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>> sfw morning i'm rahel solomon. >> and katie and pat along in a momentment first here's what you need start your day in the morning minute monday october 2nd. >> mass chaos after gunman opens fire at packed musikfest snral las vegas. >> protesters square off against police outside a fundraiser for officer suspended for a deadly shooting. >> and every second. >> puerto rico is slowly getting help it needs but millions are still without basic necessities.
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>> an a fight forecast loania despite a violent crackdown cat loanian officials say they earned independence frs spain. >> blount got the first half, he's at the 20, 15, the game is over. i don't care. there's 1:45 left but eagles are about to be 3-1. >> e-a-g-l-e-s, eagles! >> throw an sxlaition point on that. eagles beater chargers. there's a special report from cbs news first let's get you over to indicatesy with weather and traffic here. >> we're in ar a warm-up katie. >> today looking beautiful you said that 80. fis, clear, school start to the morning. 'tis the surprise. nothing atypical there and
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this is now the time you actually can dress as to what the warm should be doing and in fact is. which is cooling off in the early morning and then warming up nicely later in the day. storm scan remains nice and clear at this hour and it has the opportunity to wall up efficient hi. daytime highs low to mid 70s. far cry from a that now. solar angle is helpful that a warms things up and b, feels nice and warm m when you stand out in the bright sun. there will notsh crowd cover to up hibt that. stand in the sun and it will feel good after this it is what you would call perfect. i certainly do. bright sunshine. typical warm m and low humidity and light wind to keeps things comfortable.
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as the day progresses we're going to warm up overrulely again 74 is official call for the day today. and we will eventually also warm things up for you. here's a look region wide depending where you wake up and travels take you today. wall awall sunshine and raej until it-wise in the delaware valley. here in philly bat about 74 for today. >> i katie i know it felt warmer that that def mitly. >> here a look at the schuylkill tort city of philadelphia. everything looking good so far here at 5:35 in the morning and no delays in the area and blue route mid country taillights back out of the way going southbound and no delays here either, it's a quiet morning. nothing here either it's a camel commute into the city of philadelphia. construction to talk about. the 4:22 first avenue ramp
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closing this morning at 6:0 a.m. that will close until next monday. use alternative which is route 23 ramp. also 76 westbound 30 street station one lane will close tonight. all lanes will close overnight tuesday through thursday. don't working on schuylkill avenue over top i-76 gem and reach ill back to you. >> let's go to our top story here at home and across the country bun. >> more that 20 people killed 'and report are edly more than 100 injured. let's goat trang do in the news center. >> updates keep coming in we learned two of those killed are two off duty las vegas police officers aend iting concert and two other police officers wounded. one in crate call condition.
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the shooter was eventually called by police. now they hundred of shot were fired from the mandalay pay in many sharing individual questions. on social media. what you're about to see may be disturbing to some viewers [ gun shots ]. you can hear those rapid fire shots through this two-minute video posted to twitter by a concert goer. you hear in the video shots stop and resume. music stops and once people realize what they're hearing people start cursing an ryeing and trying to get away. if another period. you can hear the same automatic you see one woman who was at the concert covered in blood and share a terrifying account. >> a lot of dead womanyes
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were highlying on top of whoever if mraeting or got to stay down. i know i have a lot of people's moved on me now. >> downed down staying down and it's either you know help the person next to you or not. the shooting happened after 10 p.m. las vegas time while jason aldean was in the middle of his set. the concert was happenening in the shadow of mandalay bay casino end of strip. the shooter was firing from 2 floor of mandalay bay hotel above the crowd and that is where he was eventually killed by police. though place say this is over but they're serving for man's white room who is identified with tally and no been seen as
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soon as. i'll send it back to you guys i know we have that special report ming shortly. >> we know many more update are expected to dom this morning. >> right now the time is 5:37. sdkerberg took to facebook this weekend. >> and movie making top return to box office list. and live from the new york stock exchange the former chair map and ceo of equifax is scheduled to testify on capitol hill this week. rick smith stepped down following data breach at the credit recording company. 143 million americans' information was exposed. smith will answer lawmakers tuesday and wednesday. >> facebook it will turnover to congress russian lichked political adds td.
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over the weekend mark zuckerberg asked for forgiveness on facebook. zuckerberg asked to be forgiven for the use of his ways. >> we'll toss to new york. >> special report i'm jeff lure in new york and more than 20 people are dead this morning after late-night mass shooting targeting country sick festival in las vegas. gunfire sent thousands of spectators running when jason aldean was performing on stag stage. the sheriff in vehicle as more than 200. the gunman was shot and killed at man day police say they don't believe there's any other shooters but they are looking for the gunman's female companion this morning. she's identified as marylou
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danly. you see a picture of her on the screen rights now. squlon plaque stone in in las vegas near the scene of the shooting. good morning. >> that let's see the scene. we're at the end of the las vegas strip. mandalay bay hotel could must sick festival. jason aldean country singer just tan the same. and then they began the 32 floor of mandalay bay hotel a gunman broken a window and was using high-powered semi-automatic weapon to fire down into the crowd. he reloaded and witnesses say he reloaded multiple times.
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they heard burst of 0 shots and pause while he reloaded and fired down into the crowd again. the scene became clearly one of chaos. people breaking down fences to get out of this area and toe get clear the lobe shootser on 32 floor. they say they. >> they took out the shooter from the hotel. finally on what went on for perhaps five minutes witnesses say, we now know that more than 100 people were wounded and more than 20 people were killed. the witnesses who came out of that concert told drawm attic stories of lying on they tried to get up and get out of the line of fire and they would hit the dirt and wait for next pause in gunfire
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to move again. people are now skaert add cross mitch of las vegas who were there together. red cross, police here are trying to make it possible for people to reconnect to get together with family and friends. they've set up phone numbers and reunification center where people can try to find out what happened to loved ones. clearly with this large number of casualties and difficulty of people contacting each other and there's a lot of worry you you here. it's quite quiet. only police vehicles in many cases. clearly this was not -- in the early hours it was believeded there may have been multiple begun mean here. they say no it was one bega beganman he's been taken up. we have eyewitness us who have people were at the concert who told their dram ateic story of
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they sure vivrd. >> we saw jason rupp off stage and people all over on the floor the grassy area in tonight ever the stage were somewherele if aing and somewhere screaming and yelling and running and we were in this power up on top. and it's like everyone said hit the floor. everybody would be laying on top of eesh other as oui get out of the way. shot kept coming. we were going down and when we went down theres with a man shot there. they were taking him out he was all bloody and unconsciou unconscious. and one of my friends was helping him out. and they got him out. we ran. and everybody is hiding everywhere, under bleechers and stands and anywhere they koxt everyone is telling us run, run, as fast as you can. >> we ran out towards a car and there were people hiding
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under neek my car for cover. >> and he said can you can help me and i put him in the car and gsh they wanted to get away. >> witnesses did say even among this chaos there was people -- people were ordinarily getting out and trying to stay calm as they got out of this concert venue. even with the shooting going on trying to get out safely and not cause more problems by trampling people. >> yes, shown john, this is dman lay bay so there are some more on ep spaces there which is sometimes why they do concerts or outdoor festivals. there's parking available and larger lots. you can see where this route 91 harvest concert was taking place on the map up on the
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screen now. and it was multi-day concert and sold out as we mentioned jasonald even gunfire started second floor of mandalay bay on to concert itself. job, you've been there all mopping morning lawn. you can tell us who was there at the time and where everybody was told to go now. >> certainly people came from perhaps across the qunlty. in fact we talked to a couple what came down if canada for this concert. and they hit the dirt like everyone else. they came a long way just for the concert and suddenly found themselves under this barrage of gunfire that continued and continued. and now people were gatored up and down the treat as you know he from looking at the shape the buildings are great and distances long and people got scattered up and down the.
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>> i believe headquarters here trying to get people together. but, roads have been closed. there's a large traffic jam making it difficult to get around. people's cell phones ran out of batteries. they've been trying to reconnect with friends. and learnly the its are under control to a kos for many of you caught in this. >> stay with us. i know you've been there all morning reporting on this horrifying shooting that has taken place in las vegas, gale king john us now on the air for cbs news special report after this shooting that happened at this country music festival in laev we're joined
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by paul cbs news analysting. >> from what you've seen of what happened in vegas so far what have you been able to gather. >> i think the interesting part that will play out is why this location and why this particular time and why did he choose the manp day lay unless you want to go with me to that particular question. there's so many questions that need to play out. first understand y there's something you can get on than plays out. there's no question we'll realize he chose this for a particular reason and time. >> he reloaded. all the nvk is flute. but we hear he reloaded several time. tell us about that weapon and atilt of how many. >> the weapon he chose the fact that i literally was en endless with respect to how many hounds he had. i'm not sure what weapon he used. weapon we will dictate eyes of
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magazine and rounds it will cover. to reload, literally takes a second. >> and there. >> popdz it out and back in. >> one shooter taken down. what are some of the things investigators are being ooing for. >> the first thing now study video. hopefully they got good artificial intelligence. forensically they can see he from the point he came into the hotel who was he with. where did that's one of the good things that comes out of this everybody has a camera and immediately starts taking picture. and they're issuing a call to anyone in vegas taking picture of this scene to police turn your relevant.towe >> remember the trajectory got bet that's the thing that really needs to play out.
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because when you think about this massive group of people with auto maic weapon shooting down his intent probably is not going to be for person but to send a larger macro messag message. >> paul threats think will tat that. you go to concert and you're outside. even if they have machines to check you we've all been to a concert and they check baingdz and wounded. one if you know something. >> how you can protect against that. >> we can't. we can't stop having concert and living. that will be interesting part about this particular pep. they'll go through his phone and plan top and desktop and backtrack him but that's the points we need to figure out here. why that location? >> i have not heard what the security -- if there was security or scanners outside the concert. we didn't walk into the
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mandalay bay bay but it's a popular spot. you can walk in and get up to 22 floor i believe. i believe police said the window was broken. presumably he shot window out and then the first thing they're going to do is see if he cut the window or shot this out. being he was this prepared he cut the the window. at that particular hight they're not bulletproof indowes not l 3 glass. it's one step above plate glass. he could easily have cut it out and shot through that. >> i keep thinking about the people at the concert. jason aldean popular western singer and very popular concert. you go and first you hear shots i heard people saying i thought it was fire work or truck backfiring you're not
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keeping tram of of what you heat in a moment. >> people will be counted and say it sound like fireworks it's pop, potential, pop, pop, pop, pop, and the frequency of it tells you that's automatic weapon good we've soon a video of people posting and initially not ruch reaction because they think it's parts of the show. as we talked about the shoote shooter, there is believed to be one shooter loan shooter and that shooter had taken bin down and we heard -- what does that tell you about this woman and planning that may have gone into this. >> again if this goes that city appearance they were setting when walking in and relation snrp 2 so it's fair to say this the appoint they definitely will go. you can count on at least one other person. >> we have to caution we
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don't know what her involvement is if anything. they're looking for her for questioning we should be careful to say, marilou you danley. >> they described her as a suspect to the gentleman disceased. hes with a bartender route 91 harvest festival. lobe an there. hel whoa what you can tell us about what you saw. >> had you, house it going. well, let see it was getting a slow i was working at the bar near front entrance. >> what time was this logan, what time was this. >> it had to be i'm got sure around 10:00 i would say mayb maybe. >> all right. >> give or take. but yeah i was talking to another bar ted paperworking at a bar next to the main stage and happened top be in
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our area. and we were just talking and then here pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, potential be. >> it was not just a little bit of gunfire but it was 60, 75 round sxeep receive and you don't rally think you will hear it. >> so when you heard it logan when you heard it good you think it was fun fire? >> there was part of me that thought it was very odd and like it could be and it's vegas and there's a lot of people there. and there has not been any kind of attack here yet. so i've always wondered. i didn't want to think there was. and i looked at them and said you know it's probably pa the guy has played pew sick and then it was weird. it sounded like helicopter signing off and i thought maybe i didn't know we're kind
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of at the airport i thought she committed helicopter and when i satisfied that to our side and said there's people running and scream and we looked at them and both we were constantly without saying anything looked at each other and started printing, running. we knew instantly what it was. our animal instincts told us. that was gunfire and we're running for our lives. >> where are you right now. you have to wait from running scene. request are you now. >> i'm at a friend's house my friend shelby came and picked me up. she called me once she found out what was going on i post on twitter and facebook about it trying to alert any friends that i could. >> so i actually ran -- we were running -- i was run with this guy towards mgm and i had
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thrive i can remember cro b being, coffee and ran. a lot of people are not wan wanting to run into mgm i'm not running into mgm because i thought that from the gun fire and how loud it was i think the gunfire was rickashaying off the other buildings and sound was rickashaying off the other buildings so sounded like multiple are there's a time of shooting where they're shooting up multiple hotels and the last thing i wanted to do was run in there and get myself in. i said i'm running as far as i can and that's what i did i ran until i got to the airport i ran a first couple miles non stop and i saw people walking and i said hey, that's gunfire active shooter don't go that way. >> logan, how close was the
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airport to the shooting. because we hear reports of people literally running on the runways of airport. is the airport that close? >> it is close. and in that sense yeah i was running long the street that reasons along the airport and keeping to the side of the road in the shadows. because it was chaotic. there was cops everywhere and couples rear ending each other and they didn't know what was gone on [ text me ]. >> i was down a from that was at the fond of stage and she got trampled she made it out already i wept in the trailer and they hid under the bed until police came. i have another buddy hopped
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the wall and ran and got picks up and another friend was picking people up and he got down to mgm i guess and it was chaos. >> how many people would you say was in the area at the time. >> the whole have u. >> just what you could see. how many people would you say thousands, hundreds? >> i mean, i couldn't quite see the same where i was. where i was there were hundreds. what i saw running it didn't take me long to see people were running i didn't take a look back when i was running but yeah there was hundreds running out and definitely i would say thousands there. i've seen videos on instagram and stuff and theres with a lot of people tlm. >> sewingen. >> live ft. scene been
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reporting there from site of shooting in las vegas. if you're joining us just now the clark country sheriff incou more than 20 have died and more than 100 are injured after the shooting at a country music festival last night. the shooter -- the lone shooter is dead. police are looking for a woman to question at this time. they have not located her yet. they say she may have been a companion of this shooter. his name is not being released. the shooting began at about just after 10:00 local time, west coast time, in las vegas, 10:08. police have not skmenltcommente what they believe the shooter's belief system to be as they say it as they continue to treat many at the hospital, many of whom are in critical condition.
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we're getting a little more information on the shooter right now. john blackstone as we mentioned is still there. john? >> reporter: the shooter was on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel pack there. while the police have not released his name, they describe him as a white male in his 60s. they say he was living in a retirement community. police have now entered his home. police say there was one suspect. he was in the hotel, the 32nd room. they reached that room with explosives. he's dead. they've identified him. a white male in his 60s living in a retirement community. >> john, have you heard if he had a criminal record? i realize it's still early. >> reporter: no criminal record ads f . as far as police have said, nothing has stood out,ing in that would indicate he would be
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responsible for something like this. like i saying a white male in his 0s. law enforcement experts will say that's not usually the profile for somebody who does this. >> john, any more details on the subject of interest, the female who police think may be an accomplice or somebody who might have more? >> reporter: they're describing her as a come pappion. they're looking for her. whether she was involved with the shooting or another possibility they feel if she was a companion, harm may have come to her. multiple reasons they're looking for her now. >> she's marilou danley, 4'11", about 110 pounds. las vegas police have tweeted out a picture of her so folks know what she looks like. again, they have not released the name of the shooter. we should also mention they continue to look for these two
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vehicles with nevada plates. they're looking for a hyundai tucson and a chrysler pacifica, both of these sleeks, we're told, are registered to the suspect. the license plate numbers are up on your screen right now as they try to find out exactly what happened here in the lead-up to this shotting. las vegas police do say that at least two officers were shot. one of them in critical condition. a second officer with minor injuries. i believe we also heard the clarke county sheriff's officers say couple of police officers died after being shot. thaw were attending this concert to watch this concert and not work at it. >> it's a very popular event in las vegas. a three-day concert and this was the last day. singer jason aldean was performing when the shooting started. you can hear
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