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Deadly washingtdead deadly las vegas shooting. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special edition of today on a man morning. We almost feel like we should start by apologizing for what youre going to be hearing. In some parts of the country we join you live, a little early this morning, as we coffer what is the deadliest mass shooting in history. When you hear the toll, it take yours breath away. More than 50 People Killed. This is the very information. It happened after 1 00 eastern time, after 10 00 in las vegas. The gunman on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay resort and casino. Was shooting into the you at the root harvest festival. The sheriff just gave us the latest figures. At least 50 people have been killed. More than 200 others wounded. Some of them, many of them, were told, in Critical Condition and many in surgery this hour. We can tell you that the shooter who was shot and killed by the police, is identified as Stephen Paddock. 64 years old, from mesquite, nevada. In response to the shooting, authorities shut down part of the las vegas strip. Said people should stay away, shelter in place. And all planes were grounded at the airport, just adjacent to that shooting scene. All flights in and out of the airport were temporarily halted. This story, as you know, and can imagine, is developing. We have full conch on the shooting and the investigation. We want to begin with nbcs steve patterson. Hes in las vegas. Good morning to you. Reporter we are in a Central Location on the vegas strip. All of the people behind me, in full police uniform, emts, people combing through the scene, especially focusing on that suspects room where he rained down in fire. We spoke to people from that horrific shooting scene and got their tales of survival. This morning, las vegas is on lockdown, after a gunman opened fire at a popular Country Music festival. It happened just moments after Country Music superstar jason aldean took the stage at the rock 91 harvest music festival. Machine gunfire from an automatic weapon, erupting into a crowd of fans. At first, witnesses say they thought it was a fireworks show. When the rapid gunfire continued to spray the crowd. Get down. Get down. Reporter confusion turned to panic. Terrified concertgoers running for their lives. Some laying on top of each other for safety. By some accounts, the bullets raining down for more than an hour. They cut the music. Everyone said drop. And everyone dropped. And everyone said get up and they started to run and stampeding and charging, knocking over grills and fences and trying to get out. And we hid in a bush for like an hour. Reporter police s. W. A. T. Teams tracked the shooter to the mond mandalay bejo tell. We are in fight of the suspects room. We need to pop and see if we get any response from this guy. To see if hes moved in here. The 32nd floor, s. W. A. T. Has explosive breach. Reporter police shot and killed the suspect. Law enforcement sources tell nbc news, the alleged gunman has been identified as 64yearold Stephen Paddock. We believe, were confident but not 100 sure, we have located the female person of interest. So, i want the people to feel confident and calm in that asect. Reporter at this time, 4 00 in the morning here on the las vegas strip, most of it is eerily quiet, as the Police Investigation into the worst mass shooting in American History is now in full swing. Matt and savannah . Steve patterson in las vegas for us. Steve, thank you very much. We turn to Pete Williams on the phones. You have new information on the gunman and the investigation, own the search going on in mesqui mesquite, nevada, in his home. And you heard the report about the female person of interest. Thats Marilou Danley who lived in mesquite, nevada. They began to look into his past. And that search is still under way. His home in mesquite, nevada, they put an allpoints bulletin out for the cars that were registered to him. Theyve found them. You heard the sheriff say they believe they have located Marilou Danley. We dont know if that means she is in ducustody. Theyre eager to talk to her. They dont know what her role in this was. Several Law Enforcement officials told us when they got in the hotel room, they found what they describe as a cache of weapons. He had several weapons with him. Were trying to figure out what kind of weapons those are. Obviously, you listen to the video, to the sound of the gunfi gunfire, those are automatic shots being fired. You hold the trigger down on the rifle and it continues to fire shots at a rapid velocity. Weapons like that are illegal to possess, unless theyre registered with atf. You cant go out and buy them. Theyre common in the military. One big question here, how did this 64yearold man, get his hand on automatic weapons. Did he buy a regular rifle and convert it to automatic . Those are questions that authorities want to look into. This early hour, just a few hours after the shooting, no one in Law Enforcement has any idea, savannah, why this happened. Pete, i should say, as part of the motive and preparation for this, did he go to that hotel and request a certain room on a certain floor facing a certain direction . Yeah. Very important question. Was this a target he planned to attack in advance. Or did he get there and just decide he would shoot out the window in whatever room he ended up in . And thats an important question. We dont know the answer to that yet. As police develop this backwardslooking timeline, thats going to be an important question. When did hi check into the hotel . What did he ask the desk clerk . Was it him . Was he with the woman . All questions to be answered. As weve been observing all morning long. Nothing to prevent someone walking in with a gun like that in a suitcase, would not have caused any notice whatsoever. Were going to talk to a witness of the shooting. Going to refer to him as shawn. Shawn, where were you at the moment when shes shots rang out . Good morning to you guys. I was probably 20, 30 feet from the stage, which is where the majority of the gunfire was targeted for the first few rounds. Talk about what you heard and talk about what you saw happening around you. Well, it sounded like a lot of people said, like fireworks at a vegas concert. You didnt know if it was or wasnt. The first rounds that were very quick, semiautomatic shots. Very quick. You didnt know everyone was kind of looking around. I think it wasnt until the second round is when everybody started hitting the ground. Thats when the band ran offstage. Jason aldean was escorted offstage. And everyone hit the ground around us. There were people hit near us, as well. Shawn, we saw jason continuing to play before running off stage. Am i right that the location where the shots were coming from, was slightly behind the stage. In other words, the superstructure of the stage shielded the musicians . Not sure where the shots were coming. We were 20 to 30 feet in front of the stage. There was a young lady that was shot right next to us. I dont know which direction they would have been coming from. But definitely the crowd that was a few feet from the stage, were getting hit. And then, as we maneuvered outside of the venue, running, like panic, there was people hit all over the place. Hit as far as the back entrance to get out of there and there were people hit near the portapotties. And people hit everywhere. I dont know what kind of access he had to get everybody. But it seemed like his reach was far. Just briefly, shawn, do you have any idea how long this went on . Honestly, it felt like eternity. It felt like so long. It probably went on from the time we hit the ground, from the time we actually made it out of the venue, was probably like eight to nine minutes. But it felt like it was hours. Shawn, were happy youre okay. Really appreciate you calling in this morning. Thank you very much. Thank you. Lets go to nbc news analyst shawn henry who has been watching this. What are your thoughts . We have the name of a suspect . A highpowered weapon. Someone who chose a Vantage Point, innocent victims watching a concert. Its the state of this country going forward, from a security perspective, when i think about this, we have to think about what was the motivation of this man . Why did he do this . Is he engaged with other accomplices . Is there a wider conspiracy . Police officers have to get credit here. Trying to identify where this person is in a highrise. Theres a large open area where this concert was. And multiple venues where the shooting could have taken place. You have the mgm, the luxor hotels, all these hotels, 30plus floors. For Law Enforcement to identify where he was, to try to narrow that down, and identify the perspective of where the shots are coming and other Law Enforcement officers are trying to evacuate people out of the area and then to gain access to that space and do a dynamic entry. We hear the Law Enforcement officers do an explosive breach, its a dynamic entry. Their primary concern is stopping the shooting to protect those people. They dont know what theyre going to encounter. They dont know if theres more than one explosives or one more than one shooter. They use the explosion. A diversion, a lot of loud sounds. Light. Its a divert the person, knock them offtarget and to eliminate this threat. Bill bratton just came in, former new York City Police commissioner. We have big events, like the tree lighting. And when police in new york, expect a gathering, a large outdoor gathering of a crowd like this, they do preliminary overviews of the area to make sure they know what could happen from different areas. Would that have happened in las vegas . Las vegas, like new york, is events like this going on all the time. The event last night, the protocols in Las Vegas Concert promoter promoters have to hire one offduty Police Officer for each 1,000 people attending the concert. Las vegas benefits from the fact of having a fulltime s. W. A. T. Unit. Theres a unit all the time. The Quick Response in las vegas, large department, very good response to this event. Talk about the difficulty of going into a crowded hotel, as a s. W. A. T. Team, and locating the room that you believe the gunfire is coming from. Thats loud. That could be one of several rooms on a floor. And carrying out the mission they did. I stayed at the mandalay. Its a huge hotel. The quick identification of the location and getting a unit up there was just described. We have the radio transmissions that were heard this morning. Those officers did a phenomenal job. One locating the individual and, two, making that entry and taking him out as fast as they did. Fortunately, none of the officers going in appeared to be hurt in the exchange. The man was hef hi haavily arme. And what everyone is responding about, is the gunfire. People that have heard it said that is abautomatic weapon. And the caliber. You go back, 300 feet, the distance. And to the able to inflict that kind of damage, shawn. What kind of weapon are we talking about . It could be multiple weapons. 9 millimeter or 10 millimeter, perhaps. But raining those shots down from 300 yards away, perhaps, that person is likely spraying across the entire crowd. And theres people thats going to be hit indiindiscriminately. Was he trying to hit the performer on stage . Or was he trying to inflict damage . With the amounts shots that were fired, this was intended for mass casualty. Bill, you know in your mind what the weapon looks like. And we talked about the last couple of hours, everybody that walks into the hotel, has a suitcase. Theres no problem moving a weapon alongdisassemble, can be back together again. On the way over, i was on the phone with a senior Law Enforcement official in vegas, whose daughter was at that event. He said his daughter was totally traumatized. He is a Law Enforcement official, familiar with whats going on. He thought his daughter might be one of hundreds of people in this issue. You think about how many times we talk about Mass Shootings, whether thats a few people or dozens. But now, you look at these numbers and you hear at least 50 with many more in Critical Condition at the local level one Trauma Center. And its hard to get your arms around this. If you will stay with us, we want to turn now, we have another witness on the phone, russell black, who was there. Russell, good morning to you. Im glad youre safe and able to talk to us. Can you tell us about what you saw and experienced . Thank you. That was absolute chaos. Whoever the shooter was, was just spraying the crowd. Saw people dropping left and right. Im looking at the footage now for the first time. Its hard to process what just happened. Where were you when this shooting started . We were in the v. I. P. Tent, which is directly facing the mandalay bay. Im guessing thats where most of the carnage happened, over where we were. After the first few bursts, it sounded like firecrackers or like an amp crackling. Jason aldean had just started playing. I was shooting video of his performance. And i was thinking, that sounds like an ar15. And sure enough, it was an automatic rifle, without a doubt. He was spraying the crowd. He was redent lelentless. Five, eight seconds, to move and get out of there as he reloaded. Did you see the wounded, russell . Did you see people who had been injured . It was everywhere. I saw people thank god it was a country concert. You saw exmilitary jump into gear. Guys were plugging bullet holes with their fingers. I saw Police Officers standsing up as targets, just trying to direct people, telling them where to go. The amount of bravery i saw there words cant describe what was like. There were tenfoot walls boxing everybody in. We couldnt escape. How did you get out, russell . Ten minutes, five minutes, under bleachers. Covertocover. Waited until he reloaded and moved. Just trying to get out of there. One way in, and one way out. And the gunman had that bottlenecked. We escaped to the side where all of the food trucks were entering and exiting. Through the police checkpoint. I cant imagine experiencing what you did. Could you tell, especially at first, where the gunfire was coming from . It must have felt like it was all around you. Yeah. I could hear it going through the tent flaps and stuff. And we could feel it ricochet off the ground. What was interesting, im from kentucky. Ive been around guns my whole life. The guy was so far away, you did not know where the shots were coming from. And it would echo throughout the whole area. Nobody knew where to go. And a couple people would run away from a safe area, but you didnt know if it was safe. There was no it was absolute chaos and carnage. Russell, stand with us for a second. I want to ask our guests here about something you just said, commissioner or shawn. He said, it seemed like there were only five to eightsecond silences between the gunfire. Talk about your knowledge of loading and unloading a magazine from a weapon like that. Does that indicated this guy had practiced this and had training . It seems like he was familiar with the weaponry he was carrying. It only takes three to five seconds to remove a clip and put another one in. It will be interesting to see the type of ammunition. The type of ammunition is critical here, in the sense of the injuries that are being described, typical military style cartridge can cause incredible damage. When you hear him, russell, talking about Police Officers standing in the line of fire, talking about the people that had fallen victim to you, is probably not surprising to you . Not surprising and reflective of what i was hearing from my colleague down in las vegas in terms of what his daughter was seeing. Russell, have you made contact with everyone you were with in that concert . Yes. About an hour and an hour and a half later, we got in contact with everybody. A few friends and acquaintances that we know are in the hospital. They were hit. We dont know the condition. Theres not a person in las vegas thats not affected by this in some way. Were a closeknit community. God bless the Police Officers. In a world where everyone is kneeling, these guys stood up. They knew what they were against. And they ran toward the danger. Thats real bravery right there. It is. They say theres no telling how many they saved. Every second was a life lost. And he was just spraying the crowd, tens of thousands of people. He fired into that crowd. You were going to hit something. Total makes me so sick. Hold on, russell. Shawn . Im thinking about the rounds and the casualties that were inflicted here. I mentioned 9 millimeter or 10 millimeter. Those are tactical rounds on the s. W. A. T. Team. But military grade, those bullets, rounds, have the capacity to go through multiple people. The 9 milliliter and 10 millimeter that Law Enforcement uses, you want to make sure they dont go through sheet rock and go through rooms. But this particular case, an ar15 or another military grade weapon, those rounds would have been able to go through multiple people. Russell, our eyewitness, who has just experienced something unimaginable, i hope you will stay with us. Were thinking of you and sending our prayers and so glad you were able to mention the bravery of so many people in that crowd. It bears highlighting and repeating. We send our best to you. Thank you very much. I hope everyone is going to end up okay out of it. Indeed. Thank you, russell. Were hearing from the president. Hes been briefed. He just tweeted. Nbcs Peter Alexander is at the white house with more of what the president had to say. Matt, savannah, on this terrible day in las vegas, we are hearing from president trump. He writes, my warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the las vegas shooting. God bless you. Sarah huckabee sanders, his press secretary, i hung up with her moments ago. The president was briefed by his chief of staff, general john kelkel ly. He had been briefed and said, were monitoring it closely. All those affected are in our thoughts and prayers. I just spoke to the president s adviser in charge of Homeland Security and counterterrorism, tom boss eert, who is trying to help out with the hurricane zones, like in puerto rico. He was woken up, has been up all night since this took place. Has spoken to the fbi director and others. At this point, has no details on when the president will be briefed more thoroughly about this. He will continue to get updates on this over the course of this day. Matt and savannah . Peter alexander, thank you. Well have more on this horrific story, the deadliest mass shooting in u. S. History, in a moment. In a moment. Fi honking beeping were on to you, diabetes. Times up, insufficient prenatal care. And administrative paperwork, your days of drowning people are numbered. Same goes for you, budget overruns. And rising costs, wipe that smile off your face. Were coming for you too. 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Its outdoors but walled in and surrounded by buildings. In this case, thats what prevented people from escaping. When you think of military tact tactics, you want to get high ground because you have the visibility and the opportunity to see multiple targets. In this particular case, when youre in a venue like that, the first thing you want to do is get to an egress. How do you get out of the line of fire . Because the concert venue is set up, theres likely an area of tickets to come in and people are prevented from getting out of the venue. Bill, what they try to do to prevent people from sneaking into a venue, is what traps people in that venue. The unfamiliar venue, the preplanning for this, you have to have a secertain number of exits to accommodate the egress of the crowd. Because of the tens of thousands of people couldnt tell where the shots were coming from, they didnt know which direction to run. Thats correct. I think about russell who was on earlier, an eyewitness. Talking about the Police Officers. You have a lot of offduty Police Officers, maybe former military. You hear the sounds, the sounds of automatic gunfire, their First Response is to identify where the shots are coming from and direct people to protect people. And i think as russell said, a lot of lives were saved by quick actions of Law Enforcement. Law enforcement and members of the military, he was surmising by the way they were treating the wounded there, and seemed to have some knowledge how to handle a pbattlefield wound, as it were. The horror of running towards the building, the mandalay bay resort, with a handgun, as an officer. Knowing what youre hearing is the sound of incoming fire from an automatic weapon. The descriptions going on here. The handgun would not be effective anyway, until they got into the hotel. Effectively unarmed, even though theyre carrying a weapon. They have no ability to take him out. Well continue our coverage in a mole. Let other stations join us. Were back with a special edition of today. Its been a long night. The deadliest mass shooting in u. S. History has taken place. More than 50 people have been killed. 200 others wounded. This happened at an outdoor Country Music festival. The last day of a threeday festival. Jason aldean was on stage when shots rang out. Shots of an automatic weapon rang through this crowd, from 32 floors up at the mandalay bay resort. He fired. He emptied magazines and reloaded and continued to fire as people tried to scramble for cover. And there wasnt a lot of cover to find. Thats right. We know the name of the suspect, Stephen Paddock, 64 years old from mesquite, nevada. He was shot and killed by police. Police told nbc news they found a cache of weapons. Numerous firearms in that room. President trump has tweeted about the shooting saying, quote, my warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible las vegas shooting. God bless you. I want to say, when you think about this, shawn, the shooter known to authorities, had a criminal record but not known to federal authorities. When we think about this, how do you secure a perimeter of a venue, going into a concert or venue where theres been magnetometers and searchs of people. But a venue like this, somebody that can be in a highrise, how do you stop that . We talked about at this table, intelligence. Do you identify somebody . Advance . What are the warning signs . Have they made statements to people . Are they accumulating weapons and ammunition . Are they acting violent or irrationally . What do you do . What is the state of Mental Health . We dont know the motivation here, yet. But thats where the conversation will turn. How do you stop these things before we see this mass carnage. No matter what you do in terms of security, there always seems to be people one step ahead. If they have evil in their hearts, its difficult to prevent it. Stay with us, if you would. Were going to go to nbcs joe fryer. He is in a hotel room on a high floor himself. You have a pretty good idea of the Vantage Point that the shooter would have had. Reporter thats right, savannah. Were in the four seasons hotel, which is part of mandalay bay. Were on the 38th floor. Just six floors directly above where this shooter was at the time. Were on lockdown here. Weve been on lockdown here for six hours now. We just checked with the front desk. Were still on lockdown. We have to remain here. Minutes ago, police in Tactical Gear were going doortodoor on our floor, knocking on doors, asking if anyone needed medical assistance. If no one responded, they pounded harder until someone responded. Well be staying put for a while. Were going to turn off the lights in here. We want to show you off the window. We dont want the lights to create a reflection. When you look outside here. This is the 38th floor. What youre looking at right now is where this route 91 harvest Country Music festival was taking place. Kittycorner from mandalay bay. This is the 38th floor. The shooter was six floors behind us on the 32nd floor. The righthand side of the screen is the stage, where jason aldean was performing when this happened. And the rest of the area was filled with thousands of people. Loud music was filling the air here in las vegas, that we could hear from the hotel here through the night. You get an idea of the Vantage Point, from some angle. We can tell you from the room were in, this window does not open. Its a floortoceiling window. We dont know what the situation was in the shooters room. But most of these windows where we are do not open to go outside. Youre looking at the las vegas strip. Its a bustling street no matter the time of day. The only thing youre seeing are flashing lights on police cars who have blocked off the roads here. No one is being allowed into this area, as Police Continue their investigation. As we pan to the right, youre going to see mccarron airport, the main airport in and out of las vegas. That was right in the shadow. At the time, there were no flights going in and out of the airport here. Thats the situation here. We remain under lockdown as Police Continue to investigate. As the sun will probably rise in the next couple of hours, well get a better idea of what the situation looks like, down below. Here we see. Were part of the mandalay bay tower. Theres a number of room that were facing toward where this concert was taking place. Plenty of people can see from this Vantage Point. Joe fryer, thank you very much. Were with bill bratton here, former Police Commissioner of new york city. You have to know shatterproof glass, but no match for a militarystyle weapon to take that window out. I think well find, thats how he did it. Probably shot the window out. Has that platform, looking at that angle, you can see what a clear line of sight he would have had for what he did. Bill bratton here. Shawn henry here. We spoke to jake owen. He was performing at that concert, as the shooting began. We began by asking how he was doing. Thankfully were doing all right. Unfortunately, theres a lot that arent. Its been a pretty crazy evening here, in las vegas. Were trying to process. Jake, you had performed earlier. You were not on the sage whetag this happened. Where were you . I was on the stage. I had walked up on the stage with a couple friends of mine, including luke combs, who played earlier. We were 50 feet away from where jason was on stage. All of a sudden, you heard what sounded it was like, the thing, is that gunfire . And it got faster and faster, almost like it sounded like an automatic rifle. You could see it off of the rafters of the stage. And everyone started running everywhere possible. It was chaotic, for sure. Where were you able to go to seek cover . Unfortunately, i ran in the opposite direction from where my shelter would be, which is my bus, on the opposite side of the stage. I ran, like everyone else. At one point, i was crouched down behind a cross bar with about 20 other people that were you know, people coming to the show. And everyone was asking if everyone was okay. There was blood on people. And you could see a couple people in the streets that looked like they had been shot, lying there. It was literally like a movie that you feel like youve seen before thats not real life. Jake, i know when Something Like that happens, i imagine that time is just really hard to get a grasp on. Were interested in it because it does sound like from other witnesses we talked to this went on for some time. If you had to guess how long from when you first heard the sounds to when the shooting finally stopped, how long do you think it took place for . I without even overexaggerating, it had to be close to ten minutes. Because it went on for a good four, five minutes before i got back to, luckily, to a bus that was safe in a crew parking lot. Once i got on the bus, we were hiding in the bus because you could hear gunfire outside. It wasnt something that just was quick. It was chaos for seven to ten minutes. Were you able to get with your friends and fellow performers . Or is there difficulty because everybody is scattered in Different Directions . There was that for a while. I recently my tour manager and my manager got over to where i am now. We were all separated. A friend of mine with her family for her 50th birthday, like a lot of other people. They come out to the concerts because thats what life is about. We get to live this freedom and thank the men and women who fight for it for us. And we live this life of not being scared, which i think is great. But this is reality these days. Stuff is really happening. We were all scared. And i think its important to say, too, that the Las Vegas Police department, and the responders, you could tell. They did everything they could to get out here as quickly as possible to take care of these people. They need a shoutout, as well. I heard somebody, jake, earlier, talk about the staff of the concert venue. The people who were working who normally would guide you into a concert venue. And that person said they reacted with great calm. And they really seemed to try to do everything they could to help people get out of that area. So, we thank them, as well. Jake, were happy youre okay. And again, we thank you for joining us on the phone this morning. That was one of the performers earlier. These images were showing and the sounds are incredibly disturbing. I think all of us are trying to comprehend whats taking place in our country today. More than 50 People Killed in this terrible shooting. Were starting to count the toll now. Our hearts are with those suffering. Danita cohen is with the Medical Center in las vegas where some are being treated. I know you a level i Trauma Center. What is going on in that Trauma Center right now . We have the only level i Trauma Center in nevada. Now, 104 patients have come to us this evening. 30plus patients went to the Trauma Center side. More went to the Emergency Department. The Emergency Department is separate from our level i Trauma Center. We are selfcontained. Within those four walls, we have three operating room suites. Any testing that we need to do, a full blood bank, mri, c. T. Scan, everything we need to take care of lifethreatening injuries. And weve been extremely busy with critically ill patients this evening. Talk to me about some of the wounds youre seeing, danita. Mostly gunshot wounds. Some folks got, you know, pushed over in the crowd. But for the most part, because we are a Trauma Center, it was gunshot wounds we were seeing tonight. Danita, you mentioned you have three operating rooms. And we we spoke, you said they were just being used continuously. We have operating rooms just steps away. They dont have to stop or pass go. They go back to the o. R. So far, eight patients have been taken back to the o. R. About eight patients are in Critical Condition right now. We heard the tragic news from the transfer of clark county earlier, danita, where he says more than 50 people have been killed. Many of those were pronounced dead at the scene. Others were transported to local facilities. How many patients have expired at your facility . Unfortunately, we had four patients who have passed away so far. We had many patients already discharged. Many were well enough to already go home. Even though its extremely difficult for them to get back to the strip, all of the strip properties on lockdown. We are holding those patients here with us and trying to reunite them with their families because they cant go back to the hotel room, which they left a few hours ago, before the concert. Danita, is there a supply of blood . Do you need anything there . Right now, we are very adequately staffed with blood. We will be partnering with united blood Defense Services t folks in the Las Vegas Area donate blood to make sure our shelves are stocked. We are a Trauma Center. Trauma does not stop. We will see the normal amount of patients come through our door because of the Car Accidents and the other modes of injury on a daily basis. Danita cohen, thank you for your time. I know youre busy. Well check back. And thank all of the people that do this incredible work. Thank you. I will. That means a lot to them. I want to go back to nbc justice correspondent, Pete Williams, who has been working his sources all through the morning. I am told you have new information, pete . Couple of things, savannah. There were a couple of offduty Police Officers, who were attending the concert, like anybody else, from a number of different Law Enforcement associations. A number of them were involved in the shooting. Two of their officers were on duty during the concert. One had minor injuries. The other is in stable condition after surgery, they say. There were Police Officers who were wounded, as well, as concertgoers. We dont believe there were any Police Officers, at least we havent ind no indication that any were wounded or injured when they blew the door off stephen Paddocks Hotel room this morning and shot and killed him. And inside the room, they say they found a cache of weapons. Multiple weapons. One question thats arisen this morning is, how was it that he was able to achieve such lethal results, given how far away he was, from the concert location . We dont know precisely how it was because until the sun comes up and we can get a good idea of where the room was in comparison to the concert field, we think about 1,700 feet the Vantage Point of his hotel window to the glass where people were attending the concert. Were told by experts that the range of an assault weapon or the kind of rifle that was used here, is about 2,000 feet. Its within the range of the weapon. And obviously, we know, from the horrifying numbers were hearing, that the rounds had devastating effect, killing more than 50 people and injuring several dozen more. You just talked to the hospital, some of the people were injured simply by the crush of the people trying to get away. But many of them were also hit by gunfire. And some of those people are critical, which is why these numbers have been going up here because the wounds and the injuries were so severe. As for the investigation, still no light. And i think it will be hours before we have any idea why Stephen Paddock chose this hotel to shoot at this target. We dont know whether he had that target in advance. A key to this may be the woman that they say he was living with in his home of mesquite, nevada, where authorities are searching now, Marilou Danley, 62 years old, who was apparently, at least at some point, in the hotel with him. Clearly not in the room when the shooting took place or not when the police blew the door off and came in. The authorities have said they have located her. But we dont know precisely what that means. Does that mean they think they know where she is . Or is she now in Police Custody for questioning . Theyve described her as a person of interest. And she probably knows more than anybody else about what went on here. And shes going to be very important witness for the authorities to talk to about what happened. And now, theyre going back through the record of Stephen Paddock. His work record. Trying to put his life back together. Piece it together and do a reverse timeline. When did he come to las vegas . Had he been talking about this . Was this a spur of the moment type thing . When did he get the weapons . These are questions we dont know the answers to yet but they are aggressively working. All right, pete. Thank you very much with the latest on the investigation. So many unanswered questions. Bill, let me go back to you as someone who knows how s. W. A. T. Teams operate. This shooting starts. Its chaos. You have people running out of the mandalay beay hotel. You have people running in, looking for shelter from whats going on outside. Now, the s. W. A. T. Team arrives. What are they equipped with . How do they deal with the chaos and the running . They dont know if the people are involved with this plot. How do they carry out their mission . Las vegas has one of the most wellprepared Police Departments in america for dealing with these incidents. Ive known the three preceding sheriffs. They focus with this dealing of this type of incident. Shift incident, post9 11. This incident, they have a fulltime s. W. A. T. Unit. Watching the video, they obviously also now have started equipping the emts and firefighters with vests and ballistic helmets. As part of the evolution of training for these events, you need to get police in there, and firefighters, if theres a fire and emt in there. They start with volunteers that dont carry weapons but can get in there and render first said. When they get to the 32nd floor, with the s. W. A. T. Team, im going to play a piece of tape for you. Listen to it and well talk about it. We dont. Sorry. This there was a piece of tape where you hear the recording of the s. W. A. T. Team saying, weve reached the door. Weve identified the door. Were about to breach the door. And you hear an explosion. Talk to me about that standard operating entreprenee ining pro . Thats correct. They call, breach, breach, breach. You indicate to everybody theres going to be a noise. What they probably do is they toss in a flashbang, which is a bright light explosion, that is intended to blind whoever is in that room. They dont know what is behind that door. They are going in against somebody who is wellarmed. The idea is to try to take him offguard, or whatevoever is in room. And the flashbang, the explosion itself, is intended to throw that person off guard for a moment to give them a chance to get into that room. Going into that room will be a team of four officers that are trained as to what theyre going to do once they get into that room. When we heard that police radio broadcast, that were all talking about, you can hear him used a hushed tone. Theyre actually whispering because they need to have that element of surprise, obviously. Thats correct. They need to let all of the officers outside who are focused on that building, that room, to understand what is going on in that room. They dont know if theres a hostage in that room. In those situations, we learned after columbine, the total police shift and tactics after columbine. In nypd, we trained the time i was commission, is training to get into that location. Hostages, unfortunately, cannot be really dealt with in that type of situation. What does it tell us about the weapons. How do you get your hands on them . Some can construct a semiautomatic weapon and upgrade it, so to speak. What do you make of it . Some of the fully automatic weapons are tightly regulated. Theres a black market for this, this type of weapon. I want to go back to what the commissioner just said and matts question about the s. W. A. T. Team tactical, going in on somebody thats that heavily. Speed, surprise and violence of action. With the explosive breach, throwing in the flashbang and disorienting. The Law Enforcement officers are trained. They train with the light and explosions because they want to appear when they do these live time that theyve been through it before. If theres a hostage in that space, theyre looking to discern who might have a weapon. But in this case, its about getting into that room as quickly as possible to eliminate the threat. And the speed so important here, shawn, because if he had not run out of am missiomunitioy minute they delay getting into that room, he has magazines with 20 or 30 rounds in them. And there were people huddled in that concert area. Thats absolute hi right. This goes on indefinitely until you can stop the threat. Thats when officers are trained, when we talk about active shooters. Get to the threat as quickly as possible. And Police Officers in the line of fire, to do everything they can to eliminate the source of that fire. All right. Stay with us. We want to go to Peter Alexander at the white house for us. Were hearing more from members of the administration. Reporter thats right. We have heard from the president. President trump was alerted, briefed about this situation, in las vegas early this morning by his chief of staff, john kel lk. The president tweeting a while ago, my warmest condolences and sympathies. And Vice President mike pence, tweeting on this shooting, the worst in American History. He writes, in part, to victims, families and loved ones affected by this senseless violence in las vegas, karen, his wife, are prying for you and offering our loves. The hearts and prayers of the American People are with you. You have our condolences and sympat sympathies. For the courageous First Responders, thank you for your bravery. Ivanka trump has woken up to the terrible crisis in las vegas. She is tweeting saying america woke up to the horrific news of the devastating shooting in las vegas. Our collective hearts are breaking for the victims and their families. Matt and savannah, i spoke to tom bosser, in charge of counterterrorism and Homeland Security. He has been up suns he first learned about the shooting. He has spoken to the fbi director, christopher ray, about the federal response and the resources involved into the investigation of the shooting that has taken the lives of more than 50 people. He says as best they can tell from the earliest information they received, this was nothing but a Fast Response from those Law Enforcement officials in that area. The president is expected to be updated over the course of the day. If we know hes going to be speaking, he will share that with you. No word on whether he will make public remark rs. If you have just woken up and heard peter use a number, 50 lives at least, have been lost in las vegas over night, as a gunman opened fire, on the third day of a Country Music festival. Jason aldean performing on the stage. And a man with an automatic weapon, 32 floors above, in the mandalay bay resort, shot out the window somehow and began firing indiscriminately at tens of thousands of people who were trapped in by the walls that encompassed that concert venue. 50plus people are dead. This went on for several minutes before police were able to locate the shooter, find him in the hotel and take him down. We continue to follow breaking news on a mass shooting. I spoke with a former las vegas Police Officer who lived in medford county. He learned overnight one of his old friends in the department was at least one of the offduty Police Officers who died in the attack. He goes he knows others who were hurt. I wish i was there with him. Its something we wait for and cant come up for words as to why someone would do that. Now we want to switch gaeea and update you on the forecast with first alert meteorologist krystal klei. A chilly start. Temperatures in the 40s. 42 in pottstown. 44 in reading. 5 in philadelphia. Warmer 54 in philadelphia. Warmer there. As for highs today, a rather mild afternoon. Temperatures will warm up into the mid 70s which is slightly warmer than average. There will be plenty of sunshine in the forecast, too. A clear day, low humidity. And light winds, as well. Well see those temperatures rise to the low 80s by thursday. Thanks. Now well check the roads. Theres an accident to tell you about. Jessica boyington . Yes, eastbound, we have a crash at route 340. You see a few vehicles involved. A mess, and cars slowly moving by with one lane passing through. A crash in lower paulings at chapel view. Were following our top story at home. New from overnight, a driver in the hospital after a jeep crashed into a car wash in philadelphia. Nbc10 was on the scene at island avenue in eastwick. We have all the stories on our nbc10 app. Its 8 00 on today. Breaking news, chaos in las vegas. At least 50 people are killed when a gunman in the mandalay beay hotel opened fire on a concert crowd, 30 floors below. Many people wounded, many in Critical Condition. The gunman identified as Stephen Paddock. There were shots everywhere. Two guys came running by that were carrying a girl or somebody that was all bloody. Looked like they were shot. We have live coverage today, monday, october 2nd, 2017. Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to this special edition of today on a monday morning. Horrific news to start this week. 50plus People Killed in a mass shooting in las vegas. This is the deadliest massacre in u. S. History. Want to get to where things stand right now. The death toll, more than 50. That is expected to rise. At least 200 others were wounded. Dozens of those people are in Critical Condition this morning. The shooter has been identified. 64yearold Stephen Paddock. He is from nearby mesquite, nevada. Police have searched for and found Marilou Danley, described as a companion. Steve patterson in is las vegas. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt and savannah. Here on the las vegas strip, a somber tone you would never expect to see. Were hearing stories from the people at that shooting and their tales, horrific stories, of survival. Thousands of fans were enjoying the final night of the route 91 harvest music festival. Jason aldean was on the stage when shots started ringing out. Within seconds, chaos. Terrified people running for their lives. Others desperately taking cover, as a hail of bullets rained down on them from above. Theres a shooting. Theres a shooting. Reporter chilling cell phone video capturing the sound of horrific gunfire. [ gunfire ] be advised it is automatic fire. Fully automatic fire from an elevated position. Take cover. I remember looking up at the mond mandalay bay. And i saw light flashing out of a room. Reporter police zeroing in on a suspect firing from inside the hotel. We have sight on the suspects door. We need to pop this and see if we get any type of response from this guy. See if hes in here or moved somewhere else. S. W. A. T. Had explosionive breach. Everyone move back. All units move back. We determined there was a shooter on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay. Officers responded to that location and engaged the suspect at that location. He is dead. Reporter First Responders found massive casualties at the scene. Several offduty Police Officers among the victims. I have two Police Officers that are currently at the hospital. One in Critical Condition. The other one, minor injuries. But there are other Police Officers that were offduty attending the concert that have expired. Reporter the wounded were transported to local hospital. So many that platform Emergency Rooms were at full capacity. The shooter was a local resident, identified as 65yearold Stephen Paddock. Whats happening is police investigating. Theres a tight lock on the scene. What were doing is starting to let some of the people back into their hotels. Some of thens witnesses onscene are starting to filter out. We have a few of them. Megan and kayla. What happened when you were there . Originally we thought fireworks were going off or firecracker oss or something. We thought the speakers were malfunctions. But once the lights were turned off and jason aldean were disappointed, we dropped. We had firemen around us. They said lay down on the ground. Dont move. Until after that, we started running. Reporter can you tell me what the gunfire sounded like on the ground . Originally, once we were on the ground, we thought, is it getting closer . It kept sounding like it was getting closer and closer. We didnt know where the guy was. Eventually, we needed to take off and get out of there. Reporter what did you do to escape . He told us to go a 45degree ang angle. But we went toward the exit. And people were like, no. Get behind these trailers. And take the path back to the opposite tropicana parking lot. We were told to go in a room. And we did. But then, there was a rumor or something, that there was another person in there with a gun. We started to run towards the elevators. We went up to the 20th floor in someones room. There was about 40 of us in there, for the past six hours. We were finally told by my friend, mary beth, in the lex so luxor, where were staying, we were allowed to come back. Reporter i can only imagine how youre feeling. The death toll is insur moundible. Over 50 people now. What loss of life or victims, what did you see on the ground, as far as people trying to get away . Once i was out, i was once i came out of the event, there were people bleeding everywhere. Didnt know where the blood was coming from. Whose blood it was. People carrying people. People laying down. Just, one man was sitting next to me, who had a bullet hole through his arm. He was like, we cant help you now. We have other people to worry about. Just wrap it up and hold still until we can come get you. Thats all they could do for that guy. I havent seen him in hours. Reporter thank you for sharing your story. These are the stories were hearing as people are filtering back from the scene. Police are starting to open up parts of the vegas strip. It is eerily quiet, very somber, as police are investigating what is the worst mass shooting in American History. Back to you. Steve, thank you. When you hear the accounts, its horrifying because they dont know where the shots are coming from. You dont know where to run. Its an outdoor festival. Theres nowhere really to hide. In a lot of ways, they were kind of penned in because its a concert venue. And you have assume, that stephen pod daadlock, who is th shooter and deceased, probably asked for the room overlooking. Jason aldean was the headliner for this music festival. The shooter had to know that would be the largest possible crowd at that concert at that time, and thats when he opened fire. Pete williams has more that were learning about Stephen Paddock. Hes 64 years old. He was born in april 1963. Police are working backwards to figure out when he planned this, when he got the weapons. The atf is tracing the weapons. There was a cache of weapons and ammunition in his hotel room when they blew off the door and shot him. Theyre trying to figure out when did he get the weapons . When did he check into the hotel . See if when he booked the room. Did he ask to be up on the upper floors . Did he choose this target in advance . Theyre hoping that answers to the question will come from a search in the last couple of hours in his house in mesquite, nevada. They got on his identity very quickly. When they got in the room, realized whose room it was and got his identify and got on to him. They hope that the search will help answer the questions. They will look at social media and recent emails, people he was talking to on the phone, his travels. They hope that a woman who was described by the authorities as a person of interest, marilou danl danley, who is 62, and living with him in mesquite, nevada, can help answer the questions. The authorities have said they have located her. But we havent had confirmation her that they have her in custody, as than important witness in this case. They want to know what she can tell them about it. They want to know if she has any idea. If theres any planning going of. Lots of questions to be answered here, matt. In addition to where he got the weapons. A lot of audio recordings. You have to get a permit to own an automatic weapon. Theyre restricted in the u. S. Theyre a common military weapon. Theyre rare here in the u. S. It is possible to take a conventional rifle. And turn it into an automatic weapon, by making modifications inside. If you know firearms, this is something thats discussed on the internet how to do this. So, its not a difficult thing to do. Its not a highly complex thing. You have to know something about firearms. In terms of his background, what was he doing in the years before . Thats what were trying to figure out the answer to these questions, matt. Why did he pick this place . Why this day . All those questions to be answered. And correct me if im wrong, do we know if this woman the Police Called hear xanshan companion, roommate. Was she in las vegas at the time . Thats an open question. It is an open question. We have witnesses say they believe they saw the two of them together in the mandalay bay hotel. Perhaps in the hours or days leading up to the rooting. We dont know we havent been able to get back to the witnesses when they saw him together. Theres some indication, at some point, recently, inside the hotel. Clearly not in the room, when the police blew the door off. Was she there earlier . Was she there when this began . All to be answered. Pete williams, as this investigation continues. So many questions out there. Chief among them, why . Why on earth would someone do this and inflict such terrible casualties upon people just listening to a concert. Were going to be joined by tom brokaw. Well take a brief break right now and have so much more in a minute. 8 13, now, on this monday morning. We welcome you back. Unfortunately, were in the midst of covering the deadliest mass shooting in u. S. History. 50plus People Killed at a concert in las vegas. Were joined by tom brokaw and shawn henry. Shawn, i want to start with you. We were listening to Pete Williams, talking about theyre going to scour this guy, Stephen Paddocks, social media. You go into a hotel room with a lot of weapons and ammunition. You shoot into a crowd below, you have to assume youre going to day in that hotel room. Would it be likely on social media, he would likely exmrab from people what he was doing . We have to go back to social media to find out what caused this to happen. To find out if there were people who helped supply him with weapons. If there were people that were a part of this. Not only social media, which will be a wealth of value for Law Enforcement, but also searching his properties. Whether it be his residence, his vehicles. Looking for any indication. His mobile device. People hes been in contact with recently. Law enforcement will be interested in how he obtained the weapons. They will be very interested in what his motivation was. But do people want to know what was going through his mind . We dont know who Stephen Paddock is yet. Hes an older guy. 64 years old. In many of the shootings weve seen in the past few years, theyve been people much, much younger. This is somewhat unusual. Was he in the military . Was he trained in the military or not . Most importantly, though, what caused him to do this . What were the facts leading up to this incident today. Were there signs available that someone missed . He was off Law Enforcements radar until last night. One thing we do know about this man, Stephen Paddock, here is someone that is looking to inflict maximum damage. High Vantage Point, and weve seen scores killed. Unable to go anywhere. This is time for a National Dialogue that we can have in a calm and reasoned way, to figure out how come we have so many Mass Shootings in this country. Many more people were killed in those than the two terrorist attacks than in San Bernadino and orlando, that got us aroused about terrorism. You listen to the weapons. On full auto at that point. Where did he get that gun . You can now get an ar15, which is a modification. But its supposed to be a single shot at a time. I go to a gun store in montana. Ive owned guns all my life. And usually have 30 30s and highpowered sporting rifles. Now, they have racks of these military weapons. Stan mcchrystal said, we ought not to be selling these weapons to the person civilian populations. Theyre designed for one thing. Theyre to kill people. No other western nation has the number of gun deaths that we have in america. And we need to talk about it. Wait until we hear what was in that room. Law enforcement has said what else he had. There were other weapons there. No idea how many magazines filled with rounds in that room. You get a beautiful bduffel bag ka case, a golf bag. Its amazing what you can buy, at a gun show or illegally from other people. We cant have that conversation because it immediately becomes so emotional between the gun owners of the america, who are protected by the nra, and other people saying there ought to be a more reasonable ground. Im a gun owner. I dont have one of the ar15s. I dont need them. But almost all my friends out there have that kind of weapon. And, shawn, you made a point. It bears repeating about the caliber. Appears to be the kind of bullet that cannot just pass through one person, but multiple people. If we have military grade. But 223 rounds travel at thousands of feet per second. And theyre made for one person and one person only, to kill people. They will, when they hit a body, travel through, potentially, multiple people. And one round can enter multiple. And you compare that to the ammunition in a Police Officers gun. I trained with long guns. But those are meant to hit the target and to stop. And not to transfer through multiple layers of drywall. Those 223 rounds or 556 rounds are going to go through multiple people if they hit a body. Go back to the Ariana Grande concert in manchester. A gunman decides he can go to a venue, wait for the doors open, and fingmingle with the people caught in the crowd coming out. Now, we have another soft target. And you have a guy that stays 32 floors above concertgoers, who are trapped in some ways, by the walls that prevent people from going in to pay for the concerts. It prevents people from escaping at a moment like this. And you have to ask the same question over and over again. How do we prevent this . The other problem, theres other maniacs who are looking at this and say, i want a little attention. Im going to get even with the world because the world has been unfair to me. Concerts. Thats the way to do Something Like this. Theres going to be a lot of security, as there needs to be, not just the concert hall, but in the surrounding perimeter. Thats going to take money and resources. I dont know what we do if keeping our citizens safe, unless we begin to lock those kind of gatherings because they have become targets of opportunity for these maniacs, as we have seen for other places. Stand here, tom. I want to bring in tom costello, who has been working his sources and has new information on the shooter. What can you tell us . Reporter its incremental. But Stephen Paddock had a pilots license. The last time he filed was in 2010 when he lived in texas. Another piece of the puzzle here. I might add, as a part of your discussion, there has been the internet is just absolutely full, as you might expect, of speculation, of alleged photographs of the suspect, of what his motivations may or may not be. His political motivations. Only tell you, yes, we are aware of that. However, obviously, we dont report any of that until we have it verified from multiple sources. The big question might be, what might his motivations have been . We dont have that at this moment. I also, if you dont mind, wanted to make the point, that we have been repeated this is the worst mass casualty shooting in American History now, with at least 50 people dead. You have to go back to the pulse nightclub last night year, 49 people dead in that one. 58 injured versus 200 injured in this one. Virginia tech, 32. Sandy hook, 27 killed, the victims mother. And the luby cafeteria shooting in 1991. This goes down as the worst. And this is a classic example of what we talk about so often over the years, being a quote unquote soft target. As shawn has told me many times in conversations, everything in america is a soft target. Whether its a shopping mall, a Movie Theater in aurora, colorado. The lubys cafeteria. Everything is a soft target. But all these people were able to leave the Outdoor Arena because they had been boxed in for the concert. There were few points of egress and there were literally walls around them. The shooter had an open field to take aim at the crowd. All of that, of course, makes this all the more horrific, in a mass murder situation. Guys, back to you. Tom, thank you. Lets talk to two witnesses of this shooting. Russell and his fiancee were in that crowd. They join us by skype. Good morning to you. Good morning. Russell, we spoke to you earlier. Let me start with briana. Briana, tell me about your experience. What you heard, what you saw. Hello. Hello . Did we lose them . Theres a little delay. Yeah. Can you hear me . Yes, i can. Talk to us about what you saw and heard. So, we were in the v. I. P. Tent. And you know, at first, i thought it was fireworks going off. And then, it kept happening and people started screaming and running. It was the scariest thing, to just hear the shots firing off. Just continuously. And in trying to get to safety, and not knowing where to go because we didnt know if, you know, they were shooting from above or shooting in, like the actual venue. We didnt know where it was safe to go. And theres ricochets all around us. We look at video that you guys shot during this. Russell, i believe you said earlier, you could hear bullets coming through the flaps of the tent. Thats what it sound like. You could hear ricochets. And we got under the bleachers, you could hear it clinking off the bleachers over and over. Easily 20plus rounds, just in our direction alone. And you can hear them drift off. It sounded like he was spraying the crowd. There was people that couldnt get covered. Every portapotty was taken. Tenfoot walls was boxing us in. It took about 12 minutes to get out. You saw people injured. You saw people coming in and trying to give aid, administer medical care to them. Yeah. We saw, just as i said before. Thank god it was a country concert. So many exmilitary there. Jumping into action, knowing what to do, to treat the wounds. We got separated for the first five minutes of it happened. And luckily, we found each other. My best friend grabbed her and took her to safety. But as i was over getting a drink, down the way, a little ways. And it was absolutely terrifying. Like i said before, everyone is kneeling and stuff, crouching here. Every one of the Police Officers i didnt see a single one taking cover. They were going directly into the danger zone. E nonormous acts of bravery. Well check back with you. Nbc 10 breaking news. You have been watching nbc news breaking coverage of the deadliest shooting now in modern u. S. History. A lone gunman carried out that massacre in las vegas. The people were just pushing into each other and pushing the people in front into the street one after the other and the cars werent stopping. One or two people actually got binged by cars. You could hear it, da da da da da. Were continuing to bring you local connections of this massacre throughout the day. Make sure you get our nbc 10 app so you will get the very latest from us as we continue to update this story. Now your forecast. Were looking at temperatures still fairly chilly. 54 in philadelphia, 50 in delaware, 42 in the lehigh valley. Later today temperatures rise up to about the mid 70s across the entire region. Now lets get you updated on traffic with jessica boyington. We are watching an accident on the 30 bypass on the eastbound side. One lane getting by, a few vehicles involved in Police Activity there on the scene. Again, were continuing to follow the local connections to the las vegas massacre. Were getting new information, new video. Were posting it on nbc10. Com and the nbc 10 app. Good morning, everybody. Its 8 30 on the east coast. 5 30 out west. And in las vegas, it has been a horrifying night. A gunman opening fire on an outdoor Country Music festival. It happened near the mandalay bay resort and casino. A gunman, 32 stories high, shooting down on concert innocents below. More than 50 people have been killed the deadliest mass shooting in the history of this country. Many other s have withibeen wou. Some of the images were seeing in the Early Morning hours, and the sounds were hearing, are horrifying. The gunman, Stephen Paddock, ofs me ke s ms me keek, nevada. They discovered a cache of weapons a hotel room full of firear firearms. President trump is tweeting about the tragedy. Saying, quote, my deepest sympathies and condolences. We go to joe fryer in las vegas. Reporter we are spending the night at the four seasons hotel, part of the mandalay bay tower. Were on the 38th floor. The shooter was six floors below us, on the 32nd floor. We have a look at the concert, the festival, a birdseye view. Well get a better look at the scene. We have been an locdown for seven hours, since the shooting began. We heard from the hotel, in the last hour, calling us today, stay in your rooms at this point, that the police have the situation under control here. But theyre being as caution as exercising as much precaution as possible. And police are checking on people in the hotel making sure that everyone is okay. As far as how long the lockdown will continue, nobody knows. You look at the las vegas strip, its empty but for police and Emergency Responders on the road. Theyre keeping everyone away from the area. A thorough investigation will be getting under way as daylight takes shape. The airport is right near here. For a time, flights were not coming in and out of the airport. Well see how close things are since flights resume. Now, remain in lockdown here in the four seasons, part of the mandalay bay tower, waiting to see information we might learn. If people are wondering, that shot is joe on his phone, showing us his Vantage Point from the hotel room. A Vantage Point to that similar of the shooters. Just six floors up. Joined by bill bratton, former Police Commissioner, tom brokaw. Commissioner, they get up in the mandalay bay hotel. I will play you a piece of audio to get a sense of what happened. I need everybody in that hallway to be aware of it and get back. We need to pop this and see if we get any type of response from this guy. To see if these in here or moved somewhere else. Copy that. All units on the 32nd floor, s. W. A. T. Has exposed breach. Everyone needs to move back. Everyone move back. Breach, breach, breach. And then, the explosion to take the door out of that hotel room. Talk to me about whats going on. Let me frame this for you. First off, you can detect in that officers voice, the anxiety but the calmness. The combination. Hes about to go into a room, he does not know what is in that room. Individual or individuals, maybe more than one, who just murdered dozens of people down in the plaza. There will be six to eight officers, maybe more. And what hes advising, hes about to blow over the door with one device. And they will toss in immediately after that, a flashbang. An explosive device that lets off a lot of light. And in they will go. Trained to go into this room to cover it. They will have had an opportunity to go into the floor plan before going in. They have a sense of what the room looks like. They have no idea how many people are in there, and knowing they are extraordinarily wellarmed. I cannot compliment off everything were hearing about that las vegas sheriffs do department. We know what they found inside that room was 64yearold Stephen Paddock, a guy with a cache of weapons and created carnage at the concert venue below. How difficult under the circumstances to find that room. To find that man. You have shots ri s ringing out. Its a matter of time, that people are being killed every moment looking for this individual. You have Police Officers watching and looking. They know the rounds are coming from above. They can see the trajectory where theyre bouncing. Looking for the actual hotel. There are multiple hotels where this may have come. To physically count up. Talking with other officers who may have other Vantage Points. Count up, count across and get into that space as quickly as possible. When we have an active shooter, police are trained, the most important thing is to stop the threat. How to get to the shooter and take the shooter out of combat. New numbers i want to mention, tom, from the las vegas metropolitan police. 50 people are dead, 406 people have been transported to local hospitals. We spoke to someone at the local university hospital, the level i Trauma Center. She told us, i believe they have 30 patients. 12 were in surgery, in Critical Condition. Those numbers may be changing throughout the morning. 406 treated at hospital. Some for gunshot wounds. Many being in a stampede as people were trying to run out of there. Miguel almaguer is at that Medical Center. What do you see . Reporter some of the gravely wounded were brought to this Medical Center. More than 100 patients have been taken here. Some have died here. Hospital Officials Say they are dealing for the most part with gunshot wounds. Many in the hospital behind me, at this hour, are fighting for their lives. All doctors who are on call in this area, have been called in, as well as some from surrounding facilities. Literally, all hands on deck here, as they treat all of the victims. At this hour, there are no more patients that are still coming into the hospital. Officials are simply trying to deal with the large number of patients they have here on scene. They are rushing many of them into surgery at this very hour. Savannah . Miguel, thank you very much. I want to bring tom brokaw in. A couple things impossible to think of coincidences. One, that Stephen Paddock gets a room overlooking this concert venue. Two, that he starts firing on the final night of this event, when the headliner, jason aldean, probably knowing he would draw the largest crowd. And we are hearing that there were Something Like 22,000 people watching that concert. And they were all penned in. There was no easy escape route. What bill was saying, another reminder of where weve come in our society. Any Police Department, of any size, has a military unit of some kind, in which they are welltrained. You saw them in all of their outfits. They are heavily armed. There is nothing less than a terrorist attack. Its domestically borne. And we have to be aware of that. Thats going to be part of our political discussion, as well. You have a concert with 22,000 people in your city, do you position that Tactical Unit close to that event . That would not be the case. Las vegas is fortunate it has a fulltime unit onduty all the time. They probably would not have been located next to this venue, las vegas, on any given night, as concerts all over the place, most of them indoors. They would have been aware of this. Most of them officers. The concert promoted would have had to tire two dozen las vegas officers to help police the crowd. That s. W. A. T. Unit would have probably been in normal circumstances, and last night would have been normal circumstances, prior to this event, would have been at the location, where they were from the centrally located. New york city benefits, i have tbenefit of being commissioner recently. Has 300 to 400 officers to respond within five to seven minutes. Las vegas did an incredible job. I cant say enough about the sheriff and his people. And were hearing about the bravery of other people helping others in this chaos. A lot of offduty Police Officers, including one that lost his life. We can hear more from bill young, who is a sheriff of the metropolitan Las Vegas Police department. Thank you for being with us this morning. Im sure your heart is going out to your colleagues there in the department. Whats your reaction . Or what are your thoughts about what weve seen unfold this morning . Yeah. It didnt start for me this morning. It was last night. I have a 22yearold daughter that called me shortly after 10 00, i knew she was at this event. Just moved home from college. And she was there, screaming. Dad, theres somebody shooting. What do i do . There with her College Roommate and her roommates brother and his girlfriend, Close Friends of ours. And she just i watched her. She was hysterical. I told her to calm down and told me what was going on. I told her to take cover or run as fast as she could. I got my retired sheriffs badge and my gun and off i went. Fortunately, i learned ten minutes into it, that she had made it across the street. And she went to an aircraft hangar, whose door was open. And her and her friend hid under a desk. I told them to stay there until i got there or a metropolitan Police Department officer got there. And one of my sons, who i had two boys on the Police Department that were out there working that night. One of them, i got ahold of him and he got to his sister and her friends. And got them out of there. Probably took two hours to do all that. It was a very hectic and harrowing night for our family. You mentioned the airplane hangar. This was just down the road from the International Airport there in las vegas. I want to go back to what you said on a personal note. Youre on the phone with your daughter. You have two sons who are working on the police force. Just describe those ten minutes that you were waiting to find out if she had made it out of there. Those have to be the longest ten minutes youll ever go through. You know, ive been doing this a long time. I drove an ambulance for four years and was on this department for 28. And ive been working for a Security Department for the last ten. You just until you have this happen to yourself, you didnt imagine the terror that takes over you. The thought of losing my little girl to Something Like this, it was its a tough thing. And my wife and i, you know, shes a trauma nurse by trade. And i have another boy who is a paramedic on the Fire Department here. The whole family and the girl im talking about is studying to be a nurse, an r. N. Like her mother. My whole family is in this business in one way or another. I thank god he gave us a break on this one. Shes okay. And her friend, her College Roommate, paige, is okay. You know. And her brother and his girlfriend, the four of them were there. They went three nights in a row. It was supposed to be an amazingly great show. I thought about even going myself because im a country fan. But it this is my town. Ive been here all my life. And im just sick. But im proud of the metropolitan Police Department. I cant tell you. The heroic actions of the police here saved many more lives. Countless number of lives. And the other First Responders. The Fire Department and the highway patrol. Weve always worked well together and trained well. We have something called mac tack, where the officers that are deployed, theyre not s. W. A. T. Trained but trained to respond to unusual circumstances and situations that just happen. And such as this. Just what ive seen and what ive heard, they did an amazing job. Quick responses as anyone can imagine. I cant imagine the evil in this guys mind. His family or he owned a pool company here very well known. Paddock pools foranunderstandin. I cant understand somebody from las vegas doing something this hideous and evil. I cant process it. So many people join you in feeling that exact same way. Its unspeakable, the horror. We are so glad youre family is okay. Appreciate you spending your time with us this morning. The tourists and the people that were there, who have lost loved ones. This is not las vegas. This is not the people of las vegas. This gentleman, this guy, mentally ill, whatever he is. He is not what we are here in this town. I can tell you that well do everything we can to do the best we can, for all of the people who were damaged by this incident. Thats the way this town operates. Well, thank you for your time this morning. Thank you. Really appreciate it. Former las vegas sheriff, bill young. Thank you very much. I want to bring Pete Williams back in. Sheriff young gave us one more piece of information. I dont know if you can confirm that. But i know you do have more information for us. Well, a couple of things, matt. First of all, we just nbc news just a little while ago, spoke to his brother, who says that the police told him that they identified Stephen Paddock as the gunman here by looking in his wallet, after they stormed his hotel room. The brother says didnt say much to us other than his brother, Stephen Paddock, was retired, often went to las vegas. Liked to gamble. Liked to go to the shows. Was familiar with the big las vegas hotels, like the mandalay bay, where the shooting came out of. Thats the first thing. The second thing is, the authorities have now clarified how Stephen Paddock died. They say when they breach the room, when they got inside the hotel room, he was dead. So, he apparently shot himself. We know that he had a large number of weapons. We know that he had rifles in the room. We also know that he recently purchased two handguns. So, he could have shot himself with one of the handguns. We dont know the circumstances of that shooting. But the authorities have confirm ld now, that he shot himself, they did not kill him after breaching and getting inside the hotel room. Were trying to put together more about Stephen Paddock. We have seen lots of contradictory information. We know he lived in mesquite, nevada. His house is being searched and he lived with Marilou Danley. The person authorities were trying to locate. But what her status is, weve heard contradictory information about that, as well. One fine point. You said they went in his wallet and got his identification. Do you know if he registered under his own name . We dont know that yet. Thats an important question. And one of the questions is, when he checked into the hotel, if it was him or whoever did it for him. Did he ask for a room on the upper floors . Did he ask for a room that faced that direction . That would indicate he had chosen this target in advance. Or was he looking to shoot as many people as he could and this was a target of opportunity. We turn to shawn henry. Every step he took is likely to be recorded in every shape, way or form. Theres so much security going on on the streets and the hotel. Investigators will be able to piece this together fairly well. One of the most important pieces is going back and term how it happened and why it happened. Part of that is going to be the timeline. Where did he get the weapon from . The ammunition that he had. Police officers will be able to trace every step because theres cameras all over the entire city. Including the nenvelopes he woud have traveled in. License plate readers they have got, to see how his vehicle traveled. Who he might have met with, et cetera. Putting together that entire timeline, the tick tock, is an incredible important piece here to bring this totality together. Talking to the former sheriff of las vegas, bill young. You tapped my arm, bill. What did you want to add . Bill is a very good friend. I was with him two weeks ago in las vegas. Ive known him going back to my time as chief of police in los angeles. Extraordinary individual. His whole family is committed to public service. Two sons in the department, another one a firefighter. Extraordinary man. And the emotion he talked about, that drive from ten minutes away into vegas, knowing his daughter might be in harms way, his sons might be at that concert. The question i was going to ask of him, there was a comment made earlier, how did they get up to that room so quickly . It was a thought that the Smoke Detector might have identified that room. The amount of smoke that came out of the weapons, may have been enough to set off the Smoke Detector in that room. How do they get up there so quickly . One identified maybe counting up the floors. Possibly. That will be part of the unfolding investigation. But that thought intrigued me. Still intrigues me. I was going to ask bill if hes been in touch with the sheriff down there. Bill has been in touch with them during the course of the morning. That fascinates me on Law Enforcement, how did they get to that room so quickly . When we visit las vegas, we see it as a big city. But its a small town when it comes to the fact that these members of the police force and the Sheriffs Department had friends and relatives at that concert. And were doing their professional jobs. Their personal lives were mixed in this, as well. Were just starting to put the pieces together who this individual might be. Tom costello said he owned two aircraft in the past. Presumably, according to our sources, had all these weapons. He had some resources, tom. The fact of the matter is, we dont know enough about him yet. But one of the things theyre going through, i assume, was social media. What did he have to say . We heard from his probrother. We did not hear if he had been going up and down the streets, that he was angry at the world or going to get even with somebody. Theres a lot more to know about this man that would commit a maniacal act as this. I didnt think i he woke up one morning and said i am going to do this tonight. It took planning to get the weapons in there. And its also for communities across the country. You got somebody in your community, who is acting off the wall, you know, you cant just say, thats old joe. At some point, you have to raise the alert level and say, what are we dealing with her . Everybody has the capacity to do something. And people will say, i know how i can get famous. I will commit Something Like that. We are living in a different environment that most of us at this table grew up with. We have to think about that. Everybody has to be alert, what theyre reading on social media, what theyre hearing on the street. What theyre saying. Theres somebody probably watching this story right now. Were hearing more from the sheriff right now live. The largest mass shooting in United States history. With 50 killed. The death toll on that is expected to go higher. This is sheriff of the sheriffs press conference. I believe theyre just introducing him now. Looks like hes preparing to speak to the reporters gathered. Theyve been out throughout the night, Briefing Members of the media and the public. Not only about the toll and how many passed away. Theyre giving out information. Theres so many people, like the sheriff we just spoke to, who were looking for loved ones, who havent received the call yet. And thats part of the horror thats unfolding. So many people wondering, where is their loved one . And you know, you say you know joseph lombardo. He is trying to get information out. Assuring people. Hes the best. Events that took place earlier tonight. Just a matter of recall. Just a matter of recall. At 10 00 p. M. , last night, we started receiving calls of an active shooter at the route 91 harvest festival, located adjacent to mandalay bay resort. We got calls that there was a shooter firing from the 32nd floor. And the number attending that festival, the number was 22,000, being struck by the rounds. The clark county Fire Department is estimating the injuries to be over 400 and the deaths associated with this event over 50. I cant give you an exact number because were investigating some of the areas, involving the event where the concert is taking place. And were exiting individuals that were hidden. Its a matter of a process. It will take quite a while to get through the evacuation phase. And well have assessment on the injuries associated with that. Our suspect was identified as Stephen Craig paddock, 64 years old, a white male from mesquite, nevada. We have no investigative information or background associated with this individual that is derogatory. The only thing we can tell is he received a citation several years ago. And that citation was handled as a matter of normal practice in the court system. Some important things that i need to get out. The family reunification is still taking place here at the las vegas metropolitan Police Department headquarters. Any individuals that are looking for answers, their family members or friends are welcome to come here. And well provide information as we get that. The fbi is vital in assistance of this investigation, as a matter of help. They are providing a 1800 number, which is 1800callfbi. So, a matter of the number is 18002255324. That number is to be utilized for any and all information, especially video information or evidence that we can provide the fbi. And they will be the housing of all that critical information. So, if you have anybody that has knowledge, through your media sources, and they want to provide that information, thats an avenue to go. Once they receive an individual on the other side of the line, they will walk them through the process. And well get them to the online version, so they can download that information. Additionally, the coroners office, as i repeated before, has set up a number for individuals to call. That number is 18665355654. That is for individuals that do not have the ability to come down to the headquarters to discuss their family and friends in person. Now, the other critical piece, associated with this, in any mass casualty event, is the need for blood. So, United Blood Services have their services set up currently. They are receiving patients or donors at 6930 west charleston. And 601 Whitney Ranch in henderson. So, if you have the ability to donate blood, to help the cause, please do so. Additionally, the laborers union, is offering their facility, the medical facility. At 7135 west sahara, to individuals that want to donate blood. And umc has a pod set up for individuals to go to umc to donate blood. And that will be the gist of the updates at this time. So, im happy to answer any questions. Can you talk about what the scene was like in that room when your officers we believe the individual killed himself prior to our entry. How many weapons was he found with . Were still going through the search warrant actively at this time. But in excess of ten rifles. What is the status of Marilou Danley . Im sorry . We have located her out of the country. She was not with him when he checked in. We have discovered. He was utilizing some of her identification. And we have had conversation with her. And we believed her, at this time, not to be involved. Obviously, that will be that investigation will continue. As far as his residence in mesquite, we have officers now there serving a search warrant. Any yielding to no. We made entry just a matter of minutes ago. Thats going to be quite some time. Were going to clear the explosives. That will be slow, methodical. It will take us quite some time. Marilou danley, found out of the country. Did you find any weapons on her . No, maam. I dont know what has taken place, as far as the interview with her. Okay. I think its important for you to notice who is standing behind me. We have chief greg castle. Im always caught up with your family. Greg castle has been integral in the saving of lives. I think their actions and heroic acts were instrumental in saving several lives in association with this event. And our attorney general, he brought forth his office to help with future prosecution associated with the case. And special agent in charge, aaron rouse, of the fbi. The fbi has been standing next to us, from the very first minute. They are providing all of the Resources Available of the federal government, to help us in this endeavor. And you have the clark county chairman. He has been instrumental and getting us information from the First Responders. As we hit 9 00 east coast time on this monday morning, we want to welcome some viewers who may be just joining this special edition of today show on this monday morning, where we are covering the deadliest mass shooting in u. S. History, in las vegas, neva, 10 00 or so, local time there. 50 more than 50 people have been killed by a shooter in a hotel room, 32 stories above a music concert taking place. Weve been listening to joseph lombardo, the Clark County Sheriff over the district of las vegas, nevada. Other than distraught person, intending to