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Will become as well, randy. i often wonder about the investigations in cases like these because we all want answers. we are in a 24-hour cycle, we want answers, we want them now. was he connected to terrorism? what was the motivating factor? when you hear that a man was able to bring in, i mean, an arsenal of ammunition inside the mandalay bay hotel, 23 weapons, may be converting some of those weapons to automatic weapons, what goes through your mind? would that be possible in your scenario of l...

Focus, something that might be possible? >> i think it is possible. i think if you talk to most americans they should be shocked to know that fully automatic weapons are legal in many parts of the country if you get the right permits and the aftermarket modifications, packages that you can buy to turn a semiautomatic weapon into an automatic weapon are legal, as well. so i think that you have to walk before you can run. when youre talking about changing federal gun policy and making clearer the ...

It didnt turn up social media posts or anything else to indicate that he planned the attack. they found more guns in the house. he owned more than 40 weapons in all. they found 23 in his hotel room at the mandalay bay, 19 more at the house. they also found at his home in mesqui mesquite. several gun stars in the region said he bought hand guns and rifles from them over the past several months but they say those sales were legal. his live. in girlfriend was out of the country when the shooting to...

People 325 feet into a pieeo mass of 30,000 people. the amount of carnage, i feel the body count will rise. >> 32nd floor. it sounds like automatic weapons. the windows dont open. he would have had to have smashed through the window. >> certainly. you could take a chair to do that. that could be the first round of fire that he did. what planning went into this. when he checked into the hotel, did he specifically request that room facing the area? we all tried to do that in hotels. this guy has a...

That is because theyre very good at controlling bleeding. you have to understand. automatic weapons. it causes a spray of bullets. shred metal. injury and arteries. organs, and the goal of the first 24 hours is simply to stop the bleeding. that is very difficult to do, it does with all the blood comes. blood donations, very key. a lot of the centers are already overwhelmed, and your right to the call will go national. within the first few hours, they try to stop the bleeding. that is what they a...

>> one of the problems we have is for example -- first of all, we dont know the exact details of what specific gun he used, where he got it, how we got access to it so theres a lot of fact that we dont have in play at to make those decisions. however, automatic weapons have been banned in the united states for civilian sale since 1986. >> martha: he got a hold of it. >> thats the point about gun control. the people who are intent about killing people will get the guns anyway. by the way, if he a...

You are not only doing plate readers that might have picked up the two cars they were they are looking for or videotape that might have come up in the hotel where they were staying at. you need to get that human intelligence. it is so critical to track those folks down. >> we dont know the why. we dont know why the 64-year-old man did it. we know about the how. we know he got up to this 32nd floor hotel room. he must have smashed out the wiped because we dont believe the window open. he had a wh...

Last week, yesterday, the month before, two months before. where did the guns come from? when they designed as automatic weapons? were they adapted? you could tell from the fire rates those were bell fed or drum fed. very large capacity weapons systems that you see on battlefields in iraq and in afghanistan and elsewhere. this is just devastating weapons system that was opened up on that crowd. >> earlier las vegas police said that the shooter was known to authorities but in that presser at the ...

What changed to lead to this madness that we saw last night. >> neil: you know, he did a lot of damage for one guy, randy. obviously had a lot of weapons. a lot of automatic weapons a lot of machine gun type devices that could allow him to take out a lot of people in a short amount of time. even if authorities were able to close in and knew where he was by that time, he already had done a lot of damage. >> right. exactly. the estimate is somewhere around 20 minutes. during that 20 minutes, he li...

Ambulance by ambulance. unsure if they would be taking fire themselves. >> extraordinary work and we see it time after time for people in the first responder jobs. thank yous for that. >> we want to dig in to what was going on behind the scenes. im joined by jim cavanaugh and tim kelly, jim, i want to start with you, lets talk about the guns he may have been using. experts that have been listening to the videos that witnesses were taking from the scene talk about the bullets fired one after the ...