good morning. it is tuesday, october 3rd, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." americans still mourning the las vegas shooting victims and asking why an accountant turned gambler killed 59 people and wounded more than 500 others. norah is in las vegas. >> reporter: that's right. 22,000 people across the country were enjoying a concert when they got caught up in the deadliest attack since 9/11. we'll have new information on the gunman. >> president trump goes to puerto rico today after hurricane maria devastated the u.s. commonwealth. many survivors are struggling

disaster but this morning there are signs of progress. >> and one week after finishing his big tour, rocker tom petty has died. we'll look back at the life of singer and song writer who said music was the only thing he was good at. >> but we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> humanity revealed itself last night. everyone who was there, everyone watching the coverage of this, i think all f ooof our lives have changed. the search for answers after the deadliest mass shooting in modern history. >> we're tracing down every single clue we can get. >> investigators have a big job ahead of them. the motive remains unknown. >> the act of insanity of a scum bag mad man, how dare any human being do that. >> the responsibility for this epidemic of mass execution lies with policy

a political debate but now is the time to unite as a country. >> before traveling to las vegas, president trump and the first lady are going to visit storm ravaged puerto rico. >> there's never been a piece of land that we've known that was so devastated. >> all that -- >> the death of a rock 'n roll icon. >> tom petty has died at the age of 66. >> and all that matters -- >> in las vegas hundreds of people answering the call to donate blood in the wake of the shooting. >> what you see is an outpouring of community support. >> on "cbs this morning." >> there was a point in the show we had all 22,000 people out there singing god bless america at the top of their lungs. it was an incredible powerful moment of unity. ♪ god bless

welcome to "cbs this morning." charlie rose is returning from assignment in the middle east. norah o'donnell is in las vegas. we're in good hands. we're still coming to grips with that devastating day yesterday and the newspapers all around the country really tell the story. the mass shooting in las vegas is being described this morning like a war zone. the numbers are creating staggering headlines. >> 59 people were killed. 527 injured on sunday night. it was the deadliest attack in the u.s. since 9/11. >> the country music fans who became victims describe an unimaginable ambush.

with new details of the victims and the investigation. good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning to all of you. that's right. this massacre, unimaginable and as the city -- it's still stunned. i get in last night, it's been more than 24 hours after the attack but still everyone trying to come to grips with what happened. we're also hearing extraordinary accounts of courage and heroism by many of the 22,000 people who were targeted at that country music festival. behind the numbers are the faces and the stories of those who were killed on sunday night. we now know some of their names this morning. identified victims reportedly range in age from 20 to 57. one mother and grandmother died in the arms of her husband of 32 years. we also know more about the suspect, 64-year-old stephen paddock who brought the 23 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition into his suitet

police found 19 more weapons in his home. now, that is a total of 42 guns. and we're learning new details of his sniper style attack from the 32nd floor and the response from concert goers who were caught in a horrifying barrage of gun fire below. we're going to begin with john black stone who was here in las vegas when the shooting happened. john, good morning. >> good morning. well, the alleged gunman checked into the mandalay bay hotel on thursday. law enforcement officials tell cbs news over the next three days he was able to bring in bags full of weapons and ammunition into his suite building his deadly arsenal as a registered hotel guest. as panic swept through the crowd of more than 22,000 country music fans, six police officers rushed across the street to the mandalay bay. with the help of hotel security they located gunman stephan paddocns

32nd floor around 10:24 p.m. shooting through windows he'd mashed with a hammer. >> i know he shot the one security guard up on the 32nd floor but i don't know if he continued to shoot after that or not. >> the guard survived and at an hour later the swat team stormed the room. >> i need five officers on me. >> breach, breach, breach. >> one suspect down inside the room. >> police believe paddock killed himself. this is the same hotel building the gunman was in on sunday night just in the next wing, but this is about the same view he had in the darkness on sunday night. clearly he's a long way away here but it's a clear line of sight and with the high powered weapons he had he was able to do tremendous damage. >> i have thought he was next door. >> he was just two floors below the gunman when the shooting began. >> the walls and the windows were vibrating. you could feel kind of the

it was just -- >> investigators found 23 guns and rifles in his suite along with two tripods and thousands of runs of ammunition, potential bomb making chemicals were in his car. during the shooting many concert goers were trapped by the fencing around the wide open venue. few places were safe from paddock's high vantage point more than 500 yards away. >> i have never seen that many ambulances that i saw last night. >> reporter: this shooting now involves four separate crime scenes, not just paddock's hotel suite and the concert venue but also two of paddock's homes. he lived in a retirement community in the town of mesquite and also owned property in reno. >> thank you so much. the shock of this shooting has brought an outpouring of sympathy for all around the world. many cities held vigils to honor the 59 people who died.

adriana dooeiaz is here with th story of one of those victims and the woman who stayed with him until the end. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we're at a growing memorial for the wounded and for the dead. one of those was jordan, just 23 years old. he lived in canada and worked in construction according to his facebook page and he spent his final minutes with a complete stranger who never left his side. >> it's what you see on tv and it's never going to heal. it's never going to happen to you. and it was happening. >> heather was working as a bartender at the concert and escaped the gun fire, but 23-year-old concert goer jordan did not. he was among the seriously wounded heather helped. >> his fingers were kind of wrapped on my hand, his hand like kind of squeezed a little bit and then just like went

>> heather spoke to jordan's girlfriend using his cell phone. she was sheltering in place nearby. >> she said, be honest with me, what's going on, you know, and i said, he didn't make it. she said to me, you know, he's the love of my life. like are you sure? yeah. >> reporter: there were dozens of stories like jordan's sunday night. people with little in common except for being caught in the cross hairs of a killer. melton of tennessee reportedly was running with his wife to safety when he was shot and killed. >> our whole town is shook and turned upside down. charleston was a 34-year-old las vegas police officer. off duty at the time of the shooting. angela gomez was a cheer leader from california. rachel parker worked for the police department in manhattan beach, california. teacher sandy casey was remembered by her partner as a woman who lived lifeo

man in the world. >> i'm connected to him now my whole life. >> reporter: heather stayed with jordan's body for more than four hours. >> you can't want him to get lost. >> no, i would hope that they would do it for me. i would hope they wouldn't let me be alone. >> reporter: heather says she's not a hero, that the heroes are the people who rushed in to save lives and while she may not have been able to save a life she did save a family from the agony of waiting hours to find out the fate of their loved one. >> that is so true. whatat a story and there are so many stories like that to be told. hundreds of people in las vegas have been lining up to donate blood. some volunteers told us yesterday that they waited eight hours in line. carter afternoons is outside university medical center in las vegas where many of the victims are being treated. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the university medical center is the o

in nevada and the ambulances were just streaming in here sunday night one after one but they weren't the only ones bringing in critically injured patients. as gun fire erupted, concert goers who were not injured became first responders moving victims to safety in wheelbarrows, office chairs and hotel luggage carts. tom mcintosh was shot in the leg and rescued by a stranger. >> opened up the tailgate on some truck and took my belt and tied my leg off and kept me from bleeding out so he saved my life. >> reporter: victims were rushed to five hospitals. university medical center treated more than 100 patients. >> we did what's called damage control, which is really just stopping the process of dying. >> reporter: trauma surgeon says they trained for situations like this. >> have you ever experienced anything like that? >> no, this was the largest mass casualty i'v

in. >> this is a well old machine. >> reporter: a clinical nurse supervisor got the call around 9:30 p.m. after her shift was over to come back to the trauma center. she said the patients just kept coming. >> every death means something. every death touches us. when these patients were coming in, the loss of life that we were hearing was so grave we just go into a motion that we do what we need to do. >> reporter: now, the hospital says a few months ago the staff here actually met with a doctor who treated patients after the pulse nightclub shooting. the staff was able to learn -- able to use some of what they learned some of what they learned from that doctor on sunday night. >> gayle, you think about those doctors, those nurses, those first responders, everybody trying to do everything they could do deal with this. >> i can't stop thinking about it and it's so tough to sit here and act like this is a normal

news day. thank you so much. it's amazing how connected you can feel to total strangers. just hearing how the woman stayed with that man till the end. thank you again. investigators learning more about this gunman. his name is stephan paddock as you know. jeff is in washington where clues are emerging from his background. a lot of questions here. >> reporter: good morning. investigators have been deployed across the country searching for information about the gunman. what they found so far suggests that few people really knew stephen paddock and how much of a threat he really was. >> we're hunting down and tracing down every single clue that we can get in his background. >> authorities say uncovering his motive is their first priority. >> no religious affiliation. no political affiliation. no, he just hung out. >> paddock's brother eric says there was nothing in his past that would explain his rampage. a retired accountant turned high rolling

millions from real estate investments across the country. >> when i was very forward up front that he was a professional gambler and that's how he made his money. >> he slipped and fell at the cosmopolitan hotel and sued the casino. at the casinos this weekend he used the id of his girlfriend, 62-year-old marilou danley who had worked at a casino for three years. investigators don't believe she's involved but have questions for her when she returns from tokyo. >> knowing that he was transporting all those guns, all that ammunition back and forth right in front of our house. >> owners of at least three gun stores in nevada and utah say they sold six fire arms to paddock including one handgun, two shot guns and three rifles. >> he was visiting all the local fire arms shops is what he told everybody. >> paddock's father was once on the fbi's

robber who was psychopathic and considered armed and very dangerous. but with only a parking ticket on his record, stephen paddock wasn't on law enforcement's radar as someone to watch. isis claimed responsibilities for the attack but so far officials say they have not found a link between paddock and international terrorist organizations. >> investigators still hoping to get some answers from his girlfriend when she returns to the u.s. thank you. president trump will visit las vegas tomorrow to meet with victims and their families. the condemned attacks and his comments he made yesterday. >> he brutally murdered more than 50 people, and wounded hundreds more. it was an act of pure evil. >> before he goes to las vegas, president trump will travel to puerto rico today. he plans to meet with hurricane maria victims and first responde

david begnaug is in san juan. >> reporter: after that work was criticized as being too slow, the criticism came from local leaders and people who so desperately waited up to ten days to get food and water they could drink. still today people are asking for food and water, begging for it, but there are signs of progress. 12,000 federal aide workers are leer. hospitals and airports are coming back online. 730% of gas stations are back up and running and the gas lines have gone from 18 hour waits to less than an hour. in the capital of san juan, 700,000 pounds of supplies that they're distributing but when you get out to the rural areas of the island there are people tapping into streams to get drinking water. the mayor was blistering in her criticism of the federal government and she was attacked by the president for being a poor

the president and the mayor will meet later today. >> fans and musicians remembering tom petty this morning. the 66-year-old music icon died yesterday. petty released the song don't do me like that with the heart breakers. his career spanned more than 40 years and inspired generations. anthony mason is in las vegas where he'll be anchoring tonight's evening news. >> good morning, jeff. singer song writer, musician. tom petty did it all in music. he sold more than 80 million albums worldwide, most of them with his band the heart breakers whom he would share the stage with for decades. tom petty and the heartbreakers released their debut album in 1976 and together created classic hits that

fans would embrace. in 1999 petty sat down with charlie rose on his pbs program and discussed how his songs came to life. >> you know, inspiration is really never very far away if you look for it. it's all around you. >> so this is your office? >> well, yeah, i guess you could call it that. >> i spoke with petty in 2009 for cbs sunday morning about the pressure of working with your idols. something he did when he joined the traveling will berries. >> what's it like writing with dillon? >> he's just as good as you think he would be. i was there for a reason, so i had to get past his boldness. >> he released the first of his

but petty will most be remembered as the front man of the heartbreakers. just last week the band closed out their 40th anniversary tour at the hollywood bowl in los angeles. in the city of angels, the last song he ever performed on stage was one of his biggest hits. >> i really, really love this music. i love rock 'n roll music. i love all music really but especially rock 'n roll. >> tom petty inducted into the rock 'n roll hall of fame in 2002 with the heartbreakers once said music is the only real magic i've encountered in my life. it's pure, it's real, it moves and it heals. this one really hurts. >> this one does hurt indeed as if october 2nd couldn't get bad enough, the death of a music legend. thank you. meantime the

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i'm sure just like many of you, i woke up this morning to the devastating news coming out of las vegas, another mass shooting. this time somehow even deadlier than all the other mass shootings. and they say that this was the worst in american history, but every shooting is the worst for someone. >> of course we pray for the victims and for their families and friends and we wonder why even though there's probably no way to ever know why a human being would do something like this to other human beings at a concert, having fun and

>> this afternoon the president called this an act of pure evil and i think he's right. so what then are we willing to do to combat pure evil? the answer can't be nothing. it can't. this time it was a concert in las vegas. last time it was republican congressman and their staff under fire on a ballfield. >> last time, last time. jimmy kimmel is from las vegas so you can see why he was so upset and people keep saying now is not the right time to talk about it. when is the right time to talk about it? i don't think anyone will understand a civilian can get that much arsenal and weaponry and be able to do that. >> the worst time is just that one time for each family that's affected. >> 59 families feeling that today. welcome back to cbs this morning. here are three things that you should know this morning. the las vegas attack is highlighting tensions over gun control once again. the house observed a moment of silence last night for the

refused to participate because of an action on this issue and one just walked out of the room. >> the weapons used in las vegas mark a new turn for mass shootings. it is believed be the first time a fully automatic weapon was used in the united states. the sound captured on video indicate one or more fully automatic rifles. they're trying to determine if he modified weapons to make them automatic. >> and when president trump goes to puerto rico he will see conditions are tough but thankfully are improving. fema has positioned water tankers in cities around the island. the national guard has representatives at every hospital to make sure urgent action is quickly met. >> and in the aftermath of the deadliest shooting in modern u.s. history, we're focusing on some of the people who stood up and helped others. one is taylor winstonn. instead of leaving the scene he helped

than 20 of them to the hospital. norah o'donnell is with us with his story. thank goodness there are always stories like this in times like this. >> reporter: gayle, you are absolutely right. we are reminded of the humanity, really good people as well that do so much in the face of such tragedy and the man we met last night had remarkable poise less than 24 hours after the attack and taylor winston told us how he loaded some of the most critical victims into a stolen truck. he stole the truck and sped it to desert springs medical center all before ambulances had arrived on the scene. >> we went and got a few drinks and we found our other friends and we posted up there on the side stage to watch and enjoy the concert. taylor winston and girlfriend jen lewis were dancing the two step stage right. moments later the gun fire began. >> people started

screaming and we knew something real was happening. >> thousands needed to get to safety but were boxed in by a fence. >> the shots got louder and louder closer to us and we saw people getting hit. it was like we could be hit at any second. i helped throw people over and got myself over. it was a mini war zone but we couldn't fight back. >> the veteran couldn't fight the threat but he was able to drive. >> i saw a field with a bunch of white trucks. i tested my luck to see if any of them had keys in it and the first one had the keys sitting right there and i started looking through people to take to the hospital. there was just too many and it was overwhelming how much blood was everywhere. >> victims squeezed into the backseat and spread across the bed of the truck. >> once we dropped them off we were like let's go back to round two and get some more. i took 20 to 30 to the hosp.

at 17 eventually serving two tours in i iraq. he was honorably discharged as a sergeant. >> i think a lot of my training in the military helped me in the situation. we needed to get them out of here regardless of our safety. >> winston rejects the hero label. he said he saw many people like him doing good deeds. >> there's a lot of bravery and courageous people out there and i'm glad that i can call them my country folk. >> just think about that. i mean, winston says he's just 100% lucky that he was not injured or killed. ma when he returned the keys to the truck that he stole it was all worth it and he doesn't know which of his passengers survived but he feels confident that his decision made a big difference. joseph and his friend were in the crowd when shots filled the air. she was hit in the

the venue to get to the hospital. joseph is with us now. thank you so much for joining us this morning. first, how are you doing? >> i'm doing all right. >> how is kristen doing? >> she's going to be fine. she has a collapsed lung. she's hit in her -- near her right shoulder, but she's going to make a full recovery the doctor told me. >> reporter: tell me what happened at the concert, when you knew something was wrong. >> we heard what sounded like fireworks going off, but it just -- it kept going and going and going. we didn't -- we refused to believe it was gun fire and then when jason aldean went off stage it was kind of clear something was wrong. people started screaming, hitting the ground and running. and we were just lucky we made it out. >> reporter: how was kristen hit? were you taking cover? >> we're not quite sure when she was hit. she kept complaining that in her words she got hit by a water oo

experience. she was hype you werventilating. i thought she was just panicking but when she started coughing up blood i kind of realized that she'd been hit and she probably had a collapsed lung. >> reporter: what did you do? >> i immediately checked when she started coughing up blood i checked her body for a wound. i looked, i felt and we couldn't find anything at first. but we agreed that the number one priority was to get outside of the venue. >> reporter: and so were you able to walk outside the venue? we actually hopped that fence right there near the national stage set up behind us. >> reporter: you jumped over the fence? >> we had help. there was a table or something in front of the fence and we just got on top of that and kind of went over the fence. it wasn't as tall as people are making it out to be. >> reporter: got it. and were first responders immediately on the scene? >> first responders were there when we hopped the fence and this was within minutes. metro did anel

possible and i really prooappree everything they did. >> reporter: was she loaded in an ambulance? >> no, not at first. we went to a hotel and checked her and found a wound and a good samaritan who was a concert goer and also a paramedic helped us put her in a truck and once we realized the strip was barricaded we put her in an ambulance we found on the side of the road. >> reporter: thank you so much for joining us this morning and please give kristen our best as she recovers. >> thank you very much. i will. >> reporter: let's go back to new york. >> yeah, we are cheering for kristen and her recovery. what a description. she said she felt like she was hit by a water balloon. >> i can't imagine what that sensation is and what's all frightening is you survive and the person next to you doesn't and you have to process that. >> luckily we had so many heroes out in vegas last

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♪ >> that is the great garth brooks offering a song of support on facebook last night for the victims of the massacre in las vegas. the country music community is really rallying together. the shooting started while jason aldean was on stage. he posted on instagram, this world is becoming the place i'm afraid to raise my children in. a vigil took place in nashville, the home of country music. good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning. so monday night's vigil was a concert of sorrow and hope and a

all with the message that nashville will be there for them, determined and resilient. ♪ when tears are in your eyes ♪ i will dry them all . >> keith urban, vince gill. ♪ go rest high on that mountain ♪ ♪ son, your work on earth is done ♪ >> some of country music's biggest stars took the stage last night in nashville to share their grief. ♪ oh how we cry the day you left us ♪ . >> they're like family. it's the one thing about country music that's always been at the center of it and it is community. >> reporter: it all took place less than 24 hours after a gunman opened fire on

thousands of country music fans. influential radio personality bobby bones performed on saturday night. >> for us i think the most fun festival that we've ever played. >> reporter: but monday morning we spoke with jake owen who performed sunday night about the scene of horror. >> it went on for at least five minutes straight. >> i'm sad and confused and angry. >> reporter: one guitarist said it changed his political views. saying we need gun control right now. but other artists left politics aside offering messages of unity. ♪ dear hate, saw you on the news today ♪ >> marem morris released a song she wrote three years ago featuring vince gill.

night, music can start the healing. >> the fans will persevere, we'll be there to help them and ill lay me down ♪hind them. >> maren morris is one of the many country music stars raising money for the victims of the attack. all proceeds will go to the charity music city cares. >> thank you very much. how about that song. dear hate. >> i saw i don't knyou on the n and bridge over troubled water is such a good song. >> up next, a look at this morning's other headlines including gm's electric car push and the gunman did not raise any suspicions despite all the weapons he had in his hotel room. security experts tell us why it's virtually impossible to prevent such an

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♪ the tuesday, october 3rd, 2017. welcome back to "cbs this morning." ahead the stories of more people who died in the las vegas shooting. from a kindergarten teacher to an alaskan who died in his friend's arms. and police say the gunman had 23 weapons when he broke his hotel room windows and opened fire. so here's the question. what can hotels do to prevent another massacre? but first here's today's eye opener. >> the mass shooting being described like a war zone. the numbers are creating staggering headlines. >> unimaginable. the city is still trying to come to grips with what happened.

to bring in bags of weapons and ammunition into his swooetd building his deadly arsenal. >> few people really knew stephen paddock and how much of a threat he really was. >> the ambulances were just streaming in here sunday night, one after one, but they weren't the only ones bringing in critically injured patients. >> the president expected to highlight the work being done after that work was criticized as being too slow. >> tom petty did it all in music. he sold more than 80 million albums worldwide. most of them with his band heartbreakers who he would share the stage with for decades. >> monday night's vigil a message that nashville will be there for them. determined and resilient. >> the entire country music community comes together today to tell everyone we love you. our hearts are broken and we're going to do everything we can to help this heal and to get us back to our joy once again.

>> we needed those words from big of big and rich. great to have you guys at the table. charlie is heading home right now from an assignment in the middle east and he's reporting from las vegas, the city that is still like everybody else terribly shaken up after sunday night's mass shooting. >> the official death toll stands at 59 this morning. more than 500 were hurt. it was the deadliest u.s. attack since 9/11. >> people around the country held vigils last night to honor the victims. norah o'donnell is near the scene of the shootings in las vegas. good morning. >> good morning to you. that's right. it's been more than 24 hours since the attack and we are learning new details about the people who died. they came from all across the u.s. and canada. the ones who have been identified reportedly range in age from 20 to 57 years old. many were surrode

and family at that country music festival. they include jenny parks, a mother of two married to her childhood sweet heart. she was a kindergarten teacher. adrian died in the arms of a long time friend who calls him quote, a giant teddy bear with a huge heart. and 20-year-old. bailey schweitzer was at the concert with her mother and best friends. she brightened everyone's day. adriana, good morning. >> reporter: norah, this memorial has just been growing and the survivors tell us they've been scarred both physically and mentally by this attack. last night we met paige, a former miss las vegas. she was at the concert with her mother. both were shot. paige was grazed but her mother took a direct hit. the bullet entered her mother's shoulder and went down to her abdomen.

to have to leave her mother at the scene. >> a retired firefighter crawled his way over to us because he saw we were in hysteria and he said that he was retired firefighter and he was going to stay with my mom and he said that if we wanted to live that we needed to run for our lives and we needed to get out. that was as you can imagine, probably one of the hardest decisions i ever made in my entire life. my mother is laying there on the ground and of course i didn't want to leave her, but i mean, in order to protect even myself and the people i was with it was -- it was best to get out of there. >> reporter: for eleven hours after that paige didn't noknow where her mother was or if she even survived. they were reunited last night at the hospital and it was an enormous relief to see her mother awake. her mother's expected to get a second surgery today, but is responsive

>> thank you so much. we're also learning new details about gunman stephen paddock and his arsenal. police say that paddock had 23 guns in his hotel room located on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel. 19 other fire arms found in his home. that's a total of 42 handguns. he was known as a big gambler who had earned money in real estate and they want to talk to his girlfriend marilou danley when she returns from tokyo. they don't believe at this point that she was involved. randy sutton served in the vegas police department for 24 years. he retired with the rank of lieutenant. good morning. >> good morning. >> the police and first responders did a fantastic job responding to this. have you spoken with any of your former colleagues? >> yes, i have. they did indeed. the bravely that was shown, the great police work and the fact of the matter is that had they

manner that they did, the body count would be even higher and that's a startling conclusion. >> once that gun fire began it was finding where the shooter is. how did they do it? >> well, a couple things. first of all, the officers that were on the ground, some off duty, some on duty, they saw where the muzzle flashes were coming from and they called in, they tried to isolate a bunch of officers actually ran over to the hotel, and -- and went up the -- they formed a team which is how you respond to an active shooter. they made entry into the hotel to get up to the area where they believed that the -- that the gun fire was coming from. when they did find it, they -- they took fire from inside the room and then they contacted swat because once -- once they took the gun fire, they couldn't get into the room. so a dynamic entry had to be done and the swat team, which is

equipment and that's exactly what they did. they breached the door, which means that they -- they used an explosive device to enter the room, to get into, access and confront the suspect, but the the suspect had already killed himself. >> when you're talking about more than 500 wounded, 59 dead, the types of guns that he had, they were modified semiautomatic rifles. is that what you've heard? >> yes, this was one of the big questions that we had at the very beginning of this. were they fully automatic weapons? were they manufactured as fully automatic weapons or did he modify them and now apparently the investigation has revealed that these had been semiautomatic weapons. now, what that demonstrates to me is even a greater intent, that he purposefully had these weapons modified to be even deadlier than they

the capacity they were originally manufactured. the difference for the viewers that don't know, the difference between a semiautomatic and a full automatic, when a semiautomatic, every time you depress the trigger one round comes outs. when it's fully automatic when you press the trigger it continues at a rate of about 400 rounds per minute which is why this death toll was so incredibly high. >> one of the question is how he got those 23 guns inside that hotel room. we've heard it's in big suitcases. we're going to look for that surveillance video. thank you so much. >> the shooting here is reig nating calls to debate the nation's gun laws. before the massacre we spoke with republican congressman steve scalise about gun control. he was critically wounded in june by a gunman at a congressional baseball practice. the house majority whip stated

rights. >> you're now a victim of gun violence. >> yeah, but i'm also saved beguns that could shoot back. it will be a hand grenade or a knife or an ax. i think what's important to focus on is that we have strong rights in this country and you know, we -- we're protected by them. >> do you think all congressmen and women should be able to have concealed carry permits? >> i'm a strong believer in concealed carry legislation. it comes with proper training and i do think it's important to remember that if you're going to have a firearm it's important that you know how to use it and how to protect your family so that doesn't get into the wrong hands, but it's every day in america, you see people use their fire arms to protect them against a criminal. >> do you wish you'd had a

field playing. probably not going to be putting a side arm on when you're fielding balls but it would have been -- i think it would have been a disaster if the security detail wasn't there with their weapons to take down the shooter. >> you know, it's important to point out that with scalise and what happened, that was with a rifle that in ten minutes four people were shot. in this instance, the gunman had at least two fully automatic weapons that had been modified to make them fully automatic and the amount of damage he was able to carry out in ten minutes, truly unimaginable from those rooms just above my shoulder. so -- but the reason we played part of that discussion is because being a victim of gun violence doesn't change kind of the debate now on capitol hill in congress. will they look at policy solutions and that's going to be some of the questions that are moving forward. >> there's also the q

hotel room. apparently without raising much suspicion. thank you. gun laws in nevada have fewer restrictions than other states and don daler is here with a look at what can be purchased. >> nevada is viewed as some of the most lax gun laws in the country. you can carry without a permit and there is no waiting period for firearm purchases. it is also legal to own a class 3 weapon which includes fully automatic machine guns, short barrelled shotguns and weapons with silencers. only law enforcement and military personnel can have new versions of these sort of weapons but civilians can purchase fully automatic weapons if they are manufactured prior to may of 1986. the old versions can cost anywhere between 15 and $50,000,

cheaper semiautomatic weapons to be fully automatic for as little as $50. police believe the suspect in las vegas modified some of his weapons to be fully automatic. to legally obtain a class 3 weapon you have to file an application and pay a $200 fee. d nevada does not have a limit on bulk sales of ammunition or magazine capacity meaning one can fire for a longer period of time without having to reload. we asked the nra about some of nevada's gun laws and if they had a comment about the number of weapons the shooter had. they have not responded. >> it will be interesting and so far no response as you point out. many people thought after newtown after the slaughter of little children in their classrooms that gun laws would change. i don't know if this will make any difference. nevada is a gun friendly state. >> in fact, not far from where norah is there's an indoor shooting range where

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welcome back to our "cbs this morning" coverage here in las vegas. that unimaginable massacre that happened more than 24 hours ago. the man who led the boston police during the marathon bombing calls the las vegas attack here law enforcement's worst fear realized. former police commissioner ed davis told cbs radio station wbz to stop something like this from a high vantage point, it's very difficult to do. anna warner is at the four seasons hotel here in las vegas which is actually attached to the mandalay bay with a look at

an attack. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we're on the 37th floor and we can see where the gunman was. he was five floors down on that opposite corner of the hotel. the question is, how do you stop a gunman who is using the high floor of a hotel like this to his advantage? >> one of the fundamental principles within security is that you really cannot protect against everything. >> reporter: john choet helped to revamp security for the wynn hotel in las vegas. stephen paddock didn't appear to raise alarms. >> do you think this guy checked any of the boxes that you would really be looking for? >> i think that the probably one of the most confounding aspects for the information that's available right now. >> is that he doesn't seem to check the boxes? >> he does not seem to check the boxes. >> i don't know how it could have been prevented.

investigators will now comb through many hours of hotel surveillance footage looking for clues. from the time stephen paddock checked in last thursday to when he broke windows in two different rooms and began firing. >> there have been employees going to and from from his room and nothing nefarious was noted. >> stephen aid lman is with the event safety alliance. he says the only sure way to detect the weapons coming into a hotel would involve impractical layers of airport style security. >> there is no hotel in the u.s. that has that kind of x-raies or metal detectors at every entrance and every elevator. because this is literally unprecedented. >> reporter: mandalay bay did not comment. some hotels do have baggage screeners that visitors never see, but as for protecting the crowd down be

sniper aiming this direction would have had problems because he would have been aiming at innocent civilians as well as the gunman. >> scary to think about that. anna, thank you so much. hospitals ask the people of las vegas for one thing and they've been lining up for hours. a huge outpouring of good will. you're watching "cbs this morning." my insurance company definitely doesn't have that... you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance. ♪ ♪ hi ted, glad you could join us! ♪ ♪ give it a try. mmm. give that to me. ♪ ♪ (laughing) ted? ♪ ♪

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banks across the country. thousands of units of blood are already on their way to the state. i saw stories of people who said they'd never given blood before and people were afraid of needles but said they wanted to do that. >> it wasn't just las vegas. heard about lines all around the country for people. >> humanity really coming together. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> right now it's time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. politico says hundreds of white house e-mails were sent to a third account associated with jared kushner and ivanka trump's private do main. the family representative said ivanka trump had been careful about keeping her personal life separate from work. >> the washington post reports amazon promised to cut prices at whole foods. a research firm checked to see how that's going. it tracked prices on 110 items at a whole foods

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could have been prevented by a small amount of exercise. >> we are hearing more stories this morning about how people rushed toward the danger in las vegas to help after sunday night's mass shooting. let's go back to norah in las vegas. >> reporter: thank you so much. the chaos in las vegas sent thousands searching for cover from the gunman's senseless violence and as people scrambled for safety others rushed to help the wounded. adriana diaz met some of those brave men and women who went against the flow of the crowds and stepped into what some called a war zone. >> reporter: good morning. we've seen the footage of the carnage that took place on the night that started out as a celebration. we've heard the 911 calls, but what gives us the best sense of humanity are the stories of those who risked their own lives to help strangers. >> we have an active shooter. we have an active

the fairgrounds. >> with concert goers scattering for cover, first responders wentz to work, many of them into harm's way. >> we have multiple casualties. gsw to the medical tent. >> you were right in the middle of it. >> robert hayes of the los angeles fire department was off due few watching the show with his wife when the shooting started. >> we realized that now something is going wrong and people started screaming. >> as everyone is running out you're running toward the scene. >> anybody in my profession would do the same thing. i'm doing the job i was trained to do. >> reporter: in his 29 year career he's responded to shootings before. nothing like this. >> it was a hard sight to see but everybody came together. they were bringing blankets, water and food. >> what was it in you that made you stay, made you go from person to person to see how you could help? >> honestly because

someone in my family, that's what i would have wanted somebody to do for me. that's kind of what i'm trained to do is to just go into action mode and not worry about myself. >> this man's best friend was shot three times in the chest. >> we got him compressed and kept compression on his chest. he put his finger in the hole and we could keep the compression on. there's a lot of heroes outs there. >> yes, heroes were everywhere. >> we need to get people over to the hospital. okay? personal vehicles became ambulances. >> the guy had been shot in the backside and i thought he was going to be okay but he was bleeding and so he wasn't as serious to shove him into the ambulance that was right there so i took him in my car. >> when you see people coming together and helping people it lets you know that in times of need people come together a lot more. >> despite their efforts many of the people that robert hayes and others tried to save didn't survive. hayes told us that as many as 20 of the people that he responded to didn't

>> oh, my goodness. thank you. university medical center in las vegas is the only level one trauma center in all of nevada. the hospital is capable of treating a wide range of patients 24 hours a day. staff treated many of the wounded from sunday's attack. the trauma center's medical director, thank you so much for joining us. >> good morning. >> i know that you took in more than 100 patients yesterday. the scene there was described as a war zone. how did you deal with it? >> when we were notified of the shooting we went into our disaster plan and went through the phone tree and we brought in staff, many, many surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, techs, and as the flow of patients started to rise we were able to assign them to teams and move them through the resuscitation area and then we opened uew

hospital as hospital wards and we were able to get them in beds and continue their care. >> describe the type of injuries. >> we saw mostly gunshot wounds, but we also saw injuries that were sustained from people fleeing the scene. for example, some people had fallen. others had been struck by vehicles in the chaos and so as they came in we sorted them out along those lines. about a quarter of them are still considered critical and we've downgraded three quarters of them to stable condition at this point. >> so what's the total number of them still in critical? >> that's going to be about 25. >> 25. about 25 critical.

and operations still needed for those in critical condition? >> well, they can include operations on the abdomen, ongoing care for a penetrating wound in the chest. there are a number of patients who had vascular injuries in extremities still being watched and worked on and a fair number of orthopedic injuries that have to be managed. >> i understand that it just so happens that umc recently consulted with doctors and physicians from orlando. what were some of the lessons learned? >> we received a presentation from the doctors in orlando as part of a combined program with metro to understand what the in hospital experience was after the pulse nightclub shooting and it gave us a different frame of reference to work from. when we combine that with our regular disaster drills it created a really good

for us to work off in this situation. >> and how are the staff members of umc doing? >> you know, when you walk around, they're all really tired but they're just beaming with pride right now. >> i know it's been a long almost couple of days now, so thanks to you and all of your staff there at the hospital. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i'm going to send it back to you in new york. as you can see, they really took the most of the number of injured, more than 100 there and still 25 still in critical condition this morning. >> yes, we are thinking about them all this morning. thank you very much. >> musicians are also remembering the life and legacy of rock legend tom petty. his biographer is in the toyota green room with how the heartbreakers used music to cope

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>> sending love to tom petty and his family at this difficult time. and cheryl crowe posted we will miss you. i feel like today the music truly died. >> along with free falling, a front man gained hits like american girl and no, i don't back down. we all know that song. writer and musician warren zane, joins us atz the table. >> he clearly must have trusted you. he was very candid and honest with you in the book. how did you two meet? >> i'm 52 now. we met when i was a teenager and we were just rabid fans and we were going to make sure we met this man. >> who's the we? >> the band was the dellfuegos. and from the first record on we were committed to tom

just made it our business to find this guy and he was kind enough eventually to reach out and he didn't come see us play, but we were doing a run at the roxie in l.a. and he called me in my room at 3:00 in the morning and we went out to his house. >> we saw a picture of you as a teenager with him. he calls you at 3:00 in the morning and says this is tom petty and you think what? >> i think tell me who this really is. >> you're joking. >> yeah. >> what has the music world lost? >> i think we've lost one of the great american song writers and one of the great american band leaders. and it's that combination of the material that he wrote and how he brought it to his band that makes him singular and he's -- to me he's up there with the buddy hollies and the hank

williams of the world. >> he said all he could do is sing well and write well. do you agree with that? >> we'll never know what else he was doing well but it's what he was interested in most. i got the sense that he was a restless spirit who wasn't going to be overly satisfied with his own work for too long. he was just, you know, driven to make the next record. >> talk about his influence on pop culture. i think of music videos with johnny depp, many of his songs have been in movies and sound tracks. did he care about that? did he enjoy pop culture? >> all of that happened because his fans are out there on the streets but they're also in hollywood. he just wrote these kind of songs that many people could just see themselves in them. so that could be me, that could be johnny depp, but eventually these people reached out to him, you know,

harrison reached out to him and bob dylan reached out to him. he was a guy who was real about this rock 'n roll thing and that attracted people. he never sold himself. he just attracted people. >> he was candid with you about his abuse he suffered as a child and his heroin addiction. what role did music play in his life to help him get through those kinds of things? >> i think music was the saving grace. i think music was the safe place in a turbulent situation, you know, growing up is turbulent but if you're growing up in an abusive home it's all the more turbulent. music was the safe place. >> did he always struggle with that abuse? >> i think so. when le sat and talked and as you say he was very open with me and i was privileged to be let on the inside of that, you know, he talked about it as if it was still close to him. and -- which is consistent with the eie

through that. >> how did he change and evolve as both a song writer and a band leader? >> well, he's -- you know, he's got that identifiable voice. he's got an identifiable writing style, but he grew up under the, you know, the sign of the beatles. the beatles always made every record different. he was hell bent on doing the same thing. he was listening to prince and it forced him to see what else tom petty could be. but he also knew that that next record had to be different. >> i asked you during the break who were some of his closest friends within the industry and you sort of jokingly responded, well, if he could be close to anybody. he was a loner in many ways? >> he stuck to himself. you didn't see him out at the parties. but people knocked on his door. i mean, this

was very young he met elvis presley but then he's asked to join a band with a beatle and bob dylan. he worked with johnny cash and carl perkins. the history of popular music knocked on his door. that's the kind of guy he was. so when i say he attracted people, he didn't just attract people, he attracted the best. >> even more reason to take pride at him calling you at 3:00 in the morning mpl. >> i'm a lucky kid. >> we're all lucky. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> you can hear more of "cbs this morning" on our pod cast. you of course are watching "cbs this morning." fety."

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