maybe that. was a good. thing . that i. was. was there. was. it is monday october second four pm in washington d.c. i'm on your parm pill you're watching are to america we begin this hour with that her ific news out of las vegas dozens of people murdered hundreds injured after a man opened fire on concert goers along a popular las vegas strip today the country is trying to cope with what yet another

mass shooting incident this one the most deadly and modern u.s. history artie's in the taj a suite is on the ground in las vegas with more on what happened. on yet as you can imagine more information is coming in by the minute for this horrific end student according to law enforcement the latest numbers fifty eight people were killed and five hundred fifteen were injured and they're all in hospitals all across the city here in las vegas and part of the strip remains closed as well now. from the window of the mandalay bay. her second floor overlooking the concert where the last thing on the minds for so many and luckily for. it was only a close call i want to give you a look at what witnesses saw and heard as the shots rang out at the country music concert last night. thank you thank you. thank you thank

you. i was empty thank you the touch my hat. at the time long actually working security at the band and what happened was i walked away from my post which i'm glad i did and where i was supposed to be standing it was actually made it was in front of the main stage where the jury did this stuff was happening and. i left my house and i remember towards my friends when i heard the first round of gunshots and i thought to myself that it was the music when i heard the second run the gunshots again it was clear that it was gunshots and it wasn't the music messy still on one side

proof that i seen people started running my kids we just jumped everything and just read. those police officers maturity is everywhere actually ran. a complex and just remember going inside this guy's house and there was a whole bunch of people already in there and they had all the lights turned off and they were telling everyone to be quiet because he was still nearby so we didn't know just the shooter is walking around or not. suspected gunman behind the country's largest national record sixty four year olds even had a pain from a retirement community investment that it is. a licensed pilot with two planes and has a hunting license in alaska he has no criminal history but a very big record of gambling large amounts of money in vegas casinos a two three thousand dollars a day products brother says while he didn't know his brother would gamble for fun he would never see him doing something like this take a listen to his defensive exchange when asked if he ever saw this coming. see this

coming how do you prove there's absolutely no not even going to answer that question there's i've already told you. there's you know it's like a asteroid belt out of the sky. if it asteroid fell right here you would feel being exactly in ways i feel right now there's exactly no no logic no the beach for me or my brother would have done. there's still. i mean i could look at the texts i mean. at least ten rifles were recovered from how truman power granted to the group was one face in the north and the other facing the east but authorities are relaying updates of their investigation as they come the car county sheriff said there was no way to prepare for what he called this wolf attack or. the number of people that have died associated with this event has increased right now we're using the number

of fifty eight i just was informed that it may be fifty nine of an individual it may have expired at sunrise hospital so the number of the injured we are using the number of five fifteen. and as you can tell as the hours go by that number continues to increase we have not received any additional intelligence associated with the suspect. we have complete in the. not aware derogatory information that we can you just further it's of this investigation at this point this is an individual who is described as a lone wolf i don't know how it could have been prevented if we didn't have any prior knowledge to this individual it wasn't evident that he had weapons of his room we have determined that there has been employees going to and fro from his room and nothing nefarious. at this point that's what we know now according to the

f.b.i. packs for. robbery and was on the most wanted list person eight years but as for pat aka he took his own life. so it's. still under investigation. we're going to cross over to. the art. of parts that's kind of take place under the leadership of president trump what can you tell us about the reaction today well i mean the shooting happened overnight starting a little after one o'clock in the morning here in washington d.c. we first heard from the president in a tweet six hours later he was offering condolences and later in the morning president trying to limit a national address in the diplomatic row of the white house where he called the shooting an act of pure evil he praised law enforcement person and he directed the american flag to be flown at half staff. to the. victims.

and we are here. to help see you through this very dark period. in moments of tragedy. america comes together as one. can not be broken by. and we feel such great anger at this murder of our fellow citizens it is our love that defines us today. and always will forever. now the president plans to travel to los vegas on tuesday to meet with survivors along with law enforcement for spotters the white house capitol hill even new york stock exchange moment style of victims today and there's been an outpouring of support from leaders around the world in the u.k.

which experienced its own concert attack back in may that killed twenty two prime minister said may tweeted the case thoughts are with the victims and the emergency services responding to the appalling attack in las vegas french president and manuel mccrone also reaching out saying our thoughts are moved by our american partners and friends two years ago a gunman opened fire at a concert in the bath the club theater in paris killing eighty nine canadian prime minister justin trudeau said words fail this morning the friendship and support of canadians is with the victims in las vegas and the people of the u.s. and we know some canadians were among those dead and while mexican president and take opinion at the expressed his deepest condolences with the people of the united states and russian prime minister dmitri medvedev tweeting i am shocked by the tragedy in las vegas the crime is striking in its violence and cynicism as we know the shooter opened fire on a country music festival from thirty two floors up there were twenty two thousand

people in attendance down below again more than five hundred people are injured at least fifty eight dead now as that b.-i and other law enforcement continue to investigate the shooter and a possible motive i want to focus on the victims and stories of heroes tennessee resident sonny melton he died trying to protect his wife shielding her from the bullets she told a local nashville station i don't know what to say sonny was the most kind hearted loving man i have ever met he saved my life lost his she was a special education teacher in the manhattan beach unified school district in california lisa barrow worked as a secretary at maya moore a high school in new mexico and other concert goer wrote on facebook that twenty three year old jordan from canada died in her arms jessica clinch. was a mother of four in vegas on a trip with her fiance and las vegas metropolitan police department confirmed they lost one of their own an off duty officer attending the concert two on duty officers were also injured there are these are just a few of the at least fifty eight feet tallit he's with the concert area under fire

for so long it was hard to get medical personnel in there right away concert goers were loading up victims however they could and they were transferring them on their own to the hospitals as they were heroes in the immediate aftermath now there's at least hundreds that are lined up to give blood to help the injured now and families of course still scrambling to be reunited with their loved ones on your right over sario reporting there thank you so much. in recent years we have seen mass shootings take place all across the nation usually carried out by lone wolves like in the case of the recent attack in vegas with time thousands of americans have been left dead in tragedies some believe could have been prevented if stricter gun laws were implemented let's take a look back at some of these mass shootings happening in the united states over the last couple of decades with our correspondent actually banks on you twelve twenty six hundred twenty nine year old obama teen opened fire and again nightclub in orlando florida killing forty nine people in injuring fifty eight others at two am

more than three hundred people were inside paul from night club one of the teen want in an open fire with an automatic rifle i want to point my team took several club goers hostage officers were able to pretty film while others were able to escape a gun battle between mateen and orlando officers ensued he was been fatally shot bringing an end to the rampage this attack is one of the deadliest mass shootings and recent u.s. history just six months prior to the orlando attack on december second two thousand and fifteen so you had to ruken his wife touch my leak open fire during a holiday party and fam bernadino california the result fourteen people were killed and twenty two others were seriously. injured and eleven am authorities received a call of a shooting at the n one regional center of the syllabi serving people with developmental disabilities police say for work in the league fired sixty five to seventy five rifle rounds and to

a crowd of seventy people as soon as they spotted also serves they fled the scene police were able to catch up to them then for rukun malique then began to engage in a shootout with police shortly after they were both pronounced dead on the scene isis claimed responsibility for this attack on july twentieth two thousand and twelve james holmes open fire and a movie theater in colorado killing twelve and entering seventy others while moviegoers are watching a midnight screening of the film dark knight rises homes a prop the movie theater door opened and through an tear gas canisters once those exploded to even open fire on the crowd using an a r fifteen an a twelve gauge shotgun according to authorities after seven minutes of shooting holmes surrenders to police outside the theater he's been taken into custody and informs officers his apartment is equipped with explosives according to police home's apartment had been booby trapped with a trip wire at the front door if touched it would have set off explosives and his

unit on august seventh two thousand and fifteen holmes was sentenced to life in prison without parole on december fourteenth the twenty twelve twenty year old adam lanza opened fire on sandy hook elementary school in newtown connecticut killing twenty six people including students and falco eight lanza was carrying an assault weapon and i handgun when he shot his way into the school building around nine thirty that morning he then opened fire on both a kindergarten and a first grade classroom lanza then took out a hand gun and shot himself twenty students ages six and seven and six adults were killed that day authorities say landes also killed his mom before opening fire at the school. on november fifth two thousand and nine major dale little because someone an army psychiatrist opened fire at a crowd at fort hood and central texas killing thirteen people and injuring more than thirty others has on opening fire on soldiers who are either being deployed

overseas or returning from deployment the shooting lasted for ten minutes before his son was shocked and taken into custody by civilian police have gone toe to judge america's war on terrorism was really a war against islam he was trying to protect muslim and taliban leaders in afghanistan so he gunned down soldiers at fort hood were being deployed to that country on august twenty third two thousand and thirteen and a jury found his son guilty of forty five counts including premeditated murder he was sentenced to death. on april sixteenth two thousand and seven twenty three year old son who challenge finger of virginia tech opened fire on the campus killing thirty two people including students and thout got it on april twentieth one thousand nine hundred nine two teenagers opened fire at columbine high school and denver colorado killing thirteen people and injuring more than twenty others and eleven one thousand in the morning eighteen year old eric harris and seventeen year

old dylan clear bold began shooting the fellow students outside of the school while wearing trench coat they then moved into the school shooting most of their victims in the school library after the shooting rampage the two teens turned the guns on themselves and committed suicide every shooting that i mentioned sparked a national dialogue and debate over gun control sally as we can feed not much has changed and these events keep repeating and it seems that right now there is not a clear answer as to what should be done to prevent these types of attacks from happening again and washington actually banks r t let's talk now with aiden edwards he's a security expert and executive director of the national preparedness network welcome to the show a ton of having the u.s. is home to five percent of the global population and yet has been the site of one third of mass shootings in the world since one thousand nine hundred sixty six you

say this is a symptom of a disease for which there is no cure can you explain well i don't believe that there's a cure until the american people are willing to look at what has gone wrong in our culture to produce these sorts of behaviors in people that you see this over and over again i'm sitting here in the studio and listening to you guys like rattle out all these different incidents over this very short period of time when you consider that and the fact is is that we have a culture in the united states that is generating these people like an incubator for these types of folks to do this and we've got to be. going to ask ourselves why and then we have to ask the n.r.a. a very powerful organization about what it's going to take for them to recognize that the people the people the people have a major problem in the united states and what are we going to do to modify the gun laws so that we can try to prevent these tragedies from happening over and over and over again how many did children how many incidents like this is it going to take

for them to recognize that something has got to be done to control this situation and it's interesting you brought up culture because in the immediate aftermath of any tragic event like the one we've just witnessed the predictable partisan debate plays out in congress in the media over the issue of gun control and while the very last ranks first by far in gun order ownership worldwide as well as for mass shootings and i look at data from those two factors internationally it doesn't demonstrate a complete correlation between gun ownership and the frequency of mass shootings so what is it about the us which makes it right for these kinds of attacks it's what there's a number of different factors it's a complex situation and especially like in different communities and such right but you can look at a country like switzerland people have guns here in canada where that right now people own guns here too but you don't see the frequency of these types of events so you have to look at the root of this and what is the root it's the american culture it's the american the today anyway that i mean you can go back forty or

fifty years and you didn't see these kinds of massacres and then you have the texas massacre back in what sixty six we had the clock tower massacre for where were lots of folks were murdered in this way and then the frequency and then the magnitude of these events has increased i mean significantly over the past ten years and what we've got to look at is what has gone wrong in the american culture to produce these people that are doing this what's happening and how do we stop it we've got to control some of these guns we've got to control people's access to some of the. the go with the guns and we've got to look at this aspect as well we're unfortunately running out of time have about a minute left in a country already so saturated with guns i mean it's amazing when you look at the statistics is it possible to enact meaningful gun control i mean how do we address these cultural issues you're bringing up well we've got to do a lot of things we've got to start by providing jobs for people in inner city communities that we see

a lot of the violence with the guns we've also got to figure out what is going on with these men who are doing this over and over and over again there's something gone that's something that's wrong with the american soul that's something that has died in our culture and we've got to figure out what it is and we've got to try to repair it because you know what the reality is but this is not going to be the last time that we're going to see one of these awful incidents in my heart goes out to the families to the survivors to the victims to everyone who had to deal with this situation and unfortunately we're going to be dealing with it again sadly some time soon until we get to the until we get to the root of it all we're never going to see an end to this it certainly does get exhausting having this conversation again and again and john edwards security expert and executive director of the international preparedness network thank you so much thank you. checking in with some international news now in the catalonia region of spain violence erupted in moments after polling stations were opened while people were waiting in

line to vote here's a recap of what happened on sunday. i . i. i. i i i . in the wake of mass violence a video circulating online appears to show an officer trying to remove a woman and twisting her wrist in the process she claims her fingers were broken

intentionally after a day of massive violence and catalonia protesters are taking to the streets decrying police brutality r.t.s. medina has been at one rally in barcelona this is classic cattleya where as you can see the protests continue here on the iconic swear i'll be barcelona says he hundreds of students have gathered behind my back to protest against the events that we saw here on sunday protesting the independence of how much money they are paying there shouting slogans including goodbye mr president i made it up for you now you are trying to be made peace and you're also protesting. this. crackdown this is doubly so this sunday on a deep there are not the people here on the streets of basra now we didn't deserve this kind of treatment i think our people deserve more freedom and not the

oppression that madrid is putting us under from them because we have seen a lot of repression against the people people who are just waiting in line ready to vote so i have seen brutal scenes on the park police on the side is wrong it's. not place children and now the people in front of the polling stations. some of my friends were in schools the engine barricades to defend the polling stations from. my friend told me that she was grabbed by police and this was. he was also he had done enough i think in this sense to delay known to the public. we have been receiving more reaction coming out from the council on a story that this monday now the presidential council on and said that the government has decided to create a special commission to investigate the events of sunday and to create a special commission to investigate cost. crimes against humanity that might have taken place here on over the weekend he also believes that in order to find

a compromise between madrid and barcelona independent plotting is needed so as you can see the concrete the situation here is so complicated that even authorities are ready to acknowledge that there are unable to find a way out without the house and neither independent side now the president of constant demands that the forces of national police will leave the region he says that for many years and many times people of conscience work protesting and never there's been violence on the streets so it is really the biggest constitutional crisis spain has been in decades and it really seems that it is time now for both parties to sit down and try to negotiate in order to avoid further escalation boom bust is coming up next here on our team america and see france here now for a preview of what's ahead a hail and say hey they're my guest tonight discuss how artificial intelligence might be the way forward in stopping happer is also we have an update from puerto

rico and we look at the status of bitcoin in japan it's just taken a major step forward that's coming right up all right thanks so much. and that's it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america also check out our website r.t. dot com or slash america you can also follow me on twitter at on your parm question . all the world's a story and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties are in t. america play party america offers more american personnel. many ways to use landscape just like the real news big names good actors bad actors and in the end you could never hear all. of the park and all the world's a stage all the world's all the world's

a stage we are all you. democratic representative al green from texas wants to force a house vote to impeach the president greene says he plans on filing a privileged resolution that will automatically trigger a vote basing it on trump's remarks on and i felt players who protested during the national anthem in the us constitution the standards for impeachment are spelled out in article two section four where it says the president vice president and also of all officers of the united states shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors

according to greene those high crimes and misdemeanors don't really mean actual crimes greene says that congress can impeach the president now for his behavior that has an adverse impact on society that is what impeachment is all about he said now a lot of constitutional scholars would beg to differ but greene isn't alone in this new impeachment effort in fact another house democrat california brad sherman already introduced articles of impeachment on the floor back in july and measure h.r. four thirty eight which greenback sherman accused the president of obstruction of justice for his firing of komi in connection with the investigation in order for a president to be impeached the house has to vote for it and then the senate has to boat to convict so far only two presidents have ever been impeached by the house andrew johnson and bill clinton both of them were acquitted by the senate and remained in the white house so if green and or sherman's efforts actually do pass in the house a lengthy trial in the senate would then have to happen and we're talking about

a republican led senate so already there is little chance they'd actually impeach president trap also if impeachment is based on sure. case that obstructing justice there is a little problem of you know the investigation is still going on and obstruction still hasn't been proven that's what the investigation is for and if the impeachment is based on green's case that trumps behavior is just bad for society well some might say that will be a little hard to prove from a legal basis and even many democrats in the house are rolling their eyes that greens in pietschmann talk saying it just gives people fuel for the argument that democrats are putting political posturing over actual issues like health care and the economy but that's not deterring greene from finding every microphone he can and crying impeach into it now will have to wait and see whether or not his fellow congress men will bother to listen.

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