jacob soberoff is at the scene. has anybody stopped by to talk to you? >> reporter: i did talk to state trooper bainbridge, brian. this is about as close as any of us are going to get, at least now up to the community college. it's about a mile up the road in this direction. atf, fbi is up here. much of the same information you're hearing there from 30 ro rock. he said he never experienced anything like this in his life, not to this extent. he said not even family members that live up this road are allowed in and out right now, brian. the feeling couldn't be more somber and is in juxtaposition to the setting in oregon. >> i guess you would have to be a retired combat veteran returned police officer to have any life experience remotely close to the carnage inside that community college room where they responded today. >> remember the man we were talking on the phone a little while ago who had been a veteran and had served overseas and said he survived this today and one other shooting at another campus earlier in his life and had never seen anything as ba

. >> msnbc's jacob soberoff in roseburg, oregon. the campus reopens but not for classes just yet.t's the mood there? >> reporter: kate, i would say that the smood reflective and people are, you know, truly eager to move forward. i spent the afternoon yesterday in the backwoods here in -- outside of roseburg with a gentleman that's the great uncle of cheyenne fitzgerald, a survivor of the shootings at the college and he told me that he's eager for hunting season to resume. people to get back to the normal activities. deer season started here and people would be doing normally. get back to school. he's an educator himself and with regard to the campus here, students in about 20 minutes ginn the first opportunity since thursday's shooting to come up and retrieve belongings from campus. classes don't resume until a week from today and a first opportunity to come back on the campus since the shooting last week. dr. rita cavin the interim president of the umpqua college said she's received about 100 messages of other colleges and universities going through similar tragedies and helping

. >> jacob soberoff, thank you so much.ple that are asking questions about how this investigation will unfold, especially as there is a coordination taking place between local, state and federal officials. our justice correspondent, pete williams, is in our washington bureau, and i know he's been speaking to his sources. and pete, explain what we know about the profile that has started to emerge, at least from the internet postings, the public life of the shooter. has anything more crystallized? >> reporter: i think so. it seems pretty clear now that this is going to be another case of someone who has severe or profound emotional problems. his mother has talked about that to neighbors. his own social media postings suggest that he was a pretty well-developed loner. he said on a dating site he had never actually dated anyone. he had an interest in the irish republican army, perhaps reflecting his family's heritage from the united kingdom. he was 26. as you say, they don't know why he targeted this school. they haven't -- the

msnbc's jacob soberoff went to the port of long beach to find out. >> reporter: as our politicians continuede deal or a bad trade deal for america, this is the reality of what our trade deficit looks like today. this is the port of long beach, and combined with its sister port of los angeles right over there, 40% of america's imports come right through here. what's the kind of stuff that's coming off the ships and coming into your warehouse? >> it could be anything from apparel, it could be food products, it could be electronics. >> what are you sending out? >> most of the time in the porlt of l.a./long beach, those containers are empty. >> reporter: the main thing going out from this export is absolutely nothing. 60% of these containers are going back empty, and the stuff that's in the ones that are going back full wou really surprise you. so what is this business that you do here? >> we recycle waste paper and scrap metal and plastics and ship it mostly to china. >> reporter: china is getting all of our waste, is that fair to say? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: in these big shipping containers