Victor oquendo. We continue to follow the big breaking news. South Florida Community struggling to come to grips with a School Shooting that claimed 17 lives. A gunman opening fire with an Assault Rifle sending panicked students running for cover. Police say the suspect is a former student who was expelled who was arrested without putting up a fight. The white house says President Trump spoke to the florida governor, rick scott, and offered federal assistance in the aftermath of that. And the president sent out a tweet to the victims. No child, teacher or anyone else should feel unsafe in an american school. And former republican president ial candidate was scheduled to make an announcement about his potential run for the u. S. Senate but its on hold in the wake of the florida School Shooting. Last night, he sent out a tweet, as a father and grandfather his heart aches for what he calls a senseless act of violence. Shots fired at the National Security agency headquarters. Police say a
Abc news, special report of an active shooter situation taking place on the Las Vegas Strip, it happened at a concert, a Country Music festival. Jason aldean on stage as rapid fire gunfire could be heard right there, coming from the mandalay bay area. And the update that were getting from the Las Vegas Police department, just within the last few moments is that at least one active shooter is no longer. That shooter is down. But theyre still warning people to stay awhat from the Las Vegas Strip. They had been looking at the possibility that this was multiple shooters. So that is a possibility. Also the possibility that automatic weapons were used in this attack. But weve been listening to the video. It sounds like machine gun fire. But were hearing from the University Medical Center Hospital in the area. They are reporting 26 victims transported to the hospital. Currently, two dead, 24 injured. Thats only one hospital in the area. Were looking at multiple casualties, potentially multipl
Factors. Before we label with that it will be a matter of process. Reporter have you found any insight to what the motive was . No we have not. We have not located any items in the room or his house at this point. Reporter [ inaudible question ] it was a matter of normal practice. Whenever we use a dynamic entry. Reporter sheriff anything else in the hotel room that made you think he had been there for a while . We have information hes been there since the 28th of september. So i have no idea whether he prevented the house keepers from entering the room or not. Thats a matter of continued investigation. Thank you very much. Well provide you an update probably in the next two hours. Thank you. The latest from the sheriff. Las vegas police a lot of information coming from the sheriff and what they found on the scene. Im here with brian ross. Brian, ten rifles. They also say he killed himself, a self in fliginflict wound. No criminal record, no contact with Law Enforcement. Also his compa
He used an automatic weapon to shoot down on the crowd as they ran looking for cover and could not find it. Bursts of fire, 0 to 35 seconds of size, more bursts of fire. Changing magazines according to weapons experts. Ak47 would carry a magazine of 30 rounds and seems he shot off bursts of 30 rounds that lasted 17, 18 seconds and then a pause and then again and again and again and again. I want to go to matt gutman on the keen in las vegas all through the night and, matt, what weve heard apparently we dont have matt gutman right now. I apologize for that. Let me go to former special agent brad garrett and what weve heard described by an eyewitness through the last several hours are not just those initial moments of terror but several hours of chaos. George, when these things happen and your adrenaline takes over and the sheer vulnerability of who is out there. Who else will shoot at me. How do i get out of harms way. This was fenced in. With an open air outside obviously so all of tha
Stage right now. He is described as an eyewitness having dropped his guitar once he realized it was indeed a shooting. At first so many in that crowd thought it was bottle rockets, fireworks, couldnt be real. It was all too real as brian ross just reported. Unfolded over 4 30. More than 200 rounds fired over 4 30. That must have beseemed like an eternity. The shooter is down. This was the Moment Police went in. The suspects door. Be aware of it and get back. We need to pop this and see if we can have a response from this guy, see if hes in here or moved to smnlsz. All units on the 32nd floor, breach. All units move babb. All units move back. Breach, breach, breach. That was the moment, breach, that was an explosion. The explosion was from the police right there. They did take down the shooter. I want to go back to las vegas now. Matt gutman on the scene. You guys go ahead. Thank you. Yeah, im here. I hear you. Thanks. Matt. Hey, george. So everywhere you go, people come to you and you