ken allman says there will be to memorial sites at the mall today. what will be at the outside entrance near the fountain at starbucks and the other will be at centre court. >> another deep freeze with dangerous cold gripping parts of the midwest this morning. wind chillill see between 30 and 60 below zero. freezing rain, sleet, and snow are expected as far south as texas. a winter watch has been issued for tomorrow for all of the gulf coast states. >> marion barry remains at howard university hospital this morning. his spokeswoman says he could be released today. she has not said why he was admitted. we are told that he is in good spirits and has been working from his hospital bed. he has been in the hospital for more than two weeks now. several tweets have been posted to his twitter account. people in gaithersburg are remembering a teenager killed in a crash. >> they are also praying for her friend who is seriously hurt. >> low wereh and walking near muncaster mill road when a car hit them. french died. >> hundreds gathered sunday night in gaithers

it is going to be an active crime scene for some time. >> you heard county executive ken allman say this is an active scene and it will be for quite some time. thee peoplthree people are deadw after allman spoke with the press, police chief came on. >> at 11:15 this morning our 911 center received a number of calls for shots fired. we had officers quickly get into the area, and we were able to identify three victims at an upper level store in the columbia mall. one of those victims appears to be the shooter. we do not have the identify of the victims yet. we do not have a motive for the shooting. again, this is 2 hours 15 minutes into the scene. we're still trying to secure the mall to make sure again that there is nobody else injured. then we're getting our investigators into that crime season to do their work which will enable me to answer many of the questions that you have that i frankly can't answer right now because i don't have the information. >> that is the police chief reporting that shots have been fired and there is one more injury that has been reported, a shotgun wound to t

howard county executive ken allman says he will be there at 1:00 to have lunch when the mall reopens in the food court. miguel? >> erin mcpike, thank you very much. >>> on the phone with me now from columbia, maryland, is evelyn mcdonald. evelyn and brianna benlolo were close friends. evelyn, our condolences for your loss. thank you for chatting with us a little bit. how are you doing? >> it's just so shocking. it's just a complete tragedy. it's a horrible thing. we're hanging in there. >> and ms. benlolo's family, how are they holding up? >> you know, i'm not quite sure. i was friends with brianna through school. i didn't really get to meet her family. so i'm not sure how they're holding up. but i do want to send my deepest sympathy to them and let them know that we are praying for them and hope they're doing okay. >> tell us a little bit about brianna. what she was like. >> oh, god. she was just full of energy. she was so nice. just an amazing artist. just an amazing person inside and out. it's such a shame. >> did she like working at this store? >> she loved it. she was actually f

we're going to hear from our county executive ken allman and our chief of police bill mcmahon. >> thankonce again. you know, my deepest thank yous go out to our men and women in law enforcement who arrived on the scene within two minutes of the first call that we got to 911. and did not wait to go in to the mall to do the things that they're trained to do. both our tactical team and patrol officers and, you know, these are the kinds of things that unfortunately in our nation our law enforcement train on and are prepared to do and they did exactly what they were trained to do. both our folkses here in howard county and all of our neighboring partners from many counties throughout maryland, state police, federal partners. as you can tell, the mall, you saw a lot of folks come out of the mall. the mall has been cleared. this took a long time because, if you imagine how many rooms there are in the mall, how many back offices, rest rooms, and dressing rooms and nooks and crannies in the mall. the tactical teams went through every inch of the mall and it has been cleared. as you know, the mal