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>> multiple medical checks. south of reno. >> when we were there, jason aldean was performing. he was 10 minutes in and we heard what we thought were fireworks. it looked like smoke from mandalay bay, and then he kept performing and then we heard it again. they cut the music and everyone said drop, and everyone dropped, and everyone got up and they said run. and everyone started stampeding and charging and knocking over grills, jumping over fences. getting out. we tried to run into mgm, and ever...

Steve? >> reporter: a lot of what were seeing from above, we saw filter out on the ground. police swarming this scene shortly after that shooting took place. speaking to victims as has been mentioned all throughout this morning, a lot of them thought that that original gunfire was some sort of fireworks or some sort of sound that was part of the show, just not recognizing the sound of constant automatic gunfire raining down. who would think that thats what it was? people looked up and confirmed ...

Festival. now the associated press reports that concert goers told them they saw muzzle flashes from the upper floors of the hotel across las vegas boulevard. here is the chaos, as described by witnesses, beginning with the police scanner as it unfolded. >> its coming from upstairs mandalay bay. upstairs mandalay bay, halfway up. shots from mandalay bay. multiple casualties. multiple casualties. >> repeated, be advised it is automatic fire, fully automatic fire from an elevated position. take co...

>> exactly. >> and thats absolutely true. >> thats my point. leads to how much planning was going on here. ayman mohyeldin and yasmin voosoughian have been covering this. >> weve been showing jason aldeans video all night. lets take a listen to our interview with him. >> i thought, honestly, im a local. i thought honestly from the smell it smelled like a pyrotech knick. i thought they messed up, that they were going to shoot fireworks and it was misfiring. then it stopped and went again and then...

More reaction from victims. >> reporter: weve been speaking to eyewitnesss throughout the course of the evening. some of the initial information that we were getting word from those concert goers who were using their cell phones to document some of the initial videos that have proven to be critical as you heard there and as you and jim were talking about the sounds of that gunfire. that was actually from one of the eyewitnesss. we had a chance to track him down and spoke to him in the early hour...

We heard what we thought were fireworks. it looked like smoke from mandalay bay. we heard it again and they cut the music. they said everyone got. everyone got up and they said run. and everyone starting stampeding, knocking over grills, jumping over fences. we ran past tropicana. we tried to run this way. we hid in a bush for an hour. >> clip after clip after clip. bullets flying everywhere. everybody running. it was really bad. >> and you guys said that there were multiple shots fired? >> we w...

Together but nobody can, at this point, understand why. >> reporter: nobody can understand why. if you have an automatic rifle, if thats confirmed the weapon in this case, to rain down terror in a group of people packed in that tightly. what happened after that, you heard from people in the crowd who thought it was just part of the show. i think a lot of people that maybe never heard automatic gunfire to that degree, particularly when youre enjoying a concert on the vegas strip, its the furthest...

Multiple casualties. multiple casualty. >> repeat, just be advised it is automatic fire, fully automatic fire from an elevated position. take cover. >> multiple dfws in the chest, legs, femoral arteries south of reno. >> when we were there, jasondean was performing. hes like ten minutes in. we heard what we thought were fireworks and it looked like smoke from mandalay bay. he kept performing and we heard it again and they cut the music and everyone said drop and everyone dropped and then everyon...

July kind of fire works, this coming from the new jersey governor chris christie, state approximate beaches off limits, closed to everyone except he and his family, you guys. april, christies office tried to divert attention saying the governor was not sunbathing. you look at this picture with he and the family there on the beach. are people owed a better explanation coming directly from the governor? >> yes. new jersey is having some financial issues. and if the governor says, you know, things ...

♪ me to the moon (elegant music) ♪ and let me play (bell rings) happy birthday, america. the president has a low key july fourth hosting veterans at the white house. but there are more firework in his future. and thats the subject of this weeks "state of the cartoonia". >> enjoy the fire works.