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>> let me be very clear. i will not name the shooter. i will not give him the credit he probably sought prior to this horrific and cowardly act, media will get the name conformed in time, but you will never hear me mention his name. >> just before 11:00 a.m. local time police dispatcher received the first 911 calls from the school, the gunman opening fire in one of the classrooms near the science area. with us this morning, howard dean, writer for the national review, charles c.w. cook and managing editor of bloomberg politics mark halperin.

You and clint were just talking about this, people weighing in with their political views. how many times does this need to happen before we act? >> as we said, this is by nature a commuter campus. there's no dorms at a community college. this is average student age is just south of 38 years of age. 58% female, you see there, 42% male. and a rural area. the community which is most closely tied to as a population just north of 20,000. but it serves i guess a total of just over 100,000 people in the region. >> interesting we just got a note that it is legal to carry a concealed weapon on campus ...

Everyone. >> did you know anyone at this community college? >> yes. yeah. there are a lot of people that work at our station, their kid goes to this community college. as you have said, it's a very small, rural town. this college is where everyone goes. everyone is affected by this. >> yeah. we were saying the average age of the student is is just under 38 years old. it has a lot of adult students. and thousands of part-time students serving in an area of 100,000 people. >> yeah. the first -- it was the first week of classes as well. classes started on monday. >> we are -- we've been told by t...

That by all accounts the gunman here has been put down, neutralized is no longer a threat. we've been talking to various people from this region. a huge blow, a huge shock for this part of central oregon. we're talking about an area -- you keep seeing the map. we're trying to repeat in part because of the scarcity of any other video or still photos. we continue to scour social media looking for new imagery. campus is built right alongside a river and it's been a campus since 1961. >> learning more about the hospital. the mercy medical center just mentioned on air is the primary hospital in tow...

Hours and days we'll learn more about the background of another troubled person. >> well, right now, brian, we're hearing reports of parents trying to get on campus, trying to find their children. as you indicate, the average student is an adult in his or her 30s, yet there are younger people, as we all know, too, who this is their first college experience, 17 or 18. as you indicate, this is the first week of school even that they're there. so there are parents trying to get on campus, they're trying to find their children. in an emergency like this, everybody in a small area tries to get on t...