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Secure 42nd street to 48th street. do you go into every apartment? knock on every door? do you know how costly that is? >> yes, you dont. people used to ask me in the secret service, how do you secure the inauguration parade route? you dont. you secure it one step at a time. you have to make big things small. danny brought up a fantastic point. the idea of an attack from above. the elevated sniper position on a perch, not something that the general public had to consider before las vegas. think ...

Will of that soft target attack. and its -- when somebodys diabolical in the way he offset himself outside the ven knew. the venue could have great security, its like the airport krour have great security at the airport but now theyre going to hit people as they queue up at the security line. now were going to see people sniping people from hotels at a venue like this. this puts thoughts in your head about things we need to do to protect ourselves and prevent this from happening. perhaps we need...

That soft target attack. and its -- when somebodys diabolical in the way he offset himself outside the venue. the venue could have great security, its like the airport, you could have great security at the airport but now theyre going to hit people as they queue up at the security line. now were going to see people sniping people from hotels at a venue like this. this puts thoughts in your head about things we need to do to protect ourselves and prevent this from happening. perhaps we need a big...

Scalise who was so injured by that rifle. he was just -- if he didnt get that immediate medical care, he probably would have been bled out there. it wasnt a wound in a fatal place on his body. but the wounds are so devastating. and i think thats what people faced in las vegas. its a surprise ambush attack from an elevated sniper position with a machine gun. this about as bad as you can get it, short of a belt-fed machine gun with rounds that would never end. how many rounds you fire, gene, is a ...

Places. very appropriate. the coordination that i heard over the first hour or so of this response was exceptional. clearly there were many victims and there was a lot of discussion about treating the victims but the police responded very quickly and very effectively. and considering the sniper position that this guy had, if they hadnt got to him and forced him to commit suicide it could have been a lot worse. >> bill: you have to think the firing from that direction was confusing to people on t...

Piled into metal carts being pushed across this bridge. one older woman we spoke to just burst into tears when we asked her about the situation. another man describing how isis fighters walked into his house, didnt say a word and then set up a sniper position on his rooftop, wolf. >> its a shocking situation, tens of thousands of people now made refugee status and the question is where is the iraqi military? why are they m.i.a. missing in action allowing this to happen to their own people? more ...

This now a city under siege. upwards of 150,000 people had fled he said. some of those that we spoke to were still in complete shock. one older woman inside a cart a metal cart, being pushed across too tired to walk just burst into tears when we went to speak with her. another man that we spoke to described how isis fighters stormed into his house, didnt say a single thing to him, took up a sniper position on his rooftop, and he just grabbed his children his wife and ran out. in the middle of hi...

Simply burst into tears. another man described how isis commandeered his house as a sniper position. at this stage, if theres not significant additional assistance brooke the city will fall, and this will be a major victory for isis. >> arwa damon, thank you so much in baghdad. next more on our breaking news. ex-nfl star aaron hernandez found guilty of murder today. he will spend his life in prison. what will that life look like? were going to talk to a man who spent ten years in federal priso...

Militia, they had their guns out as well. we have pictures of guys in a sniper position looking through their sites. >> it seems that both sides were heavily armed. for the feds to back off what they originally said. they say today we announce the decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our grave concern about the safety of employees and members of the public. they talk about safety being their number one priority. you know william, i have to ask you a more direct question. do you thin...

This area has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the damascus area. we went straight to the front line to see the house-to-house combat there. were on the front line with palestinians fighting for the assad regime. snipers do much of the fighting and death can come any second. this is a pro-government sniper position. this fighter just told me he sees a sniper through his scope through-fro from here. well wait and see what happens. the man said that took out a rebel fighter. pro government fi...