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Your big takeaways from this press conference? >> my biggest takeaway was the revolution the shooter had 12 bump fire stocks. these are devices that modify a semiautomatic weapon. and simulate machine gunfire. i have one to show you. it looks like the stock of a rifle. this would go on an ak-47 and what it does is it harnesses the recoil of the rifle to rapidly depress the trigger, much faster than a human finger could ever squeeze a trigger. to the point where you heard on that body camera video, sounds like a machine gun. i haven't heard fire like that since i was embedded with u.s. forces i...

Come this way. and he's sweating. as soon as we pass him, he starts running off into the bad area where everything is bad. and i just thought in my head, wow. and so i just stayed as calm as possible and tried to take the two girls by their hands and run through. and there were people following me. and it was body, body, body. then we hit the fourth body. and they were people with these people laying there, hiding. but they're bloody. and i couldn't stop because i was trying to help the people that were with me. and that was my sole goal at this time. so when i got to -- yeah. >> i just want t...

More like the kind of machine gunfire that you would see in war, which is what was unleashed on this concert crowd last night. a semiautomatic firing mechanism is designed to fire every time you pull the trigger, but you can install a double tap trigger or a trigger that can double the firing speed by making the gunfire twice, once on the pull and once on the release, so that can double your speed. you can also use something called a trigger crank. i think it sometimes gets called a gap crank. a trigger crank or gap crank basically just is a mechanism that pulls the trigger mechanically using ...

He seemed to be making his living as a recent professional gambler. he was a high stakes poker player. we know from transactions that the fbi observed he was betting as much as $10,000 a pop. avenues college graduate who worked as an auditor for a time. he was living in a retirement community. he is 64 years old. living with his 62-year-old asian-american girlfriend who is now in tokyo. so there's a lot about stephen paddock that doesn't fit what we've understood about past mass shootings but we don't know the biggest question which is what was his state of mind. the fbi and other authorities ...

Help? >> i guess he was reloading and there was volley after volley of machine gunfire. at that point we were just hiding and just trying to make sure we were not going to exposed. we didn't know exactly where it was coming from. we assumed it was coming from the rooftop at mandalay bay. and only after about 25, 20 minutes ever silaence did we fel like we could go out and tend to people. that's where the true horror revealed itself. we walked into the ball where all the fans were, and it was empty beer cups, trash, and bodies. >> that's when you realized people were dead. >> i didn't realize t...