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In order to be that effective as he was with that weapon, this individual had to have some significant training. the fact that he got hold of a fully loaded automatic weapon is very, very disturbing. he had an excellent field of fire tactically. he was very sound in that he chose his target particularly soft target with people concentrated in a very small area with that fully automatic weapon from that distance and from that elevation. he maximized what the damage he could do. steve: where would...

>> when theyre talking about the weapons, theres no doubt that there was an automatic weapon used, whether it was altered or it was an automatic weapon by manufacturer, he definitely possessed it. how he altered that they will determine and they will determine which weapons were altered. when you have an automatic weapon in the hands of somebody like this for this purpose it is to try to inflict as much a death as you can as quickly as you can and he probably knew he had a window of opportunity ...

Things, a psychopath carrying out something that he believed he could have known somebody at the concert and wanted to do something like that. we have no idea what has happened here and we are not going begin to speculate on possible motive for this was obviously. heather: yeah. >> we know one thing, it was a terrorist attack, the question is was it -- foreign nexis or not but it was a terrorist attack. heather: thank you so much. we do know that the sheriff said we do not know the belief system...

Would happen to anyone who was just coming out to enjoy what -- heather: exactly what it is, a wonderful venue and a wonderful show and a lot of people having a wonderful time and also being a great chance, an opportunist coward to carry out a despicable act and as the officers said they were sitting ducks. if youre waking up angry, youre not alone. it just makes you so mad to see something like this happen to innocent people. its frankly disgusting and its not much else to say about it. right n...

Perspective, a im not watching this and this im discounting it. i want to know e-mails. i want to know interviews, friends family not only to determine what everyone is talking about motivation, but to determine whether somebody knew, whether someone participated and one in a million chance is there some other threat out there that we need to worry about in the coming days. public dimension says nobody knew anything. investigative dimension says we have a lot of ts to cross before we can confirm...

Has had problems with local law enforcement. we dont know much more. right now the room that he used, 32 floors up in mandalay bay, to shoot down on the concert goers, that room is being searched meti meticulously. there were multiple weapons in the room. this was a planned out attack. he planned to do as much as he could. we know from the video weve been watching and listening to that he squeezed the trigger of some sort of automatic weapon and did not let go and just shot as many bullets as he...

There was that the two vehicles that they were looking for had been at the mandalay bay but were no longer there. >> yeah, i dont know if that means that -- that they were driven off by someone else, accomplices. if he lived in vegas, probably would be the only reason that he would be at mandalay bay was to commit this crime. this was clearly a well-planned event. rob: thats exactly what i was going to ask you. i was going to ask you about the escalation of these types of shootings, obviously in...

Family members talking to the media today had described him as quiet and retired accountant. personally had some means, so acquired all this arsenal. weve talked to people who told us over the course of his life, they traced as many as 30 firearms hes bought. which again is not unusual in people certain parts of the country. today, one of the parts of the story they try to put together is these firearms, when did he buy them, did he alter them? because the way people have described at the scene,...

Theres really no way to do it, right? >> well, there are a couple of things that developed this morning. i understand that theres a possibility that this woman may have been an employee at the hotel. i dont know if thats been confirmed yet. in addition to that, if that is a fact, now we know how this killer got access to that hotel with a weapon, they had to be preplanning and he turned this concert into a killing field. he took the greatest vantage point and sprayed those people down. so this c...

There, i dont know how much longer it was going on when we left, but it was probably about 10 minutes and there kept being a break in shots and we think it was over but we were afraid to get up and then it would start again. he was obviously reloading. rob: okay, erin, thank you so much for joining us this morning. im sure you got a lot of head of you mentally to try to get over from what you just seen and our prayers are with you. >> thank you so much. rob: lets go back to lauren at the scene o...