this is nasim aghdam ...y.ed barberini, san bruno police chief"at this point in the investigation, it is believed that the suspect was upset with the policies and practices of youtube. this appears to be the motive for this incident."law enforcement tell kron4 news aghdam was a frequent poster on youtube. josh constine, techcrunch editor-at-large"youtube never took down peoples videos or refused to allow them to share them to youtube because of its new policy. it was merely not allowing people to make money off of them. so the idea that this is censorship or a free speech issue is really blown out of proportion"some of aghdam's posts say she believed the company was intentionally limiting the reach of some users, like herself and trying to supress her and other content creators. techcrunch says she had videos on other sites with an image of her youtube dashboard showing declines in views over the course of 2016. they say it appears she was specifically concerned that she was being discriminated against for be

investigators believe aghdam used the name nasime sabz online. a website in that name decried youtube's policies and said that youtube was trying to "suppress" content creators.the official spoke to ap on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.aghdam's father said his daughter was angry youtube stopped paying for videos she posted on the platform and warned police she might go to the company's headquarters. <"nothing that we have received to suggest there is any link, connection, or relationship between our suspect and any individual that was on the premise at the time of the incident."> ( will ) thanks we will check back with you through out the morning. ( darya ) we're hearing from a number of witnesses this morning. a senior software engineer at youtube said a fire alarm was pulled... and he and his co- workers left the building. he then watched others walk out with their hands over their heads.

one of his officers had with aghdam just hours before the shooting. aghdam had been reported missing last week. >> in the conversation that the officer had with the father, there was nothing that the officer heard that raised his concern. >> reporter: an hour later, aghdam's father called the officer back to say -- >> she was likely in this area because of her dispute with youtube. >> reporter: the chief saysin a aghd aghdam's father says that the dispute was over restrictions put on aghdam's channel. >> there was no reason to think that this dispute was anything other than a business dispute. >> nasim's brother talked to us. the sheaf says that information was never conveyed to police in the bay area. >> mountain view police feel the need or did they contact youtube or san bruno police about this person? >> no. >> reporter: in mountain view, cornel bernard, abc7 news. >> a youtube executive just spoke for the first time since the shooting promising increased security on youtube campuses around the world. >> dion lind live. >> reporter: dan and kriste

(michelle)this is nasim aghdam ...9 year old san diego resident who is said to have opened fire at youtube headquarters on tuesday.ed barberini, san bruno police chief"at this point in the investigation, it is believed that the suspect was upset with the policies and practices of youtube. this appears to be the motive for this incident."law enforcement tell kron4 news aghdam was a frequent poster on youtube. josh constine, techcrunch editor-at-large"youtube never took down peoples videos or refused to allow them to share them to youtube because of its new policy. it was merely not allowing people to make money off of them. so the idea that this is censorship or a free speech issue is really blown out of proportion"some of aghdam's posts say she believed the company was intentionally limiting the reach of some users, like herself and trying to supress her and other content creators. techcrunch says she had videos on other sites with an image of her youtube dashboard showing declines in views over the course of 2016. the

nasim aghdam ella, what is the latest about this woman? live we're getting to know more about the shooter who shot one man and two women at the youtube headquarters before taking her own life. nasim aghdam also goes by nasime sabz online.the 39 year old is a self proclaimed artist, comedian, rapper, and vegan activist against animal creulty. its a topic she's heavily posted about website condemning bullfighting products.she also posted numerous youtube videos but that account along with her facebook page live kron 4 news.sogomonian bruno ella sogomonian kron 4 news. (steve) we have team coverage tonight as we continue to follow this story... three people have been injured in the shooting. and all of those victims have been taken to san francisco taken to san francisco general hospital. (pam) kron 4's ali reid is live outside the hospital tonight.. with the latest on the victims conditions. ali? from what we know this shooting stemmed from a domestic incident. it isn't clear if the male victim was the intended target.but what we know right

(michelle)this is nasim aghdam ... a 39 year old san diego resident who is said to have opened fire at youtube headquarters on tuesday.ed barberini, san bruno police chief"at this point in the investigation, it is believed that the suspect was upset with the policies and practices of youtube. this appears to be the motive for this incident."law enforcement tell kron4 news aghdam was a frequent poster on youtube. josh constine, techcrunch editor-at-large"youtube never took down peoples videos or refused to allow them to share them to youtube because of its new policy. it was merely not allowing people to make money off of them. so the idea that this is censorship or a free speech issue is really blown out of proportion"some of aghdam's posts say she believed the company was intentionally limiting the reach of some users, like herself and trying to supress her and other content creators. techcrunch says she had videos on other sites with an image of her youtube dashboard showing declines in views over the course of 2016.

nasim aghdam was angry at youtube.ted videos, complained that youtube was suppressing her and the company took away her opportunity to make money on the site. scott budman got to the bottom of why aghdam was so upset. attempted to. and a problem users have complained about as well. >> so recently, they also attacked by persian channel. >> it is how nasim aghdam and millions of others got their message out. >> i am being discriminated. >> a small active number of youtubers, aghdam was able to generate income from her posts. for many years, youtubers could post just about anything. itch users clicked on an ad or attracted 10,000 viewers you made money. >> anything was put up. everything was put up. there wasn't a lot of censorship. there was not a lot of monitoring. >> that changed. earlier this year, youtube made it harder for users to profit from posts while reviewing and cracking down on more of their content. >> now awfll of a sudden, youtu is responding to various events around the country, the shootings and outrage

nasim aghdam made a stop.pe) san bruno police investigators are being quiet about their time spent at jackson arms shooting range in south san francisco wednesday. an officer stayed inside for about two hours, possibly reviewing surviellance video captured inside and out of the business tuesday... when police say 39-year-old nasim aghdam visted a local shooting range before opening fire at youtube headquarters in san bruno. two employees who say they worked here tuesday, tell kron four that they don't believe aghdam made a stop here. but jose villaluna, who rents storage space next door... says those same employees told him a different story. that aghdam looks familiar. jose villaluna/rents storage space next door- "they believe so. they're not 100 percent sure, but they think so." villaluna says women using the shooting range isn't out of the ordinary. and, if aghdam did practice here before driving to san bruno... she should be easy to point out on video.jose villaluna/rents space nextdoor- "theres cameras i

police investigators say suspect nasim aghdam made her way into the courtyard area by going through a neighboring parking garage pedestrian door. hours before that she came into contact with law enforcement down in the south bay. however, that information did not make its way up the peninsula here to youtube security or to police officers in san bruno. >> they did not receive any specific threat of violence or anything that would have alerted them that she intended to commit any type of act of violence. >> reporter: san bruno's police chief said shooting suspect nasim aghdam visited a gun range before driving to youtube's headquarters to carry out the crime. seven investigators from two police departments spent hours at jackson arms shooting range and gun shop in south san francisco. employees at the gun range declined to comment about the investigation and police have so far not released additional information. aghdam's family had filed a missing persons report in san diego county telling mountain view police she might be headed to san bruno. >> she had a problem with youtube, so we

. >> reporter: aghdam was a animal rights activist. this was pay 2009 photo protesting the use of pigs during military exercise iz. she lived with her family in san diego earning money in part from four separate often off-beat youtube channels. her father confirmed to nbc news that recent changes in youtube's policy stopped everything. now she has no income. >> my video gets -- >> reporter: according to police, her family filed a missing person's report on monday. >> the parents warned be careful. maybe she's angry at youtube because she has this anger for one year. >> reporter: aghdam drove north to mountain view, 30 miles south of youtube's offices where had he license plate was spotted. the police department says they found aghdam here asleep in her car nearly 2:00 in the morning. officers described her as being calm and cooperative. she said she was in the area looking for a job, not once did she mention youtube. the mountain view police called the family. her father said she may be heading to youtube. the police did not notify the

call 911. >> police say the gunman who sources identify as nasim aghdam, as a handgun. a woman shot in the leg came into carl's jr. for help. >> we grabbed napkins, threw it on the leg. one guy gave her a t-shirt, one of the employees brought out rubber bands trying to wrap it up. as diners helped the woman, police officers arrived, finding another gunshot victim fi front entrance. youtube employees say during the chaos the fire alarm sounded, a software engineer evacuated on his skateboard and rolled right into the shooting. >> there was a person out there yelling, you know, do you want to shoot me? and i froze. and i noticed that laying 25 feet away from this individual was somebody, was an individual that had been shot. >> then police arrived. >> and a police officer entered with an assault rifle. and so i was -- i was just like, oh, my god, i gotta get out of here. >> police say aghdam shot and killed herself. you can see a shattered glass door and evidence markers on the ground as police and the fbi processed the workplace shooting scene. investigators found aghdam

this is nasim aghdam ...ni, san bruno police chief"at this point in the investigation, it is believed that the suspect was upset with the policies and practices of youtube. this appears to be the motive for this incident."law enforcement tell kron4 news aghdam was a frequent poster on youtube. josh constine, techcrunch editor-at-large"youtube never took down peoples videos or refused to allow them to share them to youtube because of its new policy. it was merely not allowing people to make money off of them. so the idea that this is censorship or a free speech issue is really blown out of proportion"some of aghdam's posts say she believed the company was intentionally limiting the reach of some users, like herself and trying to supress her and other content creators. techcrunch says she had videos on other sites with an image of her youtube dashboard showing declines in views over the course of 2016. they say it appears she was specifically concerned that she was being discriminated against for being vegan. a

where it is possible nasim aghdam made a stop. (philippe) after about two hours inside jackson arms shooting range in south san francisco... a san bruno police officer walked out without answering any questions. he would not confirm or deny he was reviewing surviellance footage recorded tuesday morning... video that may shed light on whether or not nasim aghdam paid a visit here before opening fire at youtube headquarters.jose villaluna/rents space nextdoor- "theres cameras inside so, obviously, if they do think she's here -- she was here, they'd be looking through the footage." two plaintclothes officers who say they were also with the san bruno police department spent a few hours here too, leaving in an unmarked s-u-v... deferring comment to their supervisors, who did not explain what investigators were looking for. jose villaluna rents storage space next door to jackson arms. to us, store employees who worked here tuesday, say they didn't recognize aghdam... but to villaluna -- they said she looked familiar and may have used th

aghdam was found sleeping in her car yesterday morning.e license plates, realized that she had been reported missing and contacted her family, her brother who did not want his face on camera. told reporters that he warned police she might be going to youtube to do something. >> youtube headquarters. >> she has problem with youtube. so we call that cop there's a reason she went from san diego to there. >> reporter: aghdam's brother said he did not know she had a gun. youtube has pulled her videos. reporting live in san bruno, alyssa harrington, abc 7 news. >>> thank you. we have much more on nasim aghdam on our app and abc7news.com, including detailed report on her background and her youtube videos. >>> we have new details this morning on the large four-alarm fire that ripped through a building in san francisco. some firefighters say supervisor aaron peskin appeared to be intoxicated when he criticized officials at the scene. the chronicle reports that lieutenant jonathan baxter noticed that peskin appeared, quote, intoxicated based on his

the shooters name is nasim aghdam ... and accoriding to her website... was supposedly angry with the social media platform for filtering her youtube channels from getting views... and altering her revenue. youtube has since taken down her youtube videos and deleted her page. the 3 victims of that shooting were taken to the san francisco general hospital... were kron 4's ali reid has the latest on their conditions. hospital staff hospital staff tell us all 3 victims are recovering, and they are alert.they know where they are, what happened ... and they're under close watch. pkgpolice say the shooting at youtube's headquarters stemmed from a domestic incident. it isn't clear if the male victim here was the intended target. but what we know right now is that ... of the 3 victims at the hospital .... one is a 36 year old man that is in critical condition. the other 2 are women...a 32 year old with serious injuries ...and a 27 year old in fair condition. they were all rushed here to zuckerberg s-f general hospital ... and have been treated by emergency staff.

the police department says they found aghdam here asleep in here car nearly 2:00 in the morning. officers described her as being calm and cooperative. she said she was in the area looking for a job. not once did she mention youtube. the mountain view police called the family. her father said she may be heading to youtube, but police did not notify the company. >> there was nothing in those conversations that the officer felt rose to a level in which there was any specific concern or threat to youtube. >> reporter: but today, aghdam's brother, who does not want to be recognized, says the family was worried. >> i told the cop and they promised me they're going to watch her. and that happened two hours later. >> reporter: here at youtube, employees were back at work today while two of the three injured victims were released from the hospital. the third was upgraded from critical to serious condition. lester? >> stephanie gosk in san bruno tonight, thank you. >>> now to the late word from the white house, president trump ordering the national guard to the border with mexico immediate

but by then, aghdam had already killed herself. outside the family's home today, the shooter's father simply saying he's sorry. >> i'm sorry. i can't believe it. >> reporter: today, police with guns drawn searching a home in san diego connected to aghdam. authorities carrying away bags of clothes from a dumpster. a neighbor saying it appeared aghdam threw away some of the clothes she wore in these videos just days before her rampage. >> and matt gutman joining us live outside youtube's office in san bruno. matt, authorities tonight searching for clues and pouring over those videos, and telling you, they've learned troubling details about the shooter's past? >> reporter: that's right, law enforcement officials tell me they are still involved in this investigation, tom, because some of the things they found when they dug into aghdam's past raised concerns. for instance, that she had taken from the faa a student pilot certificate just two days after 9/11. still, they tell us, they are nearly certain that she was not involved in either

aghdam, who is of iranian descent, had multiple youtube pages.ccess online, in some videos she seemed to lash out at youtube. >> i'm being discriminated. people watch me. not good for big businesses. >> reporter: ranting that youtube had begun to censor her, limiting her viewers and, therefore, her livelihood. claiming she made 10 cents for over 300,000 views. >> my old videos that used to get many views have stopped getting views. >> reporter: police say it was apparently enough to launch aghdam on a suicide mission. she disappeared from home in san diego on saturday. her family issuing a missing persons report. and on the morning of the shooting, police in mountain view, california, find her sleeping in her car hundreds of miles away from home, but just 30 miles away from youtube's headquarters. police call the family telling them she was fine, but they didn't know she was packing a 9 millimeter gun and a vendetta against youtube. the family says it warned police about her anger towards the company. her brother, who spoke to our affiliate on th

her conduct was not raising concern by officers that were on scene. >> reporter: aghdam was sleeping and called her family who reported a falling out. later, her family called mountain view pd back to say that she had a year-long dispute with youtube overpayments. >> i am being discriminated.>> reporter: at some point tuesday, aghdam visited a gun range on the peninsula. early this morning, three members of the san bruno police department were inside jackson arms in san francisco for hours questioning the owner. after her trip to the gun range, aghdam took her legally purchased 9mm and entered the you to campus through parking garage before opening fire in an outdoor courtyard. >> there is no link or relationship that we have identified between our suspect and anybody who was at the scene.>> reporter: aghdam maintains multiple youtube channels maintaining a mix of art, exercise and animal rights videos and had claimed the platform was filtering her videos and costing her money.>> stop eating animals. youtube filters her videos. i feel so bad for those people shot.>> reporter: the pol

shooter identified as nasim aghdam, opened fire on campus before 1:00 this afternoon. police were in contact with her. >> police tell us they found nasim aghdam sleeping in car in parking lot this morning, spoke to her and ran plates, realized she was reported missing from southern california, notified family that she had been found but haven't said further action. aghdam was familiar with youtube and ended up at headquarters soon with a gun. exercise videos. music videos, content about animals and going vegan. hundreds of videos across multiple channels in several languages. some poking fun at youtube platform. >> make stupid videos. more stupid video,s more successful you will be. >> nobody knew who she was when she walked on campus carrying a purse. fired 30 to 40 shots before turning gun on herself. most recently lived in this house in riverside county. lived with parents and husband or boyfriend and didn't leave much. >> did some painting on the house. stuff like that. very nice people. >> aghdam has a website with manifesto that targets youtube for demonetizing h

once nasim aghdam confirmed her identity, law enforcement reached out to her family. her father told a bay area news group that he told officers nasim aghdam might go to youtube headquarters because she quote, hated the company. >>> here is our question of the day. following the work place shooting at youtube, do you feel your workplace has enough security measures in the company in place, yes or no? you can vote at ktvu.com, and our facebook page. >>> we are learning more information about a police shooting yesterday in petaluma at the vineyard apartments near lakeville highway. officials say they were called shortly before noon. when they arrived they encountered a suicidal man with a gun. officers say they were forced to open fire when the suspect pointed the gun at them. he was taken to the hospital. there is no word on his condition, but no police officers were injured. >>> the storm that is headed to northern california later this week could be the first big test for the renovated oroville dam spillway. crews have been working on that spillway since it began to

s headquarters by nasim aghdam. youtube has not responded to our request for information about aghdam's videos, but lee's tools provide insight. would you have noticed her before this incident? >> i would have never noticed her before. >> reporter: since the shootings, however, he's analyzed her youtube activity, beginning in 20 terng posting more than 500 videos, a total of 17 hours, mostly about fitness, veganism, and animal rights. then ba year ago, she started expressing her anger with youtube. >> my videos hardly get views. >> reporter: lee's analysis shows aghdam's videos had a total of about nine million views with 30,000 subscribers. but that's nowhere near what's necessary to be a youtube star. >> looking at her view count, this isn't necessarily someone who screams this is a person making a lot of money from advertising. >> please consider subscribing. >> reporter: the most popular creators on youtube have done well. you can make seven figures. >> absolutely. you can easily make seven figures. >> reporter:

the police department did not contact youtube about aghdam. now that we )ve gotten an inside look ) at how mountain view police officers handled the questioning of nasim aghdam--- did they miss any signs? did they handle the situation by the book? for analysis, we reached out to long-tme law enforcement expert tony ribera--- the former chief of san francisco police. nbc bay area )s sam brock sat down with ribera to watch the video, and joins us live from youtube headquarters with more. and sam, what did he have to say? we were the first station to push the video out this morning. we were the first station to push the video out this morning. we were the first station to push the video out this morning. download the nbc bay area app. we )ll send alerts so you never miss breaking news. you might say it )s a little embarrassing. an internal memo at apple about stopping leaks was leaked today. apple making one thing clear, keeping secrets secret is a big priority. our business and tech reporter scott budman is live at apple headquarters in cupertin

sources say that the suspect nasim aghdam drove here from san diego. the back courtyard area as many were having lunch. one male is in critical condition tonight. two other females were shot as well. also another person was hurt running from the building. authorities say aghdam used a handgun...witnesses tell me around 10 shots were fired....there was a pause...then another 5-10 additional shots were fired. i asked the police chief about what went down this afternoon and when it went down.back out here live... (steve)we have team coverage tonight... moments after the shooter was identified we are learning more about 39-year- old nasim aghdam. kron 4's ella sogomonian is live in san bruno with the latest details.

nasim aghdam, who was sleeping in her car, denied she wanted to harm herself or others. mountain view police officers found her in a parking lot at 2:00 in the morning. >> her behavior was totally calm, and she was very cooperative. there was no subsequent reason to go back and look and see if she owned a gun. and guess what, even if she did, she legally purchased it. >> mountain view police insist officers followed proper protocols and had no reason to believe she was violent. for more analysis on the youtube shooting investigation, we reached out to longtime law enforcement expert tony rivera, the former san francisco police chief. nbc bay area's sam brock sat down with him to watch the body cam video and has more from youtube headquarters in san bruno. >> even if it turns out they're stopping dillinger or some big-time criminal, they have to talk to people in a civil way. and those two officers did. >> former san francisco police chief tony rib era is reacting to this encounter. >> hi. are you naseem? >> a startled nasim aghdam woken by police flashlight and facing qu

now the police say nasim aghdam did not know any of the victims. it appears she targeted youtube itself because she was angry with the company. that is based on videos that she posted accusing youtube of shortchanging her on revenue from her website. >> the youtube complex is located just west of the san francisco airport. on the map you can see it is near the freeway interchange connecting interstate 380 with 280.>> we have been told some of the victims and others who witnessed the shooting ran across the street from the headquarters to a restaurant. they also ran to the walmart e- commerce parking lot into the carl's jr. restaurant where an employee help -- helped to treat one of the victims. it caused a lot of confusion, as you can imagine, not only at the youtube complex, but also at the neighborhood there in san bruno. >> reporter: police say they received a call at 12:46 pm of an active shooter at the youtube complex in san bruno. neighbors tell us they heard gunshots. >> i could tell that is what it was. it went on, boom, boom, boom. it went

according to relatives, aghdam came from iran as a refugee more than two decades ago.tube has not responded to our request for information about aghdam's history with the company or whether any of her videos were blocked. late this afternoon, a youtube spokesman said the company is studying this event and will be increasing security at their facilities worldwide. jeff. >> glor: such a troubling story to hear about. john blackstone, thank you. the commander in chief is thnding u.s. troops to the mexican border, and wants to rring u.s. troops home from syria soon. members of the national guard will be heading to the southern border as soon as they get their orders, and major garrett is at the white house with more on this. >> we do hope that the deployment begins immediately. >> reporter: the administration scrambled today to catch up with president trump's surprise announcement he wants the eilitary on the southern border. the white house is asking states to send national guard troops to assist with surveillance and administrative duties, not apprehensions. but homeland

aghdam had been reported missing by her family.she spent the hours right before the shooting. marcie gonzalez live in san bruno now. marcie? >> reporter: police say she never made it into the building, but was able to access that courtyard through a parking garage. this is just a part of what they're piecing together about what led up to this shooting. police now revealing the youtube shooter, 38-year-old nasim aghdam may have spent the morning of her rampage practicing with a st a semi-automatic gun range. once on the youtube campus, police say aghdam shot four people and then herself. motivated by an extreme anger toward youtube. nasim recently posting rants online telling youtube subscribers are not posting her content and not paying her for videos she. her family grew concerned and reported her missing this weekend. police found her sleeping in her car. her brother says the family warned police about why she may have been in the area. >> she had a problem with youtube so we called that cop again and told them there's a reason s

shooter identified as nasim aghdam, opened fire before 1:00 this afternoon. police were in contact with her. >> police tell us they found nasim aghdam sleeping in car in parking lot this morning, spoke to her and ran plates, realized she was reported missing from southern california, notified family that she had been found but haven't said further action. aghdam was familiar with youtube and ended up at headquarters soon with a gun. exercise videos. music videos, content about animals and going vegan. hundreds of videos across multiple channels in several languages. some poking fun at youtube platform. >> make stupid videos. more stupid video,s more successful you will be. >> nobody knew who she was when she walked on campus carrying a purse. fired 30 to 40 shots before turning gun on herself. most recently lived in this house in riverside county. lived with parents and husband or boyfriend and didn't leave much. >> did some painting on the house. stuff like that. very nice people. >> aghdam has a website with manifesto that targets youtube for demonetizing h

police say there is no link between aghdam and her victims. they were just commit ral damage of her rage. >> we have team coverage. where at the police chief's press conference, what else did he reveal? >> reporter: we're learning more of the time line of what happened yesterday. not only was she contacted yesterday early morning, but then she went to a gun range, we're told, before carrying out the shooting at youtube. the suspect's motive, she said she hated ute. this is the suspect, 39-year-old nasim aghdam, in the youtube videos. she says they filtered her content. law enforcement says she had an age restriction on her videos because they were too racy but youtube failed to do the same with miley cyrus and nicki minaj videos. yesterday, off a missing persons report, police confirmed they found aghdam asleep in a car in a parking lot. her family said she was upset that youtube stopped paying her and police said there was nothing they could do. mountain view police departments issued a response which we will show you. san bruno police say ma

investigators identified the woman as 39-year-old nasim aghdam of san diego.rently took her own life. >> her father tells cbs news she was upset with youtube. aghdam who posted videos on a range of subjects complained that youtube was limiting her page views and revenue. the gunfire sent youtube employees scrambling to safety. police do not believe she knew or targeted the victims. one is in critical condition. >>> stocks are down on wall street after china announced new tariffs against the u.s. overnight. the dow plunged 500 points at the opening bell. president trump tweeted we are in the in a trade war with china. >> that war was lost many years ago about the foolish or incompetent people running the u.s. the new tariffs would hit items like soy beans, beef and passenger cars and some aircraft. yesterday the u.s. unveiled the same amount of tariffs on 1300 chinese product news china is expected to play a big role in the meeting between south korea and the united states. representatives from the north and south plan to meet tomorrow to discuss their upcoming

nasim aghdam bought a pistol at the san diego store...fore carrying out her attack at youtube headquarters on tuesday. the employee does not know if aghdam purchased ammunition or any additional accessories. ( marty ) in mendocino county... a body has been found in the ocean, near the crash site that killed at least 5 members of the hart family. the body was discovered saturday afternoon near the town of westport. deputies tell kron 4... the body appears to be an african american woman. three members of the hart family are still missing... two girls and a boy. the bodies of jennifer and sara hart... along with three of their six children... were recovered last month after their suv plunged off a cliff. authorities believe the crash was likely ( marty ) in world news, at least 40 people are dead following a chemical attack in syria. we must warn you the video you are about to see contains very graphic images. here's video coming out of eastern ghouta. activists say a toxic gas packed inside bombs dropped by helicopters caused many people t

i'm so sorry. >> reporter: members of that sim nasim aghdam's -- nasim aghdam's family said she was living with her grandmother. she was angry at youtube and there could be trouble. another aunt told us nasim was not violent. they had no idea she owned a gun or a tragedy like this could happen. >> feeling so bad. i'm feeling down. i'm feeling so sad for her. >> reporter: what's the family going through? >> they feel sad. >> reporter: did you have any idea she had the potential to do this? >> no, i haven't any idea. >> reporter: was she a loving person? >> yes, of course. >> reporter: so the family is saying they warned police. police are saying they never got that warning. allen, one possible explanation for that is ismail, the father here, speaks with an extremely strong accent. it's entirely possible -- remember, this is a phone conversation between the father in menifee and police in mountain view -- it's entirely possible that police didn't quite understand what he was trying to say. in menifee, randy page, kpix5. >> the shooter had youtube channels in english, turkish and farsi and at

place say aghdam was asleep. they spoke for 20 minutes. she said she was living out of her car and looking for work. police say she was calm and cooperative and never mentioned youtube. they let her go and called her family. that neither her father nor brother said anything about a grudge with youtube. an hour later the father called police back and mentioned that his daughter was upset with youtube because they stopped paying for the vegan and fitness videos she posted on her youtube channel. she may have been in the area because of that. mountain view police decided not to share the information with the police where youtube is located. they say communication is normally thorough and they don't want to jump to conclusions. here's one of the shooters anti-youtube rant she posted online. >> i must say it only once. recently they also attacked my [inaudible] channel. >> hours after talking with police. nasim aghdam went to a shooting range for practice and walked through the youtube parking garage into a courtyard with a legally registered h

police found aghdam asleep in her car in a parking lot. the family warned police aghdam might do something at youtube but police told them there was nothing they could do. >> we're still sifting through a lot of evidence. there's a lot of evidence we don't even have access to yet that hopefully will provide us with a more specific or clear picture to definitively say, a., this is what she was upset about and, b., this is why. >> reporter: around lunchtime yesterday, aghdam opened fire on the youtube campus wounding three people then killing herself. now, investigators say she also posted on issues such as animal rights saying specifically against things about the military's use of pigs. now, federal investigators, we're told, are looking into that background. for now, the police chief tells us this morning this is a local case. reporting live in san bruno reporting live for "today in the bay." >> thank you. live outside youtube headquarters in san bruno. >>> and turning to the condition of the victims. live at san francisco hospital where

over the weekend, aghdam's family reported her missing when she stopped answering her phone. around 2 a.m. tuesday authorities called the family and said they found her in her car in mountain view. >> reporter: her family says that police told them they were keep an eye on her but then the shooting happened. >> i didn't know she has a gun. i thought maybe she was going to start a fight or something. >> reporter: as a precaution, the los angeles police department has had its officers camped out in front of the youtube offices there as a precaution that they took on their own. they have not received any threats targeting to that office. in the newsroom, jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> we are also learning more about the three victims who were struck by gunfire in yesterday's shooting. zuckerberg san francisco general hospital says that the two female patients have now been released. the male victim remains in the hospital this afternoon in serious condition. >>> police say that youtube employees have been told to either work from home or another location today. it's unclear when they

aghdam's brother spoke out yesterday after the shooting and says the family reported aghdam missing a few days ago and alerted police that they were concerned she had a, quote, grudge against youtube. >> there's a reason that she went all the way from san diego to there. so she might do something. i mean, i didn't know she has a gun. and then i thought maybe she was going to start a fight or something. >> reporter: now, investigators here in san bruno are trying to pinpoint why she was upset with youtube. it appears to have to do with several channels she had on the site in various languages. she had complained to youtube support that the videos on the channels were being filtered and she was short changed on ad revenue from the sites. on social media she described herself as an artist, musician and vegan activists. you can see from the videos they farred, it is unclear what they were showcasing but she was in unusual costumes and brightly colored sets in the background. mountain view police confirm they came in contact with nasim aghdam yesterday morning sleeping in her car. mountain

youtube has declined to discuss these specifics of the case of nasim aghdam.rders spent the day washing on the facility and the court your -- yard area where the should happen. they held a meeting for employees and workers were exported in to retrieve bowling is a get their cars. the company says that they are encouraging employees to take time off or work from home and they are making well the services available. >> nobody expects going to work and having the possibility of a killer coming and trying to do them harm. it is absolutely tragic on what happened. >> the shooting is raising awareness. it may prompt some of them re- looking at the protocols. joining us live from the facebook headquarters. here is azenith smith. >> reporter: we have seen a lot of security on camera, in fact, there was a security vehicle at the front entrance for most of the night. the workers i talked to said that they cannot help but question their safety after this tragedy. >> she has worked at google for the last three years and the engineer never worried about this. >> reporter:

family members say aghdam lived with her 90-year-old grandmother in san diego. she was a really good person. a vegan and animal loving person. >> i'm sorry, i don't know nothing. i have no idea. >> reporter: mountain view police say they had no idea she was possibly violent. they found her sleeping in a car hours before the shooting working off a missing persons report. she was in a parking lot 28 miles from youtube headquarters. they say she was calm and cooperated and they let her go. for years she posted eccentric youtube videos about being vegan, working out, and animal cruelty. in recent years, her posts started targeting youtube and her frustrations with the online video giant de monetizing her posts. >> i have been filtered and i'm not the only one. recently they attacked one of my channels. >> reporter: in 2016 on her personal website she wrote, youtube filtered my channels to keep them from getting views. she called youtube employees close the minded allegedly discouraging her --closed minded, allegedly discouraging her from making videos. she protested

aghdam has a small profile in iran. several iranians said that aghdam's video explained the vegan diet. >> you can see it's pretty gray outside. >>> spencer christian with when this storm is expected to hit. >> the early stages of the storm are pushing into the north bay right now. let's look at live doppler 7, you can see a blanket of green covering the screen there. that doesn't mean that all locations are receiving rainfall, but we do have reports of light rain across the region. tonight's storm only ranks a 1 on the storm impact scale. here's a little forecast animation starting this afternoon to the early evening hours, 10:00 tonight we'll see the rain becoming more concentrated in the north bay, by 2:00 a.m., we'll see light to moderate rainfall with pockets of heavy downpours, indicated by the areas of yellow there. that will start to swing southward and eastward by the middle of the morning commute. it's going to be a wet and challenging morning commute. and by that time the storm will have intensified to a leve

nasim aghdam in 200 9 was photographed. >> i'm sorry. i had no idea. >> reporter: she was not violent according to her family until tuesday and a brief rampage on a patio. >> i'm sorry. i can't believe it. >> reporter: her father said watch her video. you will see. >> i don't know how she did like this. >> reporter: federal agents spent the day searching two homes and talking to the relatives reported nasim aghdam missing on monday. two mountain view officers found her sleeping in her car on 2:00 a.m. on tuesday. she said that she was having family trouble and move to go the bay area. >> they asked her questions being a danger to herself and others. there was nothing in the behavior or can conversation. >> reporter: nothing to suggest that she was going to a gun range to practice and then head to youtube. >> she had a problem with youtube. >> reporter: learning where she was, they called the police back to warn them. >> told them that she might -- there's a reason she went there. she may do something. i did not know that she had a gun. >

aghdam went to a gun range hours before the shooting.ut before that, mountain view police officers questioned her at this walmart parking lot where she was sleeping in her car. the chief, however, says they found nothing suspicious. >> she just expressed that she was having family issues many she was relocating. she did not want to be in the san diego area. she was up here to find a job. >> reporter: atf spent the day searching the home where she lived with her grandmother as well as her father's home. he could only say he was sorry. >> all the human, i'm sorry. i can't believe it. reporter: her family was well awear she w aware she was upset with youtube. but when asked if she had a history of mental illness, the family said no. >> we have much more on the strangers who helped the victims. how twitter stepped in to stop the information and her background and even the youtube videos. >>> let's shift our focus to the rough weather, the mt. tam camera is clear enough to see san francisco, but by this time morrow, that will be a different s

nasim aghdam described herself as an artist, musician and begin activist. despite reports earlier that she had ties to one of the victims, police say that is not the case and it appears they were random victims. >> we have no information to suggest she has any connection or relationship with any individual who was on the premises at the time of the incident. that is not to say we may not run across that, right now there is absolutely nothing that is substantiating that.>> reporter: nasim aghdam's family reported her missing from southern california a few days ago. the shooter's brother was worried she would act on a grudge against you too. he said the family alerted police when they reported her missing before the shooting. mountain view police say they came into contact with nasim aghdam wench -- when she was located sleeping in a car. dean police have scheduled a news conference with an update on their investigation for 9 am this morning. >>> the shooter described herself as an artist, musician and canadian. >> she posted this video on instagram five days

a woman said she saw aghdam thrown the items in there on monday. the federal agents were also spotted outside the family home in menifee in riverside county. it's unclear what the agents found during that search. >>> this afternoon aghdam's father came out of the house and handed out a typed statement to the family to the media reading in part, "our family is in absolute shock and can't make sense of what has happened yesterday. although no words can describe our deep pain, our family would like to express their utmost regret and sorrow for what happened to innocent victims," and her aunt had this to say. >> to drive a license you have to have an eye exam. how come for getting a stupid gun you don't need mental doctor or something? i don't know. >> the aunt went on to say the family warned mountain view police that she had a grudge against youtube. kpix5's kiet do is in mountain view with that part of the story. kiet? >> reporter: yes. we are getting more details about when the shooter was interviewed right in this parking lot a day and a half ago.

everybody kind of looked up and didn't know what it was. >> reporter: aghdam's father tells cbs news that his daughter an activist and animal rights activist had problems with youtube. >> i'm being discriminated on youtube and i'm not the only one. >> reporter: aghdam's father said she went missing for a few days and when police found her near company headquarters, he warned she might cause trouble there. police say the shooting carried out with 59 millimeter handgun took place at a court yard yard youtube. officers arrived within two minutes. >> they found one victim at the front door. they checked on that person. you youtube employees, to their credit, helped us by standing by with the victim so officers could enter to search. >> reporter: police say there's no evidence aghdam knew any of the victims or was specifically targeting anyone in particular. one was shot and suffered an ankle injury trying to run to safety. >> danielle, thanks. >>> now to severe weather hitting a big chunk of the country. a strong cold front capable of producing powerful winds, tornados, and flooding is h

aghdam posted videos on youtube.eportedly was very angry at youtube, accusing it of restricting her web traffic. now, we just checked the hospital again. the three people who were injured yesterday in the shooting at youtube headquarters are still being treated at zuckerberg san francisco general hospital. >> that is the only level one trauma center. we have alex savidge live at the hospital with more on how the victims are doing. alex. >> reporter: claudine, dave, good morning to you. the three people who were shot and wounded during the attack at youtube headquarters remain here at zuckerberg san francisco general hospital, continuing to be treated for those injuries. we understand these three victims were not targeted for any specific reason. according to authorities. doctors also telling that you say once all three of those people arrived here at the emergency room, they were alert and talking and they are very aware of what took place yesterday and what happened to them. the most severely injured of the three is

nasim aghdam shot and wounded three people, before killing herself.re why she targeted youtube from her own youtube videos. ♪ >> online, the shooter, nasim aghdam expressed anger at youtube. >> she had been a prolific contributor to the video sharing site, posting videos on fitness, veganism, and rights. and police say she had a 9 millimeter semiautomatic handgun registered in her name. and visited a shooting range before going to youtube. police say the shooter wounded three people in youtube's open courtyard and then killed herself. investigators covered her body with a yellow tarp. is there any suggestion of terrorism involved in this at all? >> well, we know she was upset with youtube. he determined right now that's the motivation that we have identified. >> last week, aghdam's family reported her missing from her home in san diego. yesterday morning hours before the shooting police in mountain view found her sleeping in her car, 25 miles south of youtube. they alerted her family. and aghdam's father said she warned officers she had a grudge again