Asked if the president was preferring to military action, the white house says only, quote, wait and see. And bracing in the biggiescy, Tropical Storm nate now expected to hit near new orleans this weekend as hurricane. From louisiana to florida, gulf coast residents trying to get ready. Im wolf blitzer here in the situation room. Breaking news, we have new information about the las vegas gunman who slaughtered 58 people and wounded hundreds more. A Law Enforcement source says authorities now believe the killer rigged his car to explode if fired upon. The car contained 90 pounds of explosive and suitcases filled with bullets. But police said moments ago they dont know what the gunman planned to do with all those explosives. Cnn has also learned that the gunman tried and failed to buy tracer rounds of a phoenix gun show in recent weeks. And a source says investigators are trying to decipher a note with numbers on it left by the gunman. Police say they are confident there was no other sh
on the campaign trail this fall. he s trying to help get dmekts elected in the senate and house to governorships and in state level races. his team is still mapping out his campaign schedule, but he s expected to go to states like ohio, pennsylvania, florida, michigan and wisconsin. we also know of the one trip that is out in the works heading out west to california and nevada in the first week of october. he ll be out there trying to raise money for democratic candidates as well as holding public events, including a likely stop in nevada s senate democratic candidate jackie rossen. and democrats see a real pick-up opportunity in the seat trying to win more seats and win control of the senate. one big question that is going to be surrounding the vice president throughout his time out on the campaign trail is, what is he thinking about in 2020? so far he s said he will make that decision by january. he s not going to be talking about it until then, but here folks in the room during the
what does that tell you about this killer s state of mind? tells me that he was an evil person. and for some reason, perhaps he had a trigger, they think maybe he started buying a mult tad of these kind of ammunitions and weap weapons about a year ago, so we don t know, maybe we can find out the trigger so we can understand it. but we are just going to have to go forward. because can you ever really be in the mind of a person who is insane? and clearly he had issues. an evil person. no one in their right mind would plan something like this. no one. i ll just point out he may not have been insane, but he certainly was very, very evil, as we all know right now. yes. congresswoman, jackie rossen, thanks for your time and patience. good luck to you and all your constituents everyone in the las vegas area. i know how heartbreaking this is for all of you. thanks very much for joining us.