could that have been his original target? sure. you know, in looking at all the different items that he had with him over the last few days, the variety of the high-powered rifles, the bump stock, the information we now have about the approximately 50 pounds of tanner iet, you know, it s interesting to note that that tannerite remained in the car. i kind of feel that he probably had some additional plans with the tannerite, whether it was to be used in the scope of a vehicle borne improvised explosive device or even just having it in the containers and being able to debt nature it in the vicinity of that concert area to inflict even more danl of the concertgoers or simply to even create chaos. so i believe just from everything that we re seeing he
continued past the event itself. the street around the concert area is just opened up, giving us a sense of the line of fire from the hotel. gary tuchman is there. gary, explain where you are, what you re seeing. anderson, we haven t been able to broadcast here until today, so close to the hotel and the concert site. we want to give you a sense of the extraordinary distance these bullets carried. this is where the concert was, the route 91 harvest music festival. this is across las vegas boulevard, eight lanes of traffic, four lanes to the north, four lanes to the south. and here is the mandalay bay hotel across the street from it. you can see the broken window on the 32ed floor where the gunman was firing his shots. he was 300 feet in the air when he was firing those shots and the bullets had to carry between 400 and 500 yards across the street. that s about a quarter mile into this concert venue. this is where everyone was. while he was firing those gunshots the bullets were flyi
you ve got did draw the conclusion one of the concerns, he actually, i can t believe this thought there would be another event. you ve got to ask yourself, where was that and how would he execute that? accurate. that s part of the problem. go ahead. quickly, the columbine killers believed the same thing too. they thought they were going to get out of the high school and actually detonate a bunch of explosives. their idea is that the escape is going to be as easy as the attack itself, and therefore they are sort of planning the next round. remember the boston marathon bombers also thought the same. so their delusions sort of continued past the event itself. the street around the concert area is just opened up, giving us a sense of the line of fire from the hotel. gary tuchman is there. gary, explain where you are, what you re seeing. anderson, we haven t been able to broadcast here until today, so close to the hotel and
is simply, we have now stopped the killing. remember, this is dynamic because down below as we saw in the video, the police are moving everyone out of what we ve been calling this fish bowl. even if they only got five minutes, 20 minutes, 25 minutes, they are moving people out of the line of fire, so there s two things going on, both holding him in the hotel room and moving future victims or potential future victims out of the way. it sounds all right to me based on our experiences of other mass shootings at this stage. the undersheriff talked about how this killer built himself an armed bunker or gunner s nest in that room. james gagliano mentioned this as well. i want to bring in tom foreman who has been looking at this in a virtual studio. tom? we knew that he had this commanding view of the strip and the concert area over here from this 32nd floor of the mandalay bay. what is emerging is a picture of a man who built sort of a
found so far some 47 different weapons. we are talking about in the hotel, in his house in mesquite and reno. and the news conference said that in the hotel of the 23 weapons they have found, there were 12 bump stocks. the pieces that you attach on to the weapons that actually turn the trigger into an automatic firing. it does not alter the gun itself, but it means that the trigger gunfire automatically. the guns can shoot off between 40800 rounds per minute. imagine having a dozen of these in the room at the same time. they also showed us some body camera footage from police officers who were down on the ground in the concert area. i want you to look at this video because this is the officers telling people where to go, listen if you will for a few seconds on them being able to try to decipher where the gunshots are coming from. go that way.