Oregon police give details on elementary school shooting

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[0:01] Welcome in to CBS News 247 prime time.

[0:04] I'm Juliet Goodrich. We are waiting for

[0:06] an update to happen on that deadly

[0:07] school shooting in Bend, Oregon.

[0:10] Officials are expected to speak any

[0:12] moment now. You can see them lining up.

[0:13] We're going to take that news conference

[0:15] as soon as it begins. For background,

[0:18] multiple law enforcement sources have

[0:19] told CBS News that at least three

[0:21] children and one adult are dead after a

[0:24] shooting at an elementary school in

[0:26] Oregon. This all happening at Silver

[0:29] Rail Elementary School in the city of

[0:31] Bend about 100 miles southeast of

[0:33] Portland. Local police say the shooter

[0:35] is also dead. Let's listen in. My name

[0:38] is Sheila Miller. I am the

[0:40] communications manager for the Ben

[0:42] Police Department.

[0:44] I want to share the order of events for

[0:46] this media conference. Uh this evening

[0:48] we will hear first from Chief Mike CR,

[0:51] then Bend Leine School Superintendent

[0:53] Steve Cook, then Bend Mayor Melanie

[0:56] Keebler, and finally Governor Tina

[0:58] Cotek.

[1:00] Uh I ask that you hold your questions

[1:02] until the end. We will have time for a

[1:05] few questions and uh I will call on you

[1:08] at that time.

[1:10] There are a lot of pieces of information

[1:13] uh that we will not yet be able to

[1:15] share. Uh and we anticipate holding

[1:17] another media conference tomorrow

[1:19] afternoon.

[1:20] I will now turn it over to Chief CR.

[1:26] Thank you. My name is Mike CR, the chief

[1:29] of police the city of Bend.

[1:32] First of all, I we want to extend our

[1:36] deepest condolences to our entire

[1:37] community. This is a terrible tragedy

[1:40] and we are working hard to investigate

[1:42] this

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