Breaking news just in to cnn. Police in las vegas are investigating reports of an active shooter near the mandalay bay casino on the strip. Police are asking everyone to avoid this area. Were just getting to see some video of the scene. Well bring you more updates as we get them. Right now we want to join our affiliate in las vegas, klas, and try and get some more information from them. Some are holding their arms or legs or whatever it, just trying to find that medical staff to get the assistance that they need. But for now reporting live, darlene melendez, 8 news now. So, again, we wont be able to tell much from the little clip we got from that news reporter. But we are going to continue to monitor the story. You can see a lot of Police Presence. Lets try to listen in and see if they are a reporter on the scene again. Weve seen some of metros units coming through here. They have an entire kind of Tactical Team that is set up on the perimeter as well. And you can see all of the first responder, all of those firefighters, ambulances, all getting in here, trying to help people who may have been hurt or possibly worse. We dont know the extent of the injuries at this point. But to kind of speak to that point that you were talking about, gerard, as potential shooters that had high ground advantage, i spoke with one witness who told me thats exactly what he saw. He saw someone that was several floors high and was shooting into the crowd of people. He said he heard hundreds of shots, and we dont know exactly how many people might have been injured in this. But as you can tell, its a very chaotic situation now. I want to show you what has happened here on the south side of the strip. All of these people, and we can turn the camera around here, all these people have been told they cannot stay in the area, that its not safe. We have casino workers. We have tourists here with their luggage. And we have hundreds and thousands people all lining down. You see how many people, the scope of it that have been affected by this. And by the way, this road, las vegas boulevard completely and effectively shut down at this point. A lot of people on their phones, you can see trying to get in contact with family, presumably, trying to make sure that they know that theyre okay. But also trying to figure out exactly what is going on. But, again, gerard, this is a very fluid situation. Were trying to figure out exactly whats going on here. But the main priority that police have told everybody here, and you can see some of the Police Officers telling people that are in the road to get out of the road, safety here is priority. You see some more folks over here coming into the cordoned off kind of safe area, the area that police are telling everybody to go to. But there is a lot of folks here. They said within five to ten minutes, i caught up with them and theyre asking where do i go . I dont know where to go. How do i get a cab out of here . And everything enclosed in on them. If you take a look on this side, on the west side of the strip here, you can see its all lined up with police cars, all units out here from different agencies here to try to help out. And we also have air units that are looking from the sky as well. We are actively trying to work and try to figure out exactly what is going on here. Were going to talk to some more folks, see what they had to say and what this experience has been like for them. For now lets send it back to you, gerard. Nathan, thanks once again for the update outside mandalay bay. I want to bring people up to speed there has been a shooting with multiple victims just outside mandalay bay there was a concert taking place. All right. Thats the station there in las vegas bringing us the very latest. You see the Police Presence. We just heard from our affiliate reporter there that apparently there are multiple victims who were shot. Hundreds of shots according to witnesses. They heard someone was several floors high, shooting into the crowd from the area of manned d mandalay bay resort there. The las vegas boulevard is shut down there. Is no word on so much we dont know how many victims do, they have the shooter, the area secured. This story broke about within the past 15, 20, 25 minutes. And what we knew was, all we knew was there is an active shooter everyone should take cover. So we have several affiliates in las vegas continuing to bring us the latest on this story. And as we continue to get more information trickling in, we will bring it to you. But you can see the scene right there in las vegas. Its an evening in las vegas on sunday night. You can imagine the crowds. You see the people that are standing around, not sure where to go. I guess theyve been evacuated from that area. While police figure out what has happened and who has been injured. And well continue to follow it as we get more information for you. Wait. If we see a reporter like that, well go back to it. But for now were going bring you other news were following as well. U. S. President donald trump sending mentioned messages about u. S. Policy towards north korea. U. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson said saturday he had lines of communication with north korea, but a day later, the president tweeted that talks with pyongyang were a waste of time. We get more now from ryan nobles. Reporter mixed messages coming from the Trump Administration as it relates to north korea. This after secretary of state Rex Tillerson left a meeting with the president of china where he talked about having conversations and open lines of communications with the north koreans. The president tweeting on sunday morning, quote, i told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful secretary of state that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with little rocket man. Save your energy, rex. Well do what needs to be done. Now this is in response to what tillerson had to say in beijing. Tillerson saying, quote, we are probing, so stay tuned. We asked would you lick the talk . We have lines of communication to pyongyang. Were not a dark situation or a blackout. We have a couple of channels to pyongyang. We can talk to them. We do talk to them directly through our own channels. Now the president essentially telling his secretary of state that he is wasting his time by attempting to talk to china. And that seems to fly directly in the face of the long Held Administration policy that diplomacy was the first option and military would be second. In the state Department Spokeswoman seemed to be trying to clean up the back and forth with the president with tweets of her own saying diplomatic channels are open for kim jong un. They wont be open forever. She went on the say that dprk will not obtain Nuclear Capabilities whether through diplomacy or force. It is up to the regime. And the closest advisers to president trump, and that would be his secretary of state Rex Tillerson and the defense secretary jim mattis had long pushed for diplomacy being the primary option. Holding out a military strike as a last possible move if they felt there were no options left. The administrations stated goal continues to be disarming the Kim Jong Un Nuclear program and in particular preventing him from being able to put a Nuclear Warhead on a missile that could strike the United States or its allies. Ryan nobles, cnn, with the president in new jersey. Mr. Trumps dismissal of diplomacy is also likely to have an impact in south korea. Our Paula Hancocks is tracking that. She joins me now from seoul. And the new government of south korea has indicated a willingness for diplomacy. So what is the reaction to this kind of misconnect between secretary of state and the u. S. President . Well, natalie, there has been no direct response to this there is no direct reaction. We wouldnt really expect one. This is obviously something that the south korean would not really want to intervene in clearly. The government here in south korea is more pro dialogue, more engagement than the previous conservative administration. But up until now president moon jaein of south korea has been going along with the u. S. More hard line approach of pressure and sanctions. But when it comes to the actual tweets from the u. S. President , the officials here and to be honest, the officials in many countries around the world are quite reticent to comment directly. I did speak to the south korean moon jaein a couple of weeks ago, and i asked him about a separate tweet from the u. S. President when he talked about south koreas appeasement of north korea. President moon said its important not to take president trumps tweets too narrowly. I think thats the best answer youre going get, that officials here are not wanting to be drawn on what does i peer to be a disconnect between the u. S. As secretary of state and the u. S. President. Natalie . Do they have any plans for meetings with mr. Tillerson while he is in that area . Well, secretary of state has gone back to the United States. But certainly, it was an important meeting that he had in china. It was clearly coming off the back of renewed sanctions of the u. N. Security council resolution. Very important that china is fully on board with implementing those sanctions fully. We have heard a number of pledges from china recently when it comes to trying to prevent revenues getting to north korea that can be funneled into its nuclear and missile programs. So certainly china on paper and its verbal verbally corresponding with the sanctions that have been passed. But its what happens on the ground that is the most important thing. China shares a very large border with north korea. And if china was able to or willing to, then it could really strengthen the restrictions financially on north korea and really start to make north korea feel that pinch. But certainly its interesting that this is happening at this point when many people in the region are looking ahead to the u. S. President donald trump visiting here next month as well. Natalie . Yes, many people will be watching that for sure. Paula, thank you so much for your reporting there from seoul, south korea. We want to turn back to the breaking news that has just happened about 20, 25 minutes ago. Police in las vegas investigating reports of an active shooter near the mandalay bay casino on the strip. Police are asking everyone to avoid this area. You can appreciate the Police Presence with the sirens. Lets go to our affiliate reporter there on the ground. We just saw that team that was moving, that Tactical Team that moved in. But a very serious situation out here. And i want to bring in danny here. He is visiting from australia you. Were in the mandalay bay earlier. Tell me what you saw, what you heard. We saw first officers about eight running into the lift bay at 31 lift bay. They were going up. They were coming down that were going this way, we were told to get out, we were told to get. In one shooter is still up there. And one is roaming around and weve been told to come here and we think were safe here because there is so many police. Ed you to see the shooters . No. Did you hear anything . Yeah, a lot of gunshots. But the initial gunshots apparently like machine gun fire. So it was like a rapidfire . Yep, yep. Correct. So when you put that i mean, what was your reaction when you heard all that . We knew it was chaos and mayhem. People were rung out of everywhere. People were really unaware of where the ground person was. Going this way, that way. S. W. A. T. Everywhere. We were tucked away, about 12 of news a little car park thing. And s. W. A. T. Came and said hands up. This way. You described to me that you were running from mandalay bay for the last hour. Why do you feel like you were running . We didnt know where the shooter was. The police were telling us telling us to go that way. So we knew they were confused like they were. We wanted to stay close to this one s. W. A. T. Car, they ushered us out and said go that way. And we feel there is a lot of police here. We started running. Like fullon sprinting . Running. And carrying bags and helping people. It was about i dont know, 12, 14 of us and we all stuck together. A couple of big boys, we thought we would have a chance if we stuck together. What ran through your head when you heard shoot . Im from australia. We dont that stuff that much. But you run what people tell you risks you staying at the mandalay bay . Yeah. We had conference theres tomorrow, today and the next day. Did you see anybody that was injured or hurt . Apparently all the twitter reports said the shooters were shooting at the concert across the hall. Thankfully you guys are okay. Hopefully everybody can keep safe out here. Okay. It looks like we have some movement here. Theyre kind of expanding the perimeter here. Police are telling everybody to move further south. So were going to do that as well. If you can turn the camera here, it looks like teams are getting ready to move in. So this is escalating here, at least in the urgency we see. A lot of people out here with their phones trying to document it. But we can see lets try to migrate with them so were not getting in anybodys way here. But as you can imagine, trying to get thousands and thousands of people to move all cohesively and out of the way and keep them out of harms way. The priority here for metro and all of the Law Enforcement agencies that are out here right now. But its a surreal sight to see. All right. Nathan, whatever you do, just make sure that youre following the advice there of the officers and the commands as all the residents there are and the citizens are. We want to go ahead and show you some images as well that weve been receiving via social immediate dwlachlt media. This is via banjo. What youre looking at are the crowds rung. Were going to interrupt because cnn is getting word that multiple people are at the University Medical center in las vegas with gunshot wounds. Thats according to a hospital spokeswoman. Weve been hearing from the people there who have been getting out of the way, saying that they heard up to hundreds of shots from a shooter that was somewhere in the vicinity of the mandalay bay casino. Thats it there in the distance you see with the vertical gold stripes. But again, were just learning multiple people have been taken to the hospital suffering from gunshots. Were also learning from the people, this reporter for our affiliate is talking with that they were attending some sort of concert. And it seems that this shooter was aiming at them as this person moved about firing a weapon that witnesses there again, these are witnesses doing the best they can to explain what they experienced in a very hurried, layharried scary situation, that some sort of highpowered machine gun. You can see right there that officers are moving in. We cant tell where theyre coming from and where theyre headed. But our reporter there saying it seems some s. W. A. T. Teams were staking out a new location and continued to scour this area because we do not know right now whether this area is secure, whether they have an idea of where this shooter is, where the shooter is in custody. We just dont know. This is a situation that has just been under way for about 25 minutes now, and were going to stay on top of it and continue to monitor it and bring you what we are learning. Quick break here. Were right back with this breaking news out of las vegas. Hello, everyone. Im Rosemary Church joining Natalie Allen now as we cover this breaking news just in to cnn. Police in las vegas investigating reports of an active shooter near the manndaly casino on the strip. Police are asking everyone to avoid this area. Were getting more video from the scene and were seeing more of the Police Response moving in. S. W. A. T. Teams moving into that area. Theyve ordered everyone out from around the area of the mandalay bay. And as we reported a short while ago, cnn has learned that multiple people had been taken to University Medical center in las vegas with gunshot wounds. Thats according to a hospital spokeswoman who talked with us. And the people theyd been interviewing right here on the street have been telling us they were getting pushed back farther and farther. And they apparently, rosemary, were attending some sort of concert. And that shooter, according to these witnesses, was somewhere it seems in the mandalay bay, just shooting down on people in the crowd. We heard from a couple of australians who had been there getting ready for a conference. And as you say, they were there at a concert. And as far as they had heard, it sounded like multiple shots, almost like automatic shots, some sort of automatic weapon. But at this point, we dont know very much as we watch our affiliate bringing in these pictures for us. As they say, the s. W. A. T. Team is going in. We dont know exactly where they are at this point. And we dont know very much about the situation. But, of course, clearly it has affected a lot of people there in las vegas along the strip. And police are trying to keep people as far away from this action as possible. Lets listen in to this reporter. Telling us as we were walking down las vegas boulevard that we have to keep moving to keep everybody safe. And its a slow but steady pace with thousands of people, telling them to keep on the sidewalks so they can keep the roadways here. Because they do have patrol cars that are trying to make their way through here. Theyre telling us all the way down the sunset, thats where theyre saying is a potentially safe area. You can see all of these Police Officers here, theyre coming from all over the place, by the way. We saw henderson police. We also saw metro. We got clark county fire out here. A lot of first responders, all out here. Its all hands on deck at this point. But i was just talking to some folks that were i believe on the 14th floor of mandalay bay facing the strip. They told me when this all went down that. Heard the gunshots coming near the room. They could hear it. It was rapidfire. They heard what they said was hundreds of shots. And were going to walk down here. So were trying to make sure not to trip while were doing it. Hundreds of shots that were coming from several floors up. Thats what one witness told me. And they said they actually had a daughter that was in that concert venue. They were worried about her. They were able to get