The images are so terrifying it so unpredictable and it was difficult for anyone to do anything to stop it. They put their lives at risk every single day. People know that in las vegas and it will be more to the background of this specific shooter. Mark the president faces a very difficult trip to las vegas on wednesday. He has the delicate and difficult trip to puerto rico tomorrow. Just remind us of whats on his agenda this week. Kevin President Trump now has been to meetings or he will welcome the Prime Minister of thailand as well as the Prime Ministers wife. The first lady will accompany him for that. A series of Top Republican elected officials all front the country are gathered here in washington. Ofwill meet with a series republican governors, including the governor of kentucky later this afternoon and then this evening, he and the Vice President will host a Congressional Republican reception with republican lawmakers. They have really try to keep the focus today on the tragedy
Throughout date are graphic and disturbing. [ gunfire ] stay down. Down, down, down. The numbers, theyre just simply shocking. At least 50 people are dead and more than 400 people injured after a gunman on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay casino opened fire on the strip below where thousands and thousands of people were enjoying something so quintessentially american, an outdoor music festival. Police say the gunman, a 64yearold man from mesquite, nevada, killed himself as officers stormed his hotel room. Witnesses say the shooting lasted around 15 minutes. You can imagine it felt like hours and years to those having to endure it. Heres one person describing the ordeal. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. So loud. Like super loud. And then the next thing you know, the sound is completely off for the musicians and all you hear is like this heavy machine gun just going off and you just hear people screaming. And so we like were just like so confused. We thought this was some technical d
please stop and pause and say a prayer for them. thank you. hold on a second. i will take questions shortly. as you can see, we had the opportunity to have some of nevada s delegation here today and some are missing, but i don t want them slighted. they reached out to me. they reached out and offered their assistance. i don t want them slighted because they are not standing behind me. i have a chief of police next to me and as chief troy tanner of the mesquite pd has been instrumental in the assistance of his folks towards us to complete this investigation. i think it s appropriate he gets recognized. greg kassel is very humble. he is the fire chief and likes to stand in the back, but where