Cover. And there wasnt a lot of cover to find. Thats right. We know the name of the suspect, Stephen Paddock, 64 years old from mesquite, nevada. He was shot and killed by police. Police told nbc news they found a cache of weapons. Numerous firearms in that room. President trump has tweeted about the shooting saying, quote, my warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible las vegas shooting. God bless you. I want to say, when you think about this, shawn, the shooter known to authorities, had a criminal record but not known to federal authorities. When we think about this, how do you secure a perimeter of a venue, going into a concert or venue where theres been magnetometers and searchs of people. But a venue like this, somebody that can be in a highrise, how do you stop that . We talked about at this table, intelligence. Do you identify somebody . Advance . What are the warning signs . Have they made statements to people . Are they accumulating weapons and ammunition . Are they acting violent or irrationally . What do you do . What is the state of Mental Health . We dont know the motivation here, yet. But thats where the conversation will turn. How do you stop these things before we see this mass carnage. No matter what you do in terms of security, there always seems to be people one step ahead. If they have evil in their hearts, its difficult to prevent it. Stay with us, if you would. Were going to go to nbcs joe fryer. He is in a hotel room on a high floor himself. You have a pretty good idea of the Vantage Point that the shooter would have had. Reporter thats right, savannah. Were in the four seasons hotel, which is part of mandalay bay. Were on the 38th floor. Just six floors directly above where this shooter was at the time. Were on lockdown here. Weve been on lockdown here for six hours now. We just checked with the front desk. Were still on lockdown. We have to remain here. Minutes ago, police in Tactical Gear were going doortodoor on our floor, knocking on doors, asking if anyone needed medical assistance. If no one responded, they pounded harder until someone responded. Well be staying put for a while. Were going to turn off the lights in here. We want to show you off the window. We dont want the lights to create a reflection. When you look outside here. This is the 38th floor. What youre looking at right now is where this route 91 Harvest CountryMusic Festival was taking place. Kittycorner from mandalay bay. This is the 38th floor. The shooter was six floors behind us on the 32nd floor. The righthand side of the screen is the stage, where jason aldean was performing when this happened. And the rest of the area was filled with thousands of people. Loud music was filling the air here in las vegas, that we could hear from the hotel here through the night. You get an idea of the Vantage Point, from some angle. We can tell you from the room were in, this window does not open. Its a floortoceiling window. We dont know what the situation was in the shooters room. But most of these windows where we are do not open to go outside. Youre looking at the las vegas strip. Its a bustling street no matter the time of day. The only thing youre seeing are flashing lights on police cars who have blocked off the roads here. No one is being allowed into this area, as Police Continue their investigation. As we pan to the right, youre going to see mccarron airport, the main airport in and out of las vegas. That was right in the shadow. At the time, there were no flights going in and out of the airport here. Thats the situation here. We remain under lockdown as Police Continue to investigate. As the sun will probably rise in the next couple of hours, well get a better idea of what the situation looks like, down below. Here we see. Were part of the mandalay bay tower. Theres a number of room that were facing toward where this concert was taking place. Plenty of people can see from this Vantage Point. Joe fryer, thank you very much. Were with bill bratton here, former Police Commissioner of new york city. You have to know shatterproof glass, but no match for a militarystyle weapon to take that window out. I think well find, thats how he did it. Probably shot the window out. Has that platform, looking at that angle, you can see what a clear line of sight he would have had for what he did. Bill bratton here. Shawn henry here. We spoke to jake owen. He was performing at that concert, as the shooting began. We began by asking how he was doing. Thankfully were doing all right. Unfortunately, theres a lot that arent. Its been a pretty crazy evening here, in las vegas. Were trying to process. Jake, you had performed earlier. You were not on the sage whetag this happened. Where were you . I was on the stage. I had walked up on the stage with a couple friends of mine, including luke combs, who played earlier. We were 50 feet away from where jason was on stage. All of a sudden, you heard what sounded it was like, the thing, is that gunfire . And it got faster and faster, almost like it sounded like an automatic rifle. You could see it off of the rafters of the stage. And everyone started running everywhere possible. It was chaotic, for sure. Where were you able to go to seek cover . Unfortunately, i ran in the opposite direction from where my shelter would be, which is my bus, on the opposite side of the stage. I ran, like everyone else. At one point, i was crouched down behind a cross bar with about 20 other people that were you know, people coming to the show. And everyone was asking if everyone was okay. There was blood on people. And you could see a couple people in the streets that looked like they had been shot, lying there. It was literally like a movie that you feel like youve seen before thats not real life. Jake, i know when Something Like that happens, i imagine that time is just really hard to get a grasp on. Were interested in it because it does sound like from other witnesses we talked to this went on for some time. If you had to guess how long from when you first heard the sounds to when the shooting finally stopped, how long do you think it took place for . I without even overexaggerating, it had to be close to ten minutes. Because it went on for a good four, five minutes before i got back to, luckily, to a bus that was safe in a crew parking lot. Once i got on the bus, we were hiding in the bus because you could hear gunfire outside. It wasnt something that just was quick. It was chaos for seven to ten minutes. Were you able to get with your friends and fellow performers . Or is there difficulty because everybody is scattered in Different Directions . There was that for a while. I recently my tour manager and my manager got over to where i am now. We were all separated. A friend of mine with her family for her 50th birthday, like a lot of other people. They come out to the concerts because thats what life is about. We get to live this freedom and thank the men and women who fight for it for us. And we live this life of not being scared, which i think is great. But this is reality these days. Stuff is really happening. We were all scared. And i think its important to say, too, that the Las Vegas Police department, and the responders, you could tell. They did everything they could to get out here as quickly as possible to take care of these people. They need a shoutout, as well. I heard somebody, jake, earlier, talk about the staff of the concert venue. The people who were working who normally would guide you into a concert venue. And that person said they reacted with great calm. And they really seemed to try to do everything they could to help people get out of that area. So, we thank them, as well. Jake, were happy youre okay. And again, we thank you for joining us on the phone this morning. That was one of the performers earlier. These images were showing and the sounds are incredibly disturbing. I think all of us are trying to comprehend whats taking place in our country today. More than 50 People Killed in this terrible shooting. Were starting to count the toll now. Our hearts are with those suffering. Danita cohen is with the Medical Center in las vegas where some are being treated. I know you a level i Trauma Center. What is going on in that Trauma Center right now . We have the only level i Trauma Center in nevada. Now, 104 patients have come to us this evening. 30plus patients went to the Trauma Center side. More went to the Emergency Department. The Emergency Department is separate from our level i Trauma Center. We are selfcontained. Within those four walls, we have three operating room suites. Any testing that we need to do, a full blood bank, mri, c. T. Scan, everything we need to take care of lifethreatening injuries. And weve been extremely busy with critically ill patients this evening. Talk to me about some of the wounds youre seeing, danita. Mostly gunshot wounds. Some folks got, you know, pushed over in the crowd. But for the most part, because we are a Trauma Center, it was gunshot wounds we were seeing tonight. Danita, you mentioned you have three operating rooms. And we we spoke, you said they were just being used continuously. We have operating rooms just steps away. They dont have to stop or pass go. They go back to the o. R. So far, eight patients have been taken back to the o. R. About eight patients are in Critical Condition right now. We heard the tragic news from the transfer of clark county earlier, danita, where he says more than 50 people have been killed. Many of those were pronounced dead at the scene. Others were transported to local facilities. How many patients have expired at your facility . Unfortunately, we had four patients who have passed away so far. We had many patients already discharged. Many were well enough to already go home. Even though its extremely difficult for them to get back to the strip, all of the strip properties on lockdown. We are holding those patients here with us and trying to reunite them with their families because they cant go back to the hotel room, which they left a few hours ago, before the concert. Danita, is there a supply of blood . Do you need anything there . Right now, we are very adequately staffed with blood. We will be partnering with united blood Defense Services t folks in the Las Vegas Area donate blood to make sure our shelves are stocked. We are a Trauma Center. Trauma does not stop. We will see the normal amount of patients come through our door because of the Car Accidents and the other modes of injury on a daily basis. Danita cohen, thank you for your time. I know youre busy. Well check back. And thank all of the people that do this incredible work. Thank you. I will. That means a lot to them. I want to go back to nbc justice correspondent, pete williams, who has been working his sources all through the morning. I am told you have new information, pete . Couple of things, savannah. There were a couple of offduty Police Officers, who were attending the concert, like anybody else, from a number of different Law Enforcement associations. A number of them were involved in the shooting. Two of their officers were on duty during the concert. One had minor injuries. The other is in stable condition after surgery, they say. There were Police Officers who were wounded, as well, as concertgoers. We dont believe there were any Police Officers, at least we havent ind no indication that any were wounded or injured when they blew the door off stephen Paddocks Hotel room this morning and shot and killed him. And inside the room, they say they found a cache of weapons. Multiple weapons. One question thats arisen this morning is, how was it that he was able to achieve such lethal results, given how far away he was, from the concert location . We dont know precisely how it was because until the sun comes up and we can get a good idea of where the room was in comparison to the concert field, we think about 1,700 feet the Vantage Point of his hotel window to the glass where people were attending the concert. Were told by experts that the range of an assault weapon or the kind of rifle that was used here, is about 2,000 feet. Its within the range of the weapon. And obviously, we know, from the horrifying numbers were hearing, that the rounds had devastating effect, killing more than 50 people and injuring several dozen more. You just talked to the hospital, some of the people were injured simply by the crush of the people trying to get away. But many of them were also hit by gunfire. And some of those people are critical, which is why these numbers have been going up here because the wounds and the injuries were so severe. As for the investigation, still no light. And i think it will be hours before we have any idea why Stephen Paddock chose this hotel to shoot at this target. We dont know whether he had that target in advance. A key to this may be the woman that they say he was living with in his home of mesquite, nevada, where authorities are searching now, marilou danley, 62 years old, who was apparently, at least at some point, in the hotel with him. Clearly not in the room when the shooting took place or not when the police blew the door off and came in. The authorities have said they have located her. But we dont know precisely what that means. Does that mean they think they know where she is . Or is she now in Police Custody for questioning . Theyve described her as a person of interest. And she probably knows more than anybody else about what went on here. And shes going to be very important witness for the authorities to talk to about what happened. And now, theyre going back through the record of Stephen Paddock. His work record. Trying to put his life back together. Piece it together and do a reverse timeline. When did he come to las vegas . Had he been talking about this . Was this a spur of the moment type thing . When did he get the weapons . These are questions we dont know the answers to yet but they are aggressively working. All right, pete. Thank you very much with the latest on the investigation. So many unanswered questions. Bill, let me go back to you as someone who knows how s. W. A. T. Teams operate. This shooting starts. Its chaos. You have people running out of the mandalay beay hotel. You have people running in, looking for shelter from whats going on outside. Now, the s. W. A. T. Team arrives. What are they equipped with . How do they deal with the chaos and the running . They dont know if the people are involved with this plot. How do they carry out their mission . Las vegas has one of the most wellprepared Police Departments in america for dealing with these incidents. Ive known the three preceding sheriffs. They focus with this dealing of this type of incident. Shift incident, post9 11. This incident, they have a fulltime s. W. A. T. Unit. Watching the video, they obviously also now have started equipping the emts and firefighters with vests and ballistic helmets. As part of the evolution of training for these events, you need to get police in there, and firefighters, if theres a fire and emt in there. They start with volunteers that dont carry weapons but can get in there and render first said. When they get to the 32nd floor, with the s. W. A. T. Team, im going to play a piece of tape for you. Listen to it and well talk about it. We dont. Sorry. This there was a piece of tape where you hear the recording of the s. W. A. T. Team saying, weve reached the door. Weve identified the door. Were about to breach the door. And you hear an explosion. Talk to me about that standard operating entreprenee ining pro . Thats correct. They call, breach, breach, breach. You indicate to everybody theres going to be a noise. What they probably do is they toss in a flashbang, which is a bright light explosion, that is intended to blind whoever is in that room. They dont know what is behind that door. They are going in against somebody who is wellarmed. The idea is to try to take him offguard, or whatevoever is in room. And the flashbang, the explosion itself, is intended to throw that person off guard for a moment to give them a chance to get into that room. Going into that room will be a team of four officers that are trained as to what theyre going to do once they get into that room. When we heard that police radio broadcast, that were all talking about, you can hear him used a hushed tone. Theyre actually whispering because they need to have that element of surprise, obviously. Thats correct. They need to let all of the officers outside who are focused on that building, that room, to understand what is going on in that room. They dont know if theres a hostage in that room. In those situations, we learned after columbine, the total police shift and tactics after columbine. In nypd, we trained the time i was commission, is training to get into that location. Hostages, unfortunately, cannot be really dealt with in that type of situation. What does it tell us about the weapons. How do you get your hands on them . Some can construct a semiautomatic weapon and upgrade it, so to speak. What do you make of it . Some of the fully automatic weapons are tightly regulated. Theres a black market for this, this type of weapon. I want to go back to what the commissioner just said and matts question about the s. W. A. T. Team tactical, going in on somebody thats that heavily. Speed, surprise and violence of action. With the explosive breach, throwing in the flashbang and disorienting. The Law Enforcement officers are trained. They train with the light and explosions because they want to appear when they do these live time that theyve been through it before. If theres a hostage in that space, theyre looking to discern who might have a weapon. But in this case, its about getting into that room as quickly as possible to eliminate the threat. And the speed so important here, shawn, because if he had not run out of am missiomunitioy minute they delay getting into that room, he has magazines with 20 or 30 rounds in them. And there were people huddled in that concert area. Thats absolute hi right. This goes on indefinitely until you can stop the threat. Thats when officers are trained, when we talk about active shooters. Get to the threat as quickly as possible. And Police Officers in the line of fire, to do everything they can to eliminate the source of that fire. All right. Stay with us. We want to go to Peter Alexander at the white house for us. Were hearing more from members of the administration. Reporter thats right. We have heard from the president. President trump was alerted, briefed about this situation, in las vegas early this morning by his chief of staff, john kel lk. The president tweeting a while ago, my warmest condolences and sympathies. And Vice President mike pence, tweeting on this shooting, the worst in american history. He writes, in part, to victims, families and loved ones affected by this senseless violence in las vegas, karen, his wife, are prying for you and offering our loves. The hearts and prayers of the American People are with you. You have our condolences and sympat sympathies. For the courageous first responders, thank you for your bravery. Ivanka trump has woken up to the terrible crisis in las vegas. She is tweeting saying america woke up to the horrific news of the devastating shooting in las vegas. Our collective hearts are breaking for the victims and their families. Matt and savannah, i spoke to tom bosser, in charge of counterterrorism and homeland security. He has been up suns he first learned about the shooting. He has spoken to the fbi director, christopher ray, about the federal response and the resources involved into the investigation of the shooting that has taken the lives of more than 50 people. He says as best they can tell from the earliest information they received, this was nothing but a Fast Response from those Law Enforcement officials in that area. The president is expected to be updated over the course of the day. If we know hes going to be speaking, he will share that with you. No word on whether he will make public remark rs. If you have just woken up and heard peter use a number, 50 lives at least, have been lost in las vegas over night, as a gunman opened fire, on the third day of a Country Music festival. Jason aldean performing on the stage. And a man with an automatic weapon, 32 floors above, in the mandalay bay resort, shot out the window somehow and began firing indiscriminately at tens of thousands of people who were trapped in by the walls that encompassed that concert venue. 50plus people are dead. This went on for several minutes before police were able to locate the shooter, find him on this monday morning. In a moment we will return to natio welcome to today in the bay on this monday morning. In a moment, we will return to National Coverage of the deadliest mass shooting in history. It happened at a Country Music festival on the las vegas strip. Nbc news has been bringing continuous coverage all morning long. The sheriff just gave an update. 50 people are dead, more than 200 hurt. The suspect is 64yearold Stephen Paddock, from nevada. The gunman is dead. Here on the map is where you can see this all happen. We want to get to the map in a moment. It happened at the mandalay bay hotel. It will be at the bottom of the screen in a moment. This was near the international airport. A place where millions of people travel every year, a popular destination for people in the bay area. A Family Member of an employee is there in las vegas. We just talked to meredith rich. She was staying on the 32nd floor of mandalay bay, the floor where the shots were coming from. She heard the shots and was told to stay in her room. After that, she heard an explosion, which she believes it was police broking through the suspects door. She was in the bathroom through most of it. After a while, there was a lot of xwhocommotion and yellin the hallway. I quickly heard it was police saying they were going to force entry and be prepared to show your hands. So, i emerged from the bathroom and i was standing there with my hands up. They quickly told me to drop to the floor, which i did. I looked up and there were 20 guns pointed at me. I was terrified. I was all by myself in a hotel room, not know whag wing what wg on, just hearing chaos. Rich was not hurt. She is in las vegas for a convention. We are asking about ke sewerty in the bay area for you this morning. Our team emailed and called several Police Agencies and transit authorities. As we get responses, we will immediately update you on this story all day today on www. Nbcbayarea. Com. We want to take a moment to check in with your local weather and traffic. Mike will join us shortly, first here is kelly. We start out with clear and cool temperatures. As you head out the door, 60 degrees in the peninsula and looking at temperatures that will continue to start out nice and cool, but warm up through the day. 63 degrees in san francisco. We do have a red flag warning in effect for all of these areas shaded in red. That includes the hills and the norlt bay, east bay and south bay, where we will have a high fire danger today. Temperature wise, we are looking at some low 80s for much of the east bay. Livermore, 81 degrees and 79 degrees in san jose. San francisco, expect a high of 68 degrees. Then we gradually warm up through the week. Nice cool start, but looking at that seven day forecast, it will be a hot weekend ahead. Heading over to mike, tracking a crash in the north bay. The reason im concerned, here is 101, just below the camera. The map shows thats where the crash is. The reason im concerned is on that surface street, its west of the freeway on the map. We have that affecting a major intersection. Light traffic through the area. There is traffic control. Didnt want dwrou get caught by surprise. The rest of the north bay, the rest of the bay moves well. South bay, all the way over to the trivalley, at speed. Back to you. The time is almost 5 00. Well continue making calls on the deadly las vegas shooting. Go to www. Nbcbayarea. Com for continuing local coverage. Its 8 00 on today. Breaking news, chaos in las vegas. At least 50 people are killed when a gunman in the mandalay beay hotel opened fire on a concert crowd, 30 floors below. Many people wounded, many in Critical Condition. The gunman identified as Stephen Paddock. There were shots everywhere. Two guys came running by that were carrying a girl or somebody that was all bloody