omar thornton is shooting people. i just got shot. >> reporter: when steve hollander called police early tuesday morning, the company vice president was already a survivor. grazed by two gunshots, one in the jaw. >> bleeding all over the place. >> okay. how many people got shot? >> i don't know. >> okay. you don't know. and you're shot where? >> in my head. >> you're shot in the head? >> yeah. >> reporter: hollander hid in an office as the gunman, 34-year-old omar thornton, continued his rampage. >> he's still shooting. i hear guns out there. >> he used to work there? >> yeah, till i just fired him. >> today? >> today. he's in the parking lot chasing people. >> he's in the parking lot chasing people. >> reporter: his wife, susan hollander, is still stunned. >> it's just shocking. it's still shocking. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: it would be the deadliest workplace shooting in connecticut state history. nine dead, including the shooter. >> i can't believe the guy is gone. >> reporter: police say during a disciplinar

>> this is omar thornton. the shooter in manchester. >> yes. where are you, sir? >> i'm in the building. you probably want to know the reason why i shot this place up. the place here is a racist place. >> yep. i understand that. >> they treat me bad over there. and treat all the other black employees bad over here, too. so, i just take it into my own hands. and i handled it. i wish i could have gotten more people. >> yeah. are you armed, sir? do you have a weapon with >> >> reporter: thornton opened fire after an early-morning disciplinary hearing, where he was forced to resign when he was faced with videotaped evidence that he was stealing beer. >> this is a horrible situation. i understand that. >> you don't need to calm me down. i'm already calmed down. i'm not gonna kill. >>dr: he had smuggled guns in the building in a lunchbox. >> how much ammunition do you have with you? >> i got -- i shot -- oh. >> what's that? >> it's all right. i guess it's got me -- i have to take care of business. tell love them. and i got to go now. >> reporter: the owner of the compan

the gunman has been identified as omar thornton of emfield.rtford hosp >> very sad story. the latest we're hearing now is some of the victims involved in all this, were people at this plant for something like 30 years. they were on th ♪ skinny, so skinny >>> and welcome back, everybody. we need to send some get well wishes to the queen of soul, aretha franklin, this morning. apparently, she fell and broke some ribs. suffering some serious abdominal pain. we don't have details on how she fell or why. she did have two concerts scheduled here in new york city and brooklyn, coming up in the next few days. she has to cancel them or postpone them until later in the month. she was set to perform at august 11th at a birthday party for guess who? u.s. rep charlie rangel. >> oh. >> that may get postponed for other reasons. yeah. hope aretha gets better soon. this little update on the queen of soul there. feel better. >> i saw here when i was at the u.s. open. and she was there. i love her. a quote from her after this happened, i was looking forward to b

mark worked with omar thornton. he wasn't at the plant during the shooting but his son, also an employee, was and escaped. >> when i heard his voice, what a relief, you know. just to know he was okay. >> reporter: family members who had loved ones killed were taken to a local high school. the mother of one victim says she saw her son and kissed him good-bye, not knowing it would be for the last time. manuel gallegus, cbs news, manchester, connecticut. >>> the first federal judicial ruling on same-sex marriage is expected today. the ruling concerns california's proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage. voters approved prop 8 five months after the state supreme court legalized same-sex marriage. one legal expert says he has no doubt prop 8 will be thrown out. >> i would be very surprised, based upon what i saw of the trial and based upon what i saw of the interaction of judge walker, particularly in the closing arguments of the lawyers, if judge walker did not say that it's a violation of the 14th amendment equal p

christie hannah was thornton's girlfriend of nine years. share this photograph of her and thornton. she claims she saw cell phone photos of racial slurs on the bathroom wall at his work. >> one was a hangman with a noose around its neck, and underneath it said "kill." the n word. >> reporter: state police have the cell phone but refuse to discuss whether the alleged photos are on it. for this small community the focus is on honoring the dead and beginning the painful process of moving forward. clarissa ward, abc news, manchester, connecticut. >>> the ntsb is investigating a chain reaction crash on a missouri highway that left two people dead and dozens injured. it started with a pickup trick rear-ending a semi, then two school buses packed with high school students slammed into the crash site. the impact launched one of the buses into the air and onto the pickup and the other bus right onto the semi. police say the driver of the first bus lost focus, trying to avoid the accident scene. >> as she was looking into her mirrors, either to the l

kristi hannah was thornton's girlfriend of nine years. she asked for her face not to be shown on camera, although she was willing to share this photograph of her and thornton. she claims she saw cell phone photos of racial slurs on the bathroom wall at his work. >> one was a hangman with a noose around its neck and underneath it said, kill the n-word. >> reporter: state police do have the cell phone but refuse to discuss whether the alleged photos are on it. but for this small community, the focus is on honoring the dead and beginning the painful process of moving forward. clarissa ward, abc news, manchester, connecticut. >>> and we move on next to the anguishing scene on a busy highway near st. louis. kids from a band camp on two buses, and in seconds, both buses in a twisted wreck. abc's barbara pinto is in st. louis. >> reporter: it happened in a matter of seconds, a school field trip took a tragic turn. >> it was all very, very quick. really quick. >> reporter: more than 50 students from john f. hodge high school were rushed to area h

thornton used a handgun to shoot the two men who fired him. he then proceeded to the warehouse. as employees were loading beer on to trucks, thornton allegedly ran along the loading platform selectively shooting, killing some and sparing others. in all, he killed eight people before turning the gun on himself. >> i just hear the names and it just... it's very sad, you know? lost a lot of friends today. >> reporter: workers and their families gathered at the local high school waiting for word about their loved ones. one man's son literally dodged a bullet. >> when i heard his voice, what a relief, you know? just to know he was okay and i still can't wait to get up there and see him. >> reporter: one of the victims is believed to be 51-year-old bryan cirigliano, the union member representing thornton at his disciplinary hearing. >> very, very sad. >> reporter: a potential motive for the shooting? the mother of thornton's girlfriend says he complained about being racially harassed at work, a charge the company denies. in tragedies like this, there are generally heroes and we're tol

>> this is omar thornton, the shooter over here in manchester. >> reporter: thornton insisted he was finished with his rampage and tried to explain his deadly actions. >> you want to know the reason i shot. basically this is a racist place. >> yep, i understand that. >> they treat me bad over here. they treat all the other black employees bad over here too. so i just took it into my own hands and handled the problem. >> reporter: union officials say thornton who filed complaints about other work rules never filed a complaint about racism. surrounded by hartford distributor employees, the company president adamantly denied thornton's claims. >> i can state to you unequivocally that no such claim has ever been brought to the attention of our company. no such claim has been pursued under hartford distributors internal anti-discrimination and harassment policy. >> reporter: while thornton was telling a dispatcher his story, his co-workers, including a wounded victim, were frantically making their own 911 calls. >> what's going on, who got shot? >> somebody got shot, i got shot. >> stay t

omar thornton is shooting people. >> in all, delivery truck driver omar thornton killed eight people and wounded two more before taking his own life. the shooting erupted after thornton learned he was losing his job. family members say thornton had complained about racial harassment at work. >>> a disclosure from the u.s. marshal service has reignited the debate over body scanners used at airports and more and more at courthouses. the transportation security administration has insisted that scanned images of passengers cannot be recorded or stored. but the marshal service now admits that it saved tens of thousands of such images taken at a security checkpoint at a courthouse in florida. >>> now to amazing caught on tape footage of the dash cam of a maryland police cruiser. the officer was chasing a carjacked suv last month and finally cornered it on the bridge. the officer figured the suspects couldn't escape. >> because driver's side door is pinned on the car and passenger side is pinned on the bridge. i'm like, they can't get out. they can't even run. next thing i know, i see the r

it couldn't happen at a worse time. >> reporter: joanna claims her daughter dated thornton for eight years. >> not much i know about him, he was a down to earth, very nice guy, hard worker. >> reporter: fellow employees were also stunned. >> i'm trying not to cry. it's shocking especially omar, i mean, he just went -- i didn't know there was a problem. >> reporter: among the victims, victor james, a grandfather of four who would have turned 60 this month, and was planning to retire after 30 years as a driver. >> everyone at hartford distributors is devastated by this morning's tragic and senseless act. right now our focus is on the families. >> reporter: clearly omar thornton was a troubled man, but lester, tonight police are just trying to figure out exactly what it was that set him off. >> peter, thank you. >>> turning now to some extreme weather, and it's been a very hot summer across much of this country. but in the words of one meteorologist today, the heat index, what it feels like is getting pretty outrageous. that combo of temperature and humidity can make it seem much hotter

the teamster's union identified the gunman as omar thornton. a driver for a beer and wine distributor in manchester, connecticut. police say thornton was going to a meeting with management at the beer warehouse at 7 this morning when he opened fire. 8 people were killed and two others were wounded before thornton then killed himself. his union said thornton had been caught on video stealing beer. >>> a recent solar flare-up could cause some rather heavenly sights. and scientists say that increased activity is only the beginning. as jim vargas reports, the phenomenon could cause all kinds of problems during the comes months. >> reporter: this animation depicts a solar mass ejection where tons of solar plasma are blasted into space. the first was due to reach earth tonight. it's nuclear and dangerous. much of it is deflected by the earth's magnetic shield. the closer to the poles someone is the brighter the shows. they're called the northern and southern lights >> if you live in the north of the united states you might be able to see the northern

omar thornton is shooting people. i just got shot. >> you're shot where? >> in my head. >> i'm in the back paper storage closet. >> okay, stay back there. we will come to you >> again, those calls coming in today. people close to thornton, including his girlfriend, say he was the victim of racial tauntso the company denies it. and in a farewell message to his mother, thornton asked her to stop smoking. >>> some of the richest, most powerful people in america made a pledge today, spurred on by two famous philanthropists. the challenge? give away half their fortune. bianna golodryga tells us who signed on. >> reporter: $249 billion, the equivalent of almost $1,000 for every american, is how much these 40 americans are worth collectively. and today, they pledged to give at least half of their wealth away. >> we probably called somewhere between 70 and 80 people on the forbes list. and it was a very soft sell. >> reporter: warren buffett, together with bill gates, personally called their fellow billionaires, even hosted private dinners, in hopes of convincing

even thornton's own girlfriend can't explain the horror of what he did. i don't know what happeneden side of him. something snapped inside his head. >> reporter: to give you a sense of the loss, the mother of one victim said when she kissed her son that morning she had no idea it would be for the last time. thornton never complained of racial issues therefore there was no problem for them to fix. >> the uncle mentioned it in his phone call to the mother, had he mentioned racial harassment to the family prior to that call? >> reporter: well, the family says that thornton had evidence of this harassment that he had voice mail recordings and cell phone pictures and so far the family has not provided any of that evidence to us. >> tragic story. ben trace ney my in manchester, connecticut. >> so much news this morning and more to come. jeff glor is at the news desk. >> harry, eric a good morning. good morning, everyone. it's been a very hot summer and sweltering temperatures continue across much of the south this morning from missouri to mississippi. cbs news

when police arrived at the scene, thornton turned the handgun on himself. >> we do know that victims were found in different parts of the building. >> reporter: thornton had five guns registered to him. >> he was a very, very nice, down-to-earth guy. >> reporter: according to a girlfriend of his mother, he had reached his breaking point. >> the called his mother this morning. saying he shot five people. saying he loved his mother. >> reporter: for family members and fellow employees, it was a wrenching day, as they waited for news, comforting each other. asking how could someone do this? as for claims thornton was racially harassed, union officials say the record does not show a single complaint having been filed. diana alvear, abc news, manchester, connecticut. >>> the families of the six teenagers who drowned in shreveport, louisiana, are now revealing details about that terrible night. the teens were siblings and cousins. all of them were wading in the red river during a family picnic. after one of them slipped into deeper water, the others tried to help. no one knew how to swim.

thornton and the company >> thornton was found dead in the beer distribution warehouse.ton's union and the company said he never filed a complaint over racism and was fired for stealing beer and selling it. >>> it is a new pilot program designed to keep muni riders safe. community ambassadors, they are now stepping in because of the high number of crimes committed at or near bus and train stations. joe vazquez went to san francisco to show us how this new buddy system works. >>> reporter: wearing a bright green vest and armed with just a cell phone, 12 community ambassadors are now stationed at bus and train stops in areas of the city that have struggled with violent crime. >> people will feel less vulnerable, and when they look around them they will see young people and older people. they are to make them feel safer and less vulnerable. >> reporter: back in march, a surveillance camera captured this harrowing assault of a female passenger. a group of young men grabbed the woman and wrestled her down to the tracks below. the woman survived but the attack set off a series

. >>> omar thornton shot and killed eight coworkers before taking his own life tuesday, but before he killed himself, he called 911 and calmly explained his motives to the emergency operator. this is an edited version of the chilling conversation. >> this is omar thornton, the shooter over in manchester. >> yes. where are you, sir? >> i'm in the building. you probably want to know the reason why i shot this place up. this is a racist place. >> yep, i understand that. >> they treat me bad over here. and treat all other black employees bad over here, too. so i took it into my own hands. to handle the problem. i wish i could have got more of the people. >> thornton also said he was relaxed and wouldn't kill anyone else. and asked the operator to tell his family he loves them. >>> in other news, elena kagan will be sworn in as the 112th justice of the united states supreme court on saturday. kagan was confirmed by the senate thursday and she'll visit the white house today for a ceremony to mark her confirmation. the former solicitor general will be the fourth woman to serve on the court.

manchester police say 34-year- old omar thornton was called into a meeting this morning. he was told he could either quit or be fired for allegedly stealing beer. that's when he pulled out a handgun, started shooting coworkers before turning the gun on himself. those coworkers who survived say they couldn't believe it. >> who they're saying did it is like one of the quitest shiest people around. >> thornton's relatives said he complained of racial harassment at the company. according his family thornton called his mother from the scene and said, "i shot the racists, i'm killing myself." >>> this is fire through a russian village raging around a passenger. passengers were volunteers who went to the region to help firefighters. they got out safely. more than 150 of the 250 houses in the village burned. russian leaders have declared a state of the emergency in seven provinces. those fires killed at least 40 people. >>> here in the bay area parents at a school destroyed by an arson fire are trying to force the the state to require sprinklers for renovation. trace elementary s

today police released tape of a 911 call from the gunman, 34- year-old omar thornton. he placed the call minutes after he shot eight coworkers to death and just before he took his own life. the tape is four minutes long. we've cut it down for time and content. >> couric: chilling. the president of hartford distributors said today thornton was fired on the morning of the shooting because he was caught stealing beer. ross hollander said no claims of racism were ever brought to the company's attention and he added thornton had been "embraced as a member of the company." meanwhile, down in the gulf, it's the announcement everyone has been waiting for. it came today, day 108, b.p.'s blown-out oil well has finally been plugged. a layer of cement now sits on top of it. mark strassmann is in new orleans tonight. mark, i know there's still a lot of cleanup work to do, but the static kill actually seems to have done its job. >> reporter: and if anything, katie, it did it better and faster than expected. officially, no one involved with killing this well will say it, but with any

>> this is omar thornton, the shooter over in manchester. >> reporter: before taking his own life, thornton called 911 to explain his killing rampage. >> they treat me bad over here. and they treat all the other black employees bad over here, too. so i just take it into my own hands. and i handled the problem. and i wish i could have gotten more people. don't try to calm me down. i'm not going to kill nobody. i want to tell my story, so you can play it back. >> reporter: from the calm and deliberate tone of his voice, it was clear he was prepared for this moment. >> where in the building are you, omar? >> i'm not going to tell you. when they find me, that's when everything will be over. >> yeah. are you armed, sir? >> do you have a weapon with you? >> oh, yeah. i'm armed. >> how many guns do you have with you? >> i got one now. and one out in the factory, there. >> yep. okay, sir. >> i'm not going to kill nobody else, though. >> reporter: at a press conference held by thorn empl company vehe account of racial harassment. >> as an employee of hartford distributors, omar thornton was embraced

he was one of the eight men killed by omar thornton.e grief and the unanswered questions. >> nothing really can prepare us for something like this. >> reporter: families still mourning the senseless shooting, police say, took workers by total surprise. during his disciplinary hearing, hartford distributor's executives say omar thornton seemed calm, as they showed him a video of him stealing beer. they say he quietly signed a letter of resignation. then pulled out a gun and started firing. >> i'm in the back paper storage closet. >> okay. stay back there. we will come to you. all right? >> help me, please. help me. >> ma'am, we are on the way. please, stay down. stay low. all right? >> reporter: the shooting was over in minutes, leaving eight people dead and two wounded. according to his uncle, after the shooting, thornton called his mother. "i killed the five racists that was there bothering me," he said. then, debating whether to kill himself, he told his mom, "i love you very much. i want you to take care of yourself. i want you to st

thornton's family says he complained he was the victim of racial harassment at work. former employer denies that. now to some extreme weather around the globe. russia's sweltering through its hottest summer in 130 years. it's also dry, scores of wildfires have killed 50 people. the smoke has drifted hundreds of miles to moscow. today the kremlin was shrouded in smog and doctors advised people to stay inside. meanwhile, more rain is forecast in northwest pakistan where monsoon floods have killed 1,500 people. 2.5 million have fled their homes. today the obama administration promised to send more aid to pakistan on top of the $10 million the u.s. has already pledged for this disaster. still ahead on the "cbs evening news," putting it out there. wannabe pop stars auditioning on youtube. but up next, the dark and disturbing world of white supremacists. undercover with the a.t.f.'s "operation: red swastika." >> couric: the numbers are startling-- according to the latest numbers from the justice department-- nearly 28,000 gangs are operating in this country with more than t

although, she was willing to share this photograph of her and thornton. she claims she saw cell phone photos of racial slurs on the bathroom wall at his work. >> every day, when he'd go back in, there would be new stuff on the wall. one was a hangman with a noose on its neck. and underneath it said kill, the n word. >> reporter: company and union officials strongly deny accusations of racism. and the police say it is not being considered as a motive at this stage. >> i know what i seen on that wall in that picture. and that would make somebody go crazy, if they keep doing it to somebody over and over and over and over. and i know that was happening to him because nobody just wakes up one day and does that. >> reporter: but for the friends and families of the victims, there was no sense to be made of the crime. as they gathered to commemorate the death of their loved ones. george, we're learning more now about the heroic actions of one employee who tried to stop the shooter. 77-year-old jerome rosenstein, tried to run thornton over with a golf cart. he is

when police arrived at the scene, thornton turned the handgun on himself. >> he was no different than any driver over therr there. .ou went, pick a load and you go >> out and do your job. him. >> reporter: thornton had at least five guns registered to listed n center as one ofge, he listed hoffman's gun center as one of his interests. tcy.ad filed bankruptcy. and according to the mother of his ex-girlfriend, had complained of racial harassment rassment >> i think he just had his breaking point. he had enough of it. he called his mother this five people an that he shot five people and that he said, kplace my mother, tell my daughter that i love her. >> reporter: it's the latest n a series of deadly workplace rampages that have plagued the nation. >> there's one study i read recently that said on average, other peoplx employee homicides a month in the united states. common thing having people kill other people in the workplace is a very common thing. l where family andd me is the high school where friends and family of the victims have been gathering today. en riest and a rabbi have bee

nine people were killed at a beer distribution company in manchester, including the gunman omar thornton. company officials say torn ton worked there as a driver and was being -- thornton worked there as a driver and was being resigned there. >>> full senate hearings are underway for supreme court nominee elena kagan. cities are gearing up for the national crimeout prevention nights. one bay area community is going to try something new. >> reporter: in san francisco, a supervisor has an idea to extend a plastic bag band to certain businesses. our real national pastime? saving money. and like baseball people love their stats. i started bringing my lunch to work -- 50 bucks a week in my pocket. here's a good one: state farm insures 40 million drivers. more than geico and progressive combined. i saved because i'm accident-free. of course, with so many ways to save including discounts of up to 40%, having that many customers shouldn't be a surprise. so ask a neighbor about state farm, then call an agent at 1-800-state-farm or go online. >>> oakland police are investigating a shooting at an a

the mother of thornton's girlfriend says thornton had complained of being racially harassed. >>> anda procedure that could permenantly plug the broken oil well, the latest on that. >>> and i'll have your latest conditions. coming up >>> work will continue in petaluma tomorrow to repair a busted line that caused the road to buckle between western avenue and east washington street. the water department tells ktvu that the old water line gave out due to normal wear and tear. >>> on the gulf coast tonight, bp has finally launched it's static kill strategy. i want to show you live pictures of the work being done, if we have those. maybe we don't have those right now. but three months after the leak there's new hope that this effort will plug the well. >> reporter: crews are pumping mud into the head of that blown out oil well. thad allen called the effort a positive step forward. using the relief well that's being drilled right now. >> it's been a long time drilling the casing pipe from below, filling that with mud and filling that with cement is the solution to all of this. there should

the operator offered thornton a safe way out, but he refused. >> find me, that's when everything will be over. tell my people i love them and i got to go now. >> authorities found thornton dead in the company's warehouse. he said he never filed a complaint over racism and was filed for stealing beer and selling it. >>> they want to watch soccer but ended up seeing red. they paid good money for their tickets, so what left them waiting outside? >>> as a bay area grandfather enters a plea in court, we learned the dog that killed his step grandson has killed more than once before. . >>> this summer, it's easy to keep your cool, but why is it so cold? >> everybody is asking where's the heat, the day that will be the warmest this weekend, we'll pinpoint that forecast as eyewitness news continues right here. ,,,,,, tickets to a big tonight thousands of bay area soccer fans say they got gypped. they already bought their big tickets last night, but they spent most of the night outside. >> reporter: this is what the fans came to see, the kings of soccer and their dashing top player taking on th

>> thornton's girlfriend said he had complained to her about racial harassment on the job.ompany officials are denying those allegations, saying he went on a rampage after he was fired for stealing beer. >>> the daughter of former new york city mayor rudy giuliani has been arrested for shoplifting. police say caroline giuliani was caught on surveillance camera, pocketing about 100 bucks' forth of makeup at a n cosmetic store. police released the harvard student, after charging her with petty larceny. >>> a police officer in maryland said it was something like out of a monster truck show. take a look at this. he was chasing a carjacked suv. and he thought he had the suspects cornered. that is when the driver threw the suv in reverse and went straight up on to the police car, before tipping over. one of the three, young suspects was injured. all of them are facing a slew of charges. >>> there's a new member of one of baseball's most exclues if clubs. details on that and other highlights from don bell over at espn news. >> good morning. we have history on tap in the bronx. blu

naysayers included thornton's own wife denice. >> spend millions of dollars to rebuild a stadium when most of the people are homeless. it didn't make sense. >> reporter: but it did to city and state leaders. to jump start downtown business and inspire others to rebuild. 13 months after katrina, the superdome had a new roof, new field, new life. a huge success. >> it was like everything's going to be okay. and i think it was pretty special. >> reporter: emotional. >> yeah. >> reporter: even today. >> even today. >> reporter: but a half mile away, charity hospital represents how far new orleans still has to go. >> this whole medical district has been dead for five years. >> reporter: james moises, an emergency room doctor, used to work at charity. for generations, the safety net hospital for southeast louisiana. but today it's a ghost building. after katrina, louisiana state university, charity's owner, closed it for good. >> it's like where can we go now? >> reporter: aline preston was born at charity and still lives in the city's lower ninth ward on flood street. >> there was a house

omar thornton called his mother after the rampage.. he was forced to resign tuesday for stealing beer and apparently smuggled weapons in his lunchbox. >>> barnes & nobel is putting itself up for sale. a sign of how technology is changing the way we buy books. the shift from traditional books to e-books has cut into the retailer's profit in recent years. >>> in medical news america's waistline continues to expand. government figures show 72 million americans are now obese. 2 million more than just a couple of years ago. that's nearly 27% of the population. >>> finally, a special delivery for a woman in houston. 30-year-old veronica real mayorga gave birth to a rare set of quintuplets. it took two minutes to deliver the babies. who, unlike most quints are in very good health. there are only 100 sets of quintuplets in the world. now, there are 101. >>> now, let's look at what "world news" is working on for tonight. here's diane sawyer. diane? >> hello, juju. one of the stories we hope everybody watches "good morning america" will see. a

eight people were killed, two others were wounded before thornton killed himself. the company says thornton was called into work because he was caught on video stealing beer. >> we thought he was being offered an opportunity to be terminated or to quit and when being led to the facility, that's when the shooting started started. >>> we're finding out more about the 1-year-old california boy -- 11-year-old california boy who died during a football practice had a rare and undiagnosed heart condition. he was from garden valley. he was taking part in the first practice of the year for his pop warner team. family members said he told his coach he wasn't feeling well and then a couple of seconds later, he just passed out. his father was run -- was one of the coaches on the field. >> and they lost his heartbeat. they brought him back. they lost it. they brought him back, about three different times. >> an autopsy revealed the young boy had a heart condition that caused his heart muscle to thicken. it's a condition that wouldn't normally be discovered during a routine phys

>> thornton: i'm in the building.s place right here is a racist place. >> dispatcher: yup, i understand that. >> thornton: they're treating me bad over here. and treat all other black employees bad over here, too. so i took it to my own hands and handled the problem. i wish i could have got more of the people. >> dispatcher: yeah. are you armed, sir? do you have a weapon with you? >> thornton: oh yeah, i'm armed. >> dispatcher: how many guns do have with you? there's one out, one out in the uh, in the uh, factory there. >> dispatcher: yep. ok, sir. >> thornton: i'm not going to kill nobody else though. the 911 calls a total of four minutes long. did they say that thomson never filed a complaint alleging racist discrimination but as copper and said the dead. >> 1040a a.m. this morning and still save a lot of low coverage this morning. some bricks of conditions in san jose. i get up to the '70s. high temperatures today round 76. but the o'clock hour. this scene in the '50s and to the weekend work and continue as chief o

truck driver omar thornton shot eight co-workers to death at a beer distribution company before turning the gun on himself. he'd accused employers of racism. >>> bp says it is nearing the end of its mission to seal off that blown-out well in the gulf of mexico. but the cleanup will continue as long as necessary. and the next big project will be reviving that region's public image. tahman bradley has details. >> reporter: with the permanent cap in place and no more daily images of leaking oil from bp's well, the obama administration hopes to show it hasn't lost sight of the enormous cleanup and recovery effort that remains. >> it is a catastrophe. catastrophe for the people of the gulf and it requires our attention until we get the job done. >> reporter: what more needs to be done? more cleanup. the government says about 25% of the nearly 5 million barrels of spilled oil remains. shoppers 1,000 mileom louisiana at a market in washington, d.c. last week. most said they wouldn't buy seafood if they were certain it came from the gulf. >> i just wouldn't trust it, honestly. >> if it's from t

>> come get me. >> thornton called from inside the beer distribution building. the 911 operator pleaded with him to surrender. >> we we don't any more people to lose their life here. >> i'm not going to kill nobody else. i love them. >> yeah. >> omar. >> yes. >> did you teomar. >> company officials from hartford distributors denied omar's claims of racism saying he never filed any complaints of discrimination. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> what a chilling story. went into the union meeting and resigns. comes out and says i'm going get my lunch box. that's when he got his gun. >> awful story. >>> near st. louis this morning, a tragic story. two young people dead after a horrific highway pileup involving four vehicles, two of them school buses. packed with kids. cbs news correspondent ben tracy joins us from st. louis this morning with the latest on thursday's crash. ben, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this was supposed to be a fun field trip for members of a local high school band. instead 40 of them, nearly 40, ended up at this hospital in st. lo

the shooter is 34-year-old omar thornton.e say he was called into a disciplinary meeting with management on tuesday but brought with him two pistols and a shotgun and opened fire on his unsuspecting co-workers. >> breathing a lot? >> yeah. people running all over the place. okay. i see him running out. he's running away right now. he's still shooting. he's shooting at a girl. >> frantic employees took shelter in offices and closets during that rampage. police say thornton ended up fatally shooting eight people and wounding two others before taking his own life. authorities are still investigating what made him snap. >>> your time now is 5:45. federal prosecutors have reportedly intensified their criminal investigation of cycling superstar lance armstrong. according to the new york times the feds have questioned several cyclists and former teammates who reportedly said and they're backing up claims that lance armstrong participated in an encouraged doping to get an unfair advantage. lance armstrong denies any wrong doing. he d

police say suspect omar thornton was worried he'd lose his job. today's violence is unlikely to quell the gun control debate and more likely to add fuel to the fire, because in a country where guns can be found in nearly half of all households, a new generation of activists are clamoring to carry guns just about everywhere. guns they say will make us all safer. as my co-anchor terry moran now reports. >> reporter: the statistics tell there are about 50 million gun owners in america, close to half of all american households possess guns. more than 200 million guns all told. and we buy about 4.5 million more guns every year. whether you like it or not, for better or worse, it's a fact. america is an armed nation. and to gun owners, the vast majority of whom are law abiding citizens, that's the way it was meant to be. >> we're just out here, like i said, exercising our rights. just here to have a good time. >> reporter: now, more than ever, many gun owners are proudly, aggressively asserting their rights, reaffirmed by a conservative supreme court, t

at the international monetary fund all right well that's all the time we have for this week john thorntonthanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with max kaiser and stacey herbert i want to thank my guest john thoreson if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser report at r t t v dot ru until next time this is max kaiser saying bio.

. >>> connecticut state police released the tape of the 911 call made by thornton.he man police say killed himself and eight others. >> yeah, i understand that. >> they treat me bad over here. they treat black employees bad over here too. so it's in my own hands to handle the pro problem, i wish i would have gotten more people. >> reporter: the company denies racial discrimination and says it welcomes an investigation. >> reporter: one of president obama's leading economic advisors, romer had ár has advocated more stimulus measures toest help the economy. she plans to go back to her job of economics professor at cal. >>> and president obama nominated the 48 melinda haag to her postto replace the current u.s. attorney. haag must be confirmed by the u.s. senate. but capitol hill leaders say she is not expected to face any opposition. >>> police say three men held up the bank of the west branch on loan tree way. investigators say after getting some cash they escaped in a honda civic that a fourth person was driving. the honda was last seen headed north on hill crest av

. >>> connecticut state police released the tape of the 911 call made by thornton. the man police say killed himself and eight others. >> yeah, i understand that. >> they treat me bad over here. they treat black employees bad over here too. so it's in my own hands to handle the pro problem, i wish i would have gotten more people. >> reporter: the company denies racial discrimination and says it welcomes an investigation. >> reporter: one of president obama's leading economic advisors, romer had ár has advocated more stimulus measures toest help the economy. she plans to go back to her job of economics professor at cal. >>> and president obama nominated the 48 melinda haag to her postto replace the current u.s. attorney. haag must be confirmed by the u.s. senate. but capitol hill leaders say she is not expected to face any opposition. >>> police say three men held up the bank of the west branch on loan tree way. investigators say after getting some cash they escaped in a honda civic that a fourth person was driving. the honda was last seen headed north on hill crest

the shooter, omar thornton, was a former driver of the company. he was called into a meeting on tuesday but brought with him two pistols and a shot gun and opened fire on his unsuspecting coworkers. listen in to one of the calls. >> there's people running all over the place. i see him. he's shooting at within -- at somebody else. he's shooting at a girl. >> police say thorpe ton ended up shooting eight people fatally and wounding others before taking his life. >>> san francisco police arrested a man outside of jelly's club. prosecutors have not filed charges against him. this is pending further investigation. the victim, lee farley, of richmond was shot to death outside the club last night after an argument outside. the board of san francisco revoked that club's lease. >>> the san francisco board of supervisors just gave the city's entertainment commission, the power to close down nightclubs. this is after a string of recent violence including several shootings outside the nightclubs and different parts of the city. this the past, they can only su

. >> reporter: in all thornton killed eight people and now we know how. after he was forced to resign for allegedly stealing beer from the company, he asked for a drink of water. what he really wanted were his weapons. two nine mill meet haernd guns. >> went into the kitchen area and got his lunch box with the weapons inside. exited the kitchen area and then started shooting. >> reporter: workers ducked for cover and hid wherever they could. >> oh, my god. please help me. i'm in the back storage closet. >> stay back there. we will come get. >> did you help me, please. help me. >> reporter: flowers now lay near the scene as a memorial. people gathered near manchester last night to remember those who lost their lives. including victor james, a father of two, and doug scroton, who planned to retire this year. thornton says he suffered racial discrimination at work and that's why he did what he did. so far the police have found no evidence of that. at this point they only heard the company's side of the story. >> ben, thanks so much. union refs chimed in and

the gunman omar thornton was a driver for a beer distribution company.s going to a meeting with management yesterday when he opened fire. eight people were killed and two others wounded before he killed himself. the company says he was calmed in because he had been caught on video stealing beer. his family says he faced a lot of racial harassment at work and snapped. union leaders deny those claims. >> today a group founded by the reverend pat robertson says it will file a petition against a commission in new york city that cleared the way for the construction of the mosque just two blocks from ground zero. yesterday the landmark's preservation commission refused to grant landmarkto a building the developer wants to tear down in order to build an islamic center. critics are saying that would disrespect the memory of those killed at the hands of the islamic terrorists back on september 11th. >>> the san jose city council has decided to let voters decide whether to impose a tax of up po 10% on medical marijuana. if the voters approve it san jose would have

police say thornton ended up killing eight people and wounding two others before killing himself.uthorities are still investigating what led up to that attack. >>> state lawmakers working on a proposal tour ban fees on debit cards. there are no fees for credit cards right now. lawmakers say it's especially hard for those who don't qualify for credit cards or receive government assistance on debit cards. merchants say they have to pay every time someone swipes the cards and just passing along the cost to those who use debit cards. >>> our time 6:47. sal, everyone behaving for you on the commute? >> so far so good. for the most part we are doing pretty well. not a lot of serious problems. we're looking at just routine slow traffic. no major problems here. also if you're driving on 880 that's 880 southbound on the left coming toward us and heading to hayward northbound on the right. no major problems there. also the morning commute at the bay bridge toll plaza getting a little bit busier getting into san francisco. it's 6:48 now. here's steve. >>> all right. thank you. good morning,

of the mass shooting on tuesday that tape being released it was pleased by the shooter all mark thornton minutes before he n down eight co-workers and turn the gun on himself >> this is all mark the shooter i'm in the building. you wanna know why one shoot shot these people they treat me back over here that three other employes back to stall handle the problem i wish i could got more people. i'm armed. i have long gone now there's more and the factory. and not to kill anybody else >> that call lasted four minutes the heart for distributors say thompson never filed a complaint is your friend claimed he did. we will take a break back with more headlines in a moment. [ male announcer ] whoa, the new ultimate turkey & bacon avocado. get ready for the ride of your life. wipeout in waves of tender turkey and crispy bacon. gaze upon the rad rainbow of voluminous veggies and cool, sea-green avocado all on freshly baked bread. are you up for the ultimate? ♪ then you've got to try the totally new subway ultimate turkey & bacon avocado. carve one up today. crank up the flavor at subway. [ horns hon

thornton walked past some coworkers, including one woman who was in a wheelchair. pastor last night said tragic deaths are like a black hole, in a minute or two our whole world is turned upside down. i think that's how that whole community feels. >> it really is a chilling story. peter, thank you very much. >> now to the war in afghanistan. it has been a difficult summer for u.s. troops there. july was the deadliest month yet for americans. and a new commander took over after a controversial "rolling stone" article led to the end of general stanley mcchrystal's military career. now the pentagon is refusing to let that report and the reporter who wrote it embed with another unit in afghanistan. we're going to talk about that with michael hastings in a moment. but first jim miklaszewski is at the pentagon >> good morning. it's been a couple of months since the story that forced general mcchrystal out of the army. but the fallout in media relations is far from over. on his last day as a soldier general stan mcchrystal managed to joke about the article that ended his c

in the facility's parking lot.the reopening comes eight days after police say company driver omar thornton people to death, wounded two others and killed himself. it all happened after he was shown video evidence of place i was as wondrous as the missing after cars are sucked away, this goes for seven people or inside the three vehicles that are caught in a flash flooding to have been in canada for one is still not been found to that is not leaking from a fast-moving water to recede to resume their search stars stand-up to 6 in. of rain fifth >> heavy rains are pummeling china with floods had a hearty killed more than 1100 people a dozen others are listed as missing. falling earlier storm that left three villages buried under mud and water. emergency crews are working to deliver clean water to the survivors, a memorandum activists are warning their russian fires the wild fires could move into the areas affected by the chernobyl nuclear disaster pressure has 7 in. up patrols with more soldiers and volunteers helping firefighters you can see that that smoke in the mass. officials are warning

. >> reporter: denise thornton rebuilt her home after katrina. it started a community group called "beacons of hope." it helped rebuild 1,700 homes. >> i know i have to make the difference. i can't just write the check. >> reporter: more than 100,000 people in metro new orleans never came back. but most did. it took jorie dorsey five years, but here she is. >> home is where your roots are, where your heritage is. so i came home. >> reporter: according to one recent study, there are 50,000 vacant homes in the city. that's more than a quarter of all homes in new orleans. there are still, in all that blight, more signs of renewal. dave? >> keep in mind, many people haven't returned possibly because they're scared, wondering if new orleans could survive another storm like katrina. joining sus ed fleming from the army cor army corps of engineers, new orleans district. let's answer that question first. could new orleans take a storm like katrina today? >> sure. we are absolutely safer in new orleans than we were when katrina hit. when katrina hit we ha

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. >> i want to speak in reference to miss thornton. i appreciate your coming out this evening. i know she has been dedicated to her people. i love her very much.