i'm sure they're either in the hospital or not. >> marilyn kittleman, the owner of the leesburg beacon and the mother of a young man we spoke to. the best to you and your family. difficult days ahead. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> waiting for the first official on-camera or otherwise information dissemination exercise from authorities. we are expecting that at any moment. we are told we should expect to hear something real in a moment. our station kezi with a reporter on scene. listen. >> they need to go to the fairgrounds to pick up their sons and daughters. that's where they're sending students. we saw the school buses drive up college road. 30 minutes ago, and now we learned they're going to head over to the fairgrounds, and just driving by, they opened other hospitals around the area, from cottage grove to accept more injured people. we don't know how many are injured. the douglas county sheriff's office is actually the lead investigators, and we have not spoken to the pio from the sheriff's office yet. we are waiting to hear more information but the newest piece of i

marilyn kittleman, thank you very much for being with us from rose burg, oregon. we now switch across the country to the east, to the white house briefing room. behind the blue door is the president of the united states. his remarks have been brought out to the podium and we'll hear from the president on this latest, terrible tragedy, this mass casualty event at a community college. as kate reported, as we've said this afternoon, this is the seventh time he has been forced to talk about a killing, a mass casualty event in this type of place in the years since he has been president. it certainly has been talked about enough but very little has been done in the wake of these incidents. again, we should be about 10 seconds away from the president emerging. his remarks scheduled for one minute ago. here is the president. >> this time in a community college in oregon. that means there are more american families, moms, dads, children whose lives have been changed forever. another community stunned with grief and communities across the country forced to relieve their own

joining me now, marilyn kittleman, her 17-year-old was in math class when the shooting started and described to her what he witnessed. we spoke with you on the phone, brian williams and i, yesterday afternoon right after this had all happened. have you had time to process, hug your three kids and what do you say to them? >> i have. thank you. and i wouldn't let ma cray leave town yesterday before i gave him a hug. the whole almost two hours we texted while he was under a desk and hiding, it didn't really hit me until i watched the bus go by with him in it and he waved at me and hit home how dangerous and how in jeopardy our lives really are. >> your son told reporters the scariest part is nobody heard anything so we didn't know if it was a professional with a suppressed weapon or a low caliber weapon and didn't know what was going on around him. >> that's true. and i think that for me we were able to keep in contact so i felt a little better but it was the unknowing. he said, mom, you know, he's been a shooter since he was young and didn't hear any shots. i think it's a drill. we said, no, n