shooting in a mall there. north korea has launched a long-range rocket despite international objection. let s go out front. good evening, everyone. i m ashleigh banfield in for erin burnett. a deadly shooting in a crowded shopping mall in a suburb of oregon. three people including the gunman are confirmed dead. one other is in critical condition. the authorities say the gunman died of a self inflicted gunshot and that no shots were fired by law enforcement. we have new video taken from inside of the mall. look at the scene as police were clearing this mall and evacuating some of the frightened shoppers to safety. many of them holding their hands above their heads and holding their children at the same time. witnesses are describing a scene of complete chaos as the shots rang out near the food court in the mall 3.30 p.m. local time. there are reports that the shooter was wearing a flak jacket and hockey mask as he moved throughout the mall firing an assault rifle. outside
the sweep went long in to the evening until officers could know for sure the gunman who opened fire with an assault rifle did not have an accomplice. he was acting alone. the carnage ended with two dead one critically wounded and several with more injury and the gunman dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. police say he did all of the shooting himself. the shooter is apparently dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. authorities gave an update. we are almost finished searching the mall and locating everybody and releasing them from the mall. the numbers are still the same. we know there to be the shooter s deceased, two dead and one transported to trauma. additionally i can confirm the shooter is dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. by accounts, there s no rounds fired by law enforcement in the mall today. no rounds? no rounds fired by law enforcement. take all questions at the end. no rounds fired by law enforcement at the mall. we are wrapping up
ly walking from the back of my store toward the front when i heard the first gunshot. my first thought was something large has fallen but they were within a half second of each other and by the third shot, i thought, this is happening this is real. these are gunshots and this is going on. i changed glances with my manager and it was go time that we needed to get to safety. we were escorting guests that were in our store as well as guests in the corridor of the mall in the hallway and other employees who work at kiosks that are throughout the middle of the mall and in to our back room. as these shots were being fired. taylor, you have a security gate at the store that you work in. were you able to get that security gate closed and effectively seal off the people who you were able to get in the store? i was. actually after we got everybody in to our back room i realized the gate was still open and we needed to close the gate because if the gate is not close wed are still
astronomers. did you feel that? it happened. i hear that s super dangerous. good morning and welcome to early start. as 5:00 a.m. in the east. up first, it was an afternoon of horror for holiday shoppers in suburban portland. police say 10,000 people were inside the clackamas town center when a gunman opened fire. mass chaos followed. three were dead, including the gunman, and a young woman left critically wounded. the mall is supposed to be a place that we can all take our families, feel comfortable that this is a great place, especially the hole diday seaso like this. these things aren t supposed to happen. let s get right to the scene. dan, what can you tell us? reporter: well, the main question this morning, and it s really the question anytime you have one of these shootings, is who was the shooter, what was the motive, and were any of the victims targeted or was it simply random. at this point we don t know any of that. when we do know is it started about
we were watching the news as it was happening on the tv inside the entertainment center. international community on edge after a provocative rocket launch by north korea, claims to have put a satellite in orbit. we ll tell you how the u.s. might respond to it. up in flames a west virginia natural gas line explodes, the blast shutting down a major route through that state. it could be one of the holiest twitter accounts yet, the pope sending his first tweet. wait until you see who is following. good morning, i m don lemon, carol is off today. holiday horror, panicked shoppers rush to police after a gunman opens fire. here is the latest for you from the deadly mall shooting just south of portland, oregon. this morning, three people are confirmed dead, and a fourth victim is described as fighting for her life. police say the masked gunman killed himself as they closed in, making the motive for the killing spree all the more unclear right now. witnesses say he popped off at