to. ji joining us with more is our cnn correspondent. good morning, paul. reporter: good morning. he is apparently, according to all friends, headed here to las vegas, just off to my right is the probation office and just down the street is the courthouse where he was sentenced in the first place. where will he live? according to everybody that is close to him, he is going to live in a gated community in the summerland area of las vegas and there a golf course in that area. they say simpson plans to spend next few days with friends and family reconnecting and then eventually he will probably golf. how did he get out of lovelock? how did this go down tonight? even prison officials didn t know until the last minute they were going to pull it off this way. their concern? safety of simpson and safety of other inmates and they were worried the paparazzi might try to chase. at 12:08 he walked out of the prison. there was a brief exchange they said don t come back and he said, i