Practically firing on top of themselves. ammunition is running low. and it s worse than anyone first thought. as the battle rages, the soldiers find two more americans both wounded. under fire, the soldiers load the injured men on to stretchers. and carry them off the roof. with so many men hurt, loftis moves in. he takes up a machine gun and lays down suppressive fire. [ gunfire ] after 30 minutes, the fighting stops. a medivac helicopter carries away the wounded. the americans have won the day. but why? for nearly a decade there have been fights like this one repeated in iraq s fallujah and sadr city. and countless other iraqi and
20 taliban fighters are so close, the troops have to launch small mortars, nearly straight up. practically firing on top of themselves, ammunition is running low. and it s worse than anyone first thought. as the battle rages, the soldiers find two more americans receively wounded. they load the men on stretchers and carry them off the roof. with so many men hurt, loftis moves in, he takes up a machine gun and lays down suppressive fire. after 30 minutes, the fighting stops. a medevac helicopter ferries away the wounded. the americans have won the day. but why? for nearly a decade, there have
Trying to figure out where the fire was coming from, dealing with thousands of people fleeing to safety. again, all as bullets rained down. also for the first time, we are seeing just how many weapons, what kind of arsenal this gunman brought with him to carry out this massacre from the 32nd floor hotel room at the mandalay bay resort. officials have now recovered 47 firearms from three different locations. very important to mention. a dozen of those guns in that hotel room were rigged with a legal device that allows them to fire like automatic weapons. police say the killer also set up cameras in his room and in the hall way to monitor incoming threats. he was trying to buy himself as much time as possible to do as much killing as he could. the motive, still a mystery. the killer s girlfriend is now back in the united states being interviewed by the fbi. she is a person of interest.