CNN is reporting up to date news on a horrific event that took place a few hours ago on the Virginia Tech campus. A mad man went on a shooting spree and so far 31 are dead. The death toll seems to continue to climb and details are still pouring in but here's what we know right now:

A lone gunman is dead after police said he killed at least 21 people Monday during shootings in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech -- the deadliest school attack in U.S. history.
Government officials told The Associated Press that the death toll had grown to 31, including the gunman. CNN is working to confirm the report.
It was not clear if the gunman was killed by police or if he took his own life."Some victims were shot in a classroom," university police Chief Wendell Flinchum said of the shootings, which occurred two hours apart.
Police believe there was only one gunman, Flinchum said.
Spokespersons for hospitals in Roanoke, Christiansburg, Blacksburg and Salem told CNN that they were treating 29 people from the shootings.
Check CNN for more. So sad. Our heart goes out to all that have lost loved ones.
















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I will pray for all the families involved. My heart and thoughts go out to them. Such a tragic event.
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1if you see us on the floor you'll be watchin all night..
all I want to know is what took the authorities so long to respond especially when there was a recent shooting on this campus in august and bomb threats last week
2thanks for posting this, pop. We'll all leave the Tobey Maguire thread alone for now.
3oh my god. i can't believe the number of deaths is still climbing.
4Thank you Pop... Hopefully darkntwisted will stay out of this post.. I will also pray for the families and ask my church to do so as well... I could not imagine what they are going through right now.. It makes you want to gather all your family and friends around and tell them how much you love them, for you never know if that will be the last time you tell them...
5i know esk4, i mean this campus has been under a lot recently, you would think that in light of recent events they would beef up security
6So tragic and senseless.. and so many conflicting reports that end up sounding like a rumor..
I alredy heard reported on CNN that the guy went to a dorm first looking for his girlfriend and then bagan shooting in the dorm..then walked across campus shooting. How can they know this when they aren't even comfirming whether or not he is a student?
Sad sad sad.
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
I sincerely hope that in the photo of cops restraining an Asian guy, that the Asian guy really has something to do with this, otherwise, his picture and that ominous photo caption could really damage his rep and I bet he'd file some sort of defamation lawsuit. Oh, answers can't come soon enough.
8How tragic. My thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and families.
9thank you...
10the president is speaking at 4:15 about this and then more deteails are supposed to be released at 4:30
11so sad
I will pray for the families also , this is heartbreaking
I so do agree with you ohilovemybabies
12I was watching Fox & they said that they had everyone on lockdown & the shooting stopped. They lifted the lockdown & it started again.
This is just so sad. God bless the victims & their families.
13thanks for the info esk4
14I always watch Fox...
15Thanks for the info trixie. I just feel so sick to my stomache reading about this stuff. I can't imagine how I would feel if I knew someone in this.
..If you see us in the club we'll be acting real nice
16if you see us on the floor you'll be watchin all night..
Virginia Tech is located only a few hours from me, and several families from my church have kids who are students there. They are still notifying the victims' families so no official list of names has been released yet...the waiting is agonizing.
17trixie6 - i read that the lockdown started, but for some reason some students thought it had been lifted and then the second shootings started. so I'm not sure why the students thought there was no more lockdown. Maybe the school said something and by the way they handled the first round of shootings, it's quite possible they underestimated it all in the beginning.
18This is my alma mater, so I am in complete shock right now.
19Laura - I'm so sorry for those families. I'm sure the waiting is agonizing. I can't even begin to imagine.
I'm just refreshing this page every so often. You all seem to have better information than what I'm getting on various other web news sources.
20I'm watching Cnn right now and they say that there are 32 dead persons already not 31 so the number it's increasing
21why on earth would they lift lockdown before catching the shooter???
22This is so sad! Thanks for posting it Pop even though it has nothing to do with Celebs, but is way more important!
"Aint nobody out there swift like this."
23LaLa - My guess is that they underestimated. Here they are responding to the first shooting & then it starts again. How horrific.
Yiddidea - I'll keep you in my prayers.
24I should not have just read Lauras comment,, now I feel really sick and I don't even feel like cleaning and doing the non-important things right now and just wanting to go and wake my kids up and give them about a million kisses...
25whats scary is after collumbine yes my jr high and hs did alot of practice situations for if something like this happened. But my college campus has such a lack of security (in Newark no less where we have a very high crime rate) but I wouldn';t even know the number to public safety if soemthing like this happened, anyone could easily get into the dorms at my school or many of my friends schools that I've visited.
its such a tragedy and an unneeded wakeup call... haven't we had enough wakeup calls at this point to still have such lax security
26why oh why do good people have to die and you have the charles mansons of the world either in prison or roaming around thinking about who they can kill
27esk4 they would rather eat cake and doughnuts than take care of their responsibilites..
28Does anyone know any confirmed information on the shooter?
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29if you see us on the floor you'll be watchin all night..
pres is on now... info on the identity of the shooter is supposed to be released at 4:30 EST....
30ohilovemybabies.. You sound like such a great mom. Your kids are VERY lucky.
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31if you see us on the floor you'll be watchin all night..
My heart and thoughts go out to the families.
32By any chance after the news can someone report on it? Because, I am at work and theres no tv where I am at. Thanks it is much appreciated!
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33if you see us on the floor you'll be watchin all night..
I have the news on if I hear anything new I'll post it
34THANK YOU SO MUCH
..If you see us in the club we'll be acting real nice
35if you see us on the floor you'll be watchin all night..
i am in the same boat as ilove2ski. won't get home until 6 est time. thanks!
36im supposed to finish a major report for work by 5:30 and i cant even concentrate. i dont understand how some people can just shrug their shoulders at this...
37luckily I am at school and one of the benifits of dorm life is comp very close to the TV, and after everything I don't much feel like turning the tv off...
38THANK YOU esk4!!
39ya know, one thing that I do find fascinating is the quick response of the student media. the phone calls made to alert someone that something was happening. and I can't remember where I read it, but it said that students in a classroom were writing things down and posting stuff on the internet. Such a great response to get some action and to get some information out to those who need to hear it. Yeah student media and student response.
40you girls are great!!!!!!
41italygal good luck with that paper. If you don't get it donw hopefully your teacher will understand.
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42if you see us on the floor you'll be watchin all night..
I just can't believe how many fatalities there are..... this is horrendous.
43~*Elle Jay*~
I heard that too, one student had video on his cell from the incident, and the school paper had a timeline of events from very early on after the initial incident...
44yep LALA.. they are talking about that right now on Fox News...
45There's a Wikipedia page if anyone wants to get more info there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shootings
46You can watch live streaming news from a local VA station here: http://www.nbc4.com/videostream/9476753/detail.html?dl=mainclick
47I know how you feel ohilovemybabies, my kids aren't home from school yet and I am so anxious for them to be here with me right now--and maybe never let them out of the house again....
48thanks oread.
..If you see us in the club we'll be acting real nice
49if you see us on the floor you'll be watchin all night..
this makes me sick, but I am honestly not surprised, we always talk about how easy it would be for someone to come in and either bomb or shoot a ton of kids on my college campus(that has 60,000+ students)
Colleges lack security, and this one is going to get nailed for the way they handled it. The way I see it is they were given 2 warnings that something was up.
1. last week when they had bomb threats for the same location
2. 7:15 am today when someone went in a dorm and shot someone. I have NO idea why they didn't put the campus on lock down, have heightened security, or send an e-mail informing students until 2 hours later when the mass shooting was taking place..
I hope the staff is nailed for the way this was handled and this wakes up all universities to step up security or at least have emergency plans.
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