her, and plan to engage her upo >> potential ties, even loose ties to extremist isups. >> obviously we'll do that. we will run it down to the very end but right now as face value we haven't been able to identify that ieve that's accura >> reporter: did he have ticket toss the concert? >> i have no idea. >> reporter: do you know what he's done between checking in? >> we'll checking that.

there will be hours of surveillance we'll have to recall. >> reporter: [ inaudible question ] >> the fusion center? >> reporter: correct. there are cameras everywhere. how could this happen? >> well, i don't understand what you're alluding to. how could it happen? this was an individual described as a lone wolf. i don't know how it could have been prevented if we didn't have prior knowledge to this individual. it wasn't evident he had weapons in his room. we determined there has been employees going to and fro from his room. nothing nefarious was noted. that's what we know now. >> reporter: first responders were integral.

>> you're correct. it's required to supply police officers to insure security. the mandalay bay did a great job of hiring police officers. they had sufficient staffing for the concert. when this individual decided to fire upon the crowd which was approximately 22,000 individuals it's very difficult to manage that side crowd. you have to insure you have the proper staffing. as described our officers responded immediately in conjunction with the fire department. as soon as the fire department arrived, they were able to identify where the weapon was being discharged from in proximity. it's hard to tell what floor from the outside. once they gained entry into the hotel in conjunction with security and through phone calls they were able to get it down to a possible floor. once they made entry on to the

holloway they immediately knew what room. >> reporter: there were reports when s.w.a.t. entered maybe there was smoke alarm from the shells. is there any truth to that? >> i don't know about smoke alarms. i know he killed himself. we'll have to go through our body worn camera and existing video whether we engaged him at the same time or not. >> reporter: you said you didn't believe -- do you have any motive? >> no ma'am. i can't get into the mind of a psycho path. >> reporter: how extensive is the sight of the shooting and will it be shut down while the criminal ises do their work?

>> we have most of the boulevard open. adjacent to the mandalay remains closed. we're looking at a minimum of 12 additional hours for documentation of the crime scene and the removal of the bodies. >> reporter: do you know how long he was able to shoot for and do you know if there was ever any return fire from officers on the ground? >> no i'm not aware of return fire nor the timeline. we had s.w.a.t. officers dislodge weapons. >> reporter: [ inaudible question ] >> the fbi and atf is helping us with that aspect. >> reporter: the injured or deceased come from the hotel or were they all from the concert? >> i'm not sure. we had people that were deceased

and injured outside the vicinity of the concert area. it would be hard to make that determination at this point. we'll have to talk to all those injured individuals to make that assessment. >> reporter: [ inaudible question ] >> i don't know ma'am. people have been displaced in five different hospitals. it will require review of that communication with them. thank you very much. i appreciate everybody's time. i appreciate everybody here to >> good afternoon, this rick williams. you've been watching a an ab special report on that deadly massacre vegas. at this hour this is what we know. at least 58 people are confirmed dead more than 500 others in that rampage that targeted an outdoor concert and thousands of country music fans. [gunfire]

the massacre is now the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. investigators belief a lone gunman 64-year-old stephen paddock sprayed bullets down below onto innocent concertgoers about a block away. authorities say paddock then took his own life before a s.w.a.t. team broke down the door of his hotel room. at this hour investigators are still searching for a motive for the killings. for the very latest let's go to abc's donya bacchus from las vegas. [gunfire] >> reporter: terrifying gunfire on what started as a peaceful night at the country music on the vegas strip. >> i heard it boom, boom, boom. >> reporter: blasts of automatic gunfire on concertgoers enjoying the festival with jason aldean. >> people started dropping around us. a lot of dead bodies. a lot of people were piling on

top of whoever. >> reporter: a high wall enclosing part of the concert venue. >> there was no encase. we were just penned inism it was. it was a kill box. >> reporter: so many shot and wounded. >> a gentleman was shot. he said could you help me. i had six people in my car, people without shoes. >> reporter: police jumping into action. >> one police officer he just was so brave. he was like jumping over the fence like to go -- to go fight this like to take on this guy. >> reporter: police say the gunman 64-year-old stephen paddock sprayed bullets from the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel. s.w.a.t. teams racing there to breach paddock's hotel room with explosive devices. >> breach, breach, breach. >> reporter: authorities say he was already dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound. >> the number of people that have died associated with this event has increased. right now we're using the number of 58. >> reporter: president trump

reacting to the tragedy. >> it was an act of pure evil. >> reporter: police say this does not appear to be a terror attack but says it is a lone wolf attack. donya bacchus abc news, las vegas. >> thank you. we're beginning to hear from local residents who were in las vegas when the gunfire broke out. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live in our satellite center with more on those terrifying close encounters. >> reporter: witnesses have described the fear panic and confusion in the minutes and even hours that followed. las vegas is a popular tourist destination including for people in our area. >> none of us really knew where to go. >> reporter: katie and her husband were at the music festival. they had traveled to las vegas just to see it. she shot this video on her cell phone as country star jason aldean was on the stage not long before a lone gunman opened fire on the concertgoers from the 32nd

floor of the mandalay bay resort and casino. >> you look up to the sky and someone is shooting off fireworks, you know, and then it was just rapid fire after that. [gunfire] >> reporter: she describes the panic as people fled kicking over security fences and searching for places to hide. >> it was chaos. mass panic, chaos. people running and falling. >> reporter: elsewhere along the las vegas strip people started to learn that something was very wrong. >> as we kept walking, we would see more police cars, a few ambulance cars. >> reporter: christian of south philadelphia is in las vegas with friends. someone called him to alert him of the shooting but he says at that point details were vague as the group approached their hotel they saw an outdoor television and learned more. that's when people started running. >> i guess when a few people started running other people saw that and they started running and everyone decided to start running into the casinos to get off the strip.

>> reporter: they followed the crowd into caesar's and hid. >> as you get into caesar's all the patrons and everyone in there security at that point was outside trying to hold people from going in or out but i guess a whole rush of people went into the hotel on the gaming floor. at that time everyone on the gaming floor kind of just ducked down, tables were flying, chips were flying. >> reporter: christian says afterwards, he made his way up to his hotel room. he says caesar's was on lockdown so that's where he remained for hours. live from the satellite center katherine scott, channel6 "action news. rick. >> our team coverage continues at philadelphia international airport where "action news" reporter jeanette reyes has reaction from passengers arriving today on flights from las vegas. jeanette. >> reporter: well, rick, dozens of passengers arrived from the mccarran international airport in vegas which isn't far from the site of the deadly shooting. you can spot some of the

passengers from quite a distance away. they still have shock on their faces as they learned of what happened back in vegas. >> i don't understand what people are thinking nowadays, you know. it's ridiculous. >> reporter: alicia burns was shaken as she shared she had just driven by the route 91 harvest music festival grounds hours before it would become the site of the deadliest u.s. shooting. >> i was minutes away. the airport is in such close proximity to the mandalay bay and other casinos. >> reporter: she and other passengers landed at philadelphia international airport this morning all departed from the mccarran international airport in vegas where flights were immediately halted following this shooting. >> we were on the plane just getting ready to push back and then somebody came on and, you know, told the pilot i guess what was going on and, you know, they said that we had to wait because, you know, i guess the hotel where it was happening was not too far from the airport and they didn't want anybody taking off or

landing. >> reporter: planes that had already taken off were forced to urn the around. >> a plane that had taken off a half hour before ours but they made the plane turn around and land even though they were up in the air when the shooting occurred. >> reporter: most of the passengers learned just how deadly this shooting was upon landing. >> to find out something like this happened, you know, it's kind of horrifying. we're glad that we were on the plane when it did take place. >> to get on the plane and for this to occur, you know, it's unreal how close, you know, you are to death's door. >> reporter: and one passenger we spoke to who didn't want go oh on camera says he remembers vividly the crowd on the excitement some of these concertgoers had on their faces and of course this all happened just before this tragedy struck that no one saw coming. reporting live at philadelphia international airport, jeanette reyes channel6 "action news." rick. >> jeanette, thank you. all morning long we've been seeing and hearing the tragedy play out firsthand from people who were at the

concert in las vegas. "action news" anchor alicia vitarelli joins us at the big board with more on how the story played out on social media. >> reporter: and realtime as well. this video right here from sean kilgore shows panicked fans running away from the rapid fire gunshots many screaming and crying. devon gray had his phone rolling as people cow erred round after round near them exploding. >> ♪ [gunfire] >> reporter: gray rounded up two victims and rushed them to the hospital in his own truck and this is something that we saw time and time again. people risking their own lives to get strangers to safety. karen says as soon as she realized this was not fireworks she poked her head out from under the bleachers to try to convince others to hide with her. >> come here, come here you

guys. [gunfire] >> come under here, come under here. >> reporter: absolutely horrifying moments, strangers also banded together after the attack a teenager and his family cared for a little six-year-old boy after he became separated from his mother. we have the picture here on the big board to show you. he tweeted this photo out to anyone who would look at it trying to find the little boy's mother and show her that aiden is safe and okay. those good samaritans confirmed that the boy's grandfather had been found and reunited. unfortunately they are still looking for his mother. rick, we'll have more on the bravery and the tragedy through the eyes of those who were there starting on "action news" at 4:00. >> all right, alicia, thank you. so to recap what we know about that shooting right now, again, at least 58 people are confirmed dead. police are still combing the scene for more possible victims. more than 500 others were injured in last night's shooting. investigators believe the

gunman, 64-year-old nevada resident stephen paddock acted alone. he opened fire into a crowded music festival firing the shots from his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the nearby mandalay bay resort. a s.w.a.t. team later broke into the hotel room and found that paddock had taken his own life. investigators do not leave he had any connection to international terrorism. but they're still working to determine a possible motive. we will that continue to follow the latest on this tragedy on air and online. 6abc.com is providing continuing coverage of this shooting. there you can find video and photos from the scene and the desperate accounts from eyewitnesses and read more on the suspected gunman. jim gardner is on his way to to bring you live coverage. jim and his crew left this morning from philadelphia international airport. look for his live report beginning tonight right here on "action news." we'll be right back. >> ♪

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conference provided the information, what they know and don't know. >> meteorologist dave murphy is here now. first monday in october. we were feeling fall like. >> absolutely. we're dry across the region. as we take a look at numbers we're still kind of cool but getting better. some 69 in philadelphia matches yesterday's high and it's only the noon hour so obviously it is going to get milder today than it was over the weekend. 66 degrees in allentown, 67 in reading, 68 in trenton, 71 wilmington, 66 in cape may. in the lehigh valley today we're looking at lots of sun, a bit milder than yesterday with a high of 75 and it's the same kind of story down the shore, a bit milder with a high of 72 although rip currents still a moderate risk of those and the ocean temperature starting to dip a little bit so it's cooler and

maybe fewer of you want to go in the water at this point anyway. your seven day, mostly sunny and nice. tomorrow we'll do it all over again. we'll start out chilly in the morning, 54 in philadelphia, mid 40's some suburbs winding up at 75 again in the afternoon and then 78 on wednesday. on thursday partly sunny, 82 with a front coming at us. there could be a shower in the late day or evening hours and then friday clouds and sun, 79. for the weekend, saturday partly sunny, it looks like there could be a spotty pop-up shower but mainly dry. and then sunday for the eagles, just like the last home game, rick, it's going to be warm, this time 77 degrees under partly sunny skies. >> all right, david, thank you again. check back in next half hour. and of course here's the latest on that mass shooting in las vegas. at least 58 people confirmed dead, more than 500 people wounded. those numbers may rise as the hours pass. the shooter who has been identified as 64-year-old stephen paddock reportedly took his own life inside of a hotel room at the mandalay bay after firing more than 200

rounds at a crowd attending a country music festival. president donald trump called the mass shooting "an act of pure evil." he plans to visit las vegas on wednesday to meet with first responders and families.

i looked out the window and said it's so beautiful. it was such a beautiful setting that i said i was going to stay >> ♪ >> "action news" at 12:30 continues with rick williams, sarah sarah bloomquist and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪ [gunfire] >> gunfire ripping into a concert crowd in las vegas. it was the beginning of the worst mass shooting in american history. more than 50 people killed, several hundred more taken to the hospital. >> it just never stopped. another round of bullets, another round of bullet, another round of bullets.

>> the shooter is dead, his crime etched in the minds of witnesses. >> we saw the heart wrenching sadness of relatives grabbing hold of their loved ones. >> the shooter released that barrage of bullets from that shattered window 32 stories up in the mandalay bay hotel and casino. president trump called the las vegas massacre a "act of evil" and ordered all flags lowered to half-staff. a investigation is under way as authorities try to pinpoint if the accused shooter had any ties to a terrorist organization. at this moment there is no motive for the mass shootings. a map shows how close this concert was to the mandalay bay where the shooter fired from. both are basically right on the vegas strip, one of the most i iconic streets in the entire world. we continue with team coverage of this breaking news story this afternoon. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live in the