welcome back, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian alongside louis bergdorf. as las vegas police and federal officials continue their investigation into sunday s deadly mass shooting, we re learning new details about the gunman in the attack and other potential targets. multiple law enforcement officials telling nbc news that stephen paddock researched possible attack locations in boston and chicago. they say that paddock s potential targets included the lollapalooza festival in chicago in early august. he went as far as booking a room in a chicago hotel but did not actually show up. paddock did research on hotels around boston s fenway park and other locations in that city, but they say there s no indication that paddock ever traveled to boston or chicago
good morning, everybody. it is friday, october 6th. as las vegas police and federal officials continue their investigation into the deadly mass shooting, we re learning more about the gunman and possible other targets. stephen paddock researched other possible attack locations in boston and chicago. they say that paddock s potential targets included the lollapalooza festival in chicago in early august added that he went as far as booking a room in a chicago hotel but did not show up. officials also say that paddock did research on hotels around boston s fenway park and other locations in that city, but they say there s no indication paddock ever traveled to boston or chicago for that matter. his girlfriend marilou danley said she remembers him having symptoms such as lying in bed and moaning.
welcome back to velshi & rhule. we ve got breaking news in the las vegas shooting investigation. multiple senior law enforcement officials say the gunman steven paddock researched possible locations in boston and chicago. he reportedly booked a hotel room overlooking the lollapalooza festival in chicago but didn t show up for the reservation back in august. three u.s. army special forces soldiers were killed and two others wounded in an ambush in the african country of nooignooig niger. militants operating out of mali carried out the attack, it s believed. and today is the deadline for more than 150,000 so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers. undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children to reapply for protection from deportation. approximately 154,000 people
of it. nbc news correspondent pete williams is all over this story following every bit of this investigation. joining us now from washington. pete, let s talk about this breaking news. multiple senior law enforcement officials have told nbc he researched other locations in boston and chicago. what can you tell us? well, our understanding is that they have a couple of reasons for saying this. one is exploiting the electronic devices that were found in his house, his hotel room, and they re looking at basically can they tell what sort of use of the internet he s made. and our understanding is that he on the internet researched outdoor concerts in both chicago and boston. in a similar setting as in las vegas. concerts that were outdoors that had big hotels that overlooked them. and we re also told he went so far as to book rooms at a high-rise hotel in chicago at
given to him complimentary. it was comped as they say in las vegas because he was a relatively high rolling gambler. he s certainly aware the hotel had lots of security cameras. so what that is based on we simply don t know. i think it s another thing they were looking at. there s so much to continue to be looked into. sure is. all right, pete. thank you so much. this story is not going anywhere. i want to bring in former assistant director of the fbi ron hoskow. what do you make of this information he researched other locations? boston, chicago. that s where lollapalooza is. could this have been his game plan all along? it s starting to look that way. something further back in his past obviously started to trigger him researching, looking, evaluate iing so i thi the law enforcement needs to be looking at the whole timeline