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Attending a three-day country festival. he gets on the balcony and opens fire with a high-powered automatic rifle into this crowd of people. people just watching music concert 10:30 last night, west coast time. opening fire and killing 20 people at this point, injuring more than 100 before police finally closed in on him on the room on the 32nd floor and shot and killed this individual who they say acted alone and at this point we do not know a motive for why this has happened. that's the big question why did this man open fire. heather: all we do know from the sheriff who gave a news conferen...

Aren't. it's been a crazy evening here in las vegas. i think we're all still trying to process. >> jake, you had performed earlier. you were not on the stage when this happened. where were you? >> no, i was on the stage. i had just walked up on the stage with a couple friends of mine. including one of them being luke combs, another artist who played earlier. we were literally standing 50 feet away from where jake was on stage. all of a sudden, you heard what sounded -- you know, it was the thing where you were like, is that gunfire? it got faster and faster, almost like it sounded like it was ...

Together but nobody can, at this point, understand why. >> reporter: nobody can understand why. if you have an automatic rifle, if that's confirmed the weapon in this case, to rain down terror in a group of people packed in that tightly. what happened after that, you heard from people in the crowd who thought it was just part of the show. i think a lot of people that maybe never heard automatic gunfire to that degree, particularly when you're enjoying a concert on the vegas strip, it's the furthest thing from your mind. a lot of people pulled out their phones and started shooting, thinking it ...

Police. >> 50 or 60 shots. we heard from clint watts earlier when he was describing the weapon. rand paul couldn't see the shooter or the gun. based on the sound, he said it sounded like some sort of automatic rifle, possibly an ar-15. clint watts, when commenting on it, said it's likely capitol police would not have the type of weapons to combat that. they would have pistols that could maybe get off 10 to 12 shots, certainly not 50 to 60. mo brooks who was part of practice on the scene took his own belt and used it as a tourniquet to help steve scalise. rand paul said when he saw steve, he wa...

For 100 years plus, this baseball game between democrats and republicans. i think the capitol police are going to focus more towards ramping up their security moving forward for additional games. >> while it's not confirmed that it's an ar-15, eyewitnesses across the board have said they believe based on the sound of the shots it was an automatic rifle. congressman barton is speaking now. >> she started shooting, shot a her third baseman, shot at steve scalise, our second baseman. he hit steve scalise. the security detail and capitol police immediately began to return fire. and alexander polic...