In the last couple of weeks he had 16 such transactions. In other words 16 times at these casinos he was involved with bets of more than 10,000. The second point is that earlier in the week, earlier last week he checked into the mandalay bay. He wired 100,000 to the philippines. They dont know why that is at this point but his girlfriend Mary Lou Danly is from the philippines and was visiting there last week. She left las vegas for a trip to the philippines, went through hong kong and according to the Philippine Government was in the philippines. They said it concluded she was still out of the country at the time the shooting took place sunday night. The point here is there is a philippine connection between steven paddock and his girlfriend. So there would be a reason to send 100,000 there, whether it was her or family or something she was interested in. The authorities still want to talk to her. Our understanding is she is due back in the next few days. They want to find out what it
23 guns found in his hotel room, and more found at his home. The toll of this entire tragedy now stands at 59 innocent lives cut short, and more than 500 people wounded. Among those we remember this morning and will always remember, we want you to see these faces and always remember their names. Ney neysa tonks, and sonny melton, and sandra casey. We will have much more. Lets go to dan simon. A lot has developed and we learned a lot, and so many other questions sense we spoke yesterday. What can you tell us . Reporter hey, poppy and john. I think what we can say more than 24 hours since this took place its clear theres no obvious motive, no criminal history to look at, according to his brother, no political ties, no religious ties. His only true passion appears to be gambling, high stakes poker in las vegas, and his brother describing him as a multimillionaire and real estate investor. Obviously investigators will look at the shooters financial history to see if anything can be gathere
The survivors, are now sharing their stories. It didnt get real until we came down this street. You came down here, right . Came down the street and there were bodies. Helped pull a young girl out and she was lifeless. Im sitting there thinking, you know, that could be my daughter. It all happened and we were just like holding our heads and praying and Holding Hands and then i got hit. I felt like a pain in my hip and it felt like a boulder hit my hip and thats when my boyfriend told me to get up and we needed to go and i needed to fight for my life. I know you wanted to thank him. I did. We brought him here. Hey, man, thank you, buddy. Of course. Appreciate it. That was some hug. President trump will be here in las vegas tomorrow. Today he is in puerto rico. The president and the first lady are getting a firsthand look at the devastation that maria left behind and he is also receiving a number of briefings as well. Briefings on the relief effort to help millions who are still very muc
The breaking news as we continue covering the deadliest mass shooting in modern American History 59 people con virmed dead, 527 wounded. A gunman raining bullets from his hotel windows onto a crowd of Country Music fans at a concert. Inside his 32nd floor sweet at the mandalay bay hotel, which is the hotel you see behind me tonight, police say he had an arsenal of 23 guns in that room, that colluded rifles and a handgun. The man is 64yearold Stephen Paddock he then shot and killed himself as police moved after n after exchanging shots with police. He then killed himself from a selfinflicted wound. In his car police found several founds of amoan yum nitrate, which can be used to make explosives at his house 80 miles from where we are, 19 more farms, explosives and several thousand rounds of ammunition were found in that house. The carnage from this mass shooting is horrific, and the video is graphic and disturbing. Of course, people were filming the concert so there is a video record of