5:10 this morning, less than an hour before the store opened. no one was injured. this window was the only when damaged. store employees tell us they believe it was a disgruntled mail employee who is responsible. shoppers were described -- shoppers were surprised by what they saw. >> i have not seen anything like that in the area, anything like that at all. weather thing. i did not know it was a disgruntled employer. dr. it changed my mind. suzanne: no word what did the shooting. despite some cleanup, the store was able to open on time. in chillum, maryland, suzanne kennedy. back to you. jummy: we are on your side helping you and your family fight back against crime. check out our spot crime map at wjla.com to crime is happening near you. there is new information in the trial of the man accused in a deadly shooting at a charleston, south carolina, church. dylan roof was granted a motion to represent himself. he made the request as jury selection was to begin this morning. he has a constitutional right to make that decision. roof is accused of killing nine people at the mother emanuel ame we continue to follow breaking news out of ohio state university. at least eight people have been shot. one suspect is dead, and a short time ago the shelter in place - i am the power of one. - i am the power of one. - we are the power of one. - by agreeing to have my... both: our... - novec power bill rounded up each month. - my few cents... - added to my few cents... both: added to our few cents... - add up to help improve lives in the local community. o the next dollar. - that's the power of your small change added to others'. all: that's the power of one. - sign up today at novec.com. q: i am q mccray. we continue to keep a close eye on the deadly situation at one of the most large -- at one of the largest campuses in our country. ohio state university. the shelter in place order was lifted. calls around 10:00 a.m. came in about an active shooter on campus. condition right now. another's condition is unknown. what everyone else is expected to survive. we will keep you posted with new details as we get them in to our newsroom. q mccray, abc 7 news. jummy: today is cyber monday. a lot of folks have been shopping for the best deal for a let's get over to sam sweeney. he has been following this story for us. sam: we are going to stick with the ohio state thing now. we want to talk about the facebook safety activation. if you know anyone at ohio state university, facebook has activated their safety check. we have seen some powerful pictures come out of this situation. this is a picture that was tweeted by someone from a classroom there. you can see all the desks piled against the door. "that is what we have been trained to do during these the crime scene, what it looked like as this whole situation unfolded. some pretty terrifying moments. now the players are starting to brennan -- to pour in for what happened on the campus of ohio state university. we are learning new details by the minute and we will keep watching what is happening here. in the meantime, more video continues to pour in across social media. businesses in the are open, asking people to come in, trying to move along. that is the latest from the newsroom. back upstairs to you. jummy: thank you. let's get a check of the forecast. brian van de graaff is here with that. some rain headed our way? brian: and why should we be excited? we are so dry. we need the rain. we could get an inch or two of rain before all is said and done. but not today. morning started off dry with sunshine. we will stay dry throughout the day, but the clouds are becoming more abundant. take a look at st. mary's at annapolis. 48 degrees. taking a little bit of time -- even a little bit of a southerly wind. mostly cloudy through the afternoon and evening. we stay dry through the remainder of the day. predawn tomorrow, that is when our first batch of rain moves in. take a look at the by midmorning, have your pockets of rain from the shenandoah valley eastward, off and on showers midday. tomorrow, more spotty in nature. i think the heavier rain is probably on part 2 -- kind of a two-parter. early drug by midmorning, some heavy pockets, and maybe -- early drive i midmorning, some heavy pockets, maybe even some thunder. tomorrow afternoon, a third to a wednesday, that is when we will get more impressive numbers. an inch at a have in baltimore, a little over two inches in manassas. it is a two-parter with the heaviest on the second day. showers will develop late tomorrow. showers, rumbles of thunder. it will feel more like a springtime rainstorm around here. things dry off saturday. sunday, more showers. ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? to follow the situation in ohio state university, an active shooter is now dead. the columbus fire department says nine people are now injured in this attack. one is in critical condition. the rest have non-life-threatening injuries. covering metro now -- metro service will close at 1:00 in the morning on weekends, 11:30 during the week, if the metro board approves the final staff recommendations it will also includes cutting back two hours of service on sunday. this is after metro received more than 16,000 comments on its service cut proposals. and metro begins the next phase of safetrack, surge 11. this one is expected to cause a lot of problems for some riders. john gonzalez has the story. john: safetrack 11 is the final one of 2016, and it might be one and silver line east falls church metro station -- take a look. you have these dividers letting folks know that this side of the platform is off-limits. you can see that there are metro employees working hard, down on the track. they are using sledgehammers to review move -- to remove the rail holder. the eventual plan is to remove the entire track. meantime, the platform has been getting very busy all day long. the work srt 21. commuters like rich will be impacted. how do you work around this? do you at all? rich: it will be hard when it rains because i do not ride in the rain. this is unexpected. i expect the east falls church station to be clear. anyway, we will see what happens. john: thanks for talking to us. good luck. it is a 24-date project. limited bus service as well. orange line trains will run every 20 minutes between vienna and new carrollton. same way time -- same wait time. the to you inside. jummy: abc 7 is here to help you . text the word "metro" to 43817. tonight, 7 on your side goes undercover to protect your tax dollars. investigator has raised questions about how hundreds of millions of dollars worth of government contracts are being awarded. >> you see this building here behind meac up this is 18 -- see this building here behind meac out this is 1818 new york avenue. every year the district of awards half $1 billion in contracts that is supposed to go to companies based in the district and be called small fit that description. with those types of numbers and that much money, the i-team decided to take a look. so we went undercover to get answers to make sure that your money is going where it is supposed to. in northeast d.c., chris papst, abc 7 news. jummy: coming up after the jummy: we are still staying on top of that breaking news out of ohio state university this noon. injuries in the attack include stab wounds and others being hit by a vehicle. the shelter in place was lifted about an hour ago. nine people were hurt. one is in critical condition. tweets went out around 10:00 this morning telling students that there was a shooter on campus and that they should run for cover. that area once again is secure. in the meantime, a check of the forecast. brian: cool, upper 40's into the 50's. tomorrow, wednesday, some much needed rain, clearing up by the end of the week. jummy: thank you for joining us. >> hey, everybody, it's "bachelor" fan favorites week. every day, we're playing with your favorite people from my other shows, "the bachelor" "the bachelorette." some have been lucky in love. now let's see how they do with money. let's play "who wants to be a millionaire." 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