i say it in mississippi that's a slave and really there's a 3 million of us in mississippi, we love mississippi but 1 million afro-americans every time that flag flies is an insult to us. we gave gave 247 years of free labor to build this country and to build the south, 247 years! [applause]. it break our hearts to fly it, that remind us that we were slaves. we are better than that, as is date of 3 million people, 11 billion afro-americans let's get something that represents all of us because not any of us going anywhere. we love the state, but we hate to be embarrassed every time i come to this capital for the last 23 years and it's flying above the capitol reminded me that my ancestors were slaves after giving 247 years it meant nothing. we have enough decency in the state of mississippi that we change and get another emblem. thank you [applause]. >> i think before this issue is over, dennis mitchell will have a new chapter to add to his mississippi history. always a new chapter. yes ma'am. >> i have a question, it's not regarding the flag. i have two children and we have spent our whole year

gautier on the southeast and cleveland on the mississippi river on the west side of mississippi.ousands believe he may have gone to delta state and shot a fellow professor because of a love triangle between the shooter, the one shot, and the woman in gautier. here's he details. listen in. >> we're grieving on this campus for his loss and our condolences are with his family at this time. we also are still under lockdown and will continue to be through the day. we cancelled all classes through night classes tonight. and we also want to say a special thanks to all of the law enforcement officials. as you have seen on our campus they have come out from every aspect of this state, city, or county, and we really appreciate they're doing to apprehend the person of interest and we feel very confident with the work they're doing and we thank them. >> i'm going to reiterate what happened this morning at approximately 10:18 a.m., the delta state university police department received a call of shots fired in jobe hall. they immediate my contacted the cleveland police department. upon the off

he said, we want you in mississippi to decide how mississippi's golf coast will be rebuilt. we are not going to decide in washington, but i will give you all of the help i can give you. the federal government took some really bad criticism. a lot of it very deserved. their logistical system that they had imposed totally collapsed, never worked. we are within a day or hours of catastrophic results because of it. but we were grounded and i have to tell you, 11 of the ways we worked around fema, the federal government failure, was the u.s. military stepped in. they brought us 1.7 million meals that the airlifted in and it took the place of what fema was supposed to have done. these weren't disastrous system meals, these were pentagon meals that were supposed to be for soldiers and saying we could get them replaced before we run out. so many times the federal government was a great partner, they did a whole lot right than wrong, but they sure did do somethings wrong. some things wrong. i'm not saying they didn't. i hope when you read this book, the book is half as good as the st

cleveland, mississippi. as a child, my education about civil rights came to a great degree from walter cronkite. that is what i saw on the news as it was taking place. but my question for . [applause] >> please be seated. well, good evening to all. my name

we've had police in goe shea, mississippi, which is in south mississippi, confirming that they are looking for a suspect in a shooting down there that isn't -- the man is an employee at delta state university and he shot somebody down there and then headed to delta state. >> so we have two shootings that could be connected with the same assailant. right now it's a massive manhunt because the shooter is still at large. live pictures now over cleveland, mississippi, at delta state. as you can see all of those students filing out in orderly fashion, ta reese, i don't know if you can see the monitor, but this video just coming in right now on an instagram post from somebody who was in the building next door to jobe hall, here it is. >> they're still at large as of now. those are police officers. the shooting was right next to the building i'm in. please keep me in your prayers or good wishes and everybody on campus. >> there you have a student or member of the faculty, but as we see from live picture there's are a lot of people walking outside in orderly fashion, though we know the shooter is

other mississippi topics. the final area that i like to deal with is dealing with battlefield preservation to a lot of that has to do with memory and postwar activity, how the veterans came back and look at what they did decades before and after wanted to preserve what they did, then memory and so on. and they do that through, one of the big ways is to preserve the battlefields that they fought on. so very interested in the history of battlefield preservation as well. >> afternoon. i mike ballard. i am a professor emeritus of libraries mississippi state university. america's is one of those titles one of those tajik if you stay at a job long enough with out getting run off. i was there over 30 years. got all my decrees the mississippi state. so from ackerman, mississippi, where i live and live all during those years, the highway to starkville is like a long driveway. for me. my major interest of civil war history has been the western ear of the work because i'm convinced, as are many others, that that's what t

whistling at a white woman in mississippi. snake. >> what did you tell him? >> we didn't have time to tell him anything. our reaction told him everything. we ran to the car and got out of town as fast as we could. >> did you figure there would be disaster. >> i thought if they caught us they'd whip us, but murder never crossed my mind. never thought he would be kill. >> the boys ran into the fields to hide. trouble didn't follow that day or three days after. by saturday the boys all but forgot their fear. until late in the night, pounding at the door woke them from a sound sleep. when i opened my eyes, i saw two white men. i recognised one. the guy with the gun. he ordered me to lay back down. and made emmett get up and put his clothes on. and his mother came in he begged and pleaded. offering money. >> she offered money. >> yes, to leave them alone. >> he hesitated. but he didn't. >> he wasn't going to. him. >> the men took emmett away down the dark road. what were you thinking, your you? >> they said they were going to bring him back. i lay there in shock a

whistling at a white woman in mississippi. snake. >> what did you tell him? >> we didn't have time to tell him anything. our reaction told him everything. we ran to the car and got out of town as fast as we could. >> did you figure there would be disaster. >> i thought if they caught us they'd whip us, but murder never crossed my mind. never thought he would be kill. >> the boys ran into the fields to hide. trouble didn't follow that day or three days after. by saturday the boys all but forgot their fear. until late in the night, pounding at the door woke them from a sound sleep. when i opened my eyes, i saw two white men. i recognised one. the guy with the gun. he ordered me to lay back down. and made emmett get up and put his clothes on. and his mother came in he begged and pleaded. offering money. >> she offered money. >> yes, to leave them alone. >> he hesitated. but he didn't. >> he wasn't going t him. >> the men took emmett away down the dark road. what were you thinking, your you? >> they said they were going to bring him back. i lay there in shock all

cleveland, mississippi. mississippi's delta region near the arkansas-mississippi state line. said jackson before. that is not true. it is a couple hours from there. this is a situation we're watching closely. we don't have word feathering out beyond the campus if they put things in lockdown and how lockdowns are affecting wider community. we'll look into this. bring you more information as soon as we get it. >>> and now this. a fox news alert on the situation that literally exploded in size overnight. dramatic scenes in northern california. several wildfires are raging on there. one person dead in all of this. so far more than 100,000-acres. hundreds of homes and other buildings destroyed. people leaving everything behind as you might haj to stay with friends, families, shelters, wherever. let's bring claudia cowan in the heart of middleton, a northern california town. they have had it bad. >> reporter: they really have, harris. we're 35, 40 miles north of napa but in the middle of total devastation. entire neighborhoods here in mid till town have been -- middletown. a horrif

cleveland, mississippi. cleveland, mississippi. apparently, a situation at delta state university, and it is an active shooter apparently being reported there. again, if you are looking at the map and it is odd to you, cleveland, mississippi. this is a public university and apparently over 4,000 students, but there have been tweets going out from the delta state site of two students saying that the campus is under lockdown and asking everyone, and you can see it right there, please stay inside and away from the w windows, and the campus remains under lockdown, and they are saying that more information is go ing the be distributed as they get it, but they did put out about 19 to 20 minutes ago, and it could be as much as 22 or 23 minutes ago that an active shooter has been spotted on campus near a place called the jobe hall, and please take immediate lockdown action. and again, it is delta state university in cleveland, mississippi, and everybody there in lockdown and asked to stay away from the windows. i wi

they were joined by 160 and other indians in the lower mississippi. seven americans including oliver pollock had an american battle flag probably the stars and stripes. he'd spent the previous weeks assembling with the new disdain that recognized the united states as an independent country and britain might retaliate. still that seemed like a large gathering just to make the difference of two or three of the listened to the french translation as they agreed to keep up with anguish. the news was startling. they haven't simply recognized the independence of the united states into the declared war on britain and expected people to either part. the award of apprciation they could render the horrors that the british have put them true that it cut through where they built new lives of the french and spanish governors. the hope for independence and prosperity was in the spanish rule, not british. it was to protect the local political and economic independence which they saw as threatened by the british. these are the spanish of the british could count on the

he worked this area of mississippi before. how do law enforcement officers go about trying to figure out whether that second shooting that mark alluding to there, whether or not it's connected to the one we have seen at delta state? >> well, that vehicle that mark described is going to go a long way into seeing if the connection is there between the murder on the coast and going to be, you know, four and a half hour drive away from cleveland. so, the f the vehicle's found on the campus, that gives them leads if that's connected. >> and, jim, you know the area of mississippi pretty well. you also know this campus well. i was going to ask, do you think that there would be obviously, you know, circuit -- closed circuit television or security on campus itself that may be important clue right now for authorities as they try to figure out the suspect and talk to us about the campus, difficult for him to get away? talk to us about the area that surround delta state university. >> well, right. not difficult to get away at all. if you

we are mississippi state! fear the bells! >> i fear the bells but for different reasons. >> lsu is nobody and you still lost. >> you have an argument here from an s.e.c. household. this is a house divided. he likes mississippi state. she like s s ole miss. they have a lot to say about lsu. >> what happened when you played alabama? that's all i have to say. >> we walked around. >> we beat l.a. >> nice to see everyone could get along in the s.e.c. [ bleep ] shut the up and listen to me. >> thanks for spending time with us today. appreciate it. see you next time on "right this minute." my name is phil zietlow, and i've been an engineer on the cheerios team for 51 years. about five years ago, i found out that if my daughter-in-law, joyce, eats anything with gluten in it, she feels pretty darn terrible. so my team and i came up with a way to remove the grains that contain gluten, from the naturally gluten free oats that cheerios are made of. so now joyce and i can have cheerios together anytime we [000:29:55;00]

predominant population east of the mississippi. the spanish government for a few years relaxed the rules on marriages rather than force people who wanted to get married in their territory to convert to catholicism. they allowed them to agree that they would it raise her children catholic and a priest could marry them. otherwise, they would not be married. during these years, someone named william clark, with a great big signature like this, signed in this one register in st. charles, the marriage register, he signed william clark as a witness. i did not pay too much attention until one day after my book came out. a photographer from the "post-dispatch" came by to photograph something 200 years old, the only thing we could come up with like the john hancock. these attention-getting images were the signatures of william clark for this book. this guy looked at me and said, is this the signature of the william clark? and i spoke truthfully. well, i don't know. [laughter] it had concerned people who were not members of the parish, becau

cleveland, mississippi, campus is on lockdown.

it's between memphis and jackson, mississippi.

we are mississippi state! fear the bells!s nobody and you still lost. >> you have an argument here from an s.e.c. household. this is a house divided. he likes mississippi state. she likes ole miss. they have a lot to say about lsu. >> what happened when you played alabama? that's all i have to say. >> we walked around. >> we beat l.a. >> nice to see everyone could get along in the s.e.c. [ bleep ] shut the up and listen to me. >> thanks for spending time with us today. appreciate it. see you next time on "right this minute." >>> live from new york city it's the wendy williams show. today, kelly ripa is here helping win cash for wendy watchers. she's playing wendy in a game of ripa or stripa. and the judges from the new hit show "hot bench" are here. plus has beyonce got a second secret album plans be leaked? wendy's got the story. now, here's wendy. ♪ [ cheers and applause ]

it happened again, this time in a rural town of stone wall mississippi.lthough there are accounts of what happened that night, those who know jonathan say one thing is clear. the man is now gone. >> i lost the best son in the world. >> reporter: stone wall is a town named for a hero of the old south. general stone wall jack on. summer brings sweltering heat and the air is heavy with humidity. to escape the sun, jonathan exercises his forces at night. the horse trainer had planned on competing in the harness races in the local county fair that month. however, jonathan would never make it to the races. while riding his horse through down, the 39-year-old father of two ran into a friend, teasing him about his slow-moving horse. as the two made their way down the road chatting, 25-year-old police officer suspected jonathan's friend of drunk-driving and pulled him over near this gas station. even though jonathan continued riding along, it would not be the last he saw of officer harrington. around 10:30, jonathan encountered officer harrington again, this time

mr go is what locals call the mississippi river gulf outlet. once dubbed the surge superhighway -it's a 76-mile artificial chanel built for commercial shipping. dr john lopez is a member of the mr go must go coalition. he's also a coastal biologist who consulted for the army corps of engineers. >> tell me about mr go why was it created? >> well it was like a lot of federal projects. it was based on some sort of cost benefit that they projected by increased commercial use navigation on the channel. now that might seem kind of ironic because it's built right adjacent to the mississippi river. they saw some advantage but in reality it didn't pan out. the use of the channel was very small. >> and because mr go cut right through precious wetlands...that act as a flood buffer---there were immediate community concerns. >> there were people...even before...some locals who were heroically trying to fight to get this thing changed but it was just a few locals fighting this huge bureaucracy. >> their concerns proved valid on august 29th, 2005. we're at th

. >> coming up the democratic nominee in the mississippi governor's race is a political outsider. this one didn't run a real campaign tore nomination tore vote for himself. he put his name on the ballot and still won. we meet him next. >> plus, antiestablishment candidates are turning both races upside down. >>> the kentucky clerk gaoled for refusing to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples is asking for her freedom. an emergency motion has been filed in federal court, after arriving. davis has been in gaol since last thursday. >>> in confidential politics, labour day is the start of a new campaign face. over the next several months there'll be debates, television adds. all of it crucial for hillary clinton who finds herself facing challenges of six months ago that seems unimaginable. >> we'll fight until we break through the barriers of equal pay for equal work. >> reporter: for hillary clinton, it is troubling. the democratic presidential candidate momentum from bernie sanders >> we'll create an economy that works for all of us. not just the people on top. >> the latest po

mississippi was probably the most separated state.uably, that was the last battle of the civil war. riots, whiche the were tragic, on that sunday, which killed two people, there was a kentucky game in jackson, in which an extraordinary scene occurred where the governor of mississippi went down at midfield at halftime and gave a call for insurrection, that we must stand up to the federal government. students took that and went back to the campus and helped breed this toxic atmosphere that led to the riots. really a fascinating year, 2, because we had integration and then we had the cuban missile crisis. have known you for a long time and you tommy to be a healthier eater -- but in this book, you and your dad split hotdogs. >> listen, being at any sporting event gives you absolute permission to eat anything. john: at an sec game there is no meat product at any hotdog. [laughter] john: i am looking at my card -- i have been instructed to do the cheer with you. i have nevery, i will neve heard it. are you ready? >> hell yeah. almight, who

breaking news out of cleveland, mississippi. the sheriff's department has confirmed an active shooter situation on the campus of delta state university. the university has confirmed one person has died. the school is on lockdown with students inside. nbc's mark potter tracking the latest developments for us. start with what we know about this confirmed death, because it is a staff member there. >> that's right, thomas. we are hearing from the county coroner's office from a man named murray rourke that a professor at the school, delta state university, has been killed. he was shot and killed. that's all we know at this time. we do not know an age. he is described as a white male. there is nothing more than that at this time. we do know that earlier this morning, a report went out that there was an active shooter at delta state university in cleveland, mississippi, about 115 miles south of memphis. it's between memphis and jackson, mississippi. the school was immediately put on lockdown. students were told to shelter in place. one

, two hours north of jackson, mississippi. we first heard about an active shooter situation on the campus just before noon eastern in a tweet from the school's official twitter page saying that a shooter had been spotted near joe hall on campus. the campus was immediately placed on lockdown. the students and faculty have been asked to stay indoors and stay away from windows until they are given the all clear. now the deputy coroner told cnn that the professor who was killed was in his office at the time of the shooting. the coroner's office also says no gun was found at the scene, but authorities did find two empty shell casings. again, authorities believe the shooter responsible for this is still at large. we have learned that all the schools in the cleveland school can district are also on lockdown because of the shooting. several law enforcement agencies are now involved. they include campus police and even the atf. the search for this person continues. the person who killed this delta state university professor, there is n

mississippi being the backbone of the confederacy. we have officer david porter, president lincoln, secretary of the navy gideon welles, secretary of state william seward, general george mcclellan, secretary of war edwin stanton. they begin to talk about this need to seize new orleans. they plan that assault. predominately, they plan to assault fort saint philip and fort jackson. the problem is these are yankees from the north and they do not know those forts. someone at a meeting in arlington, which has been taken over, says there's a young lieutenant in washington right now who knows everything about this two forts. so the call goes out to find weitzel and bring him right away. he shows up with these the wigs -- bigwigs of the federal government. they ask what he knows, and he asks what do you need to know? i know exactly how to take the two forts because i know their weaknesses. so they make weitzel the chief engineer of the mission against new orleans. this twentysomething has the key to unlock the two forts, if you will. a large

a college is on lock down in mississippi.t in the search. plus carly fiorina taking on donald trump and a new web ad about p her own face. and her fiance drowned her in a kyakting trip. the woman said she wanted him dead. does that mean she killed him? join us for the real story. >> president obama coming under fire from the hindu community over his support for the sri lanka to conduct their own war crimes. we have footage from a documentary about the war. 200000 people died. there were information about the war crimes and expected to endorse an inquiry. and back to one of our top stories. heightened security concerns ahead of the pope's visit to the united states. u.s. authorities already have disrupted one plot targeting pope francis. he points out that this pope poses a bigger than usual challenge. >> the pope is i am catholic be and passionate man and get out with the people and with that comes a large security risk. >> joining us now is michael who was homeland security advisor when the pope said mass in 2008. you agree

at 5:04 local time there in cleveland, mississippi. local officials saying that shannon lamb is no longer a person of interest. he is now a suspect. as you just heard, upgraded from a person of interest now to a suspect. they have also said earlier they believe he is driving a 2011 black dodge avenger with a mississippi license plate. this with the death of a professor at delta university. this is a small town, a small university. not more than 4,000 students. a opportunity of not more than 33,000, 34,000 in the area we are talking about. we'll continue to listen to what they are saying and what develops there in cleveland, mississippi. again the suspect, shannon lamb being named. we'll get back to that a little later here on msnbc. >>> the tale two of front runners. donald trump surging while hillary clinton slips. trump's rally in dallas will get started in the next hour. 20,000 people expected there. new polling showing he is still leading. the republican field by a wide margin. 13 percentage points. on the democratic side, hillary

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enrique: un profesor disparÓ y matÓ a uno de sus colegas en una universidad de mississippi.la maÑana varios disparos estremecieron la universidad delta en cleveland, mississippi. muy pronto las autoridades anunciaron que el profesor ethan smith habÍa sido asesinado, pero no encontraban al sospechoso. el campus universitario fue acordonado por la policÍa, y a travÉs de mensajes de texto y redes sociales, se pidiÓ a los estudiantes permanecer en sus salones. >> perdimos al profesor y estamos llevando un duelo en este campo. juan: cuando se descartÓ que el asesino continuara en el campus, se iniciÓ la evacuación de centenares de jÓvenes. la policÍa informÓ que quien tambiÉn trabaja como profesor de geografÍa era sospechoso, no sÓlo de ese asesinato, sino tambiÉn de haber matado horas antes emmy una mujer de 41 aÑos en su casa, en una pequeÑa poblaciÓn costera de mississippi, para luego ir a cleveland y cometer su segundo homicidio a mÁs de 300 millas de distancia. >> despuÉs de llegar a la escena, la policÍa descubriÓ el cuerpo de la mujer. juan: aunque la policÍa de estas dos

coming in to play especially the way mississippi state made their season beating l.s.u. last year. 2:42 to go in this one and it's fourth down. collin barber on to punt. that will bounce at the 12 and go into the end zone. touchback. 45-yard punt. >> gary: every rep that mccrary puts on in this football game, the hope for vanderbilt is that he will be that much better later in the year. he's a work in progress. they know that. they think he's got great up-side potential but until he lifts his game another notch it's going to be a struggle for them, and again, for the 14th straight game, vanderbilt is going to lose the turnover battle. >> verne: first down, 10. mccrary. complete out to the 27 yard line to ralph webb. jake ganus made the tackle. mccrary. off his back foot. comes right. that's going to be a first down at the 39 yard line. clock will stop as they move the chain. again, it's ralph webb with the catch. mccrary completes it out near the 47. kris kentera. >> gary: a win for georgia, completing a pass short of the first down is exactly what georgia is trying to a

this hour with breaking news of an active shooter on the campus of delta university in cleveland, mississippi. this is according to the coroner there in delta county who said that there is one fatality, and the campus is remaining under lockdown and stay inside and away from the windows and tweeted out from the university. and now we go to elina machado who is following the details. >> well, briana, this is a active scene, and developing situation, and we learned about the situation a little bit over an hour ago of a lockdown situation at delta state university in cleveland, mississippi, and as a result of the active shooter situation, and just a little, and a few moments ago we heard from the coroner's office in this area, and they told us that a male professor was shot and killed at delta state. the victim was in his office at the time of the shooting, and no gun was found in the office, no gun was found at the scene, but the deputy coroner says that two empty shell casings were found which suggests that it was not a suicide, but in fact, that somebody killed this professor, and authorities

in comparison to mississippi.not enough work in johnson city, tennessee, or in cleveland, ohio, and certainly not enough full-time, full-year, stable work. and automation is likely to make this worse. so when a lot of economists look at this, they say, well, maybe we should create a credit system. but that seems that went against what our respondents wanted. they wanted to work. even if, you know, mary in the last chapter from the delta can't stand on her feet for more than 20 minutes, she doesn't want to be on ssi. she wants a job, you know? and, you know, if you look around america, even though these folks are generally low-skilled, there is so much work to be done. you know, we don't have enough after school programs, you know? our streets are full of litter. national parks aren't able to open all year round. our libraries are short staffed. we can't open our recking ration centerings. -- recreation centers. so what we really call for is a radical rethinking of what it means to guarantee work opportunity. and w

university in mississippi. we'll be monitoring this during the news cast and you can look forup dates online and 6abc.com. >> pope francis lands in philadelphia in just 11 days, officials said a threat against the pontiff has been disrupted. michael mccall told told martha raddatz that he disrupted the threat. the secret service said the threat was aspirational but far from an active plot. >>> the city parking authority has started handing out special parking placards. all cars must be moved from affected descreets or they will be -- streets or they will be towed. there's a 20-dollar pals to park cars in a designated garage. you can keep that if you have a valid residential parking permit. >>> the family of and police officer richard bows will greet pope francis as he lands at philadelphia international airport. the announcement was made at saint christopher was a church in somerton. officer bows was shot responding to the shooting took the life of another officer in 2008. even though he was injured bows return

welcome to the mississippi bob festival. i'm going to quickly intro does my panelists and then we'll jump flight and the last ten minutes is for audience questions is it my panel. first is sterling plumpp, a poet and essayist, the author of 14 books. the editor of two anthologies. professor emary tis at the university of illinois chicago where the served in the english department. most lieutenant he served as a visiting prefer in the master of fine arts -- the rye sendent -- recipient awards. the 2014 american book award for literature. he is writer in residence at the [applause] >> next is beth ann fennelly. she was named the 2011 outstanding liberal arts teacher of the year at ole miss. he work has been included in the best american poetry series, published three poetry books. one won the kenyan prize. her second book and third books were published in 2004 and 2008. she has also published a book of nonfiction in 2006 with norton. thank you. [applause] >> next is 'er madden. the author of the trilogy of novels. the trilogy

to mississippi. there's not enough in cleveland ohio and certainly not enough for tim stable stableford and automation is likely to make this worse. so when a lot of economists look at this they say maybe we should create a really rich unemployment system but it seems to us that went against what the respondents wanted to work even if mary in the last chapter can stand on her feet more than 20 minutes she wants a job and if you look around america even though they are generally low skilled, there is so much work to be done. we don't have enough afterschool programs. the streets are full, the parks are not kept up and able to open all year around. the libraries are short staffed weekend opened the recreation centers so what we call for is a radical rethinking of what it means to work the opportunity. and we think that given the fact that we are in a country that are the closest and ship and everybody buys that we need to find ways as connecting the opportunities like the old work programs that we saw

they are from mississippi. right? both of them are mississippi. they went to school in mississippi, graduated, came to chicago. >> great. in and around jackson? or another-- >> my mother's from carthage, which is-- >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> the jackson area. my dad is from a little town called etta, which is oxford. >> gotcha. >> so understanding where they came from, moving to chicago to start a family and to raise us and to provide the opportunities that we had was just really astounding and-- and amazing in itself. >> what was the moment where you said, "i really want to go for this, and i think i can be successful." was there a moment? >> that's a very good question. i would say, as a junior, i was just about getting to the next tournament. you didn't see tennis the way you see it now. every day, looking on television, you're watching the pros and you can aspire to be that and knowing that it's a possibility. >> when i was growing up, i never knew that that was really a possibility. 'cause the environment that i grew up in was not a tennis envir

>>> we're following breaking news out of mississippi this hour where an active shooter is still on the loose after shooting and killing at least one person on the campus of delta state university. police have identified 45-year-old shannon lam, a current employee of the school as a person of interest. >> the person of interest that we're looking for is mr. shannon lam. he is a employee of the university. and at this time, we're following up on leads, and we have nothing else to release at this time. >> according to police, ethan schmidt and assistant professor of american history was inside his office when he was shot and killed. police have begun to clear all academic buildings on campus to ensure the safety of the students, and classes have been canceled for the remainder of the day. hundreds of law enforcement from across the state, along with federal atf agents are on the scene. joining me now, mark potter, who has been following this story for us. mark, let's talk about this person of interest. what do we know about him and what authorities are saying? >> what we know is that he i