crowd rushed the stage and caused panic and chaos. earlier in the afternoon, hundreds of people stampeded through a vip entrance. they knocked over metal detectors and ignored security staff there, as you can see for yourself. this is the third year for the festival, which is organized by rapper and producer travis scott. officials say that today s lineup is canceled and there is an investigation going on right now. they re working to identify all the victims, but what has been made clear, the folks that were transported, some as young as 10, and so really tonight is about that, is about connecting families with the information that they need. 10 years old. cnn s evan mcmorris is following the story. he joins us live. evan, it s good to see you this morning. help us understand what s going on. this is an ongoing story, so i m going to refer to my notes as i talk to you about it. we have a lot to learn about what happened, but we do know this is a tragedy that appears
surged toward the stage during a promise by travis scott. audience members had nowhere to go. the video shows the moment the performer pauses and looks out in confusion as an ambulance moves into the densely packed crowd of about 50,000 people. last hour, i spoke to a woman who was in that crowd. she s also an icu nurse. she actually passed out an was apparently crowd surfed to safety. listen to what she told me. right before i passed out, i tried to turn my head to tell my boyfriend, i couldn t turn my head, but i really was going to have him tell my son that i loved him because i didn t know if i was going to make it out of there. not trying to be dramatic. i thought i was going to die. never seen anything like it. never thought i was going to die. it was absurd. there was so little resources. i mean, the medics that were trying to help didn t look like a lot of them had been properly trained. not to take away from what they were doing. they were trying their best. they w
venue. we, the planning included two separate stages to try to subdivide those crowds. but again, it s the, it was a crowd control at the point of the stage that was the issue. that caused the issue. especially as the crowd started to surge up towards the stage. that s what we re going to be keying on in regards to the investigation. yes, ma am. hold on. yes, ma am. this is in regards to ems and also the kind of ems to administer right then and there onsite. were additional ambulances needed to come in then i just want to we also saw struggling to get to the crowd. was it hard trying to help get to the let me answer your first question first. all our units are completely equipped with all the life safety and life saving equipment. they have defibrillators. even the first response vehicles. so from our perspective, from the houston fire department s perspective, we had the right equipment. the, i can t speak about the equipment that the third party medical componen
to a huge infrastructure win. i know we re divided and i know there are extremes on both ends. but has the damage been done. deep divide inside of the democratic party. i m in the cross-hairs of woke mop right now. aaron rodgers taking serious heat after saying he was immunized when he wasn t. i think i would like to set the record straight. why he said he wasn t lying in the first place. all three of these defendants did everything they did based on assumptions. this case is about duty and responsibility. two very different stories taking center stage in the trial for the three men accused of murdering ahmaud arbery. i m pamela brown in washington. you re in the cnn newsroom. and we re following breaking news out of new orleans this hour. a federal appeals court, the fifth u.s. circuit court of appeals has put a temporary halt to the vaccine mandate for larger companies. 27 states have already filed lawsuits to challenge the mandate. cnn s arlette saenz
crowd situation at the afterworld festival. there was reports for stamping earlier in the afternoon but that s were not related to that incident. travis scott s festival, authorities held a press conference and said scott is cooperating with authorities. total casualties standard eight, there were 300 patients seen on site and nearly a dozen in cardiac arrest. stay with fox news channel for more on this developing story. in those days all of this would be done, not only 24/7, characterizations going house before anybody knew what was going on. it was an additional challenge but i see every challenge as an opportunity. pelosi s leadership, her party struggled to find consensus on just about anything. after weeks of heralding a transformative build a better legislation, promising a vote today, how many times a day promised votes, can t even count, they promised to get it done. when the trump era turned the master speaker into a slave to party radicals she lost touch with wo