The death toll is now at least 59 in the worst mass shooting in nodern u. S. History. More than 500 others were injured, most from the gunfire. Others while attempting to get teay. Police say the gunman, who had ns least 16 weapons, opened fire late last night on thousands of people attending an openair yountry music concert. He was shooting from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel casino. The gunman, 64yearold Stephen Paddock of mesquite, nevada, took his life before police got to his hotel room. They are still searching for a motive. The bodies of all the victims have now been removed from the arena. This is how the attack unfolded. rapid gunfire all of a sudden we heard like three or four little pop, pop, pops. Everybody kind of looked around and said, oh, its just firecrackers. rapid gunfire its not a gun. Its not a gun. My husband said, thats not firecrackers. That sounds like a semi automatic rifle. We got shots fired at the route 91. Theres a shooting. Theres a shooting. Wh
Floor of the mandalay bay resort onto a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers as Country Music star jason aldean took the stage. Theres a shooting, theres a shooting reporter at first, many in the crowd mistook the gunshots for fireworks. [ screaming ] we were really confused. We couldnt see any of the smoke. Reporter the shooter identified as 64yearold Stephen Paddock paused several times, once for nearly a minute, presumably to reload. Multiple flashes in the middle of mandalay bay on the north side be advised it is automatic fire fully automatic fire from an elevated position. Take cover reporter as police made their way toward the source of the gunfire, hundreds of rounds slammed into buildings and people. We need to stop the shooter before he has more victims. Anyone with eyes on the shooter once they gained entry into the hotel in conjunction with security and through phone calls from patrons, they were able to call it down to a possible floor. We believe its the northern most room on eit
Election issue. Plus i am outside the hong kong legislative council. We will get the first policy address from carrie lam, expected to deliver comments on Affordable Housing issues, tax breaks for small businesses, reaching out to disenfranchise youth. Rishaad going over to steve shortly. Going to bring up a chart showing where the problems are when it comes to the property market, arguably the most expensive in the world. Withages have not kept up in housing market, which is turquoise, the white line average wages in hong kong. Be talking about a taxation system for business, the housing market, expected to announce a Publicprivate Partnership to expand access to firsttime buyers, public transport, a monthly travel subsidy of as much as 300 hong kong dollars a month. That speech in a couple of hours. Sophie it is costly to live here, so looking forward to what carrie lam has to say, addressing the affordability issue of housing. Singapore, taiwan, and malaysia have just, on the line.
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Reporter prosecutors intended to send a message to those politicians simply here to support a friend. At this moment im not dealing with issues of blame. Im dealing with his family and dealing with him and trying to pick up the pieces to go forward in terms of the work that has to be done. Reporter since 2009, there have been eight members of congress who have been contradicted and sentenced for crimes. This is the longest prison term any of them have faced. The judge today said he was trying to send a message. Fattah will appeal the decision. Were live in old city tonight, mitch blacher, nbc 10 news. Walk us through that timeline for the appeal process. Could it happen before he has to report to prison . Reporter so the appeal process for the sentence, he has just 14 days to file an appeal. That will happen with some urgency. As far as the conviction itself, that could lead to more hearings. And its very unlikely that that will be done before chaka fattah has to report to prison on ja