this is cnn breaking news. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, this is "new day". it's wednesday, october 4th, 3:00 in the morning here in las vegas. and alyson of course holding it down in new york. we have new details this morning of the killer's meticulously planned attack on concertgoers. it took 58 lives, injured more than 500. and it was planned to every last detail. the police also releasing body camera video of first responders. you see their desperate efforts to help thousands of frightened people, making people get to safety, figuring out where shots are coming from, the gunfire the likes of which we have never heard in this country, was raining down. we are seeing for the first time, the massive weaponry used to carry out this massacre from the 32nd floor hotel room at the mandalay bay resort.

officials have now recovered 47 firearms from three different locations. their belief is this was an arsenal built up over many years. twenty of the guns in that hotel room were rigged. they had a bump stop. we'll talk about why he wanted it to make these weapons fire even faster. police say the killer set up cameras in his room. there was one in the hall way to monitor people coming maybe to try to interrupt his deadly plot. the motive for this senseless attack, however, still a mustry. the killer's girlfriend is back in the u.s. she is being interviewed by the fbi. she is considered a person of interest. president trump is going to head here to las vegas in a few hours to meet victims and law enforcement. jean, what do we know? >> reporter: brand-new details of planning, meticulous

premeditation before the perpetrator committed so many crimes. >> you guys, get down! go that way! get out of here. go that way. gunshots coming from over here. go that way! >> reporter: police releasing body camera video of the chaos that unfolded as shots rang out at an outdoor country music festival on sunday night. >> go that way, go that way, go that way. they're shooting right at us, guys. everybody, stay down. stay down. >> where's it at? >> it looks like it's coming out off window. >> reporter: these officers desperately attempting to locate the shooter, while taking cover under a hail of bullets.

>> go back! go back! >> get back. get back. >> reporter: this new video captures the concertgoers running in every direction as they were being fired upon. police say the killer opened few for 9 to 11 minutes, firing dozens of rounds in rapid succession. >> mandalay bay, 31st floor. i can hear the automatic weapon coming from one floor ahead, one floor above us. >> be advised, it is automaticing fewer. fully automatic fire from an elevated position. take cover. >> reporter: these are pictures of the arsenal used to carry out the massacre. atf said 47 firearms have been recovered from the hotel suite and two homes connected to the

killer. officials say 12 of the guns in his hotel room were rigged to fire like automatic weapons. police say the killer took his own life after exchanges gunfire with police, his lifeless body surrounded by some of the weapons he used to shoot out the smashed out window behind this curtain. police say this was awe meticulously planned attack. authorities say the killer installed several hidden cameras, one inside the hotel suite's peephole, and two others in the hall way, including one camera on a hotel service cart to monitor approaching threats. the killer's motive remains a mystery. his girlfriend, marilou danley, named a person of interest, is being questioned by the fbi and back in the u.s. returning from the philippines tuesday night, police say is she has been cooperating with law enforcement. her two officers speaking to 7 network in australia insist she did not know what the killer was

planning. >> he september is her away so he can plan what he was planning without interruptions. i thank him for sparing my sister's life, but there were 59 people's lives. >> we do know the perpetrator of these crimes wired $100,000 to the philippines. we don't know when he did it. we don't know why he did it. chris, more mystery. >> we are hearing there is cooperation between the philippine authorities and the u.s., so hopefully we can get answers on that. jean, thank you very much. we'll check back with you in a little bit. there's a lot of new information to discuss. let's figure out how this helps to form the puzzle. we have analysts with us. couldn't have better guests for this. let's start with what we now

know about the weaponry and then we will go to what we know about this choice of venue, why this guy may have picked it. it is not new to gun owners. it is a legal accessory. bunk stock. it is the back part of the weapon. let's talk about what this is. because there is a lot of pushback yesterday that this was a modification to have it operate like an automatic weapon instead of a semiautomatic. there was push back, no, this isn't a big deal. this is people attack the gun culture. >> all of a sudden this has been thrust into our lexicon. sit a workaround. most people in law enforcement, military, are huge proponents of

the second amendment. this isn't part of the second amendment. this works around and sir couple vents our law. >> to be clear, it is legal. >> the atf special agent in charge said technically it's legal. does it meet the spirit of the law, the fact that you're not mechanically modifying a weapon but you are putting an aftermarket product on that allows you to lay down -- chris, this is suppressive fire. >> suppressive fire, just so you know at home, is hail of bullets that is not so much accurate but done so it creates risk for whoever your opponent is so they would rather stay point. it is not about being pinpoint. they will say it's not really automatic. you still have to have your hand on the trigger. what's the reality about what it did for this weapon? >> the united states took automatic weapon fire off their rifles and put on a three-shot burst. they found out the inaccuracy of soldiers in combat, they would

pull the trurg, tigger, and youd the muzzle would pull up. >> let's show the pictures. it is is new information just to give you a sense of the volume, the preparation. that is actually a bathtub we were showing you. you see them on the floor. it doesn't necessarily show chaos. he may have been cycling through weapons. heat up when used that much. you run out of bullets no matter how extended the ammo is. we see them. we hear that he was wearing gloves. why? >> the heat. the heat signature on the muzzle. he was doing everything he could to prepare himself. >> let's bring in phil mudd on that point. not being concerned about who you hit but how many and giving this monster the best chance of

firing as many bullets and hitting as many people as possible. phil, how does it figure for you? >> a couple things we need to think b. lots look at the visible. we know he was familiar with vegas. we know he was a gambler. he didn't presumably know the victims. he knew that that event was going to happen and he chose that hotel to hit that event. a gambler goes down to the strip and shoots people up, i have to believe it is something that happened to him that happened when he was gambling. but i want to know what his google search was, when did he make the refbatiservation, was n his phone, did he survey beforehand, i want his visa card history to know whether he ever checked into that hotel before or another hotel, whether he was traveling at other venues to buy dinner. there is a whole picture around

i think the authorities would have already known. the sheriff said yesterday within 48 hours we should have a bigger picture. they have this digital picture of his life that should clarify what he was doing and why he chose that venue, chris. >> also, phil, it seems clear at this point that he did as much as he could to give himself the best opportunity to kill as many boom as possible. he picked an elevated vantage point. he rigged the weapons to spray as many many bullets as possible. he put the cameras outside and privacy sign to give himself as much time as possible. what did that fit into what his objective was? >> obviously his objective, in my judgment, was to kill as many people as possible. we know he had explosive material in the car. that explosive material is commonly available. it is agricultural material. if you look on the internet, you can find ways to make that into a backpack bomb.

he was thinking of other options to maximize victims. options we have seen in suicide attacks in places like europe. why pick this option? why not a truck bomb or backpack bomb? i don't know why he chose this option instead of others that he appears to have been thinking about. >> also, james, it does appear these weapons, according to the investigators so far, it wasn't about a pluck buy. that he had been building them up over time. you think that's a window into some really long-range plot or he was a gun enthusiast that turned into something else. >> chris, it's hard to tell at this juncture. the sheriff the first day, in the initial hours said make no doubt about it, this is going to be a protracted investigation. you're going to have a timeline put together. we're going to know where this guy was probably awe week prior to that. the concert was announced back in february. was that the grievance?

that concert, the trigger event, or was it something else? the key here is motivation. we know there was a criminal act. we know that. now we have to get into his mind and find out what motivated him to do that. were there co-conspirators? was this a statement for some other political performance? that's the professor in you. you have the thing that you did. men's rea was your mind's intent in doing it. in terms of the mens rea they are trying to do it with horrible success and they say this is terrorism. not to you. >> terrorism understands why someone was motivated to conduct app attack. it is not a mass murder of innocent civilians but people with a political event. for example, protesting wars

overseas or what the american government is doing in the united states. with don't know motivation. say it was related to a gambling habit on the las vegas strip. that is potentially financial motivation. say a family problem caused him to snap. until we know motivation, until we know it was political, don't tell me it's terrorism. that presumes i know why he did what he did. >> how about the money and the movement of the girlfriend, her sisters saying they believe she was sent away. how do those two components fit into your analyst i want to know what the timeline is. we know the timeline of the acquisition of the weapons. presumably looking at things like his phone and e-mail. we know the timeline of his communication with people, including his family and his girlfriend. if i look at his visa card, i should know things like when he acquired that hotel room.

if i look at his laptop i might know when he started searching for things like concerts on the las vegas strip. if you put that three dimensionsal timeline with all the data in somebody's life and overlay the moment when he decided to accepted a lot of money to somebody he presumably loved we get a picture of when he started to make decisions and even why he might have started to make those decisions if you factor in the kind of things he was looking at on google. >> all right. gentlemen, thank you very much. and it is shocking no matter what your politics are that to this point in our understanding this man was able to a mass this arsenal on over a number of years and modify them to make them so deadly. to this point we don't know that he broke any law in the set up to the planning of this. what he did is criminal, a monster, is obvious. up next, we will honor the victims of the las vegas massacre.

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let's be clear, what this men did and why, they matter. they matter in terms of the investigation is, figuring out what this plot is about, might lead us to avenues of how to make this less likely the next time. but the big point of this, the reason we're so connected to it are the lives that were lost. 58 people were stolen from this world by one man. among those victims are beloved special ed teacher, a nurse who used his body to schild his wife, a single mother of three boys. cnn's sarah seidner is live in las vegas with more. we know there are so many who are still trying to find people here. families have come, there is communication going o. what we know already is just heartbreaking. >> reporter: it is is, chris. we sat down with the family, three boys and her parents. their mother was killed in this terrible massacre.

at this point, they are all just feeling numb but they are all completely heartbroken that they will never be able to hold their mother again. sunny and heather were newlyweds who loved going to concert. >> his name was sonny. he was literally sunshine. he was the most selfless person that i have ever met. even until his last breath, he proved that. >> reporter: when the first shots rang out, sonny grabbed heather, pulled her to safety, he was shot in the back. he died saveing her life. >> he saved me before much this incident. he taught me what real love was. >> reporter: denise and tony burditis had been married 32 years. they were high school sweethearts. she died in his arms. they were on vacation from west virginia. they took this video in front of

the tpft val stafestival stage the massacre. >> assume going to miss her greatly. her family is going to miss her greatly. >> reporter: shraolisa patterso a mother of three. she is remembered for her infectious energy and fierce love for her family. >> she was such an amazing person. she cared for so many people. she was so enthusiastic. she was literally the best mom and she was my best friend. >> reporter: christopher why bald searched in afghanistan. those at crunch fitness said we lost a son, mentor, friend and he hero. he had been looking forward to this trip with his friends. >> i told him, no, i couldn't go. i went to the bathroom and came back and he showed me his phone. he said i bought you tickets and

everything. you're going. >> reporter: he tried desperately to save his friend's life, holding adrian in his arms until he took his last breath. >> i went back, put his hat on. waited on him. yelled at him not to go. he was blankly stairi lly stagg >> reporter: even though she didn't know him, she stayed with jordan, holding him and his hand. she delivered the news to his girlfriend who was separated from him in the melee. >> she broke down and said he's the love of my life. this can't be happening. i go, i promise you i will not leave him. >> reporter: lisa was a happy mother of three boasson joying the concert with co-workers, her family in disbelief. >> we know she had passed. we know there was no hope.

that was the worst. knowing that she had passed. >> reporter: her older sons didn't know how to process the pain. they literally hit a wall, their fists bearing the. >> you are so angry that happened. and you're so happy for the life that she had. >> reporter: you know, for every one of those numbers, 58 families, they are all going through this. and everyone grieving in their own way. that family there, the cox family, an incredible family trying to get through this. they said one of the things that was really, really difficult but important to them is to actually see her. they wanted to see her body. they needed that. they needed that to finalize this in their minds. they were unable to find her for hours because there was so much

chaos, so many people who lost loved ones they went to the coroner's office and were shown a picture and that's when it hit them this was real and their mother was gone. chris. >> sara, thank you very much. appreciate the reporting. it is is important to remember, alyson, a lot of families are trying to connect a lot of people involved in this. 58 people lost their hraoeufgs. over 500 injulives. over 500 injured. they are in disarray, shock. when we those these faces, everyone had family, friends, a life, dreams. it is always in every one of these that we go to, one man took so much and took so many from this place. >> i mean, look, chris, the numbers are staggering, just staggering. look at all the faces on our screen. every single story that he with hear is crushing. all of these left without their mother or parents. or somebody left without their

husband, their loved ones. the scope of the human loss is so much that i think a lot of people are trying to compartmentalize it. otherwise, it is so devastating. we will stepped the program talking about if people are feeling resigned to this or if there's anything that our leaders can-can do. so we are going to talk about all of that. chris, we will be back with you very shortly. meanwhile, president trump is heading to las vegas in the next hour to meet with these victims and the heroes there. how will he address all of these questions? does he see any answer here? a live report next.

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in about an hour, the president will leave the white house to travel once again. this time to las vegas. moral agency is such a big part of the job of being president, the comfort, what you problem in terms of priorities. so what will the president say when he comes here? what will he say to first responders? what will he say to the people who are in shock and wondering whether this is just a necessary part of our culture now. cnn's joe johns is live at the white house with more. you know, it's something that we don't often think about when it comes to being a president, but it has loomed so large in the early months and certainly in the wake of these storms. and now this mass murder of epic proportion here in las vegas. >> that's true, chris. presidents to not cherish this role. but many of them have had to do

it in the past. the president sets out bright and early this morning for las vegas. he's expected to grieve with the families of the victims. he's expected to even sit down and talk with some of the survivors. the president has also responded by praising the first responders, even tweeting just last night that the response, the quick response of the las vegas police department was nothing short of a miracle. here's what he said earlier. >> i'll be going to las vegas where i will pay my personal respects and condolences to everybody. what happened was such a tragedy. so unnecessary. i couldn't believe what happened in las vegas. >> reporter: what seems quite clear is the president is not going to talk very much about gun control on this trip.

he said as much on departure for puerto rico yesterday here at the white house. the president ran as a strong supporter of gun rights. and cnn has been told he's being advised by top administration officials to steer clear of the issue, harkening back to what we heard on capitol hill many times after these mass casualty shooting events that now is not the time and all the facts need to be entered before entering into a discussion on second amendment rights. >> thank you, joe, for all of that reporting. now to the russia investigation. cnn has exclusive new details about those russian-linked facebook ads during the 2016 presidential campaign. some targeted swing states key to president trump defeating hillary clinton. cnn's manu raju has all the details for us. what did you learn?

>> reporter: good morning, alyson. a number of ads that appeared during the election season were targeting michigan and wisconsin. these are two states critical to donald trump. the ads were intended to promote anti-muslim messages, suggesting muslims were a threat to the american way of life. now, it has been unclear until now exactly which regions of the country were targeted by these russia-linked facebook ads. they appeared in areas not heavily contested in the election. some were aimed at swaying public opinion in the most heavily protected battle grounds. sources have seen these facebook ads and they have seized on the second is amendment and starting to prop up and criticize groups like black lives matter as part of an overall effort to meddle in the elections. m manu, is the evidence

suggesting they had help from the u.s. about exactly where to target? >> reporter: well, we don't know that yet. adam shipp told me we still don't know if anyone in the trump campaign was involved in the russia ad campaign effort. but as part of their investigations, both the special counsel and congressional committees are seeking to determine whether the russians received any help at all from trump associates in where to target those ads. the white house did not respond to a request for comment. but the president off calls the matter a hoax. these ads were part of the 3,000 submitted to congressional investigators by facebook this week, all of which the company said reach about 10 million people. while, alyson, we have no way of knowing for sure how it affected the vote, trump beat clinton by just 10,700 votes out of nearly

5 million cast in michigan. while you wi while wisconsin won by 22,700 votes. we expect to hear more about the facebook ads and the extent of this effort when senate intelligence leaders hold a press conference about their own sweeping probe and what they learned about russian meddling and any collusion that may have occurred from trump associates. >> we have richard blumenthal on our program. we will ask about your new reporting. thank you for sharing that exclusive with us. president trump leaving one crisis in puerto rico for another in las vegas. how is he doing as consoler in chief? we discuss all of that next.

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. >> matt: will head to las vegas 90 minutes from now and meet with survivors of sunday's massac massacre. it comes a day after the president visited puerto rico. but this morning he's spending time criticizing the coverage of

his visit to puerto rico. he tweeted a great day in puerto rico yesterday while some of the news coverage is face, most showed great warmth and friendship. let's talk about that. we have cnn political analyst gregory and editor at large chris solizza. i think it's fair to say that you were critical of how the president was, you know, throwing paper towels. that his tone didn't seem to necessarily fit the tragedy, the hue plmanitarian crisis there. the only local politician we can find that is critical of president trump is the san juan mayor. she felt it wasn't sensitive. >> reporter: to say i was critical is an understatement. that thank you for that, alyson. look, i just think the thing

donald trump has failed to demonstrate up to yesterday was his ability to be empathetic with anybody he is not related to or views as a peer. we saw that in charlottesville. we saw it repeatedly during the campaign. to me in puerto rico yesterday, when you joke about you're costing us a lot of money, when you say it is not a real catastrophe because not enough people died, when you talk about the weather and how nice the weather is though occasionally you get hit, which he did, when you randomly bring general kelly to tout the fact that he has four stars, when you act the way he acted in handing out supplies, this is not presidential. i guess you could say that's good if you like donald trump, that you're sick of presidents acting presidential. but acting like, you know, steph curry shooting paper towels and holding up a flashlight saying, this is a flashlight. i thought it was mean, mean,

mean, mean, mean. everything was centered on him. he asked the governor of puerto rico -- he said you have said many nice things about us and you were praising us. he asked the congresswoman from puerto rico, you have been saying a lot of nice things about us in private. would you say them in public. the whole focus was donald trump and how allegedly the story in the media that he was a little slow on the draw as it relates to getting aid there and focusing the attention of the country there, that that story was wrong. and that's what he wanted to do. he did not focus in any way, shape or form, to my mind, on the on people there, the ongoing struggles, what they need. incident was sort of a praise donald trump fest. >> listen, the governor doesn't object. the governor obliged to complimenting the president. let's just play a couple of moments in case people missed it yesterday. listen to this. >> i hate to tell you, puerto

rico, but you're throwing our budget a little out of whack because we have spent a lot of money on puerto rico. and that's fine. we saved a lot of lives. if you look at a real catastrop catastrophe katrina and look at the tremendous, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died and you look at what happened here, what is your death count out of this moment, 17? >> 16, certified. >> 16 people certified. 16 people versus in the thousands, you can be very proud. >> gregory, the death toll doubled right after the president left. then the governor announced it had gone up -- it more than doubled. 34 people. your thoughts? >> reporter: look, it is callous and absurd to talk about the death count and comparing it to katrina and that is a sign that things are so much better here. nobody wants to hear that. that's not what the president should be saying. listen, this whole -- look, donald trump is doing what he does, which is miss direction,

deflection, and trying to stir up hatred for the media. the notion that he would tweet about the coverage not being warm and friendly. mr. president, that's not our job. get on over it. focus on doing what you're supposed to do as commander in chief and president of the country. that's not what he wants to do. he would love for us to talk about a culture war between the media and the deposit, which is pointless. people can see it with their own eyes. the bottom line is the administration has been in a very difficult position having to respond to hurricane after hurricane. it's a tremendous challenge for the federal government working with state and local governments. fema, by all accounts, done an incredible job prepositioning. but there are questions about whether they are behind now. and somebody like lieutenant general honora who came after

after&got it righted, how there has to be more federal resources in puerto rico. that's a fact. that's what the government should be focused on. by the way, local officials praising the president. if you're a governor, you're going to embrace the federal government, to get what you need. remember chris christie? that's what any responsible local official would do. >> on some level it is is working because the president said yesterday they're going to have to -- he was quite clear they are going to have to wipe out the debt of puerto rico, chris. that's huge. if congress goes along with that. >> reporter: the big if congress goes along with it, right. remember, donald trump once billed himself as the king of debt. this is the back and forth, alyson, the sort of yo-yoing.

he said you're costing a lot of money down here. well, we're going to probably forgive your debt. again, it's all for the show. i feel like at this point we have enough data points from june 2015 until now that we know both him as a candidate and him as president, it's largely for the show is of it. it's for the perception. it's about picking fights with what he believes to be scapegoats like the media based on frankly nothing. the idea that the news didn't cover that story. we wrote about his words. i urged people yesterday and today. cnn has it online. cnn.com. watch the 13-minute photo-op on press conference where the clips you are playing are from. you decide if you think that is the way a president should approach a first visit to a site in which people's lives are -- 34 people lost their lives. but hundreds and thousand have

be beenrooted, still dealing with electricity shortages. >> only 7% of the island has power at the moment. >> reporter: saying you should be proud, touting this as a great place. just watch it yourself and be the judge. don't just believe what donald trump tweeted. believe what david says, but don't believe what i say. watch it yourself. >> david, let's talk about the exclusive coverage cnn has. manu raju said sources are saying the russian ads from facebook did target michigan and wisconsin. those are the states that allowed donald trump to win by a slim margin over hillary clinton. so lucky guess from russia? it doesn't take that much to figure out those would be swing states, or something else happening here? >> reporter: you have to face the obvious question, which is whether those people behind those ads had any kind of help

from somebody in the orbit of the trump campaign who would know enough that's where they ought to focus their effort. that is clearly what special prosecutor and congress will look at. this highlights the ugliness of what kpufexists online and how google and facebook can be exploited. we have seen it in the aftermath of the las vegas shooting as well. fake stories can be proliferated, created such ugliness and push on the open door of enough people in our society willing to believe that and who have such little faith in institutions from government to media that this kind of thing can take root. >> okay. gentlemen, thank you very much for the perspective on both of these stories. obviously our top story is what's happening in las vegas and the aftermath. that's where we find chris on the ground there. chris? >> reporter: and it's all related, though, right, alyson?

if we decide what is real, what is true, what is fact, what he have to deal with about a society. that's why we scrutinize what the president says because it matters. and he's coming to las vegas today. one of the issues going on right now is this arsenal this monster put together over 20 years. he converted many of his weapons into weapons that could fire very rapidly. and he did not have to break a single law to do it. how is that possible, next. i want ycome on mom!t easy. go slow. ♪ let's go! ♪ mom! slow down! for the ones who keep pushing. always unstoppable.

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finger squeeze and a magazine to feed a stream of bullets. the result is one could logically only use in a war. or, like las vegas, a massacre. >> be advised it is automatic fire. fully automatic fire from an elevated position. >> reporter: you would think that kind of weapon power would be illegal for average gun owners to possess. think again. this is a slide stock. perfectly legal, aftermarket component. according to the manufacturer's video is, it's easy to assemble on an assault rifle and the ruts, though technically do not make a machine gun, ask yourself if you can tell the difference. >> that was just one of several ways that you can make a semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic rifle. >> reporter: the slide stock is legal to buy and to use. former atf agent sam rabati

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good morning. welcome to your "new day". sit wednesday, october 4th, 4:00 in the morning here in las vegas. alyson is in new york. we do begin with new details about this killer's meticulous planning. we have never seen anything like this. the 58 lives that were stolen, more than 500 others who were injured. and all of this planning and all of these weapons we have nephew seen anything like this before. police releasing dramatic body camera video of first responders. it gives us a sense of what they were doing to make peo