at this point they don t have a motive for the shooting. they tell at at 10:30 a.m. he went into oikos university and started shooting indiscriminately at people. we know seven people are dead. three more people are wounded. police describe what it looked like when they got here. take a look. when we got there officers found several victims throughout the classroom, throughout the building. there were several people hiding in locked buildings, locked doors, behind desks. as you can imagine, very frightened, very scared. some of them were injured so we had to rescue them out. we had to force our way into a number of rooms because they were locked behind doors. reporter: well, after the shooting the suspect fled, according to police, to a local grocery store. inside he reportedly confessed his crime to a super market worker. he was then arrested in the parking lot of that grocery store a short time later. again, at this point police do not have a motive but, of course, the
get beyond five minutes. they re expecting to hear from every representative of the candidates for five minutes before people can come up, put the ballots in and vote. soledad, thanks very much. let s go over to cnn s john king over at the magic call for us. john, give us a little flavor of what we should expect to see in the course of this evening. let s pick up off of what soledad said. she said she was in the west des moines suburbs. that s right here. this dark red, this is four years ago. if mitt romney does well where soledad is, that means he s replicating what he did four years ago. four years ago huckabee 45%, mitt romney 35%. small town evangelical christian conservative, tee party iowa is the orange. this is why we re so excited, the first votes tonight, they begin to fill in this map. you watch it happen live as the vote results come in. one of the things we ll look at,
tonight, the first test of the republican presidential candidates that counts. anyone could win. what should the role of government be? and everything could change. we are not going to spend more money than what we re bringing in in this country. it s iowa s choice. will iowans embrace mitt romney? i want to restore america. i want to turn around america. make ron paul the spoiler? i think we have too many laws is what the problems are. turn back the the establishment witches i d go away. choose rick santorum? if we don t have strong family, we won t have a strong family. or another come-from-behind candidate? we will repeal obama care, it will happen. only one republican will face off against the president. i believe in america. in a new year of challenges and economic pain. there s no more important task for the next president. the candidates have spoken. vote for me on january 3rd. thank you all very much. god bless you. good l