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hurricane joaquin batters the bahamas. east coast communities are ready, but the real risk they face today may be the flooding. ♪ and good morning to you, this is al jazeera america live from new york city, i'm jonathan betz. a small community in oregon is searching for answers this morning to a campus shooting at a college there. a loan gunman opened fire at umpqua community college on thursday. the gunman was killed in exchange of gunfire with police. allen schauffler is live this morning. allen what is the feeling there this morning? >> reporter: well, jonathan this is a small town, about 22,000 people here, so as you might expect, it's the kind of place

where if you didn't know somebody who was on campus yesterday, you probably knew someone who new someone or had a relative who was on campus. and all of these folks are waking up to a horrible day after. morning classes were interrupted by gunfire. the first 911 call came in shortly after 10:30 a.m. >> somebody is outside one of the doors. shooting through the door. >> reporter: reports of a shooter. >> i could tell, once i heard the sound and saw the people running. i knew exactly what happened. my parents have always told me, stay alert, be alert, once that noise happened i looked around to see what was going on, and that's probably what saved my life. >> students were running everywhere. police say officers made it to the scene within 4 minutes. but the worst has already taken

place. the gunman had opened fire inside the building, and was then killed in a shootout with police. >> i have been hearing from a lot of people that the gunman was asking what is your religion before he was killing people. >> 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. ♪ >> reporter: at a candlelight vigil last night, this shattered community came together struggling to make sense of what happened. many say they are at a loss over what to tell their children. >> it's heart breaking. it shouldn't have happened, and to explain to a child who thinks the world is good and beautiful, that sometimes horrible things happen, can -- it is shaking -- it can shake your whole world, by it's important for them to know it. to know they can still play a

part of supporting each other. and this can make us stronger. >> reporter: we may learn the identity of those who were killed yesterday sometime today, but we may not. authorities still working to identify some of those nine people who were shot by this gunman. something to remember, too, i have spoken with a 17 year old, an 18 year old, 19 year old, young college students who were on that campus, this is a community college, and some of those victims could be much older than what we think of as college students. also now, many witnesses reporting what we hear as a rumor yesterday that that gunman was asking people to identify their religion, and apparently targeting christians during that rampage. >> jonathan what more do we know about the investigation? >> reporter: you know, they are

not releasing a lot of details right now about exactly what the investigation is finding. we spoke to sheriff john hamlin just a short time ago, earlier this morning, and here is what he was willing to say about that investigation. >> last night i can tell you that officers continued work, doing follow-up investigations and interviews both at the scene and in the neighborhood around the scene as well as around the neighborhood of the shooters residence and at the residence. as a result of that investigation. they -- they have recovered a number of firearms which later today will be prepared to explain specifically how many and what type of firearms, and addition additionally, the state medical examiner's office worked all night long, and is continuing to work on identifying the victims. >> reporter: are we -- is the examiner going to wait until all

families have been notified before any of those identifications are made. >> absolutely, yes. >> reporter: was this gentlemen known to police locally? any brushes with them in the past? >> again, that's information that will be determined as this investigation continues. >> reporter: i have heard you elsewhere say there just weren't any red flags that you were aware of. >> i'm not aware of any. but that's just me speaking. the investigation could reveal there were numerous contacts. i don't know. it's a too early to tell. >> reporter: sheriff hamlin not willing to speak at length about the shooter himself. we know he was 26 years old. he moved here several years ago from california. we don't believe he was a student at the school. he was clearly armed with several weapons and plenty of ammunition at the time. and again, many witnesses reporting that he was asking people about their religion. >> okay.

allen schauffler live for us this morning in rosburg, oregon, thank you. since the sandy hook school shooting there have been 34 school shootings in the united states. last night it clearly frustrated president obama. who said that people have become numb to the shootings. he pleaded for americans to demand changes in gun-control laws. >> somebody where will comment and say, obama politicized this issue. well this is something we should politicize. it is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic. i would ask news organization, because i won't put these facts forward, have news organization, tally up the number of americans who have been killed through terrorist attacks over the last decade, and the number of

americans who have been killed by gun violence. and post those side by side on your news reports. this won't be information coming from me. it will be coming from you. >> so we are doing that. since the beginning of 2013 alone, more than 33,000 americans have died from gun violence. in the last 14 years by contrast, more than 3,000 people have been killed by what the government defines as terrorists, and that includes the people who died on 9/11. the nra has yet to comment on the situation. we will continue to follow this story throughout the day and have the latest for you right here on al jazeera america. stocks are tumbling this morning as investors react to the latest job numbers report.

patricia sabga has been looking over the numbers. how bad were the numbers? >> it was disappointing across the board. it shows that weakness overseas are washing up on u.s. shores. it added far below what economists were expecting, and the jobs figures for august and july were revised downward, and that pulled the average number below the 200,000 mark. last year the economy was adding on average 260,000 a month, so clearly that u.s. jobs engine is slowing down. the unemployment rate held steady at 5.1%, while more people left the work force last month, a big pocket of weakness is manufacturing, which lost 9,000 jobs. stock that up in part to a strong u.s. dollar.

mining also continued to lose jobs as low oil prices making u.s. shale oil production ineffective. poor jobs creation, slowing exports, plunging commodity prices, they all lead back to china. china's economy has slowed down far more than most expected, and china was a big driver of the growth, but as china is slowing, so is the world, and this report shows the u.s. is not immune. >> so how is the fed going to respond? >> they held off on raising interest rates, but after that critical meeting last month, the majority of policy makers were expecting interest rates to go

up at some time this year, but now we could see a rate hike pushed out to next year. officials say time is running out for negotiators trying to reach an agreement in the trans-pacific trade agreement. if the agreement does not close today, it's future may be in doubt. hurricane joaquin is pounding the bahamas today. it unleached heavy rain and a strong storm surge with waters battering ocean-front homes. here in the u.s. emergencies have been declared in five states ahead of the storm, but the latest track could have it going out to sea.

nicole mitchell has more on that. >> yes, hurricane joaquin, still this potent storm and still slowly moving through the bahamas. that has been good news for the united states, but definitely causing major problems for this island nation, so we have a number of hurricane and tropical storm warnings up for this region, but as i said, some good news for the united states. this there is a developing low and steering from that is now looking more and more like it will bring it out to sea. these are some of the different computer model runs of where the storm could go. only a couple of outliers still bring it to the united states, most are bringing it more away from the u.s. coastline. so the official track is going to bring it out to sea, again, something we'll have to monster, and we could still have impacts like high waves and some of the moisture making it to u.s. land.

the low-pressure system is into the southeast, so the next couple of days is going to be very wet here. flooding rain, i'm more concerned about the flooding from this than joaquin, but in places like north and south carolina we could get five to six inches of rain widespread, but some places could get over a foot of rain, and the ground is already saturated so that could continue to cause problems. and things in the northern tier of the country have been kept pretty cool, a lot of 50s and 60s as we get towards the coastline, back to you. we are learning more this morning about the pope's controversial meeting with kentucky clerk kim davis. the vatican is now down playing that meeting with the woman who was jailed for refusing to issue

marriage licenses to gay couples. the church says she was part of several dozen people invited to meet the pope last week. her lawyer initially claimed the meeting was private. the vatican says that is not the case. the vatican said, quote: and american and russian air strikes hit across syria, the world waits to hear what the assad government's response will be. syria takes the podium today at the u.n. general assembly. and the u.s. pauses two of its anti-isil programs, the reasons, and why it matters ahead.

russia's president is meeting with european leaders to talk about syria today. vladimir putin met with french president hollande and german chancellor, angela merkel, both russia and france launched air strikes in syria this week. russia says it hit isil camps overnight, but washington is sceptical. neave barker is at that meeting in paris. >> reporter: this is the first contact that the russian president vladimir putin has had with western leaders since ordering air strikes in syria. tensions between russia and west

have really grown significantly, particularly after russia accepted that it will be willing to hit targets other than isil in syria, and that raises concerns that u.s.-backed syrian rebels will also be targeted by the russians too. bilateral talks are going on here, between president putin, angela merkel, along with the french president also. the message from western leaders will be that russia's bombardment there in syria is indiscriminate, and that the input of russia into that conflict could end up prolonging the war in syria even further. the response from russia, though, will clearly be that only by supporting bashar al-assad's attempts to quell the opposition including isis will there be any real hope of lasting peace in syria.

and as the russias have said they intent to say on continuing with air strikes in syria for at least another three to four months. we should soon be hearing the syrian government's perspective. the country's deputy prime minister is scheduled to speak before the u.n. general assembly this morning. john terrett is here with more on this. john what can we expect him to say today. >> good morning, we're three or four speakers away from hearing what he has to say. we believe it is be the deputy prime minister and foreign minister for syria. bashar al-assad can't come to turtle bay in new york, so he is being -- spoken for by the foreign minister and he has done this job for a couple of years now. familiar themes we're expecting, probably going to say that terrorism is a global issue which has not been dealt with well by the international

community, probably something about how syria looks after its minorities. also the u.s. air strikes are likely to come up and how they are illegal, and there, there's a pretty moot point, because the americans and coalition have not gone to the security council. unlike the russians, who have been invited in by bashar al-assad. probably going to hear that bashar al-assad is the good guy, and the rest of the world, aside from the russians has it all wrong. and there may be a call as there was last year for some kind of security council resolution on terrorism. jonathan. >> syria has been the topic all week, john. give us an idea what some of the other major players have been

saying? >> reporter: syria has totally dominated the general assembly. we saw major portions of all of the key speeches devoted to that issue from president obama, to president putin, to president ah dhani of iran. and i think the take away is for the last 18 months there has been no serious talking about what to do about the syrian situation. two things changed that, one was russians moving their planes and troops, and protecting bashar al-assad and his regime, and the other was the refugee crisis what was in part prompted by

syria. >> thank you john. we'll bring you continuing coverage of the u.n. general assembly including the syrian address throughout the day today. the pentagon says for now two more u.s.-trained rebels are being sent into syria. the half billion dollars program has been criticized amid reports that the rebels have been handed their weapons to the al-qaeda backed al-nusra front. a spokesman said isil used land mines in its capture of ramadi, and that was something that iraqi forces were not trained to handle. something the u.s. says it is now doing. patients receiving drugs they don't even need. the use of prescribing antipsychotic drugs inside

nursing homes.

the head of volkswagen will testify before congress next week. he will likely face a grilling over the company's violations of federal emission standards. vw has admitted using software to cheat on emissions tests in the u.s. this includes about a half a million diesel cars in america.

15 million t-mobile users are being warned this morning that their personal data may have been breached. a tacker broke into a server last month, the company handles credit checks for the phone provider. now to an "america tonight" into drugs in nursing homes. many patients receive powerful antipsychotic medications to see date them, but those drugs can be deadlier than first thought. sheila macvicar looks at the government's response. >> we had child proofed our doors just to make sure she wouldn't get out. >> reporter: when mary sanchez developed dementia, she began to wonder, and she worried she wouldn't be safe unless she was in a nursing home. she found a secure facility

specializing in dementia care. with a five-star rating. she says her mother did not get the best there, far from it. one thing sanchez did get the antipsychotic. >> it felt you were talking to somebody in a vegetative state. >> it is approved for adults with schizophrenia. the fda has warned antipsychotics can because sudden death and other serious complications in people with dementia. a government accountability office study this year found a third, 33% of nursing home residents with dementia, received antipsychotics. medicare in 2012 launched a

program to help nursing homes address symptoms like agitation without antipsychotics, and this year, medicare included antipsychotic use in its five-star ratings for nursing homes. but half a year later, we found plenty of nursing homes where it's business as usual. "america tonight" has identified more than a dozen nursing home across this country, each with a perfect five-star rating from medicare, that continues to prescribe his drugs at high levels in each of thedz facilities at least two out of five long-term residents are still being prescribed these drugs. this is one of them. mary sanchez moved to a new nursing home, and even though she could not longer speak.

gera are says she caught glimpses of her mother back. >> her eyes would light up, and i really felt i had that opportunity to have that quiet relationship with her before she passed. >> reporter: only possible she says because her mother was free from antipsychotics. >> you can watch "america tonight" tonight at 10:00 eastern tonight. a new satellite is up in space this morning on board a rocket that launched from cape canaveral, florida earlier this morning. it will help provide enhanced cell phone service. thanks for watching, the news continues next live interest doha, and a live look

at the united nations. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. hello there, welcome to the news hour. i'm shiulie ghosh live from our headquarters in doha. coming up in the next 60 opinions. turkey calls on russia to end air strikes in syria, accusing moscow of escalating the conflict. >> this is small town america. it's not supposed to happen here, but it happens. >> mourning the victims of the latest mass shooting in the u.s. forced into wedlock,