and the aftermath, of course, and the investigation. chris? >> andrea, thank you. it is the top of the hour, and the las vegas mass shooting and the search for the reason why. we have more information on what the gunman was doing in the days and weeks leading up to the worst mass shooting in american history. investigators are combing through anything they can get to find out why 64-year-old stephen paddock shot and killed 59 people. and what do we know about the woman who may have been the last person to talk to him before the massacre. and the people who took their last breath at that concert and the mayopeople who risked theirs. the president spoke about the

first responders. >> look, we have a tragedy. and what happened in las vegas is in many ways a miracle. the police department has done such an incredible job. and we'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by. >> reporter: joining me now is nbc's steve patterson who is also in las vegas and katie beck who was in mesquite, texas where patterson has a home. steve, what have we learned today? >> reporter: they were warned that the death toll could increase here. there were 59 shooting victims, more than 500 injured. many of them shooting victims taken to hospitals in the las vegas area. several of them were taken in serious or even very critical condition. in fact, there is one hospital where there are 33 victims as of last night that were very critical. so that number could increase. that's the warning from

officials on the ground here. number two, we're learning about this community coming together. i think that's important to say. there have been blood drives where they have been stretching eight hours long into the night, there have been resources coming in upwards of millions of dollars for this effort. we're learning of good samaritans on the ground shepherding people away from the scene. obviously the big focus is on the shooter, on stephen paddock, who checked in three days before the shooting. police believe he was the lone gunman, lone plan innner of thi shooting. they're investigating his background. a lonely real estate investor, retired accountant, leading a quiet life, known to the casino system here in vegas. but the reason why, what motivated this shooting, the

police no closer to knowing that at this point, chris. >> reporter: a lot of people are talking about the explosives. what are you hearing on the ground in mesquite? >> reporter: police were on the ground all day yesterday, chris, and they left in the evening with 19 additional firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and several explosive devices. as far as the neighbors here on the ground are concerned, it's causing a lot of anxiety. there aren't many people willing to speak with us, there aren't many people willing to share feelings today as there were yesterday. we heard from neighbors yesterday about the sense that they had no idea that someone with this type of motivation was living among them. this is a quiet desert retirement community. there is golf courses and swimming pools and mountains surrounding this little area. where we are standing in this cul-de-sac with paddock's home behind me even now is very

quiet. so this is not something they expected. they did not expect to see the police swarm in and leave with even more weapons, more ammuniti ammunition. and they certainly did not expect that their neighbor was capable of a massacre. chris? >> reporter: thanks very much. i understand the president has some words in puerto rico now, so let's go there and take a listen. this is president trump in san juan. >> -- a category 5 which few people have never heard of a category 5 hitting land. but it hit land, and boy, did it hit land. i want to thank you, and i want to thank elaine -- elaine, thank you very much. fantastic acting secretary. elaine lucas has been incredible. tom bossert here someplace. tom, great job. to all of my people, and i have to say general buchanan got here a few days ago, and there is no doubt about it, you are a general. there is a reason you're a general, right? but he's no games. i said, give me a general.

i don't want to have a general that plays games. and you've done a fantastic job. the whole team has been amazing. your governor has been -- who i didn't know. i heard very great things about him. he's not even from my party and he started right at the beginning appreciating what we did. and he was tremendously supportive and he knew the level of problem that you had at the beginning before and the level -- what happened with respect to the tremendous storms that hit your beautiful island. and governor, i just want to tell you that right from the beginning, this governor did not play politics. he didn't play it at all. he was saying it like it was and he was giving this the highest grades. on behalf of our country, i want to thank you. [ applause ]

>> i also want to thank your congresswoman, who actually represents the largest number of people of any congressperson in the united states, i know that. it's 3.5 million people, jennifer, right? so congresswoman jennifer gonzalez colone, who i watched yesterday and she couldn't say enough about the people who worked so hard. jennifer, can you tell me a little about what you said today? it's not about me, it's about the medical people, fema, the first responders. i've never seen people working so hard in my life. perhaps you could say, congresswoman? >> thank you, mr. president. the first thing is before we were hit by maria, we were hit by irma. and at that time before the hurricane, it was fema acting together.

more than 4,000 people were here on the island from the different branches of the military. army, navy, air force, fema and all the staff working together before maria hit. they were here before, during and after the first hurricane and they continued to stay on the ground during maria, same thing. i think we never got the level of communication between the american government and the federal government than ever before. we are used to receiving hurricanes but never before a category 5. the amount of devastation is unheard of. but during all this time, we got the federal government by our side doing their job for the people here, like you in the military doing what's been asked, all the requests of the governor they did. and they've continued to send in more people, trucks, drivers and resorts. thank you, mr. president, for

all oou done for the island? >> i want to thank you, because you were really generous. i saw those comments and everybody saw those comments and we really appreciate it. it's so important, when you have men and women that have worked so hard and so long, and many of them came from two other catastrophic hurricanes. they came from texas, they came from louisiana, they came from florida, and there was no -- how many nights' rest have you gotten? zero in the last month. we're going to keep them for a couple weeks and by that time -- come here. special guy, i tell you. special. really good. [ applause ] >> i also, in addition to tom, i also want to thank linda mcmann. small business. i always joke. i said, she's the judge of small business, but small business is massive business when you add it all up, and she has done an incredible job. built a great company with her

husband, vince mcmann, and i wanted her so badly for this position because there is nobody who knows how to build a company like those, and like this woman. she has been amazing in business and now she's doing an incredible job as the administrator. we want to thank you, linda, very much. [ applause ] >> and nick mulvaney is here, right there, and mick is in charge of a thing called budget. i hate to tell you, puerto rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack because we spent a lot of money on puerto rico, and that's fine. we saved a lot of lives. if you looked -- every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally overbearing,

nobody has seen anything like this. what is your death count as of this morning, 17? >> 16 people certified. >> 16 people certified versus in the thousands. you can be very proud of all of your people, all of our people working together. 16 versus literally thousands of people. you can be very proud. everybody around this table and everybody watching can really be very proud of what's taken place in puerto rico. i also want to pay a very special thanks to the navy. who is here from the navy? who do we have, general? what a job. you have ships all over the place. i saw them flying in, and i said, boy, this looks like very big stuff. and the job you've done getting things here. there are no docks. we're just in the process of opening them up. they were just devastated. there were no docks, nothing, and the way you got this stuff on shore is incredible. i want to thank the navy. would you like to say something on behalf of the navy?

[ applause ] >> your navy medical team immediately deployed four ships and was able to respond to puerto rico right after irma. they came here and saved lives and demonstrated our ability to be on sea and land. >> thank you very much. i don't even have to mention the marines because we have general kelly? where is our general kelly? he likes to keep a low profile. look at him sitting in the back, but boy, is he watching. general kelly, come up here. general kelly is a four-star. not a bad general, right? you don't get any better than general kelly. on behalf of the marines, they've done some great stuff, general. can we also mention army?

can we also mention some people that i really got to know and respect even more in texas, and that's the coast guard. what a job the coast guard has done throughout this whole ordeal. [ applause ] >> they would go right into the middle of that -- i wouldn't want to be doing it, but i want to thank everybody. i want to thank the coast guard. they are special, special, very brave people. a lot of people got to see the real coast guard during this incredible trouble. and especially, i think, here and in texas was incredible what they did. so thank you very much. we really appreciate it. would you like to say something on behalf of your men and women? >> i'm representing the air force. >> i know that. >> we thank fema for going to

puerto rico and helping to set up across the islands so we could really get to the people that are the most hurt and devastated. >> the runw-- [ inaudible ] >> so amazing we're offering hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new planes for the air force, especially the f-35? do you like the f-35? >> awesome aircraft. >> i said, how do they do in fights with the f-35? he said, we do very well. you can't see it. literally you can't see it. it's hard to fight a plane that you can't see, right? but that's an expensive plane that you can't see. and as you probably heard, we cut the price very

substantially. something that other administrations would never have done, that i can tell you. thank you very much. where is the coast guard? who can speak on behalf of the coast guard? who can speak? where is our coast guard representative? get over here. come here. come here. my man. . >> i don't think there's anything that the men and women in the coast guard would rather do than help the people of puerto rico. this is what we get to do on a daily basis, getti. getting to help our fellow citizens is what our job is all about. it's our pleasure to be here, sir. >> you know, in texas, it came in, it did devastation, then went right out to the coast. it came in and out. it came in three times. it would load up with water and come in. nobody has ever seen water like that. and the coast guard would follow

it. it goes in, and it would be right behind it, then it would move. they saved 16,000 lives in texas. hard to believe. 16 between the helicopters and all of them, but the coast guard themselves saying in texas, 16,000 lives. there aren't too many people that would have done it, believe me. >> say a few words. please, say a few words. customs and border protection. say a few words. don't be shy. what i would like to do -- you want to stand up? go ahead. that's okay. stand up. go ahead.

>> well, you've just -- >> reporter: the president of the united states with words of praise for virtually everyone involved in the federal government response to the horrors that were wreaked in puerto rico. this is an area that's in horrible shape. and yet after releasing a twitter storm against the mayor of san juan, who had been very critical of the response, today a little bit of a kumbaya moment. we have a photo, i believe, of the president and the mayor shaking hands. a very different tone, obviously. andrea mitchell, and you were talking about this with peter alexander -- there it is right there, different than what we saw between the president and the mayor over the weekend. >> what we just saw was the

president of the united states thanking everyone, thanking the governor with lavish praise, saying that he does not play politics right from the beginning. the governor did not play politics. he then brought in all the other local officials, but you see that quick handshake with the mayor, and what was said, according to the travel pool, was, how are you, said the president. the mayor said, good, sir. i just wanted to say, sir, it's not about politics. the president then looked away and said, thank you, everybody. he then sat down. you just saw live that he praised the governor, he praised the congresswoman, he praised all the military officials, of course. he brought his own chief of staff john kelly to say a few words and take a bow. linda mcmann, the small business cabinet secretary, mick mulvaney, the budget director,

but very pointedly did not praise the mayor of san juan who was sitting at the end of the table out of camera range. peter alexander, the political dynamic going on there was pretty transparent. >> reporter: andrea, that was striking to me. we watched here what most of the americans talked of at the time which was one of the first cabinet meetings the president had where they went around the room and everybody just sort of showered praise on the president. this sort of had the same feel, and even though the president complimented the governor the puerto rico, saying he didn't play politics from the very beginning, you remember just two days ago it was the president on twitter who was accusing his critics of being, in his words, politically motivated ingrates. so i think a lot of people will say that he likes to spin the

federal response. it's been two weeks since maria hit puerto rico, and the president's hope is to swap the ugly pictures with this idea that the federal government response is good at this point. remember, he has yet to see the ground. he just landed, will have a briefing with the individuals. now comes the sort of dirty part where he gets a tour or aerial tour and today was a later a prooifl. he'll have an opportunity members, the service members on the ground there trying to really clean up and do the best they can to help so many people who are still going without. as we've noted before, water still at a premium in much of this country. 55%. 55% of puerto rico right now still does not have access to

sewer or water, as indicated by the governor just a few hours ago. andrea? >> peter, you've taken these photo opportunities, and also when the president of the united states and candidates are visiting social politics chlts what is really notable is the mayor did not get a chance to speak with, as far as we can tell. she was seated in the farthest seat from the president. it's very pointed when she said, it's not about politics, when he was shaking her hand there, and then he opened his remarks by thanking the governor for not playing politics from the start. but did not give her any sort of thank you for what she's doing for her people and did not give her a chance to speak. >> to be clear, the president's

criticism was deeply personal in recent days where he appeared to be, in effect, attacking the victims and the survivors. remember, he accused on twitter the mayor, as you were just talking about, and others, as he described it, of such poor leadership and remember he said they were not doing enough. even today as he prepared to board marine i, the president w was. he needed to start driving those trucks again, perhaps ignoring. they can't necessarily get to their jobs let alone take care of their american families back home. the priority remains on the ground caring for these folks. american citizens, the people of puerto rico who are still so badly needing help, not just from members of their own communities but help from the federal government at this time. >> do we expect that he's

actually going to see people who -- people who have been suffering or. was he meeting not with the people themselves? >> his first stop in texas he didn't meet some of those survivors. at the time they said they didn't want to update reporters just a while after the briefing where he's supposed to meet with survivors, victims on the ground there. obviously he had a chance to meet with military personnel as well. the president wants to highlight that he is looking after the best for these victims even

though he made a joke about this taking a whack at the american budget. >> that's interesting also given the scale of the budget and the size of the relief effort in puerto rico. thank you to peter alexander and back to you, chris jansing, in las vegas. >> reporter: thank you, andrea, and we'll continue to keep an eye on president trump who is in san juan. back here the big question remains. what was steve paddock's motive for murder? how did this carnage come about? i understand, pete, you've talked to some folks. there's new information. what can you tell us? >> i don't think this new information helps us with the why question, but it may get there eventually. one thing local authorities and the fbi are looking hard at is stephen paddock's finances.

the fact i'm willing to discuss this is they don't think it's the reason for the -- that he was a very heavy gambler. he had. even though, and there were 6,000 of these in the last few weeks. we don't know if these were games, but he was making a lot of money up to the shooting. the same week that he checks into the mandalay bay hotel, earlier in the week he cabled or wired $100,000 to the philippines. the philippines is the birth place of his girlfriend, marilou

danley. from what we know she left the country. she left the country early last week. she went through hong kong and then to the philippines and she was spending time there with friends, was on some sort of holiday, her friend. the purpose of that, we don't know. but it's obviously something. something else we learned, the arsenal of weapons he took into the hotel room, 23 firearms. mostly military type rifles, a few machine guns with a tripod for stability. he took into the room 13 suitcases, they say. at no time did any of the hotel

staff that came in and out of his room see anything suspicious, so he obviously kept all these firearms hidden until the day of the shooting, chris. . >> translator: -- >> reporter: thank you, peter, for that as we remember the victims of this tragic event. the brutal end for so many people, 59 killed here in las vegas. but there are also stories of survival, like tom mcintosh and was helped by army reservist james lawson. >> there were dozens and dozens of other concert goers doing the same thing, you know. they couldn't leave anybody behind, they were running back towards the fire to help more

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before they're able to know exactly who gets identified, exactly what the coroner has to say. we are learning about the victims who lost their lives. they include a newlywed protecting his wife, and so many people around the country are wondering what they can do to help. a call was put out by blood donations. it was answered in an extraordinary way. nbc jo kent joins me for that with new information. jo? >> reporter: it was met with an overwhelming amount. 670 pints of blood were donated yesterday alone. to put that in context, a usual weekday is about 200 pints of blood that are donated in the las vegas area.

what we are seeing now is the community responding not only here in las vegas but throughout the state of california, arizona and throughout the rest of the country. the numbers are pretty staggering. there are so many people wanting to give blood and the lines are so long that you can't even get an appointment to get a seat to donate until the friday after this one, which is october 13th. but as you know, the immediate for blood is constant with these disasters. blood does expire after 42 days. to talk about that we have lauralaura alvarato here. what should people do if they want to help in the future? >> it's not an emergency right now, and i know people have thought, i want to donate now, i want to help now. but just going back to what you were saying, blood expires, so we need to make sure that this continuous flow of blood is -- remains for the next weeks to come. there are patients that are going to be having surgeries in

future weeks, you know, as they recuperate from the initial trauma. and the community needs blood every single day. so if you can, we're encouraging everybody to schedule an appointment to give blood in the future. you can go on line to our website, find a location that is near your area, look by date if you want and find the right place for you at the right time. right now everybody came yesterday kind of thing in response because everybody wants to respond now. >> reporter: that is exactly the point we want to make sure folks at home understand. there is so much more need out there. the surgeries will continue. we also know, as you said, blood expires. but really, another point i want to share with you that we were talking about earlier is the unity here, chris. it's all about people coming out, and even though they stood in line for 12 hours, 6 hours, 7 hours all day long in the hot sun, there was a need to give and a sense of fellowship of

hope to continue to process what this community is going through. chris, i'll send it back to you. >> reporter: jo ling, thank you. we appreciate that. people in their own way trying to respond to what the mayor said is unimaginable and all of us can agree with that on the front page of the las vegas journal today. with us now, an eyewitness who was on the top floor of the mandalay bay hotel. thanks very much. where were you exactly and when did you realize something was wrong? >> i went out to las vegas for a business convention meeting which ended around 5:00 sunday evening, and i moved on to a meeting at the mandalay bay hotel from 7:00 to 10:00. i was staying at the hard rock hotel, actually, so we went over to the mandalay bay and had our meeting.

it ended at 10:00. we were on 43rd floor, the penthouse floor, in a private bar/lounge called the foundation room. when our meeting ended, there was about 50, 60 of us in attendance and about 10, 12 people went down to the casino floors and we all went our separate ways. myself and a few girlfriends decided to go out on the balcony around 10:07 just to take some pictures. within about i would say 30 to 60 seconds of standing out there, i heard the first round of fires on that balcony. and then within another -- >> reporter: we're actually looking at the video that i understand you shot. >> yes. >> reporter: what's going through your mind as you're realizing what's happening? >> the rounds kept coming and i actually finally saw over the balcony, looking down onto the crowd, and i knew immediately those fires were coming -- i felt it coming from up top. i did not know at the time

that -- you know, we were on the 43rd floor and these fires are coming only 10, 11 floors below us. i just instinct actiively pulle my phone to videotape it and it was complete horror. if you hear on that video myself and everybody on that balcony screaming, these rounds of fire were 7 to 10 seconds long, sometimes 15 seconds, and you could see in the video people up front near the stage just not moving. too many people not moving. just total terror and total shock at what we were witnessing. >> reporter: it is, as we showed on the front page of the newspaper, absolutely unimaginable. how are you doing? >> i'm holding up. i haven't gotten any sleep in the last two days because after i filmed that video, security brought us inside, and there is about 100 people up on the 43rd floor of this lounge, and within

about 10 minutes, the swat team stormed in. like i've said in many previous interviews, to my knowledge, you know, when that happened, everybody just booked to get undercover, behind a piece of furniture. i did not know it was the swat team. i just knew we had eight people barging into a room yelling for us to get down. in my mind this was possible shooters. so we all got on the ground and i was laying down there for probably a minute and a half, two minutes, as they walked around the room just to ensure our safety. but again, there was a moment for me on that floor not knowing that this was a real swat team, that total and utter indescribable terror in my head that this could be it. and then the young man that i went down to the floor with, we were holding hands and just trying to stay calm, and he

whispered to me, i think it's the swat team. but even in that moment, when he said "i think it's the swat team," your head is just racing and questioning, you know, how legitimate this is. but then everything calmed down and we were held up there in lockdown from 10:30 that night until 9:00 the next morning. a handful of the people that we were with in this previous meeting were also in lockdown on the basement of the casino as well until about 8:30 the next morning. >> reporter: we are so glad that you are okay and we so appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. thank you, meghan. take care. >> thank you. coming up, weapon of war. how was the gunman able to use the kind of weapon banned for nearly three decades in his attack? you're watching our continuous live coverage from las vegas only on msnbc.

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arsenal the gunman used to carry out his deadly rampage. police say some could have been semiautomatic weapons converted to fire in automatic mode. new questions about how that shooter got his hands on military-grade machine guns. joining me now, ken delane. what are official reports of what he had and what do we know about those guns? >> chris, that's still an open question. whether he actually did have a fully automatic machine gun, which have been banned since 1986, or whether he manned semiautomatic weapons. police believe he fired most of the rounds he would fire in that attack in the first 35 minutes. that would loom later when we learned exactly what weapon he used or whether he modified a weapon. we also learned, nbc has, that he purchased what is known as a bump stock, which is a

modification that allows a semiautomatic legal rifle to fire like a machine gun. that's already having reverberations here in washington where senator diane feinstein in california has issued a statement in the last hour calling for a ban on bump stocks. they noted she had a 2013 assault weapons ban, you'll recall, after the sandy hook school shooting, that lost in the senate by a vote of 60-40 and in that bill contained a ban on this bump stock device. now she's saying, look, this is the least we can do is ban this device whether or not it was used. it allows an illegal weapon to become a legal weapon, a machine gun, chris. >> reporter: what's the argument on the other side for allowing this? >> you know, they're advertised as safe and fun additions for sportsman. it's about gun culture in this country. chris, there are shooting ranges in las vegas where you can go today and fire automatic weapons, banned machine gun for

sports in targets and there are a lot of people who do this stuff. there is just a real cultural divide in this country over guns, and we're going to experience it all over again. >> ken, thank you for your continuing reporting on this. also reporting for us, msnbc's calip perry. he's been tracking the statements we've heard here and overseas about the whereabouts of stephen paddock's girlfriend, marilou danley. maybe she holds some of the answers. what have you found out? >> for everyone that's the key, finding the motivation, and they are trying to track down the girlfriend. she's 62 years old. she's an australian citizen. her name is marilou danley. she has family in the philippines and we understand she traveled about a week ago on september 25th to asia, to the

philippines through hong kong. there was information coming out of the sheriff's office in las vegas. they said she is in tokyo. we've since learned that's not true. all of this on the heels of the investigative team claiming that stephen paddock, the gunman, had transferred $100,000 to an account in the philippines. so that is now adding to this mystery. she was scheduled, chris, to fly back to the u.s. tomorrow. there is no indication that those plans have changed. law enforcement officials are not sharing with nbc news where they expect her to land back in the united states. >> reporter: cal, thank you for that. the tragedy here in las vegas, of course, and reigniting the gun control debate. this morning president trump on his way to puerto rico didn't want to talk about gun control. >> we have a tragedy. we're going to do -- and what happened in las vegas is in many ways a miracle. the police department has done such an incredible job, and

we'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by. >> reporter: joining me now, democratic congresswoman dina titus of nevada. thank you for joining us. our deepest sympathies for what's happened in your state. i want to start with what we just heard. the president didn't want to talk about gun control this morning. we heard his press secretary say, and others say, now is not the time. are they right? >> no, i don't think they're right. it's long past time that we did something about this. you would have thought something would happen after little children were killed in a school in the first grade or after the nightclub, so many were killed in florida. and now this. republicans just want to put it off. i have heard that they're not going to bring forward some of the bills they were pushing like the silencer bill or reciprocity, but they're certainly not bringing forward any of the sensible gun violence measures that we've introduced. >> you're a gun owner, are you not? >> i am a gun owner. i grew up in the south. my daddy went bird hunting all

the time. it's not that i want to take away people's guns, but you can have reasonable things like these automatic clips, things that just go to the heart of what happened here in my district. >> reporter: we were just talking, i don't know if you had a chance to hear ken delanian, but when you have these additions, they allow guns to turn into semiautomatic weapons, and that was certainly the case here. when you see the signs at the airport in las vegas saying you can come to our gun range and you can fire automatic weapons, when you hear about their advertising and the advertising says, you know, this is for the enthiasist, this is for a lot of guns, what do you say to this? >> it's not the gun that causes the violence, but you don't use an automatic weapon to go out deer hunting, and i don't know any other use than what you've

seen here yesterday. >> it's not new to nevada. nevada has talked about this, obviously, in the past. is there a way, though, do you think, to get around what is this cultural divide to convince people that this isn't about taking their guns away? because ultimately, and i've talked to a lot of folks who do love guns, and they say, look, i think this is a slippery slope. we let you do one thing, the next thing that happens is that all of our guns are gone, all of our guns are being stored at the local shooting range. >> that's certainly always their argument, nose under the tent. but what you've got to have are reasonable gun owners, and many more are coming on board. we saw that in nevada with the intent to close the loophole of registration of guns at trade shows. that passed in nevada, even a wild west state like this. the attorney general has stopped it from going forward, but the sentiment is there.

. i think that's when you start to change the culture, from within. >> it didn't change after tell the people where you stand, don't let them do it for you. hopefully it will make a difference. this is one case where they say we could have had a gun. you couldn't have protected yourself with an automatic weapon up 32 stories. >> thank you so much for being with us. again, our deepest sympathies to all of the folks here. coming up, the threat of these lone wolf attacks, is there any way to prevent them.

we'll have them join me right here on msnbc.

we are going to take a deeper dive now into how these mass shootings incidents are evolving and what we could see in the future. our guest right now jeffrey simon is the author of lone wolf, understanding the growing threat. when you look at this, and

everybody has been talking about the fact that it doesn't seem to fit the portrait of what we know financially in any way at all, do you see anything here that would give us clues as no how and why this happened? >> it is one of the most puzzling cases we have ever found. what separates a lone wofl, whether it's a terrorist or nonterrorist from organized groups is they work by themselves. they are not worried about repercussions in terms of how many people they may feel. obviously when they can take to his girlfriend more information may come out. there somes to be some behavior in the week before in terms of

the financial transactions. it might have been the death wish. he knew he would survive and maybe he was cleaning up his finances. this is something that's going to come out in the next few weeks. >> if you can standby i also want to bring in retired assistant of the las vegas police department. she also a lifetime member of the national organization of black law enforcement. as everyone here and everybody around the world who is watching this is trying to make sense of what the really a senseless act, from your experience, where is the investigation focusing right now? >> some of the things that are being done, trying to get to that motive. was there a problem at the hotel casino resort? was it because of the break up? we don't know the status of he and the lady. why did he have such an arsenal and explosive materials?

this is puzzling. it doesn't fit any typical idealogy. the things that we all looked out, this one is certainly -- this one has certainly got a lot. when i look at the wholes a sfekt of -- aspect of it, we have people to bring multiple suitcases oftentimes. when like at the equipment laying around here and it may not be abnormal with ten suitcases. sit a large convention. people travel here for business oftentimes. we are hunting shows, a lot of things. this is puzzling, more alarming. my thoughts and prayers continue to go out to everybody that is effected. we talked to people that were there. it is making -- if nothing else

people will be more vigilant, not necessarily true that it would have prevented this. what i saw also and what i heard from people that were there as america is being great americans care for one another. >> it is true. >> in our last minute we only have a minute. what are the chances that we get answers to all of these questions? >> i think the best will be with the girlfriend. she has the most interaction in recent times. it may be hard to accept that we may have this worst shooting in american history and not ever really know what the clear motive was. to continue to discover certain clues as to why this horrific attack occurred.

we appreciate you coming forward. craig is here in las vegas up next. hi, craig. >> good morning to you from las vegas. craig is here. as the nation to do learns about the individual acts of heroism during the worst mass shooting in u.s. history authorities are slowly piecing together a sketch that killed at least 59 and injured more than 500 behind me sunday night. the large cash of heavy fire power found in the shooters hotel room as well as in his house outside las vegas has lead to more calls from democrats for gun control legislation. president trump has only said that discussion will happen as time goes by. this afternoon still nothing on the biggest question in america

right now. why? what would possess someone to do what he did roughly 36 hours ago? pete williams is standing by for us. i understand that you have some new information from washington, some new details to report. what can you tell us? >> right. well, this is information that comes from frankly several cities, craig, about the investigation as they try to look into better understanding who steven paddock was. there is still no idea why he did this. there is no obvious answer. they are looking at many different aspects of his life. one of them is the natural one and looking at his financial profile. they say that in the last couple of weeks he did gamble pretty heavily. we had known this before but we are getting a little better picture of it. any time anybody has a transaction over $10,000 i