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firing from first round to last? do we know that? that s the thing we don t know. what we know, it s an hour and 12 minutes from the time the first shots are phoned in to the police, police get the first call that shots are fired until the door is breached on the hotel room. what we don t know is was he still shooting at the time he broke into the room. police have said as soon as they got on the 32nd floor they knew immediately that s where the shots were coming from. the elevator doors opened and they know immediately that s where the shots are coming from. we don t know why that is, whether it s that they smelled gun powder or they can hear shots being fired. so we can t from that time line we simply can t tell when the last shots were fired, whether it was right up until the time that they blew the door off and he shot himself. brief note to our viewers, we ve just stretched across the top of the 2:00 p.m. hour here on the east coast, obviously covering this national tra ....
vegas casinos. places tens of thousands of dollars worth of bets in recent weeks. but why he did this, they simply have no clue. they know he has been acquiring weapons over the past several months. he has bought at gun stores in nevada, possibly outside the state as well. that part of nevada he is from, mesquite, is right on the border. so he could go to other states to try to buy weapons and have them sent back to the gun dealers in nevada 20 do it legally. but the big question here is how did he acquire automatic weapons. you ve heard the sounds on the videos of these rapid shots. machine guns are illegal in the u.s. but it s possible to buy conventional semiautomatic weapons, meaning they fire every time you pull the trigger, but just one round and convert them. but that conversion process can make the weapons illegal. so the authorities are trying to figure out how he managed to get his hands on these automatic weapons. he had some of those in the room. he had sniper rifl ....
house and the senate. we know that the leaders in the house, speaker paul ryan, the leader were on the train. they are okay. but the tragic news today that there s one american confirmed dead. somebody who was traveling on the truck that the train hit. and we also know that there was one person who was critically injured and taken to an area hospital who was also traveling in the truck. we also know now that congressman jason lewis of minnesota was transported to a hospital. we have a photo of him with his neck in a brace being treated by medical percesonnel. we don t know at this point the extent of his injuries. we heard from an aid previously there was one member of congress who was hurt who was standing up when this accident occurred. everybody who was on the train felt a jolt, especially those traveling near the front of the train. there were laptops, cell phones went fly iing. as you point out, many members had their spouses, children, guard. then also should have had ga ....
Tonight but they are having celebrations in addition to the moment of silence, they have musical performances but they are again mixing that with some somber times. what was behind me was the parade route. this became the scene of a march that hundreds participated in. people have shirts on that have highland park messaging but there were also people wearing stars and stripes. this strange dichotomy and multiple lenses through which people are going to be seeing this holiday in this community, but there s an element of defiance here. here s what the mayor told us earlier. i m sorry. actually don t think we have that, richard. i ll send it back to you. again, it s a mix of different elements here. different emotions. but again, not letting this memory completely define this holiday here. so appreciate your reporting ....
Incredible. will reeve with us mightn t will come i know whenever there s news on spinal cord injuries, any hope or potential breakthrough is that this is really personal for you and your family. reporter: yeah, david paired my father christopher wray was in many ways the face f paralysis after his spinal cord injury in 1995. he dreamed of breakthroughs like this and he fought for them. he would ve been the first person to volunteer for this procedure. it still is early days. the treatment is not yet widely available to patients but this provides bright beacon of hope for the spinal cord injury community. david: and i guess your father would be very proud of you, will, that you are reporting on these breakthroughs. will reeve tonight. well, thank you. next here tonight that a nation working one year since the horrific school shooting a multi-texas. what played out in that community to name in the moment of silence at the white house. john communis tonight from uvalde. one year ma ....