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He seemed to be making his living as a recent professional gambler. he was a high stakes poker player. we know from transactions that the fbi observed he was betting as much as $10,000 a pop. avenues college graduate who worked as an auditor for a time. he was living in a retirement community. he is 64 years old. living with his 62-year-old asian-american girlfriend who is now in tokyo. so theres a lot about stephen paddock that doesnt fit what weve understood about past mass shootings but we do...

Sounds familiar because thats what happened friday night at the bataclan. another man arrested for this. why is that important? another missed warning sign. someone arrested three months before that attack, speaking of exactly the same kind of plot with exactly the same plotter. the trouble is, so many potential plotters around the country, so many potential terrorists. its proven and we saw it friday, difficult to track them. >> jim, thank you. as jim mentioned, he appears to have been, appears...

Situation like this of automatic weapons fire, but automatic weapon fire means essentially a machine gun. you hold the trigger down and while you hold it down bullets are flying faster than you could fire the bullets yourself. it is basically a steady stream of bullet. semiautomatic is a common thing in the united states. there are millions in civilian hands in the united states. automatic weapons on the other hand, almost unheard of in the u.s. because they were all but banned by congress in th...

>> all semi auto. >> im not going to discuss what he had on him at the time. >> interesting point that. the fbi special agent in charge in tennessee being asked about the type of weapons used in this attack today in chattanooga that murdered four u.s. marines. the fbi said numerous weapons were used but wouldnt say what type exactly. as you heard one reporter narrow it down asking if they were semiautomatic weapons but so far official s are not saying and it maybe an interesting point here. ther...

The fbi said numerous weapons were used but wouldnt say what type exactly. as you heard one reporter narrow it down asking if they were semiautomatic weapons but so far official s are not saying and it maybe an interesting point here. there were a bunch of news reports that describe the weapons used in this attack as automatic weapons. one defense official said the gunman used an automatic weapon as did one of the witnesses to this attack whose witness report was widely reported. there were nume...

[ gunfire ] [ explosions ] >> this is coming to us from the saudi owned television. you can hear the shots being fired, the rapid succession of gunshots are anti-aircraft firing at saudi jets. you can also hear what appears or what sounds like automatic weapons fire, as well. and also the sound of explosions in the distance too. we know that the capital has been rocked by a number of strikes over the past few hours. saudi arabias military has already struck military targets in yemen under houthi...

On its facebook page the egyptian military saying they arrested 440 quote armed men and terrorist unquote. security forces clashing with muslim brotherhood fighters and attacks on christian churches. conflicting information coming in and accusations that cannot be fully verified because of the truly chaotic situation on the ground. some reporters there are calling it urban warfare plain and simple. were being careful about our reporting and making perfectly clear which are claims, which are soli...

Clear which are claims, which are solid undisputed fact. one such fact, some opponents of the military government are clearly willing to die for their cause. new video tonight shows it may be very hard to watch. a man what weve highlighted unarmed walking straight into automatic weapons fire. again, this is very tough stuff. you might want to turn away right now. [ gunshots] >> horrible situation. very, very rough day in egypt. joining us now our man in cairo and joins us by phone a member of th...

So its him against law enforcement. sbn isolated. they will return fire as he fires at them. basically too much risk of them being injured by his gunfire. they will attempt to take him out with sniper fire if they can. but the preferred course of action would be for him to surrender. they will make efforts to get a communications device into that cabin if in fact he has no telecommunications within. >> its been described as automatic weapons fire. what would that be? i thought theyve all been ou...

There was automatic weapons fire. there was an early report on the scanner traffic, the police radio, that he had -- was believed to at least have a handgun with a silencer, and he has now been firing at officers with automatic weapons and has hit at least two officers, and they have been evacuated from the area, and theyre now waiting for a medevac helicopter to come in and take them off to medical care. martin? >> obviously, john, were following this breaking story, and theres some confusion a...