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Youve been watching for anytime at all, youve seen them creep up with every briefing. right now, 58 confirmed dead. over 500 people injured in this las vegas shooting. last night, around the time that it first happened, these horrible ghoulish videos started being posted on social media. and civilians could hear the sound. you could hear the sound that sounded like the sound track of the new ken burns series on vietnam. it sounded like a battlefield. the unmistakable sound of an automatic weapon...

Vegas across the street from mandalay bay. a gunman has apparently opened fire from 32nd floor, a gunman who has been killed. we do not have name or mow tiff at this point but we know he had a high-power automatic weapon and shooting down into a concert that had at least 20,000 people attending, just open fire for a number of minutes into this crowd at about 10:30 last night las vegas time. about 1:30 in the east coast so maybe four hours ago and this suspect opened fire killing more than 20 peo...

The music festival, where were you when the shooting started happening, what did you see in here? >> well, i was standing side the stage about 50 feet from jason. he was actually out on the runway of the stage and before i walked up on stage they said something to us about not allowing people up there. so when shots started getting fired,i thought it was pirot pirotechnique. it was pretty chaotic and not going whats going on and its kind of a bad movie. rob: its terrible, jake. i completely unde...

Believe that there was just one shooter involved in this as authorities are telling us? >> well, it certainly seems that way and i say that as a result of the s.w.a.t. teams backing off at this point but its something that has to be done with regard to investigating the planning stage. theres a possibility that there were some other individuals involved in planning, this is why they are holding these individuals at this point. it seems like there was only one shooter and so we will have to take ...

Scanning over surveillance video trying to figure out how he snuck those weapons inside. i want you to listen again very quickly to some more sound of the shooting. play the gunfire again. you listen. you listen to the shooting, and the gunfire and the rapid gunfire and the screams of the people. we talked to experts and they said it sounds like an automatic weapon. fox news has confirmed there was an ar-15 that was modified into a fully automatic weapon which means it keeps firing as long as yo...

Slowly working their way in that direction. >> miguel, thank you. i want to bring the commissioner back. can you speak about -- we dont know specifically the weapon he used but based on the gunshots we heard it was some sort of automatic weapon. police say they found 11 other rifles, guns in his room. what kind of access do people have to this weaponry today? >> unfortunately, almost unlimited access to our country. i think nevada might be an open carry state. quite clearly just listening to the...

The most important thing looking at crowds, you see fathers with children on shoulders and they came to enjoy themselves and everyone knows what doubt -- the possibilities, but the thing about our beautiful country is we goat -- thanks for men and women fighting for freedom we get to walk out there and feel that we are okay and we are safe. to answer the question with a long answer, we sometimes think what could happen but i dont think any of us really think that something like this is really go...

We were running away from the noise. most of us are running towards the back of the venue, out the back gate and there were people directing us out. heather: where are you now, erin, are you still being told that you have to shelter in place, did you make it back to hotel? where are you? >> well, i no longer -- i was born and raised here but most of my family lives here, we ran to tropicana hotel and got on a service elevator and went to someones room and asked if we could go to their room and m...

There are companies that sell you modification kits to make sure semiautomatic weapon fire as if it were an automatic weapon. tom thanks so much. if youre curious about the paper records in west virginia, the paper records on guns, look at a gq article from a few years back, charlie houser runs this warehouse down there in wfprima facie west virginia he has it stored in his head where those records would be stored there. you can only imagine what will be lost if he retires. were looking at the a...

There, or could it have been a semiautomatic weapon that was modify today behave more like an automatic weapon. >> it could have been a semiautomatic rifle, like an ar-15 or one of its variance thats been converted by parts and drop in automatic seres and different gun parts to fire it full automatic. its clearly full automatic that you hear on the video. if you listen closely you can hear a complete empty of maybe a 30-round magazine and then a delay where hes probably reloading and then you he...