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fires, cars tipped over, a police officer shot at. the shooter still at large this morning. where's the ticket? from the first time we hear from a baltimore woman who says she's the megawilliamillions winner. she can't present the ticket. sarah palin going rogue hitting the ta"today" show the same day katie couric hosts "good morning america." >> biggest winner, first lady michelle obama opening up the oval office for a white house workout on the biggest loser show. we're asking, will the west wing help fatten up the show's ratings? we begin this morning at a small christian college in oakland, california. new cell phone video captures the chaos as a gunman systematically murders seven students. the cell phone video captures the gun shots and the terror as the bloodshed unfolds. we'll talk to the man who videotaped this. first, chilling new details are coming out this morning. oakland police chief howard jordan tells cnn the gunman killed his seven victims execution style. he says the shooter first took receptionist hostage and lined students up against the wall and then began firing randomly at his victims. chief jordan says the gunman was upset with an administrator and was specifically hunting for her. the suspect is 43-year-old one goh, a former student. he was arrested an hour later at a grocery store several miles away. the killing spree appears to have been more calculated and ruthless than previously believed. thelma gutierrez has more on what oakland's police chief told cnn earlier this morning and that alleged gunman. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. when we first heard about this, the police chief said that this was a man who had a plan. when he came to the school, he was looking for specific administrator. they have not identified that administrator at this point but they say she was not present at the university at the time. so at that point he takes the receptionist hostage and then goes to look for her. he goes into a classroom, lines up several people against the wall and as you said, carol, began shooting them one by one execution style. then he leaves this area. goes out and the police chief says at that time he had time to actually reload and come back into the school and then began shooting at students at random. police say that they don't believe that he had any particular students in mind. he was shooting at any target that he could find. >> he just felt a certain urge to inflict pain on them. he gave us no exact reason why he did that. he just wanted to get back at the administration for dismissing him earlier in the year. he was looking for this one particular administrator that he wanted to seek revenge on. >> reporter: police say that one goh got in one of the victim's cars and fled this area. he went to a safeway store about five miles away where he was taken into custody without any kind of incident at all, carol and what was interesting is that we spoke earlier to a witness who saw him being arrested. she said she made eye to eye contact with him and he didn't seem to show any emotion. he was just sweaty and nothing to tip her off that this terrible tragedy had taken place. >> thelma gutierrez reporting live from oakland, california this morning. a half hour from now we'll talk to the man who shot this video on his cell phone. he witnessed the carnage unfold and will join us live at 9:35 eastern. also this morning, possible new clues in the killing of trayvon martin. we visually enhanced the surveillance video of the shooter, george zimmerman, as he arrived at the police station after he shot martin. these new images could support his claim that he was indeed injured and fired only to save his own life. here's cnn's deborah feyerick. >> i'm here with jason, one of our great editors here at cnn. we're going to show you a surveillance tape but in a very different way. this is the night of the shooting. let's take a look at this now. let's play it down. and you can see george zimmerman is sort of talking to police. the police officer right there looks at the back of his head to see if he can see anything. so take a look at this. this is something you actually do see what appears to be some sort of a bump. >> there's a few things i can do to enhance it. i'm going to put a contrast on it now. see if we can bring this out a little bit more. we'll throw another color correction tool on it. i'm going to oversaturate it too so you can see the reds. >> that's interesting. >> there it looks like something is popping out. >> yeah. you see his jacket getting redder and that area getting redder. and i'm going to lighten it up a little bit. raise the whites. there you go. >> an attorney for trayvon martin's family says even if the videotape does show an injury, doesn't matter. she says george zimmerman was the aggressor and did not have the right to use deadly force against an unarmed teenager. we're seeing for the first time the mug shot of jetblue pilot clayton osbon who had a mid air meltdown last week. he appeared composed at his court hearing yesterday where a federal judge ordered had imto him to remain in custody without bond. if convicted, he could face a maximum of 20 years in prison and $250,000 fine. a megamillions mystery woman in baltimore is now talking and insisting that she has one of the winning tickets for megamillions jackpot but mirlande wilson hasn't coughed up the actual ticket yet. lottery officials say no one has come forward. wilson is a haitian immigrant and mother of seven children and works at mcdonald's. she told wmar that a co-worker bought the ticket for her and called her while she was sleeping. >> he says your number is on tv. i said what number? i'm not sure. let me go back to sleep. i don't nope what's going on. that's what happened. >> bottom line is you have the ticket and it's yours? >> it's my ticket. it's my ticket. >> if she actually does have the winning ticket, there's a controversy over whether it was bought for her or part of a pool with her co-workers. brian todd will have much more on this story in the 10:00 hour of "newsroom." a different ivy league. the so-called princeton of pot raided by the feds. it's the state's first training school for growing weed. protesters in favor of legalizing the drug stood outside with signs demanding marijuana be reclassified as medicine. the d.e.a. confirms an ongoing investigation of the school but didn't give out specific details. look at this chaotic scene. a small plane crashes into a supermarket injuring several people including the pilot and a passenger. some seriously. the store employee said it felt like an explosion. listen to one eyewitness. >> i heard it like artillery. you know what it is. and then boom. wow, man. i'm surprised everybody didn't hear it, you know. >> that meat manager told a local tv station the pilot and passenger were on fire when they climbed out of the plane and he helped douse the flames. in lexington, kentucky, police were braced for violence regardless of whether the wildcats won college basketball's title game or not. turns out the university of kentucky dominated the game and local police, many of them in riot gear, struggled to control the rowdy fans. dozens of nuisance fires and one report of someone firing a gun in the direction of police and fire crews. >> it's scary. it's scary. you're out to celebrate and enjoy and have a good time and so excited and something like that happens. >> celebrations did not seem as volatile as saturday night when 20 cars were torched. kentucky won its game to secure a chance in last night's championship matchup with kansas. talk about brighter side of basketball. let's head to new orleans. the site of that title game where we find carlos diaz this morning. it was a wild night. >> reporter: it was a very wild night here in new orleans. we drove by bourbon street around 3:45 a.m. and the kentucky fans were still chanting we are the champions on bourbon street. they've been waiting 14 years for this national championship. the school now has eight national championships making it the second most winning school in basketball history. second to only ucla. now you talk about those fires in lexington, kentucky. there were 30 fires in lexington, kentucky, last night, which is down from the 50 fires they had in lexington, kentucky, on saturday night after kentucky beat their in-state rival louisville. i guess that's an improvement. there was something on twitter, which is very interesting. it was a hash tag that said lexington police scatter. that hash tag was popular on twitter because it allowed people to hear and basically quote some of the quotes that they heard on police scanners in lexington. i want to read two that are funny if you will. no, let them light their fireworks just as long as they're not lighting them at each other. and then one other thing heard on the police scanner last night in lexington. we have a partially nude male with a propane tank. basically what happens these days when a team wins a national title, carol. >> unbelievable. at least no one was seriously hurt. the game itself was exciting though, right? >> reporter: basically kentucky came into the tournament as the number one seed and they did not disappoint. they basically beat every team by double digits heading into the final four and beat louisville by eight and last night beat kansas by eight. they were unchallenged. it wasn't a situation where you had the game getting any closer than six points until late in the game. it was kentucky all of the way and anthony davis and several other of the fab freshman they have in kentucky are looking at a career in the nba. john calipari gets his first national championship ever. he's kind of an embattled coach. he brought umass and memphis to the final four in recent years but those wins have been erased because of ncaa violations. he felt vindicated he could have his first national championship and john calipari interestingly enough did not want to cut down the nets in atlanta when his wildcats won in the sweet 16 because he wanted to wait until they won a national championship so last night he was up on the ladder scissors in hand cutting down the nets here in new orleans. >> carlos diaz reporting live from new orleans this morning. have you noticed mornings are extra starry this week? oprah set her alarm early to be on cbs. katie couric is filling in on abc and today she went up against sarah palin again. palin is guest hosting on nbc. >> governor, this is the start of the hour that you are now guest hosting. there's some experience here. you were a sportscaster back in anchorage. >> back in the stone age, yes. yes. >> so is it like falling off a bike do you think? anything make you nervous about this role? >> not nervous just very excited to get to be here with all of you new yorkers and all of you tourists who are here enjoying this nice warm weather. >> the tv and entertainment blogger for atlantic constitution joins us now. i don't know how much of the "today" show you got to catch this morning. >> caught some of it. >> it was just strange. at the beginning matt lauer was talking to sarah palin like a guest. >> yes. >> she got in obama was a socialist and all that and matt lauer didn't really challenge her very much because he had to co-host with her later. it just seemed kind of awkward. >> it was -- look, she's not professional when it comes to this. she's a fox news correspondent. she's used to talking about whatever they ask her. she's not meant to be a lead. they gave her the 8:00 hour and gave her more freedom. she talked with torre spelling and they gave her a light topic to discuss. >> just watching her talk to tory spelling was interesting. they were making a raspberry tart. what do you make of this? would the "today" show give her a permanent place on the "today" show? >> i think she's paid with fox news. fox let her go on for a day. it's publicity. "today" show obviously was just doing this to tweak abc because abc was tweaking them by putting their former employee katie couric on. >> do we have another clip of sarah palin? no. man. really wanted you to see the spelling exchange with palin. >> and oprah is filling in on cbs. who do you think came out the winner? >> think about it. this is more of a marathon than a sprint. they are both trying to get publicity because "good morning america" is closing in on the "today" show. they've been number one for 16 consecutive years but "good morning america" is nipping at its heels and they have gotten close so they thought publicity with katie would get them -- it's an ego thing. they both make a lot of money for both networks. mornings are really important for both networks especially nbc which has major problems in prime time. "today" show is their most valuable property. they are going to do anything they can. >> we'll see what happens tomorrow when ratings come out. thank you for joining us this morning. still to come, clowns, coins and controversy. an obama administration blunder and resignation after a posh trip to vegas for 300 government workers turns into a pr nightmare. and yes it does involve clowns. the tiara for a transgender contestant in the miss universe contest. the beauty pageant saying she can compete. lotto and lightning. a kansas man buys a megamillion ticket and he was suddenly knocked to the ground. >> but i wasn't burned. i had a little bit of an irregular heartbeat. >> amazing story of being struck by lightning. as "cnn newsroom" continues. we're back in two minutes. well, online dating services can get kind of expensive. so to save money, i've found a new way to get my profile out there. check me out. everybody says i've got a friendly disposition and they love my spinach dip. five foot ten... still doing a little exploring. but... my sign is sagittarius, i'm into spanish cheese, my hairline is receding but i'm getting a weave. getting a weave. there's an easier way to save. who wants some ronald tonight!? who wants some ronald tonight!? geico. fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more. vandals in cross by, texas, flattened the tires on nearly an entire fleet of school buses. many kids waited for buses that never came. working parents got automated calls asking them to drive their children to class. don't tell bill of wichita, kansas, he's more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the lottery because he already knows. not long after buying tickets for the big megamillions drawing he was hit by lightning while standing in his backyard talking on a two-way radio. >> it was flash, boom instantly. my whole body is jerking. the strangest thing. >> he didn't win the lottery but still feels lucky. in sturgeon bay, wisconsin, a woman makes a rough landing after her 81-year-old husband slumps over the controls of the plane. her husband sadly died. she suffered minor injuries. now is your chance to talk back on one of the big issues of the day. the general services administration, the gsa. i won't bother to make a vegas joke because they are so overdone and so inadequate to describe what's in a scathing report about the gsa, the government agency whose mission it is to save taxpayer dollars. it's so bad the gsa administrator, martha johnson, has already resigned and the founding fathers might toss their wigs in disgust if they knew. here's the scoop. johnson and 300 gsa federal employees at a posh vegas hotel in 2010 for a training conference that included team building. the team building involved a clown, a mind reader, and a comedian and more. when all was said and done, the training conference added up to 835,000 taxpayer dollars. that's a little over 2,700 bucks per employee. president obama is outraged by the excessive spending and called for all those responsible to be held fully accountable so what exactly does that mean? most of the gsa senior leadership either resigned or was fired but what about that $835,000 in tax money? is it just gone? gsa will try to recover what it can while johnson and others look for other jobs. how should gsa employees be held fully accountable? facebook.com/carolcnn. i'll read your comments later this hour. a terrifying moment caught on camera. a big rig plunges down the side of a cliff. the driver still inside. more on this amazing story after a break. plus, this beauty queen might have been born a man was built to walk the runway. her story is next. ♪ i've discovered gold. 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[ female announcer ] roc® retinol correxion deep wrinkle night cream. the largest class size in the nation. 47th out of 50 in per-student funding. but right now, we can make history with a ballot measure to send every k-through-12 dollar straight to our schools. to every school and every child. not to sacramento. it's the only initiative that can say all that. check out our online calculator and find out how your school would benefit. visit ourchildrenourfuture2012.com today. a man grabbed his cell phone to film what he thought was a car crash but ended up being a tragic school shooting. he saw people with bullet wounds running out of the university in oakland, california. police say a 43-year-old man killed seven people execution style. one goh was allegedly upset with the university for dismissing him. he's now in police custody. the person who shot this video, art richards, is with us now in oakland, california. good morning, art. >> good morning. how are you doing? >> i'm good. thank you so much for joining us. so you were driving by and you thought some kind of car crash had happened? >> yeah. i was on my way to pick up my friend across the street and i assumed there was a car crash getting out to spectate. i thought it was a car crash and there was a young lady coming out from some bushes behind a tree sort of. she said i had been shot. i was kind of mind-boggled. what do you mean? she said i've been shot. she showed me her arm. had a good chunk of arm missing. she said a man went in there and started shooting randomly pointblank range. she said one individual at the chest and head. >> so at this point the shootings are continuing. have you hearing gunfire as you are talking to that woman? >> not at that second. about a couple minutes later there was an asian man on the other side of the grass pillars and police thought he might have been a suspect and they threw him to the ground. put cuffs on him. brought him to i.d. the man with the young lady that had been shot. she said it wasn't him. about right after that, about close to i would say seven, eight nine shots rang out. everybody got down. everybody got down. police took cover. we took cover. another five, ten minutes after that i just seen the first body come out. it was limp. they threw a blanket over him. from there on out within that whole hour they were just pulling out bodies after bodies. >> i guess you couldn't move at that point. there's gunfire around you. you had to take cover. you had to stay there. you must have been thinking to yourself, i might die. >> well, yeah. i mean i didn't know how serious it was. coming to think it was a car crash because there wasn't that many cops. there was no news reporters around or vans or trucks. and the lady comes out with a piece of her arm missing. and then gun shots ring out shortly after that. something serious is happening at this moment. >> so you're pretty thankful this morning. >> yeah. pretty thankful, you know. there was one other individual standing with me, a man. his video phone died and mine kept rolling. i captured all of the video and audio on my cell phone. and as soon as we heard shots, like i said, we got down. went behind a tree. bushes area. and i guess police took action. fired back. i'm no

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