Transcripts For WPVI ABC World News With David Muir 20151001

WPVI ABC World News With David Muir October 1, 2015

Why you should keep some of your old credit cards around the house. Good evening. And we begin tonight with a deadly campus shooting. This evening, authorities confirming multiple deaths after a mass shooting, a Quiet Community College South of portland, oregon. The gunman opening fire in multiple classrooms, several dead. At least 20 injured. As you heard, the president speaking moments ago, saying another community stunned with grief. That campus on lockdown, s. W. A. T. Teams on the scene at this hour. The emotional reunions, a closeknit community now reeling. The aerial pictures coming in at this hour. Bombsniffing dogs there in the parking lot. The fbi now on the scene. And word coming in, the gunman, a 20yearold male, was killed after exchanging gun fire with authorities. Abcs Neal Karlinsky in oregon tonight, leading us off. Reporter 10 30 a. M. , the frantic calls started coming in. An active shooter on the rural oregon campus. Copy, active shooter, ucc, 1140. Reporter within minutes, students inside were tweeting their terror. Oh, my god, theres someone shooting on campus, tweeted one. Students are running everywhere. Holy god. My teacher came running in and only told us to get inside the Teachers Office and get down as fast as we could and drop everything. 1147, medical aide. This is for an active shooter at ucc. Reporter emergency vehicles flooded the scene. Radio traffic indicates the shooter was still firing. This is going to be the synder hall. Somebody is outside one of the doors, shooting through the door. Reporter amber adams is a student at the school. Shots were being fired. We heard shots and immediately took cover. Went down and heard just multiple shots going off. A lot of screaming. Reporter lori riser in, another student, describes chaos. A woman went by me, saying there was an active shooter on campus. Reporter authorities tonight saying the 20yearold male shooter engaged in a shootout with police before being shot dead. Code 4. Suspect is down. Number one priority right now is to make sure that the scene is secure and the victims are treated and making sure that we have a complete crime scene and that we continue to make sure that there are no additional threats. Reporter students could be seen being led out of the school, their backs being checked by police. Canine units sweeping the campus. Investigators establishing crime scenes. The college of about 3,000 students is in a rural area, about 180 miles south of portland. And it took some time for emergency officials to make sense of the scope of the carnage. At least seven dead and 20 injured, according to an interview with state police by abc affiliate katu. The injured arrive on stretchers. A nearby hospital tweets, we have received nine patients from the ucc tragedy, and three more en route. Please continue to pray. The work that First Responders have done is harrowing. Reporter on the campus, students hugging, scenes of incredible grief. In the coming days, well learn about the victims. Young men and women who were studying and learning and working hard. Their eyes set on the future, their dreams on what they could make of their lives. And america will wrap everyone who is grieving with our prayers and our love. The president there moments ago. Neal karlinsky will stay on the scene throughout the night. As you heard from the president , this is the 16th time hes come before the cameras after a mass shooting. And abcs Pierre Thomas live in our Washington Bureau tonight. Pierre, we know theres a large group of federal agents heading to the scene at this hour . Reporter massive presence. The fbi, atf, local Law Enforcement is getting all the support they need from the federal government. Were told 20yearold male, they are looking at his background, trying to get information about him. Authorities say it is critical to gather as much information as they can tonight, because they need to know more about motive. That is key in the case so far, david. All right, pierre, stay with us here. Our continuing coverage now. There have been at least ten fatal shootings this year alone. Tonight, a new set of families grieving. The president saying, our thoughts and prayers are no longer enough. Heres abcs david wright. Attention, this is a drill. We need to lock down. Reporter in schools across the country, they hold drills for campus shootings. Please go behind my desk. Reporter the modern version of duck and cover. We recently saw one in colorado. The teacher locks the door. The students huddle. Do you know why they do this drill . Yeah, its how we practice safety or something. Reporter they do it because there have been at least ten fatal shootings on u. S. Campuses this year. And many more close calls. Harrisburg, south dakota, just yesterday, a High School Principal shot and injured. Cleveland, mississippi, two weeks ago, a history professor murdered in his office. Lacey, washington, in april, High School Students badly shaken. After Staff Members apprehended a gunman. Teacher Holly Carpenter is a graduate of columbine high school. Thats why she takes this issue so personally. Its not about the flashbacks of columbine or any of that for me. Its about the thought of anyone wanting to hurt the kids. Reporter the threat is real. The question is how to stop it . David wright, abc news, new york. David, thank you. And we will be staying on this throughout the night. Much more on nightline and tomorrow morning on good morning america. In the meantime, we move on now to the other breaking headline at this hour, the state of emergency tonight in four states. 50 million now under flood watches. There have a double threat at this hour. A massive rainstorm hitting right now, and then, of course, there is also hurricane joaquin, as seen from space. At this hour, a category 4 hurricane. Expected to strengthen. The east coast in its sights. Lets get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee who has been tracking this for 24 hours now. Ginger, the track changing. Where is the cone now . Reporter significantly. Were going to get right to that cone. But first, lets talk about the strongest hurricane weve seen in the atlantic this year. It is sitting over the central bahamas, david. And it is not moving much. The next 24 hours, it sits and sp spins. The hurricane watches and warnings for all Bahamas Islands through the start of the weekend. Here is the thing. We put the timer on it and you can see how late it stays around the bahamas. Friday, 8 00 p. M. Thats why up to 20 minute inc rain. And as this moves to the north, the longer it stays in the bahamas, the better for us. The worst for them. Watch the timing. Saturday, it is still well out into the open ocean. This track has shifted farther east. That cone of uncertainty is away from the east coast. Doesnt include south carolina, North Carolina anymore. The left side, less worrisome. The right side is always more dangerous and quickly those computer models, well be watching them. Should come in more agreement, hoping this trend continues east. Just a reminder that it is all over the place. It is looking more encouraging tonight. Ginger, thank you. The hurricane already hitting the bahamas, and here are the images coming in tonight. The wicked winds, sheets of rain. Palm trees bending in the winds. Our team there on the scene. Also, the families up and down the coast preparing their homes because for so many, the damage from Superstorm Sandy still, of course, so fresh in their minds. Encouraging track from ginger. Abcs gio benitez with the pictures of the damage already and the hurricane those families are still getting ready for. Reporter tonight, the extremely dangerous category 4 storm batters the bahamas. Hurricane joaquin ravaging these Atlantic Islands for an estimated 24 hours. Abcs linzie janis on the ground in nassau. Joaquin is wreaking havoc. Right now, the eye of the storm battering the islands to the south and east of here, with wind gusts up to 130 miles per hour. People here are worried sick about their loved ones. Reporter as the storm unleashes its fury there, here in the u. S. , the east coast is battening down the hatches. Four states of emergency tonight. In North Carolina, virginia, maryland and new jersey. All fearing the storm could strike anywhere. Now is the time for you to begin to prepare for hunkering down and dealing with the storm. Reporter nearly every coastal state reeling from the last 24 hours of severe weather, even before joaquin comes near. At least one dead in south carolina. And rainfall records broken in massachusetts and maine. Here in new jersey, residents are thinking about those devastating images seen after sandy hit in 2012. Im very nervous. Reporter homeowner judy lamastr as home, shredded by sandy. She just finished repairs weeks ago. This took such an emotional toll on you. Very much so. Everybody in town. Were still trying to come back from it. Reporter shes taking the lessons she learned from Superstorm Sandy, turning off her gas to prevent fires, and trying to stop that water before it gets inside. If you think maybe youre going to get flooding, sandbags around the doors and any openings would be helpful. Reporter david, tonight here, it seems everywhere you turn, you see these stilts under construction. And all of those homes destroyed by sandy being rebuilt. So many people here hope that storm goes east, david. Were hoping, too. Gio, thank you. As i mentioned, joaquin is not the only concern tonight. The other major storm already hitting, authorities describing this storm as potentially lifethreatening, perhaps historic. More than a foot of rain in some places. These are the pictures from charleston, south carolina. A restaurant under water. All the way up north to massachusetts. Flooded roads outside boston. This is different from the hurricane. Meteorologist rob marciano is in Virginia Beach for us tonight. Rob . Reporter david, over the past ten days, Virginia Beach and the surrounding areas had a lot of this. Relentless wind, pounding surf and rain. They cant take anymore rain. Theyre going to get more of it with this next system, independent of joaquin. Take a look. We start the maps tonight. Roll them right through saturday and saturdays going to be the day, really, when the heavy stuff comes in. It will tap some of that tropical moisture. Flood watches posted for a good chunk of the midatlantic. Coastal flood watches all the way up to long island. Could see a foot of rain on top of the foot they saw last week, david. That will cause potentially historic and lifethreatening flooding. David . Rob tracking this rainstorm for us tonight. Rob, thank you and the entire weather team tonight. We move onto another developing story. This one involving the u. S. And raugsy and the russian air strikes over syria. A new round tonight. The new images coming in. The second straight day now. Tonight, the u. S. And russia now holding talks on syria. Russia initially claiming they were targeting isis. But tonight, major questions about russias true toshgts. Abcs Martha Raddatz again tonight. Reporter overnight, russian we war planes, one after another, launched from a syrian air base, dropping bombs largely on targets where isis is not even operating. Russias foreign minister today strongly rejecting the charges that the air strikes are aimed at opposition forces. Some backed by the u. S. , who are fighting against syrias brutal dictator, and russias ally, bashar al assad. Very distorted and perverted perception. Reporter the Russian Military did finally confer today via a secure Video Conference with u. S. Counterparts at the pentagon, to begin to coordinate movements of its war planes in order to avoid any collisions with u. S. And coalition aircraft. The pentagon presented an initial proposal to enhance safety, prevent miscalculations and avoid actions or activities that could escalate tensions. All right, so, lets bring in martha tonight. Martha joins us now. Some of the reasons the u. S. So concerned, martha, that these aircraft are not using precision weapons . Reporter they are not, david. They are using socalled dumb bombs that are missing the targets. That can, of course, cause greater civilian casualties. All of it meaning this civil war that we thought couldnt get any worse, now has. David . Martha raddatz with us again tonight. Martha, thank you. And martha, as you are aware. We have another developing story. A u. S. Defense official tonight confirming that an american c130 military airplane crashed near an airport. No word on casualties or whether enemy fire is to blame. Well stay on this story, as well. We move on tonight, the race for 2016. Word that russianbased hackers tried to infiltrate Hillary Clintons private server at least five times. Critics say a sign of just how insecure that you server was. Tonight, the clinton campaign, though, saying there is no evidence she opened any of those infected emails. Meantime, on the republican front, donald trump on a new tear over two of his rivals tonight. Jeb bush and marco rubio. Language we cant use here. Hes taking aim at the friendship between the two men and abcs tom llamas on the campaign trail tonight. Reporter its a stunning reversal. Donald trump now saying he would deport all Syrian Refugees fleeing their wartorn country and seeking shelter here in the u. S. Im putting the people on notice that are coming here from syria as part of this mass migration. That if i win, if i win, theyre going back. Reporter but just last month, trump said america must accept the refugees. I hate the concept of it, but on a humanitarian basis with whats happening, you have to. Reporter trumps new hard line position drawing instant fire from jeb bush. Send them all back . To a hellhole . Thats not the america i know. Reporter trumps declaration part of a rousing speech in new hampshire. He attacked bush and senator mario rubio. Bush has been a political mentor to rubio. So they ask rubio what do you think of bush . Oh, hes my dear friend. Wonderful, just wonderful. They hate each other. But its political [ bleep ]. Do you understand . Its true. Reporter bush says thats ridiculous and trump needs to grow up. Im pretty sure marco can put his big boy pants on. I know i can. Donald seems to have a harder time taking criticism and he probably needs to put on his big boy pants, too. Reporter tom llamas, abc news, new york. Tom, thank you again tonight. There is still much more ahead on world news tonight this thursday. The big change today involving your credit cards. The new security chip. What you need to know right now about using your card. 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