out very very quickly. and the secretary .e.c northa missile to launch an attack against north korsouth korea an for quite some time. when i was in japan over the summer, many people were surprised by the degree to which the united states is freaking out about this, mostly because for the japanese this has been a fact of life for at least five, six years. ambassador nick burns, this is david ignatius, i have a question i want to put to you. we re now in a period of pause in preparation for the winter olympics in which north korea and south korea are talking, the u.s. has agreed to defer the military exercise that was scheduled for this time period so there s a question whether we re intering a period of real diplomacy in which the fundamentals of this crisis, this confrontation, can be addressed.
identified on the firearms in the hotel room. the atf firearms and ammunition technology division provides determinations on devices such as bump fire stocks and their legality. the classification of these devices depends on whether they mechanically alter the function of the firearm to fire fully automatic. bump fire stocks while simulating automatic fire do not actually alter the firearm to fire automatically making them legal under current federal law. it is still being determined which firearms were used in the shooting. all of the firearms have been traced. we are still awaiting results from some of the firearms that were located at the mesquite residence. as the investigation proceeds, atf will continue to conduct interviews and conduct interviews and sheriff and local
investigation? great question. i don t reveal that because i don t know. we got a lot of questions, i can tell you that. on the time, the swat team entered around what time and what point did the shooter stop shooting? can i give you the exact time swat enter d? i was hoping to provide that today or the sheriff will provide that in the next briefing. there is ade delay because he s not firing anymore. we treat that situation as a barricade. at 11:00 p.m., is that correct? i m trying to verify that information about when swat actually made entry via both r5 radio communication and body worn communication. [ indiscernible question ] the swat team is not your normal swat team. it was made up of both swat officers, patrol officers and a k-9 unit. information that paddock may have checked in days before he
forward but at minimum, we will be open from present time to 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. we re still fully operational to answer any questions the families may have, friends of the families. i would also like to clarify, we re not releasing property at the family assistance center. that is as the sheriff mentioned, that will be released they are developing a plan currently to release that property in the future and i m certain that will be put out through one of these press conferences. i d like to also discuss some of the numbers that we ve been dealing with over there. i had that kwer question earlie. it s estimated we ve served well over 1,000 family members and friends there at the family assistance center. we re providing all sorts of services to include bereavement services and our staff at the clark county coroner s office is meeting with every family that comes in there and i would like
the sheriff mentioned previously in the briefing, we had patrol officers actually working another event at the mandalay bay who heard the shooting and took it upon themselves to form up into a team, enter the stairwell, begin assecending th floors and also evacuating hotel guests. the swat team had to arrive first at the mandalay bay before they could take action. there was a very heroic security guard who was shot during the search for that suspect. that security guard went up to the room. he was advancing towards the room when the suspect fired through the door at the security guard and struck him. he was able to additional information to the police on exactly which room we were looking at. however, at that time, it s important to note the shooting had stopped. we re considering it barricaded at that point because it s no longer an active shooter. we re not hearing further shots. the floors had been evacuated of