erin in those frightening numbers you re sharing is it appears he was stock piling in this retirement community, that he potentially could have done a large amount of damage with all of that ammunition and weaponry and explosives. but what is not clear is the motive, the why. when the s.w.a.t. team broke down the door of a room on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay casino, the gunman was already dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. leaving verinvestigators to question why he would gun down a crowd. we checked all the federal databases and state databases and we had no knowledge of this individual. paddock checked into the mandalay bay september 28th. but it wasn t until sunday night that he broke through the windows of his hotel room to begin his murderous rampage. police found ten or more guns in the hotel room.
to do that yet. the only thing we are immediately aware of in our position is firearms and ammunition. people were hit with shrapnel you said. and also, how did he get the weapons into the hotel room? like i said, we are doing the investigation. i don t want to give you any inaccurate information, but we know he brought them in on his. in an original briefing, we believe he was in partnership or companionship of a female and determined the female is out of the country. he brought the weapons in on his. as far as method, i don t have the ability to give you an accurate answer. was the shooter known to law enforcement on any prior charges? not at all. we checked the federal and local databases and state databases. we had no knowledge of this individual. we going to see the
the exit, will you follow up on that, and also how did he get these weapons into the hotel? like i said, we are doing the investigation. i don t want to give you any inaccurate information, we do know that he brought their weapons in on his own. in the original briefing, we believed that he was in partnership or companionship of a female, and we have determined that the female is out of the country. so he brought these weapons in on his own. as well as method, i do not have the ability to give you a accurate picture. was he known any prior charges or things like that? none at all. we have checked the federal databases, state databases, we have no knowledge of this individual. share of, we going to change the designation on the woman that was involved, a person of
and ammunition. reporter: people were hit with shrapnel at the exit. that s what the mayor said. what s your follow-up on that? also, how did he get these weapons into the hotel room at mandalay bay? like i said, we re doing an investigation. i don t want to give you any inaccurate information but we do know that he brought the weapons in on his own. at an original briefing, we believed he was in partnership or companionship of a female and we have determined the female is out of the country. so he brought these weapons in on his own. as far as method, i don t have the ability to give you an accurate picture. was the shooter known to local law enforcement here in clarke county or las vegas, any prior charges? no, not at all. we ve checked all the federal databases and local databases and state databases and we had no knowledge of this individual. sheriff, are we going to change the designation of the woman who was involved with this man as a person of interest or a
vice president pence playing cleanup, insisting afterward, look, this is not about preconceived notions here, but the majority of the conversation did focus on who is voting and how they re doing it. members discuss differences in registration methods, voter rules by the state, and they briefly talked about protecting state databases from hackers. jake, we should also say the word russia was hardly mentioned. of course a thatthat s the i that hardly took place last year. 30 states have agreed to share voter information with the commission. how does that square from pushback we ve heard from different states in recent weeks? let s call it true but maybe a bit misleading, jake. red states, blue states haven t been shy about opposing their requests. a majority of the states have said they would turn over at least some public information. that could just be a name, for other states it could be an address or party affiliation.