sandra: fox news alert onto the investigation of the las vegas massacre. federal investigators shooting gunmen stephen paddock s home again as we are learning about the note found in the hotel room where he opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers more than a week ago. that no contained calculations on the distance and trajectory from his 32nd floor room at the people below. mean time, despite getting more than 1,000 tips and leads, investigators still don t have a motive. dan springer is live in las vegas. the fbi is doing what everyone does when they can t find something. they are retracing their steps going back over ground already covered just in case they missed something the first go around, and that s why they were back out it stephen paddocks house in mesquite, nevada on the first search a week ago, they found 19 guns and several pounds of explosives. and after interviewing his girlfriend marilou danley, they
stopped this attack? and the secretary of state insisting he ll stay after reports he called the president a moron. now, one republican senator says its atillerton keeping the country from descending into chaos. good morning everyone. i m dave briggs. i m renee marsh in for christine romans. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. after days of painstaking investigation authorities are starting to piece together a picture of the man behind the las vegas mass a ter. among the new details cnn has learned he went out of his way to protect his privacy, paying nearly $370,000 in cash for a house in mesquite, nevada, even though the 2,000 square foot home had a commanding hill top view he obscured it with a solid mesh privacy fence that blocked neighbors view of his home.
like this? at this point authorities say they have not found a link between the shooter and terrorism overseas or they re not calling it domestic terror at this point. his home in mesquite, about 80 miles away, is being searched for any clues and you can be sure they will be searching it for quite some time. police said he had a citation in his past that was handled by the court system, but really, not a long history with run-ins with law enforcement. whatever the motive, it is no consolation that the loved ones of those people killed or the survivors who are sitting in hospital beds right now trying to recover from gunshot wounds. moments ago president trump spoke to the nation about this national tragedy. listen to this. thank you. my fellow americans, we are joined together today in sadness, shock, and grief. last night a gunman opened fire on a large crowd at a country
he was my brother. yeah. it s like an asteroid fell out of the sky. we have no he hasn t you know, don t know how to go through now it s last time i talked to him was he texted me to ask how my mom was after we didn t have power for five days in the neighborhood. he had no machine guns when i moved him from melbourne to mesquite. find out who gave him who he bought the machine guns from. once again it s there s no blame and, you know, it s just he bought the machine guns and he did this. i mean even his own brother at a loss for words how this all happened. investigators executed a search warrant at the shooter s home in mesquite a short time ago. mesquite police briefed reporters about the investigation. cnn was there for the briefing and joining me now, what s the latest there?
earlier today when they spoke to reporters, they confirmed that they were executing two search warrants, one at the hotel and one at a residence in mesquite, nevada. they were moving very cautiously given the level, what seems to be the level of premeditation in the shooting. they are not ruling out whether there may have been traps at that home addressed. jon: i m sure that all of washington is trying to get its arms around what happened here. what are you hearing about briefings of senior government officials? from very early this morning, i can tell you on conversations we have had a fox news, everybody at the senior levels of this administration has been engaged. the attorney general had an in person briefing from fbi director chris per ray, he crossed the street in washington and did everything at the justice department headquarters, or what is known in law enforcement circles as may justice. the active secretary of homeland security lane duke has had a briefing, and what they