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Participating in the candlelight vigil walked up there. there still may be 10 or 20 or so at that memorial. it s a terrible, terrible event here. so fresh is the memory of that event and the fact they have to go through this grieving process again is very difficult. in addition to that final exams had been scheduled for today. they have been rescheduled for tomorrow now. and the funeral service for officer krause is now set also on the campus of virginia tech for monday. trace, back to you. trace: doug mckelway live for us in blacksburg, virginia. thank you. a frightening scene in hollywood today, a man shooting randomly at passing cars and pedestrian. one of the most recognizable intersections in america. we must warn you some people may find the video you are about to see disturbing. [gunfire] you can see the suspect open fire on a passing truck and casually turn around and walk away. ....
reporter: police are still struggling to find what exactly the motive was in this case. but a tremendous sense of relief here, that the death toll was not nearly as great as it was four years ago. mark kelly, in blacksburg, virginia, sunny, rob, back to you. mark, can you tell us about the vigil held last night by the students on campus. reporter: sure. we had what turned out to be an impromptu vigil. actually we had 150 people in attendance for that. but the official vigil is going to be friday evening. mark, what more are you learning about the officer who was killed in the incident? reporter: well, you know, we found out that he actually comes from a very big family, leaving behind a wife, five children and stepchildren as well. of course his mother and brother too. sunny, rob. ....
Spotted with this gun, outside the dining hall and people on campus were asked to stay inside and secure your doors and police now are going through the area near dittrich hall to figure out what is up. 9:59, 12 minutes later, one of our affiliates, wflf in blacksburg confirmed, the alarm system had been activated. and joe matthews, former supervisor, homicide division in miami, florida, good morning to you. good morning. bill: frankly, we do not know what is happening on the campus as we get the news here we ll try and reach out to people who may be eye witnesses and also, could be working with the campus police. but, it is true virginia tech set the stage for the alert systems now widespread across universities in america. how does that system work when a threat like that happens. ....
It got better organized to hit the mouth of the mississippi. no wind with this really but a lot of rain. we ve seen flash flood warnings throughout new orleans throughout the morning. d.c. hit 97 yesterday. there s some of that heat that helped the storms fire up. 91 in blacksburg, virginia. out west, record lows across nevada and california. it s been horribly cool. some of the cool air will sing to the south and east as we go through time and numbers like this with that deep magenta in kansas city will go away as we go towards the weekend and next week. dangerously hot temperatures. that part of the world has been usually warm for the summer. when do you officially enter the dog days of summer? it s august. ....