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>> multiple medical checks. south of reno. >> when we were there, jason aldean was performing. he was 10 minutes in and we heard what we thought were fireworks. it looked like smoke from mandalay bay, and then he kept performing and then we heard it again. they cut the music and everyone said drop, and everyone dropped, and everyone got up and they said run. and everyone started stampeding and charging and knocking over grills, jumping over fences. getting out. we tried to run into mgm, and everyone ran out of there saying there was shooting. we tried to run this thing and the same thing happe...

Steve? >> reporter: a lot of what we're seeing from above, we saw filter out on the ground. police swarming this scene shortly after that shooting took place. speaking to victims as has been mentioned all throughout this morning, a lot of them thought that that original gunfire was some sort of fireworks or some sort of sound that was part of the show, just not recognizing the sound of constant automatic gunfire raining down. who would think that that's what it was? people looked up and confirmed that, and then you had a mass panic. people trying to leave that scene as quickly as humanly possi...

Festival. now the associated press reports that concert goers told them they saw muzzle flashes from the upper floors of the hotel across las vegas boulevard. here is the chaos, as described by witnesses, beginning with the police scanner as it unfolded. >> it's coming from upstairs mandalay bay. upstairs mandalay bay, halfway up. shots from mandalay bay. multiple casualties. multiple casualties. >> repeated, be advised it is automatic fire, fully automatic fire from an elevated position. take cover. >> multiple from the chest, legs, arteries. south of reno. >> when we were there, jason aldean...

>> exactly. >> and that's absolutely true. >> that's my point. leads to how much planning was going on here. ayman mohyeldin and yasmin voosoughian have been covering this. >> we've been showing jason aldean's video all night. let's take a listen to our interview with him. >> i thought, honestly, i'm a local. i thought honestly from the smell it smelled like a pyrotech knick. i thought they messed up, that they were going to shoot fireworks and it was misfiring. then it stopped and went again and then it started getting louder and you saw people start

More reaction from victims. >> reporter: we've been speaking to eyewitnesss throughout the course of the evening. some of the initial information that we were getting word from those concert goers who were using their cell phones to document some of the initial videos that have proven to be critical as you heard there and as you and jim were talking about the sounds of that gunfire. that was actually from one of the eyewitnesss. we had a chance to track him down and spoke to him in the early hours of the morning. here's what he described to us. >> fireworks, i thought i'm a local. i thought, h...