stephanie elam, cnn, las vegas, nevada. >> and as we learned today, 45 people still in the hospital. some of them in critical condition. but with a fighting chance because of so many first responders like those firefighters there in stephanie elam's report. and "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> thanks, brianna. if you're one of the people who failed to take candidate donald trump literally, i present to you today. "the lead" starts right now. >>> breaking news. president trump taking a combative turn in u.s. policy against iran, threatening to walk away from the nuclear deal that president obama negotiated just as he promised he would do before he got elected. >>> even fewer puerto ricans have power today than did yesterday as house speaker paul ryan is in puerto rico to look at the devastation. so how is that recovery going now, mr. president? >>> plus, north korea warning that the hands on the trigger to attack the u.s. as cnn goes undercover and finds out how kim jong-un's seafood industry is staying alive in china, despite sanctions intended to cripple it. >>> goo

stephanie elam is there. what can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning, poppy. what we understand is this. hospital where i'm standing of southern nevada is the only level one trauma center in the state. and from what we understand, there are more than 100 patients that are here in this hospital. we reached out to the hospital to find out how many people they have here. they are saying they have more than 30 patients that were treated in the trauma center. eight of the patient there is taken to the operating room. we also know that they have 12 patients that are in critical condition. so over 104 total patients admitted to this hospital of the more than 400 people that were transferred to hospitals. they say they are also working to make sure they are getting blood donations. they are going to need blood. they are saying this is one of the places they are going to do it. as we get later into the morning here, they are going to ask people who are in the jarea if they could come and donate blood. they are going to need that here. it's crucial to understand that th

this hospital here, a really big deal because they are the level one trauma center. >> stephanie elamthank you so much in nevada for us. for 59 people on sunday it was supposed to be fun. instead, friends and family honoring them. this is just some of the faces. >> among them, a registered nurse, and the kindergarten teacher from california, a las vegas mother of three, little boys left behind. and it's too often we sit up here and we show faces of innocent people gunned down in this country. >> i remember doing this during sandy hook. when you see the names and the face, the magnitude of what happened starts to hit home for a lot of people, whether it be a husband who saved his wife by protecting her during the shooting, or a mother that lost her life while running away from the tragedy. it's all heartbreaking once you start to see the names and faces of some of these people, these victims. rachel parker worked at the manhattan police department for ten years and he was a police records technician who was off duty while off duty at the concert with four other employees. the other emp

stephanie elam has his story. >> reporter: when hurricane harvey dropped a deluge of water on houston -- >> the rain just kept coming down. i mean, coming down. >> reporter: -- police officer norbert ramon headed to the only station he could get to, lake patrol on lake hue uh-ouston. >> seemed like an apocalypse, unreal. >> reporter: with floodwaters engulfing neighborhoods, lake patrol took to boats, skirting trees, cars to get people to safety. working 12 hour shifts, officer ramon was in and out of water helping to rescue people. >> you know what sticks in my head is the children. you see different emotions. >> reporter: how many people do you think you helped rescue? >> god, i don't know, 200, 300 easily. >> he never had any signs of him having anything wrong. >> reporter: he has stage four colon cancer, which spread to his liver and lungs. diagnosed in march 2016, ramon gets chemotherapy every two weeks, a constant reminder of his battle. >> i'm out there in the street and i got to leave half a day to, you know, go out there and do that. as long as i'm with these guys, they keep

stephanie elam: "how many people do you think you helped rescue?"uston police department: "god, i don't know, got 200, 300 easily." sgt. epi garza/houston police department: "he never showed no signs of him having anything wrong with him." what's wrong with officer ramon is stage four colon cancer which has spread to his liver and lungs. diagnosed in march 2016, ramon gets chemotherapy every two weeks -- a constant reminder of his battle.officer norbert ramon/houston police department: "i'm out there on the street and then i gotta leave half the day to go out there and do that...//but as long as i'm with these guys you know, they keep me up." officer alvin steelman/houston police department: "my respect for him is beyond explanation." teamed up for boat rescues, alvin steelman had no clue about ramon's health crisis until after the water receded. officer alvin steelman/houston police department: "he's not looking for sympathy. he just wants to be part of the team and he was.//he did everything everyone else did"sgt. epi garza/houston police departme

stephanie elam, cnn, houston. >> officer ramon, thank you so much for all that you do. thanks for being with me. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >> is president trump draining the swamp or muddying the waters? look over there! the trump administration trying to divert attention away from the mueller investigation by pinning the russia problem on hillary and bill clinton. cnn on the ground in niger speaking to one of the first people on the scene after the terrorists ambushed u.s. soldiers saying the troops were outnumbered and outgunned. >> actress rose mcgowan saying her silence is over. but why are so many

stephanie elam has that part of the story. >> reporter: fireworks.t's what cab driver win fredo thought he heard as he waited to pick up a fare at mandalay bay. >> rapid fire. >> reporter: with bullets still flying, he drove across the street to help. >> i said, oh my god, it's like a war zone. everybody was screaming, panic, crying, people on the ground. i see a lot of wounds. hit in the back, in the head. >> reporter: people crowded around him, banging on the car, begging for help. >> can you please come to the corner? can you please come to the corner? to the corner, i got a guy shot in the corner. >> reporter: so he jumped out and opened his doors, rescuing six people, all of them shot. >> go, go, go, go, go! >> reporter: what kind of wounds did you see? >> really bad. the ones in the back, one in the neck. i don't know if he's alive now. he was telling me, she's dying, he's dying, while i'm dying. >> reporter: he rushed his wounded passengers to sunrise hospital. >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: not knowing any of their names, he still has no idea if

cnn stephanie elam is in las vegas following the investigation. w information for us about that note the killer left in his hotel room. >> reporter: right. and ana, we had known that it just had numbers on it. well, a law enforcement official telling cnn that they believe these numbers were calculations about the trajectory about the distance from his 32nd window down to that concert venue. more indication that he was measuring out and definitely targeting that concert venue. we're just learning that, about that. but that's one key thing we are learning about. still, despite knowing this, we don't know what the motive is for the shooter, 64-year-old man to target this concert venue to do this at all or the reason why he may have been planning for this overall. that has been really, really frustrating for so many of the law enforcement officials. normally they can figure out the motive, at this point it's still unclear, ana. >> meantime, you sat down with a man who helped rush gunshot victims to the hospital. what did he share with you? >> that's th

. >>> i want to bring in cnn's stephanie elam live from las vegas with a hero in the midst of sunday's you, stephanie. you spoke to an offduty fire who jumped in to help save people. what did he tell you? >> reporter: you know, don, you hear these stories and we know there were a lot of first responders that were there but you just feel their stories in your chest when you hear what they were going through. clark county firefighter travis haldeman was there with his friends and wife haley having a good time when they first thought it was fireworks and then they realized it wasn't that and so travis knew he had to get his wife to safety. haley ran but he stayed and he stayed and while there were still bullets being rained down on that concert venue site, he managed to pull three people to safety and bring them into the medical tent and there's one in particular that he bonded with, this young woman who was shot in the back. take a listen to what he told me. >> the three i was taking care of, the most severe was the woman who was shot in the lower back right midline. her feeling in her l

i want to quickly go to cnn's stephanie elam. she's at the hospital in las vegas. the latest you're getting on the injured, stephanie? >> reporter: wolf, we are at the medical center of southern nevada where it is the only level-one trauma center in the state. this is where they had 104 patients that arrived last night as this was happening. i want to introduce you to dr. john files. tell me, have you seen anything that compared to what you saw last night? >> this was the largest, vent we've ever done. we've had other mass casualties and this was a big event with a lot of walking wounded and a lot of criticals. >> reporter: were you at any point overwhelmed by the number of casualties that came into the building? >> no. we drill on this a couple of times a year and we weraible to expand into the hospital and everybody got a bed right away and everyone went into the upon rating room. >> were there surgeons and doctors? >> we called all of the staff in and we had more than enough an anesthesia and health care providers. >> what kind of wounds are you seeing? it's mor

stephanie elam is in las vegas with this new detail.us what more you've learned. >> right, ana, this is something that we've been wanting to know about what that notepad had on it. we know it was just a series of numbers, there were no words on it. now we have more clarity coming from david newton from the los angeles police department. take a listen to what he said. >> what were the numbers, calculations? >> yeah. he must have done the calculations or gone online or something to figure out what his altitude was going to be on how high up he was, how far up the crowd was going to be and at that distance, what the drop of his bullet was going to be. >> and that interview happening on cbs' "60 minutes." this is one detail there that still, while helpful, does not figure out why the shooter would do this, help explain his motive now, which is seven days out now. and still no clear idea why he did this and that's still frustrating to investigators who continue to dig through thousands of leads to figure out any reason why this man would hav

. >> our stephanie elam is in las vegas with more as we get back to the investigation portion of this and what those calculations really mean in trying to establish a motive here. >> calculations, that's what investigators now believe that the numbers written on the note pad found in the shooter's suite were. this was first reported by cbs news, but what they believe is that there were calculations related to distance and trajectory from the window of the shooter's suite on the 32nd floor down to the venue. of course, having this one piece of information doesn't help at all with the motive, which is the one thing that is still very much frustrating investigators. they still say it is unclear why the 64-year-old man would do such a heinous crime. they do not know why he would do that. but we do have a little bit more information about the man who may have really helped stop this from being a much more tragic event, hard to believe we could think of that. but here is what they're saying jesus campos did. he was responding, because he works for mandalay security, he was responding to an

here's mother from stephanie elam. >> reporter: fireworks, that's what he heard when he waited to picka fare at mandalay bay. >> bullets. >> reporter: as bullets began firing, he drove across the street to help. >> oh, my god, it's like a war zone. everybody was screaming, panic, crying, people on the ground. i see a lot of wounds, hit in back, in head. >> reporter: people banging on the car begging for help. >> would you please come to the corner, to the corner, i've got a got shot in the corner! >> reporter: so he jumped out and opened his doors, rescuing six people, all of them shot. >> go, go, go, go! >> and what kind of wounds did you see? >> wounds in the back. wounds in the neck. i don't know if he's alive now, he's dying, he's dying while i'm driving. >> reporter: he rushed had its wounded passengers to sunrise hospital. not knowing any of their names, he still has no idea if they're alive. does it weigh on you that you don't know what happened to them? >> sometimes, you can lose sleep thinking about what's going on it takes a toll on me. >> reporter: like him, many others race

cnn's stephanie elam joins us with some of these details. stephanie?nd poppy, adrian murfitt was 35 years old. he was a commercial fisherman. he surprised his buddy with a boy's trip to vegas and that friend, brian mckinnon held him in his lap as he passed away. his mom remembering adrian as being a caring and happy individual. there was also john phippen, who was 56 years old. his son, travis, a medic, stopped to help someone while the shooting was happening. john stayed with his son and then when a woman was in the way, he jumped in to stop a bullet from hitting her. he ultimately lost his life. he lost his wife three years ago and he's the father of six. and candice bowers, her family says she was a supermhero. she was the mom of three, including a recently adopted 2-year-old. she passed away doing and listening to what she loved. and michelle vo, 32 years old from the los angeles area, an insurance agent. she was there at the concert and her sister said she had an infectious smile. while she was there, she happened to meet a stranger, another 32-ye

stephanie elam is live for us in las vegas tonight. what are the numbers? >> reporter: yes, the numbers we are now learning, brooke, they believe are calculations. they believe what the shooter was doing was calculating the trajectory and distance from shooting from his 32nd floor window over to the concert venue. this is something that was first reported by cds that we're learning. the other thing that we've learned, too, is that they located 50 pounds of tannerite inside of his car as well as 1600 rounds of ammunition. they do not know, investigators do not know why he had that. we do know that tannerite when fired upon does explode so there are some concerns that perhaps he was hoping for another mass casualty event that there are also signs that they believed he planned on surviving the attack that he was planning from the 32nd floor and he planned on making it out of there. but still unclear as to why he would have had all of that in his car, brooke. >> so we have the piece on the note now and also we've learned this security guard stopped the attack n

. >>> i want to bring in cnn's stephanie elam right now. las vegas with an incredible story of a hero in the midst of sunday's massacre. good evening to you, stephanie. you spoke to an off-duty firefighter who was at the concert, jumped into action to help save people. what did he tell you? >> reporter: you know, don, you hear these stories and we know that there were a lot of off-duty first responders that were there. but getting to hear their stories, you just feel it in your chest when you hear what they were going through. clark county firefighter travis haldeman was there with his friends-w his wife, haley. enjoying the concert. they're big country music fans, having a good time when they first thought it was fireworks like many other people did. when they heard the gunfire start off. and then they realized it wasn't that. and so travis knew he had to get his wife to safety. haley ran, but he stayed and he stayed and while there were still bullets being rained down on that concert venue site. he managed to pull three people to safety a

let's go to stephanie elam. e is elam standing by at one of the medical centers if it's not the trauma one. listen, this is what people -- doctors, nurses are prepared. they run drills, but the hundreds of people that they have received has to have been overwhelming. >> reporter: you know, i just spoke to a couple of surgeons including the chairman of the surgery department here at the university medical center of southern nevada and you're right, it is the only level one trauma center in the state. they do train for this and at no time did they feel they were overwhelmed by the 104 people that came through their doors last night and some through ambulances and some through taxis and some in private success vehicles all to get the care that they needed. they activated their phone tree and they got all of their doctors and all the anesthesiologists and the nursing staff here to help those people and they were able to do what they needed to do and the first thing was stopping the cycle of death, saving those people

poppy and john. >> stephanie elam outside the university medical center in las vegas. joining us dr. alexander, a professor of emergency medicine at emory university. thank you so much for being with us. 400 people taken to local area hospitals, not all the same hospital, but still, hundreds of people taken to the hospital. when you are in an emergency room what is the process? what happens? how do you receive this many wounded people from an attack like this? >> john, thank you for having me. absolute tragedy for that community. in the emergency department, which is just the front door to the hospital, there has to be plans in place already for managing such a large volume of patients. as stephanie had mentioned, there are a range of injuries that would present to the hospital. even the level one trauma center. some that are minor, some that are more serious, some that require immediate life-saving interventions be performed. it really starts with triaging patients again. they've been triaged in the field once, they've been transported to the nearest appropriate hospi

he was 66 years old.( mark ) stephanie elam looks back at his life and career. natstom petty's musicdied the essence of rock 'n roll: freedom, truth and rebellion. natswith a career that spanned more than half-a-century, petty was hailed by some as a musical poet. tom petty: "music as far as i have seen in the world so far, is the only real magic that i know // there's just something really honest and clean and pure and it touches you in your heart." natspetty grew up in gainesville, florida during the 19-50s.natshe met "the king" - elvis presley - on a movie set when he was just 11 years old.natsthat was the moment, petty says, his life was forever changed and he became hooked on rock 'n roll. by 19-74, petty's gainesville band - mudcrutch - was california bound. the country rock quintet landed a record deal in l-a. natsmudcrutch disbanded a short time later. and in 19-75 petty formed a new band that included two other mudcrutch originals.tom petty: "i really think i'm in one of the best rock and roll bands in the world."nats"tom petty and the heartbreakers" became pioneers of the h

now stephanie elam with more from las vegas. >> reporter: call being layings.t's what investigators now believe that the numbers written on the note pad found in the student's sweat of course having this one piece of information doesn't help at all with the motive, which is the one thing that is still very much frustrating investigators. they say it's unclear why a 64-year-old man would do such a heinous crime. but we do have a little bit more information about the man who may have really helped stop this from being a much more tragic event. it's hard to believe that we could even think of that. but here's what they're saying jesus campos did. he was responding because he works for mandalay responding, he was responding to an open door alarm on the 32nd floor several doors down from where the shooter was staying. remember, the shooter had cameras out in the hall. they believe the shooters saw the him on the camera and starts to engage with him. because of camos's quick le if it hasn't been for him, it would have taken first responders much longer to figure out

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i want to bring in now cnn's stephanie elam. the actions of the first responders in that video are really heroic, stephanie, as you listen to that. >> it's unbelievable when you watch that footage, don, and what strikes me as well is the fact that the first responders knew right away to try to step in and save as many people as they could. but also the people in the crowd who just started to help. think about it. a minute before that they're having a good time listening to one of their favorite artists perform and the next second they had to make that decision to help people out and not know where those gunshots were coming from at the time. there was mass confusion about that and some people thought there might have been two shooters. and now we know that there were two windows that the shooter was using as well. so when you hear that, it is very compelling and it strikes you. you feel it sort of in your chest as you listen to it. it is a little bit jarring to watch, though, for people who haven't seen this. it's worth noting th

stephanie elam joins us with more of these stories. every morning to all of these e-mails and names and pictures and these stories and it just hurts each and every time. you can't imagine what these families are going through. tell us about more of the names we are getting. >> it's so true, poppy and john. when you look at the names and you hear at first the number of people that lost their lives, and they are just people. now we are starting to know who they are, and what they did, and how they helped out their communities and what they meant to their families. you were talking about denise married for 32, and she passed away in her husband's arms, and she was a mother of two and soon to be the grandmother of five. and charles, he was a las vegas police officer off duty enjoying the concert, and of course when the shooting started he went back into his training and was trying to help people as he could. he was shot and lost his life. we also know that he was a nevada army national guard sergeant first class and also known as coach chu

stephanie elam is live in las vegas with these new details. so this note, calculations to what exactly? >> reporter: right, brooke. they were calculations based on distance and trajectory, based on where he was on that 32nd floor to the concert venue site. this is news we first learned from cbs. so just a little bit more of an insight into what he was planning, he was planning tis. it still doesn't help us figure out what the motive is. and that is very frustrating for investigators, because usually within a couple of days they're able to pinpoint what would drive someone to do something so heinous. he had tannerite in his car as well as 1,600 rounds of ammunition. not clear what that was for, but we do know tannerite is used for something that you can shoot at and it will have an explosion. authorities also saying, brooke, they have reason to believe the shooter thought he might survive in that suite and get outtotomy, but they would not say why they believe that. they're still trying to figure out why this man would do this. they're trying t

i want to bring in stephanie elam in las vegas with this new information. what can you tell us?r: it looks like these numbers are calculations. officials believe these were calculations for the trajectory from the shooter's window down to the concert venue site, related to the distance, what he would do related to that. we also know he was trying to purchase tracer bullets, something that would be able to show the trajectory of those bullets after he fired them from his window, but he was not able to purchase them when he went there. we're told because they were not in stock. so letteringarning a little bit about what was in that hotel room. still to this point, and this is what's been very frustrating, there's still no idea why the 64-year-old would commit the heinous, heinous crime he did. >> one of the experts said we should be focusing more on the explosives. more than 50 pounds of explosives in his car at the hotel. do investigators know what he maybe planned to do with it? >> it can be used as an explosive, along with 1,600 rounds of ammunition. this have is he perplexing

reporter, stephanie elam looks back at his iconic career. natstom petty's music embodied the essence of rock 'n roll: freedom, truth and rebellion. natswith a career that spanned more than half-a-century, petty was hailed by some as a musical poet. tom petty: "music as far as i have seen in the world so far, is the only real magic that i know // there's just something really honest and clean and pure and it touches you in your heart." natspetty grew up in gainesville, florida during the 19-50s.natshe met "the king" - elvis presley - on a movie set when he was just 11 years old.natsthat was the moment, petty says, his life was forever changed and he became hooked on rock 'n roll. by 19-74, petty's gainesville band - mudcrutch - was california bound. the country rock quintet landed a record deal in l-a. natsmudcrutch disbanded a short time later. and in 19-75 petty formed a new band that included two other mudcrutch originals.tom petty: "i really think i'm in one of the best rock and roll bands in the world."nats"tom petty and the heartbreakers" became pioneers of the heartland rock mo

reporter stephanie elam has their stories. in the middle of the chaos -- countless acts of kindness and compassion. amy mcaslin was at the concert sunday night near the stage when gunfire rained down all around her. she said a stranger came to her rescue. amy mcaslin/shooting survivor "i don't know his name, i don't -- can barely remember what he looked like, but he completely covered me. he covered my face. he said, 'i got you.' it's just truly incredible, a stranger, jumping over me to protect me." 18-year-old addison short was among the crowd of people running for cover -- but she couldn't move fast because she was shot in the legfrom her hospital bed, she tells the story of a good samaritan who used his belt to wrap her leg in a tourniquet and carried her to safety.addison short/shooting survivor"if the guy that helped me is watching... i really just want to tell him how grateful i am for basically saving my life" for those who didn't survive, we are learning more about the last moments of their lives and who they were.an

we begin though with stephanie elam in los angeles tonight and stephanie, what do you know about this 911 call? >> well, what we understand happened, erin, is that los angeles police department officers responded to the house of the daughter of harvey weinstein at about 10:37 a.m. they're not giving out a lot of details. they're saying they're currently investigating, but obviously, this is noteworthy considering all of the turmoil around this man. all of the accusations that are coming out about him, but little mag on what that mapped, who was there and what may have happened that would lead his daughter or someone who was there to make that call. >> thank you very much, stephanie, as we try to figure out the nature of this. now to mark preston, stacey honowitz and brian steltser. brian, let me start with you and what you're hearing about weinstein. >> certainly in recent days, his friends have been worried about him. he traveled in a very elite group of media ceos, hollywood big shots, people like that. i spoke with a ceo of a major media company earlier in week who said i am concer

cnn cnn's stephanie elam has more on how these two showed humanity at its best and went beyond the call he stopped singing and ran off stage and that's where it hit us. >> travis is enjoying the end of the three-day music festival with his wife, haley, when he thinks he hears gunshots. >> it was a nonstop popping sound, gunfire. >> jesse gomez is another off-duty firefighters there with his wife. both firefighters usher their wives to safety. >> i was in huh staysterics. >> there was a lady on the ground, and she was bleeding from the head and face and we picked her up and carried her to the other side, me and a couple strangers. >> as bullets continue to fly the concert venue is chaotic. >> people on the ground and hurt and people running around, and people d people deceased, and other people laying there with him. >> three shots skipped out three or four feet in front of my feet. >> i might have physically carried six to ten. >> of the several people trafice rescues, the most concerning is a woman shot in the lower back. >> the feeling in her legs were touch and go at times. >> was sh

stephanie elam with more. >> reporter: calculations, that's what investigators now believe that the numbersen on the notepad found in the shooter's suite were. this was first reported by cbs news, but what they believe is they were calculations related to distance and trajectory from the window of the shooter's suite on the 32nd floor down to the venue. of course having this one piece of information doesn't help at all with the motive, which is the one thing that is still very much frustrating investigators. they still say it's unclear why the 64-year-old man would do such a heinous crime. they do not know why he would do that. but we do have a little bit more information about the man who may have really helped stop this from being a much more tragic n event. it's hard to believe we could even think of that. jose campos, because he works for mandalay security, he was responding to an open door alarm several doors down from where the shooter was staying. when he came up on that floor, the shooter had cameras out in the hall. they believe the shooter saw him on the camera and started to enga

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cnn's stephanie elam is live atlas vegas university medical center. boy, were they overwhelmed. about the people who had to step up. not only were they way beyond capacity, but these types of rounds, these types of numbers, it is amazing what they've had to deal with. >> reporter: it's amazing the response that happened as well, chris. when you talk to surgeons like i have here, talking about how they got all hands on deck as quickly as possible, they were here before the patients started arriving. this hospital alone, university medical center of southern nevada, the only level one trauma center in the state. they received 104 patients. we can tell you they did say they've now treated and released some 40 patients. we do know that there are two teenagers that are still here. there are 12 people in critical condition here at this hospital. but the response here, they did say that they've never seen anything like this here at this hospital. but at the same time, they felt that the response, that they were able to handle all of it, even triaging some of the patients outside. but a

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stephanie elam is joining us from las vegas with this new detail. >> reporter: ana, what we have learned is these calculations, investigators believe it was that, the final numbers for looking at where his bullets would go across las vegas boulevard. take a listen to what david newton from the las vegas metropolitan police department had to say on cbs. >> what were the numbers? i'm trying to -- he had done calculations or -- >> yeah, he had written or done calculations or gone online to physical out what his altitude was going to be on how high up he was, how far out the crowd was going to be, at that distance, what the drop of his bullet was going to be. >> reporter: and while that is another clue added into the details, they still do not know the motive for the 64-year-old man to open up and start shooting upon all these concert-goers, still looking for a motive here, just one other detail that they've now figured out, ana. >> meantime, that community is trying to heal from all of this. we are seeing more gestures, outpouring, support, love, jason aldean was performing at the time of t

here's stephanie elam. >> when hurricane harvey dropped a deluge of water on houston, the police officerly station he could get to, lake patrol on lake houston. >> seemed like apocalypse, it was unreal. >> reporter: with flood waters engulfing neighborhoods, lake patrol took to the boats to whisk people to safety. >> they wanted to bring everything with them and you could only tell them to bring so much. >> reporter: working 12-hour shifts officer ramon was helping to rescue people. >> what sticks in my head those children. you would see different emotions. >> reporter: how many people do you think you helped rescue? >> i don't know, 200, 300 easily. >> never showed no signs of having anything wrong with him. >> reporter: what's wrong with officer ramon is stage iv colon cancer, which has spread to his liver and longs. diagnosed in march 2016, ramon gets chemotherapy every two weeks, a constant reminder of his battle. >> i'm out there in the street and i've got to leave half a day to go out there and do that and just -- as long as i'm with these guys, they keep me up. you know. >> my res

stephanie elam, cnn, houston. >> officer ramon, thank you so much for all that you do. thanks for being with me. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >> is president trump draining the swamp or muddying the waters? look over there! the trump administration trying to divert attention away from the mueller investigation by pinning the russia problem on hillary and bill clinton. cnn on the ground in niger speaking to one of the first people on the scene after the terrorists ambushed u.s. soldiers saying the troops were outnumbered and outgunned. >> actress rose mcgowan saying her silence is over. but why are so many politicians staying quiet? good afternoon, welcome to "the lead." i'm going to begin with our politics lead ramping up its efforts to turn the spotlight away from questions about itself and investigations into possible collusion with russia or possible obstruction of justice and the firing of fbi director james comey and to instead highlight matters pertaining to the previous president and the woman whom mr. trump defeated for the presidency, hillary clinton

a drill for hospitals, but so grateful that it was and that this medical center was prepared, stephanie elamease keep us updated. coming up here we will piece together how exactly the shooting unfolded and we'll look at the timeline and what eventually led police to the gunman on the 32nd floor of the mandalay hotel. would you believe it was a smoke alarm playing a key role here, and you will hear the moment right before police break down his door to get in. stay with me. i'm brooke bolduan. you're watching cnn's special live coverage. with my moderate to severe crohn's disease,... ...i was always searching for ways to manage my symptoms. i thought i had it covered. then i realized managing was all i was doing. when i finally told my doctor, he said humira was for people like me who have tried other medications,... but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief... ...and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections... ...including tuberculosis. seriou

president has just said in puerto rico, that is upsetting a lot of people, but first let's go to stephanie elam standing by one of the hospitals in las vegas, hopefully with an update on those who have been injured. what are you learning, stephanie? >> reporter: hi, brooke. yes, we have learned a few things here. we do know that of the patients that arrived here at the hospital, 104 patients they got here at the university of medical center of southern nevada, that they did not have any amputations, but they did say they saw greater than probably 80% of the wounds being gunshot wounds, as ult expeyou expect, but there are also graze wounds and the like. but they are also saying the bullet holes, the entry points were much larger than you would normally see with just a handgun, so they do believe they were a larger caliber weaponry involved here. you also have someone who was hit by a car running to try to get away from the scene. and that is what they have been dealing with here. i can tell you that they still have 12 patients in critical condition. i was able to take a tour of the trauma cente

cnn's stephanie elam looks back at petty's life and career, which touched so many lives. natstom petty'sic embodied the essence of rock 'n roll: freedom, truth and rebellion. natswith a career that spanned more than half-a-century, petty was hailed by some as a musical poet. tom petty: "music as far as i have seen in the world so far, is the only real magic that i know // there's just something really honest and clean and pure and it touches you in your heart." natspetty grew up in gainesville, florida during the 19-50s.natshe met "the king" - elvis presley - on a movie set when he was just 11 years old.natsthat was the moment, petty says, his life was forever changed and he became hooked on rock 'n roll. by 19-74, petty's gainesville band - mudcrutch - was california bound. the country rock quintet landed a record deal in l-a. natsmudcrutch disbanded a short time later. and in 19-75 petty formed a new band that included two other mudcrutch originals.tom petty: "i really think i'm in one of the best rock and roll bands in the world."nats"tom petty and the heartbreakers" became pioneers o

he was 66 years old.( mark ) stephanie elam looks back at his life and career. natstom petty's musicdied the essence of rock 'n roll: freedom, truth and rebellion. natswith a career that spanned more than half-a-century, petty was hailed by some as a musical poet. tom petty: "music as far as i have seen in the world so far, is the only real magic that i know // there's just something really honest and clean and pure and it touches you in your heart." natspetty grew up in gainesville, florida during the 19-50s.natshe met "the king" - elvis presley - on a movie set when he was just 11 years old.natsthat was the moment, petty says, his life was forever changed and he became hooked on rock 'n roll. by 19-74, petty's gainesville band - mudcrutch - was california bound. the country rock quintet landed a record deal in l-a. natsmudcrutch disbanded a short time later. and in 19-75 petty formed a new band that included two other mudcrutch originals.tom petty: "i really think i'm in one of the best rock and roll bands in the world."nats"tom petty and the heartbreakers" became pioneers of the h

stephanie elam has their stories.n the middle of the chaos -- countless acts of kindness and compassion. amy mcaslin was at the concert sunday night near the stage when gunfire rained down all around her. she said a stranger came to her rescue. amy mcaslin/shooting survivor "i don't know his name, i don't -- can barely remember what he looked like, but he completely covered me. he covered my face. he said, 'i got you.' it's just truly incredible, a stranger, jumping over me to protect me." 18-year-old addison short was among the crowd of people running for cover -- but she couldn't move fast because she was shot in the legfrom her hospital bed, she tells the story of a good samaritan who used his belt to wrap her leg in a tourniquet and carried her to safety.addison short/shooting survivor"if the guy that helped me is watching... i really just want to tell him how grateful i am for basically saving my life" for those who didn't survive, we are learning more about the last moments of their lives and who they were.an of