the bomb suspect allegedly carrying two concealed devices through one of the busiest train stations in america. and the mother put behind bars tonight after refusing to vaccinate her son. it s now believed he will be vaccinated while she s locked up. good evening on this wednesday night from las vegas. and as we come on the air, we are following breaking news. abc news has learned of the gunman s extraordinary planning. possibly checking into multiple hotels before the attack, all within shooting distance of that concert site. just as we also see the police response through their body cams. the officers taking cover, then jumping into action, trying to help the thousands running for their lives. and inside that hotel room, images of his deadly arsenal. 23 weapons. hundreds of rounds of ammunition. and we have new reporting tonight on the security guard, the first person to get to that hotel hallway, to the door of that hotel room.
continued past the event itself. the street around the concert area is just opened up, giving us a sense of the line of fire from the hotel. gary tuchman is there. gary, explain where you are, what you re seeing. anderson, we haven t been able to broadcast here until today, so close to the hotel and the concert site. we want to give you a sense of the extraordinary distance these bullets carried. this is where the concert was, the route 91 harvest music festival. this is across las vegas boulevard, eight lanes of traffic, four lanes to the north, four lanes to the south. and here is the mandalay bay hotel across the street from it. you can see the broken window on the 32ed floor where the gunman was firing his shots. he was 300 feet in the air when he was firing those shots and the bullets had to carry between 400 and 500 yards across the street. that s about a quarter mile into this concert venue. this is where everyone was. while he was firing those gunshots the bullets were flyi
actually a report that came out that he might have been casing another concert site. he might have gotten a hotel room or condominium rented at a different site in las vegas for a total separate concert so the question becomes, well, what was he planning? a different venue? was this a last minute thing? was he planning a more spectacular thing? the ammonium nitrate found inside his car that was parked at the valet of the mandalay bay goes to show that there was something else that might have been up here. the ammonium nitrate was the same thing that was used in the oklahoma city bombing. so what was the ultimate goal of this killer and dated this wife girlfriend have any kind of inkling that he might have been up to you at the very least some type of wrongdoing? trace, something else that i find interesting. he does not have an electronic footprint. there s not much that you can
ecstasy and let s just say, i was no stranger to that, either. then the government cracked down and the scene dried up. many assumed it was dead. but in the last decade, edm bounced back in a big way. and today, it s huge and totally mainstream. i want to find out what s different about this scene and why it s resinating with millennials, so i m headed to upstate new york to attend an edm festival called mystery land. here at the concert site, 50,000 young people will assemble on the grounds of the original woodstock festival. my first stop, a motel not far from the concert.
ecstasy and let s just say, i was no stranger to that, either. then the government cracked down and the scene dried up. many assumed it was dead. but in the last decade, edm bounced back in a big way. and today, it s huge and totally main stream. i want to find out what s different about this scene and why it s resinating with millennials, so i m headed to upstate new york to attend an edm festival called mystery land. here at the concert site, 50,000 young people will assemble on the grounds of the original woodstock festival. my first stop, a motel not far from the concert.