that s what led to this panic that has resulted in the deaths of eight people, 17 others were taken to nearby hospital and treated for their injuries. i want you to hear what the houston police chief had to say about this ongoing investigation. take a listen. i have investigators out here on the scene. i m sending the investigators to the home i mean to the hospitals because we just don t know, and we will find out. is there anything criminal? we ve heard rumors of people injecting some people of drugs, so i want to check all that out. reporter: certainly a lot of questions that still need answers right now, alex. we do know that that concert was canceled briefly after that tragic event took place. it was supposed to go on today as well. that has been canceled, but you had an incredibly large number of people, again, 50,000 that were in a tight confined area, and despite having first responders there and medical tents set up on site, officials say they were quickly over
From this place as of yesterday and last night. let s get to nbc s morgan chesky in dallas following thes toer following the story for us. walk us through when and how this tragedy took place. reporter: alex, good morning, incredibly tragic event that took place in houston that police say is very much under investigation. they re trying to find out what took place here, but when you see that video that you briefly showed, absolutely heartbreaking. this took place at a highly anticipated concert by popular musician travis scott. officials say it was around 9:15 last night that at some point this crowd, of which there were about 50,000 people at this concert, but particularly this crowd at the front part of the stage started to surge its way forward for an unknown reason. that is currently under investigation, and it s at that point that they say some people in the crowd started to fall down, get trampled on, and