Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150924:17:24:00
First of all, that's an eye-popping number when you start -- 717 people. how does something like this happen? >> first you got to start with how big this event is. this is two million people that descend on the city of mecca over the course of five days. they have to go through very structured rituals to complete the pilgrimage and they all have to happen almost at the same exact time. so you have hundreds of thousands of people passing through this particular site where the stampede was today. authorities haven't explained why the stampede began but they say at about 9:00 a.m. local time for ...