Multiple people were killed Thursday morning in a shooting on the campus of a Rite Aid distribution center in Harford County, Maryland, authorities said.

The unidentified suspect was taken into custody and is in critical condition at a local hospital, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler said at a news conference. Law enforcement sources tell NBC News the shooting suspect is a woman.

The shooting was reported just after 9 a.m. at the Liberty Support facility, which is part of a Rite Aid distribution center. The facility is located in the area of Spesutia Road and Perryman Road in Perryman, just south of Aberdeen, Maryland.

Gahler said multiple people were dead and injured. Dr. Raymond Fang, medical director at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Trauma, said four adults were brought to the hospital with gunshot wounds, but didn’t provide any details about their current conditions.

"We are so preliminary in this investigation," Gahler said. "It's so important that we deal in facts." He said authorities don't want to "make it worse" for the families involved by giving out incorrect information.

Authorities say all the shots fired inside the facility came from a single handgun. No shots were fired by law enforcement. 

There is no additional threat to the area, officials say. 

Authorities are asking anyone who may still be in the building to dial 911 so deputies can find them, the sheriff's office posted on Twitter about 12:40 p.m.

The shooting comes nearly a year after a gunman opened fire inside his workplace in Edgewood, Maryland, shooting five people, killing three. Edgewood is located about 10 miles from Aberdeen. 

"Another tragic event for us in Harford County," Gahler said. "We've stood here before, and we stand here yet again today."

Alexie Scharmann, an Aberdeen resident, told NBC affiliate WBAL in a phone interview that her mother was inside the building where the shooting took place. She said her mother sent her a text message saying there was a shooter in the building and that she was hiding. 

"That's the last thing I heard from her. I have no idea what's going on. That's the only thing I can do is watch the news and pray," Scharmann told the station before getting a text message from her sister that her mom was safe and outside the building. 

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said he is "closely monitoring the horrific shooting."

"Our prayers are with all those impacted, including our first responders. The State stands ready to offer any support," Hogan said on Twitter.

The sheriff's office has set up a family reunification center at the Level Volunteer Fire House at 3633 Level Village Road in Havre de Grace.

Bruce Rogal had just killed his elderly parents after shooting at his ex-wife six times when he went to a friend’s house for a few beers, according to law enforcement sources.

Rogal never said a word about his murderous spree.

A few hours later, the 59-year-old Rogal was dead.

The Chester County rampage ended early Thursday morning after a brief manhunt and police chase, marking a violent end to what court documents show was a violent life.

In 2015, his ex-wife secured a protection from abuse order against Rogal detailing years of abuse. On one occasion, he punched the back of her head with his fist. He also threw her to the ground, grabbed her by the throat, slammed her into the kitchen counter and spit in her face.

The abuse allegations date back to 2009, according to court records. Rogal’s teenage son witnessed many of the attacks against his mom and called 911 on her behalf at least once.

Everything seemed to set off Rogal. While they were still married, Rogal shoved his wife out of the way when he didn’t have enough room to get around her in the kitchen, court documents showed. He also slammed her into the wall after a fight over $300. The latter assault resulted in a cracked rib and deep bruising.

On Wednesday, the final straw came in the form of divorce papers.

Rogal’s ex-wife was in the driveway of her West Bradford Township home, changing her car’s oil, when Rogal charged. He fired six shots at her. None of the bullets hit her, but several did strike neighboring homes.

“I heard bang, bang, bang and immediately shut my lights and television off,” neighbor Ron Costanzo said.

Another neighbor, Pauline Hart, told NBC10 she had encountered Rogal several times and always felt uneasy.

“He was actually scary,” she said. “He wasn’t right.”

When the shooting broke out, Rogal’s ex-wife found safety at neighbor Heather Everett’s house. Everett’s family was in the middle of a barbecue yet offered shelter from the rampaging Rogal, who pointed his gun at Everett’s mother but did not fire.

He then drove to his parents' senior living center in nearby East Goshen Township at 6:15 p.m. and killed them, police said. William and Nancy Rogal were both in their late 80s, according to Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan.

State police began to pursue Rogal around 1 a.m. Thursday after he drove near Pennsylvania State Police barracks, officials said. The manhunt, which included a ground and air pursuit, circled back to Rogal’s ex-wife’s home. There, he crashed his car and exchanged gunfire with troopers, Hogan said.

Rogal was found dead in the driver's seat of his own car, surrounded by firearms, Hogan said. Police have not confirmed if they killed him or if the gunman shot himself.

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A 26-year-old woman killed three others and injured more on Thursday before taking her own life in Maryland. Now, investigators are piecing together that deadly scene.

Two Philadelphia Police officers were hurt, though not seriously, while making an arrest Thursday afternoon.

It was not immediately clear how the officers were hurt, but the injuries were are not life-threatening, law enforcement sources say.

The event happened in the 7700 block of Ogontz Avenue shortly before 4:30 p.m.

Medics responded to assist the officers.

The shooter who allegedly opened fire in a Maryland warehouse has been identified as 26-year-old Snochia Moseley of Baltimore. Officials say Moseley killed three people and injured others.

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What began as a trip to Dick Dunmire's hometown of Pittsburgh has turned into an 11-day evacuation. And counting.

It’s been that long since Dunmire and his wife, Linda, have set foot in their home in Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina, which is not far from the Cape Fear River and the North Carolina coast.

They've been staying with family in North Wildwood, New Jersey for the past week and a half. But the couple are anxiously awaiting their trip home in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence.

“I’m anxious to get back home," Dunmire said. "It’s been too long.”

Sept. 9, Dunmire left for his 50th class reunion in Pittsburgh. It was good timing to take a trip north.

Florence was boiling in the Atlantic Ocean, aiming right at his North Carolina home.

Still, preparing for the then-Category 4 storm felt familiar. They've lived in North Carolina for 10 years, so the Dunmires have had experience in hunkering down. They did it most recently for Hurricane Matthew in 2016.

And Dunmire had served in the Coast Guard about two hours north in Morehead City. He’d evacuated that area on several occasions.

Florence, though, was different.

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"The rainfall was unimaginable,” Dunmire said. At one point, his area received 20 inches of rain in two hours.

Luckily, the Dunmires have received no reports of damage to their home. The town of Boiling Spring Lake has running water, but no electricity and many roads leading to their community have been washed away.

He does not expect the power to come on until at least Sunday night.

Still, he doesn't mind returning to the dark. He's planning to leave as soon as he can, perhaps even Friday.

When former President Obama visits North Philadelphia on Friday afternoon to pack an outdoor music venue for a voters' rally, he'll be speaking within the confines of one of the bluest areas in the country.

He'd have to stop in either the South Bronx or the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in fact, to be in a more liberal domain than Philadelphia's Third Congressional District.

The decision to spend his time trying to rally voters in such a Democratic stronghold confounds some like Bryan Leib, the Republican candidate challenging Third District incumbent U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans.

"If I was President Obama, I wouldn't be coming to Philly," Leib said. "He's making the same mistake as Hillary Clinton did in 2016. She came to Philadelphia and ignored the suburbs. It cost her."

Obama will be speaking to the choir, in other words, when he comes to rally liberals for Pennsylvania's Democratic candidates ahead of the November midterm elections. Incumbents, Sen. Bob Casey and Gov. Tom Wolf, along with some of the state's congressional Democratic candidates, will be part of the get-together inside the city's lush Fairmount Park setting.

That type of audience might seem safe, maybe even too safe, but it's the choir members who don't just go to church on holidays. As political history professor Randall Miller of Saint Joseph University puts it, "The big thing in any election is voter turnout. It's a special problem if you don't have a presidential election."

"The purpose of this rally is obvious on this front," Miller added. "But it's an obvious purpose that needs to be done. Many people don't appreciate the importance of down-ticket elections and off-year elections."

WATCH LIVE: Obama's speech to Democrats at the Dell Music Center in Fairmount Park will be available on this page starting at 4 p.m. Friday. 

The Democratic Party is hoping to turn liberal voters' energy into a blue wave come the Nov. 6 election. As is often the case in the first congressional election following a new president's election, the vote is a referendum on the commander-in-chief's job performance. President Trump's controversial first two years in office have led many to believe Republicans could lose control of Congress.

Obama is uniquely qualified to gin up interest. He's an iconic figure in a Democratic Party bereft of powerful central leadership.

Unlike his predecessor, George W. Bush, Obama is still widely admired by those within his party.

"You worry about him [if you're a Republican] because he has the ability to excite people and get them to follow him," Miller said. "Some people hate him for it. Some hate him for being African American. But he's a very powerful figure. His charisma makes him so dangerous."

Following a court-mandated redistricting of Pennsylvania's 18 congressional districts, Democrats believe the state could be one of the keys to winning back control of the House. Under what the state Supreme Court deemed a gerrymandered map, Republicans currently hold 10 of the 18 seats — despite a nearly 800,000-voter disadvantage statewide.

Much of that disadvantage comes from southeastern Pennsylvania, where Democrats in the five-county region, including Philadelphia, outnumber Republicans by more than 700,000.

Obama rode enthusiasm for his candidacy in the Philadelphia region to victory in Pennsylvania twice. Hillary Clinton lost Pennsylvania to President Donald Trump, and her vote totals in the southeast region were considerably lower than Obama's.

So what does the Republican candidate Leib think about the prospects of not only overcoming a massive Democratic voter total, but also having Obama stump in his district?

He said the buzz around Obama didn't translate into success for many Philadelphians in the eight years he was president, pointing to the city's enduring poverty and low median incomes.

And Leib thinks Obama is wasting his time.

"President Obama coming to Philadelphia 45, 50 days out from the election, I don't know if that's time best spend for him," Leib said. 

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People who suffered devastating losses during Hurricane Sandy know all too well the pain that hurricanes can bring, and now they're paying it forward to those dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Florence.

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At least five people, including three infants, have been stabbed at a Queens overnight daycare, police say.

The ages of the infants, two girls and a boy, were not clear, but one of the girls is in serious condition, according to police. Two other people, a man and a woman, were also stabbed just before 4 a.m. Friday. None of the injuries are considered to be life-threatening, despite one of them being seriously hurt. 

Police say a sixth person, a 52-year-old woman, was found in the basement of the Flushing daycare center on 161st Street with her left wrist slashed that police said was self-inflicted. She is in police custody at an area hospital. 

The man who was injured was stabbed in the leg and is the father to one of the children at the daycare, although it wasn't clear whether his child was one of the infants stabbed. The woman hurt was a worker at the daycare, officials said. They are being treated at an area hospital. 

No motive has been determined. It wasn't immediately clear whether the daycare was licensed.

Video from the scene shows ambulances and police on scene. 

A New Jersey sheriff who was recorded making racist remarks about black people and about the state’s Sikh Attorney General is apologizing, but says he won't resign.

Gov. Phil Murphy and other elected officials called for Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino’s resignation after WNYC obtained a recording on which the sheriff can be heard making remarks about black people, as well as the state’s Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, after Murphy’s inauguration on Jan. 16.

“He talked about the whole thing, the marijuana, sanctuary state… better criminal justice reform,” Saudino said of Murphy’s inauguration speech in the recording. 

“Christ almighty, in other words let the blacks come in, do whatever the f--- they want, smoke their marijuana, do this, do that, and don’t worry about it. You know, we’ll tie the hands of cops,” he reportedly said.

Saudino went on to say that Murphy only appointed Grewal because of “the turban,” WNYC reported.

He also wondered aloud whether Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver was gay "because she's never been married." 

Saudino, who's in his third term as Bergen County sheriff, released a statement Thursday evening acknowledging that he'd made the "insensitive recorded remarks that were made public today." 

"These remarks are not representative of the person that I am and they are in no way consistent with the manner in which I have conducted my life personally and as a law enforcement professional with over 46 years of service to the residents of Bergen County," Saudino said. 

Despite calls for him to resign, Saudino instead said he would be reaching out to community leaders to apologize and repair the damage to the "friendships" he has built with those communities. 

"Going forward I will continue to treat everyone with the respect and dignity that is deserved by all and to be diligent in my duty to protect and defend the rights of all our residents," he said. 

Murphy had denounced Saudino's comments as "appalling," adding that "anyone using racist, homophobic and hateful language is unfit for public office."

Grewal and Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco had also called for Saudino's resignation.

"I have now listened to the recording obtained by WNYC. If that's in fact Sheriff Saudino's voice, then he should resign immediately," Grewal said in a statement earlier Thursday. 

"I've got thick skin and I've been called far worse, But the comments about the African-American community are wrong, racist and hurtful," he added. "New Jersey and Bergen County deserve better." 

Tedesco, meanwhile, said he'd worked with Saudino for years and was "shocked and disappointed to hear these comments."

"In the best interest of the public, he should step down," Tedesco said in a statement. 

Assemblyman Gordon Johnson (D-Bergen), who formerly served as Bergen County sheriff, also called for his resignation, saying in a statement, "Sheriff Saudino's racist and bigoted comments are unacceptable and offensive. His hate-filled words are beneath the values we share as a community and they violate the integrity we demand and expect of law enforcement."

Bergen County Democratic Chairman Lou Stellato said "these remarks are both inconsistent with the Democratic values we hold dear and the character of the Michael Saudino I have known. Intolerance and discrimination can never be accepted at any level and he should resign,” Stellato said.

Because Saudino is an elected official, the governor does not have the power to remove him from office. He would have to resign on his own accord. 

Hackensack resident Danny Wiggers said he knows the sheriff personally and was "totally shocked" to hear his remarks. 

"It was probably an aberration on his part. He's a solid individual, he's been very good to all the communities I know of, and you know, he's human, he probably made a mistake," said Wiggers. 

In 2013, Saudino's Democratic challenger for the sheriff seat, James Mordaga, criticized Saudino for taking home both pension from a Hackensack Police Department job he retired from and salaries from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office and the county Department of Public Safety — a practice called "double-dipping" by critics. 

At the time, Saudino was the highest-paid sheriff in New Jersey. Saudino, however, noted that Mordaga, too, had "double-dipped" before running for sheriff. 

After undergoing renovation, Rittenhouse Square's "Billy the Goat" statue will be revealed Friday as part of a beautification project.

Early Friday morning three men were found lying unresponsive on the floor of a garage in Philadelphia's Feltonville neighborhood. Police pronounced one man dead on the scene. Investigators are working to figure out the cause of this incident.

Former Vice President Joe Biden apologized to Anita Hill Friday for not stopping senators from grilling her during hearings he held on Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court confirmation, though he stopped short for saying sorry over his own actions.

Defending his intentions at the time, Biden also urged current senators to learn from how Hill was treated in 1991 as they consider how they might question Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

"Anita Hill was vilified, when she came forward, by a lot of my colleagues, character assassination," Biden said on the "Today" show. "I wish I could have done more to prevent those questions and the way they asked them."

He continued, "I hope my colleagues learned from that. She deserves to be treated with dignity. It takes enormous courage for a woman to come forward, under the bright lights of millions of people watching, and relive something that happened to her."

Biden was head of the Senate Judiciary Committee when Hill came forward to accuse Thomas of sexual harassment, something Thomas denied on his way to being confirmed as a justice. Hill faced withering scrutiny as senators peppered her with questions, including whether she made up the accusations.

It led to a backlash the following year, dubbed "The Year of the Woman," when more new women were elected to Congress than ever before. Biden has received criticism for allowing the intense cross-examination and for not calling other witnesses who might have supported Hill. 

Biden has offered apologies to Hill before about how he let the hearing unfold, but never directly said sorry for his own conduct.

He said in November that he was "so sorry that she had to go through what she went through." The next month, he said in an interview, "I owe her an apology," when asked about Hill after she told The Washington Post that she didn't think he'd taken ownership of how the hearings went.

Hill joked to Elle magazine this week that she's been waiting for Biden to follow through on that apology he owes her, but said "there are more important things to me now than hearing an apology."

Asked Friday on what he would tell Hill now, Biden insisted he had supported her, apologizing for how he ran the committee.

"I'm sorry I couldn't have stopped the kind of attacks that came to you. But I never attacked her, I supported her. I believed her from the beginning and I voted against Clarence Thomas," he said.

Biden also said he supports Ford's call for an FBI investigation into her allegation against Kavanaugh, which he has denied. Biden noted that Hill's claims were investigated ahead of her hearing and said there shouldn't be a vote without it.

"What the devil have we learned here?" Biden said, noting that the public's perceptions about accusations of sexual misconduct have changed since the Hill hearings

It's not yet clear whether Ford will come before the Senate Judiciary Committee under similar circumstances to Hill — negotiations are underway for a hearing that could come as soon as Monday — but she has the backing of Biden and Hill, who suggested this week ways the committee could better run Ford's hearing.

And many Republicans on the committee today, while resisting Ford's call for an FBI investigation, have said they intend to treat Ford with respect if and when she testifies.

Wawa cut the ribbon on its newest store Friday morning, bright and early, at 34th and Market streets — its newest University City location, smack-dab in the middle of the Drexel campus.

As a nod to their locale, Wawa debuted a new specialty drink called the Dragon Double Shot: the "sweet and salty caramel latte" is loaded with two shots of espresso, whipped cream, and blue and gold topping. It’s only available at the Drexel store.

If specialty drinks aren’t your jam, no worries. The new store is also offering free coffee from Friday to Sunday. That makes for a full weekend of caffeinated bliss, gratis — although you may have to stand in line.

Or sit. The new Wawa also features 20 interior seats and a new mobile ordering pickup station, with plans for exterior seating.

At 8,760 square feet, it’s the biggest in Philly… for now.

It’ll soon be dwarfed by what some are calling "the ultimate Wawa". An 11,300-square-foot location, the largest in the world, is set to open across from Independence Mall (inside the Public Ledger building at Sixth and Chestnut) around Thanksgiving.

"At Wawa, we are always looking for opportunities to invest in our hometown," said Dave Simonetti, Sr. Director of Store Operations for Philadelphia. "We couldn’t be more excited to open this new store and serve the Drexel community in time for the academic year to begin."

New visitors were greeted by fanfare, t-shirts, and the chance to watch a hoagie-building competition between the Drexel University Police, the Philadelphia Fire Department, and EMS student volunteers.