boulev and four seasons drive. police have been telling us to move back and that s why you have seen our video be shaky becaus we are continuousl being pushed back. we just saw about 20 officers across the street from us on mandal bay with their weapons in hand moving towards the scene out here and of course you can see all these other metro office coming up on the scene here. the cars just keep coming. they keep asking us to move back and to move back. they are not sure how safe things are at this point. you can still see the officers moving up the side of the street up here. they are passing in front of the mandal bay sign at this time. actual we have another police office right here in front of n to move. i will get out of the way here. you can see that they are very concer about people s safety out here. just locking down the scene at
las ve metro know they have practi and practiced and known they were a target like new yo and like los angeles big. it s big gathering place and a target for terror. we have no idea what the motive is, but it s always been on the radar that las vegas hosts every day and are always in the mix. in this concert thaw pointed out, the concert venue is down on the street across from some of these high-rise hotels. it s easy to get into a hotel with shooters and rifles and ammuni they could break out or cut a window get to the roof of the hotel possibly or break a lock.
you are, but on the street it s very, noisy with the ambula and the fire trucks going around. if you would, tell us what s going on within the hotel. they said there is lockdown. have you heard any people coming throug or have they gone throug the hotel? we ourselves have not heard anythi at this point. it s not like anyone came over a loud system or anything like that. we have been trying to call the front desk to see the inform are providing. no one is answering. i m sure they are inundated with phone propro their own people becaus they don t know what is happen we are in the hear this mandal bay facility and there facili inside mandalay bay, but it s down below here where there has been a lot of chaotic situat below the hotel and
this c that was taking place is in this area across the street dark now, but not that lg ago it was bustling with activi and a lot of people have b here for this festival taking place throughout this entire weekend. a country music festival and squad car after squad car drivin and down the street and we are seeing them in lines and groups together driving up and down. the vegas strip right now, no other passengers or anyone is allowe on it. they are trying to get people off the strip and move them to areas where there is less concer a matter of safety. it is a police and emergency respon who joined us. i m gng to cut in right now. joe, i don t kno if you can hear me, but we have steve patter live on the streets in las ve please you ca tell us wha the scene is in las vegas. rep joe described, quite a chaotic scene on las
that s what it sounded like, but hearin from what people are saying they were shooting into the crowd which was across the street and that makes more sense. it s s rep were you at all concer about your safety? obviou we were moving in that direct absolutely because it sounded like open shooting for a few minute and that s why we hid behind a building. we saw people coming out of the mandal bay and police officers runnin across the street into mandal bay. we just hid behind a building and kept peeking out and trying to watch safely from behind the buildi here. you can see too the metro helico has been going around mandal bay for a short time and then it left for about i would say 10 or 15 minutes and now that helicopter is back out here going around this block. the larger part of the block. police just keep moving people