if you've been to las vegas you can see the hotels, you can sense the motion and feel the activity and he was just a short distance away from the mandalay bayhotel at new york-new york and he described it as an unbelievable scene of heavy police presence, of people not necessarily knowing where they should go and just a short time ago we and talked to him and of course mandalay bay is still closed as are some of the other hotels. other hotels now stepping up trying to offer people at least a place to sleep. >> right. >> that have not been able to get back into their hotel rooms. the lead here as you can see on the bottom of your screen 50 plus dead, 200 plus injured those numbers coming from las vegas police. the gunman is dead at this point buthe definitely has been done. >> we have much more coming out of las vegas and we'll bring you the latest as it develops. you're watching fox5 news morning. more on this active shooter investigation when we come back. >> ♪ >> ♪♪ what can you do with two bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches for $5 from dunkin'? settle a debt. make a friend. save the day. or keep 'em both for this handsome devil. with two b

mandalay bay is one of the largest hotels in las vegas and ordinarily is known for outside shows and over the top amusements. now, however, it is known for something very disturbing. >> the up scale mandalay bay is the last hotel on the strip. you see the proximity to the site of last night's deadly rampage. >> mandalay bay's resort queen room. >> in this home video taken a year ago, a hotel guest shares the view from the 34th floor. sunday night's mad man was two floors below with the same view. >> this is fancy. >> the 3000 room mandalay bay is one of vegas' most lavish. it opened in 1999 to great fan fare with john good man, dan akroid performing as blues brothers at the grand opening ceremony. it took the place of the hicienda which was imploded in a party like atmosphere on new year's eve 1996. the mandalay sits at the south end of the famous strip. next to it is the pyramid shaped luxor. then the castle like ex caliber. as you head down the strip you pass the famous mountains. then at the far end of the strip is the iconic stratosphere. >> ♪ beat it. >> it is the home of the mic

the shooter was on the 32nd floor at the mandalay bay hotel pier one the way mandalay bay hotel pier of the witnesses said she felt like shots were coming right out of her even though this is one shooter who was up high on the 302nd floor. >> well-trained, one shooter. maria: how do you get there? >> the automatic weapons are not that easy to use. there is a lot of kickback on them. he sprayed that area. he was trained in the sense he knew what he was doing and he knew what type of weapon he needed to kill as many people as possible in a short amount of time. maria: thank you for weigh-in this morning. we appreciate it. we will see you soon. john iannarelli joining us there. we continue to follow this breaking news. we will be right back with the very latest out of las vegas. ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ well i'm gone i own my own company. i had some severe fatigue, some funny rashes. finally, listening to my wife, went to a doctor. and i became diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma... that diagnosis was tough. i had to pu

police determined it was coming from the mandalay bay hotel. >> mandalay bay.lfway up i see the shots coming from mandalay bay. halfway up. >> on certain began on the 29th floor then at 10:24 officers made their way up to the 32nd floor. two minutes later they found a security guard is not in the leg outside of room 32135. a woot with sweeping views of the festival below. >> outside the suspect door i need everybody in that hallway to be aware of it and get back. >> at 11:20 police heard blasting the door off the proom where he was found dead along with his menacing arsenal of weapons. tonight we are looking into the history of the shooter. who is he? you're looking at new video of a home linked to paddock in san francisco. it's not the only thing our unit uncovered about the background. vicki is here with the what she found. >> jessica the information about stephen paddock is coming from different states including california. we learned this is not his family's first brush with crime. >>> family members say stephen paddock retired in mess key nevada in a from

there we re into the mandalay bay hotel. y bay, we didn't know at that time, but apparently he was upstairs shooting in the rooms and then we made it out of mandalay bay and we walked away. you came a long way down the strip here interest this? oh yeah. you say it seemed like perhaps as many as 15 times he reloaded with multiple... easily. with at least 30 rounds he was firing out of each magazine. easily. with at least 30 rounds he was firing out of each magazinem was firing out of each magazinem was about four to five minutes of gunshots that we, because my sister has video also. there was about four or five minutes of us hearing gunshots and crouching behind cars so you would run when the shooting would stop, you would run and then as soon as you heard bullets again you would hit the dirt. everybody was nice and calm. there was a people trying to run. it went down into a goose neck and just started bottling up. everybody just into a goose neck and just started bottling up. everybodyjust kept going and yeah, we made it out

this is an outdoor concert stage just across from the mandalay bay hotel. it's rapid gunfire stops.re's a realization this is gunfire and then it's going to start again and now people are yelling to get down or get out. as you mentioned the las vegas boulevard is still on lockdown with ambulances and police response vehicles. we are hearing now as wisdom said at the top, witnesses were saying they thought they saw what looked like muzzle flashes from the upper floors of the mandalay bay hotel and now, yes, they are saying the shooter was on the 32nd floor. s.w.a.t. teams apparently going in there and breaking into that room to get to the shooter and they believe at this point that the threat is that contained. again, still looking for this woman described danley. hopefully we'll get a picture an asian woman described as a roommate. they put out descriptions on two vehicles. there were reports also on the las vegas strip of shooters at other resorts, other hotels people were sheltering in place terrified. they did confirm that there are no other shooters at other resorts. there are n

the shooting took place at an open air country music festival a near the mandalay bay hotel and casino located on less vegas famous trip police officers confronted the suspect on the thirty second floor of the resorts hotel where he was shot that. we are comfortable that the primary aggressor in this event is has expired or passed away and he is no longer a threat there has been multiple multiple phone calls and accusations or conjecture coming through social media that there is multiple shooters at other result resorts that has been proven to be false authorities have named local men safe in pasok taika and have located a vehicle belonging to the suspect. so let's go to data of u.s. customs phenomenon or u.s. correspondent he is tracking the latest forest in washington d.c. and it looks like oh we're having some trouble reaching coston we'll try to get him back on the line a little bit later in the show with the latest developments from this last vegas story but for now we will move on to some other news but we try to get carson on the line and i will go now then to spain it's facing

bay hotel. a -- mandalay bay hotel. a shooter firing shotting into the crowd below.adliest mass shooting in u.s. history. this is the new comfort food. grown right here in california, with absolutely no antibiotics ever. a better way to grow, a better way to eat. and it starts with foster farms simply raised chicken. california grown with no antibiotics ever. (mark)(james) back to our breaking news... a mass shooting at a concert on the las >>> breaking news. there was a mass shooting at a concert on the las vegas strip last night. >> the death toll is more than 50. and that is expected to climb. 200 others are ind officers. there are many people in critical condition. the shoo4x5sn7 floor of madalayy hotel. the gunman also opened fire on the stage. jason aldean performs on the fine night of this music festival with4é# people there in this area around the stage with the shooter least one off duty police shots and killed. the shooter also identified this morning as 64-year-old stephen paddock. we don't have a picture of him yet. he was living in a retirement community

the gunman was on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel. 's on the strip, which is lined with casinos and hotels. across the road, 22,000 people were attending the route 91 harvest music concert. you can see the mandalay bay hotel in the background. these videos captured the attack as it began. gunfire screaming and these are some of the people who we re and these are some of the people who were there. people thought it was fireworks, then they started dropping around us. we heard the shots, and no—one realised what was going on until we heard the second set of shots. everybody started running, but there was nowhere to run, because you couldn't tell where it was coming from. he kept on going, then it was quite, then 15—20 rounds, then we realised it was fully automatic. it'sjust kept happening, short increments where there were breaks between the shots, but it literally fell slightly just continued for 20 minutes straight. and every time there was a break, we ran, and we ran. once we got at the back, we started seeing the people that were sh

you got out of the concert venue and they directed you into the mandalay bay hotel.re trapped so people were kicking down fences, we made it into the back and were directed into the mandalay bay and as we were coming through we didn't know it but apparently he was upstairs shooting into the rooms, so we made it out of the mandalay bay and over to mcdonald's. then we walked away here. you came a long way down the strip here. 0h, oh, yeah. and you say it seemed like as many as 15 times he reloaded. easily, with at least 30 rounds he was firing from each magazine. it was four or five minutes of gunshots. my sister had video so it was four or five minutes of us hiding behind cars and trying to get as far away as we could. when the shooting stopped, you would run and then when you heard bullets you hit the dirt. we weren't running, people were nice and calm, a few people were trying to run but we stopped them because it went down into a gooseneck and started bottling up, so everybody calmly kept going and we made it out, and then we ran, and once we made it to the streets

mandalay bay hotel could must sick festival. jason aldean country singer just tan the same. and then they began the 32 floor of mandalay bay hotel a gunman broken a window and was using high-powered semi-automatic weapon to fire down into the crowd. he reloaded and witnesses say he reloaded multiple times. they heard burst of 0 shots and pause while he reloaded and fired down into the crowd again. the scene became clearly one of chaos. people breaking down fences to get out of this area and toe get clear the lobe shootser on 32 floor. they say they. >> they took out the shooter from the hotel. finally on what went on for perhaps five minutes witnesses say, we now know that more than 100 people were wounded and more than 20 people were killed. the witnesses who came out of that concert told drawm attic stories of lying on they tried to get up and get out of the line of fire and they would hit the dirt and wait for next pause in gunfire to move again. people are now skaert add cross mitch of las vegas who were there together. red cross, police here are trying to make it possibl

see it looked like it was right next door to the mandalay bay which on the right side you'll see pan over and you'll see the gold colored lights on the hotelt to it but when we pull up the map on the left side of the screen you is. is las vegas is spread out. each one essentially takes up a city block. you see on the left the mandalay bay, the street going straight up the middle there is the las vegas strip and this is at the far southern end of the las vegas strip and then to the right across the street literally across two streets there is where that concert festival is across from the luxor casino. now, if you kept going up one casino to the top across right on top of the luxor there is the new york-new york and right on top of the festival venue is the mgm grand. that's where our bill byer is our colleague who was there when this was happening who we have been talking to on the phone throughout the morning. >> when you look at this picture and you see the distance there, though for the people that obviously were in it, it seemed like a very long time, some people say, you know, five minutes, 10 minutes, maybe even longer as this person

you can see the mandalay bay hotel behind me. what we know from authorities is that they are finished going through the hotel room and finish going through the 32nd floor. right now the focus is on the venue attended the conference. they used a hammer like device to begin the rampage. the hotel staff had been through the room. he is talking about house keeping staff and that they saw nothing a miss. in terms of a motive. he couldn't comment and he couldn't go through the mind of a psychopath. he couldn't understand what led to all of this. they have the grim task of removing all of bodies, wolf. >> police think the gunmen acted alone and what about the woman they were looking for. >> she has been described as a person of interest. 62-year-old marilou danley. they lived together in their house in mesquite, nevada. she was actually out of the country when this shooting occurred. presumably headed back to the united states. authorities want to interrogate her. they have made some contact with her and they ended up having a conversati

las vegas. >> and from our nbc bay area studio, good evening, janelle wang. >> jessica aguirre. >> and it is now night fall in las vegas. our live look at the hotel mandalay bay and casino. it's now been more than 20 hours since a gunman opened fire from his room. here are the latest numbers for you 69 people dead including the shooter, another 528 people hurt. the gunman it turns out had 16 rifles in his room. the fbi says so far there is no link to any international terrorists. >> the shooter fired bullets at a country music festival on the eastern side of las vegas boulevard. he was about 300 yards airway in a suite at the mandalay bay. an estimated 22,000 were attending the concert. >> let's begin with raj mathai anchoring our coverage from las vegas. raj. >> janelle, jessica, thank you. we are talking about the mandalay bay hotel we are in the shadows of the massive hotel right along las vegas boulevard. so many of us have been here to las vegas for business or parties or family vacations. you can get an idea where we are. the airport is right here about the 150 yards away from me is the actual las vegas airport. that's where the concert was right al

of the mandalay bay hotel and casino.hey believe this suspect is responsible for a shooting that left 20 plus people dead, 100 plus injured the victims all part of a concert on the strip, jason aldean wrapping up his set when you hear rapid gunfire break out. a suspect taking aim at innocent people at a concert. 100 plus people injured, 20 plus dead. the investigation ongoing recovering, they're trying to ingest what has happened many harrowing accounts coming from the strip this morning. in act at one point the entire strip was shut down, the airport not very far, if you're familiar with las vegas, not very far from the strip was shut down as well. things are slowly kind of reopening back up but as maureen said, this is a very active investigation. they do believe officials have said they do believe it was a "lone wolf" in their terms but there is a companion of interest, someone that they're looking for a woman by the name of marilou danley, four-11, 111 pounds. they also put out word that there's two vehicles that were

we know he was shooting from the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel. he's been identified by authorities as 64-year-old stephen craig paddock. he's a white man from mesquite, nevada, 80 miles northeast of las vegas. police estimate about 22,000 people were in that crowd for that concert when the bullets started raining down. jason aldean was performing at the time. we also know that two off duty las vegas police officers were at the concert were killed. two on duty officers were injured as well. let's bring in our law enforcement experts. law enforcement analyst james g g gagliano. the fact that this man may be holed up since september 28th. what does it tell you? >> we look at the age and he's further removed on the spectrum. most of the time when you have a mass shooting, it's someone in 20s, 30s, early 40s. the medology, it's a local resident. he knew who was going to be there. he probably requested that hotel room so he'd have a good view. he turned the concert into a killing field. as i listened to the chilling sounds of the automatic rep ri weapo

brian ross, 32nd floor, mandalay bay hotel. >> exactly. room 135 of the 32nd hotel. 4 1/2 minutes of sheer terror as he used an automatic weapon to shoot down on the crowd as they ran looking for cover and could not find it. >> bursts of fire, 0 to 35 seconds of size, more bursts of fire. >> changing magazines according to weapons experts. ak-47 would carry a magazine of 30 rounds and seems he shot off bursts of 30 rounds that lasted 17, 18 seconds and then a pause and then again and again and again and again. >> i want to go to matt gutman on the keen in las vegas all through the night and, matt, what we've heard -- apparently we don't have matt gutman right now. i apologize for that. let me go to former special agent brad garrett and what we've heard described by an eyewitness through the last several hours are not just those initial moments of terror but several hours of chaos. >> george, when these things happen and your adrenaline takes over and the sheer vulnerability of who is out there. who else will shoot at me. how do i get out o

police say the shooting was on the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel across the vegas strip officers responding to the shooting say they killed one suspect we located numerous firearms within the room that he occupied and like i stated earlier it's going to be of long and tedious investigation obviously this is a tragic incident and one that we've never experienced in this valley investigators were quick to tell the public that rumors of multiple shooters and several locations were false polter dirge on al-jazeera. we'll have more on that what could be the united states biggest mass shooting incident a bit later on in the program in the meantime catalonians government is claiming victory in sunday's referendum it says ninety percent of those who did vote but secession from spain that only forty percent forty two percent of. five point three million registered voters turned out that's just under two million people many of us in the region boycotted the vote because they thought it was illegal in line with the spanish government and spanish police shut down around half of the

those are the rapid-fire gunshots fired by stephen paddock - from inside a hotel room at the mandalay bay hotel. you can see chaos through the officers' body camera - as they try to figure out what is going on. a total of 47 firearms were found in the gunman's hotel room and two homes. 12 of the weapons were semiautomatic guns that mimic fully automatic gunfire. all - were legally purchased in four states - utah, nevada, california and texas. we also know camera. police say he set it up on a food cart outside his room to monitor the police. for the first time - we're hearing from the husband of denise salmon burditus, one of the 58 people killed. the couple lives in west virginia - just a short distance from d-c. tony talked about his high school sweetheart, and wife of 32 years, saying a smile never left her face. he says he will leave las vegas - when he can bring his wife home. tony says she recently decided to tony says she recently decided to go back to college - and was dedicated to her education, and her grand children. today president trump heads to las vegas to meet with victims and th

the gunman opened fire from a 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel late last night.has been identified as stephen paddock. he was killed after a s.w.a.t. team burst into his hotel room. police believe this was a lone wolf attack. a person of interest shortly after the shooting. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield is live at oakland airport where a 6:00 a.m. flight is scheduled to depart. >> reporter: the airport was shut down temporarily right after the shooting but i'm happy to report for anyone going to las vegas, we have three flights leaving here in oakland at 6:00 this morning or two at 6:00, one on spirit and one on southwest. another at 7:15 showing an on-time departure out of oakland. i did talk to one woman who is headed that way. she was worried this would it isn't so she is here and about to head on her way. she has faith in god and she thinks she's just going to focus on her business trip. reporting live in oakland, amy hollyfield. >> thank you. and to recap at least 50 people are dead after a gunman opened fire on a concert crowd in las vegas. >> 64-year-

authorities releasing the video hours ago, showing officers surrounding the mandalay bay hotel tryingure out where the shots were coming from. >>> and the shooter's girlfriend is back in the u.s. we're live in vegas. >>> and president trump going to the disaster zone, meeting with officials. in puerto rico. >>> and new this half hour, never before seen video showing a bomb exploding in the heart of new york city. the pedestrians running for cover. the new images as the accused bomber's trial gets under way. >>> and we have the new images

the suspected government, stephen paddock, opened fire from a room on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel. swat teams found pat light dead inside of his hotel room. police recover 17 guns there. police also found more weapons and bomb making material at stephen paddock's retirement home northeast of las vegas. >> we retrieved in excess of 18 additional firearms. there was also some explosives, and several thousand rounds of ammunition along with some electronic devices that we are evaluating at this point.>> reporter: a s.w.a.t. team was headed to stephen paddock's former home in reno. the fbi is discounting any links to a terrorist group. speaking from florida, padlocks brother said the family is in shock. he described his brother as a multimillionaire investor who spent the money at casinos and never showed any sign of violence. >> was he upset about politics or anything?>> nothing. he had no religious affiliation or political affiliation. he just hung out.>> reporter: as they work to figure out the victims, they are all being treated.>> our staff handled it very well, and triage patien

reporter: behind me is the mandalay bay hotel. we are on the other side of where the party and the concert was taking place. you can see the setup. it was inside there. jason enforcement come from all directions. here come to some police right now. these guys are on tactical gear all over. going down side streets. at this point it's still an active crime scene. they don't know what they are dealing with. they don't know how many shooters . reporter: we talked to one of our interns. reporter: you have got blood on you. >> that's not me, brother, that's not mine. i was here just like every other fellow american here. what guess on here isn't american. that's not what we are about. this is not okay. other people run, that's okay, that's on them. i'm here for everybody else. reporter: how many people did you help? >> seven. reporter: how many people did you see down? >> at least 20. >> every other person i saw down has an article of my clothing. none of this is mine. look, man, i'm an american. i'm proud of where i'm fro from. i carry

police say he checked into the mandalay bay hotel last thursday.e brought in all those guns and ammunition himself, along with his luggage. he kept it all hidden from the housekeeping staff here. another team of agents and investigators also went to paddock's home in mesquite, nevada. that's about 80 miles outside las vegas. you can see some of the video here. guns inside his home there. so far investigators say they haven't found noits, no e-mails or social e-mail postings to say how long he had been developing this plan. paddock's brother says he's dumbfounded and can't figure out why his brother would do something like this. but that is the question everyone will be asking for the days and weeks to come, eun and angie. >> it's exci-- i imagine that mandalay bay was full of people. what happens to those staying in the hotehotel? >> so the hotel was put into a lockdown mode. this is an mgm hotel, as are sifrl of them along the strip. mgm, has allowed people back into the mandalay bejo tell. some people won't have access to their rooms. other hotel

they will not be releasing that back to the mandalay bay hotel for a number of days. who what want to stay up there? the 31st floor saw some action also. folks in the mandalay bay we had our fox crews inside there today and they did say it was very quiet. a very different scene from the normal. >> did we learn more about the gunman's girlfriend, marilou danley? the fbi questioned her. do we know anything new about the relationship or whether that's further questioning that may happen? >> reporter: yes. they are definitely not finished questioning marilou danley. she is still voluntarily speaking to them according to her lawyer. they are hearing in her siblings. they are very upset. they seem to be pushing the idea that he sent her away and was planning this and had her go to the philippines. federal authorities aren't releasing any information from her. her lawyer assures you however, she is cooperating. >> thank you.  >>> here in the bay area, friends and family of novato's stacee etcheber are rallying around her husband and children in the wake of her death at the

right now you're looking at a time mandalay bay hotel you can see the windows are broken.re believed to be used by stephen paddock in his dead al tack a lot of details still unfolding right now. mainly a motive. a lot of people wondering what possessed him to go on this rampage. >>> we're also hearing police dispatch and audio from when the calls of the shooting first came in to when police finally made it to paddock's hotel room. >> 169. we got shots fired 4:15. satellite automatic firearm. >> code red 169 seam. >> coming upstairs. mandalay bay. upstairs mandalay bay i see the shots coming from land lay bay halfway up. >> 361. i see. we have multiple victims. a break then a surge. we have an active shooter inside the fairgrounds. >> shots fired from mandalay bay. there's many people down. stage left. just be advised. >> we need to pop this and see if we get any type of response from this guy see if he's in here or actually moved somewhere else. >> copy. thirty-second floor swat has exposed and breach. of one in the hallway need to move back. all units move back. >> breach

you got out of that concert venue and they directed you into the mandalay bay hotel. s, so we made it over to mcdonald's. then we walked away here. you came a long way down the strip here. and you say it seemed like as many as 15 times he reloaded. easily, with at least 30 rounds he was firing from each magazine. it was four or five minutes of gunshot. my sister had video so we were hiding behind cars and trying to get as far away as we could. when the shooting stopped, you would run and then when you heard bullets you hit the dirt. we weren't running, people were nice and calm, a few people were trying to run but we stopped them because it went down into a goose neck and started blocking up, so everybody calmly kept going and we made it out, and then we ran, and once we made it to the streets we started to run. you say as people were exiting with all these builds, people were calm. everybody is trying to get out as fast as they can't but it is still like, don't push, don't trample, it was surreal to see everyone looking out for everyone and trying to escape. many more

you see the mandalay bay hotel. we'll take you inside the hotel for our first look inside the hallways and into one of rooms similar to that of the gunman. we'll see you in ten minutes. back to you. >> thank you. it was an asass assassin's bul. after the 1993 mass shooting at a san francisco law firm, finestein authored the ban. today senator finestein led senators who say now is the time to talk about gun control. she introduced a new bill banning the manufacturing and sell of bump stock. that was used by the killer in the las vegas bullet to fire bullets faster like an automatic weapon. the senator said she is clearly frustrated. >> i don't know what to do except to continue to fight because reason doesn't control this situation. >> she's reaching out to republicans and the president for support. she said her own daughter was set to attend the festival but ended up not going. >>> one of the weapons used as we mentioned is called this bump stock and to hear a police captain explain how it's used to convert the weap

country music festival across the street from the mandalay bay hotel. 59 people were killed. and more than 500 others were injured. >> authorities say paddock took his own life when police rushed into his room on the 32nd floor of the hotel late sunday night. inside the room, authorities say they found more than a dozen guns, two were sitting on tripods. right now investigators say they don't believe the attack is connected to terrorism. >> we have team coverage tonight. ktvu's ken wayne is in las vegas with an emotional story after sitting down with a bay area woman who was shot in the back. >> but first, cristina rendon reports from the newsroom. >> reporter: investigators focusing more attention on what the girlfriend of paddock may have known about the attack. she is set to return from the philippines tomorrow and that's where paddock transferred $100,000 to in the days before the attack. >> reporter: this is our first look at the mandalay bay hotel room where suspected gunman stephen paddock shot at hundreds of people at a concert in las vegas. 23 guns were found in the

shooter prepared extensively for the attack even setting up cameras outside his room in the mandalay bay hotel to warn of approaching police the massacre has renewed the debate around gun control in the u.s. says president donald trump prepares to visit las vegas later today visitors have begun returning to the iconic las vegas strip but the city is still recovering from the horror of sunday nights when it became the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history. the killer sixty four year old steven paddock a multimillionaire real estate investor and high stakes gambler. police body cam video captured the minutes when he opened fire on a crowd of concert goers from his hotel room on the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel. investigators are still puzzled over his most of federal agents are questioning his girlfriend who has now returned to the u.s. from the philippines officials have revealed the shooter set up cameras in the hallway outside his room so he could see if the police were approaching this individual was premeditated obviously premeditated the fact that he

police rushed to the scene of the attack at the mandalay bay hotel and casino where the perpetrator had checked in as a guest from the thirty second floor he began shooting indiscriminately at concert goers outside an hour later police confirmed his death. we located numerous firearms within the room that he occupied and like i stated earlier is going to be of long and tedious investigation now we're bringing in all the resources of the f.b.i. to assist us in this investigation authorities say they believe the attacker a sixty four year old local white man was acting alone. the incident is now the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history. for more now we are joined from fort worth texas by a security expert broadwater taken thanks so much for joining us this evening you know in the wake of incidents like this the questions always arise why did this happen and what can be done to prevent further incidents like this as a former law enforcement official yourself what do you think. well i think it's perhaps bad news and i'm going to take it as a lot of these particular instances you're tr

it happened at the mandalay bay hotel, the gunman high up in the hotel showing bullets down onto theairport. it was a terrifying attack which went on and on. people spoke of the gunman reloading time and time again. he has been identified as stephen paddock, a 64—year—old man who lived about an hours drive from las vegas and the police so far at least seem to be baffled as to why he would have done this. the fbi say there is no direct link the new between him and any terrorist group. he seems to have had no previous brushes with the law. he seems to have lived out a relatively quiet life. so nobody seems to have any idea what was behind this. president trump says this is evil, 58 dead and more than 500 injured. even by the skill of atrocities here in the united states it is breathtaking in its horror. thank you very much. time for a look at the weather. here's louise lear. autumn pick and mix with the weather, gales in the far north and west as that low cleared away sunny spells and scattered showers, rain to the south—west into cornwall and devon, the cloud pushing in, we have seen

he is high above them, in the mandalay bay hotel. panic follows. it is a scramble to live.ople hiding underneath my car for cover. and there was a gentleman that was shot, and he said, "can you help me?" and so i put him into my car, and i had six people in my car, people without shoes, running, just to get away. we just hit the ground, and just lay there and hung on each other. and it was quiet for a bit, and then he fired another 30 rounds, and then quiet, and then what we were doing was every time he stopped, he was reloading, we had gotten up and started making our way towards the fence. he would start shooting again, and we would hit the ground. gunfire. by now, the music fans are frantic. if they can, they run, and like this woman, they hide. we were sitting ducks, and the bullets were coming closer, and then it would get quiet, and he would reload. and the girl that was standing behind me, about two feet, she got shot in the stomach. and at first we thought it was firecrackers, and then itjust kept going more. we felt the shots, and then we ran. to the hangar, to the

police rushed to the scene of the attack at the mandalay bay hotel and casino where the perpetrator had checked in as a guest from the thirty second floor he began shooting indiscriminately at concert goers outside an hour later police confirmed his death. we located numerous firearms within the room that he occupied and that's like i stated earlier it's going to be of long and tedious investigation now we're bringing in all the resources of the f.b.i. to assist us in this investigation authorities say they believe the attacker a sixty four year old local white man was acting alone. the incident is now the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history. corresponded to catalina joins us from washington welcome that kind of leader we heard from president and reports tell us about the other reaction from washington. the reaction has been addressing to family members politicians of both parties have expressed their condolences steve scully's as a representative of the republican party said in this tragic moment i encourage all americans to stand together in solidarity to support a vegas commun

shooter prepared extensively for the attack even setting up cameras outside his room in the mandalay bay hotel to warn of approaching police while the massacre has renewed the debate over gun control in the u.s. as president donald trump prepares to visit las vegas the view from the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel where the gunman opened fire on to a crowd of concert goers below. he smashed two windows in his suis to take game as his victim's. body comforts it shows the police scrambling to locate the shooter and get people to safety they say the bullets rained down for between nine and eleven minutes. the killer sixty four year old steven paddock a millionaire real estate investor and high stakes gambler investigators are still puzzling over his most of but they believe he meticulously planned the attack they say he even set up cameras outside his hotel room possibly to see if police were approaching this individual was premeditated obviously premeditated the fact that he had the type of weaponry and amount of weaponry in that room it was pre-planned extensively investigators fi

us we do have some footage that we're just looking at on your screens right now we see the mandalay bay hotel there in las vegas where that shooting apparently took place just right next to that it was reported that the shooter was on top of the hotel that hasn't been confirmed yet we have. a clip now from eyewitnesses on the strip who described the scene as a gunman opened fire. well you just heard machine guns and one of the security guards says to just stop that we kept shooting and shooting and shooting and we thought it was on the other side we just thought it was maybe play machine guns but it definitely wasn't fire guns. and it sounded like at least thirty rounds or more . and of course was an eyewitness in los vegas following that shooting where we're told at least two people are dead on social media we're hearing lots of reports of the area around the mandalay bay casino being evacuated videos are showing hundreds of people fleeing the scene the sound. here the gunfire. this is pain gunfire right now the sound what appears to be automatic gunfire. and be heard in some of the clips. s

brian ross, 32nd floor, mandalay bay hotel. >> exactly. room 135 of the 32nd hotel. 4 1/2

police say he checked into the mandalay bay hotel last thursday and brought in all the guns and ammunition himself along with his luggage, keeping it hidden from the housekeeping staff. but investigators say they don't know why paddock came to the hotel to kill and why he targeted a country music concert. so far they say they found no notes, no e-mails, no social media postings indicating how long ago he developed this plan, but they say they do not believe that he had any help. lester? >> pete williams, thank you. >>> it is hard to watch that smartphone video of the attack without imagining yourself in such a situation. what would i do? how would i react? those videos made us all witnesses to the shooting. only those who lived through it can speak to the hard choice of survival in a place where it appeared there were no good choices. the images are hard to shake. a night out turning into a nightmare. split second decisions. do you run or do you take cover? mike croft was ten feet from the stage when the shots began. >> i knew they came from the hotel. i'm like we're screaming at people to

las vegas strips near the mandalay bay hotel. people were gathered for a concert by jason aldean, he left the stage uninjured but the crowd was left helpless, inside of the barriers of the concert he vn eu with no place to run, he had more than 10 guns and an arsenal of ammunition, it took some time for the police to locate him on the 32nd floor of the hotel room, when they did, he had already kill himself. >> we are live from the strip. >> reporter: we have just learned that president donald trump will be delivering remarks in half an hour on the deadliest mass shooting in united states history, here in las vegas, the big we remains why, police are still investigating stephen paddock, why did he come into las vegas, stay at this hotel, he checked in with 10 10 rivals and opened -- rifles and opened fire on all of the people. police are trying to figure out why he came here and committed deadliest mass shooting in united states history. >> they are estimating the injuries to be well each and every 400 and the deaths associated wi

the gunman was located on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel and resort. mandalay bay is sort of on the southern end of the las vegas strip. we have heard and seen witness accounts many people ran for cover as far as the airport which is near the area looking for some shelter. authorities are asking anyone who can to donate blood because you can imagine with 400 people being treated at hospitals certainly the hospitals are perhaps being overwhelmed or pushed to the brink. >> they need help in a lot of different ways. they are also trying to help people track download once who were in las vegas. one 800 call fbi is the number to call to get information. the las vegas police headquarters is also helping out with direct information. the corners office as well. there is a lot going on. as far as the numbers of people who have not been counted, there are people who may be hiding and have not been counted. so these numbers could be going higher. >> we have brought in a number of live reports. lauren blanchard as she was talking to us we saw ambulances going back

dead, hundreds injured as we come on the air a broken-out window on the upper floor of the mandalay bay hotel behind me points to where hell was unleashed. a guest room turned sniper's nest for a 64-year-old man armed with more than a dozen weapons launched his withering rapid-fire gun attack, turning an open-air evening concert on the grounds just over my shoulder into an urban killing field. we have a team assembled to cover all angles of this developing story. we start with nbc's joe fryer. >> reporter: in a matter of seconds, a country music festival turned tragic as a storm of gun fire raining down on an innocent crowd. >> he was shooting everybody. and there was dead people everywhere. and i don't even know what was happening. there was just -- it was just shooting randomly. >> reporter: it started at 10:08 p.m. first reports of shots fired as singer jason aldean performed. initially there was confusion. many wondering if the sounds were part of the show. >> it's fireworks. stop. it's fireworks. >> reporter: but they quickly realized what was happening. >> we have an active shooter! we

the shooting took place at an open air country music festival and yet the mandalay bay hotel and casino located on less vegas famous trip police offices confronted a suspect on the thirty second floor of the resorts hotel where he was shot that. we are comfortable that the primary aggressor in this event is has expired or passed away and he is no longer a threat there has been multiple multiple phone calls and accusations or conjecture coming through social media that there is multiple shooters and other result resorts that has been proven to be false authorities have named local men safe in pasok as and have located a vehicle belonging to the suspect. and let's go right to los vegas where peter dawson is standing by he's a reporter for cave v.v. you fox five news there he joins us on the line peter i thank you for joining us what's happening there right now of bring us up to date. well right now the strip was shut down several casinos were shut down and evacuated guests had to go down the street to basically a large town square type of shopping village now the guest at the concert ther

as the shots were fired from the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel right there. people running in all directions and brian ross, we know a little about the shooter now. he has not been formally identified by the police and what he was using. >> exactly. an automatic weapon of some sort. loading and reloading magazines to continue to shoot unabated for more than 4 1/2 minutes, george, by our count, some 200 rounds were fired from what was from his point of view a perfect vantage point to cause maximum mayhem and carnage. >> and i want to bring in brad garrett as well, former fbi matt gutman, talking about how this would take some kind of planning, some kind of forethought but not necessarily the kind of operation that would need a lot of help or a big team. >> or no help. i mean, if you have the ability, george, to acquire a weapon, know basically how to shoot it and you rent a hotel room and face these concertgoers and be up high enough to get the rounds off. that's all you need. so we tend to overstate how well these guys plan these shootings. they are premedita

the gunman was in the mandalay bay hotel on the 32nd floor, firing down onto the music festival acrosseds of ambulances and police vehicles soon swamped the area. before they arrived, local people, including hotel workers, had been helping the injured. my co—workers started to see lots of people who were shot in the chest, arms. some were shot in the thighs. a lot of people were shot coming onto our property. people were hysterical. specialist firearms officers moved in once they knew where the gunman was firing from. they broke into his hotel room but say they had already killed himself. the man, who lived in nevada, and has been named as 64—year—old stephen paddock, was killed. we are comfortable that the primary aggressor in this event has expired, or passed away, and is no longer a threat. there have been multiple phone calls and accusations, or conjecture, coming through social media that there are multiple shooters at other resorts. that has proven to be false. additionally, there have been accusations or beliefs there are explosives going off. that is also false. the police now

police rushed to the scene of the attack at the mandalay bay hotel and casino where the perpetrator had checked in as a guest from the thirty second floor he began shooting indiscriminately at concert goers outside an hour later police confirmed his death. we located numerous firearms within the room that he occupied and that's it like i stated earlier it's going to be of long and tedious investigation now we're bringing in all the resources of the f.b.i. to assist us in this investigation authorities say they believe the attacker a sixty four year old local white man was acting alone. the incident is now the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history. and earlier i spoke with brenton when guard who was at that country music concert in las vegas this was his fourth year there and he never had any trouble until last night he described his experience yeah we when we had the gunshots it sounded like as it runs like said it by works or something like that so we didn't react to the first round second round by then we were looking around and it was someone i could see getting c.p.r. it was ly

police rushed to the scene of the attack at the mandalay bay hotel and casino where the perpetrator had checked in as a guest from the thirty second floor he began shooting indiscriminately a concert goer outside. an hour later police confirmed his death. for him as his history and background we haven't completed that part of that investigation yet but we located numerous firearms within the room that he occupied and like i stated earlier it's going to be a long and tedious investigation now we're bringing in all the resources of the f.b.i. to assist us in this and. authorities have named a sixty four year old local white man. and believe he was acting alone this incident has been the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history of the death toll is expected to rise. well as we mentioned donald trump spoke on the shooting a short while ago calling an act of pure evil offering his condolences to the families of the victims and thanking first responders he did not however weigh in on the controversy surrounding gun control in the u.s. he did say he will be a visiting los vegas on wednesday