32nd of his hotel at a distance of more than 1,200 feet away. Multiple gun shops have confirmed these sold firearms to paddock though its unclear where the exact weapons used in the shooting were purchased of the the gun shops says their sales were legal and said paddock passed an fbi background check. One gunshot owner in utah says paddock bought one from him. He was talking how he was new to the area, kind of visiting all the firearms stores in the area. Found something on our shelves that he really liked and it took him a couple different trips, i guess you could say, before he ended up purchasing it. Now as the investigation continues, we learn more about the gunmans past. Annualry obtained security footage shows paddock sitting in a green striped shirt in 2011. There he claimed to have slipped in a puddle of lick wick and sued the hotel for 100,000. He lost the case and still owed court fees of over 200 at the time of the shooting. This comes as candlelight vigils are held in las vegas to honor the victims. Lines stretched for blocks waiting for five hours or more to donate blood. The whole day has resolved around that act. Its been police briefings and talking with the fbi, visiting hospitals, all the things that kind of are associated with an act of war. But we also heard stories of individual heroism, people helping others through the gate, over the fence, shielding their bodies, standing in line for blood. Those are the kind of stories that we theyd to focus on. And police have issued a new number to call so people from outside the vegas area can check in for more information on loved ones who are missing. And local officials have set up a go fund me page to help aid victims. Tomorrow President Trump is planning to visit las vegas to meet with First Responders and comfort victims families. Lets get right to nbcs news ron allen. Its been just over 24 hours now since the shooting. Whats the scene on the ground right now. Reporter the scene is quiet. There are a few people who are gathered around a small growing memorial, but for the most part its oorly quiet here. The strip, las vegas is lively. That part of town. Some of the gambling activities are still going on as if nothing happened, but theres also its just a very strange disconnect between that and what happened here outside of this hotel at this Music Festival about 24 hours ago, as you put it. At this point the focus is on the investigation. And everywhere you go people are trying to answer the question of why would this man do this . He seems to be someone who was not known to authorities. The police made a point of saying that they had no contact with him before, not even a parking ticket. You saw where some of the gun owners dealers said that he passed a background check. So this individual had no criminal record. He left no man fes toe. He left nothing on social media, police have said. So theres no understanding of why he would do this. The police are trying to put together the last few days before he got here. He arrived here on thursday. Theyre trying to figure out how could he get 23 highpowered weapons up into a hotel room undetected. Just a mystery, a horrific situation. And of course, you have the process going on of identification. There are so many people out there wondering if their loved ones are victims and there are still hundreds of people in the hospitals. Some in Critical Condition. So this is still a very much unfolding situation here on the ground. Although right here where we are at the moment its relatively quiet and peaceful. But a lot of Unanswered Questions especially, again, why would this man do this and of course a lot of concern about the victims still in the hospitals. Some fighting for their lives and of course trying to identify the 50 or so who have lost their lives. Yeah. So many questions still left unanswered. Ron, thank you. Want to bring in now nbcs kevin tibl reporting from the medical center. Whats it been like in the last 24 hours there . Well, i think one of the earlier sound bites that you just listened to when the woman was talking it being a war zone is a really apt description as to what has taken place here. 500 plus people shot. That is a war zone. As a matter of fact, one of the doctors who works in the Trauma Center behind me here, the only level i Trauma Center in the state, by the way, he was an iraq veteran and said that these are the sorts of injuries that you would expect to find on the battlefield. And here we are finding them in las vegas, nevada. You know, this city is so famous for its bright lights and its brashness. Well, obviously everything has gone a little dim in the last 24 hours. And i think that the people are beginning to respond. Outside of the hospitals we are seeing donations of drinking water, of food stuffs. And as its just been mentioned, the lineups outside of the Blood Donation clinics. So the city is starting to come together. They are having memorial services, but the scene here over the last 24 hours was not only one of pure horror but obviously such an exhausting and traumatic evening for the First Responders and the doctors and nurses and aides and order liz and everyone involved with this. These are the types of people who are also going to be needing some trauma counseling when this thing is all over. Absolutely. They have a job to do in saving peoples lives but of course the emeasurable and mental toll that it will take on them as well. Kevin tibls, thank you. And as weve been reporting sunday nights horrific shooting happened as 22,000 people attended the route 91 Harvest Festival and joining us now on the phone is russell black who witnessed the attack as it happened. Thank you so much for joining us. Where were you when paddock first started firing. Hey, there. So when the shots first rang out i was over to the right of the stage in the vip tent which is actually like the closest location to the shooter. And when did you realize that it was in fact fun fire and what did you do at that point . I took a two steps forward. I was shooting some video of jason aldean and i was like wait a second. That didnt sound like firecrackers or afrps. And i saw everyone else look out yoos the street toward mandalay bay. That was the entrance to come in behind that tent. And then the shots got louder and louder as the bullets got closer to us and rick saying off the ground and going through the tent and thats when we realized, oh my god, this is really happening. And what was the scene around you when you finally realized situation and how serious it was and that there was a gunman shooting at you, what were the thoughts running through your head at that time . Survival. Finding my fiancee, who was 50 feet behind me and my best friend grabbed her and took her to cover and i lost them. It was a good five minutes before i could find them while being shot at, crawling across the ground just trying to get to them and then when i was finally able to get to them, you know, we had to wait every so often for him to empty out a full magazine. So when he reloaded, we used that time, we had about ten seconds to scurry 50 feet and drop down again. And it took us about 15 minutes to finally get out of there. Where were you taking cover . Everywhere. Anywhere you could. Police chiefers, bars, flipping tables over. Literally we were just finding any kind of something that could stop a rifle round. And russell, were a little over 24 hours now since this happened. Talk to me about your past 24 hours. Whats been going through your mind, your reflexes now when we now know so much more than we did when you were out there, not even realizing that it was gunfire, but running for your life . Honestly, its still processing. I havent slept since the incident. I havent eaten. I dont really know how to really act. Its a really confusing feeling to be honest with you. My fiancee and i were just talking about this. I dont really know how to process this. People, there were hundreds of rounds and there is nothing you can do. You were pinned down. You saw people dying in front of you. I mean, kids were there. People in wheelchairs were getting flipped over. Were talking tens of thousands of people all trying to get out of like maybe one exit and then those people had to double back. The scariest part of this entire thing was the ten foot wall, the fence that blocked us all in because theres no escape. Just towards the shooter. Just an unimaginable situation. Thank you so much for calling in and telling us your harrowing story. Thank you. Glad to hear that he and his fiancee and his group are safely. Certainly want the case for so many others there. One of our reporters of was in las vegas just six floors above the deadly shooter at the mandalay bay where the violence broke out. He was there to cover the release of o. J. Simpson from prison but found himself on lockdown as the shooting unfold the. Reporter in a matter of seconds a storm of sun gear reining down upon an innocent crowd. He was shooting everybody and there was dead people everywhere and i dont even know what was happening. There was just he was just shooting randomly. Reporter it started at 10 08 p. M. The first reports of shots fired as singer jason aldean performed. Initially there was confusion. Many wondering if the sounds were part of the show. Its fireworks. Its fireworks. Stop. Its fireworks. But they quickly realized what was happening. We have an active shooter. We have an active shooter inside a gunman perchd on the 32nd floor of the mandalay resort had opened fire on 22,000 concert goers. Weve got about 40 to 50 people pinned against this wall. All of them scrambling to find shelter wherever they could. Then one after the other and we were laying down on the floor. I didnt know to get up, to run, to stay, to duck. Reporter at 11 20 the swat team busted into the gunmans hotel room. Everyone in the hallway needs to move back. All units move back. Breach breach breach. Reporter inside they found 64yearold Stephen Paddock dead. The sheriff says he killed himself. Authorities initially sought paddocks girlfriend, but quickly learned she was out of the country, saying she was not a p is. Right now we believe he is the sole aggressor at this point and the scene is static. Reporter Law Enforcement officials believe paddock fired out of two adjoining rooms using a device similar to a hammer to smash the windows. Authorities say they found more than a dozen weapons inside those rooms. As the chaos unfolded, our team was actually staying in the mandalay bay tower under lockdown. There are flashing red and blue lights everywhere as this area has been flooded by police and emergency responders. Reporter we were six floors above the gunman who was on the 32nd floor of the hotel. It was very scary at the time and i got my wife up. As i got her up, two guys came running by that were carrying a girl or somebody that was all moody and it looked like they had been shot. In the end a massive loss of life and hundreds injured in the worst mass shooting in modern American History. Our special live coverage of the mass shooting in las vegas continues right after a quick break. I got a mortgage offer from the bank today. Whuuuuuat . You never just get one offer. Go to lendingtree. Com and shop multiple loan offers for free free . Yeah. Could save thousands. You should probably buy me dinner. 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So what are we gonna watch . Oh show me fall tv. Check out the best of the best handpicked fall shows on xfinity x1, online, and the Xfinity Stream app. Thirsty . It was a dark day here, but somehow i know that we feel that there are 59 new stars in the sky and that we will go on and we will make everything what they wanted it to be. It was a great concert, and they were having such a wonderful time and this did he meant soul should rot in hell is my opinion. Now, the police and federal agents who are digging into Stephen Paddocks recent past trying to figure out what could possibly led him to carry out such an atrocity. Nbc news Pete Williams has the latest. Reporter this we understand is the house that was owned by paddock. Less than an hour after the shooting stopped. They do have a large crew out here. Police descended on the home in mesquite, nevada. 19 more guns, am mission and explosives but no clues on what drove him to commit mass murder. He lived there with his girlfriend, marry lieu danly. We have not had any contacts with these people in the past, havent had any traffic stops, no arrests, nothing. Younger brother eric paddock said the family never saw it coming. Its just like an reside fell out of the sky. There was nothing that would say he would do this kind of thing. Theres no afill yasz. Theres no church, theres no religion. Theres no politics. Theres no anything. He is paddock recently texted to ask how his 90yearold mother was doing after Hurricane Irma and texted again about attending a family weather. Their father was once on the fbis ten most wanted list after escaping from prison in 1968 while serving time for bank robbery. The fbi described the father as psychopathic with suicidal tendencies. But the son, Stephen Paddock, is had no brushes with the law state and federal officials say. He was a retired accountant after living for a time in texas and florida, a multimillionaire Real Estate Developer his brother says. Investigators say in the past few weeks he gambled heavily atlas vague hotels and casinos, placing tens of thousands of dollars in bets. More than a dozen assault type rifles like this were found in his hotel room, federal officials say, along with some sniper rifles with scopes and try pods. But they havent yet determined what made them automatic, capable of shooting continuously and rapidly, whether they were bought illegally that way or later modified. Police say he checked into the Mandalay Bay Hotel last thursday and brought in all the guns and ammunition himself along with his luggage, keeping it hidden from the housekeeping staff. That was nbcs Pete Williams reporting. We want to turn now to greg on the phone a retired fbi special agent. Greg, thank you for being with us here. Im sure like many of us in the rest of the country are absolutely perplexed as to what led to this man carrying out such carnage in what we saw 24 hours ago. What do you believe investigators are focusing on right now knowing that everything right now that they find they know hes clean and nothing that points to what a motive could be . Well, i think first of all, thanks for having me on the line. I think one of the things theyre going to be looking at like we all do is his motive. Weve all heard that throughout the day, whats the motive. Incompetent one of the things that were going to what theyre trying to do beside just trying to figure out what happened because, you know, the crime is over with right now, so its just going back to try to reconstruct everything and try to figure out, you know, what happened and where hes coming from, but i think the biggest thing to think about here is on these cases, you know, they happen and we wonder why do they happen and if we could just get our minds back into the thoughts of prediction prevention, mitigation to try to even stop them from happening in the first place. And a couple things come to mind on this is that first off, you know, with these type of shootings there is no such thing as a snap effect. People believe that meth and they think that the person just snapped, he went crazy where in effect this is actually targeted violence. These offenders, they consider, they plan, they prepare. They go through a whole pathway of violence of the we still havent determined actually what type of shooter this is. Like you say on classifying these, youve got your the ones that happen mostly such as your grievance based offender that youll see at shootings like at column bien and Virginia Tech and some of the Workplace Violence shootings that we saw years ago in the post office and you know whats going on now. And then you had your International Political violence types, and thats more like your shooters that were like in the pulse nightclub, orlando, you know, ideological type shooters. Weve youve got your profit motivated ones which are doing it for money. And the question in my mind right now is are we dealing with kind of a lone offender or are we dealing with political terrorist type stuff. And that needs to be answered first really to understand the motivation. Now, assuming that its not terrorism and its more of a grievance based model, then essentially, you know, a lot of times these are predictable, but you have to have people that are willing to see these certain behavioral flags so that you can start to get ahead of this problem as its developing overtime. Greg, and thats the stuff part. What were those red flags, what were those warnings, what were the predict ors here. Again, so many questions. It seems like the more we find out about him, the more questions there are. Thank you so much for your perspective and your time. Youre welcome. Thank you vep, sir. And joining us now is adam candy, hes the assistant editor for the Las Vegas Sun. Youre from las vegas. How has the community been responding to this tragedy . What the community has done in response to this tragedy has been one of the most impressive things ive seen in nearly 30 years of living in las vegas. When they made a call from the Police Department for blood to help the victims in the hospitals, Las Vegas Made lines five hours long at the blood banks. United Blood Services put out a call at the end of the day and said you know what . We have all the blood we need for the next two days. The red cross here locally has said we have all the food and supplies we need. We have all the water we need. Please, we dont need you to bring anything else because we cant even process it at this point. So in the face of whats obviously an unspeakable tragedy, the loss vague community has responded brilliantly. Weve also seen that with the go fund me page dhafs started. But of course we dont want to make it seem like you guys are all set because any and all help is still very much welcome and we dont want people to think, all right, youre good in that sense. So certainly an invitation to keep that help coming. Talk a little bit, adam, about the past 24 hours. You are now seeing the outpouring of support in this community, but there is still so much pain here. There is still so much processing that this p community has to do as a whole and as individuals to know what theyve just been through in this past 24 hours. I think that processing is still a long ways off at this point. I think we spent the first 12 hours in the pretty predictable states of chaos and of pain and of panic and fear. Weve settled into a little bit more of the numbness and the shock of it all right now as our First Responders are finally getting a chance to go home and see their families for the first time in a couple of days and, you know, as other communities have gone through this know, there is a long road ahead for las vegas, but in terms of the short term, they really have responded quite brilliantly. And adam earlier today you were asking people for stories of heroism among this tragedy. What have you heard from people out there today who responded . Adam, can you hear us . Im not sure were asking you if you can hear us just other stories of heroism and tragedy . We may have lost adam candy there from the Las Vegas Sun. We thank him for being with us during our konk. Well be right back with the latest on where things stand in the investigation into the man who carried out the deadliest mass shooting attack in modern American History. Well be right back. My name is jamir dixon and im a locate and Mark Fieldman for pg e. Most people in the community recognize the blue trucks as pg e. My truck is something new. Its an 811 truck. When you call 811, i come out to your house and i mark out our gas lines and our electric lines to make sure that you dont hit them when youre digging. 811 is a free service. Im passionate about it because every time i go on the street i think about my own kids. Theyre the reason that i want to protect our community and our environment, and if me driving a that truck means that somebody gets to go home safer, then ill drive it every day of the week. Together, were building a better california. My fellow americans, we are joined together today in sadness, shock and grief. Last night a gunman opened fire on a large crowd at a Country Music concert in las vegas, nevada. He brutally murdered more than 50 people and wounded hundreds more. It was an act of pure evil. Our unity cannot be shattered by evil. Our bonds cannot be broken by violence. And though we feel such great anger at the senseless murder of our fellow citizens, it is our love that defines us today and always will forever. President trump making his statements after the vegas attack, calling it an act of evil. And now there are new details that are emerging on the horrific mass shooting in las vegas, the worst in modern American History that killed dozens and injured over 500 others. Police are investigating the shooter of mesquite, nevada. Authorities believe he killed himself before police entered his room. And now according to the associated press, officials are saying that paddock are two whats called bunk stop devices which could have converted semiautomatic weapons into fully automatic wunds of the he was able to unleash hundreds of rounds of gunfire from the 32nd of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, spraying a crowd of it 2,000 concert goers from his perch at a distance of more than 1,200 feet away. These details come as candlelight vinl ills are held in las vegas to honor the victims. Earlier lines stretched out for blocks as hundreds turned out, some waiting five hours or more to donate blood. And tomorrow the president is planning to visit las vegas to meet with First Responders and also comfort victims families. Lets check in now with nbcs ron allen who is reporting outside the Mandalay Hotel and ron, whats ahead for officials on the scene now . Reporter well, right now theyre still trying to figure out exactly why this happened. Thats the question that everyone has that when you walk around town, when you talk to people, why would this individual do this. And we of course have seen mass shoot gsz in the past in the united states. This seems to take it to a whole new level of a gunman from a 32nd story window firing on a crowd of some 22,000 innocent people. What drives someone to do that. Authorities are trying to figure that out. Theyre trying to piece together his life, trying to figure out what he was doing in the days before. Trying to reach out to trepds and family to get a better picture of who he was. Theyre also trying to figure out how he could have gotten these 23 weapons up into this hotel room undetected. There were 19 weapons and explosives material found at his home in mesquite, nevada some 90 miles from here or so. So thats what the investigation is focused on. Also, theres the process of identifying the victims. And theres still dozens of people in hospitals, hundreds of people in the hospitals in the area. Some in Critical Condition fighting for their lives. So this is still a very, very active investigation, a very active process of trying to resolve all of what happened here. And its going to take a long time for that to play out. There have also been countless acts of kindness that have been witnessed in this community. Gestures that may seem small like people driving around handing out water to firefighters and First Responders who are trying to secure various parts of the crime scene here. And in other places you see the Las Vegas Strip come back to life. But of course it will never be the same given whats happened here. Frances. No. And remembering all those lives lost. Ron, thank you. Now to nbcs Kevin Tibbles reporting from University Medical center in loss vague where so many dozens, even hundreds of the victims are being treated. How has it been so far there this evening, kevin . Reporter well, it has been a 24 hour period of absolute hell for the First Respond rs in this city. The doctors, triage people, nurses, everyone, everyone came back to work last night when this event took place. A lot of people parked their cars on the side of the road. A lot of people who were heading home after a day of work only to come back in to face the horror of what happened down at the mandalay bay. And when you hear of these events, you often think, okay, well, there are names, there are so many people that have been hurt, so many people have been lost, but if you take a step back and you find out that there was a schoolteacher, a police officer, a librarian, a fisherman from alaska. All sorts of everyday people because thats the kind of place that las vegas has become. This is the kind of place where people from all over the world have come to enjoy the night life, enjoy the lights and last night and for the last 24 hours things have been just a little bit more dark than they should be, a lot more dark in many cases. And we are seeing now people making donations of water and food stuffs. I was walking this afternoon on the street and a woman came up to me with a map and said can you direct me to this address . And i said well, i looked it up on my phone. It turned out it was 16 miles away. She wanted to walk in order to donate blood and i told her shed probably better take a cab or something. This is something that were going to start seeing here in las vegas now, for the absolute heroes who are working in the Trauma Center behind me and at the other hospitals in town, they are now starting to feel the words of thanks from the public here in las vegas and from those people whose lives that they saved last night. And believe me, they saved a lot of lives. They couldnt save them all, but they did save a lot of lives and for that they have to be commended. Right. And something that theyre continuing to do now with still many in Critical Condition. Very, very injured there. Kevin, i want to ask you from your vantage point, you have Adult Emergency there behind you. Are you seeing many family members, friends of those who are injured coming there . Is there any specific staging area where people can go . I can imagine just a scene itself. Well, inside the hospital cafeteria there are signs up saying if you are here to try and find out news about your loved one, walk this way. There are people inside that will take the name and look sort of things up. In terms of family, yes, people are coming and going. As a matter of fact, we spoke to a young woman who was shot in the ankle at the concert last night. She was waiting outside of the hospital to be picked up by her mom to go home. And this is what she had to say. I was on the right side of the stage in the grass. Initially we thought it was firecrackers going off, and people started running. We fell to the ground. And i got shot in my heel. I got to see a lot of compassion amongst everybody. I saw everybody Work Together and try to make the best decisions that they could. There were five of us piled into a cab that pulled over. There was a guy shot in the head. A girl shot in the chest. And we all piled into the cab together and got to the hospital. You know, some of the doctors here, some have served in war zones in the past, and they are now today saying that what they saw last night were injuries similar from a war zone. That concert area clearly became a war zone late last night and now its time for the compassion that amber just referred to in that sound bite. People are perhaps standing up to this sort of an attack in this town and theyre going to stand with the good men and women in this hospital who are trying to save lives throughout this night. Back to you. That one act of all those stories of compassion will continue tonight and hopefully in the days to come. Thank you. The thousands of music fans in las vegas were forced to make split second zwigsz as bullets rained down on them sunday night. Videos kpap toured chaos and panic on the ground. Here is lester holt. Reporter the images are hard to shake. A night out turning into a nightmare. Split second decisions. Do you run or do you take cover . Mike was ten feet from the stage when the shots began. I knew they came from the hotel and im like were screaming at people to get down on the ground so youre not a target. His friend had been shot. Your instinct was get down not run. My budy was hit. Im not leaving him. Where did he get hit. In the chest. Leave your finger in. We got shirts off and compressed it. At that moment backstage more critical decisions. Buzz brain ard working with sirius xm there with his 19yearold son hank. Just everybody i saw dove underneath the tour buses. My son was there. I was on top of him. Were on the ground underneath and bullets were hitting the dirt so you could feel youre feeling the concussion of the bullets. Its hitting your face, the dirt is gloo ban yard believing their only home to get out to run across the stage that jason aldean had just fled. So i grabbed my son by the hand. Is the years old but he was my little boy there again. And we sprinted across the stage. By the time we mernld with the crowd that was here, so then it just it came chaos. A bit of a stampede. It was exactly a stampede. And what do you do . I mean, there was really nowhere to hide. Meanwhile, mike chronic had been trying to get his friend help. We actually loaded four wounded people up into the back of a pickup truck and tried to get to the hospital. Finally we ran into an ambulance and so, you know, they started triaging and we got my budy in the ambulance and one of the young men that was in the back of the truck as i was carrying him, he magsd away. So that young man, somebodys son passed away right there. He was not by himself. He was always with somebody. The moment mike had been waiting for. Just let me tell you, youre one of the lucky ones. Reunited in the hospital with a friend he had helped save. One glimmer of hope so many desperate for more. Thanks to lester holt for that report. And well be right back with more of our special coverage as flags starting with the white house remain at half staff around the nation. Lilly. She pretty much lives in her favorite princess dress. But once a week i let her play sheriff so i can wash it. I use tide to get out those week old stains and downy to get it fresh and soft. You are free to go. Tide and downy together. It p doesnt make any sense that he killed those people. It makes no sense that he did that. Theres no my brother who talked to my mom on the phone two weeks ago, im just it doesnt make sense that that guy could do this. That was the brother of the gunman behind the vegas attacks speaking how astounded he is that this could happen, describing it like an reside falling into the earth and hearing his brother was behind the deadly attack in vegas which has now become the worst mass shooting in American History. These tragedies also show us the best in humanity. Nbcs Cynthia Mcfad den brings us more. Reporter its become painfully common. Its happened again. A mass shooting at an American School in suburban denver. What unfolded just a few steps from here last night is almost too much to bear. Our collective accepts of security was shattered again today by terror. Another mass shooting in america. At 10 08 p. M. In las vegas say grim new record is about to be set. The most deadly mass shooting ever. America itself has a grim distinction with five of the worlds population, it ep durs more than 30 of the mat shootings. The the slaughter in las vegas now added to a tragic timeline. 50 years ago, 16 dead in texas. 13 at columbine. 32 died at Virginia Tech. At sandy hook elementary, 26 dead. In orlando, 49. But there is another list too. Not of the massacres but of the heroes, the people who hemmed. The sandy hook teacher who saved 15 students. And theres dr. Joshua core sum, a surgeon who worked 30 hours straight caring for the pulse nightclub wounded. He posted this photo of his shoes, stained with the blood of 54 nnts. A symbol of defiance of the and no orlando, 30yearold chris minutes, u. S. Army vet who was shot five times after directly confronting a heavily armed gunman who had already killed nine people. Its too early to know all the names of those who helped others, but in the coming days and week, we will. And when we do, perhaps a new timeline is in order. A timeline of the heroes. Cynthia mcfad den, nbc news. And well be right back with the latest on what has now become the deadliest mass shooting attack in modern American History. We were the furthest vip stages away from mandalay bay and they were rick saying everywhere where we were. They were firing from somewhere high and they were unloading clip after clip after clip. You had people that were getting tram peld. I just found a bunch of people in a group and we all got down as low as we could and luckily there were some Police Officers that laid over people there that made sure they didnt get shot at. I thought itself going to die. I called my mom and my husband and let them know i loved them and i didnt know if i was going to make it home. Were also lerj new details about the arsenal the gunman used to carry out his rampage. He may have been using semiautomatic weapons that were converted to fully automatic firing mode. Semiautomatic weapons are legal in most states but the sale of automatic weapons have been illegal for three decades. So how did the shooter get his hands on the military grade machine guns . Here is nins tom costello. Reporter veteran cops could tell from the sound of the gunfire that fully automatic weapons were likely involved. Among the armory of guns, ammunition, try pods and scopes recovered from the hotel room were two it 2 caliber and three 308 caliber semiautomatic rifles possibly converted into machine guns commonly used by the military and Police Departments able to strike a target from long distances. If goes down the barrel at that high velocity. Thats why its so deadly. It will go tlou a policemans vest, through him, out of t the back of his vest and into the next person. Outlawed the sale of new machine guns since 1986, semiautomatic rifles are legal in most but not all states. Some use 50 kits online to convert them into automatic guns. Youtube clips even show how its done. And police say the number of fully automatic guns has risen sharply. My view on these times of weapons that they have no place in our society. They are weapons of war. In nevada there is no limb on the number of semiautomatic weapons or ammunition you can buy. And shooting one doesnt require much skill. Hes shooting just empyting the whole mag zbleep into the crowd. So its just mass murder on a vulgar scale. At least two nevada gun dealerships say the suspect legally performed weapons there, but whats not here is how he got his hands on so many powerful womens of war. Tom costello, nbc news washington. We have been following the latest the deadly mass shooting in las vegas that killed at least 59 and injured over 500. Joining me now is Las Vegas Sun reporter. So, mick, as a reporter and somebody who lives there in las vegas, how have the past 24 hours been for you . Its just been a pretty crazy ride. Basically been, woing nonstop for the past 24 hours. Trying to catch a wink of sleep. Couldnt sleep. Police headquarters, its just been a crazy, crazy 24 hours. A claez 24 hours marked by a loft stories a lot of people youve talked to. What are the ones that have stood out so far . So many. This one with the brother and the sister. She just moved to vegas and shes like hey, come down and hang out with me for the week of the so her younger brother came down and all of a sudden the gunfire erupts and theyre running and jumping on the ground just like every one else bus shes shielding her brother each though hes a little bit bigger than she is. Hey, you have a little bit more life to live and i like your aspirations, ill gladly take a but for you any day. Mick, as a reporter youve been to a lot of scenes, a lot of crimes scenes that your average person probably wouldnt have. Talk to me about this. While youre covering the aftermath of the shooting and even now did you stand by and say this is really unlike anything else and just unimaginable as far as what you were reporting on . It kind of hit just right when i arrived on the scene. Just walking up las vegas boulevard, it was already blocked off so i was just walking down there. There was no traffic. Instead im greeted with a couple metro officers with a september automatic rifle. So right there it kind of said, whoa, thats pretty serious. And then when i made my way down further thats when i seep the rows of cop goes. So you just seen this huge response. It was pretty quickly that this is something huge right here. Well, we are hearing all those stories of support, compassion from the community, from the hours long wait to give blood to a go fund me page. We also know las vegas i say specially at this concert there were a lot of outsiders, outoftowners visiting. So are you seeing that support coming mostly from vegas residents or somebody who is just there for the weekend saying i cant just be here and not do anything . Tell me the support of what youve been seeing. A little of both. People waiting for blood who are just dropping by cases of water, food, snacks, make sure everyone was nice and fed and comfortable waiting in that long line. Then you have county commissioner steve sis lack, he started that go fund me page which is up to 2. 8 million now. And then u multiple hotel casino operators offering free rooms. And legion air which is offering free flights for family members to go to and from las vegas. Thats great to see everybody coming together in the wake of this because that support is going to be needed when so many still physically wounded, injured, needing that help and also emeasurableel and mentally as well. That will be needed. Mick, thank you. Thank you. Stay with us here on misnin. Its our special coverage of the mass shooting in las vegas continues in our next hourment ill be right back. Good to have you with me at the top of the