did the right things and it was this man, joseph ostunio, thank you so much for the time. i appreciate it. you re very welcome. we just heard from the white house moments ago there. we will be hearing or seeing the president and the first lady leading a moment of silence from the south lawn in the wake of the murders in las vegas. we will take that live ten minutes from now. also ahead, my next guest is a mother who was at that country music festival with her 14-year-old daughter. they had won tickets through their local radio station. where were they? what did they see? how did they feel? that s coming up. and we will start to piece together how this shooting unfolded and what eventually led police to this suspect, to the shooter on the 32nd floor of the mandalay hotel. a smoke alarm playing a key role here. i m brooke bolduan.
so they re working around the clock to make sure these patients are getting the care that they need and even the patients that are in critical condition now that seem to have stabilized and they re always concerned about them and they re always monitoring them, but it was definitely a very tense, involved situation inside of the emergency room and once they got in the operating room it was all calm and that s when the training took over, brooke. this now has to be a drill for hospitals, but so grateful that it was and that this medical center was prepared, stephanie elam, please keep us updated. coming up here we will piece together how exactly the shooting unfolded and we ll look at the timeline and what eventually led police to the gunman on the 32nd floor of the mandalay hotel. would you believe it was a smoke alarm playing a key role here, and you will hear the moment right before police break down his door to get in. stay with me. i m brooke bolduan. you re watching cnn s specia
standing from the 32nd floor shooting down 400 yard away at this music festival, what are you learning? i actually just spoke to an eyewitness who was there actually working the festival and he says given where the shooter was, they were at a completely defenseless position. there was nothing they could do given that the shooter had the bird s-eye view. brooke, we re learning that the shooter in addition to this large cache of weapons and ammunition, he also had a hammer with him and apparently used that to bust out the windows just prior to the shooting. brooke, excuse me, we are on the south end of the famous las vegas strip. this is still roped off by police and you can see the mandalay off in the background, and we are told that investigators are done searching the actual hotel room and they re done searching the 32nd floor of the hotel and now the
and the only medical center in the entire state of nevada. what are you hearing about the victims because gunshot wounds, that is challenging for doctors and nurses. reporter: well, the good thing, brooke, if you can find a silver lining this center trains for this, and at no point were they overwhelmed by the number of patients and we are talking about 104 patients that came here, some by ambulance, some by taxis and some by private vehicles coming for the ascension and care that they needed and their first goal was to go ahead and to stop the death process, to save those people that they could and they said at one point they had more surgeons lined up, ready to perform surgeries than they needed at one time. so they were prepared for the response that was here. they still have 12 patients in critical condition. what they are seeing because this is the only level-one hospital in the region is that they re seeing some other hospitals that took in patients
we certainly have not heard of any mental illness that is associated with him, any political views. all very still puzzling, brooke, here for law enforcement as they re continuing to really put all of this together as to why this happened. shimon, thank you. keep digging, keep us updated on that piece of it, but a lot of these concert goers who escaped this madness described the unrelenting southbound of the gun fire and initially having no idea what it was and no idea where it was coming from and that includes my next guest. alexandra jones. she and her friends were standing near the stage when they realized they were in danger. alexandra, thank you so much for being here and so crazy, traumatic to go through. you were, i m sure, very shaken up by this. how are you feeling? how are your friends? we re all a little shake sen, obviously.