No strong lead yet now as to why he could have done this so we will be waiting for more information on that but let me ask you about a woman or a companion about was also named as a person of interest in this. Indeed there was a companion that was for many hours in the preliminary phases of this investigation companion of steven had ics who in fact was of interest to police but what we now know is that suspect that woman has been ruled out as a person of interest as a suspect apparently the gunman using her i. D. Perhaps to read the hotel room a room we know he was in from september twenty eighth and onward not clear if he allowed any of the sort of the housekeeping staff to come into that room that would have perhaps signaled something was imminent but we do know from police now that that woman that companion has been ruled out as a suspect but again this is going to take a long time to piece together las vegas is a very busy place there was a lot of hotel rooms to look through a big hotel and a lot of crowds and a lot of this crime scene now contained lockdown as investigators try to piece together very slowly carefully how this occurred what went wrong and move forward from there ok kimberly reliever for the time being we thank you very much for that update from washington lets look at nevada for a moment specifically thats the state where this attack happened it has some of the most relaxed gun laws in the u. S. So its state constitution gives every citizen the right to keep and bear arms for security and defense as well as for a lawful hunting and Recreational Use it allows people to buy a gun rifle shotgun or handgun all without a permit automatic assault weapons and machine guns are also legal as long as theyre registered lets bring in our social media producer under chappelle Online Platforms played a huge part in breaking the story down andrew and now the conversation has turned to gun control and the way the story is being reported tell us how its being reported in fact old arena didnt take long at all for two topics of conversation to trend firstly terror. Prism craig is one person many others are asking why the shooter isnt being called a terrorist by officials or by the media its being described as a shooting he wonders why Stephen Paddick is being described as a shooter wonders why calling it a double standard and inevitably perhaps gun control is also a major sub thread through this online discussion writer shawn king is one of many people who say these weapons of war should be banned there are calls to for caution many people saying we just need to grieve and then save the debate for later kimberly tweeted that the terror in las vegas just occurred dont politicize it time will come later for debate lots of pushback to that kind of sentiment online with many saying its the perfect time for debate about gun control apart from these discussions weve been working all day to sift fact from fiction as fake news stories are everywhere one that had a lot of shares and retreats emerged before the attackers identity was actually revealed by Police Hundreds of people shared this image saying that it was the man hes not of course this is samuel hyde a comedian and actor whose face appears in a lot of memes you might have seen his image has also been used by four chan trolls to falsely connect him to a dozen other shootings and attacks in San Bernardino and is also rather the munich shooting in germany and other fake stories involve missing people this image has hundreds of shares you can see here two different accounts created in the past month with the same wording saying their dad is missing when actually this is an adult film actor named johnny sins and hes not missing in the original suites you can actually see that the two accounts are actually congratulating one another for this trick one says did pretty well boss in the other replies it did referring to the posts hundreds of rates wheat so if you want to avoid falling for these kinds of fake news trolls make sure to keep watching the official channels like the official. Account for a police or Fire Department this is the Las Vegas Police department here and if you want to know if if a picture is fake try reverse google image search ing and if you still have doubt simply dont share keep sending us your thoughts on the attacks in las vegas you can tweet me directly im at enter chapelle or disease that has tagged a newsgroup and you think you will speak to Martin Reardon his Vice President of the soufan group and a twenty year veteran of the Us Federal Bureau of investigation or the f. B. I. Hes joining us here on the set thanks for being with us martin i want to break down the two issues that andrew was talking about in fact those are the conversations that are going on online one is the issue of terrorism and the other is the issue of gun control so if we look at terrorism for just a moment the sheriff who has appeared and is giving updates about the investigation says that a motive has to be established before they can classify the Las Vegas Shooting as its a mistake terrorism so theyre not ruling it out is a terrorism in your opinion too early to tell just what the sheriff said terrorism by law in the United States has to meet certain criteria basically it has to be the use of violence or the threat of violence to cause some political or social change force in the government to make some change right now we dont know what the motive is it could have been he was angry at the world it could have been a family dispute a business dispute it could be a lot of things and he took out his anger so too early to tell at this point and that is the point we are waiting to find out what the motivation is so how is that going to be well to be very key and again i could is turned you know was it an act of terrorism whether its domestic or International Terrorism but also you know if it wasnt what was the region and this is going to be done through a number of interviews with family members with associates friends people that he lives with your neighbors of thorough interview and also looking at his at his telephone you know particular Text Messages sent and received was there any any connection before hand so what sort of planning would have gone into carrying out this horrific mass shooting horrific mass shooting but not a lot of planning this was what experts were what what kind of terrorism this would call a simple attack very unsophisticated the most difficult part was getting ten or so weapons up the elevator into his room. On the issue of gun control. You know after incidents such as these after Mass Shootings that weve seen in the states theres always an outpouring of grief and rightly so after these happened but there doesnt really seem to be any movement when it comes to the issue of gun control if things think congress is this time any different well see but if you look at previous shootings that were not at the numbers of fifty but a few dozen of forty nine no changes for there. The gun lobby United States is very powerful and they have a lot of sway in congress and thats going to stop any sort of. Gun control if you look at others by some estimates more than three hundred million guns in the United States thats almost one for every man woman and child all right martin stay with us for just a second because i just want to have a listen to some of what the u. S. President donald trump had to say about the attacks that happened about ten minutes ago listen my fellow americans we are joined together today in said miss shock and grief last night a gunman opened fire on a large crowd at a Country Music concert in Las Vegas Nevada he brutally murdered more than fifty people and wounded hundreds more it was an act of pure evil the f. B. I. And the department of Homeland Security are working closely with local authorities to assist with the investigation and they will provide updates as to the investigation and how it develops i want to thank the las vegas metropolitan Police Department and all of the First Responders for their courageous efforts and for helping to save the lives of so many. The speed with which they acted is miraculous and prevented further loss of life. To have found the shooter so quickly after the first shots were fired is something for which we will always be thankful and grateful it shows what true professionalism is all about hundreds of our fellow citizens are now mourning the sudden loss of a loved one a parent a child a brother or sister we cannot fathom their pain we cannot imagine their loss to the families of the victims we are praying for you and we are here for you and we ask god to help see you through this very dark period so that was trump speaking just a short time ago what did you make of what he had to say your reaction one of the few things when he said the right things sympathy for the families there are certainly untold numbers of people and their families will be affected by this also about the questions financed by police and really determine that what floor he was on in getting up there quickly quil been a lot worse but also important is what he didnt say he did not classify this as an act of terrorism and thats important because we dont know enough yet you dont want people jumping to conclusions. A lot of viewer comments coming to us on facebook right now adam asking this evil attack which is in fact how trump categorize that he said this is an act of pure evil so adam wanting to know from you this evil attack on innocent lives in las vegas is extremists off what we dont know of the extremists yet again its streamers youre talking about eighty ology this may have nothing to do with idiology it could be an anger at the world anger at the concert goers or it could be a number of things but it doesnt necessarily to extremism and say extremism because we dont know there was an ideology involved what is the stage that invest in the investigation would be out right now and the right now its that it is a crime scene and that a final weapons were they legal weapons were the illegal weapons were they his or did he get them from somebody else or where the weapons come from how did he get everything up there any good not too complicated you can put them in Different Cases that dont look like weapons and bring them up but very important to attempt to find people that always Associates FamilyMembers Associates people that he worked with that may give some clue as to what was taking in his mind so and we also know when i put the security in fact that there was a a companion or some sort of female that was mentioned as a person of interest are you hearing anything about that only whats whats going on the news is that they have located her and it appears at this point that he may have used for her i. D. Or her credit card to get the room that she may have had no knowledge but again what she says will be important what was he thinking in these these days before the actual attack all right Martin Riordan we thank you very much for joining us on the news grid will cross over to las vegas now well speak so when we see reporter jay gray hes joining us from there to tell us whether police are releasing any more detail on the shooter as of now. Heres what we know as far as the investigation is concerned right now more weapons have been found inside his home in mosquita nevada which is about an hour and a half two hours from las vegas we also know that ten weapons were found inside that tell room where he apparently carried out this horrific attack we know that two cars have been seized and that they are poor in through those vehicles as well and that companion that you talked about that person of interest we have been told by Los Vegas Police they did talk to this woman that shes out of the country actually and they dont believe she was in any way involved with what happened here where along the famed vegas strip you can see its lockdown here theres traffic coming by this way but no one getting in and out or out of the area where this all occurred and i would imagine that its going to be that way for quite some time this is going to be an intense investigation the f. B. I. As well as state and local police all involved right now in trying to determine how and why all of this happened at this point no indication of a motive and officers tell us that it could be some time before they have any clues as to what led to this attack all right jay im sure well be checking back with you as and when you get more information but for the time being just tell us how what people there have been telling you im sure youve been speaking to people in las vegas what is the move there. Stan a lot of people still frankly in shock ive still seen even within the last hour concert goers who are still out following the attack having not been back to their hotel rooms some searching for family members or friends who got separated in the chaos some of these hotels still locked down so they cant get back inside many have been moved over to the university here in the arena there where theyre trying to reunite with the folks i saw a couple covered in blood said that they had been helping after the attack another young man who talked to us from the concert said he was missing a certain city use that as a compression device to try and sell to help somebody who has been shot so i think a lot of people here in vegas still just trying to understand something that frankly may be impossible really to get your head around all right so well leave it there we thank you jay for speaking to us from the las vegas thats jay gray well we were talking about gun control just a moment ago with martin reread and heres a reality check by up front. The n. R. A. Wasnt always anti gun control so the history behind the u. S. Constitution Second Amendment and the politics surrounding the gun control debate may actually surprise you and you can watch mad husain explore three little known facts when it comes to the politics off those debates on al jazeera dot com and the show section and click on up front then reality check. Now lets move away from las vegas for a second and take you to the gaza strip because its the most ambitious attempt in years to bring rival palestinian political factions have mass and fatah together again the palestinian Prime Minister and. He led a delegation to gaza from the occupied west bank declaring that the only way to statehood is through unity hamas which has run gaza since a two thousand and seven civil war has offered to turn all administrative responsibilities over to the law but some Sticking Points remain very fossa joining us from gaza city and i suppose the Sticking Point terry might become clearer as we keep an eye out on that Cabinet Meeting thats taking place to morrow tell us what we expect there. Well thats right this today was the arrival it was this extraordinarily warm welcome both from the public who gathered at the areas crossing the gaza side of the crossing with israel mainly young men and teenage boys some families as well to greet the delegation from ramallah and so the the atmosphere has been very positive but as you say tomorrow is when things really start getting down to brass tacks that will be the first Cabinet Meeting even that though there is some theater about that that is the first Cabinet Meeting it is an assertion of the the re assumption of power by the unity government by the Palestinian Authority here in gaza and all the attempts that have happened between two thousand and seven when the split began between the two rival factions fatah and hamas that of ended in failure this is really a big symbolic moment the questions really come further down the line because there are some easy things they can do ministerial handovers trying potentially to they have the power to lift the restrictions which have been so hurting the gazans here on top of the economic problems caused by the israeli and egyptian blockade but then come the questions about exactly how security will be reintegrated thats something that hamas has been in control of internally here in the gaza strip using its own personnel the gradual reintroduction of p. A. Personnel into that process will be one thing more widely will the reintroduction of tens of thousands of Palestinian Authority staff will that displace the tens of thousands of hamas people whove been doing their jobs in the intervening period that has to be worked out and then theres the whole question of hamas military wing the brigades hamas is saying that they were never on the table for discussion in this egypt back process which is brought us this far will the Palestinian Authority allow hamas to have that very influential powerful militarily and political body outside its control in the months and years Going Forward that Something Else that has yet to be resolved and will have to be if this is going to stick what about the people in gaza are they hopeful that first of all this is going to stick and then this is going to improve their lives theyve suffered so much under the israeli blockade. Yes so far the people we speak into are hopeful there was i think a fair bit of skepticism when this was first announced by hamas last month but now we have this big event and this this show that really the p. A. Is back here so people are hopeful of in the short term two things one the the additional p. A. Restrictions on top of the israeli and egyptian blockade will now be lifted they have yet to do that despite the positive mood music so far restrictions to staff salaries and more importantly for many people here