Half of the weekend brings other changes. We will talk about that and the rest of the week ahead, which includes some typical october weather. Chris. Now to developing news out of roseburg, oregon. The site of thursdays massacre at a Community College. A hospital in the city of springfield reports three of the shooting victims that were taken there are expected to survivor. Two remain in critical condition, the other is in fair condition. We still dont know why the suspect, Chris Harper Mercer, opened fire. Only that ten people died, including the gunman. Abc News Reporter brandi hitt is live in roseburg with the latest. Brandy, good morning. Reporter good morning, chris. We just learned moments ago that the Sheriffs Department is going to be holding another press conference later on today around noon, expect to go reveal new details about this ongoing investigation. We are standing just outside the college campus, as close adds we can get with the Police Barricade and look what popped
Whatsoever from the United States. Has the u. S. Ceded the upper hand . Joining me are mark leibovich, amy holmes of the blaze, ruth marcus of the Washington Post and rich lowry of the National Review. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Good sunday morning. This week roseburg, oregon, joined the roll call of american towns that have suffered a mass shooting. Nine victims from 18 to 67 gunned down on a Community College campus. Jason johnson. Serena daun moore, lucero alcaraz, rebecca carnes, quinn cooper, trevin taylor, Lawrence Levine and kim dietz. Familiar questions about how this could have happened and what it means for the battle over the issue of guns in america. Well get to all of the politics in just a moment but for the latest i want to go to nbcs Miguel Almaguer who is in roseburg. Migu miguel, i want you to address we heard from the shooters father who decided to weigh in on the gun debate. Tell me more about it. Absolutely. Chuck. The gunmans father, 26yearold chris ha
Chilling note he left behind. This as wae learn more about the victims and stories of heroism in those tense moments. And the new brid get jones. One thing about this particular photo this morning. Ill tell you what it is today, ongt 3rd, 2015. This is today live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. Its lovely day out there on the plaza. Im erica hill. Glad to have you with us. Dylan dryer is here. Our friends in the southeast are getting absolutely hammered right now. Flooding there. This is greenville, South Carolina, upstate South Carolina. A lot of folks dealing with flooding that is borderline bib la call in some places. This is with joaquin staying far away from the east coast. Which is incredible to think, to think about all of that. That is our top story this morning, the storm and things being affected by it, including the dangerous search for a cargo ship that disappeared. 33 crew members are on board. Kristen dahlgren joins us live this morning. Reporter good morning. Yeah,
13 guns . How can that happen . They talk about gun laws, they talk about gun control. Every time Something Like this happens they talk about it and nothing is done. Im not trying to say that thats to blame for what happened but if chris had not been able to get ahold of 13 guns, it wouldnt have happened. Chuck, this is sparking a National Debate but interestingly enough, shortly after that interview with cnn we spoke to a victim survivor here at the hospital and she said she believes more people should be carrying guns inside campuses like this one. So its an interesting debate even after all of the bloodshed and massacre here. Its igniting the country. Miguel almaguer, this is a debate whether is it about gun control or gunfree zones . Well get to that. Let me go to data. According to mass shooter tracker data which defines a mass shooting as an incident where four or more people are shot there have been 294 Mass Shootings alone, nearly a thousand since the database was created in th
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