Is almost 100 miles from portland. News crews are arriving near the Community College now. Students and faculty were brought out of the buildings and checked for weapons then to the Douglas County fairgrounds. Its a Long Distance so u. S. Customs is providing a helicopter from blaine, washington to get them there faster. No word yet about the shooter, who that person is or if that person has been captured or killed but a sheriffs spokesman said a short while ago there is no more threat. Parents as you can imagine frantically reaching out to their children. My son is well versed. Hes only 17 but he said you know, mom, there was no sound. He said 30 some shots and no sound . How does that happen unless theres a suppresser or somebody knows what theyre doing. The president , president obama has been briefed on this shooting. Obviously no word yet on what may have been the motive behind the shooting. Too early for that. Again, at least seven people dead, 20 injured at a Community College in roseburg, oregon. Well bring them to you from the news room. David. As jim just said, as we learn any new details on the shooting well bring them to you as soon as possible. We want to turn now to the weather. Hurricane joaquin as we get ready for what could be a weather onetwo punch. Tonight and tomorrow were looking at rain and possible flooding. Then Hurricane Joaquin may, and i say may bring a second dose of wild weather. From the city to long island to the jersey shore, folks across our area are preparing right now for the worst. Meanwhile were getting our first look at the damage the hurricane is causing in the bahamas. We had several reports this afternoon on this frontal around the area. Well begin with meteorologist lee goldberg. He has the very latest on the storms tracks. You can see the wind whipping, nothing to do with joaquin. These are the onshore winds were talking about with a system thats more noreaster like. Its not rainy in new york city just yet. Some have the umbrella if you head out. Light rain. With the wind blowing probably seems heavier than if actually is. Pretty gusty wind but gusting over 20, 25 at the coast. Light rain has been breaking out. Steadier in monmouth, nassau going in to connecticut and more light rain over northwest new jersey. This will be with us in the evening hours. Later tonight a little steadier toward the coastline. You can see all this rain down the coast. Thats going to back in on our area in the afternoon. Heavier in to the evening hours. You can even trace a little skinny band of moisture thats connected to joaquin and clearly is a huge eye right there and if you saw that damage we showed in the video was this island right here. Thats called long island in the bahamas, port nelson and crooked island, nestled in there. Still moving southwest toward the bahamas, not toward the u. S. Mainland. Thats key. Thats probably why youre starting to hear about big forecast adjustments near the storm track. It is a powerful 130mileperhour winds. Weve talked about this huge window of movement here and yesterday it looked like the more likely coast, midatlantic or carolinas. Not today. Now its more likely than an offshore root is definitely in play here. Right now the Hurricane Center is still closer to us but i think that may be adjusted during the 5 00 advisory and thats what heavy rain returns for friday afternoon but have your umbrella now and until then for lighter rains. Moderate to mild coastal flooding. Amy freeze is going to join me in a few minutes and well talk about all the coastal flooding implications. Hurricane joaquin may stay out in the atlantic. Thats at least what were leaning right now. Well show you all the forecast probabilities but better safe than sorry at this point. Still cant call off that its coming to the east coast. People living along the jersey shore are bracing for the worst especially in the areas that were hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy. Governor christie today declared a state of emergency mainly because of the potential for flooding tomorrow. Everyone has an eye on joaquin. In long branch crews were building sand dunes for homes close to the shore. Darla miles with one of the many beach cities getting ready for the storm. This massive sand bern that you see behind me, they started working on morning. They spent six hours working on it yesterday. The only thing left to do here in terms of preparations is wait for the forecast. There are two concerns for new jersey coming out of the next four days of weather. The immediate threat is for severe blooding on friday and saturday. The second is tracking the path of Hurricane Joaquin. Its official. The state of new jersey is under a state of emergency. Whether joaquin hits or not. About whether this is going to be a single punch or double punch. Theres no question theres going to be a single punch thats going to start this evening and there are going to be winds up to 75 to 85 Miles Per Hour in the southern part of the state. In addition to the rain which we expect to be 5 to 6 inches. Reporter for the first punch, a milelong berm has been built along the beach. Anything that could potentially be blown around like benches and trash receptacles removed from the boardwalk. I think its great and that theyre on top of it early this year and being prepared for it is fantastic. Reporter in monmouth county, crews have opened up the flume to the lake to get ahead of any potential flooding there. Flooding are monitored inside by the Ocean TownshipEmergency Management office. We have to monitor all this because our town floods quite a bit in heavy rainstorms and we want to make sure that we go ahead of that flooding. Reporter for those who live on the jersey shore, the preparations have now become the norm. So has a wait and see outlook during hurricane season. We just love it here. Storm and all. But were praying that the storm doesnt come. Governor christie says he has canceled an event scheduled in New Hampshire tomorrow and he and Lieutenant Governor will be here throughout the weekend to monitor Hurricane Joaquins track. Darla miles, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Preparations on long island are also in full swing. Emergency Management Office in bethpage preparing boxes of supplies including generators. Since Superstorm SandyEmergency Management says its been stocking up and preparing. From long island we want to turn to new york city. Mayor de blasio says the city will be ready for whatever joaquin brings. Kemberly richardson in the station along manhattan with that part of our coverage. The subway system, airports, evacuation zones right now city officials are in planning mode. Take a look right here. These are mta crews boarding up subway crates, putting plywood over this because there may be flooding. All of this because Governor Cuomo says three years ago we were not prepared. Nobody says lightning cant strike twice. It has done and will do in the future. Reporter dermott is hoping that second strike does not come this weekend. He coowns the paris cafe right across from the east river. Everyone here is in a holding pattern. They felt the wrath of that superstorm that barrelled through here three years ago this month shut down this cafe for 51 weeks. Sandy destroyed us. The storm surge here was Something Like 12 feet. It blew off the front doors. Reporter mayor de blasio says new york city right now is on a state of high alert. Deputy commissioner Frank Mccarton and his team here at the office of Emergency Management are monitoring the weather, getting in front of things. The only way the public helps us is they plan for right now what they should be doing if we ask for evacuations. Remember after sandy parts of our area were rezoned. You may now live in zone 1 and not know it. Other postsuperstorm changes, putting up berms in flood walls in parts of lower manhattan, where the subway system was also heavily damaged. Right now the mta says as a precaution its repositioning equipment, putting generators and pumping systems out. If needed, its ready to act. We have a complete movable seal closure at south ferry that will essentially seal off the entire staircase to prevent water from coming in to the station. Reporter back by the east river theyre preparing for the worst yet hoping for the best. Again, these are those mta crews. Theyre working putting grates in case there is flooding. Governor cuomo now prefers to err on the side of caution, doing things before the storm, because once it comes through here, its too late. Kemberly richardson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. In connecticut crews there in bridgeport are clearing out cache basins and preparing equipment for clearing of downed trees and other debris. For now residents are just urged to be alert and prepared. Right now is a great opportunity to start preparing, make sure you have a plan, make sure youre reviewing your emergency kits. Making sure that youre staying informed. But most importantly that youre notifying family members and friends of what that plan would be. Residents who live along the coastline are asked to pay close attention to any announcements in case any evacuations are ordered. And we invite you to stay with Eyewitness News as we continue to track joaquin. All of our meteorologists will bring you the very latest on the storms progress and remember, you can track the storms in our area with the acutrack weather alert app. Search abc 7ny in the app store. A new program to document review every physical encounter Police Officers have with the public. Commissioner bratton promises a rigorous review of every officers use of force to help restore trust in the police. Sanctity of human life has to be something we consistently seek to respect, that we consistently seek in our training, our review processes, even in our recruiting. The new rules come in the wake of Police Chokehold death of eric garner last year and the mistaken takedown arrest of former tennis star james blake. Funeral Services Held today for the new Jersey High SchoolFootball Player who died after getting hit during a game. Friends and family gathered for a private service in Washington Township for 17yearold evan murray. Outside the church as the hearst carrying murrays body drove off. The regional Hills High School senior died last week from a ruptured spleen. A russian official speak ing out defending the countrys air strikes in syria. The foreign minister denied claims by the u. S. That russia is targeting enemies of bashar alassad. He said attacks are faced on isis and other extremists. Today marks the second day of Russian Aerial strikes. Activists are posting video from the ground that they claim are those attacks. Also at the u. N. Today Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the General Assembly taking aim at the Iranian Nuclear deal. Netanyahu told delegates they would not be thrilled with the deal if iran was threatening to destroy their countries. This deal doesnt make peace more likely by fueling irans aggressions with billions of makes war more likely. Israel will do whatever it must do to defend our state and to defend our people. Netanyahus comments come one day after the palestinians raised their flag at the United Nations for the very first time. A very busy thursday. We have lots more ahead including new information on the changes that could be ahead for times square. What the task force is now recommending as the city struggles to deal with the topless women in cartoon costume characters. We continue to follow the breaking news out of oregon. A College Campus shooting that has left at least seven people dead. Information as soon as were here in the streets of new york, spreading the news about the real possibilities aarp is creating across the five boroughs. Because if you dont think real possibilities in new york city when you think aarp, then you dont know aarp. Were working with you to make new york city a better place to live, work, and play. Fighting for you by taking on the issues that matter and rediscovering the city with you at discounted events all around town. Time to take a look at the roads on this thursday afternoon, 4 16. This is route 287 in middlesex county, new jersey. Look at the traffic on the left. Thats southbound lanes. You can see its moving slow. At the hudson river crossings, 20 minutes outbound at the holland, 10 minutes inbound at the lincoln and no delays at the George Washington bridge. At least 20 cars were burned and damaged in an Early Morning fire in an auto lot in new jersey. The fire broke out around 6 00 at Skyline Auto Exchange on route 36 in fairfield. Firefighters battled the flames and were able to keep the fire from tearing through other cars on the site. Thankfully no one was hurt. We got lee goldberg back talking more about the weather. Just seems the focus of so much of our attention. With, the noreaster tomorrow or the possible hurricane we might see this week . I like that youre distinguishing between the two. This is a onetwo punch but one might miss. Our first focus is rain coming in, getting heavier tomorrow and the wind and the coastal flooding and impact of that. Tidal flooding is enough to cause concerns especially in the jersey shore. Outside we go this afternoon where we have a lot of clouds and more and more rain trying to over spread the area right now. Youre going to need the umbrella and coat tonight. Light for the most part but a couple moderate pockets we might see. You can already see the wind. Thats going to help make the rain look a little heavier. Temperatures at 64. Easterly wind at 8 to 16. High today only 63 degrees. Warmest september on record. One day be low average and we start off october with 6 or 7 degrees below average. Go figure. Focusing on coastal sections a lot in this forecast. Only in the upper 50s off to the north and west. The 24hour temperature change, 19 degrees colder in wrightstown than it was at this time yesterday. The winds are gusting out of the north. These are sustained 8 to 16. Then you have gusts close to 26 at laguardia. Check your carrier if youre traveling. Airlines can handle these winds. Were going to have light to occasionally moderate rain that will go from tonight to midday tomorrow. Then the rain and intensity should start to ramp up for the afternoon. First along the coast then later in the day along the evening hours. Its in question whether it gets north and west of i287. See how the rain has become more widespread. Mostly light blues, lighter rain. Heavy rain over pennsylvania. A little bit of that is going to swing in. Our shortterm futurecast suggesting that, as we go through the later evening, steadier rain along the coast and rain inland may lessen a little bit. Theres our storm for tomorrow. Basically this long trail of rain that went through yesterday that backs in on the area. So we have a big concern here because even if joaquin just stays in the bahamas, the difference between that storm and the big high over canada has these winds coming in on shore. So coastal flooding is a big concern no matter what joaquin does and that starts becoming a concern as we go through the day tomorrow. Minor coastal flooding. Amy freeze is here with more on that. Looks like the biggest squeeze that youre talking about there is going to be through south jersey, really Atlantic City getting the most of it. The water comes through but weve got to take a look at what the potential is during high tide cycles. It will be that persistent onshore flow along with the high waves, the flooding along the coastal locations, along the ocean front. High tide tonight is a concern. Thats going to be happening around 11 00 at a lot of locations. The exact time you want to check, but more concern is really 11 30 time period tomorrow morning. Thats when the winds can be the strongest. Its also when the tides are at the highest. Rockway, seaside heights, these are places where you want to be on alert. Check your high tides along the jersey shore. Those could coincide with the strongest winds. Waves 6 to 10 feet breaking against coastline. High tides just the beginning of this. We could get gusts along the south jersey shore. Notice the reds extending down to Atlantic City. The reds starting to show up. That indicates the gusts could not only be 30 to 40mileperhour range but we get isolated 50mileperhour wind gusts thats really going to kick up the waves. This will be a good test for other locations, even places like newark that have their brand new drainage projects going and jfk with their new tide gates. All of those will be interesting to watch because they will have the rain then that strong wind all at the same time. That will take us right through the weekend. Now we turn to joaquin, a clearly defined eye right there. Big storm that has rain going to cuba and back to the dominican republic. A powerful category 3 storm. Heres the track that will be updated in about 40 minutes or so. Instead of taking a turn toward the u. S. Tonight it waits until tomorrow. Thats key. If it hangs out in the bahamas long enough, it misses an opportunity to be captured and pulled in to the midatlantic. Right now that storm track is taking it east of us but were still here and hopefully that will we shifted east. At that point it will be Tropical Storm status as it comes north. Still concerned about winds, maybe some bands of rainfall and coastal flooding. You can see