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Pretty good numbers. but again, its all breaking news, so im not in a position to confirm other than to say thats the information that im receiving as well as information that the shooter is deceased. >> and can i ask you about your gun laws, concealed carry, that kind of thing? >> im only in a position to tell you that its my understanding that it would not have been legal for a concealed carry to occur on a community college campus. there are -- theres case law and statutory law and theres col...

Many of them actually mentioning schneider hall one tweet saying, praying everybody is okay. and based on the coverage that weve gotten from our local affiliate there in the area, theyve also made multiple mentions of schneider hall. thats a capacity of 33, 30-plus studentsnd that, but it might show some bearing as to where this took place on the campus. some other reaction from students there, some describing saying national guard was there, fbi, mult ip cop, multiple fire departments, scariest...

Wounded patient you have handled and suddenly a rural location, the question becomes air assets, ground assets and kind of sealing off the area. it is absolute managed bedlam sometimes for the first couple hours of this, and then the wave of sadness and shock. what has happened to our local facility, and clint, often the second wave is highly interested in sealing off that scene. this is a crime scene. so evidence, shell casings, where rounds might have ended up, weve seen the flags typically af...

Shortly after that first word came out that we indeed have a mass casualty event on this campus. clint van zandt, remind us as an fbi veteran, whats important for the early part of an investigation? people arriving on campus. atf, local police, state police, fbi, what are the top five things to nail. >> well, as you know, brian, the first is to tend to the wounded, to get them to various hospitals. thats going to be the challenge. this is a relatively rural area by some standards. as you just in...

Overwhelmed. we heard about six life flight aircraft heading that direction or backfilling the ones locally that have gone down. it must be overwhelming for a smaller hospital to get this kind of emergency it wants. >> yeah, theres only one medical center in the city. so im sure that they are overwhelmed. >> so again, though, a plan then to move some of these patients to other areas. we heard that life flight has sent a half dozen aircraft to the area. what about other area hospitals. do you kno...

The central portion of the state. but as you can imagine an entire state is coming to grips with what has happened here. kate snow? >> on the i-5 corridor. i actually know it pretty well. my sister lives in portland. north of medford, three quarters of the way down the state. its a rural area. i was out this last summer. it is not a hugely populated area. as we said on the air, 20,000 people live in that area. just to recap, the oregon office of emergency management telling nbc news now that ini...

There then? >> no, no. thats just one of the programs. >> we heard this may have occurred in the science building there. have you heard that? >> no, i havent. all i know is that they had cleared snyder building. >> snyder building. >> yes. >> do you know what kind of classes happen in that building? >> i think thats a science area. >> gerald, i mean, from your perspective, do you make your home there in roseburg? >> i do. >> describe what the community is like and what news of this kind of shoot...

By helicopter and one unidentified en route to the hospital. they say simply, quote, were expecting more. >> elected officials thoughts and prayers are with the community. all of the officials from washington state and oregon, the entire pacific northwest reacting to this because of the area this will affect. heres our map that zooms into the community college. adjacent to the river there. as we said, it was one of early community colleges in the region. first classes were offered in 1961. its b...

>> just before 11:00 a.m. local time, police dispatchers receiving the first 911 calls from the school. the gunman reportedly opening fire near one of the classrooms in the science area. heres how one student described the scene. >> -- my bag, my phone, my wallet, my car keys, everything, we just dropped everything and we ran. and when we ran out of the building, everybody went every which way. it was so chaotic and we, i think we were the first class to know that something was up. because every...