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City of Las Vegas Police have confirmed that the suspect a sixty four year old white band from nevada is also dead the shooting took place on the famed Las Vegas Strip and the attacker had checked in as a guest at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and casino and from the thirty second floor he began firing on an outdoor concert Authorities Say they have also located a female person of interest she was seen accompanying the suspect before the attack. The is the moment when music tensing to gunfire. People begin to run for their lives. As hysteria breaks out in the concert venue the shorts continue. Some say the gunfire lasted for five minutes others say even longer. People at the scene described the hora they witnessed. We refused to believe it was a shooting until they just kept going and going and chase all the wealth the stage and then everybody started firing and we started firing we had to have a gate to get out. Ive never seen anything like that when they kept shooting and shooting and shooting and we thought it was on the other side we just thought it was maybe play machine guns but it definitely wasnt our fire guns. And it sounded like at least thirty rounds or more. Police rushed to the scene of the attack at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and casino where the perpetrator had checked in as a guest from the thirty second floor he began shooting indiscriminately a concert goer outside. An hour later Police Confirmed his death. For him as his history and background we havent completed that part of the investigation yet but we located numerous firearms within the room that he occupied and like i stated earlier its going to be a long and tedious investigation now were bringing in all the resources of the f. B. I. To assist us in this and. Authorities have named a sixty four year old local white man as the attack and believe he was acting alone these incident just in to was mass shooting in modern u. S. History and the death of two bikes. And lets go right to los vegas where peter dawson is standing by hes a reporter for cave vu fox five news there he joins us on the line peter hi thank you for joining us whats happening there right now of bring us up to date. Well right now the strip was shut down several casinos were shut down and evacuated guests had to go down the street to basically a large town square type of shoppers ability now to get at the concert the concert goers it was sheer panic as you can imagine when the shots rang out some people didnt know what was happening you know the Las Vegas Strip its very noisy its very bright so when they realized that they were in danger they went running a few people had to go across the way to a private airport they were told to shelter in place in a private hangar some of them did some of it didnt but as soon as were got out that the thomas im mad at you and the campus about a mile down the road thats where theyre at everybody to go to and at one point thousands of people i saw go into the thomas the mack and metro our Police Department out here was asking anybody if they witnessed anything to fill out a statement if they just needed water blankets or just a place to sleep to go into a different area of the thomas im at one point sources inside said about five hundred people were sleeping now as about forty five minutes ago some of the strip casinos started to open back up again so theyve been shuttling people from the thomas a mack about a mile up the street to the Las Vegas Strip and i would say theres about two to three hundred people still in the thomas a mass you know kind of. Resting grabbing a drink of water and getting some food waiting for the mandalay bay to open there is no time limit i want to stress at the. They are allowed to stay here for as long as they want a lot of people as you can tell very shaken up about this whole thing maybe dont want to go back to the wants vegas trip right now some flights were delayed and canceled but the airport i believe is back to full operation right now were just trying to come to grips with what happened here just a few hours ago now peter a terrifying situation there a few hours ago on the ground any information from authorities on the victims more than fifty People Killed and the injured more than four hundred. Right now thats the latest that we have jeralyn bartered just update the media and i believe that was where the updated numbers are right now so theyre kind of theyre updating the media about every forty five minutes to an hour and sadly just four or five hours ago it was two dead and now we have fifty plus and then it was twenty four injured and now were up to four hundred so every update that sheriff joe wampler brings us its just gets worse and worse and peter we mentioned that the police had named the shooter as a sixty four year old local man any indication about what his motive possibly could have been oh absolutely i could i would i could speculate on that metro does a really good job of updating everybody assuming they know something but right now i think theyre just being tight lipped about everything if they do know something or if they dont know something but im sure well know more about that man coming up in the next few hours peter dawson a reporter for k v v u fox five news in the thank you peter thank you so much. And these social media editor carl naslund has also been tracking this story for us and joins us in studio hi carl what if you can see the i mean as we were seeing some of those videos i mean people were filming the horrific tragedy and even across the city in las vegas you people kind of capturing these moments of chaos as news started to spread and just take a look at how this night really descended into these streets are normally packed with people this caravan of of Police Officers now rushing to the scene and as word really started to spread so did the fear amongst many people there in las vegas along the strip you see hotel guests here at Caesars Palace another casino nearby theyre taking shelter even in the lower levels of that building they just dont know if the situation outside was safe or not after the shooting you know this was a Country Music concert two of those musicians who performs they went to social media to basically describe their experiences this is jayco when he was on stage before the shooting and he writes gunshots were ringing off the stage in rigging and road cases no one knew where to go and he thinks the First Responders on the scene country star jason dean the he was performing as the shots broke out and he took to instagram he had a message here he says that tonight has been beyond horrific i still dont know what to say but i want to let everyone know that me and my crew are safe my thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved tonight it hurts my heart that this would happen to anyone who is just coming out to enjoy what should have been a fun night u. S. President donald trump also sending his warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families were saying once again that social media is such an important tool in tragedies like this one yeah it really is becoming kind of the go to place and many people in las vegas are going online to start to organize some of these relief efforts even here in the middle the night and Early Morning now this is one important tool its from facebook its called a Crisis Response page and its for really getting. Peoples relief efforts organized and together you can see people in the area can use a red dot to request help and theres green dots there as well and those are offers of assistance whether its shelter transport even people offering weve seen baby supplies the last vegas Police Department theyve been very very active on twitter providing a verified information really important here giving a phone number for families searching for their loved ones but unfortunately you know as we see far too often after these kinds of incidents lots of fake news actually spreading on social media including already some rumors people trying to link this to islamic extremism which is not true and this is just one tweet that we saw a rumor that the shooter was a thirty two year old islam convert that is completely false someone even using the image of a comedian and weirdly enough his image they are holding a gun surfaces constantly after shootings like these so be careful of course if youre on social media there are other rumors even of multiple shooters at casinos that started to spread those were immediately debunked fortunately by officials there in las vegas but you see the good and the bad unfortunately of social media after these events. And with how this story is being covered on social media karl thank you very much. And karl mentioned that the u. S. President donald trump tweeted a little earlier he is also expected to speak very soon about the attack we will bring you his remarks live for in washington as soon as they begin for now though were going to move on to some other news the Regional Government of catalonia is meeting to discuss steps towards independence thats after ninety percent of voters backed breaking away from spain in a referendum on sunday but the vote was disrupted by police and dismissed by madrid leaving catalonia and the remainder of spain wider apart than ever before. Supporters of catalan super tuesday in force again today providing a powerful backdrop for the demands of the regional leader. But despite the mood of defiance in barcelona he opened the door to deescalation. A woman can say you know. What im now recommending is mediation you limit yes you are and that mediation requires the presence of a third party i think that unless youre not getting that party needs to be international for this to be an effective process this is important to restore the institutional normality which has been disturbed by disproportionate decisions from spain Central Government that. Its also important to End Police Violence and the limitation of our liberty and also to create a climate of less tension for such a process of mediation estimate yes youre going to say yeah. Sundays violence was splashed across the morning papers as people caught up with events that could change the makeup of the country some catalans around by Police Tactics others expressing reservations about leaving spain. Im of the opinion that this referendum wasnt managed the way it should have been there may have been other ways that we all would be happy with the results part of us catalans i believe a not happy with the result of the referendum. Is the most important of all. Just. Yesterday was terrible people like me im seventy years old i experienced a dictatorship under franco and this is the same. They see it on me you know. Spanish police used heavy handed tactics on sunday to disrupt a vote the countrys Supremes Court has ruled unconstitutional Central Government in madrid has come under fire for its use of police force cattle an authority say over eight hundred people were injured and now setting up a special commission to investigate claims of abuse. And lets go right to barcelona were journalist Stephen Bergen is standing by for us hi stephen long president we saw a report he gave a statement just a little while ago saying he does not plan and what spain but is calling for a new understanding what does that mean that he plans to go ahead with this independence. Over theres no doubt that he plans to but i think to surprise quite a few people that he has pulled back from the brink and hasnt just simply declared independence on the basis of yesterdays poll. But he i mean hes a dyed in the wool independent at least and theres no doubt that hes not going to change his mind but he is hes calling for mediation hed like this to be i think from the European Union but its very disappointed the European Unions brotherhood bland reaction to whats happened and he says be you cant look away. And they have to they have to come to terms with this. But he doesnt want any traumatic bird because the fact is although ninety percent of people who voted yesterday voted in favor. It is a well known fact that they represent roughly fifty percent of the population but fifty percent of the population were independents and the other half dont and i think you know he and others realize that pushing this through against the will of people who frankly didnt vote was a book because they know it wasnt a legally binding referendum that isnt going to work so time for mediation to begin but this requires a very different attitude from the Spanish Government which behaved actually just walked straight into a truck by being using force yesterday which simply reinforced peoples sense that they dont want to belong to spain and stephen after those that force that you mentioned yesterday we saw these dramatic scenes of violence you know how are people there been reacting today in barcelona what is the atmosphere like. There is at the moment theres a very large demonstration going on there was a ten minute everything stopped for ten minutes in protest but now theres various marches going on and tomorrow theres a general strike is called just a day. Ok stephen as you said you know this is a very difficult situation and neither side here really backing down what options does the government in madrid really have right now. It has the option to recognize the reality that this is not going to go over it and that by simply using force or in fact telling. Us as reported yesterday say there wasnt a referendum. Isnt going to work and if they did they havent got the political will or intelligence to mediate this they will have to find someone who does because its not about to go very far if even as youve been speaking weve been looking at some live pictures there from barcelona stephen reporting from barcelona for us journalists even bergen thank you very much for that insight can do you know reactions to this independence referendum have been coming in across europe do you have used bob you have a soul is keeping an eye on those reactions in brussels and for us what have you officials been saying about both the referendum and the violence. European commission today in a statement reminded the the Independence Movement in barcelona that it had said from the beginning that this referendum was illegal after the Spanish Constitutional Court had ruled it illegal and it is also said that. Catalonia if one wanted to force independence would sort of drop out of the European Union however after the pictures we saw yesterday about the Police Violence against people in barcelona and the catalonian region they also the European Commission went a step further we hear a spokesman mark regev sheenas lets listen to what he has to say we call on all relevant players to know move very swiftly from confrontation to dialogue. Violence can never be an instrument in politics. So when we hear the message from the e. U. There but what can brussels actually do here. Brussels cant really do anything because opposed to Public Opinion the European Union is not this Supra National organization that can sort of interfere in its Member States its absolutely not possible the rules are not like that so this is in fact is spanish is fair and the spaniards have to sort of deal with it however the European Union would certainly build would be willing to mediate if it would be called so what we heard from the separatist movement they might be willing to do this now also of course the government in madrid would have to call brussels and say ok lets do this we have heard that there is supposed to be a phone call this afternoon between the holy and the president of the European Commission perhaps Something Like that is under way and barbara what do you think this could possibly need for the future of the e. U. Especially if you look at other disputes like that involving scotland. Absolutely nothing good because weve been there i mean weve had the Scottish Referendum that was a legal referendum and the scot said no so that seems to be pretty settled for the moment other regions that have been sort of searching independence for decades life the basque region or weve had a flare up of separatist movement and feeling if for instance in flanders in belgium all that has pretty much settled down however if not all the identity politics and populist movements bring this back up it is really in major disturbance for political peace in the European Union that really wants to do reforms instead of being engaged in this