when we were on the air today, it s impossible to be in the hotel and not meet someone who has a personal story. i met someone in the elevator who said if it wasn t for a woman that took a bullet to the head, we d probably be dead. this person was right next to us. you meet someone in the lobby if it wasn t for grabbing in and out burger, we would have been in the middle of this. you see the people literally in wheelchairs going through the lobby. just a little more about the people i came here today to see, four of them, a group of friends were all together up in this room on the 19th floor. they couldn t actually get back to the room on the 32nd floor, that s where the shooter was. one gentleman by the name of steve was up there while his wife was down below, cindy, in the crowd. he was speaking to her on a cell phone as she was trying to escape amid the attack, i spent the better part of today in that room on the 19th floor with them and this is what they told me. take a look. i t
las vegas, forgive me, it s been a long day. jacob is now close to the hotel, jacob, you were set the scene for us. you were a few stories below where the gunman fired into the crowd? that s right. i was on the 19th floor for most of the day up and down between there and the lobby, which was strangely obviously empty for a las vegas hotel on the trip any day of any month in any year but of course, this gathering of 10,000, 20,000 people that was shattered in just an instant last night changed the whole dynamic there. it was impossible to walk around the mandalay bay. i had a close family friend that said we re back in the hotel tonight. we went through an ordeal and we re up on the 19th floor. come on up. we made our way to see them.
i came here to ohio state. i found myself on the 19th floor of one of those towers. you could hit it with a stone from here. i had 15 roommates. the place was 23 floors high. the tower next door the same size. ohio state can be a pretty intimidating place, okay? it is big, it is a big place and i left my dorm room went down to the first floor and i walked just right down the path to ohio stadium. it was a time when you could actually walk in that stadium. they didn t have that one end closed in. i walked into that stadium i swear this happened and i walked right to the 50-yard line. there was no one in the stadium that day. and i looked around all of those seats those big structures that were there and i
look, i m just trying to do my best, okay? i came here to ohio state. i found myself on the 19th floor of one of those towers. you could hit it with a stone from here. i had 15 roommates. the place was 23 floors high. the tower next door the same size. ohio state can be a pretty intimidating place. it is big, it is a big place, and i left my dorm room, went down to the first floor, and i walked just right down the path to ohio stadium, and it was a time when you could actually walk in that stadium. they didn t have that one end closed in, and i walked into that stadium, i swear this happened, and i walked john kasich, governor of ohio making his announcement official. he s going to throw his hat in the ring for the race for the white house. i want to get you over to pittsburgh, pennsylvania, where president obama is addressing veterans of foreign wars
found myself on the 19th floor of one of those towers. you could hit it with a stone from here. i had 15 roommates. the place was 23 floors high. the tower next door the same size. ohio state can be a pretty intimidating place, okay? it s big. it is a big place. and i left my dorm room went down to the first floor and i walked just right down the path to ohio stadium. and it was a time when you could actually walk in that stadium. they didn t have that one end closed in. and i walked into that stadium i swear this happened and i walked right to the 50-yard line. there was no one in the stadium that day. and i looked around all of those seats, those big structures that were there, and i thought to