Or fireworks. It turned out to be gunfire coming from a high floor. During a News Conference the sheriff of clark county announced that more than 20 people are dead, more than 100 others wounded. Officials say the gunman was on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay resort firing down with what has been described as an automatic weapon, a submachine gun, at the crowd below. Police eventually got up to the 32nd floor of that hotel. They breached the door of that room, and the gunman is now dead. Police do know who this person is. They have not identified him publicly. Theyve just said its a local resident of nevada, las vegas. Theres a search under way for a woman who was traveling with him. Authorities called her his companion. Her name marilou danley. We also know that she is 62 years old. We understand, again, were not identifying the suspect, but he is said also to be in his 60s. And now we apparently are able to identify the suspect. Pete williams has that information. Pete . Reporter matt, weve been told by several investigative agencies that the man they believe fired the shots is 64yearold steven paddock, Stephen Paddock, of mesquite, nevada. Authorities are now searching his house in mesquite, they have told us and the databases indicate this as well, that the woman theyre looking for, Mary Lou Danley lived with him. We dont know what their relationship was but the police described her as the companion or roommate. They were apparently living together. We dont know how long. We believe she is 62. You had asked me earlier whether he was known to the authorities. I have not heard any federal Authorities Say that he was known to them but im told that he did have a criminal past and was known to local Law Enforcement in nevada. What that criminal past is i dont know at this point but apparently his name was familiar to them. This doesnt help answer the big question here of why. Theres no indication so far at this early stage that this was a terror attack. Were coming up now on, what, roughly five hours. Reporter five hours since this happened. Theyre obviously looking through his house, looking to see when he planned this, why he did it, whether they can find any indication of that but no known connection to terrorism at this point. But clearly thats an important question theyre trying to answer and theres heavy involvement here from federal agencies to help the local authorities who remain in charge of this investigation. And, as always, pete, in the aftermath of an event like this there are a lot of conflicting reports. Weve had people tell us that this shooting lasted between five and ten minutes. Other people say this went on for almost an hour. Do you have any indication, pete, that when police finally got to the 32nd floor the Mandalay Bay Hotel and breached the door, did they get involved in any kind of a gunfight with mr. Paddock . Was he still shooting out the window . How did this all end . Reporter i dont know the answer to that, matt. Thats a good question. The police earlier had said he was dead. Whether he shot himself or whether he shot him, i dont know the answer to that. And as we understand it, the suspect, Stephen Paddock, lived with the woman of interest that police now seek, her name marilou danley. There are conflicting reports. We just dont know definitively whether or not she was actually in las vegas tonight, whether she was part of this or even at the hotel. This is an open question at this hour. And, pete, take us through another aspect as we play that videotape again and, more importantly perhaps, listen to the sounds that were hearing coming from that videotape. This is the sound of gunfire were not really accustomed to hearing. We have, unfortunately, in the past heard incidents where there have been Mass Shootings but the sound of the gunfire is different than what were hearing on this tape. Take me through that. Reporter right. This is the sound of gunfire you would hear from iraq or afghanistan from the u. S. Military, automatic weapons fire. That means that somebody is holding the trigger down and the weapon just continues to fire as fast as it can chamber a new round and get it out of the muzzle. These weapons are heavily restricted by the federal government. Its illegal to own a weapon that can fire like that unless its registered with atf, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, fire and explosives. Atf is one of the federal agencies assisting here. Theyre doing an emergency trace to try to figure out where that weapon came from. Its possible to acquire a weapon made to fire automatically like that. The u. S. Military uses them extensively overseas. Its also possible to buy a weapon that isnt intended to fire that way and then modify it, make certain changes to the inside. If youre experienced with firearms, its not a difficult thing to do. Its illegal to do that, but its not a difficult thing to do. So thats one of the questions were going to have to get answered here is what weapon was this, what the caliber of the weapon was, when this person acquired it, how many rounds he had with him. These are all questions that are going to be pretty easy to answer here in the coming hours. We just dont have the answers yet. As you and i and savannah talked about earlier getting a weapon like that into a place like a Las Vegas Hotel when everybody going in and out is either carrying or wheeling some sort of a suitcase that is not, unfortunately, a very big challenge. Reporter no, and people check into hotels in las vegas with all kinds of things, golf clubs, tennis rack eets, its n unusual to see big pieces of luggage. People are carrying firearms with them all over the country all of the time. Theyre in their vehicles, you know, the one place you cant take them is on an airplane, but you can check them onto an airplane. But thats not the case here because the suspect, Stephen Paddock, and also the woman who theyre eager to find, marilou danley, lived nearby, lived near las vegas in the community of mesquite, nevada. And as i mentioned earlier theyre now aggressively searching his home looking for the two cars that were registered to him, a hyundai and pacifica touring vehicle. Theyre asking people to keep a sharp eye out for those vehicles because they want to find them as well because they may hold important evidence as well. Pete williams, as usual, every time we talk to pete he has new information. Pete, we thank you very much. We now know the name of the suspect, Stephen Paddock, 64 years old. Joe fryar is actually in a hotel room very close to the mandalay bay, actually part of that complex from a Vantage Point very similar to the one we believe the shooter had. Joe, good morning. What can you tell us . Reporter hey there, savannah, good morning. Were staying in the four seasons which is part of the mandalay bay tower so the window that were looking out of right now is on the 38th floor so six floors above where the shooter was who was on the 32nd floor. Im not sure are you able to see the shot right now . Yes, we can see your shot. Reporter im holding that shot right now. So this is what were doing from the 38th floor. Were looking over the concert venue. This is basically the block thats kitty corner from the mandalay bay, this is our Vantage Point. As i zoom in here i will show you as i get tighter, thats the stage where jason aldean was performing. That was sort of closer to the mandalay bay. And then as we move to the left, thats where all the crowd was. So you can see at least from where we are on the 38th floor, you can pretty much see everything that was going on inside this concert. You can see a lot of people from this viewpoint. Now we dont know if the shooter was six floors directly below us, to the left of us, or to the right of us. As i pan off here youll get a better idea of just sort of where the mandalay bay is. You can see theres a lot more rooms off to the right of where we are and a little bit of some of the rooms to the left. As we look to the left joe, a few of the witnesses said that as they were facing the stage they felt the shots were coming obviously from behind them but from the right side. Does that make sense with what youre seeing . Reporter based on what we believe to be the stage, the shots actually came from behind the stage so from where looking at if the fans were facing the stage the shots would have been coming from their right or in front of them but more than likely their right. Thats what would have made sense is they would have been looking forward on the stage and the shots would have been coming from the right side of where they were. Joe, thank you very much. Stand by there because we have another eyewitness on the phone. Were joined now by jake owen who actually performed at that Country Music festival just before jason aldean. He joins us, as savannah mentioned, on the phone. Jake, thank you for joining us. How are you doing . Thankfully were doing all right. Unfortunately, theres a lot that arent. Its been a pretty crazy evening here in las vegas. I think were all still trying to process. Jake, you had performed earlier. You were not on the stage when this happened. Where were you. No, i was on the stage. I had just walked up on the stage with a couple friends of mine including one being luke combs, another artist, we were standing 50 feet away from where jason was on stage and all of a sudden you heard what sounded you know, it was the thing where, is that gunfire . And it got faster and faster, it sounded like an automatic rifle. You could hear it ringing off the tops of the rafters of the stage. Thats when you saw people fleeing and at that point everyone on stage started running everywhere possible. And it was pretty chaotic for sure. Where were you able to go to seek cover . Unfortunately, i ran on the opposite direction from where my usual shelter would be which is my bus which was on the opposite side of the stage. So i kind of ran like everyone else. At one point i was crouched down behind a parked car with about 20 other people that were just people had come to the show and everyones asking if everyone is okay. Theres blood on people and you could see a couple folks on the street that looked like theyd been shot lying there. I mean, it was like a movie that you feel like youve seen before thats not real life. I know when Something Like that happens, i imagine time is really hard to even get a grasp on. But were interested in it because it does sound like from other witnesses we talked to that this went on for some time. If you had to guess, how long from when you first heard the sounds to when the shooting finally stopped . How long do you think it took place for . Without even over exaggerating i would say it was close it had to have been close to ten minutes because it went on for a good four or five minutes before i got back, luckily, to a bus that was safe in a crew parking lot. I got back to a bus. Once i got on the bus we were hiding in the bus because you could still hear gunfire outside. It wasnt something that just was quick. It was chaos for seven to ten minutes. Were you able to get back in touch with all your friends and fellow performers, or is there still difficulty because everybody scattered in so many Different Directions . There was after a while recently my store manager and manager got back over to where i am now. We were all separated. A friend of mine is here with her family for a 50th birthday, just like a lot of other people that come out to these concerts. Thats what its about to get to live this freedom thing for the men and women that fight for us and we live this life of not being scared, which i think is great. But this is reality these days. This stuff is really happening. We were all scared. And i do think its important to say, too, the Las Vegas Police department, responders, you could tell they did everything they could to get out here as quickly as possible and take care of people. They need a shout out as well. I heard somebody, jake, earlier talk about the staff of the concert venue, the people who were working who normally would help guide you into a concert venue and that person said they reacted with great calm and they really seemed to try to do everything they could to help people get out of that area. We thank them as well. Jake, were happy youre okay and, again, we thank you for joining us on the phone this morning. Thank you, guys. Just keep everybody in your prayers. We will. Jake, thank you. Lets go to clint van zandt, a former fbi profiler. When you see the images and hear the sound of the gunfire, what strikes you as somebody with a trained ear and eye . Well, first of all, as youve been discussing with your other guests, it seems to be an automatic weapon and, you know, we make a lot in this country about Assault Rifles but most of the time when Law Enforcement goes up against something theyre going up against a semiautomatic weapon you have to pull the trigger every time. This individual appears, from my experience, it sounds like a fully automatic weapon. And your last guest suggesting that this went on for five to ten minutes. If you realize a magazine has 20 or 30 rounds perhaps, this individual had to have so many magazines of ammunition and have so much time. As you know, Something Like this is alclcalculated. He figured out how many rounds he could fire and how long it would take Law Enforcement to respond. Thats a terrible mathematics that someone has to do. This morning it was mathematics that spelled life and death for dozens of people. Clint, i guess it was probably a couple hours ago now that Police Revealed the name of this woman theyre looking for, this marilou danley. And its unclear, still, whether or not she was at the hotel or just somebody that lived with the suspect here. Are you surprised that we havent heard that shes turned herself in theres been no resolution . It feels like a long time in the sense if this woman was saying, hey, i know nothing about this, youd think she would have already called police by now and wed have more information. Do you find anything suspicious there or am i overreading into it . Well, what we usually find with mass shooters is there may be planning right up until the time of the shooting. There is usually poor planning on a getaway plan. They may have discussed by themselves if one or the other is captured or killed theyll have our names. So dont go back to the house. Dont go to the apartment. Use a switch car, a rental car. She could have just jumped in a car and drove out toward the desert right now for all Law Enforcement knows and realize its in the middle of the night out there so it makes searching for somebody like this very difficult. That presumes she is somehow involved. Thats what i was zeroing in. If we dont know she is somebody who just knows the suspect versus whether she is somebody that was somehow involved, thats what im trying to figure out. Yeah, yeah, and i think the point is Something Like this could be carried off by one person. Look, looking for his two vehicles, they have Police Officers scouring the parking lots. As most of us know having been in las vegas there could be hundreds, thousands of cars that could be parked there and they have to use computer aided search for someone entering a paid parking lot or if theyre parked on a street somewhere else, that search continues until they find the two vehicles and until they find the second person of interest, theyre not going to know what they have. And, of course, were all concerned with the life and death of the individuals, those wounded, but we want to know motive. Was this socalled terrorism involved . You and i can say its an obvious act of terrorism. Look how many people were killed and injured. But we need to know the motive of the shooter. And if theres anything else planned to take place after this terrible event. Can i go back to the weapon here for a second and use your expertise. First of all, is this a weapon that would require any kind of real training to use . Also, what would the typical caliber of a weapon like this be because if youre shooting from 300 feet in the air and 100 or so yards away out in the distance, im just curious as to how lethal this weapon is at that distance, and would you be aiming at anything in particular or just an area. Well, number one, it was likely a military assaultstyle weapon. Thats something we would call an m16 or some hybrid or lookalike of an m16 or ak47. The staccato of the shots sounds faster, perhaps, than an ak47. But its going to be somewhere in that range, unfortunately, of a typical Assault Rifle that we see here in america. As far as the killing field, which is what this really is, matt this is somebody taking an automatic weapon and spraying its like a fire hose perhaps where theyre hosing back and forth and theyre not really aiming at a particular person but theyre aiming at everyone. So anyone they hit at this particular time qualifies to them as a target and, again, until we find out motive, we dont know was he after some particular person in the room or after anyone, therefore he was after everyone. Tom costello was just speculating that a weapon that sounds the way this one does and presumably has the caliber it does because we know it was able to inflict such damage, 20plus People Killed today, that might have been set up on a tripod of some sort because of the significant kickback, it would be hard for one individual to hold it. Does that make sense to you . It could. It could have a bipod, hooked on either side for stability as youre shooting down. We havent seen mass shooters do that but this shooter could be capable of anything. A bipod could attach to the barrel of a rifle and that would be simple to do. The mentality is someone playing out this terrible video game in his mind, spraying the bullets when the weapon is held to the shoulder. Theres a mentality that goes with this once someone engages in an act of total mass shooting. He or she reminds how theyve practiced. Weve so many that will use video games that practice Mass Shootings and, of course, could this be a military veteran . I guess it could. But also in Mass S