i want to jump back to stooefz patterson who is outside on the las vegas strip. you heard jim talking about the follow up in terms of the police trying to secure the area. potentially any other explosives that may have been planted. any over potential threat. what can you tell us in ter active scene behind you in terms of what police are doing at this point? are you seeing anything from your vantage point? what are you seeing to substantiate that? >> reporter: we're not in an elevated position so our vantage point is what you see, what you get. so again, i want to stand back and show you. this scene has been clamped down mpl . it's looked like this. police have hatd a total lock. it's very different than what this point should be at any day. it's quite an eerie scene but police have basically locked this down. before what we saw more than an hour ago were teams of roaming police seemingly in squads and what they would do is they would comb basically in every direction from this staging area in multiple locations, combing through multiple properties, yo know, wear