States of emergency along the southeastern sea board with florida, georgia and the carolinas are null the strike zone all in the strike zone. We will have the latest forecast and we will speak with North Carolina governor roy cooper about the preparations underway in his state. But first, police now looking into a motive for a deadly mass shooting in west texas. They say a gunman opened fire on officers during a traffic stop on an interstate, i20 near midland then took offshooting at people randomly from his car as he made his way west to odessa even carjacking a u. S. Postal vehicle, killing at least four people and wounding at least 20 before Police Killed him in a shootout. We will hear from the Texas Attorney general in a minute. We begin with correspondent mike tobin in odessa, texas. Good morning, mike. Good morning, mike. The latest update from police is that of the five people who died out here, one of them was the gunman. Four of them were victims of the gunman. All started with a traffic stop. Texas state troopers pulled over a vehicle for failing to use a turn signal. Put a rifle out the window of the vehicle and fired injuring one state trooper. We have an active shooter. [inaudible]. What is the status of the trooper . They are working on the trooper right now. Shooter is in a toyota heading westbound towards odessa. The rampage was on in the direction of odessa. The gunman shot two Police Officers, one from midland, one from odessa. He continued on i 20, shot another man there. And the rampage took him to east odessa, where apparently he sprayed bullets at random targets. At least 21 people were shot and injured. At some point, the gunman left his vehicle. He took a mail truck and drove that mail truck to the synergy movie theater. Thats where Police Caught up with him and killed him. Shooting right there. He hit the barrier get down, get down, get down. Get down stand still hes shooting them. Hes shooting them. Of the injured, one was a 17 month old child in a car seat. Witnesses say she was shot through the shoulder, airlifted to lubbock hospital. Ten of the injured at last notification from the hospitals were in critical condition. The gunman is only described as a white male in his 30s. Were waiting on an update from police. That was scheduled for a short time. Its now been delayed till noon local time. Mike . Mike tobin leading us off from odessa, texas. Our thoughts and prayers to the good folks there. Thank you, mike. Lets bring in Texas Attorney general ken paxton. General, great to have you this morning. Mike, i appreciate it. Obviously a tough day in texas. Tough day in florida. No doubt about it. Any word on a motive at this point, sir . No, you know, as you know, its difficult when the shooter is killed to quickly assess what the motive was. It was a lot easier in the last case, in el paso, since we had a shooter that didnt die. So it becomes a lot more challenging for us and for Law Enforcement in general when the shooter is killed. Mike have you learned more about the shooter . Well, there is definitely an Ongoing Investigation that mostly our department of Public Safety is heading up, and so yes, they are they will be working through that this weekend and i think we will be learning a lot over the next couple of days. Mike four weeks ago it was an attack, 300 miles to the west of odessa in el paso. Any initial thoughts on what more texas may be able to do to try to keep this from happening again . Thats a great question. The governor has put together a Domestic Terrorism Task force. We just met on friday. This is a horrific problem that we want to find a way to stop. And so we brought in the best of the best, from not just state, but federal and were seeking answers to that question to see if theres more things, which we believe there are, more things that we can do to stop this from happening in the future or at least when it happens get to it quicker. Mike what about a federal response . What if anything do you want from congress. You know, at this point, you know, i would want them doing the same thing were doing which is trying to figure out, you know, what kinds of practices would change this from happening or at least allow us to respond more quickly . I think, you know, asking the questions is the right thing to do at this point and then looking for answers is what were all trying to do. Mike i started my career in midland odessa texas so i know the good folks out there very well. It sounds like some heroic efforts from the various Law Enforcement agencies. General, im sure you want to talk about them. Oh my gosh, those guys are amazing. You know, they risk their lives every day. In this case they were literally putting their lives on the line. Several of them shot. Fortunately at this point they are all alive, but these guys are amazing, what theyre willing to do to protect us, every single day. Mike Texas Attorney general ken paxton, our best to you and the great people of texas. Thanks, mike. Thanks for your prayers. Appreciate it. Mike dorian strengthening into a catastrophic category 5 hurricane right now closing in on the northern bahamas as it takes a slow march towards our atlantic coast. Senior meteorologist janice dean is in the fox extreme weather center. Good morning, janice. Hi, mike. Already breaking records with this hurricane. The strongest hurricane now in the northern part of the atlantic ocean. 175 milesperhour sustained winds, gusts up to 200 milesperhour, and the outer core of winds now moving into the northwestern bahamas. They need our prayers. This storm could completely cause catastrophic damage. Were talking about 30 feet of storm surge. Perhaps rather 20 feet of storm surge. 30 inches of rainfall and relentless major hurricane winds, for not only hours but days because this storm is going to slow down, and thats where im concerned, not only for the bahamas, but the east coast of florida, and the latest track has this storm moving a little bit more to the west, so instead of focusing on the center, i need everyone to focus on this cone because if this storm jogs a little bit, say, 30 miles to the west, were not talking just Tropical Storm force wind conditions. Were talking about hurricaneforce wind conditions all up the coast. The storm surge piling in inches of rainfall and then at least a major hurricane wind gusts along the coastline for several days. This is monday. This is tomorrow. This is tuesday. This is wednesday. Still a major hurricane. And then we get into thursday and friday, still talking about a hurricane. Perhaps brushing but coming very close to landfall along the southeast coast. I will tell you, mike, we have not had a lot of consistency with these computer models. So its not an easy forecast, because of the fact that it is going to slow down, and in some cases, 4 to 5 miles an hour and that could make the difference from, again, a Tropical Storm force winds to a hurricaneforce wind in a prolonged period of time. Waters are very warm here. We could see a category 5 for 12, 24 hours. And theres not that much of a difference between a 5 and a 4, as it comes very close to land. Theres the latest computer models, and as i mentioned, mike, this is concerning to me because it gets wider. This is the center, so if you have got the center here moving on shore, thats close to a landfall, and that is a prolonged period of time of major hurricaneforce winds, storm surge, and inches, if not feet of rainfall. Thats the take away here. We havent had a really good solid forecast here. I can tell you whats going to happen in 12 hours, but what happens in 24 hours, 48 hours, still yet to be determined. Dont focus on the center. Focus on the whole cone, and that means the coast is not clear for florida, georgia, and the carolinas. So important to listen to your local weather forecasters. They are trying to save lives here and your local officials, especially now in florida. I have a feeling you might be seeing some evacuations very soon. Mike great advice, janice dean, thank you very much. Okay. Mike joining me now by phone is North Carolina governor roy cooper. Great to have you this morning, governor. Good morning. Mike dorian is a category 5 storm. How alarmed are you by its strengthening . Well, here in North Carolina, we are hoping and praying for the best, but preparing for the worst. Unfortunately, we have experience with this. North carolina has been hit by two major hurricanes in less than three years. Mike uhhuh. We are ready, know what to do, and we are preparing as we speak. Were hoping this thing continues to turn eastward and away from the coast, but its very erratic at the moment. We worry about obviously the strong winds, but the water both from river flooding and storm surge and flash floods. We know too well how much this can affect the lives of North Carolina people. So were getting ready today, opening doing a partial opening of our Emergency Operations center at 1 00 today. We will be fully opened in the morning at 7 00 a. M. Mike theres been a big build up with it being such a slowmoving storm. After declaring a state of emergency last night, do you feel like state resources are ready, sir . They will be. And in fact, this is one of the problems weve had with the last two storms is that they were so slow moving. We have we are preparing our shelters. We are in close contact with all of our county and federal partners. We will have a fema person on site, probably by this afternoon. One of the things that is key to preparing for a storm is making sure your First Responders and swift water access are deployed where they need to be. Right now all of our eastern assets are remaining there, and as the storm gets closer and maybe toward a predicted path on the coast, we will move our swift water assets and more First Responders from the west to the east. Our National Guard is on alert. Were working closely with the red cross to make sure that their shelter packages are ready. Our department of transportation has suspended all road work, and they will be ready to clear major passages in the event that storm is here, and we know that we have to take this in a staging take a staging approach because we want to be careful with taxpayer resources. We know it costs money to get ready, and i think most people would rather us be prepared than caught flat footed here, so we will be incrementally ratcheting up particularly as we look at the forecast. I know that some of the eastern counties, the locals are meeting regarding potential evacuation plans. That is not yet something we will be doing, but well be ready for all of it. Mike North Carolina governor roy cooper. Our best to you and your people. Best of luck with this storm. Thanks a lot. Best of luck to everybody along the east coast, and were certainly thinking today about the people in texas as well. Mike amen, thank you, sir. Stay with Fox News Channel as we continue to follow all the latest developments on dorians projected track as well as the shooting in texas. We just got word moments ago that the death toll has now risen. Still ahead on sunday morning futures, two influential lawmakers from both sides of the aisle who sit on the House Judiciary Committee, republican andy biggs and democrat david sicilyny, where can congress find Common Ground on issues like guns and immigration . Also former Senior Advisor to president s trump and bush on President Trump sending best best wishes to one of irans regimes after one of its rockets explodes on the launch pad. Could the u. S. Be behind it . Also with the next democratic 2020 debate stage set, will the candidates spend more time going after each other or President Trump . You can follow us on twitter sunday futures and on instagram sunday futures. Stay with us as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Patients that i see that complain about dry mouth. They feel that they have to drink a lot of water. Medications seem to be the number one cause for dry mouth. I like to recommend biotene. It replenishes the moisture in your mouth. Biotene definitely works. [heartbeat] mike an update from west texas where officials now say at least 7 people have died as a result of yesterdays mass shooting in midland and odessa. Joining me now is republican congressman from arizona andy biggs. He sits on the House Judiciary Committee, co chair of the Border Security caucus and a member of the House Freedom caucus. Congressman, good morning. Good morning, mike. Mike four weeks after el paso, a mass casualty shooting, 300 miles to the east in odessa, texas, your thoughts this morning. Well, first of all, of course we are praying and concerned with the folks, the victims and families there, and i know you worked there and i have worked in that area, but i also will tell you thank goodness for the blue line that went in there. We really appreciate the police there. And then i guess the next step from there is to acknowledge that we have a tremendous problem in this nation and throughout the world even, but this notion of how do we stop Mass Violence and prevent Mass Violence . And its not just shooting, but its i mean, if you look two weeks ago, the dayton, not the four week ago dayton issue but the two week ago dayton issue where you had an individual wielding a knife, attacking people and turning around, stealing a car and killing a number of people with that incident. So we have this violent problem of violence in this country, and we need to address that problem. Mike we dont have a word on the motive just yet. We got an update on the death toll. At least seven people killed. Some brave First Responders, police from various agencies really putting their lives on the line, getting wounded in action to take down this gunman. Some preliminary thoughts on what can be done to stop these Mass Violence type attacks . Well, its hard to anticipate, and i think that i agree with attorney general paxton of texas, that we need to continue to look at this, but one of the things that he said, and he repeated this a couple of times, is that we need to find a way to respond to these quicker to prevent them these instances from exacerbating. I think thats important. I have talked with some groups that believe that they can do that, but i dont think that we should step in with false things like red flag laws, but we need to face the fact that we have deteriorating institutions that in some way stoke these fires and we need to change the rhetoric, we need to change our institutions to recognize that we have a severe a serious problem here. We dont know enough about this most recent shooting, the one from yesterday, to know why this guy was doing it, where and how he got his guns and why he was attacking the Police Officers who were stopping him for a routine traffic stop. This is a problem. Mike weve got your colleague congressman David Cicilline of rhode island for a view from the other side of the aisle coming up. Let me ask you, congressman biggs, can Congress Come together to pass some kind of Bipartisan Legislation that may not eliminate the threat but perhaps would be some common sense steps to address this problem . Im always interested in that question because i think i think we agree on a lot of things. Davids got some good legislation that i support in other areas. But too often what i see happening is we react to this stuff so quickly, and were trying to do something that may be the best of intentions but they have potential longterm ramifications that are going to impede solving the problem because i dont think i think some of the solutions that are proposed are superficial in nature. I think this is a much deeper problem, and it is a societal problem as much as anything else. Mike so are you interested in maybe looking at Mental Health . Are you concerned about violent video games . Some of the other peripheral issues, if not guns directly, some of the other things that may potentially be contributing factors . We have heard in previous cases of family members trying to call authorities about a loved one and not getting much action. You know, are there some of those other common sense things that maybe can be tightened up . Yeah, i think thats right. I think there are a couple things that you just mentioned that are important to understand. I think that we need to stop attacking some stop attacking religious institutions. We have the family that is under attack. We need to build that up because some of those institutions, if we can help those, that will immediately take some of the alienation i think drives some of this. Help solve some Mental Health issues. We need to have communications between agencies. That was the parkland issue. I mean that was part of that issue. Mike uhhuh. Weve got all kinds of ways we can attack some of this. Dont forget that most states, if not all, actually have ways to go in. If you suspect that you have a loved one that is suicidal or a danger to others, you can actually go in now and through due process means request that they be evaluated, and thats important. Mike we have much more with congressman andy biggs, including his reaction to the doj Inspector Generals report. All right brad, once again i have revolutionized the songwriting process. Oh, here we go. I know i cant play an instrument, but this. This is my forte. Obviously, for Auto Insurance, weve got the wheel route. Obviously. Retirement, were going w