people picked her up. brought her over to the police vehicle to like just get her out of harm's way, and she just, she wasn't moving. it was, i don't think she made it. i don't know. >> reporter: we talked to justin burton and his wife just after being discharged. he says his spinal injury is in inon rapable. >> they said it would be more harm to remove the bullet. >> reporter: incredibly, his doctors say he will make a full recovery and today he's going home. >> there were more than 500 people injured and some of them are severe. >> we heard from someone who got shot in the neck and they told them the same thing, too dangerous to take the bullet out. so for the time being he has to life with a bullet in his neck. jason aldean is stepping away from the spotlight at least for now. >> he was on strategy when the shooting started. and in a statement posted online, he says as a result of what happened in las vegas,

this weekend's shows. i feel out of respect for the victims, families and fans, it's the right thing to do. >> the president heads to las vegas today to meet with victims and emergency responders. >> he made a quick trip to puerto rico yesterday, visiting a church where supplies are being distributed. >> but some of his comments raised eyebrows when he said he's heard nothing but praise for federal response efforts and when i brought up budget concerns. >> i hate to tell you, sprooepu rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack. >> i said they may have to wipe out puerto rico's debt. only 7% of the island has power. the white house does plan to ask congress for $29 billion in additional disaster funding. the request is in response not only to hurricane

hurricanes harvey and irma. and includes $500,000 for fighting wildfires in the west. and arnold schwarzenegger is speaking out about the redrawing of districts. he called for the end of so-called gerrymandering. justices heard arguments about the legality of the practice. schwarzenegger accused politicians of redrawing districts in order to stay in power. the cdc has revealed new evidence linking obesity to 13 is types of cancer. being overweight puts you at a much higher cancer risk and they've linked obese its to about 40% of all cancer cases. even though new cases have dropped since the 1990s, obesity-linked cancer is on the ri

slax l.a.x. is welcoming fow members for pets unstressing passengers. they joined seven others working the floors. >> they live in loving homes, and they wear vests that say "pet me." could not come at a better time. >> missed your flight, but it's okay. it's all right. >> you need a dog cuddling up next to you. >> coming up, our first look inside a trauma ward at a las vegas hospital that treated the injured. and the urgent question facing law makes and law enforcement. is there any way to protect people at these so-called soft targets like concert venues? first, here's a look at today's temperatures.

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they found 12 rapid fire devices that enabled rifles to shoot like automatic weapons. the shooter will also two cameras in the hall and one in his peephole to monitor the officers as they approach there. we're getting also our first look inside one of the trauma wards at a hospital in las vegas that faced challenges often seen only on battlefields. >> doctors were forced to take extreme measures. here's abc's david muirs. >> reporter: we head into desert springs medical center here in las vegas. where more than 100 victims were rushed in. this is a surgeon here who got the mm ca the emergency call at 11:00. >> there were 50 or 60 people. >> reporter: it sounds like there were so many patients you had no idea who they were. >> they basically triaged everybody an s

critical, this one needs this, this one needs that. and we just went -- >> reporter: four of the victims were pronounced dead shortly after they arrived here. so many of the patients with multiple gunshot wounds, and this surgeon tells me this time it was different. >> we saw different pieces of the machinery, artillery that were basically disbursed throughout the abdomen and chest. >> reporter: so it appeared as if the suspect wanted to inflict maximum damage. >> clearly, clearly. >> reporter: the surgeon takes us into sheldon mack's room, he was at the concert for his 21st birthday. >> it all happened so fast. seems surreal. i just keep seeing it in my mind still. it haunts me. >> reporter: you see it all playing out still? >> yeah. >> reporter: he showed me the video he took of the concert, moments before the gunfire began. ♪ >> reporter: and you were seeing people around you get h

>> a girl like two rows ahead of me got hit in the neck and went down. >> reporter: sheldon began trying to help the people around him and then he got shot, twice in the arm and in the abdomen. >> somebody throwed me and took care of me. >> reporter: do you know his name? >> i wish i did. >> reporter: and he came over to the hospital with you? >> yeah, he wouldn't leave my side. saved my life. >> reporter: he tolds he still wants to meet that hero and his mom and dad would like to meet him too. they still have so many questions. among them, why? >> why would someone do such evil? i have a life ahead of me. why does someone want to kill me and leave me lying on this field and everybody else. >> reporter: that are was mckenna perry, too, 19 years old, shot in the arm and it went straight to her abdomen. it was her boyfriend and good samaritans who helped save her, putting her in the back of a pickup truck. >> he had a

so i was lying in the back with my boyfriend. >> reporter: and it was open? >> yeah. >> reporter: whatever it takes. she can't get that night out of her head. >> it still hasn't fully hit me. it's trying, starting to, but not fully. >> reporter: it's hard to think about. >> i just know that there's a lot of people who had it a lot worse. so it's kind of just like hard to know that there's a lot of people dead from it, too. >> reporter: and her mother was at the concert, too. >> your daughter was saying the hard part is knowing that so many people didn't get out. >> i think that's the hard part for all of us. and seeing what we saw. and

knowing that they had to see that, and that's stuck with them forever >> it's got to be really rough for a parent to see their kid go through that. at least one trauma nurse says there was so much blood all over the place that the air smelled of iron. >> they said they received so many patients in the hospitals. they had pediatric surgeons operating on adults, obstetricians tending to trauma patients. it was completely an all hands on deck scenario. >> and the university medical center, which is the number one in all of that state, the biggest casualty event that they've handled in the past involved less than two dozen people. that night they had more than 100 people all at once. >> it was one of the big concerns, would the hospitals be able to handle this. coming up, the safety concerns following the las vegas attack. >> what police are doing now to protect so-called soft targets, next. [joy bauer] two thirds of americans have digestive issues.

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the las vegas shooting is forcing authorities across the country to try to come up with new ways to

soft targets, events like sunday's open air concert. >> authorities are already trying to figure out what to do about new year's eve. but coming up in miami soon, here's matt gutman. >> reporter: route 91 harvest, billed as a three-day, feel-good country music festival. but on the last night, instead of the twang of music, the staccato of gunfire. eyewitnesses tell us they had bag checks, metal detector wands and a five-foot fence securing the perimeter. and on the face of it, it seems that it was well protected. you see the fencing around entire perimeter of that field. but what nobody could have expected is that the shooter would have been perched 32 stories up, blasting through that window and firing on that field. after an isis spa

a truck into a crowd of people in nice, france, they began protecting large areas with trucks filled with sand. on the eagles of death metal in paris, and ariana grande's performance in manchester also have experts rethinking security. sunday's massacre could be a threshold event, with authorities having to be in the sky as well. expect more hernlt helicopters drones. >> reporter: this is the las vegas strip, there are six of the largest hotels in the world. nearly 45 million people come here every year as visitors. and they have long been concerned that america's playground is also its softest target, abc news, las vegas. >> one of the big questions is how you do this. because an event like this, where the shooter is perched from above,

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in the middle of the stories of horror coming out of las vegas, we're hearing stories of bravery, people who made it out of the carnage only to go back in to help save those trapped. >> one broke down a security gate and forgedmed a human chaio lead others to safety. and took a bullet. >> i ran back towards the shooting. there was one lady on the ground, i basically helped her up. and just told her, just to

and basically just told here, we g -- her we got to go. she didn't want to move. at that point, more shots rang out. and i noticed there was three girls sitting behind like a black like suv. i basically told them, hey, there's an active shooter, stay down. we need to move to the back. the moment when i said there's an active shooter, i turned around, and that's when i got shot in my neck. i don't deem myself as a hero. i just deem myself as someone who was doing the right thing. >> well, a go fund me page to help jonathan with his medical expenses is now over $46,000. but the bullet that hit him is still lodged in his neck. we talked about him a little while ago. it's too dangerous to be removed at this point. >> it may get removed down the line, but for now is it still there. we heard a heartbreaking story from heather guz. >> she was working

tent as huchndreds of people ra toward her bar tending station. and tom llamas shot down with her. >> you could hear everybody shouting "shooter, shooter." >> reporter: she helps carry a man out on this maintenance ladder. he's been shot in the stomach. >> the fingers kind of squeezed and then just stopped. >> reporter: that man was 23-year-old joshd 23-year-old jordan mcildoon. >> she said be honest with me, is he okay? i said no. i said he's passed away. he's dead. ankept thinking about if this was me, would people stay with me. would they make sure that i was okay? you know, that they tried to contact my family, and i couldn't go. >> so many

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this morning on "world news now." new details in that mass shooting in las vegas. >> for the first time, the body camera video from officers who ran towards the gunfire, plus new images from inside the shooter's hotel sweet. h -- suite. and we ahave new details on the victims. the navy vet and country music fan, comprehensive coverage ahead. and the president and the odd visit to storm-ravaged puerto rico. millions of americans on the island still without electricity and drinking water, the president tossing paper