vigil on campus last night. the gunmen is 26-year-old chris harper mercer. his apart. sealed off as police try to figure out a motive to the massacre. william lajeunesse is live with more from roseburg. >> the students came here for a better life not to lose it. yesterday around 10:40 in the morning chris harper mercer walked into a creative writing class and began shooting. he had three hand guns and one rifle. he killed nine other students and injured seven. one student was in a classroom nearby. here's what she had to say. >> the look on their faces was horrifying. i don't know. it is hard to explain. when she looked at us.

she said we have to get out now. one said we have to get out now. we began running. >> the campus has around 13,000 students. 3,000 full-time. one security guard who does not carry a gun but he carries mace. the 911 calls came n-deputies responded. two officers unlike columbine immediately confronted the gunman and shot mercer dead. the campus was on lock down. they let the students board a bus where they were reunited with family. >> you will never hear mere mention his name. we would encourage media and the community to avoid using it. we encourage you to not repeat it. we encourage you not to glorify and create sensationalism for

him. he in no way deserves this. >> now mercer grew up with his mother in southern california. he was quiet and road around on a red bike with flcamouflage pants. he liked to target shoot. we still don't know why. did he not like a professor? was he trying to even a score with a bully? we don't know. he told the victims to lie down on the ground and state their religion before firing. one victim tried to stop the shooter before -- so he would not get into an adjacent classroom. >> tried to block the door to keep the gunman from coming in. he was shot three times. hits the floor, looks up at the gunman and says it's my son's birthday today. gets shot two more times. >> he is going to have to learn

to walk again but he walked away with his life. that's more than some of the other people did. >> this is being handled as a mass shooting incident. they will be doing the identification on the victims. after the families are notified we will have the names of the victims. >> were the victims targeted for their faith? the accused gunmen sijing them out if they were christians in that massacre. th aligned them up and asked them if they had quote god. >> during the rampage at umpqua community college chilling posts and text messages came. he got a text from a girl named courtney moore who witnessed a teacher get shot in the head. the shooter went person to

person asking them to state their religion. one woman tweeted on behalf of her grandmother who was inside one of the classrooms. the shooter was lying people up and asking if they were christians if they said yes they were shot in the head if they said no or didn't answer they were shot in the legs. >> this person goes on to say she was in the room and anyway she escaped being shot at all. i don't know how it gets worse unless you hear this kind of a motive. >> a fathmother who's son was s in the hand the gunman asked people, do you have god. then went on to say this won't hurt much. >> i think in this instance it gives you a window into at least a small portion of this suspect's anger was certainly for christians. it is an important part of the puzzle. i think that's what they are

searching for. >> while his motive has to do with christianity, he had disturbing posts admirin man who killed a reporter and obsessed with the sandy hook massacre. he listed organized religion as one of his dislikes. thank you patricia. president obama making an impassioned plea for tougher gun control laws in the wake of the oregon massacre. president the president calling the massacres routine and thoughts and prayers are no longer enough. >> somehow this has become routine. how can you with a straight face make the argument that more guns will make us safer. somebody somewhere will comment and say obama politicized this issue. this is something we should politicized. this is a political choice we make. we collectively are answerable

to those families who lose their loved ones because of our interaction. >> bill o'reilly calling out president obama telling him to stop politicizing the oregon shooting saying stricter gun control laws don't translate into less violence. >> since 2012 there have been 6,000 shootings, 6,000 shootings in the city of chicago. you, mr. president, have not made an issue of it at all. you don't even mention the carnage in chicago. this is another black mar for all americans, people around the world must wonder, ma is going on in the land of the free. it is our freedom that allows insane individuals to kill so many people. guns are illegal under the second amendment. it could not be stopped by any legislation. i have a right to protect myself because there are crazed animals like the guy in oregon.

there are people like that who come after innocent people for no reason, and you are going to deny me protection if i live out in a rural area like douglas county, oregon where the nearest cop is 40 miles away, i can't have a gun in the house to protect my family. come on. >> o'reilly suggests any one who commits a crime with a gun should get 10 years mandatory federal prison sentences. to extreme weather now hurricane joaquin battling the bahamas. now category 4 storm hammering the island and whipping winds up to 130 miles per hour. the storm could grow even stronger before possibly moving up the east coast.

residents are not taking any chances. they are already preparing for the bad weather. >> we have team coverage on the hurricane this morning. maria molina is in seaside heights, new jersey. good morning, maria. >> good morning heather and ainsley. we continue to track it. they are lashing the bahamas with category 4 hurricane sustained winds. winds at 130 miles an hour and it is a very slow mover. it has been stationary across the central bahamas and we have been dealing with life threatening conditions out there. that will continue through you tell oh the day. you are talking about a period about 24-hours bahamas have been looking at impacts from very, very powerful and dangerous hurricanes and the storm is to intensify today reaching winds of 140 miles per hour. that will be something to watch.

as we head into later today and saturday the storm will finally move away from the bahamas. the computer nmodels are agreeig on the forecast track of the storm. many keeping the storm away from the east coast of the u.s., so that is very well come news. we are looking at the confidence increasing in the storm. the result of the forecast models now shifting the cone away from the u.s. that said we will still be dealing with the impact. we have coastal flood advisories and warnings in effect across the coast in the mid atlantic and northeast and further off to the south. we are dealing with heavy rain in the forecast across the carolinas potentially historic flooding across south karp line gnaw. it this is a big story and we will keep a close watch on that. new jersey governor chris christie declaring a state of emergency as hurricane joaquin eyes the east coast.

residents not taking any chances three years after hurricane sandy devastated shore towns. co host is live for us with more. good morning, anna. good morning, heather. good morning to all of you at home. we are live in seaside heights. the first system maria is talking about already has the rain coming down the wind whipping around. the sea is angry. the atlantic is angry my friends. seaside heights as you remember during sandy the iconic landmark roller-coaster in the water, just drowning in the ocean. it is still not rebuilt yet except for a 2016 reopen date. the town is largely in rebuild mode. they are building their homes higher on stilts and sturdier. this time they are not taking any chances. i started tying the

chairs down and turn the table over and got everything out of the yard. >> came down with my parents to help them prepare for the storm, get the awnings down, get everything inside. >> and the super storm barreling through this part of the country. a big lesson for lawmakers and town leaders as well. new jersey governor chris christie is declaring a state of emergency and cancelling his presidential campaign events in new hampshire. here's the governor. >> i signed an executive order stating a state of emergency in new jersey. now is the time for you to begin to prepare for hunkering down and dealing with the storm. >> the heavy rain, 5-6 inches of rain is just going to exacerbate any coastal tidal flooding conditions. with the bay water the rain and street has nowhere to drain.

>> out and about in town they were bringing in sandbags. that will be at 7:00 a.m. this morning. locals are stocking up on water and nonperishable food, weather radios, batteries as always and emergency manage am is asking folks to have cash on the ready as well, as always and medicine, too. anna kooiman lye in new jersey. to another fox news alert, the kal taliban claiming responsibility their rocket brought down a military plane in afghanistan killing at least 11 people including six u.s. service members. the c 130 j was approaching the gell airport before crashing and killing those on board. there is no ed of any hostile fire as of now. 12 minutes after the top of the hour. a rough ride in the sky.

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>> 10 people including the shooter dead at a community college in oregon. >> hundreds attended a vigil as they try to make sense of the tragedy. will carr has more. >> good morning, ladies. authorities trying to figure out what led the gunman on to a college campus to unload on so many people in the community college in oregon. multiple members of law enforcement tell us 26-year-old chris harper mercer entered

umpqua community college with body armor and four guns and started following. mercer lined people up, asked if they were christians and if they said yes he shot them in the head if he said no he shot them somewhere else. >> i looked through the window there were women running the building. i heard screaming after the first gunshot. i looked out and saw the people running. i said to the teacher we need to get out of here right now. then we heard the second, the third gunshot. >> authorities say at least 10 people were killed. also they were not confirming if he took his own life or if he was gunned down by first responders on the scene. listen to the aunt of one of the victims. >> crying in shock. you hear about this and you watch tv and you see this. when it happens to your family

you are on the floor. it is unbelievable. >> they are being tight lipped about what they know about mercer right now. there are social media pictures of him holding a gun also in an on-line dating profile. he led organized religion as one of his dislikes. >> he was telling people in the northwest not to go to school the night before. we have other news happening today we want to tell you about. two illegal immigrants now facing life in prison for the killing of a border patrol agent that sparked a fast and furious controversy. ivan soto barrage and jesus maesa found guilty for killing brian terry. his murder put a spotlight on the botched federal gun tracking operation fast and furious which supplied guns to criminals to

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>> it is friday october 2nd. a fox news alert. three stories breaking at this hour. first the police identifying the gunman behind the school massacre that left 10 people dead and a possible motive for the murders. word that he was targeting christians in classroom. >> then the east coast is on high alert as hurricane joaquin is getting stronger. >> six americans dead after a plane crash. who is taking responsibility. "fox & friends first" continues right now. >> good morning to you and your

family. welcome to "fox and friend first. i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers. it is half past the hour. 10 people are dead including the gunman. 7 are injured after a mass shooting at a community college in roseburg. hundreds attending a candlelight vigil off campus late last night. >> the gunman is identified as chris harper mercer. his apartment has been sealed off as police try to figure out the motive for this massacre. >> william lajeunesse has more. >> this is the deadliest mass shooting in oregon history. we are several miles south of portland a two-year community college. the campus life was shattered yesterday when 26-year-old gunman chris harper mercer opened fire inside a classroom. here are the first 911 calls. >> somebody was outside one of

the doors. we have one female that has been shot at this time. he is in a classroom on the south side of center hall. >> unlike columbine where first responders waited and let swat alive several hours later, here they immediately confront the gunman and kill him. mercer is armed with three hand guns and a rifle. according to one witness he told students to lie down and stand up if they were christian. if they side they were he said something like now you are going to see god and he fired. >> once they got out of the building people ran in every direction. i ran to the hill. i am thankful i am here tonight. i am thankful the classmates

that made it out alive did. >> the campus was on lock down searching for weapons they might have. they were taken to buses and taken to fair grounds where they were reunited with family. he briefly spoke to reporters but refused to use his name. >> i have been talking to the police and the fbi but the only details i have right now is what you guys know already. i can't answer any questions right now. i don't want to answer any questions right now. obviously a devastating day. i know you guys are here to do your job all i ask is that you respect our privacy. >> shocked? >> shocked is all i can say. >> i am sorry that was mercer's father. reporters caught up with him. he was raised in los angeles.

according to neighbors he was a quiet kid he rode around on a bike he liked camouflage. he liked tar gt shooting. this is a mass shooting. we will find out more about the victims probably later today potentially tomorrow. of course the debate is already surfacing about more gun control laws. this is a blue state but they have lynn berle laws when it comes to guns. >> william lajeunesse thank you for being there at this hour. he singled out christians lining them up one by one and asking if they quote had god. patricia stark with the disturbing details. >> good morning heather and ainsley. >> chilling posts and text messages emerged.

a reporter got a text from a girl named courtney moore who witnessed her teacher get shot in the head. she also said the shooter went person to person asking them to state their religion. one woman tweeted on behalf of her grandmother inside of the classrooms. the shooter was lying people up and asking if they were christian. if they said yes they were shot in the head. if they said no or didn't answer they were shot in the legs. >> i think in this instance it gives you a window into at least a small portion of the suspect's anger was certainly for christians. it is an important part of the puzzle. i think that's what they are searching for. >> a mother whose son was shot in the hand also said the gunman asked do you have god? also went on to say this won't hurt much. on-line profiles reportedly link chris harper mercer revealed a

disturbing post which admired the shooter of the cameraman and reporter. he listed organized religion as one of his dislikes. heather and ainsley. >> patricia stark, thank you. they are calling for tougher gun control laws. the president condemning mass shootings for becoming routine and saying thoughts and prayers are no longer enough. >> somehow this has become routine. how can you with a straight face make the argument that more guns will make us safer. somebody somewhere will comment and say obama politicized this issue. this is something we should politicize. this is a political choice we make. we are collectively answerable to those families. we lose the -- who lose their loved ones.

>> bill o'reilly calling out president obama right after the news conference telling him to stop politicizing oregon shooting saying stricter gun control laws don't necessarily translate to less violence. >> since 2012 there have been 6,000 shootings in the city of chicago. you mr. president have not made an issue of it at all. in fact, you don't even mention the carnage in chicago. this is another black mar for all americans. people around the world must wonder what's going on in the land of the free. it is our freedom that allows insane individuals to kill so many people. guns are illegal under the second amendment. it could not have been permitted by any legislation. i have a right to protect myself because there are crazed animals like the guy in oregon. there are people like that who

come after innocent people for no reason. you are going to de ny me protection if i live out in a rural area like douglas county, oregon where the nearest cop is 40 miles away, i can't have a gun in my house to protect my family? come on. >> o'reilly suggests any one who commits a crime with a gun should get a mandatory 10 year federal prison sentence. >> a look at this video. this is insane. extreme weather we have been reporting on. hurricane joaquin is strengthening over the bahamas. the now the cat 4 storm hammering the island, storm surge, whipping winds up to 130 miles per hour. >> it could grow stronger before

moving up the east coast. residents preparing for the bad weather. >> we are going to start with maria molina in the weather center. we have anna kooiman live in seaside heights in new jersey. >> we are still tracking joaquin. it is an extremely dangerous hurricane. the bahamas have been lashed with 24-hours of hurricane winds. we are looking at potentially up to 25 inches of rainfall from the storm. strong winds and dangerous storm surge producing life threatening conditions. that should condition before the storm eventually pulls away from the bahamas later this afternoon and into tonight. eventually continues had you had improve. again extremely dangerous conditions across the bahamas right now. computer models organizing and keeping the storm east of the

u.s. more unreliable models are bringing the storm on shore. result of that the national hurricane center has nudged the forecast significantly eastward keeping the storm away from the eastern u.s. you are still dealing with impacts. beach erosions and warnings in effect and advisories. another big storm we are tracking is potentially historic event that could be occurring across the carolinas. potentially looking at a foot of rain over south carolina. >> thank you, maria. chris christie declaring a state of emergency already as hurricane joaquin roars toward the jersey shore. "fox & friends" weekend co host is in seaside heights. reds dents are preparing for the worst. we can barely see you out there.

>> good morning ainsley and all of you at home. crews are ready at seaside heights. the workers are, woulding hard. they are trying to make sure that there aren't pieces of debris, glass and nails and things like that. they are worried about storm surge, erosion and flooding. the first system already has the wind whipping around out here and the rain coming down. you see the waves here are crashing. the town of seaside heights largely in rebuild mode. the construction of the homes th they are trying to make them stronger. many of them are higher on stilts. they are concerned abowith the threat of hurricane joaquin and they are worried they are going to ruin the progress already made. >> with all of the high rain we are going to get and the flooding that we are going to get, we are worried about the soil being soft and the homes

falling over. >> take a lesson from sandy and apply it to this and get people really prepared to believe it. >> crews are going to be coming out in an hour and a half and deciding whether they are going to be adding sand dunes to the south side of seaside heights. they have already done that to the north. if you remember, three years ago the images of the landmark roller-coaster here in seaside heights being swallowed up by the ocean, it is not open yet. set to be reopen in 2016. super storm sandy a lesson learned for local leaders. chris christie declared a state of emergency and also canceled his campaign event in new hampshire. take a listen to the governor. >> we are not quite yet sure about whether this will be a single punch or double punch. there will be winds up to 75 to

85 miles an hour in the southern part of the state in addition to rain which is expected to be 5-6 inches. >> in the meantime local residents are stocking up on water, batteries, nonperishable food and emergency management is looking at whether they have a week's worth of cash and merchandi medicine. the taliban claiming their rocket brought down a military plane in afghanistan killing at least 11 including 6 u.s. service members. the c 130 j was fast approaching the jalalabad airport killing those on board. nato says as of now there's no evidence that hostile fire actually brought down the plane. >> it is now 19 minutes until the top of the hour.

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>> more on the fox news lart. carnage on campus. >> hundreds of people gathering at a candlelight vigil as the community tries to make some sort of sense on the tragedy. we have new information on the shooter. >> authorities trying to figure

out what led mercer to open fire and kill so many people on the college campus in oregon. chris harper mercer entered umpqua community college with body armor and four guns and started firing. aligned people up, asked if they were christian, if they said yes he shot them in the head. if they said no he shot them whe somewhere else. >> i heard the shots but i didn't know what they were at first. i thought maybe it was construction work with the new building going up next door. then a student from the class that was in class came out and said you guys should come in there's an active shooter report going on. >> authorities say at least 10 people were killed. they are not confirming if mercer is included in that number. they are also not confirming if he took his own life or was gunned down by first responders. many survivors said they laid down on the ground and pretended to be dead. listen to the aunt of one of the

victims. >> shot three times, hit the floor, looked up at the gunman and says it's my son's birthday today. gets shot two more times. >> we don't have that. authorities are being tight lipped about what they know about mercer. unclear if he was a student at the college. there are social media pictures with him holding a gun also on the on-line dating profile. he listed organized religion as one of his dislikes. people who knew him well say he was anxious, kept to himself and wore the same outfit combat boots and green army pants and white t-shirts every day. heather and ainsley, back to you. >> it is now 47 minutes after the top of the hour. preparing for the worst. the east coast is hunkering down for the hurricane, for a lot of danger people are expecting. we are live with new worries this could be just the beginning. >> millions of people, personal information dproe miezed.

t -- compromised. who is at risk right now. >> first let's check in with brian kilmeade to see what's coming up on "fox & friends." >> we will have continuing news in oregon. why he was targeting christians and asking faith before he shot them dead. we are going to talk to a forensic psychologist to look at what he was thinking or might not have been thinking. what president obama immediately said and what he plans on doing. amongst our great guests, deena perino, geraldo rivera and rudy giuliani and michael mccall. don't miss a minute "fox & friends" the top of the hour.

welcome back. hurricane joaquin barreling its way from the bahamas towards the east coast, bringing with it severe storms.

the storm picking up strength and threatening several states with massive flooding and 130 miles per hour wind. doug luzader is in virginia. that's where a state of emergency is in effect today. good morning, doug. >> reporter: good morning. you see it's raining at the moment. this is not rain from joaquin, though. this under scores the problem here. these areas are so soaked to begin with, that anything additional from the hurricane could cause significant flooding. it does appear that joaquin is tracking farther and farther to the east. that may not be the factor that we initially thought that it was. if the winds begin to pick up and drive some of this water farther inland, they could be looking at significant flooding events. >> we're going to have a rain event regardless. we're estimated 4 to 12 inches of rain. it will depend on how fast it rains, where it rains and the fact -- if the flooding will

occur. >> we know there's going to be flash flooding and that occurs quickly, rapidly and normally just overcomes an intersection or a low-lying parking lot area where people if they're in that intersection or parking lot could get overwhelmed. >> reporter: they are beginning to distribute sandbags here. we've already seen some sandbags that have been placed down because of the potential here for flooding. this is an area that floods very easily. certainly people here are breathing a sigh of relief looking at the most recent storm tracks for joaquin. they're going to have the flooding event whether it tracks east or west because of the other rain that they're experiencing at the moment. it's going to be a rough weekend here in this part of the east coast. >> batten down the hatches. doug luzader live for us. thank you. in other news, this terrifying fight for american airlines passengers ends with five people in the hospital. turbulence rocking the flight from miami to the caribbean at

36,000 feet. look at that. one man who was sleeping with his seat belt unbuckled was tossed so hard, his head cracked the ceiling. >> we had experienced turbulence and felt a rumble. within three seconds of that, we dropped completely off. >> it was scary. especially with your family on board. >> american airlines says that the seat belt signs were on and pilots were not aware of any cabin turbulence. russia and iran teaming up to launch military attacks in syria. iranian troops will provide ground support while russia pounds the country with air strikes. this comes as the obama administration launches talks of moscow about the increased military action. russia claims targeting militants. the pentagon says that's not the case. life in prison for a border patrol agent that sparked that fast and furious controversy.

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afghanistan that killed six u.s. service members and five native contractors. >> also hurricane joaquin lashing the bahamas with torrential wind, rain and storm surges. now it could be strengthening before hitting the east coast. "fox and friends" starts now. bye. good morning to you. today is friday, october 2nd. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. brand new from overnight. our first look at the gunman and his sinister plot to murder christians. what he said before he started killing. extreme weather alert. a state of emergency declared along portions of the east coast as you can see right there. americans are on high alert as hurricane joaquin, now a category 4 is straight over the atlantic. we're live along the shore with what is happening right now. then, a c-130 air