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Island was devastated by two hurricanes. Geraldo rivera caught up with the president for an exclusive interview you will only see right here on hannity. All of that and more from vegas and tonights opening monologue. On the ground in vegas tonight, 59 people have died. 527 literally were injured. 527 people. Innocent civilians. Americans. After a mad man went on a rampage during a Country Music festival. Tonight, authorities are still working to determine the motive behind us shooting. Heres what we know so far about this mad man. His name is Stephen Paddock. According to his brother, he was a multimillionaire who was a frequent gambler. There are reports that the gunmans father was a bank robbery and was on the fbis most wanted list. Paddock extensively planned this massacre. Theres also released video of the hotel room crime scene where you can see the gun that paddock used to carry out the deadly attack laying on the ground. 23 guns were found in the room including some that were modified in order to fire, like an automatic weapon. According to reports, paddock set up a camera inside the hotel room to film his rampage. They also set up security footage and we are asking the Hotel Tonight release this. The American People deserve to see what happened. Police also say that paddock put a camera inside of a food cart that was left outside of his room in the hallway so he could see if any police were coming. Also tonight, we are learning more about the shooters girlfriend. Her name, marilou danley, authorities are now saying as a person of interest. Sources are telling fox news that paddock sent thousands of dollars overseas that may have been for his girlfriend. Shes currently traveling in the philippines. However, it remains unclear who actually received this money. U. S. Government sources are telling fox news that investigators have interviewed an immediate relative of Stephen Paddocks girlfriend. This relative described the gunman as unstable and said he made them feel very uncomfortable. We will have much more in the possible motive throughout this hour. Democrats, liberals and the mainstream media, celebrities, latenight comedians, all predictably rushing to politicize this tragedy and predictably calling for more gun control. We will get those examples in a second. Unlike them, we promised you on this show we care about truth and facts and victims and families and we are not peddling conspiracy theories or rushing to judgment. We are not trying to use this incident to score cheap political points. Its probably why we almost doubled our competitors in the ratings last night. The American People, you can no longer trust these people in the mainstream media. It is sad. Journalism in america is dead. We told you liberal cnn reporter jeff sell any said the only reason the president cares about the vagus shooting is because the victims are probably his supporters. Cbs had a fire one of their lawyers. Why . For mocking the shooting victims and not even caring. Unfortunately, things are getting much worse. Before we show you these grotesque and appalling examples, and i want to watch. This ever so powerful video. This is from the concert last night. An hour before the shooting took place, 30,000 people in the crowd. My friend, friend, big rich, they led the crowd. They honored the military. Almost everyone in the crowd raising their phone, with the light and singing collectively god bless america. Watch this powerful video. God bless america my Home Sweet Home come on, vegas sing my Home Sweet Home sean so powerful. So necessary. We all need to come together like the people in the crowd did one hour before the massacre. They want republicans or democrats, liberals or conservatives, americans singing god bless america. Ill get back to my monologue and a second. Theres a press conference going on at this hour. We want to get the latest information. We will come back to the monologue. Ill make it very clear to you that i need some patients from you. This investigation is a long time from being concluded. We recently went down to mandalay bay. I can tell you we are days away from processing or completing the process of that room. We are getting very close to the completion of the processing of the site. We have a significant amount of time left there as well. The southbound portion of las vegas boulevard is completely open. We are also working to diligently as we speak. We opened up two of the northbound lanes. The completion of the northbound lane should occur sometime this evening. So bearing in mind that the investigation is dynamic, ongoing, continuing i dont have a lot of answers for you yet. Clearly understanding that nobody wants answers to why . More than the police. We want to get it right. Thats why it will take time. We will take that time. Theres some at best interesting reporting about how long the shooting lasted and how long it took us to get into the room. First question is how long that the actual shooting last . Im prepared to give you some information on that. The first call came into our dispatch at 10 08 00 p. M. The suspect we know fired off and on for someone between 911 minutes. We know the suspect fired over a dozen or so volleys. We know the firing by the suspect ceased at 10 19. The first minute the police are aware of shots being fired at 10 08, and it ended at 10 19. A remarkable response by the police department. Another question that came out, how long before our s. W. A. T. Team entered the suspects room . Someone said 72 minutes. Why so long . As i just mentioned, as the sheriff mentioned previously in the briefing, we had patrol officers working in another event at mandalay bay who heard the shooting and took it upon themselves to form into a team and entered the stairwell, ascending the floors and evacuating hotel guests. The s. W. A. T. Team had to arrive first at mandalay bay before they could take any action. As i mentioned earlier, there was a very Heroic Security guard. Who was shot during the search of that suspect. That Security Guard went up to the room, advancing towards the room when the suspect fired towards the door at the Security Guard and struck him. He was able to provide Additional Information to the police on exactly what room we were looking at. However at that time, it is important to note that the shooting had stopped. We are considering it a barricade at that point because it is no longer an active shooter. The floors had already been evacuated with the gas. The suspect was isolated and contained within a room. At the point the s. W. A. T. Team made their decision based on what it was appropriate to enter. I want to make it clear again to you that while there was that slight delay, the suspect was no longer firing into the crowd. There was a question about the validity of the crime scene photos that somebody had leaked. I can confirm those are in fact photos from the inside of room. They are in fact photos of our suspect and as the sheriff mentioned previously, we have all opened up an internal investigation to determine the source and leaks of those photos to the public. You ask what we found in the sheriffs mark suspects room the sheriff spoke about that, kim is being located. To clarify, there were two cameras located in the hallway. So that the suspect could watch as Law Enforcement were approaching the room. There is another camera placed inside the Hotel Room Door peephole so he could see down the hallway. At this point, you had a number of questions about the weapons and the sac from the ats to my right, jill snyder will answer or provide a statement to you but not take any questions. Good evening. I am special agent in charge, jill snyder. Special agents from the San Francisco Field Division Las Vegas Field Office responded to the shooting that occurred on sunday. Additional agents from other locations within the San Francisco Field Division as well as agents from ats los angeles, dallas, phoenix, and boston Field Divisions have been working on this investigation. We know you have many questions regarding the firearms in this case. Theres also been a lot of unofficial information being recorded reported regarding the guns. We would like to clear up any conflicting information regarding the number of firearms and the current status of the trace information. Please understand that this investigation is ongoing and they wont be taking questions at this time because we are still working through all of our investigative findings. I will give you the facts we have as of this time. Currently, 47 firearms have been recovered. These firearms were recovered from three different locations. Those locations consisted of the hotel room, as well as ferriday and mesquite, nevada. They were purchased in nevada, utah, california, and texas. The gunman purchased rifles, shotguns, and pistols. At this time, none of the guns recovered appear to be homemade. There were 12 bumped fire stocks in the hotel room. The ats firearms and Ammunition Technology Division Research is the of bump stocks. Whether they mechanically alter the firearm to fire fully automatic. Bumped fire stocks while simulating automatic fire do not actually alter the firearm to fire automatically, making them illegal under current federal law. It is still being determined which firearms were used in the shooting. All of the firearms have been traced. We are still awaiting results from some of the firearms that were located at the mesquite residence. As the investigation proceeds, ats will continue to conduct interviews and provide resources to the sheriff and all our local Law Enforcement departments. Thank you. As this Investigation Continues on, we continue to hear stories of Heroic Police officers, First Responders and average citizens alike. I commend all of their actions as they show immense courage in the face of extreme danger. I want to mention one of those brave people was Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer hartfield. He was at the route 91 concert along with his wife when shots rang out. Even though officer hartfield was at the concert as a civilian, he immediately took action to save lives. In that moment, he was acting as a police officer. He ultimately gave his life protecting others. Officer hartfield was and 11 meet back year member of the las vegas pd and leaves behind a wife and two children. We are very grateful for his sacrifice. Will be individual at 6 00 p. M. , the park is located at 50 5250 located as his community has become accustomed, when we do provide information in regards to our critical incidents, we release body cam footage to you. There is a significant amount of body camera footage to go through. I will play a clip on our new very large monitor. A compilation of a number of those body worn cameras. You will see the officers were dealing with some uncooperative citizens at times but at all times, they were trying to locate the source of the gunfire as well as evacuate those citizens that were in the line of fire. I think the video will speak for itself. I will try to narrate a little bit for you as we try to go through. Carlos, if you could play that for me. That wall faces mandalay bay. They are hunkered down behind that wall after an initial firing of shots. Get down go that way go that way. Go that way. At this point, they are still trying to figure out where the rounds are coming from. [blitz bullets firing] everybody stay down. Stay down. Mandalay bay. Get behind. Cover. A couple of officers hunkered down next to a patrol vehicle on las vegas boulevard. One of our officers gets shot. Get back. Get back. Get in there. Mandalay bay. This video is obscured. The officers wearing the yellow reflective vest, thats what you are actually seeing. Everybody get down, get down. Get down. Very difficult to tell but the officer is standing over another woman. [bullets firing] get down. Get down. I heard him say i have a fast on. Go. This way, this way, this way. That way, that way, that way. Before i take some questions, i understand the coroner is here now. Sorry, i was looking right past you. Thank you. I would like to stay my condolences go out to all those involved in this incident. Especially the family and friends who have lost loved ones in this incident and i would like to provide some updated information on what is happening at the Family Assistance Center, the convention center. We are fully operational all evening, all through the night and tomorrow at noon, we will make a determination with whether or not we will be open 24 hours Going Forward but at minimum, we will be open from present time to 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow. We are still fully operational to answer any questions that the families may have, any friends of the families. I would also like to clarify we are not releasing property at the Family Assistance Center. As the sheriff mentioned earlier, thats going to be released. They are developing a plan currently to release that property in the future and i am certain it will be put out there one of these press conferences. I would like to also discuss some of the numbers we have been dealing with over there, we had that question earlier. By multiple media outlets. It is estimated we have served over 1,000 family members and friends at the assistance center. We are providing all sorts of services to include Bereavement Services and our staff at the Clark County Coroners Office has been meeting with every family. Id like to again thank them. They are an Amazing Group of people and they are doing amazing job serving everyone of these families. I think everybody except for the families would consider this a huge success at the Family Assistance Center and rightly so. The reason the families may not is because if they are waiting one minute longer for us to provide information, its too long. Theyve been very pretty patient. I appreciate that. We are doing everything we can to communicate with them and get them the information that they need. If they want to come down to the Family Assistance Center, we are there to receive them and communicate them. If they are not able to attend, i would like to provide the number. 18665255855. We have call takers standing by. I believe that is tailored off quite a bit. To date, we have received over 3,000 missing persons reports. Id like to clarify what that means people dont miss report the intent of that number or the intent of me giving you that number. That by no means means that we have 3,000 people missing. We believe that all 59 of the deceased are identified. Tentatively. We are working on positively identifying the rest of them. We believe that will happen by the end of this evening. We estimate in between 9 00 and 10 00 p. M. Thats very normal for us to receive an excessive amount of missing persons reports. Following an incident like this. By no means we have outstanding missing persons, we have very detailed we believe everyone involved in the incident from the decedents standpoint is accounted for and we are awaiting to communicate that with their families. I am available to answer any questions that you may have. I have limited time to answer questions so i will take a few. Reporter [in distant question] yes, the majority of them did. Im not at liberty to tell you whether all of them did die as a result of gunshot wounds, simply because i dont know at this point. Reporter indistinct ] indistinct question. I will make that public. I imagine thats not going to happen until the earliest tomorrow morning. Reporter what about the ones that have not been identified . Have their families not heard from them . As i spoke earlier, we have tentatively identified them. We are working on some confirmation issues. And i am confident they will all be identified. We believe we know who every single one of them is. Its just a matter of confirming that. We dont have the liberty to make any mistakes. We have to get it right. Weve got to get this right so we need your patience and we are going to work through the night to get that right. I am hopeful we will have all of those confirmed by the tomorrow morning and the families notified. Yes, sir. Reporter [indistinct question] i dont believe so. Again, i cannot confirm that right now. Reporter when youve completed an autopsy i will not speak to the details of the examinations at this point. Excuse me . Again, im not going to speak to any of the details at this point. Primarily out of respect for the families. I hope you understand that. Yes, didnt you have a question . Reporter [indistinct question] its quite a lengthy process but in a nutshell, the families of the decedents will make arrangements with the local area mortuaries and they are the folks that provide details and provide the transportation back to their home states. One last question. Reporter Company Different with locals or outofstate we should have that by the time our list is finalized and confirmed. It does not. Excuse me, could you im not understood to make sure i understood that. I want to give you accurate information. No, we have 58 dead plus the shooter for a total of 59. Reporter [indistinct question] this is the last question but i dont know. It will be announced through one of the press conferences. During today thats all the questions im going to take. Report back to plan on changing that number . We have confirmed 59 dead in our office. Yes. 58 plus the shooter for a total of 59. That is confirmed. Okay . Thank you very much, undersheriff. You are welcome. Sean as a just saw, police wrapping up the news conference. They did release somebody cam footage and we will analyze that. We are really rocking it as we speak. Heres what they told us in the press or come the suspect fired 12 bursts. Alaska between nine and 11 minutes and