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The central portion of the state. but as you can imagine an entire state is coming to grips with what has happened here. kate snow? >> on the i-5 corridor. i actually know it pretty well. my sister lives in portland. north of medford, three quarters of the way down the state. it's a rural area. i was out this last summer. it is not a hugely populated area. as we said on the air, 20,000 people live in that area. just to recap, the oregon office of emergency management telling nbc news now that initial reports indicate that seven to ten people were shot and killed by at least one gunman is the w...

There then? >> no, no. that's just one of the programs. >> we heard this may have occurred in the science building there. have you heard that? >> no, i haven't. all i know is that they had cleared snyder building. >> snyder building. >> yes. >> do you know what kind of classes happen in that building? >> i think that's a science area. >> gerald, i mean, from your perspective, do you make your home there in roseburg? >> i do. >> describe what the community is like and what news of this kind of shooting does to a community your size? >> well, it's absolutely devastating. my granddaughter attends...

By helicopter and one unidentified en route to the hospital. they say simply, quote, we're expecting more. >> elected officials thoughts and prayers are with the community. all of the officials from washington state and oregon, the entire pacific northwest reacting to this because of the area this will affect. here's our map that zooms into the community college. adjacent to the river there. as we said, it was one of early community colleges in the region. first classes were offered in 1961. it's been around a long time. it's expanded over the years. about 18 different buildings on campus. thi...

>> just before 11:00 a.m. local time, police dispatchers receiving the first 911 calls from the school. the gunman reportedly opening fire near one of the classrooms in the science area. here's how one student described the scene. >> -- my bag, my phone, my wallet, my car keys, everything, we just dropped everything and we ran. and when we ran out of the building, everybody went every which way. it was so chaotic and we, i think we were the first class to know that something was up. because everybody else was still in their classes. as we were running by we were telling people you have to get ...