looking for revenge? the hunt for this woman right now. and can you dig it? a farmer s fossil find, bones from a woolly mammoth up to 15,000 years old. where this creature was dug up. hey, good morning. paula is off this weekend. great to have cecilia vega with us on a morning when we ve got two big stories brewing including that abc news exclusive. the woman who not only survived the oregon school massacre, but also leapt into action treating her wounded classmates. what she saw, what she heard and what she did coming up. an amazing story. but we begin with what could be historic and life-threatening rainfall on the east coast today, already in the carolinas and also virginia, we are seeing entire roads washed away, bridges wiped out, and it may get significantly worse in the coming hours. we ve got team coverage of the weather this morning and we kick it all off with rob, who is in virginia beach. rob, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, dan. this is an
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. i ll tell you what it is today , ongt 3rd, 2015. this is today live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. it s lovely day out there on the plaza. i m 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.
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, it s 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. we ll get to all of the politics in just a moment but for the latest i want to go to nbc s miguel almaguer who is in roseburg. migu miguel, i want you to address we heard from the shooter s father who decided to weigh in on the gun debate. tell me more about it. absolutely. chuck. the gunman s f
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. i m not trying to say that that s to blame for what happened but if chris had not been able to get ahold of 13 guns, it wouldn t 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 it s an interesting debate even after all of the bloodshed and massacre here. it s igniting the country. miguel almaguer, this is a debate whether is it about gun control or gun-free zones? we ll 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
rain in the low country in a thousand years. that s how big this is. devastating flooding slams the southeast. south carolina is hardest hit. the state of emergency has been declared. did you grab anything when you walked out the door? no, we grabbed two totinos pizzas out of the refrigerator and my dog. and they search for a cargo ship and have found massive amounts of debris. the fbi is warning colleges in philadelphia about a social media-businessed threat. no specific school named. they gathered for a prayer service for the victims of the shooting at the college. we will not be defined by evil. new polls show ben carson and carly fiorina are not too far behind donald trump. if you no longer have an interest in trump because he has no chance, i ll go back to my business. you don t just give an automatic promotion to the existing leadership team. that doesn t signal change. a teenager in florida attacked by a shark. the 14-year-old bitten on the hand