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>> okay, now the sheriff is going to do a spanish interview with the assistance of homicide captain kent wagner. >> while they are speaking in spanish, let me just update you on what we have just learned because it was quite a bit. the suspect was a 16-year-old male. it was his birthday today so he just turned 16. he was not found in that house that we had been standing in front of that joe fryer had been standing in front of. rather, police now say that he was found in the quad. this happened a...

Proven to work. monitor the situation in santa clarita, california, where police say a student gunman shot and killed at least two students. three other students are injured and being treated at local hospitals. also, being treated, the gunman. a 16-year-old male. joining me now, simone boyce who is in the area where families are being reunited. simone, what are you hearing there? >> chris, here on the ground at central park, this is the area where families have been reunited with their children...

Like that. >> we are still waiting for a press conference from the sheriff. were also waiting for a press conference from the hospital. again, for those who might just be tuning in, the local hospital in that area has tweeted out that one student has died. that is a female student. there are three other male students who have also been shot. they are in critical condition, but they are -- are still okay as of now. simone boyce, one of our nbc news correspondents, is down there at the school. we ...

As you can imagine, the scene here on the ground, its very chaotic as people work through these strong emotions of terror, of grief and shock. >> simone, thank you. we have a couple of other experts to go to. but i do want to just get you up to speed on the shootings that have happened. in california alone in the past couple of years, in orinda, california, october 31st, 2019, five people were killed and several injured at a halloween party held at an airbnb, a home. long beach, october 30th, 20...

-- escaped as federal government -- as fast as possible. after the first shot, obviously i thought it was just a joke. then someone -- i dont know, someone like ran away initially. and i thought it was weird. then the other shots came in, and just -- yeah. i knew, like, okay, this isnt a joke, need to get out of here right now. >> lets bring in nbc news correspondent simone boyce from santa clarita. also following the investigation is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. simone, first t...

Shooting himself in the head. there are five other victims. as i just said, three of them are girls. one of them, a 16-year-old, is now dead. her parents are at the hospital. two other girls, 14-year-old and 15-year-old. two other boys, both of them 14 years old. they say that they are currently interviewing the suspects mother and the suspects girlfriend. they have teams interviewing students at the hospital -- im sorry, at the school -- getting a sense of what they saw and what happened and wh...

Welcome tourists here very soon to try to rebuild the economy, chris. >> we only have 30 seconds left, and i know how early it is, this just happened and how many people you had a chance to talk with, but are they insured? how do they feel about coming back there? what are you hearing? >> so there are several people who i have spoken to who are insured and theyre beginning the process of filing those claims. as you know, that can be such a headache and such a trying process after youve already b...

Closed, and people had a lot of notice about getting out. its a risky strategy to stay on a barrier island when you know theres a hurricane coming toward you. but a lot of people did and now there are rescues under way. the good news, stephanie, is that because weve been talking about this for so long, electrical crews, fema boat rescue, urban search and rescue, we saw a team in charlotte yesterday, national guard, all of these people were stationed and ready to go. any rescues that have to take...

Yesterday alone as dorian was approaching, ali. and where simone is now in emerald isle, thats where seven-foot storm surge happened in two hours. so this -- while not making landfall just once in the united states, three times in the bahamas, once in the united states, it has -- its a dangerous thing and it is created -- even though it was a category two, never making landfall substantially, look at all of the damage its caused. >> where is this going now? >> its now picked up forward speed, al...

Were going to play that by ear. the president down there told me that that north campus had about 600 students. i have no idea how many of those would want to come here. but the fact is what we want to do is be able to assist them in any way that we can, and thats what we will do. >> showing what a true university community is all about, william harvey, thank you very much for what all of you are doing and its a pleasure to have you on the program. >> pleasure to be with you. >> thank you. wer...