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Just one term of art to explain, if you re new to it. there s a lot of talk of the gunman engaging with police. just means cross fire, a gun battle. he shot at them, they shot at him, and they killed him. 20-year-old male. that is the one new piece of information. the death toll, death toll of 13, since confirmed by our justice correspondent pete williams, that death toll of first came to light in an interview we did on live television with the attorney general of oregon. we had been previously reporting seven to ten. as was the reporting of our kgw, nbc station, but it attorney general of the state of oregon who said, according to her sources, 13. pete william, though, just telling me in my ear, he s reporting death toll, good news, ....
A witness says that this was professor larry levine s class weep cannot confirm this. this is coming from a local newspaper reporter in the town saying it may have been in one professor s classroom. what we ve been reporting all along, it was a science building where we believed that this was all centered on the campus of umpqua community college. so far, we believe this was all contained to that one building. and now from this tweet, perhaps it s just one classroom which, in a way, would be better than the alternative, if it was at least contained to one room. we re joined by justin dillingham, a spokesperson for life flight. as we dipped in to kgw s coverage, we heard a number of patients were being transported by helicopter via life flight. justin, is there was there a landing zone on campus? i believe all of our aircraft and staged at the airport. ....
Emergency services. as soon as we were called we came up and set up all the phones in the emergency operations center. and we have about eight people here taking calls continuously. what kind of calls are coming in right now? news agencies, al jazeera, univision, turkish radio, kgw, you re on now. so mostly handling news media calls. are you handling calls from people in roseburg wondering about loved once or what s happening? yes. and we re sending any parents or loved ones to the douglas county fairgrounds. what s your impression of how douglas county has responded to this? i think it was an outstanding response. ambulances from all the surrounding communities responded immediately. you ve been listening to the coverage of kgw headquartered in portland, oregon. you can just hear in the ....
Gentleman s voice what a shock this is. to piece this together a bit, it looks like the first call to 911 was at 10:38 a.m. local time in oregon that shots had been fired on the campus of the umpqua community college. you ve been looking at the aerial map, east of i-5. it s located was built next to a bend in the river. opened in 1961. served thousands of students. most of them older adults. most of them part time and not full time. larry howell, one of them, has been on the phone with us and has been kind enough to wait for us. larry, you just heard that gentleman from kgw. i m quite sure you can hear him locally if you chose to. anything that he said that should be added to, any description of this building where it apparently happened? well, the way the campus ....
23-bed emergency department. so that s good news that there is capacity in the town to take some of these folks. but as we ve been reporting, we also know that people have been transported, at least three have been airlifted to eugene, to sacred hart general. also learned on kgw, sounded like they said six transports happening by year. we re starting to get reaction from the political world, from people who just want to reach out and send their prayers. already we ve seen tweets from jep bush, john boehner. ellen rosenblum has joined us by phone. she s the oregon attorney general. what can you add to our reporting? what do you know? i have not been able to hear your full report. i wanted you to know that we are just heartbroken here in oregon, that an act of this magnitude has occurred in our state we re ....