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 half-staff. 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 18-year-olds, recent high school graduates, rebekah carnes, lucas eibel, and quinn cooper. carrie boyd spoke for cooper s family. quinn was funny, sweet, exapgzate and such a wonderful, loving person. he always stood up for people. reporter: 19-year-old lucero alcaraz hoped to be a pediatric nurse. and 20-year-old treven anspach was a fire and e.m.s. member. douk fire chief marl delivered a message from treven s family. treven was l
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: late today, we plrnd their names and saw their faces, the nine gunned down 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 half-staff. 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 18-year-olds, recent high school graduates, rebekah carnes, lucas eibel, and quinn cooper. carrie boyd spoke for cooper s family. quinn was funny, sweet, exapgzate and such a wonderful, loving person. he always stood up for people. reporter: 19-year-old lucero alcaraz hoped to be a pediatric nurse. and
this as we learn more about the victims from stories of heroism. and the new bridget jones. one thing in particular about the photo that has a lot of people talking this morning. i ll tell you what it is, today saturday, october 3rd, 2015. announcer: from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. a lovely day out on the plaza. isn t it? welcome to today on saturday. i m erica hill. i m craig melvin alongside sheinelle jones and dylan dreyer here. our friends along the east are getting hammered. this is greenville, south carolina. this is upstate south carolina. a lot of folks dealing with flooding that is border line biblical. this is with joaquin staying far away from the east coast. a totally different set up. which is incredible to think about that. that is the top story this morning. that storm and other things affected by it including the dangerous hunt for a cargo ship that disappeared in hurricane joaquin. 33 crew members on bo
the plane on the ground. nightly news begins right now. good evening. a dam breach forced new evacuations and fresh anxiety here. as days of relentless days of flooding begins to subside. this afternoon we were among those given minutes to move from our original location along a swollen creek to higher ground when the dam opened up. nine people have died in south carolina. following what officials are calling a thousand year storm. hundreds of have been forced from homes, roads and bridges are closed and clean water has been cut to thousands. the slow-moving storm system dumped over 16.5 inches of rain here into columbia sunday alone. that according to the national weather service made it the rainiest spot in 16 years. we begin tonight with kerry sanders. reporter: a major dam breach caused raging powerful water to rush through several communities. triggering a full-scale evacuation in some areas. the greatest fear, a larger dam down river could get hit by a wall of wat
college in oregon. some were fresh out of high school, new to college. others were returning to life. president obama this evening has ordered flags across the nation at half-staff. 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 18-year-olds, recent high school graduates, rebekah carnes, lucas eibel, and quinn cooper. carrie boyd spoke for cooper s family. quinn was funny, sweet, exapgzate and such a wonderful, loving person. he always stood up for people. reporter: 19-year-old lucero alcaraz hoped to be a pediatric nurse. and 20-year-old treven anspach douk fire chief marl delivered a message from treven s family. treven was larger than life and brought out the best in those around him. in justin and kim s words, trev