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they're -- >> i will not name the shooter. i will not give him the credit he probably sought prior to this horrific and cowardly act. we also have the latest on hurricane joaquin, now a major category four. "early today" starts right now. well, good morning, everybody. i'm betty nguyen. once again, we're trying to piece together another mass shooting. what was the shooter's motive and what can or should be done. here in roseburg, oregon. what have you learned? >> reporter: we're at mercy medical center where most of the injured are recovering or are in surgery. college is only a few minutes away. the busiest time of the day,

a man named chris mercer walked on to the campus with four weapons including a rifle and opened fire in at least two classrooms. by the time police and more than 100 police officers arrived, 10 dead and seven injured. several critically. there was a shootout between police and chris and at the end, the shooter was killed as well. we have sound from survivor that you can listen to now. >> right now, i think i'm in shock. earlier it was not like this at all. it was worse. i didn't -- there's so many emotions going on right now that i don't -- i don't know. my heart hurts for the people that have passed. i don't know. it's a weird feeling. there's so many feelings go going on and around. it's indescribable. right now, i feel okay but i felt that way earlier before i

got here. >> reporter: at a vigil last night which hundreds of people from the community and beyond attended, i spoke to young woman who lost her brother, josh, 23 years old and studying to be a vet reinarian. and another person whose brother survived. and he asked some of the victims if they were christian and if they answered yes, he shot them in the head and if they didn't answer, he shot them in the leg. there are reports he left messages on online chat rooms warning about the shooting. the community college is the only college of a city of about 22,000 people. and there are students in their 50s and 60s. betty. >> so tragic. thank you, jacob.

a visibly angry president obama had a blunt talk with the nation. >> our thoughts and prayers are not enough. it does not capture the heart ache and grief and anger that we should feel. and it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in america. somehow this has become routine. the reporting is routine. my response here at this podium ends up being routine. the conversation in the aftermath of it, we've become numb to this. we talked about this after column columnbine, tucson, new town, after aurora, after charleston. it cannot be this easy for

harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun. have news organizations tally up the number of americans who've been killed through terrorist attacks through the last decades and the number killed by gun violence. and post those side by side on your news reports. >> all right. so, here they are side by side. on the left, according the cdc, more than 316,000 killed by guns and in the middle the number killed by guns in that time span, more than 118,000 and finally, according to the global terrorism data base, the number killed by terrorism in the u.s. in that period, just 38. the presidential candidates reacted from the frontrunners, hillary clinton, she called for sensible gun control measures to

save lives. donald trump offered his condolences and jeb bush said he was praying for the victims and families families. >> condolences aren't enough. we've got to do something. we've got to stop shouting at each other. we need sensible gun control legislation and by the way, we need to significantly improve mental health services in the united states of america and i'm pledged to do everything i can in both of those areas. >> umpqua community college campuses classes are canceled. right now, hurricane joaquin is pounding the bahamas. it's a powerful category four and mean while, an already drenched east coast is bracing for a possible run in with joaquin.

north carolina's outer banks. let's start in kitty hawk where dangerous flooding is expected before joaquin hits. >> reporter: good morning. they've been having and dealing with flooding issues throughout the last couple of days in the carolinas. joaquin only going to intensify that. and they've already evacuated some of the out lying islands. they're afraid with the rising waters from a storm that's been inland already and dropping that rain, combine would the d with the water from joaquin, it could cause problem tz going back and forth, so they have evacuated those out lying islands. there is concern that this area already soaked over the last several days can't handle more water and we're talking about areas like this one. kitty hawk, another five inches or more.

this storm is already battering the bahamas and causing problems there. just a calling card of what's to come. it does look to be moving more to the east. understand though, without land fall, it's still going to cause major problems up and down the coastline, including here in the carolinas. for now, i'm jay gray live in kitty hawk. back to you. >> that cone of uncertainty, as they call it, is very important.meteorologist bill karins is here. >> the storm is in the worst case scenario in the bahamas. it's going to be devastation in that region of the central bahamas and when we get the pictures in about two days. 15 miles from clearance town on long island.

it's moved about as far west as it's going to move. and it's well off the coast. there's going to be no u.s. land fall, it doesn't look like we'll have any direct effect besides rip and waves. it's going to be from the separate low in the southeast that's producing a tremendous amount of rain and the winds, there's tropical air flowing towards the east coast, a northerly wind coming down the coast and that combination is lifting all the rain from the carolinas to the chesapeake bay. our computer models have been raging anywhere from five to 10 inches and isolated totalled hire than that. that's your national weather. now a closer look at the day ahead. so, down in areas of florida,

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the event, they won't pitch in to pay for modifications to the roads. >> christa: the bahamas feeling the effects of hurricane joaquin. is it moving further away from the u.s.? jeremy reiner called that, the lone voice yesterday saying the european track is going this way, i'm going with it. >> jeremy: me too. we're sticking with that. here it is, a powerhouse storm. it's a category 4 storm with winds to 130 miles an hour. the models are beginning to converge or agree that this is going to be a storm that remains offshore. this is a category 4 storm. the forecast track moves it to the north-northeast. yesterday morning, it was looking like new york city, then midday yesterday in new england but this is from the hurricane center and they have shifted their track farther to the right. this red line east of new

what's not a good thing is this right here on the map. another rainy morning commute. i don't think it's a repeat of wednesday morning. in fact northwest of boston, route 2 corridor in from new hampshire just sprinkles and spritzes but rain gear a good north of town. south of town steady rain all day. a cold, raw day, more like november for you than october. this weather system, which is the same weather system that came at us on wednesday, the front, but that cool front a little bit weaker but still able to generate bands the rain. most towns an inch. city of boston a half inch. only in the low 50s. "7 news today in new england" begins now. violence rocking another college campus leaving several people dead. the father of the accused shooter coming forward overnight. >> jadiann: we're tracking hurricane joaquin.