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Trying to gather their belongings. Everybody is still blocked from the strip. Nobody can go past that Police Checkpoint you see behind me so theyre just waiting including eyewitnesses, victims, people who were nearly shot or had family members or friends who were shot so still very much an active scene in terms of grief, in terms of picking up the pieces and obviously as brian has mentioned for the past few minutes in terms of the investigation which is going to take hours, there were so many people here that complicates the effort to try to figure out who was where, who knew what, where the shooter was shooting from and whether there was another shooter. Right now police think there was only a single shooter. Apparently from the videos weve heard and from multiple eyewitnesses, that shooter was firing an automatic into the crowd. Bullets popping everywhere, knocking people down, absolute chaos as people tried to get out of the concert area. There were at least 10,000 people there. Im
The rush to take down the shooter. A s. W. A. T. Team breaking down the shooters door. Breach, breach, breach. And now the urgent search for this woman who may be connected to one of the worst Mass Shootings in American History. Our team live on the scene right now for a special edition of gma. Good morning, america. Im sorry to say it is a horrifying one unfolding over the last several hour, the worst mass shooting in American History. A gunman opened fire around 10 08 00 p. M. Las vegas time on the route 91 Country Music festival there in las vegas. Jason aldean was performing more than 50 dead. More than 200 injured. The video coming in is unimaginable showing the minute the concert turned horrific. Gunshots ringing out interrupting the music. Take a listen. People thought it was fireworks. Multiple rounds of gunfire. A terrifying scene. Absolute chaos. It was at that route 91 Harvest Festival on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and fired indiscriminately. Automatic weapons
Everybody. I mean everybody was trying to contact somebody. Everybody was crying. People hurt. It just everybody was just trying. Think about george what we were doing. We were all there. A lot of people working hard, want to take a weekend just to relax and i stay an extra day and by the way, thats running through my mind. I was supposed to fly back to l. A. At 7 50 tonight. Im going to die tonight, am i going to die tonight because i made a decision not to fly back. Thats running through my mind and like im why did i do that. Everybody was emotional. This wasnt like a bunch of courageous people, this is nothing we dont have to worry about this. Everybody was crying. Even when i ran to the tropicana, people just crying. People dont get what Something Like this happens is its the unknown. You dont know where it comes thats another thing, george. Its not like you can look and see something and go the other way. That was another thing that was just you didnt know it was only one shooter.
He used an automatic weapon to shoot down on the crowd as they ran looking for cover and could not find it. Bursts of fire, 0 to 35 seconds of size, more bursts of fire. Changing magazines according to weapons experts. Ak47 would carry a magazine of 30 rounds and seems he shot off bursts of 30 rounds that lasted 17, 18 seconds and then a pause and then again and again and again and again. I want to go to matt gutman on the keen in las vegas all through the night and, matt, what weve heard apparently we dont have matt gutman right now. I apologize for that. Let me go to former special agent brad garrett and what weve heard described by an eyewitness through the last several hours are not just those initial moments of terror but several hours of chaos. George, when these things happen and your adrenaline takes over and the sheer vulnerability of who is out there. Who else will shoot at me. How do i get out of harms way. This was fenced in. With an open air outside obviously so all of tha