situation room". erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, the breaking news. a mass shooting at a college campus. police say three are dead at this hour. one person in critical condition in las vegas. we're going to speak to a student who was in the building where the shooting happened. and more wraeki breaking nes in israel. more fighting in southern gaza. israel saying it surveyrounded top leader's home. and the republicans voted to block a package to ukraine. are they playing into putin's hands? good evening. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news. a deadly mass shooting on an american college campus. police say three people are dead at this moment. one person is in critical condition. gunfire breaking out at the university of nevada in las vegas. police saying a shooter entered a building located near the business school today, started shooting. the sound of gunfire sending students running. others barricades themselves in rooms. >> we could hear the gun shots. >> about 200 kids all in one space. a lot of people -- >> in a moment, i'm going to speak to a student who was there inside that building where the shooting happened. right now though, police have not released any information about the shooter. none at all. they say the shooter is dead but that's it. it's unclear if it's he or she. unclear if this person was one of the university's 30,000 students. students who were there preparing for final exams. stephanie elam begins our coverage. police are releasing almost nothing at this point. what have you been able to learn from your sources? >> yeah, it's really been a very small trickle amount of information. obviously the priority right now is to ensure that the campus is safe. so what we understand is that at this hour, they are still going building by building, floor by floor, clearing out that, those buildings on campus to make sure that there's nobody else who may have been injured or is still sheltering in place. mind you, everyone of the campus community was receiving messages when this happened, telling them that they needed to shelter in place. and to stay that way even after they said that the gun person was neutralized. so they want to make sure they get all those people out and get them back together with their loved ones. they're taking people off campus and taking them to the convention center where they can reunite with the people they have there. but when you listen to some of the accounts of what was going on, they, students we have seen, saying that they were knowing that this was not a drill. that the indications came to them very clearly that they were to run, hide, and fight. that is what they were tweeting to the students and messaging to the students from unlv to let them know they needed to do that. some students hearing glass shattering. some hearing gunfire. many of them locking themselves in the classrooms just trying to stay safe as best they could. move to the other side of the classroom. all of that going on while it was unclear. we know this started about 11:45 in the morning local time. by about 45 minutes later is when we heard from local authorities telling us that they were in fact done with an actual threat and then there were just processing the scene but now getting this word now that there are three dead and one in critical condition at a local hospital. that's where things stand right now. >> stephanie, thank you very much. and "outfront" now, brett johnson. a student at unlv who was in class in the building where the shooting happened. i'll show you a video he took on his phone as an alarm starting going off in the building. immediately rushing to pack up here. brett, as we're watching that, thank you for taking the time here to be with us. so you're there in class. can you tell me what happened when you first realized that something was very wrong? >> yeah, so, i was in my business law class and my professor was going over our lecture. mid lecture, i remember we heard a loud noise. sounded like, didn't sound like a gun shot. didn't have that bass behind it. to me, it doesn't sound like a gun shot. i heard a loud noise. one of my classmates stopped the lecture. she interrupted the professor and said what was that noise. everybody was kind of wandering around. our professor and everybody, we all agreed. we always hear a bunch of strange noises so he continued back to his lecture and about five seconds in, that's when the alarm came on. and i immediately took my phone out because first off, i've never heard an alarm like that before. didn't sound like a fire alarm or anything. we were all pretty calm though. we did hear that loud noise but -- freaking out. we thought it was a fire alarm or false alarm. so we started to pack our things up very nonchalantly. like i said, none of us were panicking. when we started walking out the class, that's when things got real. my teacher went to let us out the door and i remember he opened the door and he was calm before opening the door and as soon as he opened it, his face, it looked like he saw something and he kind of turned into panic a little bit and he immediately told us to get back, get back, lock the doors and get on the ground. that's when i started to panic a little bit when he told us to get on the ground. because you know, if the shooter came into the building in our classroom, we were all just basically sitting ducks. so after about 30 seconds, my teacher, he like sneakily opened the door again and assessed the situation and he looked outside and he told us to run as fast as we can. i'm grateful for him because if he didn't let us out and we were stuck in that classroom, who knows if the shooter came in, we were all just sitting ducks. i had full trust in my teacher and he opened the door and he told us to run. i ran as quick as i can. i ran down the stairs because we were on the second level of the business building and i ran immediately out the stairs. i ran past the student union. i heard he may have potentially shot in there, too. when i went out the business building, there was a bunch of students and they were telling each other to run and evacuate. that's when i ran across the street as fast as qui can. >> in all this fear, did you or your friends. >> clay: classmates realize at that time there was an active shooter? that there was someone shooting and i guess did you hear anything else other than that one initial sound? >> i just heard the one sound. i did talk to one of my classmates and they said they heard multiple sounds and that's why they were looking around. personally, i only heard one loud bang and that's what caught my attention. but none of us were concerned at first. we were all very calm. i packed my things up. i wasn't in a rush packing my things up. i thought it was just a fire alarm or something. but like i said, as soon as i saw him open the door, i seen his face turn from calm to panic, that's when things got real and he told me to get on the ground. that's when we all realized like this is serious. >> and brett, have you learned anything in these past few hours about the shooter? what they were doing? why they were there? anything? >> i literally ran across the street to chipotle across the street and just sat in the parking lot. i waited for my mom to come. she wanted to make sure i was okay so she came. but we sat there and just watched how many police cars and helicopters and ambulances and s.w.a.t. team and like it looked like every single cop in las vegas was at unlv and we were just basically out there watching what was going on. i didn't see anything or hear anything about the shooter. i just, i did see they had stretchers that they were bringing into the school though from a distance. upsetting. >> brett, i'm very sorry for what you've had to see and obviously now this is going to be part of what you have to deal with, but thank you very much for being with us and for sharing this. i appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> julia is "outfront," former assistant secretary at the department of homeland security. you hear brett talking about what happened and obviously just a horrific, traumatic thing to have to go through. thank god he's alive. classmates are alive. i wanted to ask you about how he described they heard something that didn't seem like a gun shot but when his professor opened the door and looked out, he saw something. we don't know if it was the shooter or -- it's unclear, but something he knew immediately. lock the door and lie down. he knew there was a shooter. 30 seconds later, he sneakily opens the door fweagain and tel them to run. is that what should happen? >> yes. he did everything right. run if you can. it's the only thing, get out of the line of fire. if you can. and so i don't know what the teacher saw the first time. maybe saw actually law enforcement, realized this was not nothing. realized it was active shooter or something close then when looks again, gets the kids out of there. this is a lesson we've learned from unfortunately kdecades of active shooters as well as those in universities, colleges and high schools. columbine was the lesson to run. most of the students were put in to the cafeteria or library and that's where most of them died. if you can get out, you run. and so that's what the teacher was clearly reflecting on. it's just remarkable that we kind of know this now. teachers, administrators, everyone knows what to do at this stage because we have to know it. >> you know, brett also was saying that he does not know anything about the shooter. none of us do. because frankly, police came out at the press conference that was four minutes long. we understand three people died. we understand someone's in critical condition, but the sheriff had said even some of these numbers weren't firm. four minute press conference. is that what we should expect at this point? this is now several hours past what happened. >> yeah. no. it's not. look, i know a lot of people in law enforcement disagree with me on this. i just think with these active shooter cases, the entire community is the victim. whether they've been shot or ran from shooting or not. and i think greater transparency is necessary. especially in the early stages where sort of a university like this with 30,000 students. 30,000 plus guardians or parents worried about them. you have a whole city essentially under lockdown. you've got the strip closed down. the airport stopped flights and so you have everyone reacting and so i understand that they may not know everything but i think the american public and certainly the communities, are mature enough. can understand saying things like we have at least this many or we're not concerned about this, but we are concerned about this. look, the police came out and said there was no threat anymore. so we have to assume that they knew this was a single gunman or gun woman who perpetrated this. they don't know the motive but we'll figure that out relatively soon. i know others in law enforcement say lots going on. i think part f of our training s to be the community itself is also the victim. >> juliet, thank you very much. if we get more information here that comes out on the number of victims, motive, anything, we're going to be sharing it with you this hour as we await an update from las vegas police. next though, we have more breaking news and this has israeli forces much deeper into southern gaza. fierce fighting there. tonight, they say they've got the home of hamas' highest ranking leader in gaza surrounded. but where is he? also, six republicans including the chair of nevada's republican party indicted for their role in trying to overturn the election and all six now, tonight, facing felony charges. and we're going to take you to the epicenter of the southern border crisis where officials no longer have the capability to handle the influx of migrants trying to enter the united states. >> i don't have equipment. tonight, fighting is intensifying in gaza has intensified. that is according to prime minister netanyahu. now, the idf says he was not at that home when they surrounded it earlier today. they say he wasn't quote underground. they're not saying particularly under that particular home or where. they have not given other details because israel has made a point to get him and kill him when they find them. this is newly leaked audio that reveals new details about the hostages time in captivity and shows how angry they are at the israeli government. jeremy dimon is in ashkelon along the gaza border. netanyahu coming out saying they had surrounded his home in gaza. and there is fierce fighting going on there where he is originally from. what more do you know about this? >> well, the israeli offensive in southern gaza is in full effect. the israeli military now claiming to have breached hamas' defensive lines in that southern city. they also say they are conducting raids against hamas strongholds in the center of that city. all of this as the israeli prime minister claims that israeli forces have surrounded his home. he is the leader of hamas in gaza but there's no indication that sinwar is there. in fact, the israeli prime minister making clear he could still escape. the israeli military spokesman saying he is believed to be underground so an adviser to the israeli prime minister saying this is more of a symbolic victory, akin to destroying the leader of hamas who has been living in kqatar for years. >> obviously here, the explosions behind you in the early hours of the morning and you are close to that border so we can hear it. you have also today had a chance to obtain some stunning audio that actually leaked from a meeting between some of the freed hostages, the families of people who are still hostages and prime minister netanyahu himself. what did you hear there? >> yeah, erin. about a week after many of these hostages were freed from hamas captivity, a handful of them joined dozens of family members of those still held hostage in gaza for a meeting with the israeli prime minister and his war cabinet. it was a very tense and emotional meeting where some of these newly freed hostages described their time in captivity. >> you want to keep -- >> this is the anguish of a k freed israeli hostage pleading with prime minister netanyahu. the unidentified woman was among a handful of freed hostages and dozens of hostage families who met with netanyahu and his war cabinet on tuesday. with many urging a new deal with hamas to free the estimated 138 remaining hostages in gaza. leaked audio from the meeting published on the israeli news site giving a glimpse into the tense and emotional meeting. and the dangers hostages face including from israeli fire. a second former hostage describing precarious conditions for elderly israeli hostages. another former hostage alleging hamas captors were touching the girls. underscoring the urgency for the israeli government to secure their release. >> very tense and very emotional. a lot of shouting. >> leon perry, whose 79-year-old father is still a hostage, left the meeting convinced that netanyahu and his cabinet are far more focused on the war than hostage negotiations. >> so you don't feel after this meeting that getting the hostages out is the number one priority of this government? >> no, not at all. i feel exactly like they were saying all along. they said they have to go for the war, bringing down hamas and releasing hostages. we always said that those two goals cannot work because one interferes with another. >> the israeli prime minister emerged from the meeting expressing sympathy for the hostages. >> translator: i heard stories that broke my heart. i heard about the thirst and hunger. about the physical and mental abuse. b >> but he quickly vowed to press f forward with the offensive in southern gaza. another pause in the fighting seems out of the question. which means the hostages will have to wait. are you worried that your father is losing hope? >> definitely. yeah. especially even he mentioned it to a young nurse that was with him the whole time and she was released at the end of the week. second betrayal now. first one on october 7th. when nobody stopped him from being abducted from his house and the second one now when cease fire is over and there is no more releasing of hostage and hears the bombing coming back. >> and at one point during that meeting, i'm told that netanyahu blamed hamas for ending the truce last week and ending effectively the hostage release. one person in the crowd shouted bs. that person was leor perry, who you just saw in the piece. he told me that he believes while hamas is also to blame, that the israeli government is to blame as well for not accepting some of hamas' counterer proposals. a very, very difficult situation regardless. erin? >> jeremy, thank you very much. as we said, live in ashkelon along the gaza border. next, breaking news. a close trump ally who played a key role in trying to overturn the election in nevada is indicted. he is not alone. there's been a big development in the past couple of hours in nevada. plus, more breaking news, republicans and billions of dollars in aid for ukraine. how big of a win is this for putin? breaking news. a nevada grand jury has indicted six republicans including the chair of the embattled republican party who falsely pledged nevada's electoral votes to donald trump in 2020. all fake electors are now facing felony charges and nevada is the third state to charge republican activists who falsely claimed to be legitimate representative at the electoral college. you had tracked down each of these electors, knocked on the door and asked them about this in these past days and now here we are. a grand jury has spoken and what more can you tell us about the indictment? >> well, this all traces back, erin, to something that was live streamed video from december 14th, 2020. if you don't recall what happened then, it was in nevada along with a lot of other states, where there were these official looking ceremonies. they weren't. they're really a sham. and these fake electors sat and signed documents. if you look at this video, it looks like it's official but in fact, it is not. there were six individuals in the state of nevada who are now named this indictment charged with felonies by this grand jury and this entire charade was about trying to undermine the vote. i want you to listen to what you just referenced that we try to find these republicans who have remained active in state politics and we tried to ask them what exactly is your part in this state investigation. take a listen. >> you're going to comment -- you understand it's a -- >> please, if you would turn that off. we have nothing to talk about on that. i have nothing to say. >> do you still believe trump won? >> it's irrelevant. the electoral college elects the president so they elected joe biden. so joe biden is the president. >> how do you explain what happened in 2020? that ceremony and the document you signed. >> again, no comment on this. >> both those now names defendants in this indictment didn't have anything to say through their lawyers or when we called their officers. also, jesse law, another named defen defendant. he announced a run as a republican for state assembly. they're going to be involved in state politics including michael mcdonald, the head of the republican party. >> adam kinzinger is with me now along with ryan goodman. all six indicted on two felony charges in nevada. you've got a grand jury. your peers. other citizens looking at the evidence and preponderance of the evidence and coming up with this conclusion. how significant is that? >> i think very. it's also a signal to these false electors in other states. look at them. they've been left holding the bag. donald trump's not indicted in nevada. they are. i th