Afternoon on the king estate campus. Thats on fun. Tame street. Very close to 5. 80, in oakland. There are several schools on that campus. A redtailed continuation, a newcomer high school. Also bay tech charter school. And there is the headquarters of sojourner truth, independent study. It does not have students on campus there. Kron fours Justin Campbell has been at the scene since this afternoon. He joins us live in oakland tonight with more on the investigation. Justin. And pam and catherine, still a very active investigation here. Theyve opened up the street. But if you look over my shoulder, you can see that their Police Outside of the campus, there is tape up and well let you get a better look in the some video of a closer look inside. I counted 33 evidence markers. This is exactly where the shooting took place. We know 6 people were injured in the gunfire. A bay area are putting out a statement tonight telling us that their Security Guard was injured in the gunfire. Thankfully, not fatal injuries to him. Theyre also saying that they will take the next few days. School will resume on monday to figure out exactly what they will do to upgrade security measures here at this school. We also heard earlier from the assistant chief for Oakland Police department on they may be looking for as a suspect behind this. Take a listen. Were currently and actively looking for at least one shooter, although there may be other individuals involved. We have our ceasefire teams as well as our Violent Crime operations teams actively in this moment following up on leads, looking to bring to justice those responsible for this heinous act. Some of the students that were here at the time of left their belongings that are inside. They have not been able to go retrieve them. But tonight i have seen a few people that have been coming up theyve allowed them to maybe round their belongings. Theyve been able to get their car. That was on the side of the road because it was blocked off for so long. Now they are still tonight searching for the who is responsible for this. It has been blocked earlier. There was a helicopter. It has been blocked off in this neighborhood for hours as they are processing the scene. Can for pam. Has been something that its been a lot of chaos. It people are just thankful to be back at home tonight with their loved ones. All right. Thank you very much, justin. 3 of the 6 victims of that shooting were taken to Highland Hospital kron fours terisa has the latest on their conditions. This is a difficult day. Im speaking with you today 3 gunshot victims. They were shot near a local school. Are here and being treated at the Highland Hospital woman, 10 2 of the gunshot victims are critical but stable and the 3rd is in stable condition. This is a level one trauma center. And again, this is where 3 of the victims, the most critical were brought today in the afternoon. They were rushed into emergency. The ceo didnt elaborate as far as the gender or the age of the 3 victims being treated here at the facility. We asked more specifically about any other information that they would be releasing, but they said right now that they will have some more information. First thing in the morning. One other note that the ceo had to say he mentioned how all of this is personal. Im a son of open. I grew up in oakland. This is not the open that i grew up in. Im calling on community leaders. And im prepared to lead and myself. Weve got to do differently. Weve got to do something better. I spoke with some people out here, identify themselves as friends and family of at least one of the victims. I asked if they wanted to share any information and they just ask for some privacy. Again, the spokesperson for the says that no new information will be released on wednesday, but they will have a condition update released sometime thursday morning oakland theresa kron, 4 news. And the 3 other people shot were taken to Seton Medical Center in castro valley. One of them has been released and sent home. The other 2 are said to be in stable condition. Their injuries reportedly not serious. We will have more on the victims coming up in about 30 minutes. All of this, of course, a horrifying experience for the parents, the staff and students of Oakland Unified School district. We talked to one mother today who had rushed to pick up her son. I was at home and they just sent a letter to my oath and that there was an active shooter here. And then School Started to call and let me know that there block down because of the shooting. So i just from commissioner to get the authentic and we cannot let very with very, to to break out all the way here. And especially when i up here early, it was scared that the great unsolved locked up. How you can get your kid. You know, right . It was extremely scary. Oakland, unified School Leaders are talking about todays shooting at the School Board Meeting this evening. Youre looking at video from that meeting. We will have more on the districts response coming up tonight on kron. 4 news at 9 oclock. Bay area politicians and professional sports teams have been expressing sadness and offering condolences after todays violence or as justine waltman is live in our newsroom right now with a look at the reaction to what happened today. Just reaction pouring in from all across the state today. Well start with a tweet from the office of governor gavin newsom. Heres what they put out today. Todays shooting at an Oakland School was a horrifying act of violence that has grown too familiar yet again, our kids were in the crossfire. This cannot continue. Gun violence has taken too much from our communities. Representative barbara lee, her district covers oakland. She tweeted this. Im heartbroken to hear of the shooting that took place at sojourner truth. Independent study in oakland this afternoon holding those injured and the community in my thoughts and prayers. Gunfire luntz is a Public Health emergency. We must treated as one and ban assault weapons require stricter background checks and much more to tweets there. The oakland as put out this statement here today. A senseless act of violence occurred in our backyard. Were saddened by the news of a School Shooting in east oakland. Our thoughts are with all who were injured and all of the families impacted by this tragedy. May we come together as a community to support and uplift one another. Oakland mayor libby schaff also tweeted out a statement right after the shooting saying, quote, it shocks the soul. Our schools are sanctuaries for our children. Thats the latest here live in the newsroom. Im justine waldman. Kron, 4 news. Thank you. Just saying we will, of course, continue to follow this shooting both on air and online. You can scan the qr code thats on your screen using your smartphone will be taken to the page on our website. Kron 4 dot com where we will be posting updates as the information comes in. In the south by a Security Guard at a San Jose High School was arrested and accused of Crimes Involving a 15 yearold girl. San jose police say 39 yearold was sober also of sunnyvale sexually assaulted the victim more than once he works as a Security Guard at kipp navigate college prep. The victims mother called police after discovering messages from bras are on her daughters cell phone. He was arrested in cupertino and booked into jail. In the east bay, a suspect is in custody following an hours long standoff with police in Pleasant Hill for shells. Clifford has details. Well, following an overnight standoff with police, weve learned that a suspect has been taken into custody in this case. His name is Joseph Allen Ramos of concord. Now, this all started about 06 00pm on tuesday evening when the Contra Costa CountySheriffs Office was apparently pursuing a man wanted for rape and Domestic Violence down contra costa boulevard. The suspect crashed a stolen vehicle near the north end of the sun valley mall and then ran on foot into the nearby Nordstrom Rack. Now the store and the safeway next door were both evacuated. Everyone was taken outside. Witnesses describe a chaotic scene. There were just more cars coming like surrounding the building. Theyre going up to the building with light. Their big guns or blocks is a dog shield. Was like. Leaving 4 police spent the overnight hours searching the building and trying to communicate with the suspect initially believed he may be trying to hide in the rafters. Now by midmorning, they said they couldnt find him. They started to back off. And then just before noon on wednesday, there was a surge of activity. Police activity to the rear of the nordstroms Pleasant Hill. Police now say the suspect had been hiding inside the store all night. He tried to leave through a back door when he was tackled by Nordstrom Rack employees and taken into custody by the Pleasant Hill police department. But for now in Contra Costa County, Charles Clifford kron, 4 news. Coming up at 8, we continue our Team Coverage on todays shooting at an open school that injured 6 people of the citys 7. They are all candidates are vowing to keep the community safe. And weve got a lot of rain, all whole lot of rain, hurricane coming on shore. Well talk about that coming up next. Its been a very busy news day. Weve been talking about the shooting in oakland, but of course, the other big story tonight is Hurricane Ian. You are looking live picture now from florida at this. A hurricane hit the florida coast today. It started in as a category 4 storm. It has since been downgraded to a category one. Just ask lawrence who said it is still a pounding florida. Earlier it was flooding streets and builditgs. It was knocking out power to. Roughly 2 Million People threatening catastrophic damage further inland. Lawrence, you say theyre still taking a pounding. Yeah, this will be the case here for the about 36 hours is long way to go. In this hurricane, its a very large storm about 300 miles across the aisle was was coming on shore about 35 miles across. And thats where we saw a lot of the significant damage. I think tomorrow. As were able to get some planes up, were going to notice some changes coming our way as weve got the storm system moving on some sound effects. Yeah, we got the alarms going. Let you know how severe that was. But yeah, you can see that storm working its way into Central Florida there. Now, this just really been ripping love the heavy rain. You can see associate with the northern part of the hurricane kind. Interesting. Usually the first part of the storm system comes on shore. The right front quadrant always the most dangerous. Now were seeing kind of a shift now since moved on shore. But it has weakened now. And thats the good news. We see it moving away from that source of water and pushing on shore. The gusty kind of his thing as it was approaching the coastline. You start to see the winds picking up. We have some gusts over 100 miles an hour near the coastline. Then all of a sudden love. These wind sensor just went out. They just died out there. A lot of power, of course, out in florida. Now for many folks in a lot of damage, of course, being done still watching for the potential for some flash flooding there as you makb your way in the long that eyewall, especially to the north here, you can see this area shaded in here, very heavy rainfall. Some reports overnight out 20 inches of rain already and counting and the areas shaded in yellow there. Theyre looking out for some tornadoes. A long way to go. This storm system really continue to roll around producing tremendous amounts of rain. Cant even imagine what that would be like. That kind of storm. But now its been downgraded to a category one sustained winds of 90 miles an hour moving north northeast at 8 miles an hour. So moving very slowly. And thats whats so dangerous about. The storm is still got potential to drop tremendous amounts of rain. Theres going to be flash flooding all florida and for about a storm surge not only on the west coast, but on the east coast, for maybe an 8 foot storm surge along the coastline. There and then its going to move out in the open waters again approaching and making its way possibly making landfall again in south carolina. So all along that path, we can expect more damage along the way. As we continue our coverage on in those strong winds bringing big damage to People Living all over florida. And help is on the way from the red some of those volunteers flocked to florida today from the bay area. Kron 4 Ella Sogomonian is live in the newsroom with more on what theyre doing. L a well, we actually started mobilizing these disaster earlier in the week before landfall, but 500 are already on the ground supporting evacuation coastal Sheriffs Office reported that it was already getting a significant number of calls for people trapped in flooded homes. Some video showed debris covered water sloshing toward those homes and the hurricane made landfall as we heard wednesday afternoon near cayo costa. Thats a protective Barrier Island just west of heavily populated fort myers, though, expected to weaken to a Tropical Storm as it marches inland. Ians Hurricane Force winds are likely to be felt well into Central Florida. So 14 red cross volunteers who are already there flew in from the bay area. We have 16 more on standby. Ready to go. Theyre just waiting for it to be safe for them to fly out and help. And those responders go out and provide shelter, support, disaster health, mental pope heating distribution of supplies, damage really everything that folks might need to get back on their feet after disasters like this. She explains that the first phase of the red cross help is focused on shelter. They prepaid spots across the United States in advance of a disaster to have them ready to go when need be in cases like this one. They havent really assess any damage or injuries at this time. And the red cross will be monitoring that. So theyre always in need of more help. You can donate or volunteer on their website in the newsroom. Ella sogomonian kron. 4 thank you for that. We will have more on Hurricane Ian later in this newscast. Other news now. A california better prepared for wildfires. Wed all like to see that. That may sound like a simple goal, but it is actually a very challenging one report, a club that tiffany and has more on californias new Wildfire Task force. Were here at mcclellan park, a place where air tankers like the one youre seeing behind me come to reload on retardant. Now the rich pardon is used to slow the progress on fires. But were hearing about a task force that aims to have a more proactive approach when it comes to dealing with these fires. So that they can hopefully have a step in the right direction and not need to bring out air tankers like this and stop that fire before it even breaks out. Californias state wildfire and Forest Resilience Task force held a meeting yesterday where state, local and federal stakeholders her different ideas on how to keep fires at bay, including thing for us performing prescribed fires and boosting community protection. Officials say its a 2 pronged approach wanting to preserve mother nature, but still reduce fire risk. But Officials Say examining recovery and response efforts also play a huge part looking at reforestation, you know, planting new trees. Had we build this back up, but also economic resilience, things like Outdoor Recreation and mountain biking. How can those things help . Towns like greenville recover and come back from fires. The task force it prevent future fires. But the hope is to create a plan, lessen the risk and better handle the blowback that can come from fires. They mentioned a huge emphasis is going to be on Forest Management. With that being said, we witnessed firsthand just how devastating the mosquito fire was ripping through communities and those communities still dealing with the aftermath reporting from mcclellan park. Lot stuff on. Farm workers have been celebrating after Governor Newsom signed legislation aimed at expanding their union rights this summer. Farm workers from across the state marched hundreds of miles to the capital. You might remember they were asking the governor to sign that bill into law and today of the governor stood alongside some of those same farmers. He did sign the bill. It creates new ways for the workers to vote and a union election, including giving them the option to get mailin ballots to prevent another incident like the january 6 insurrection. Lawmakers are updating the electoral count act. It was a rare show of bipartisanship yesterday. The Senate Rules Committee greenlighted changes to the 135 yearold law. It passed with a 14 to one vote. Only republican senator ted cruz of texas objecting that bill would raise the threshold for members of congress to object to electoral votes. And it clarifies that the Vice President s role is purely ceremonial and prevent state lawmakers submitting socalled fake e