and local anchors are covering now in portland. we will wait for new information coming in as it's our understanding once again that shooter is still on the loose. updates as they break on fox news tonight. new clues in the search for the man who walked up to somebody on a very busy street in new york city and shot him in the head. from the gun to the get away car to this surveillance image we will get a live report on the leads that cops are tracking right now. plus an enormous explosion. set a highway on fire and torched people's homes. you'll see what caused it and why investigators say this area is still not safe. on a very busy night from the journalists of fox news on a thursday fox report. initiated. neural speeds increasing to 4g lte. brain upgrading to a quad-core processor. predictive intelligence with google now complete. introducing droid dna by htc. it's not an upgrade to your phone. it's an upgrade to yourself. why they have a raise your rate cd. tonight our guest, thomas sargent. nobel laureate in economics, and one

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city and at portland police will help any way we can. also we have one from governor kitzhaber, who says my thoughts are with the victims and families of the clackamas shooting. i'm making all state resources available. again, just tweets are streaming in as well as well as messages to our facebook page. a lot of them offering their thoughts and their prayers. i'm also monitoring some tweets from our own colleague, kyle iboshi. he has been tweeting that family members are out there in the parking lot, looking for their loved ones, hoping that they're okay, trying to get any information at all. and just basically thoughts, prayers, folks wanting to know what is going on. and giving their sentiments to the folks that are inside this mall. the witnesses, loved ones of those witnesses, and of course all the officers and the law enforcement that is involved. of course, we'll be out here monitoring the tweets, and we'll keep them coming and let you know what we know here from the newsroom. send it back to you. >> all right, thanks, keely. i do

>> brandi hitt, live in portland this morning. thank you, brandi. amazing this could have been so much worse. there were 10,000 people shopping at that mall. >> a huge facility. >>> and the "gma" team has been working throughout the night on the story. we're going to hear new stories from inside the mall, coming up at 7:00. >>> our other major story this morning. north korea, one of the most isolated nations on earth, has just made a very public and defined military move. >> after trying several times and failing, it successfully fired a long-range ballistic missile, ratcheting up tension with the u.s. and much of the world. abc's gloria riviera is in seoul. >> reporter: in a breaking news broadcast, north korean television celebrated the secretive regime's successful test of the long-range rocket. it is the second attempt by the north koreans this year. last year, a similar test failed within minutes after takeoff. this time, the rocket traveled directly over okinawa, before falling 180 miles north of the philippines, according to the north korean

we're live in portland. >>> north korea's message to the world. launching a rocket early this morning.

music was playing as the lone gunman fired shots yesterday afternoon near the food court at one of portland's largest shopping malls. the gunman killed two people and seriously wounded another before taking his own life. one witness heard him say, "i am the shooter," as he fired dozens of rounds into the machlt bigad shaban is live. good morning to you. >> reporter: terrell, good morning to you. it's an eerie and quiet scene here. it's a much different scene than yesterday when that masked gunman began firing inside one of the busiest malls in the portland area. cell phone video shows police escorting shoppers to safety, and the first moments after a masked gunman opened fire in a oregon mall. >> it was scary. i don't know. it was shocking. >> our cousin is a security guard in there, and his wife and baby were in there, but they got out okay. >> reporter: s.w.a.t. team members swooped in to find the shooter and protect shoppers inside. >> we had people at the mall within minutes. >> they just escorted us out, told us to keep low, women and children first, the whole standard procedure. >> poli

to the outside of portland and at the height of a shopping season. it was packed. extra employees and a seasonal workers soul a load of people in the shopping mall. the shooter died of a self-inflicted wound. if they did not fire. the police say they did not fire. witnesses say that the shooter was in that macy's. you heard the witness account. he was kind of jogging through holding an assault rifle and the accident towards the food court. the main part of the shopping mall. it sounded like firecrackers. this is an aerial view. you can see the first responders, one person was critically injured. there are two people of dead. and if the shooter as well, so three people have died as a result of this and one critically injured. one person says that he tried to help the wounded woman that was lying on the ground near a cell phone the store. the witness said that a masked man blew by everybody and started firing off rounds. peeper wilpeeper people were hiding-in every place available. they're still investigating as we speak. looking at the evidence, the bullets, we will

brandi hitt, abc7 news, portland. >>> remaining light rain here. traffic and weather together, next. here's aly picture of the embarcadero in san francisco -- here's a life picture of the embarcadero in san francisco, lisa argen will have your full forecast and we check in with sue hall in the traffic center. >>> back to court. the reason the suspect in the sierra lamar case is going in front of a judge today. >>> good morning live doppler 7 hd more showers generated off the coast as an unstable air mass pushes through the bay area well up to the north around highway 1, sea ranch, you can see the smattering of light showerssçyul this is the l unstable air that pushes through the afternoon. cold front in the south bay now you can see lighter returns there. all around the bay area we run the risk of an isolated shower. right now from morgan hill to gilroy and hollister, looking at light rain and the snow and winter weather advisory in the sierra nevada just in the 50s once the skies clear overnight tonight, a frosty night tonight, 56 today in oaklan

getting new information in from the portland mall shooting. we will show you the killer's face book page. and what he wrote about himself. >>shepard: brand new on fox, details on the portland mall shooter in his words. here is his picture. and many friends say this his facebook page, cops say he opened fire in the crowded mall near portland with a semi-automatic rifle, killing to people, seriously wounded a teen girl on top of that and killed himself. here is facebook page indicating he was in a relationship and he worked at "the most bad ass gyro shop." the most interesting details where he wrote, if you were to ask someone that knows me, they would probably say i am a pretty funny person that takes sarcasm to the max that will do what i want. there is in reason for another person to tell you what to do. i'm the conductor of my choo-choo train. i may be young but i have led a crazy life. my friends are my family and that will not change. i have done a lot for myself in the past year, some good, some bad, but i still press on. i like to think

in portland, oregon, where a person opening fire inside a mall. now, police say at least one person is dead and unknown number of other folks are injured. you can imagine this happening on wednesday before -- tuesday, pardon me before christmas, big christmas weekend shopping. kids are there to see santa friends are there taking families to mall. it's happening outside of the food mart. it's happening at the clackamas shopping center. the gunman -- we don't know the gender yet but has been neutralized. policemen not confirming whether or not the gunman is dead. just saying that the gunman has been neutralized. people on 00 scene are saying at least 60 shots were fired. the gunman was using a semiautomatic rifle wearing cam fallujah outfit and a mask. several ambulances are are on scene there entrances to the mall have been blocked off as far as we know most of the employees there as well as the consumers have been evacuated from that mall eyewitnesses also describing a scene of chaos. again as can you imagine, people are screaming, running, parent

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fire in a crowded portland, oregon mall. >> the gunman didn't seem to be targeting anyone particular. three people are dead including the gunman. another person was seriously injured, as well. the gunman struck yesterday afternoon while thousands were shopping. bigad shaban joins us live with more from those trapped inside the mall during the ordeal. bigad. >> reporter: good morning. it's quiet but eerie scene here with the mall parking lot and entrances closed off by police as part of the ongoing investigation. inside there the masked gunman shot out several rounds after crying out to the crowds, i am the shooter. >>> reporter: mourners showed up overnight with the first flowers in remembrance of the two people killed at a mall near portland, oregon. >> this event touched us deeply. >> reporter: this cell phone video shows what it was like in the moments after the shooting as police escorted shoppers to safety. >> it was scary. it was shocking. >> our cousin is a security guard in there. and his wife and baby were in there, but they got out okay. >> reporter: police arrived within mi

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. >> mall santa talking about the shooting outside of portland. a reminder we are following breaking news throughout the night and in to the morning about the shooting in portland, oregon. this is the holiday season and as bad as it was the killer could have made his appearance not on a tuesday but on a friday or saturday with more kids and people around. that said it was bad enough as it was. two dead and others wounded. as always a lot of sadly familiar questions. that's our report. see you again tomorrow. . >>> north korea ignores all warnings and launches a long range rocket. >>> a gunman kim kills two befo taking his own life. >>> an asteroid sneekaks up on astronomers. did you feel that? it happened. >> i hear that's super dangerous. >> good morning and welcome to "early start." >> as 5:00 a.m. in the east. up first, it was an afternoon of horror for holiday shoppers in suburban portland. police say 10,000 people were inside the clackamas town center when a gunman opened fire. mass chaos followed. three were dead, including the gunman, and a

. >> we're just getting word of a shooting at the shopping mall in portland oregon. john black stone has the late-breaking news. >> reporter: at the portland area shopping mall, witnesses say a man wearing black clothing and a white halloween mask opened fire with arrival. first reports said at least two were wounded but many more shots were fired. student jamie gibson was at the mall and called cbs affiliate. >> there were a lot of people diving. i'm hoping that they weren't getting shot. but there was a lot of people falling and hiding, hiding behind things. a lot of people running. a lot of screaming, crying babies. >> reporter: police set up triage tents outside the mall's century city theater, bringing back memories of the shooting this summer at the chain's denver area theater. shopper christina fisher says the shooting started near the foot court. >> i heard something similar to a 22 popping, probably eight times. and people dropping everywhere. people screaming. then people just turned and started running in terror. >> reporter: police confirmed at least one

an executive here in the portland area. a former co-worker remembered him this way. >> he told me, felix, there's two types of people in this world. there's dream makers and there's dream breakers. and he said i'm a dream maker. go live out your dreams. >> reporter: and then there's the 15-year-old girl in the hospital who was injured during this attack. she took a shot right in the torso. she bruised her lung, but it missed any vital organs. she is expected to survive. just months ago she also survived an ordeal where the van she was riding in was hit by a drunken driver. that drunken driver was killed and everybody in the van survived. but boy, just a terrible ordeal for her and everyone in this community. >> yeah, she's a little fighter there. dan simon live for us from suburban portland this morning. thank you so much. >>> we have a cnn exclusive right now as we profile a heroic teenager caught in the crossfire of syria's civil war. his name is abdullah. that's him on the blood-soaked streets ignoring gunfire, risking h

line to see santa was growing and a children's choir was scheduled to see carols in a mall outside portland, oregon, tonight. but when as many as 60 shots rang out, the scene turned into terrified chaos. witnesses say a gunman wearing a mask and camouflage was behind the deadly attack and abc's david wright has the latest details. >> reporter: a shopping mall at christmas time is supposed to be safe. so today when witnesses first heard loud pops near the food court of this portland area mall, some thought it was bursting balloons. >> we thought it was balloons. and then we saw little fire thingies. >> like lights. >> reporter: and then the screaming and everyone knew it was something far worse. >> all of a sudden we heard big bang. we covered our ears and then we got down. and then all of a sudden a matter of five seconds later, we heard rapid fire, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, and i just took off running. >> reporter: it started shortly before 3:30 p.m., the mall busy. someone saw santa drop to his knees. they weren't sure if he had been hit or was just ducking for cover. the gunman we're

. >>> and we are watching portland oregonian we are -- portland oregon and we are waiting for police to tell us the name of this shooter. people were waiting with their hands up trying to look for the shooter. witnesses say the shooter was wearing camouflage, a bullet- proof vest, was wearing a hockey mask and was wearing an assault rifle. some of the shoppers said they heard the gunman say, i am the shooter and in between his shots, police say another victim was wounded and then the shooter took his own life. >> this was in and open area of the masters we have a third person -- mall ; we have a third person who is receiving medical treatment right now, we have a shooter who died of an a parent self -- an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound. >> we are waiting for authorities to tell us the name of the gunman. >>> norad was successful and sent an object into or bill. we will have more on this controversial rocket launch. -- orbit. we will have more on this controversial rocket launch. >>> he was ordered to stand trial on a murder charge. smith gunned down cap pooh after robbing -- g

this happened in a portland suburb of clackamas, oregon, at the town center mall. authorities say the gunman apparently armed with a semiautomatic rifle killed two people and seriously wounded another before taking his own life. so far, he hasn't been identified but the sheriff says he did not appear to be targeting anyone in particular. >> it really looked as though it was a random shooting, really anybody that was in his line of sight, basically. it was very apparent that he had a mission set forth to really take the lives of people within that mall. >> this is all raising a lot of questions, the issue of gun control in this country and joining me now live is dan gross, president of both the brady campaign to prevent gun violence and its sister organization, the brady center to prevent gun violence. dan, good to have you here. as we learn more details specifically about what took place in this latest incident less than 24 hours ago, the law enforcement officials telling nbc news the weapon used at the town center mall in portland was a 223 caliber semiautomatic r

nbc's jay gray in portland. thanks, jay. >>> turning now to politics and the fiscal cliff negotiation. president obama and speaker boehner are keeping an open dialogue. speaking on the phone yesterday after trading secret proposals to avoid the year-end deadline. with few details revealed, officials say the president lowered his initial asking price on tax cuts to $1.4 trillion. president boehner took his displeasure to the house floor. >> we're still waiting for the white house to identify what spending cuts the president is willing to make as part of the balanced approach that he promised the american people. where are the president's spending cuts? the longer the white house slow-walks this process, the closer our economy gets to the fiscal cliff. >> president obama responded, showing republicans where they could find the details. >> it's not a mystery. we've seen this before. this is the document that contains the specific spending cuts. the speaker of the house sent us a proposal that was two pages long tha

this is all coming southeast of portland. now witnesses say the shooter was wearing a camouflage and a mask. a white hockey mask to be specific when he entered through a macy's store then went into a food court and started firing. he reportedly was using a rifle when he opened fire inside that crowded mall. so just a headline right now. two people dead. a third person injured and the shooter is also dead making that three dead here at this shooting outside of portland oregon. >>> hayward police arrested two men today suspected of robbing a jewelry store. police say after threatening the store worker he stole more than $140,000 in jewelry then took off with another man who was waiting in a car. but police caught up with both of them about a mile away. >> the vehicle came to a stop at calrogan peterman where the vehicle stopped by its own with several units behind him. the driver was detained inside the vehicle. >>> the mall is increasing its security now. both men are facing charges of robbery and fleeing from police. >>> san

brandi hitt is live in portland, with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. police still here at the scene of the deadly shooting rampage. 10,000 people at one point were in the mall when the gunman opened fire. the big question is why the killer would target families who were trying to get ready for the holidays? it began shortly before 3:30 p.m., chaos inside a portland mall crowded with holiday shoppers and kids waiting to see san taste >> all of a sudden we heard a big bang, covered our ears and got down, in a matter of five seconds later, we heard rapid fire. >> reporter: the shots were heard throughout the shopping center. >> i heard gunshots, i was with migrant ma and turned around and people -- with my grandma and i turned around and people were screaming, i saw the killer he had a white mask on. >> reporter: he appeared to be wearing body armor and mask, carrying an assault rifle which he fired in rapid bursts. >> when i heard eight -- 18 more shots, i hit the floor. >> reporter: some called portland affiliate as the situation unfolded. >> we are loc

tragedy breaking out of portland, oregon tonight. a masked gunman opened fire in a mall with an assault rifle. we're also getting reports that he was wearing some sort of paint ball camouflage and a hockey mask. this is a developing story. s.w.a.t. teams are on the site. so far two people are injured. witnesses say there was as many as 60 shots fired. we're going to continue to monitor this tragedy out of portland, oregon, right here on msnbc. >>> welcome back to "hardball." one of the most anticipated movies of the holiday season is "zero dark thirty," the story of the manhunt for osama bin laden. critics have praised it, but it's not without controversy. the film shows brutal scenes of torture against an al qaeda detainee. many who have seen it say torture provided the groundwork for capturing and killing osama bin laden. one critic says, as a moral statement, "zero dark thirty" is borderline fascistic. as a piece of cinema it's phenomenally gripping. an unholy master work. the director kathryn bigelow said the movie was honest in

. >>> we are learning more the about the gunman in the portland mall shooting. friends say 22-year-old jacob roberts was friendly but lived a tough life. roberts killed two people, injured another, during a shooting spree at a mall up in portland on tuesday. he then turned the gun on himself. his mother expressed shock and grief through a friend. >> she is very sad, wants everyone to know that she's so sorry what jake did and that it is so out of his character. >> we are also learning more about the victims 45-year-old steven forsyth ran a business at the mall, 54-year-old cindy yuille was a nurse, a hospice nurse, and 15-year-old kristina shevchenko is said to be recovering well now in a portland hospital. the shooter didn't know his victims. >>> a top russian official says it looks like syria's president is on the way out. the deputy foreign minister said today that syrian president bashar assad is facing a likely defeat. he is calling for a compromise as rebels trying to oust assad are getting closer to the capital in damascus. >>> suicide is confirmed in the

it is all at a mall in portland, the clackamas town center. these are live pictures you're looking at. according to the "portland oregonian" the gunman appeared 3:30 local time, 6:30 eastern time. let's listen to affiliate koin. >> a man with an automatic rifle opened fire near the food court. they're only confirming one dead. they say there are some wounded. they say the shooter has been neutralized and the situation is calm there. you heard mario, the worker saying the s.w.a.t. team came in and escorted people out of the mall. >> we have someone else on the phone who was inside the mall for the whole thing. nina, can you hear us? >> yes, i can. >> first of all, are you safe? >> i'm safe, thank you. >> you're out of the mall now? >> yes, definitely. >> tell us what happened to you today in there? >> so i actually witnessed first hand the gunman entering the scene. i was in the macy's store shopping. and a slender, white man in black wearing a hockey mask like a "friday the 13th" kind of version of it, sort of white just plain faced hockey mas

what has been learned so far about the killer in portland. [ siren ] >> chaos amidst christmas shopping rush. lines of shoppers, even children could be seen streaming out with their hands up while a shooter was still inside. a day later the gunman was jacob tyler roberts a young man with no history of serious trouble who they say stole an assault rifle and set alone on a deadly ram stage. >> except to say there is month relationship between the suspect and his victims. >> ken doesn't understand either. >> never done anything like this. not in a million years. >> in an interview the shooter's ex-girlfriend she has no idea what could have triggered the sudden and brutal attack. >> this is last thing i would have ever expected especially from him. he was too sweet. >> just last week, the guy she knew as finish loving and nonviolent quit his job and sold all of his belongings, telling her he was leaving portland and moving to hawaii. >> he had his plane ticket. and this happened, i like to think hawaii was in the back of his mind. >> nothing like the calculated killer police say stormed one

a mall shooting in portland, oregon in the clackamas town center hall. two are dead, four to seven may be wounded, getting reports on number of shots fired between 20 and 60. the gunman we're told wearing a mass skpk perhaps body armor is still at large. we'll keep you posted at 4:00. >> emotions running high today in michigan. late today state governor signed a right to work legislation dealing a blow to organized labor unions signing a bill just hours after legislature passed measures as a chance of thousands of angry protestors filled the capitol. tj#m÷çr9hdas more. >> michigan republican controlled state legislature approved two controversial right to work bills today. protestors crowded state capitol. >> benefits will go down. it's going tojuÑww hurt small business and local business. it's just going to hurt michigan. >> issue is right to work allowing people to opt out of joining the union. the governor flip flopped saying it's labor and democrat to pass prop 2 in november. trying to put collective bargaining rights into the constitution. >> mad

agreement with at&t all related to portland between pier tweafl and a half and the 3rd street and block parcels. >> good afternoon commission. brad again here and i have been with the port team with this and various people. we have a couple of representatives from at&t here with whom city staff has been negotiating. darren in the front row and artearo smith was here and still maybe here or his jacket is anyway and i have a brief presentation to you. we have been to you in open

a slick ride from seattle to portland. >> and a great day for those of you flying. there are no expected weather-related airport delays. we rarely have that. a blank slate today. good. >>> here in new york, a suspect has now been charged with murder for shoving a man to his death on the subway tracks. >> police say 30-year-old naeem davis admitted to pushing the victim after the two argued on the platform, as you see from that tape. the train is not believed to be anywhere near the station at the time. davis admitted he stayed on the platform and saw that man get struck by the train. >>> crews searching for a missing arizona state university student have found what may be an important clue. the victim's shoe. jack cluely was last seen friday at a tempe restaurant, attending a fraternity frungs. witnesses say the drunk freshman was asked to leave by a bouncer. his parents fear their son may have been the victim of hazing. >>> and the latest twist in the story of a little girl last seen leaving a phoenix hospital with her mother. the child's father says his daughter i

they say that he had so much to do before ye he was trying to distance himself from portland. they raided his home where he lived just a few miles from the town center. he was evicted from a different residence sometime this summer. colleagues say that it was a local sandwich shop before quitting. is facebook shop saying that he attended clackamas committee college. shawn graffiti that followed your dreams. he reportedly defaced that mantra of all your dreams by " cancelled. he was attending clackamas community college. his mother died when he was very young and he was raised by his aunt. >> the students are dealing with outdated equipment that is about to change. the new haven unified school district is is one of $29 million federal grant. and the first thing that the school provides is better, more up-to-date computer and materials for its 13,000 students. this is superintendent. >> grades 6-12 they will receive a new tablet. and teachers will also receive a tablet, a laptop, cameras, and k-5 will also get a tablet for each student. >> with those computers there will be able

we have showers from seattle to portland. up to a foot of snow in the cascades and northern rockies. and a few inches of snow in the dakotas to green bay. morning showers from chicago to the ohio valley, spreading to the northeast by this afternoon. >> 70s in new orleans, dallas and phoenix. 23 in fargo. 30s in billings and minneapolis. >>> and coming up next on this friday morning, we'll update that breaking news story. a major earthquake this morning in japan. >>> and then, money news and what could be the newest trend in last-minute christmas shopping. stores open around the clock. >>> and later, a delivery truck in a very tight spot. >>> welcome back, everybody. the nation's income-based college student loan repayment program gets an overhaul today. the new so-called pay as you earn program, allows eligible student borrowers to cap payments to 10% of their discretionary income. they have have their loans forgiven after 20 years. >>> the world's largest company born in america will soon be selling products with the label m

bigad shaban portland, oregon. >> the person who was wounded is a young woman and she is in the hospital with life- threatening injuries. >>> the crowning spire is about to be lifted up on top of one world trade center by spring. workers are pouring concrete that will hold the 408-foot element up top. the new high-rise will be the tallest building in the western hemisphere. >>> investigators have a puzzling case on their hands. officers thought they were responding to a pickup truck collision on fairhaven drive yesterday afternoon but when they arrived they found an 18- year-old boy dead lying near the truck. the teen had been shot. investigators are trying to piece together what happened. >> i would call it a geometry problem. the truck is at a weird angle. there is a body near the truck. this is where our crime scene unit will really shine. >> this is san jose's 44th homicide. year. this is the highest number of people killed in the city since 1991. >>> four women and a man are under arrest for a mysterious murder in san francisco. 26-year-old steven reed was found bound and gagged on

again, we're following this breaking news outside of portland, oregon. a gunman has killed at least one person possibly two inside the clackamas towne centre mall. now, the shooting appears to be random. but again authorities say the gunman has been, quote, neutralized. we'll bring you more information as we get it. and bring you another update later in the newscast. >>> a major break in a bizarre san francisco murder case. police have arrested five people accused of leading a man and woman bound, gagged and beaten on a city street. one of the victims died. cbs 5 reporter linda yee tells us this was no random crime. >> reporter: no, it wasn't. in fact, they have arrested four women and one man in a hercules home this morning. now, police say this visitacion valley neighborhood was the dumping ground for their two victims. investigators call this case so bizarre, it is something you see only in the movies. now, a man and woman were tied up and gagged, beaten, one shot left on the street early sunday evening. information led police to the five suspects. th

and the search for answers w details about the gunman ine portland area mall shooting. who he was and who were his victims. join us for cbs 5 eyewitness news this morning... beginn, >>> here's a look at the weather in some cities around the country. in washington, sunny, 49 degrees. mostly sunny in atlanta. 58. sunny in st. louis, 52. denver, sunny, 50. increasing clouds, seattle, 44 degrees. >>> a bizarre report that a convicted murderer had a plan to kidnap and kill justin bieber. they were arrested in vermont about a week before bean 'eers concert. he's reportedly obsessed with the beesh but turned in tit ove to a would-be assassin. >>> a high-speed chase in los angeles. a jewelry robbery, stole a car and raced through the streets. jumped out, ran through the baseball field filled with children where the l.a. police chief was giving away toys. the suspect event ueli gave up. the campus of cal state fullerton was put on lockdown while the police searched for another suspect. they were eventually given the all clear. officials say he may have been tweeting from the uni

and the hustle and bustle of the holiday season took a terrifying turn in portland, oregon, yesterday, when a masked gunman stormed into a busy shopping mall and opened fire, killing two people, injuring another before apparently turning the gun on himself. nbc's kirk gregory has the chilling details. >> reporter: a day of holiday shopping turned into a horrific afternoon of terror when a gunman opened fire inside a crowded suburban portland mall. >> we started receiving calls at 3:30, multiple 911 calls. we responded quickly. >> reporter: several store employees locked themselves in break rooms and bathrooms until police could arrive. >> many people locked in place, many people ran. those are the two most appropriate things to do in these circumstances. >> reporter: shaken family members waited anxiously for news as police worked to secure the mall and search for victims. >> i just want to hug her and i want her to get out. >> reporter: eyewitnesses describe a chaotic scene. >> i heard several shots and saw a lot of people running, so i just went to the doors and held them open becau

he worked at a deli outside portland, oregon. police say this is the person who opened fire on holiday shoppers at a mall, firing at families in the food court. he killed two people and then himself. tonight, the shooter's family and his girlfriend are speaking out to abc news, and here's abc's neal karlinsky. >> reporter: chaos amidst the christmas shopping rush. lines of shoppers, even children, could be seen streaming out with their hands up while a shooter was still inside. a day later, police now say the gunman was 22-year-old jacob tyler roberts, a young man with no history of serious trouble, who they say stole an assault rifle from an acquaintance and set off, alone, on a deadly rampage. >> we do not understand the motive of this attack except to say that there's no apparent relationship between the suspect and his victims. >> reporter: hanna sansburn doesn't understand either. >> the person i knew would have never, ever done anything like this. not in a million years. >> reporter: in an interview with abc news, the shoot

the shooting started this afternoon southeast of portland oregon. the gunman has now been killed. he would not say if deputies shot the man or if the gunman committed suicide. witnesses say the gunman was wearing camouflage and a white hockey mask and that he entered the mall through a macy's store then went to the food court area where he began shooting with a semi automatic rifle. people began running and screaming. authorities say they are still searching stores to make sure there are not any more customers injured or hiding. two people killed one injured and the gunman from this shooting is now also dead. >>> the biggest tides of the year is predicted for thursday. the so called king tide. there's already been some small scale flooding as the tides grow higher, ken. >> reporter: this so called king tide has notten yet -- has not yet arrived but it will likely flood thursday when we're expected to see that king tide roll in. that's not rain nor run off what drivers made their way through was an encroaching tide. caltrans shut down the off ramp for about an hour. high tide hit j

of portland coming up. >>> more on the shooting outside of portland coming up. first raw politics. late new developments tonight. two new offers on the table, one from the white house, a counter offer from house republicans an the details are sketchy. the white house offer includes $1.4 trillion in new tax revenues. democratic source says the tax hikes are paired with a serious spending cut number with real entitlement reform. we are hearing negative reaction from one gop aide saying 1.4 isn't progress in this late game. less is known about the gop counter offer at this hour. we know president obama and house speaker boehner sat down for a no cameras meeting over the weekend. the competing offers come after both sides aired sharp differences on the house floor. watch. >> where are the president's spending cuts? the longer the white house slow walks this process the closer the economy gets to the fiscal cliff. >> where are the revenues? where are the revenues? regardless of the cuts or changes of entitlement

moving on to portland, portland's motto is keep portland weird with. that is not a problem. [laughter] water flouration is something that was invented in 1945, grand rapids, michigan. it is seen as one of the best public health triumphs because people who cannot go to the depptist, people who are poor -- dentist, people who are poor can at least get some flour i'd in their -- flour ride in their water. it's a great thing. 200 million americans get flour dated water. portland rejected this in 1980, and oregon subsequently ranked near the bottom in children's dental health. many portlanders treasure their city's quirk ri distinctiveness, said "the new york times," and i agree -- [laughter] being toothless is quirk ri and distinctive. and, basically, i'm not going to read this quote from "the new york times"esing but basically, a couple weeks ago the city counsel finally approved fluoridation to begin in 201. really, a round of applause for portland for joining the 20th century. i love portland. if you're going to san francisco, be sure the bring a plunger. low-flow toilets --

again, a suburb of portland, oregon. these pictures coming to us from the helicopter live courtesy of our affiliate, katu. we will keep an eye on this story for you and as we zoom in to see if we can see a stretcher is coming out of that ambulance but it looks like it's an empty one. at this point, only some of the reports suggesting there have been multiple victims but we don't know if there have been any people killed. we will continue to get you the updated details on this story as they become available to us. >>> also tonight, president obama says his administration will formally recognize the syrian opposition forces fighting with syrian president bashir al assad. here's what the president told barbara walters. >> we made a decision that the syrian opposition coalition is now inclusive enough, is reflective and representative enough of the syrian population that we consider them the legitimate representative of the syrian people in opposition to the assad regime. >> this, by the way, comes nearly a month oafter brit

this happened in a suburban mall near portland, oregon. crowds of panicked holiday shoppers ducked for cover, many fearing for their lives. >> i honestly didn't know where the gunman was coming from, where he was, what he looked like. i was waiting for him to come into view and see me, in clear view and shoot me. >> so it was so early on in the investigation. we don't know the names of the victims or the gunman yet. >>> there were scores of people in that oregon mall last night, cnn spoke with one of them earlier this morning, here's what she saw. >> downstairs more towards the end of the mall, and the shooting happened upstairs in the center of the mall, but i was getting my hair done and the girl was blow drying my hair, and we heard a very loud noise, it sounded like the ceiling was falling through or metal clashing as if something was falling and the gunfire was going off long enough that we had time to stop and say, what is this noise, and we realized, oh my gosh, that's a gun, that sounds like a machine gun, and the receptionist at t

light rain from portland to seattle and showers along the carolina coast. >> 50s from atlanta to the big apple. 40s in the midwest and rockies. 27 in fargo. 37 in the twin cities. >> i like your fargo accent. >> it was bad. >>> even though it's now 12-13, we can't get enough of this 12-12-12 stuff from yesterday. so that is why this is our -- boom -- "favorite story of the day." takes us to a sixth grade classroom in rural central wisconsin where three classmates celebrated their, yeah, 12th birthday on 12-12-12. >> abby and gabby and simon marked their big day sharing cupcakes with juice with all their family and friends. everyone was showing their green bay packer spirit. not only was it 12-12-12, it was also aaron rodgers day in wisconsin. he wears number 12, so there you have it. all about aaron rodgers. >> it was a cool date, though. and we will not live to see the next repetitive date, 1-1-2101, 88 years away. so it's good we got one under our belt. because we'll be in another place, a better place. >> who knows, you might be living. >> nothing in my gene pool suggests that. >>

the shooting sent people in the mall near portland running for their lives. witnesses said the gunman started firing outside of macy's in the food court. one said the gunman practically announced himself with the chilling words, i am the shooter, before he began shooting at random. a series of rapid shots were fired as christmas music played in the background. horrified shoppers leaving scene with their hands up. you can see some of that there as they were escorted out. eerily reminiscent of the tragedy at column bind high school. remember we saw the kids escorted out. one witness said the shooter was warying a bulletproof vest and always protect themselves and carrying a ar-15 rifle. the gun jammed possibly preventing a bigger tragedy. afterwards survivors detailed the horror. >> my friend was on the ground crawling toward the doors. i hear two more shots i jump oned ground and crawl towards the doors. i heard the guy yell, get on the ground, get on the froind a couple times. i got up and started running. >> as soon i heard i thought it was a drill. i didn't

showers from seattle to portland. flurries around the great lakes, western pennsylvania, and northern new england. >> 20s in the northern rockies. 30s in the pacific northwest. still can't believe we're talking about 2013. >>> have no fear. your milk prices will not be soaring after new year's. >>> and major document for kim kardashian and yan west. 2013 promising to be a very big year for them. >>> welcome back, everyone. there won't be any crying over spiped milk. congress could vote as soon as today on a farm bill that extends price supports for milk. without them, the cost of a gallon would have doubled. the deal was reached yesterday. it includes aid for farmers hurt by the long drought this year. >>> the new york times is reporting that banking regulate rrs close to a $10 million settlement with 14 banks. most would help those struggling to stay in their homes. the problems included faulty paperwork and excessive fees. >>> who needs tenants when you have billboards? this billboard in times square turns a profit

mass shooting at clackamas town center mall in portland, oregon. the gunman shot and killed himself. >> police are still in the mall searching for evidence. they say they're almost finished with that. the gunman shot two people before killing himself. we understand an> traj dmi portland. moving on now. something different. nominees for first major film awards of the year were announced today. the critics choice awards by broadcast association. >> don sanchez got to weigh in on all of this. >> i did. yes. this is a good barometer of what happens with academy awards. so i voted and here are the results. let's start with best picture. steven spielberg leaves all film was 13 nominations. and les miserables scored another nomination. silver lining play book, 10 mom nations. zero dark thirty is getting a lot of attention. the small film beast in the southern wild. other best picture

today a friend of the suspect's family gave a portland television station a hand-written note that says in part "she is very sad and wants everyone to know that she is so sorry that jake did this. it is so out of his character." >>> the man accused of kidnapping and killing sierra lamar was back in court today. torres once again entered no formal plea to charms that he murdered the -- charges that he murdered the teenager in march. he has been held without bail since may. he faces new charges in connection with the attempted kidnapping of several other women prior to lamar's disappearance. prosecutors plan to try him on all of the charges together. >>> transportation officials say the plane carrying mexican american singer jenny rivera went into a nose-dive at almost a 45-degree angle before it hit the ground. a transportation official says the plane plunged almost vertically for more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground at more than 600 miles an hour. six others were on board the jet which crashed on sunday. the national transportation safety board is assisting the mexican government in