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May 25, 2014— -- Below is the rush transcript of "This Week" on May 25, 2014. It may contain errors.

ANNOUNCER: ABC's This Week: deadly rampage.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shots fired, shots fired.

ANNOUNCER: Breaking details on the California shooting spree, the moments of terror, the urgent calls for action.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We don't have to live like this.

ANNOUNCER: And the chilling video and manifesto left behind.

Then, the pope's pilgrimage. His surprising message. We're live with Francis in the Holy Land.

Stunning scandal.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It is dishonorable, disgraceful and I will not tolerate it.

ANNOUNCER: The president demanding answers. Will the VA secretary keep his job? The chairman of the joint chiefs weighs in.

Band of Brothers -- on this Memorial Day weekend, the memories that never fade.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What does it mean to you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's huge. This is what I needed.

ANNOUNCER: From ABC News, This Week with George Stephanopoulos begins now.

MARTHA RADDATZ, HOST: Good morning. I'm Martha Raddatz.

As we come on the air this morning, new details emerging about the deadly rampage near a California college. Ten minutes of terror when 22-year-old suspect Elliot Roger opened fire triggering a deadly chase with police. In this disturbing video, Roger called it a day of retribution.

Here's the latest, police say there are at least 10 crimes scene, seven people dead including Rodger, son of a Hollywood director. Investigators also confirming three interactions with police months before the shooting spree.

So were warning signs missed? Our experts weigh in shorts, but first let's go to ABC's Clayton Sandell outside one of the crime scenes -- Clayton.

CLAYDON SANDELL, ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Martha, normally I would say good morning, but right now it is not a good morning here.

Isla Vista is a community in deep sorrow.

Behind me, the apartment complex where Elliot Rodger lived and where police say he murdered his first three victims.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SANDELL: As shocked residents of this Santa Barbara community grieve, a clearer picture is starting to form of 22-year-old Elliot Rodger's twisted plan, a plan he'd apparently been working on for months.

ELLIOT RODGER, SHOOTER: Tomorrow, is the day of retribution, the day in which I will have my revenge against humanity.

SANDELL: In this YouTube video posted the day before his rampage, Rodger reveals one motive, his rejection by women.

RODGER: Girls gave their affection and sex and love to other men, but never to me.

SANDELL: He lays out his plan to exact revenge in a rambling 141 page manifesto. He writes, "I found out that the sorority with the most beautiful girls is Alpha Phi sorority. I know exactly where their house is, and I've sat outside it in my car to stalk them many times."

According to authorities, Rodger drove to that sorority house and started banging on the door.

Fortunately, no one opened the door. And shortly afterwards, witnesses reported seeing three young women who were standing outside in the vicinity shot by the suspect.

One of 10 terrifying crime scenes. On this video, people diving for cover when the shooting began.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He fired two shots in. It stopped for about two seconds before they just started raining through.

SANDELL: Rodger's family says that in the weeks before the shooting, they reached out to authorities. They also say he'd been receiving mental health treatment.