in this area because of o.j. simpso release about 24 hours ago. nothin out of the ordinary. the mandalay bay is on one side and across the street about a block away where the concert was taking place. people have been staying at all the hotels in the area, not just this one. mandal bay is the hotel overlo this area which is where the concert is taking place which is why it is getting so muc attention right now. whethe any of the shooting came from m bay, we don t know at thipoint. the concert is in the shadow of. as far security goes, we have not se anything out of the ordina if you are looking dowon the the strip, do have a view of new york new york. steve patterson was saying the teams were moving to the other hotelsnearby. what s scene when you are lookin down on the strip?
this c that was taking place is in this area across the street dark now, but not that lg ago it was bustling with activi and a lot of people have b here for this festival taking place throughout this entire weekend. a country music festival and squad car after squad car drivin and down the street and we are seeing them in lines and groups together driving up and down. the vegas strip right now, no other passengers or anyone is allowe on it. they are trying to get people off the strip and move them to areas where there is less concer a matter of safety. it is a police and emergency respon who joined us. i m gng to cut in right now. joe, i don t kno if you can hear me, but we have steve patter live on the streets in las ve please you ca tell us wha the scene is in las vegas. rep joe described, quite a chaotic scene on las
in contact with metro. in ter what s happening, essently what happened is there has been a mass shooting and two suspects confirmed. many, victims and my police source said there are several fatali confirmed deaths near the main stage. the main stage being the stage where route 91 harve festiv concert was taking place across the boulevard from mandal bay. multip victims and there panic and people were runnin all directions includ out on to the
to hear it this quiet in and of itself is extremely eerie. this i a place that is always popula and always has some level of noise and revel ry. to see the police and the impres that these teams have left is something quite eerie. it really sits with you. this scene has been locked down like this for at least the last half hour with very little activi a lot of people taking account of what s going on. we do the teams with long guns combing the area and we will see that for the hours to come. back to you. i want to ask you because you are on the las vegas strip. have most of the pedestrians been from the concert or is there just people still milling around the strip? now it s later in las vegas, but when it happened, it was 10:30.
it s located right by mandalay bay on the end of the strip. we are inside of the hotel that is under lockdown. stay your rooms. that s what we havdoing. it s hard to get information becaus this is a fluid situat but you look around and you don t see people. this i where the concert was taking place. it is now dark and quiet and there are flashing red and blue lights as the area flooded by police and emergency responders. what we don t know at this point is how many shooters were there and have all of the shooters been cd and how many people very injured or shot in this fluid situation. we are high above the mandalay bay nearby where all the shooti have been taking place. we have been told to stay put where we are as a precaution out of saf also they don t know where the gunfire was coming from. some people wonder if it was coming from high above someone lookindown.