Leaving thousands of customers stranded abroad and future flights cancelled. The company has begun laying off staff at its luton headquarters. The chancellor says there needs to be unity and focus on brexit so that the uk can secure a deal that will be good for jobs and prosperity. Violence at the ballot box in spain the European Commission says catalonias independence referendum was not legal and calls on both sides to talk. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. At least 50 people have died and more than 400 have been wounded, after a gunman opened fire at Country Music festival in las vegas. Its the deadliest gun attack in recent us history. Police say the suspect is a 64 year old local man who has been named as Stephen Paddock. In the last few minutes President Trump describes it as an act of pure evil. Police say he was a 64 year old local man. Police stormed his hotel room where ten guns were found. He fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Hotel on the citys sunset strip. Th
Good morning, everyone. For those of you that dont know i am sheriff lombardo for clark county. But i dont have very much more to update you with from our previous briefings. One thing in particular thats changed in the negative is our body count. Thats the wrong way to say t the number of people that have died associated with this event has increased. Right now were using the number of 58. I just informed it may be 59 at an individual that just expired at sunrise hospital. In normal fashion i do not want to give you Bad Information but please do not press me on that number until we get into this investigation. The number of injured were using the number of 515. As you can tell as the hours go by that number continues to increase. We have not received any additional intelligence associated with the suspect. We have completed the search warrant in mesquite. I am not aware of any derogatory information we can utilize in furtherance of this investigation at this point, but we have just re
No strong lead yet now as to why he could have done this so we will be waiting for more information on that but let me ask you about a woman or a companion about was also named as a person of interest in this. Indeed there was a companion that was for many hours in the preliminary phases of this investigation companion of steven had ics who in fact was of interest to police but what we now know is that suspect that woman has been ruled out as a person of interest as a suspect apparently the gunman using her i. D. Perhaps to read the hotel room a room we know he was in from september twenty eighth and onward not clear if he allowed any of the sort of the housekeeping staff to come into that room that would have perhaps signaled something was imminent but we do know from police now that that woman that companion has been ruled out as a suspect but again this is going to take a long time to piece together las vegas is a very busy place there was a lot of hotel rooms to look through a big
Going forward. You know, chris, the president S Homeland Security Department did say earlier there was no specific credible threat involving other public venues in the united states. How do they make that determination for certain . What they had in front of them, i think they are referring to based on this incident. I think theres always a generalized threat out there in large public events. Those soft targets weve been talking about. And people need to be aware. I saw a lot of people at that concert standing around watching what was going on instead of seeking cover, and i think that probably created a situation where more people were hurt than needed to be i mean, these fully automatic weapons can kill a lot of people very quickly, but we just have a very low level of awareness. Chris, we thank you for your insight. John and kayla, thank you. Well touch base with you little later on this morning. If youre just joining us this morning, good morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Q
Previous briefings. One thing in particular thats changed in the negative is our body count. Thats a wrong way to say this. The number of people that have died associated with this event has increased. Right now were using the number of 58. I just informed it may be 59, that an individual that just expired at sunrise hospital. In normal fashion i do not want to give you Bad Information but please do not press me on that number until we get into this investigation. The number of injured were using the number of 515. As you can tell as the hours go by that number continues to ncrease. We have not received any additional intelligence associated with the suspect. We have completed the search warrant in mesquite. I am not aware of any derogatory information we can utilize in furtherance of this investigation at this point, but we have just recovered items and it will take a little while to evaluate that information. We have learned information of additional property in northern, nevada, and