welcome back to our breaking news coverage here at cnn. we are following a story that is still developing. so much not known. but police in las vegas are investigating reports of an active shooter near the mandalay bay casino on the strip. police have been asking everyone to avoid this area. and we re to be see some video of the scene and well, there you go, the aerial shot of all of the lights still on. a crowded las vegas. but the police presence has been just remarkable. right now we re getting an eyewitness in. let s listen to that. i asked them where they are staying, and they told me they are staying at tuscany. so i drove them, i m mandalay bay myself. i drove them down to tuscany just to make sure they are safe.
together. a couple of big boys, we thought we would have a chance if we stuck together. what ran through your head when you heard shoot? i m from australia. we don t that stuff that much. but you run what people tell you risks you staying at the mandalay bay? yeah. we had conference there s tomorrow, today and the next day. did you see anybody that was injured or hurt? apparently all the twitter reports said the shooters were shooting at the concert across the hall. thankfully you guys are okay. hopefully everybody can keep safe out here. okay. it looks like we have some movement here. they re kind of expanding the perimeter here. police are telling everybody to move further south. so we re going to do that as well. if you can turn the camera here, it looks like teams are getting ready to move in. so this is escalating here, at least in the urgency we see. a lot of people out here with their phones trying to document
revenues getting to north korea that can be funneled into its nuclear and missile programs. so certainly china on paper and its verbal verbally corresponding with the sanctions that have been passed. but it s what happens on the ground that is the most important thing. china shares a very large border with north korea. and if china was able to or willing to, then it could really strengthen the restrictions financially on north korea and really start to make north korea feel that pinch. but certainly it s interesting that this is happening at this point when many people in the region are looking ahead to the u.s. president donald trump visiting here next month as well. natalie? yes, many people will be watching that for sure. paula, thank you so much for your reporting there from seoul, south korea. we want to turn back to the breaking news that has just happened about 20, 25 minutes ago. police in las vegas investigating reports of an
correct. so when you put that i mean, what was your reaction when you heard all that? we knew it was chaos and mayhem. people were rung out of everywhere. people were really unaware of where the ground person was. going this way, that way. s.w.a.t. everywhere. we were tucked away, about 12 of news a little car park thing. and s.w.a.t. came and said hands up. this way. you described to me that you were running from mandalay bay for the last hour. why do you feel like you were running? we didn t know where the shooter was. the police were telling us telling us to go that way. so we knew they were confused like they were. we wanted to stay close to this one s.w.a.t. car, they ushered us out and said go that way. and we feel there is a lot of police here. we started running. like full-on sprinting? running. and carrying bags and helping people. it was about i don t know, 12, 14 of us and we all stuck
down the sunset, that s where they re saying is a potentially safe area. you can see all of these police officers here, they re coming from all over the place, by the way. we saw henderson police. we also saw metro. we got clark county fire out here. a lot of first responders, all out here. it s all hands on deck at this point. but i was just talking to some folks that were i believe on the 14th floor of mandalay bay facing the strip. they told me when this all went down that. heard the gunshots coming near the room. they could hear it. it was rapid-fire. they heard what they said was hundreds of shots. and we re going to walk down here. so we re trying to make sure not to trip while we re doing it. hundreds of shots that were coming from several floors up. that s what one witness told me. and they said they actually had a daughter that was in that concert venue. they were worried about her. they were able to get in contact with her. but someone was shot that was really close to her.