chaos, and people were running. >> have all your friends and co-workers been accounted for? >> my co-workers are all accounted for. my co-worr

hotel room. i can't get back to my hotel room, because i stayed in mandalay bay. the friends that we met that were here, shot in the leg, and we don't know how they are doing, but we are keeping him in our prayer. >> what are the security teams saying? >> security team came by making sure we weren't injured and told us to stay put in our room. >> until further notice, we thank you very much, courtney, for joining us. it's a very upsetting morning. thank you very much. this is a cbs news special report continuing coverage of the attack in las vegas. and we will bring you up with the latest -- what we know so far. we have heard that 50 people have been killed, 200 others have been injured. some of them in critical condition. this is now being called the dead

american history, but the good news is if you can call it good news, the suspect in this case is dead. they have his identity, and they have his -- what we're being told is his wife. she was the person of interest who they issued a bulletin for this morning. she is described as his wife? >> correct. it is his wife, and they found her again, the shooter lives about 90 minutes outside las vegas. they were looking for marilou danley for a couple of hours to find out whether she was all right, "a," whether she had any information about this, "b," and they say they have located her now, but have not said anything beyond that. >> they have the two cars in custody too. from the bulletin, within a 2 1/2-hour period, they have located aher and the cars they were looking for. >> and

from the folks who were recording, if they have recordings that may be salient to turn them into police so they can gather as much invest forma as possible. we know what police began on the scene, once rounds really began, they had to isolate what room they were coming from. they found that on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay, breached that room and then killed 64-year-old stephen paddock. >> we heard they found a lot of fire power in that room when they entered room. 64 years old, as jeff mentioned, with no criminal record, who lived in a retirement community. not the typical profile. >> as the sheriff said, no one is paid to do what we are dealing with as a community. >> much more on the breaking news story on cbs

coverage will continue throughout the day on this cbs station, and on our 24-hour streaming network at cbsnews.com. >> announcer: for news 24 hours a day, go to cbsnews.com. welcome to cbs this morning with continuing coverage of that terrible attack in las vegas. it is now the deadliest mass shooting in american history. a gunman firing from an upper floor of a resort, mandalay bay on the las vegas strip has killed more than 50 people last night at an outdoor country music festival. that death toll is preliminary and it could increase. >> the suspect was

killed by police on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay resort and casino. he is identified as 64-year-old stephen paddock. police are searching his home in mesquite, nevada. the latest from the clark county sheriffs is 200 other people are hurt including two off-duty police officers, at least reported to be among the dead this morning. police said they also believe they have found paddock's wife, marilou danley who has been wanted for questioning this morning. >> the shooting began late last night during the performance of jason aldean at the country music festival. it was across the street from the mandalay bay, and john is just south of the strip. john, good morning. >> reporter: while police searching the mandalay bay hotel here say they have found several weapons in the room on the

fire down into this crowd of concert-goers. cell phone video helping police piece together what many of these people are calling the scariest time of their life. initially many people thought the cracks they were hearing are fireworks, but it quickly became clear that this was an attack. what sounded like automatic gunfire rang out late sunday night. the bullets spraying into a crowd of roughly 40,000 concert-goers on the las vegas strip. these videos captured the chaos unfolding on the ground. there was confusion about where the bullets were coming from, or even if they were bullets. some were frozen in panic. others fled for their lives. >> and all of a sudden, we heard, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. countless times and we all

and then it kept ongoing, and then he fired for a bit, and then he fired another 15, 20 rounds and we realized it was fully automatic. >> reporter: police say the gunshots came from above. >> we determined there was a shooter on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay. the police engaged the suspect at that location. >> reporter: the suspect is now dead, and authorities are still trying to piece together the scope of the carnage. >> right now, we need your truck. we just need to get people over to the hospital, okay? >> okay. >> reporter: the people were ska scattered, and bystanders were trying to get those hit by gunfire to the hospital. >> some were falling and screaming and yelling and running, and everybody was literally laying on top of each other trying to get out of the way. >> reporter: and here sadly, we're bracing for what could be worse with the hospital's pact with the wounded. the sheriff has warned that de

higher, jeff. >> oh,boy, john. we are dreading this new. thank you very much. we'll check in with you. gail davis was at the concert when the shooting started. she joins us from las vegas. i can't imagine how you are feeling at this second. i'm so glad that you can join us right now. what can you tell us about what you saw and what happened? >> well, it's kind of just shocking, but, you know, you don't expect something like this. we went there to see jason aldean really. it was a three-day show, and we went to see jason. he is my favorite singer, and we got there, and we were standing, like, maybe halfway up, and just waiting for him to come on stage. he came on and about 20 to 10:00, and he sang about five songs and we heard about three or four little pop, pop, pops, and everything looked around and said, oh

firecrackers, and then we heard pop, pop, pop, and it just kept going and going, and my husband said, that's not firecrackers. that sounds like a semi-automatic rifle, and then everybody started screaming and started to run, and i looked over to my right where this girl had been standing right beside me, and she had fallen -- first, she stood there and grabbed her stomach and she looked at her hands and her hands were all bloody, and she was wearing, like, a little crop top and, you know, blue jean shorts and cowboy boots and she looked at her hands and her hands were bloody, and she just kind of screamed and fell back, and everybody started yelling and there were guys there, and we rt s started jumping up and down waving for help, and we heard a whole bunch of shots fired, and people started running and so my husband said, get down, get down. we bent down, and everybody was runninra

husband said, gail, we have got to go. we have got to go. we have to get out of here or we're going to get shot. we started running and there was the little -- i don't know where the concession stands are, a little cubicle kind of things of tents and we started to run and a met ro officer who you owe my life to, he said, come here. and we went inside and the lights were on, and everything else was dark. they turned the stage lights off, and we went running in there, and he said, get down. so we got down and i was there. my husband was in front of me, and there was another two ladies behind us, and the officer actually cover med up to protect me from being shot because i couldn't get out all the way, and it was, like, you could hear the shots just, like, going back and forth and ricochetting, and -- and then they would stop, and then we thought, okay. it's

start again, and this happened a couple of times, and the officer stood up and i heard op his radio say, we have active shooters, and i heard him say, oh, god. and he walked out to look around, and he had his gun out, and he was looking around, and then it started shooting again, and he came running back in and covered me up again, and the shooting would just stop. like he or she or whatever was refilling or whatever you call it, reloading, and he said, we need to get you out of here. so we went to another little tent and stood in there or we laid down in there, and that officer was with me. he was like my guardian angel, and he never left me. we could hear the shots getting closer it seemed, and my husband

some of the -- i don't know what you call it. lead or something, and feel how hot it is. the shooting kind of stopped and it kept stopping like they were refilling or something, or reloading and the officer said, we need to get you it out of here. we have to get you out of here, but stay low, but we went to get out the back but we couldn't because there was a door, and we pushed it down and we ran out. he said, stay out of the light. just run. just run and keep down. keep down, and as we're running, there's people laying everywhere. people were bleeding and one guy was holding his girlfriend or wife, or. he was crying and saying, i'm so sorry. it's my fault, and she had been shot in the head and covered with blood. we ran and there was just ambulances and police cars everywhere. it was heartbreaking. it was unreal. >> you are

incredible story. we are so sorry you had to go through something like this. it sounds absolutely terrifying. how long did this shooting seem to last to you? >> well, it seemed like a long time, but maybe only ten minutes, it seemed. you know, maybe 15 minutes. it seemed forever, but then again, it was, like, so fast. your mind plays tricks on you and it's hard to say, but i have never been that scared in my life. >> gail, how many people were in the area where were watching? >> oh, it was packed. it was packed because jason aldean is the number one singer and he was the last singer for the venue, and for the show, and so everybody was there having a good time. it was packed. i don't know, thousands. it was just packed, you know. everywhere. >> gail, where is the officer who helped you? do you know where he is now? >> no. i saw his face, and i'm going to try to go down to metro

if i can find him and look it a his pictures because he saved me. i know. i just -- the girl that got shot was right next to me. i don't know. i wish i can find them. i'm going to try to find him and tell him thank you. >> that police officer like you said, a guardian angel for you and your husband there. can you describe the rest of the scene though, in terms of security? how quickly did you see first responders run towards the scene and start helping the wounded? >> almost immediately. the metro was there. they are always right there, you know? the metro is such an amazing police force, and they were right there. ambulances were coming. we had ambulances everywhere. there were police cars everywhere, and the police officers were helping the other concert-goers were helping everybody. it was just amazing. we all came together, and everybody was helping yb

just love metro. i'm just so proud of them. >> a lot of people are giving big kudos to the las vegas police department. it would not have made a difference in this particular shooting, but did you have to go through a security device when you went into the concert today? >> yeah, when walk through. i didn't have anything because i, you know, i don't carry anything. they all look at your backpacks and stuff, but it's very secure, and my husband saw the shots from mandalay bay. they were, like, a little bit above, halfway higher up. he could see lights flashing. they said -- he saw where the shooter was. so yeah. >> i can tell, and i know this is traumatic. i'm sure you are still in quite a bit of shock, but have you been able to wrap your

around you went to a concert of all things, and this sounds like a terrible movie? >> i saw jason in san bernardino, and he is amazing and my husband surprised me. we didn't go the first two days and he said, let's go see jason and it was a wonderful surprise, and to have this happen, you know, i just -- i just can't wrap my mind around it like you said. it's just hard. >> jason posted a facebook message to all those fans like yourself who were there to see him, and we spoke with another performer who was on stage right before him, jake owen, who had seen children in the crowds sitting on their parents' shoulders. did you get a sense of how many children were at the concert? we know it was around 10:00 p.m., but clearly they are music fans in all ages and parents bring them to these kind of nc

around singer and he is such a good guy and he has two daughters himself, and his wife is expecting a baby in a couple of months, and everybody -- he is so wholesome, and everybody loves him. there were kids there, and one lady was just screaming and going, i can't find my daughter. i can't find my daughter, and i don't know if she found her or made it or anything. it was just chaos. it was just where crazy. >> when we talked to jake owen earlier today, he said he hopes that people will still continue. that he is going to get back on stage and perform and he hopes anybody who was at the concert will continue to do so, and we won't let a coward as he says, change our way of life. how are you feeling about that? >> oh, no. i'll still go. of course, i'll go. i'll be a little more on guard, but you can't foresee something like this or expect this. i'll go again, and i'm sure we love and support our c

artists. especially jason. >> it sounds like your husband was a hero as well very having a peace of mind and recognizing those firecrackers were, in fact, gunshots and we wish him the best of recovery from the shrapn shrapnel wounds. >> thank you. thank you. i appreciate pitch. the president has been briefed on this. margaret brennan is at the white house. the president has released his first tweet about the shooting. >> reporter: that's right. the president has been awake for some time, and he just posted his first response to this horrific mass shooting saying, he sends his warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible las vegas shooting. god bless you. we also moments ago, got a statement from the white house saying it was -- chief of staff john kelly who first briefed the president on what was unfolding in las vegas. the chief of

homeland security he is the first point of contact for the president, though in these circumstances, you would have expected tom bossert, the counterterrorism adviser to have done this. he is leading the hurricane response effort, and it was john kelly this morning who first told the president. the white house telling us they are viewing this as just a horrific tragedy. they are monitoring closely, and they have offered a full assi assistance to state and local authorities. at this point, not saying this is being taken over as some sort of federal investigation, but reasserting they are offering support to the local people on the ground in las vegas. and while we are just now getting this response, we do know throughout the morning, the president has been monitoring media. his social media director has been retweeting and sending out local information from the police there about what looks to be the deadliest mass shooting.

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captioning funded by cbs welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's been a terrible day in las vegas as you know. we continue our coverage in las vegas on the attack that killed more than 50 people overnight. >> the suspect attacked thousands attending the concert at the route festival. it was across from the mandalay bay resort and casino. eyewitnesses say it was terrifying. >> i work as mandalay bt mandal valet. it sounded like a huge jackhammer and heard glass fall down and massive amounts of bursts of guns. we didn't know w

glass, more glass, shotgun rounds. i thought, something is going on here. >> we saw jason run off stage and people all over on the floor, the grassy area in front of the stage like some were falling and some were screaming and yelling and running, and we were in this tower up on top and it's like evan said hit the floor, so everyone was like literally lying on top of each other trying to get out of the way the shots just kept coming. >> i heard it, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. >> even after we left it was going and going and going. >> we were in the shopping centering am people were running up the escalator and saying shooter, shooter, so we went into the guinness store, i believe, and we were koojd of in their dressing room and hiding because we were very afraid that somebody was there. >> cbs news senior

is here. she was homeland security down for george w. bush. we're also joined by paul v violas. unfortunately as we heard from the clarke county sheriff joe lombardo, visibly shaking. he's steeling everyone for worse news to come. >> kudos to their containment and the expeditious manner in which they responded to this. when the sheriff's speaking about this, for him to say -- to come out and say there's 50 and the amount of injured, unfortunately that's going to go up. >> this is being called the deadliest mass shooting in american history. what are they looking for now in. >> perimeter. they're establishing an interperimeter and outer perimeter. there's two crime scenes. you have the shooter on the 2nd floor of the mandalay bay bay. they're going to

used and they're going to find more information this this location that's going to give them further information as to what the next steps are. >> let's talk about that, fran. he's on the 32nd floor. this seems to be something we haven't seen before in this country. we talked to an eyewitness who said your bags were checked as you went into the arena. it was an outdoor festival. but somebody on the 32nd floor just sprays and it went on for a long time. >> we're hearing reports that it went on from anywhere from 8 to 15 minutes. that sounds like an incredibly long time if you're in the plaza and hearing those shots. but fact that the s.w.a.t. team could feed the source of the fire, get up in the room and take out the shooter in period o time is really incredible. it's a credit to them. the las vegas sheriff's office works very closely with the hotels in las vegas. chief securityff

they perform exercises with the local sheriff's department, and all those things were to the benefit in resolving this and as horrific as the numbers are and a agree it would have riz snoon you give them credit. they train in this. >> that's right. they practice just these sorts of scenarios. they work through and know exactly what they're doing when they enter that room to take the guy out. >> fran, the white house chief of staff john kelly was the one who alerted the president of the shooting. the president tweeting my warmest condolences to the vilk tims and families of the las vegas shooting. god bless you. no word yet on what this will turn into a federal investigation, but do you expect that to happen? >> certainly the feds will support it. like the

and firearms understands the history of the weapons thamt i know it was an automatic weapon that the shooter used. we also know they found other weapons in the room. you're foumg to want to though the entire history of the weapons. when did he purchase them from where and that will be an important piece and so the feds will help that. we know that there's a search warrant at his mesquite retirement home, the shooters. they will go through all of his electroni electronics, they will go through fiscal evidence. we don't know that yet, but many of the clues will exist in the physical evidence as well as an interview of the wife or companion that thaw have identified or spoken to. >> this is marilou danley who is stephen's wife. they've been looking for her all morning long. las vegas police tweeted out a picture looking for her, saying they want to speak with her.

or what condition she is in. police have located her, which is the primary person they were trying to reach after this shooting happened to figure out what happened. >> yeah. it will be interesting to hear the circumstances of how she was in custody. we'll get back to you, paul and fran, in just a minute. storme warren was host of the concert. you were there. what did you see? what happened? >> it's what you would expect, the worst scenario you could possibly believe. watching jason aldean perform a great show and then hearing rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat and thinking it's pyrotechnics and it's not. >> when did you realize, storme, that it was gunfire? >> after the second sound of rat-a-tat-tat. when you knew it

fwlich. i'm standing right on the side of the stage right next to the band, and when you knew it wasn't an audio glitch and it wasn't pyrotechnics, you knew it was a problem, and you recognize the sound of gunfire, and when it wouldn't stop. that's when it was a problem. >> what did you do? >> well, first of all, we made sure that we were safe, and jason and his crew, i mean professional. cleared jason off, the band off, everybody was off stage. and i stood there. a bunch of us stood there going, yeah, we should probably leave, too, and we dove under the teenage. a few of us sat behind the concrete barrier because we knew the shots were coming from the mandalay. you could hear it coming from there. it was loud high-powered rifle fire coming interest the mandalay bay. from the

found out it was the 32nd floor. >> storme were you life? >> we were not broadcasting his show and were not able to relay any of this so what we were experiencing is what every one of the 30,000 people were experiencing out there on the festival grounds at route 91. great festival, three day, no problem. everything was just pef and to have the last act of the last day of the festival marred by this horrible act, we're still trying to put words, to 450id behind barriers, to hind mind truck, the hide behind anything we could try to find safe, you can't put that into words. this is las vegas. this fun. it's not s

>> i know. storme, what can you tell us about this festival? we see there are a lot of children there. what is this event? >> you know what? maybe this were a lot of children in there. i didn't see a lot of children there. there were loot of young adults there and -- adults. it's a fun country music event. and i'm sure there were children there, but my god, thank god i didn't see any of them when i walked through after the shooting stopped. >> storme, this event has been going on for a few years? >> what's that? that this event has been going on for a few years? >> yes. >> storme, what did you see after you walked through? >> after the shooting stopped because we were all hiding, as soon as we started walking through the grounds trying to help anyone we could, in

standing, we could see bodies. it wasn't just one or two. there were numerous. i know the report was coming out its with really small numbers, but i can't express to you how difficult it was to step over and to check on and to look at bodies and then to find ones that were still alive and try to help them and then try to find first responders, anybody. i want to get this across. the humanity at this event was amazing. everybody chipped in to help. this wasn't like an event where people were running away and trying to hide. this was an event where we knew what was going on. this was a shooting event and there were people that were hurt and people that were dead and we were trying to save the ones who were still alive and everyone chipped in to help.

it was an amazing humanity event, but scary at the same time because we didn't know what was next. >> no. it sounds very terrifying, storme. we wonder how you're feeling. listen, the more behear, the worse it gets. this is the worst in u.s. history. how do you process that? >> you don't. i ran off with chris young, singers, songwriters, a bunch of our friends. we fwaergted as a group, i said let's travel as a pack that's not backstage at an event where the shooter has obviously put his bull's-eye. so we ran off and found a safe place and we've been sitting here trying to process this as on our way we were stepping past body

bodies, bodies we knew were gone. and the ones that weren't gone, we did whatever we could to help. >> other witnesses we talked to this morning said they had no idea where the bullets were coming from. listening to you, you seem -- you were saying that you actually saw something from the mandalay hotel. what exactly did you see? >> i heard. i don't want to say saw. i heard. >> what exactly -- a rat-a-tat-tat sound from the mandalay bay up top. there was no doubt where it was coming from. i didn't know it was from the roof or wherever, but it was coming from that piece of property. and as we sat there on the stage and stood there watching jason aldean, just to hear that sound and just know there's nothing we could do. you were absolutely helpless. he could have done anything he wanted to. >> we did hear

husband actually saw the shots or the lightning flashes from the gun up in the mandalay bay. >> i'm going to say a little -- i'm going to contradict that just a little bit because there was a strobe light halfway down on the 14th floor that was lit up for about three days at the festival and as we walked across the street every night, i looked up and i saw this one random strobe light up on this 14th floor window. i thought, who would just put a strobe light in a window. and i think a lot of people are signaling that as what they saw. i don't think that was it. >> okay. we well, it doesn't -- for our purposes they found the shooter. they saw something from the 32nd floor of the hotel, but not -- for them, what's important is that he is down and not hurting

storme warren, thank you for your time, and we're glad to hear you're safe. >> yeah. thank you. >> randy sutton is a former law enforcement officer who served with the las vegas metropolitan police department for almost 24 years. he joins us from las vegas this morning. randy, can you tell us how hotels coordinate with police in las vegas? >> yeah. there's a very close synergy that takes place between hotel security and the las vegas metropolitan police department. they work very closely together because the problems that take place in the casinos are generally handled by their unterm security, but any time there is a law enforcement issue, they then contract metro. so there is a very close relationship between the security apparatus and metro. >> and do they coordinate -- do theyer

>> there are times when they do work together when they do like rehearsals for certain types of evacuations. and each year there is -- there are events that tack place where there's a close cord nachlgts for instance, new year's eve where we close the strip down and coordination like that as well. keep in mind that many of these security personnel are no longer arm. there's been a move to disarm most of the security people so that there are some armed. most are not though. >> we know this shooter was on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel. is this something your department would have ever prepared for, a shooter up above the crowd? >> yes. well, when i say -- yes. these type of events are pla

for. i mean you can only -- you can only do so much, but this is not -- this is totally within the realm of contingency planning. now, the way the shooter was identified was not from the muzzle flashes but the smoke detector in the room went off from the amount of smoke that came from firings that fully automatic weapon. that's how they were able to close in on them so quickly. >> and, randy, when you talk about first responders, you're not talking about just first responders. there are medical rye responders as well. are the hospitals in the surrounding area equipped for such a mass casualty shootinglet obviously that's where the focus is now on the 200-plus victim wlos are still critically injured and being treated at

local hospitals. >> right. the university medical center is the normal trauma center where gunshot victims are taken. unc was overwhelmed immediately with the number of casualties. keep this in mind. many of these injured were taken by civilians, that there simply weren't enough ambulances to get there in time. so they were taken by civilians to area hospitals literally all over the valley. now, this shooting went on from somewhere in the area of 15, 20 minutes, so that interfered with getting the first responders in to the area because this individual planned this horrific shooting immaculately. when you look at what his field of fire was, the ware that he prepared hipps by having multiple firearms,

ability to have enough ammunition to rain down hell on those poor innocent people that were doing nothing except enjoeing themselves, he chose his target well. >> and then to go and reload the way he didn't i'm very interested in what you said about muzzle flashes, that it wasn't the muzzle flashes that drew police to the room but the smoke detectors that went off in the room. what does that tell you about the amount of firepower that this gentleman had in his hotel room? >> well, when you fire even for our five rounds from a weapon leak that, four or five rounds, a would jn rate a fairly high amount of smoke, but when you talk about the number of rounds he fired, literally hundreds of rounds, he must have prepared with having multiple magazines

loaded and ready to reload. probably also he had more than one firearm is my understanding, so all he had to do was drop it, pick up another one, and continue his murderous assault on those people. >> what kind of distance are we talking about between the hotel room where he was firing from and the crowd below? >> i'm going to estimate about 400 yards, and that would be within the killing range of that weapon that he was using, which is clearly either a true assault weapon or it was a weapon that was modified to become fully automatic. i don't know how this individual would have obtained a fully automatic or a number of fully automatic weapons as they are heavily regulated. >> that was my next question to you. that was my question about gun laws. as a law even forcement officer, is it is to get thi

literally back to where that u were manufactured. now, were they stolen? were they modified? dud he obtain them legally? all of these are part of the overall investigation. these are questions that really have to be answered. >> randy sutton. stand by. with don't have the answers. police are trying to find that out. we'll bring you the information as soon as we have. we do now have the picture of the man who has taken so many lives today. stephen paddock, 64 years old. he was living in a retirement community, we are told, in mesquite, nevada. >> no criminal record. >> no criminal record p the latest from the clarke county sheriffs, at 10:00 p.m. pacific

began firing from the 32 md floor of the mandalay bay hotel and killed at least 50 people, injured at least 200. clarke county sheriffs have prepared those on the ground there and everyone else for that news to get worse as they assess exactly how everyone is doing. it was interesting to hear randy sutton and others talk about pause hospitals have been so overwhelmed in las vegasing not just first responders and pair med ilks and police taking peen to hospital but ordinary civilians, folks attending the concert, trying to get people any help they could. >> a reminder this was happening in the middle o the night as well. investigators are sifting through his belongings. meantime the white house says president trump was briefed overnight on the shooting. the president

condolences via twitter. margaret brennan, good morning. >> good morning. it's been a very early morning for white house staffers who have been up since 4:00 a.m. the president sends his condolences to the victims of the with las vegas shooting. we heard from the vice president in the last few minutes as well. 's tweeted out a sears of remarks, sending prayers. he wanted to thank the first resmoermds on the ground over what he refers to as senseless violence. no direct remarks yet on the characterizing. it appears to be, based on numbers, the largest event in u.s. history. the dau e, ivanka trump, sent

our collective hearts are breaking. and trump family members have been sending their thoughts. they still expect the president to proceed at 10:00 a.m. that's when he will be briefed. the daily presidential briefing he receives. at 1 178 he's still expected to gufb those remarks that were goingen to be about deregulation. you've got to malk he's going to have to address for the public this horrific act of rylance and it appears at this point he will proceed as planned to puerto rico tomorrow to view the devastation there. i think it's important to understand the white house is balancing a number of domestic advice's right now. not just this shooting. but they're still trying to teal with the devastation in puerto rico. >> all right. thank you very much. sincer/songwriter jake owen had

91 festival when the shooting broke out. we spoke with him by telephone. >> you were there. how are you processing this? it's very, very upsetting. >> i'm absolutely blown away. e i'm sitting inside a bus 100 feet from the stage that i was standing on when this started happening and watching the news now saying there's more than 50 people deceased and 200 injured, and it's -- we were in the middle of it. when we started hearing the shots ricocheting, we accident know where it was coming from. you didn't know if it was someone on the ground. at one point i was sitten on the ground behind a car with 20 other people. just the fear in everyone's eyes but everyone looking for someone to make sure they were okay, it was just -- i never experienced anything like thi

happeninging jake, when you first heard the shots? number one, did you know they were shots? >> ironically when i walked on stage, security was pretty tight because jason used his pyrotechnics and the fire marshal didn't want a lot of people backstage due to the fire that would come off of them. when i was standing next to my buddh buddy luke holmes, i heard these pops starts. that's when you knew it was not pyrotechnics but an automatic rifle. >> jason has tweeted skprensing his condolences. have you talked since this incident? >> i have,

other friends who are artists as well. we were all in shock, dhek on each other, makingi sure everyoe was okay. i was separated from my own crew. a friend of mine got separated from her husband. they couldn't get ahold of each other. >> yeah. how long did the gunfire last? how long did it appear to last? >> that's what's crazy. i believe they lasted, no joke, anywhere between 8 and 10 minutes. you could hear it first. it makes more sense now because the first few shots came off individually. it's almost like as if he broke the window. at that point he

weapon. i ran offstage. he was still firing shots. by the time i got back over to a crew bus in the middle of the parking lot a few blocks away, we all laid down and you could still hear them firing shots. this went on for a good, like i said, six to ten minutes. >> what was your message to your fans who were there across the country who may be tuning in and watching you relive the horror of what happened a few hours ago? what is your message to them? >> you know, i would -- at the end of the day, e i'm just a guy who sings songs. it think it's important for us in a simple way to those who come out every week who bring their family to not be scared of this, you know. we're still going tgo

this is so unfortunate that these things have to happen for us to see that this thing is real. >> all right. that was jake owen reporting. it's hard to hear these accounts. i'm gayle king with jeff glor and bianna golodryga. charlie and norah are off on assignment. the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. >> it happened across the street from the mandalay bay hotel and casino. police say stephen paddock was killed on the 32nd floor of that resort. they're searching his home in mesquite, nevada. >> police believe they have also located his wife who is wanted for questioning. john blackstone is

bay. john, that i have located his cars as well. >> reporter: they have. police have entered the room on the 32nd floor where the shots were fired. they say they found multiple weapons that were in that room and used. about 40,000 people gathered for the concert when the shooting started atting 10:00 p.m. witnesses say the shooting just continu continued. time after time the shots would end briefly. there would be a brief pause while the gunman was reloading and shots would begin again. witnesses described how they hit the floor and when bullets paused for just those few seconds, they'd try to get out. get some cover. this went on for ten minutes, maybe more. it seemed endless for those under this fire.

eventually police did identify this room on the 32nd floor. they went in and shot and killed the gunman. the investigation is continues. as this was taking place, las vegas shut down, the strip shut down, roads blocks, freeways blocks the airport shut down. the city came to a halt as they reacted to this. >> john, thanks a lot. they're looking into the past of this gunman stephen paddock. jeff pegues is in washington with new details about what police are learning. jeff? >> even though we're about eight hours into this investigation, details are still fluid at this point, and so we might be getting changes. one of the thilgs that we've heard over the last several minutes is that this suspect, this shooter did have

now, what we're being told by our federal law enforcement sources is the contacts with police were of a local nature in that he was having some sort of run-ins with local police there. we're not sure exactly what that means, whether it was a parking ticket. it was nothing that rose to the level of federal law enforcement and it doesn't appear to be anything that was extremely serious or anything that would have at least from outward signs led up to the type of shooting that we saw. for the most part, he was not on law enforcement radar as someone you have to watch for or be on the lookout for. that's part of the thinking going into this investigation in the early stages now. they know that he's 64 years old or was 64 years

half from where the attack occurred. we also know with a search of court records is that he filed a lawsuit against another resort, cosmopolitan hotel & resorts back in 2012. it looks like he was involved or claims there was some sort of injury on accident on the premises. he sued. but in 2014 that lawsuit was dismissed. we're working on getting more details on that too. this is all we're trying to get on. also as law enforcement officials are doing right now, you look into, well, how long had he been in the hotel in the resort. was this something he had been planning for

this is something they're trying to get right now. again, they were looking for this person of interest, marilou danley. we were told by law enforcement officials they caught up to her. she will also likely be a source of information for them. whether she cooperates is a big question there. but also if he was living in a retirement home, you would think there would be some sort of contact with staff there and there would be some sort of record on his behavior, his demeanor. these are all reservoirs of information that investigators are looking for and looking through as they try to answer this question. as you look at this video, early on in one of the press conferences, the sheriff jeff lombardo talked about social media while all of this was

of comfort for people, what you hear sheriff's officials say in this case in some instances it was adding to the panic, inciting more panic because there were reports of multiple shooters and multiple incidentsle so instead of being a help or aid to law even forcement. it only added to the chaos and confusion there, but law enforcement is looking for more cell phone video like this. that's what we heard from local officials there. you can see where people are running. you can see where people are looking. and you can see in shocking detail, really, how all of this unfolded and how people were running for cover and where they

enforcement specifically was trying to pinpoint where these multiple shots were coming from. so, investigators, yeah, they have a lot to work with, but it's still early on in this investigation. so don't be surprised that some of the details that they have bianna? >> the information you have is stev stephen paddock had one incident certified. >> that's right. this was the cosmopolitan hotel & resorts. we're looking to see if there's any connection there to where the shooting attack occurred. but our initial check has not found any connection. he spent some time to las vegas. it's l

to the area. he's been there before. looks like he's been there multiple times before. as i said, jeff, he doesn't have anything that stands out in terms of an arrest record or criminal past that would give investigators an inling that this is someone we should be on the lookout for. the run-ins do not painted a picture of this map. the way it happened does not fit the recent profiles of some of the incidents we've seen. we've about seen attacks in paris, brussels, attacks in london after the ariana grande concert. so with those attacks, there was this connection to isis, al qaeda, this inspired type of attack. and so in recent history if you're an investigator, you look atho

okay, as we put these pieces together, we ear not going prejudge this investigation but here's what we've seen in the past. oh, yes, isis and al qaeda have been calling for attacks, mass attacks like this, but this is not fitting that mode. that's why investigators have to start from scratch. they're not going to jump to any conclusions as they try to paint a picture as to why this man carried out this type of attack in this way, why did he choose that hotel, why did he choose that event. these are all important questions that investigators locally and federal officials are assisting in this. this is what they're trying to find out as we speak. >> a lot of questions to be answered there. thank you very much, jeff. let's bring in frae

and cbs law enforcement analyst paul viosas. we keep saying this man doesn't fit a profile. you don't think of the words retirement community and someone who could do this kind of damage and can we call it terrorist against a group of people attending a music festival. fran? >> any sort of violence against a civilian population instills terror, right? so what they're going to look at is motive. was he inspired by some terror group or was he truly a lone wolf with an individual grievance. it's interesting. jeff talked about -- jeff pegues talked about he had some cotact with law enforcement. >> he described it as minor. >> they're quite ceremony when you look at the lone wolf scenario. they tend to have some

contact with law enforcement. the fact he's had some contact with law enforcement but doesn't have an arrest record doesn't mean they're not familiar with him that. will be part of painting a picture of who was this individual and what motivated him. >> paul, you're shaking your head on that. just because he hasn't been arrested doesn't mean they don't know about him is that you're 100% correct. what's going to happen, they're going to go there and look at the fir cards. what promulgated him them to co out? what did they speak to him about? it could have been loud noise, threats from a neighbor. piggybacking on what gayle said, just because he does not have a criminal record does

doesn't have a criminal past. >> what we do now know is he has the face for the worst destruction in u.s. history. it was arguably the stars' biggest performance of the night. the last performance of the last day of this thee-day concert series. it does appear that he was looking for maximum casualty. >> absolutely. and when you look at -- we now know that not only did he use an automatic weapon. but based upon what we're seeing from the videotapes, whelp law enforcement went into his room, they found additional weapons. it was meticulously planned. it was for maximum effect, maximum lethality. >> and it looks like he didn't expect to make it out. >> absolutely not. >> and the s

going off, they were saying. >> that's right. he didn't make any attempt to escape or move. he stayed there. >> as far as we know. we haven't heard specifics of exact will i what happened when he was encountered by the police. they haven't confirms those details. all of this, we should mention again as we report on this, many of the details will change, a lot of the information will change. we're getting you the best information we can at the moment based on what we have, but a lot of this will change as we move along here. and, paul, they're dealing with an enormous crime scene. >> no question. there's two crime scenes. you're going to have the crime scene where the shooter was. they're going have to take look at the weapons. atf will get involved. the collaborative effort between all of them is going to be at play in that particular room zwruft to see from that perspective, how many rounds were fired,

cetera. the second is going to be two. inner perimeter and outer perimeter. they'll have to control access to that because unfortunately they're going to have to -- from a forensic side they're going to have to count pods and figure out trace evidence. they've got a lot of work ahead of them. as you pointed out and that i agree, there's a lot more. they're going to have a difficult time conducting interviews because of the fact shock is still settling in. this is evidenced fwi the fact we have a disparity as to how long this took. >> we heard from eight minutes to 20. why the difference? >> the dynamic is adrenaline rush. it takes time. it mikes frame by frame. if you ever see a video of

hear them say hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, they're seeing framepy frame by frame. >> does that mean slow motion? >> exactly. they're going to have to marry pictures from-to-see when it started and when it ended. >> there's a critical third location. that you're searching his home. the third critical location where evidence will come from. they'll try too identify his contacts. see there are records. >> what are cctvs. you said that. >> closed captioning

he was measuring four football fields. we haven't had it confirmed from police, but that's an enormous distance from where he was shooting and where people were hit. >> why is that significant? >> it goes back to the weapons he used. hay-powered rifles, 400 yards. it speaks to what kind of luggage did this guy have when he came in. that's going to be telling. >> i have to ask you. we have the puerto rico incident and then this. the president is going to puerto rico tomorrow. is that right on his part and as far as homeland security forces are there enough to deal with what's happening in puerto rico as well as now address this mass shooting? a

essentially a local investigation that is supported by the federal government. one of the things dhs will being down is disseminating that to other state and local authorities so they can learn from this event. in the meantime you've got fema, an element of the development of homeland security. the president needs to go down to puerto rico. the white house has been under assault. they've been criticized. the president needs to satisfy himself that the government is doing everything they can. >> you don't expect his plans to change on that. >> i don't. i hope not. frankly do i expect him to also go to las vegas? yes. this is not the time. they're in the middle of a crime scene investigation and the investigation of the shooter and so this would. by the type for the president to be there. >> we just want to remind

viewers that we have not forgotten about those suffering those in puerto rico, but, of course, we're still developings this story in las vegas. hospitals in lakefront are stretched to the limit treating the casualties. karster evans is outside the emergency center in southern nevada caring for the wounded. it's about five miles from the shooting scene. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is university medical center, the only level one. police are blocking off the entranc entrances, making sure if ambulances come, they have easy access. all to keep the crowd controlled in case they're coming to look fir loved ones. they've taken in 104 patients. 30 were treated in the trauma nt

eight to the emergency room. they were delivered by ambulance but not just that but by people in their own vehicles. ievg heard several accounts of that. people were found by victims, in many cases hiding. they'd come out and there were no paramedics around and it was just civilians bringing them to the hospital. of course, you can imagine how busy they are inside this hospital. we also heard two police officers were killed. so this hits close to home for them as well. 104 patients in this level one hospital. you can imagine it's very busy. >> very busy. very sad in las vegas. thank you very much, carter. a

what it was like and how she got through it. i can't imagine how you were feeling at this second. i'm so glad you can join us right now. what can you tell us about what you saw about what happened that oh, well, it's kind of just shocki shocking. you went there to see jason. it was a three-day show. we went to see jason. he's my favorite singer. we got there. we were standing like maybe halfway up waiting for him to come on the stage. he came on at about 20 to 10:00. we were listening to him. he sang about five songs and all of a sudden we heard three or four little pop, pop, pop. and everybody looked around and said, oh, it's just firecrackers. and then we heard pop, p,

my husband said, that's not firecrackers. that sounds like a semiautomatic rifle. everybody started screaming and starting to run and i looked over to my right where this girl had been standing right beside me and she had fallen and -- at first she stood there and grabbed her stomach and then she look at her hands. her hands were all bloody. she was wearing a little crop top and blue jean shorts and cowboy boots. she looked at her hands and they before bloody and she fell back and everybody started yelling. there were guys yelling and we were jumping p and down waving for help and all of a sudden we heard a whole bunch of shotted fires and people started running and so my husband said get down, get down. so we bent down and everybody was just running straight. you you side people getting shot and people falling and then my husband said, gayle, we even fwob tot go, we've got to go,

and we started running. and there was the little -- i don't know, where the concession starts are and little coupe kl things of tint and a metro officer who i owe my life to grabbed us and said come here, come here, get in here. we went running inside. the lights were on and everything else was dark. that i turned the stage lights off and everything. we went running in there. he said get down. we got down, my husband was in front of me and there were two ladies behind us. and the officer actually cover med up to protect me from being shot because i couldn't get down all the way and you could hear the shots going back and forth and ricocheting and and then they would stop and then we thought, okay, it's over, it's oak, and thefr it would start again and this happened a couple of times and the officer stood up

we have active shooters and he -- i heard him say, oh, god, and he walked out to look around, and he had his gun out and he was looking around and they started shooting again and he cam back in and covered me up again and the shooting just would stop like he or she or whoever was refilling or whatever you call it, reloading, and he said, we knead to get out of here, we've got to get you out of here. we went to another little tempt and stood in there or we laid down in there and again that officer was with me. he was like my guardian angel. he never left me. we could hear the shots getting closer, it seemed, and my husband got hit like with some shrapnel and he said, gayle, i think i got some of the -- i don't know what you call it,

lead or something and he put it on my arm and we kind of waited. the shooting stopped. it was like they were refilling or something or reloading and then the officer said we need to get you out of here, but stay low. we went to get out of the back and we could. get out because there was like a door or something. we pushed it down. he pushed it down for us and we ran. he said stay out of the light. just run. keep down, keep down, as we're running, there were people lying everywhere. people were bleeding. one guy was holding his girlfriend or wife orwoman and hi was crying and saying, oh, god, baby, i'm so sorry, i'm so sorry, it's my fault. i think she was shot in the head because he was covered with blood. we ran. there was just ambulances and police cars everywhere. it was heartbreaking. >> gayle, you are painting an incredible story. we're all so sorry you had to go through somethingik

>> it sounds absolutely terrifying. >> it was. >> how long did it seem to last to you? >> it seemed loo eck a long time, maybe over ten minutes, 15. it seemed like forever. again, it was so fast. your mind plays tricks on you. it's hard to say. i've never been so scared in my life ever. >> gayle, how many people were in the area where you were watching? >> it was packed. it was packed. jason aldean is like the number one singer and he was the last singer for the venue, for the show. even was having a good time. it with us packed. i don't know. thousands. it was just packed, you know, everywhere. >> the officer who helped you, do you know where he is now? >> no. i saw his face and i ee going to try to go down to metro and see if i can find him and look at his pirs. he saved me, i know, because, kn

shot was right next to me. i don't know. i wish i could find him. i want to try to find him and say thank you. metro did an amazing job. >> that police officer like you said a guardian angel for you and your husband there. can you describe the rest of the scene, though, in terms of security? how quickly did you see first responders run toward the scene and start helping the wounded? almost immediately. metro was there. they're always right there, you know. metro's such an amazing police force. they were right there. balances were coming. we had balances everywhere. there were police cars everywhere. the police officers were helping. the other concertgoers were helping everybody. it was just amazinamazing. we all came together. they were helping everybody. it as wonderful to see. i just love metro. i'm so proud of them. >> a lot of

big kudos to the las vegas police department. it probably wouldn't have made a difference in this sort of shooting but did you have to undergo any security device when you came to this concert? >> when you walk through, they look at you -- i don't have anything. i have my chapstick. go, they look at your back packs and stuff but it's very secure. my husband saw the shots from mandalay bay. they were a little by higher. he could see lighting flashing that he saw it. >> and they say -- that yeah, he saw where the shooter was. so, yeah. >> i can tell and i know this is traumatic. i'm sure you're still in quite a bit of shock, but have you been able to wrap your brain around the fact that you went to a jason aldean concert of all things and this happened to you. it

>> i know. i saw jason in san bernardino last year. my husband senior priced me. we didn't see him and he said let's go see him. we got our wrist bands. it was a wonderful surprise. to have this happen, you know, i just can't wrap my arm around it. >> and jason posted a facebook message to all of the fans like yourself who were there to see him and we spoke with another performer who was on stage right before him, jake owen, who said he had seen children in the crowds as well sitting on their parents' shoulders. did you get a sense of how many children were at the concert? we know it was around 10:00 p.m., but clearly there are music fans in all ages and parents do bring them to these kinds of concerts. >> yeah. jason's just a great all-around singer and such a good guy and

brittney, his wife, is expecting a baby in a few months hchl's is so wholesome. everyone loves him. a woman was screaming, i can't find my daughter, i can't find my daughter. i don't know if she did. it with us chaos. it was just crazy. >> you know, gayle, when we talked to jake earlier, he said he hopes people continue, he ee going to get back on stage and perform, he hopes that anyone at the concert will continue to do so, that we won't let a coward as he says change our way of life. how are you feeling about that? >> no. i'll still go. of course, i'll go. i think i'll be a little more on guard, but you can't foresee something like this. you can't expect this. but, you know, i'll go again. we all love our country artists, and we're all going go again. we love them and support them, especially jason. >> gayle, that police officer was a hero and

as well to have the peace of mind to recognize they weren't firecrackers, that they were, in fact, gunshots, we wish him the best in his recovery from the shrapnel wounds. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> your heart goes out to gayle. you can tell she's clearly talking from her heart and she's clearly traumatized by what they went to. >> and the gratitude for the officer who helped her and her husband. >> and for jason aldean. we're continuing live coverage of the shooting in las vegas. it was a country music festival. there were about 40,000 people there and the gunshots rang down. >> it was the last day of a three-day concert series. the bullets were coming down from the mandalay bay hot

casino. the saves shot and stephen paddock. he's now confirmed dead. >> the police are searching paddock's hotel and his home. his wife was found. jeff pegues has the latest from washington. jeff? >> yeah. investigators are trying to track down as many people as upon who may have had any type of contact with this suspect. right now the person they want to get information from is that marilou danley who we don't know the extent of their relationship but clearly to law even forcement officials, this is someone who knew this attacker whelm did she know whether or not he was planning something, what happened in the last cup of days, weeks, months that led up to this event. those are some of the things they want to try to

but we also know he lived in a retirement facility about an hour and a half away from where this shooting unfolded. and so if this was a retirement community, is there a staff there that might have some sort of information on him. we know from a quick search of records that he sued or filed a lawsuit against a resort, the cosmopolitan hotel and resort in las vegas. he fired a lawsuit against that facility back in 2012. it was dismissed back in 2014. it appears that the basis for the lawsuit was some some of injury where he felt they were negligent. it was dismissed. and then there's this video. you hear the pop, pop,

where the shots were coming from. you have law enforcement responding to the scene and trying to wade through the false information that was on social media at the time which was spreading information about multiple shooters, which the sheriff's department dismissed in within of the earlier press conferences, that there was no such thing as multiple shooters to this event. they believe it was a lone shooter, this stephen paddock, who's now deceased. but with his death, one obviously very important source of information is now gone, but you can put together a picture of who this guy was. you can get surveillance video and i'm sure they're doing that from around las vegas and from around that resort. and we also know that they are reaching out to people who were in the crowd.

as gail reported, 40,000 people. that's a stickering number alone. you have cell phones and people taking video and so you have an awful lot of information available to investigators. as we've said numerous times and one of the reasons why we're repeating this, this is a man who was 4 ye64 years old and wh you look at recent shootings, he doesn't fit the profight. investigators in so many ways are starting from scratch, although eight hours in they do have a lot of information as they try to track down the mow tevin for this deadly shooting. there's no motive from what we're hearing. a number of injured and the biath toll could rise.

as well as where he purchased those firearms. jeff, our thanks to you. jason ail deed released a message to to his fans. he wrote, tonight has been horrific. i still dote don't know what to say but wantediven to know me and my crew are safe. my thoughts and prayers go out to even tonight. it hurts my heart that this would ha p to anyone that was just coming out to enjoy what should have been a fun night. >> 24-year-old justina joins us by the phone. thanks for talking to us. i'm sure you're still shaken up. tell us what you saw and heard. >> thank you for listening to what i have to say. pretty much what i saw and

heard, i heard what evan was, the firecracker noise like the fourth of july. i was standing on the stage, the left wing closer to the stainless. i was looking over and saw it and questioning it. after the initial firecracker nose, 10 or 15 seconds later, jason aldean is bolting off the stage to my right. after that, my boyfriend grabs me and says, let's go now. we bolted off to the closest, i guess, exit we could find. by then there's other people getting an understanding of what's going on. o we hopped two different fences and we started runnings. >> jaustina, at first you didn't think an

you saw the smoke and thought it was part of the show because we know he had some pyrotechnics. how long did the gunfire last in your opinion? >> total length -- obviously it felt like a long time, but probably 20 to 30 minutes total. it was unfortunate. there would be a rounl, a slight pause, screaming, another loading. what it sounded like was multiple shooters. it was unloading one, unloading one, unloading one. >> did you see people hit by gunfire as you and your boyfriend were escaping? >> thankfully i did not. i was on the left side of the stage. unfortunately the people who were injured or shot were on the right side of the stage and immediately once we heard it our instincts jumped up and we just went

we newseknew -- our instincts ts where to go. >> jaustina, when you go to the concert -- i'm not sure you have in the past -- are exits marked? is there app extra nicaragua how to get in and out of the concert? >> yes. di i did attend this festival last year. everyone knows where to enter. they do it differently every year. you exist on one end of the -- along length-wise on the far left side and they do let people off where you enter. there is normally a separate entrance and exist for people. >> jaustina, one thing we heard

about is the humanity and people helping people, not just the first responders running in to help the wounded but concertgoers, samaritans, did you see that as well or can you describe that as well? >> yeah, i saw a little bit of both. i saw people go frantically, panicking, and people helping. my boyfriend and i had to jump several fences. where we were jumping were the food vendors. there was a hot stove, poiliboi grease on one side. i'm screaming watch the stove, watch the boiling grease. next thing, i'm helping a girl over the fence, someone's helping me over the fence, my

everyone trying to get others to safety. >> jaustina, have you been at other concerts? >> i actually was at "life is beautiful" last weekend. yeah. also iheart radio was in the same village where route 91 was and the ninja show, so, yes, i have. >> so for people unfamiliar with where that is, can you talk about that area? >> it's a great big open area where there's drinks, food, great music going on, great people. you go, look your besting try to have fun and have a great time. really it's a wide open thing, you know. you have vendors,

foods. definitely big open areas. >> jaustina, did you have any concerns about being in a big open area? unfortunately we know with ariana grande in paris there was a shooting. did you have any concerns, find yourself looking around before the concert? >> no, ma'am, i did not. >> jake owen joined us earlier. he said, listen, i'm a guy who writes songs and sings music and i can't wait to get back on stage. how are you thinking? do you think you'd feel safe going to another concert or are you still processing it? >> i'm still processing it. my car's parked at excalibur. e i'm a little weary thinking about going back too pick it

to this degree doing what we do best, you know what i mean, coming together for music or art or whatever the occasion is, you know. it shouldn't make us run and hide in a hole. it should bring us all together. >> where are you now? >> i'm at home at silverado ranch. >> a lot of people know of las vegas as a transient place. las vegas is home for you. talk about what this means for something like this to happen in your hometown, and how does this town, this city, recover and heal and start the recovery process? obviously this is just hours old. >> right. i've

the last two years. i'm a graduate of unvb. the police have been letting us know whatever they know. i've been watching the news nonstop. i think there's been a lot of camaraderie. just togetherness, you know, everyone coming together. that's been pretty awesome to see. that in it and working together what's going to let las vegas, nevada, in general come on top of a horrific incident. >> all right. jaustina, thank you very much for taking the tam to talk with us and join us this morning. >> thank you. >> jaustina santos is her name, 24-year-old college student. let's bring back fran downsnd and paul viollis.

situation. the facts are always changing. law enforcement said social media did not help, they caused panic by putting out false reports. what do we know and what does that say to you atz a law enforcement view? >> what people need to understand, it's a very fluid situation but this individual, f 4-year-old, no criminal history, but yet calculated enough to select the type of weapons that would be able to shoot at 400 yards at 32 floors up giving the wind shear, that's a planner, somebody familiar with firearms. the other part is thank god las vegas p.d. did an excellent job. as fran mentioned earlier and there's no question about it, had that not happened, there would be a lot more part-time. >> we heard he had some minor

rupp-in with officials. i like what you said earlier. just because he doesn't have a criminal record double mean he didn't have a criminal past. >> right. what we'll find as the day progresses and tomorrow is what the police actually communicated with him when they rye spomded to his home and how many times. again, just because there's no record doesn't mean that's no history with respect to the interaction. clearly it could be that neighbors had called on him. it could be he's caused problems inside a neighborhood where plivgs responded to quell an ins stent, but it will speak to his ment mental health? >> yes that a layperson could not. >> no. that's a good question when you look

mandalay bay is and where the crime scene was, where he was shooting into the concert, you're talking 400 yards, 32 flars up. taking into account the wind shears that he's gog to have to take account for in order to release that many rounds into that particular field. so the experience, yes, no question about that. the weapon selection goes to his state of mind. >> these hotels, especially the mandalay bay, fran, you were talking about the security that goes into these places and you talked about atnlding these conferences. the postmortem following up on this tragedy and going forward are hotels going to re-evaluate guests going in? especially if a mass event is going to take place feet

from its doors? >> it's interesting, bianna. when you travel in europe, you recall in the wake of the mumbai attack, they do screen visitors. you go through a metal detector. >> they didn't do it before? >> no. that was after the mumbai att k attack. so the problem is -- yes, they will certainly look at the lessons learned and re-evaluate it. i staid there. it's also connected to the convention center and shopping mall, which means you've got multiple points of entry and exit. it would be difficult to control. it's very hard. now, the hotel may reconsider when there's a big event whether or not they're going to try to implement some sort of security

maechs the las vegas p.d. and others, they practice this. homeland security has implored states and locals to practice security drills regularly and that does happen in las vegas. you're seeing the benefit of that here. there would have been greater fatalities and greater injuries if they had not been so well prepared. >> the vegas strip is like a giant mall. you would think it would require a quick imagining of the city and the strip in particular. i can't even mentioned. paul, the question you ask is what do you want? what do you need? >> balance. the question as the days and weeks go on,

if we really want to have a top tier fortified level of security. as fran said, it's a really important point here. this particular facility is connected to a mall. so just the points of access into that particular hotel are newseum us are. do we really want -- here's the question. do we really want the level of security no matter what hotel, you have to go through that. is that something you want? that's the conversation we'll have to have. i don't think it is. i don't think the balance of make a guest feel welcome and wanding you at the same time. as fran mentioned, right, we saw a change at mumbai, but we have a different culture in the united states. >> that's right. they'll look to see if there's some compromise. when you look at the size of weapons,

luggage. it's not a small hand-piece. what they may want to do as a compromise, you can't bring your luggage in through the mall but through the hotel and luggage itself will be screened. that would have picked it up when the guy checked in. >> further complicated by the fact it's a loner, white man in me cases but this is a retired man who litschs in a retirement community. >> it speaks to the agenda. we talk about proi file. we don't know that yet. where eight going to come from the is the investigation gone on right now with the websites he visits. what motivated this particular individual. that's going to break it down to the why. >> that's not going to say the larger-scale profiling

work many times. this man may have been an outlier. >> so, paul, they're looking at -- >> looking aet motive. the key is the wife who they now say is identified and located. talking to her will be key to figuring it out. they'll have the figure that out. >> so we're looking at the job history and his history. we know there was a lawsuit some years ago. what else? >> medication. that i ee going to look at what medication he was on, was he seeing any type of doctor, mental health issues. but the biggest part is going to be, two things. artificial intelligence that they will hopefully have in place in the the u of

which is information that we get from the software that will forensically track where he came from, did he meet with anyone else. >> who did he talk to. >> and cell records. and then sit town and interview them. >> if we could just take a moment to once again process the number of people who were at this event. 40,000 people. i can't imagine their families whacking up to this news wondering if their loved ones were injured or hurt. las vegas police say 400 were taken to the hospital and whether or not the hospitals can maintain them. let's go to the hospital, one of them now, and see the emergency situation which seems to be very fluid. >> think i carter evans is outside one of the hospitals

>> calle >> reporter: yeah, i'm with you. i'm outside a hospital. it's an astounding number. it's over 400. that doesn't necessarily mean it was 400 shot. some were trampled an effort to escape. take a look at the hospital. this is the only level 1. 400 were brought to the trauma center. 38 have been trietd. 8 have been operated on. 12 are still in very critical condition. gayle. >> thank you, carter. it's been described as the deadliest shooting in u.s. history. we'll have more

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. good morning. welcome to great day washington. i'm markette sheppard joined by larry miller. kristin is out. how are you doing this morning? >> it is a busy morning. we have been covering the massacre in las vegas. want to get you up to speed on what is going on. 50 people -- more than 50 people are dead. 400 people were taken to the hospital. >> what we understand is the gunman was on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel and was shooting down on concertgoers

watching jason aldean. they were running everywhere trying to get to safety. our hearts and prayers are with the family members who are trying to be reunited with family members at the concert. it is a rough time. the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. >> it seems like every time there is a mass shooting, it is the deadliest. the problem is not getting better. it is getting worse. we have a little information in the dc area. if you want to get in touch with a relative. we have a special update for you. >> killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 400 others. >> some arguing this is domestic terrorism. how do you differentiate this? >> we have to establish the motivation. there are motivating factors established with terrorism.