he was just feet away from the stage where jason aldean was performing. he describes this terrifying ordeal in vegas last night. >> i can tell you right now, for the first time about 40 minutes ago, is the first time i felt safe from when that shooting started. i will tell you my heart is still racing and still palpy tating. i was sitting in the -- if jason aldean is looking out into the crowd, just to his left was an area called the neon lounge, a vip area. that's where i was sitting, not far from the stage. and initially, i heard some popping sounds, and i thought it was maybe fireworks because jason was the last act. and i looked up in the air. i didn't see any fireworks, i see him very concerned. in fact it was very eerie is that jason aldean kind of hesitated z during his song and kindf got quiet for a couple seconds likef somebody was wrong. and then the shooting started. and then i saw-the thing that z was chris cal in my mind was when i saw is a jason aldean drop his guitar. i just dropped. and i immediately got up. i was in the first row. so i am

that's when jason aldean began to run. people are in various states of clarity because of the fact of what they have seen and also it was the end of a concert festival. what did you see. >> nothing, we cleared it all. reporter: what was it like when you were in there. >> a couple people shot for sure. >> there is blood in the street. >> he just said he carried 50 people out. you can see blood on the street. that's a cooler, you would formally see that inside somebody's business or home. there is blood on that. the airport is to my right. there is the strip. you can see hotel row. there is the mandalay bay. that's where they believe the gunfire came from. police are telling us right now that at least one suspect is down. they won't say if there are any more. this is reno street, and this is giles street. we are about a half block off the strip and a full block north of mandalay. this is law enforcement block off right here. >> i heard rounds flying behind me. reporter: you were on stage, jason aldean was performing. >> it s

jason is one of country music's top selling singers. >> jason aldean. >> jason aldean. >> he was named entertainer of the year two years in a row at the academy of country music awards. in 2014, jason announced his engagement to the former american idol contestant. >> we celebrate your engagement. congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> brittany is expected their first child, a baby boy, due in november. brittany sent out this heart felt message. no words for what happened. taylor swift echoed the sentiment. there are no words to express the helplessness and sorrow my broken heart feels. she's one of many stars posting pray for las vegas tributes. dwayne the rock johnson posted this. >> i woke to unbelievable news in the amount of lives lost in las vegas and the number continues to grow. to the victims and their families, our prayers, love, light, support, strength go out to you. >> ariana grande tweeted my heart is breaking for las vegas. call this what it is, terrorism. >> we will have more on the deadliest shooting in u.s. history when we come back. >>> next, what should you do

jason aldean was the headliner. it was an outdoor music festival called the route 91 harvest people talk about -- you can even see it in this video here when you just listen to that rapid gunfire that at first maybe they thought it was fireworks because it was so rapid but then of course quickly realized that that was not the case. since then officials have said that they believe the shooter used a fully automatic weapon as opposed to like you've heard of semi automatic weapons, this was a fully automatic weapon that can shoot 600 rounds in a minute's time. each magazine that goes in that weapon can shoot 30 rounds and from the eyewitness' accounts we hear that he shot one round, then reloaded, paused, reloaded again and then shot some more. so, this was an experience that lasted for quite some time before it was all said and done. police are saying they do believe, though, that he was a lone wolf. >> jason aldean was on stage as you mentioned at the time and you could hear in some of the videos that we've been show

were singer jason aldean was performing. but listen. ♪ maria: las vegas police say the shooter who was on the 302nd floor of the hotel is dead and has been identified as a local resident. authorities do not believe there were any more attackers, but they are

jason aldean ran off the stage. round after round fired from 32 stories up across the street into this pen of 30,000 concert goers with nowhere to hide. >> if you haven't heard the story, let's run down what we know. more than 50 people dead. more than 200 injured including police officers. several in fact in critical condition. police say the shooter was shot and killed on the 32nd floor of the madalay bay hotel. the gunman opening fire at the jason aldean concert. he was the final act in this concert. tlfrp as many as 30 -- there were as many as 30,000 people in attend nsz. at least one off -- attendance. at least one off duty police officer from california was shot and killed. this will have effects across the country. a lot of people traveled there to see this. there may be people in the bay area who know people at that concert. we'll have a phone number in a minute that you can call to get in fact. >> the shooter is dead. he's 64-year-old stephen paddock living in a retirement community in the las vegas area in

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it unfolded as jason aldean was performing. police say the barrage of bullets were fired from the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay. >> the gunshots lasted 10, 15 minutes. like it didn't stop. >> reporter: knocking frantic concertgoers to their knees. people running for their lives. >> people were climbing the fences, pushing their way flew the barricades. they were coming down. people screaming, crying, everything trying to come out. >> a man came running toeupt with blood all over his shirt saying his friends were dead, his friends were dead, please come and help. >> i have three critical patients in my vehicle. is there anybody to assist us? >> reporter: swarms of people scattering for their lives. >> we can't go yet. >> reporter: and we have been standing out here about three hours now. we have seen ambulances going in and taking victims out. for the very first time just minutes ago, we are now seeing ambulances actually leave the scene. they don't have their lights on. they don't appear to have victims in them. but they are l

. ♪ [ sound of gunfire ] jason aldean there on the stage. just seconds later he dropped his guitar, ran off the stage but the shooting went on for four and a half minutes. this shows the scene from the concertgoers' perspective. >> i can only imagine the confusion at that moment not knowing if it was a part of the concert or not and this is what we do know at this hour. more than 50 people -- more than 50 -- killed. more than 200 injured. the shooter has been identified as 64-year-old stephen paddock. he is now dead. police believe he was the only attacker. they've also located the woman believed to be the person of interest, this woman here, his companion. >> our national correspondent has been on scene all night at the mandalay bay. matt? >> reporter: george, when you think about the shooting you think it was meticulously planned. this man took his weapons to this hotel. he planned to be on the side facing the concert towards the airport. he knew he would be in an elevated position. he repositioned his weapons there and fired down on the c

so dana white says he has a mesage for jason aldean. >> [bleep], you jason aldean, sty out of vegas. >> janet jackson, there are he rumors that justin timberlake is definitely going to be doing the super bowl. >> would you consider doing it again? >> they'd have to announce it before it happened again. >> they'd do a reveal. you'd have o guess. the picture they use is just from here to here.

breaks news, a mass shooting at a jason aldean concert at the las vegas village there. outdoor venue, more than 30,000 concert goers there. according to the local sheriff, joe lombardo, more than 20 kill, more than 100 injured. they are still getting a grasp on those totals. police officers among the injured. according to lombardo, one police officer has been killed. information still just coming in about all of this. >> we can tell you the suspect in this las vegas shooting is dead. le police say he has been killed. he was in a room on the 32nd floor with what clearly sounded like an automatic weapon. we can hear jason aldean and hear him singing. listen for yourself. [ gunshots ] >> oh, my god. get down. get down. stay down. [ gunshots ] >> stay down. [ gunshots ] >> down down down. down down down. [ gunshots ] [ screaming ] >> behind the stands. behind the stas. >> all right. let's get to our jean casarez live in las vegas. what do you have? >> reporter: i think people right now are getting the stark realization of what has happened here. i want to let you know we're

then we heard some pops when jason aldean came to perform. we thought it was an electronic thing or feedback. everybody was kinds of it's okay, everybody is all right. then people started dropping by the stage area and up front by us. reporter: i talked to a lot of peeks who came out were heroes, blood all over their body and without hair clothes because they use them to stop the bleeding. >> i have seen a lot of stuff in my day in the fire department. it was hard to see, even the bodies that were carries a half mile from the incidents. i would probably pronounce 15 to 20 people inside it's a sad day that on an event like this it never should have happened. reporter: you believe 15 to 20. >> i pronounced 15 to 20 people inside. i got my life and four other friends out. they are harboring in one of the hotels right now. i went back in with with s.w.a.t. i never went back in, i never left. i just left when they got jason aldean out. restayed and recon on the whole situation. everybody that was d.o.a. at the time. i rechecked everybody. i was wi

jason aldean was performing. it's basically the middle of the screen you see there, where the concert was taking place. so we're on the 38th floor, it gives you a little bit of a perspective how from this high up what vantage point the shooter may have had in this vicinity. again, we have been told to lock down. we saw a clearly strong police presence. they worked very hard to try to actually keep anyone from entering the las vegas strip to getting on the las vegas boulevard here. we've only seen police and ambulances here over the last few hours. we see fewer of those vehicles and obviously this area was flooded with emergency response initially when the shooting happened. ambulances, police cars, whoever could were taking the injured and trying to get them to the hospital nearby. i'm going to pan to the right here a little bit if you're still looking at our shot. that is mccaron airport, the main airport in and out of las vegas. it's located near mandalay bay. flights going in and out of the airport stopped lat

even jason aldean had no idea what happened. luckily i managed to find them about five minutes after everything started. they were hiding behind the bar. everybody was running to the main exit. just turn around and come back towards us. slowly made our way across the big field. you can see bodies and people screaming and yelling for help. wheelchairs getting knocked over. you couldn't stop to help anybody. the bullets were -- we're talking hundreds of rounds over and over and over again. rapid succession. would not stop. >> shepard: where did you eventually feel safe? >> my house. i live ten minutes from the strip. it took us about 15 minutes from the time it started to slowly make our way. all while under fire. it was a battle zone. nothing that you can process in your brain. we didn't stop until we got to my car; which is two blocks away. even then, we hopped in and felt it was safe and took off and just did not stop until we got out to the desert. >> shepard: do you remember saying anything to each other in that drive? >> we

so dana white says he has a mesage for jason aldean. >> [bleep], you jason aldean, sty out of vegas. >> janet jackson, there are he rumors that justin timberlake is definitely going to be doing the super bowl. >> would you consider doing it again? >> they'd have to announce it before it happened again. >> they'd do a reveal. you'd have o guess. the picture they use is just from here to here. >> so like an elderly, is that fair to say? >> elderly?

so dana white says he has a mesage for jason aldean. >> [bleep], you jason aldean, sty out of vegas. >> janet jackson, there are he rumors that justin timberlake is definitely going to be doing the super bowl. >> would you consider doing it again? >> they'd have to announce it before it happened again. >> they'd do a reveal. you'd have o guess. the picture they use is just from here to here.

jason aldean was on stage, he ran off, everybody hit the deck. my girlfriend went down, i went over top of her. i shielded her. and behind me i heard something, it could have been a ricochet. i couldn't tell you. the burst ended. again, we got up. there was like a stampede of people trying to run out the back, underneath the bleachers. we did that. basically followed the crowd out, through the back way, i guess, behind the vendors and stuff like that. got back on the strip. we kept hearing bursts, just basically kept running. didn't really hide anywhere. we decided to run and get as far away as we could. we ended up back at our hotel now. i'd rather not say which hotel it is. >> that's understandblinable. >> we're back up in our room. i have my brother back home on the police scanner. >> we're talking to quinn there who was visiting las vegas with his girlfriend from british columbia. in the meantime, we looking at images from our afifiliate, ktn, the first images we've seen since two hours ago, and you can see the strip was virtually shut down.

jason aldean was performing. it's basically the middle of the screen you see there, where the concert was taking place. so we're on the 38th floor, it gives you a little bit of a perspective how from this high up what vantage point the shooter may have had in this vicinity. again, we have been told to lock down. we saw a clearly strong police presence. they worked very hard to try to actually keep anyone from entering the las vegas strip to getting on the las vegas boulevard here. we've only seen police and ambulances here over the last few hours. we see and obviously this area was flooded with emergency response initially when the shooting happened. ambulances, police cars, whoever could were taking the injured and trying to get them to the hospital nearby. i'm going to pan to the right here a little bit if you're still looking at our shot. that is mccaron airport, the main airport in and out of las vegas. it's located near mandalay bay. flights going in and out of the airport stopped late this evening as an ext

it unfolded as jason aldean was performing. police say the barrage of bullets were fired from the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay. >> the gunshots lasted 10, 15 minutes. like it didn't stop. >> reporter: knocking frantic concertgoers to their knees. people running for their lives. >> people were climbing the through the barricades. they were coming down. people screaming, crying, everything trying to come out. >> a man came running up to us with blood all over his shirt saying his friends were dead, his friends were dead, please come and help. >> i have three critical patients in my vehicle. is there anybody to assist us? >> reporter: swarms of people scattering for their lives. >> we can't go yet. >> reporter: this city has virtually been paralyzed since 10:08 last night. the freeway, interstate 15, which is a direct route from california to utah is open for traffic. mccarron international, the run way is to my left. flights were curtailed. they were not allowed to land. i have seen one land since we have been here. the lasting

jason aldean country singer just tan the same. and then they began the 32 floor of mandalay bay hotel a gunman broken a window and was using high-powered semi-automatic weapon to fire down into the crowd. he reloaded and witnesses say he reloaded multiple times. they heard burst of 0 shots and pause while he reloaded and fired down into the crowd again. the scene became clearly one of chaos. people breaking down fences to get out of this area and toe get clear the lobe shootser on 32 floor. they say they. >> they took out the shooter from the hotel. finally on what went on for perhaps five minutes witnesses say, we now know that more than 100 people were wounded and more than 20 people were killed. the witnesses who came out of that concert told drawm attic stories of lying on they tried to get up and get out of the line of fire and they would hit the dirt and wait for next pause in gunfire to move again. people are now skaert add cross mitch of las vegas who were there together. red cross, police here are trying to make it possib

jason aldean was performing. this was the finale of a three-day outdoor country music festival when the found of automatic gunfire erupted. [ sound of gunfire ] >> you can hear it on that tape. a lot of people at the concert have already told us they sort it was some sort of pyrotechnics or fireworks. it turned out to be gunfire coming from a high floor. during a news conference the sheriff of clark county announced that more than 20 people are dead, more than 100 others wounded. officials say the gunman was on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay resort firing down with what has been described as an automatic weapon, a submachine gun, at the crowd below. police eventually got up to the 32nd floor of that hotel. they breached the door of that room, and the gunman is now dead. >> police do know who this person is. they have not identified him publicly. they've just said it's a local resident of nevada, las vegas. there's a search under way for a woman who was traveling with him. authorities called her his companion.

jason aldean was on stage at the time. at least 50 people, more than 50 killed, more than 200 injured. the suspect is now dead. we're going to bring in our contributors, chief david brown, dan abrams is here in the studio with us, as well as ray kelly. thank you, gentlemen, all. the broad investigation as it stands right now, dan. >> this is a crime scene right now and the most important thing for them to do immediately is to make sure there's no one else involved to make sure that there's no other threat to the community, they want to know everything about how this happened. meaning how did he get the weapons? who did he know? who was he associated with? they're going to dig into this guy's history to figure out first of all who was he with immediate time before it and then they're going to move back from there to say, who else did he know beyond that, et cetera, but, remember, this is right now a very active crime scene investigation. >> ray kelly, former chief of new york city police, one of the things we saw, everybody

you see jason aldean start running offer the stage and then from the front of the stage where we were at where the shooter was and then you see people running, you saw a body on the floor and people just started running. it was hectic. >> what was going through your head at that point when you saw that body on the floor going from listening to jason aldean to seeing a body on the floor in your hometown of las vegas, a place that you feel safe walking every single day? >> caller: well, i mean, it's a complete just mind freak on you. you've got an amazing country concert and you were having a great time and then it's like somebody can do this. it's just mind blowing. it just gets -- you know, drinking and some people thinking, you know, saying one thing, and others another, everyone was just hiding and diving our bleachers and we were pretty much just kind of running and ducking and you hear gunshots everyone would get down and we'd hide under the concession stands and they ork strait -- aorchestrated everyone to mm and people started running at the bar. so -- >> if i can, waynted to as

jason aldean was perming. basically -- was performing. basically the middle of the screen, you see where the concert wastation place. we're on the 3 -- was taking place. we're on the 38th floor. it gives you a vantage point, the view the shooter had from this vicinity. we've been told to lock down. since we've been here we've seen a strong police presence. they worked hard to try and keep everyone from entering the las vegas strip. getting on to las vegas boulevard here. we've only see plooe police and ambulances over the last few hours. we've seen fewer of those vehicles now, but obviously this area was flooded with emergency response when the incident happened. ambulances, police cars, taking the injured to the hospital nearby. i'm going to pan right a little. in the shot, that is mccarron airport, the main airport in and out of las vegas. if you know it's located near mandalay bay. flights this evening stopped as a precaution. we've been told to lock down and stay put and shelter in place until we received the full all-clear from here.

jason aldean was finishing his. there are reports that university medical center is at capacity and oofg again err zero police. the associated press reports that authorities have shut down part of the vegas strip and interstate 15. we have two reporters on the scene including steve at street level. tell us what they are seeing and juxtapose that with what the president is saying. >> well, the tenor of where we are deeps to koala lum pier. obviously helicopters high above me. you can see back to the scene. they've completely blocked it. we're about as central as you can get on the las vegas strip. i can see the mgm on my right shoulder. beyond that is where the country musz sick festival was held. it was just a bunch of fireworks going on. as they continued, they realized this was gunfire. groups and masses of people ran to cover and tried to get as far away from it as possible. >> it's right there. from victims which you know, sounded like people heard multiple shootings in obviously when you have a scene like this

we looked around and we saw them yank the jason aldean performers offstage. >> i saw jason aldean drop his guitar and i'm like -- i'm out of or, ok? >> it's one of those things that is surreal, you don't realize what's goin moment. i'm just thankful for all of our friends getting out and hopeful for anyone the got hurt that they had a quick recovery. >> people didn't understand when it started that the shooting was happening. they were like in a frozen moment and i was like -- man, i hope that these people don't get hit. >> all units, move back. we continuerianna: to follow the latest out of las vegas, nevada. people are dead, over 500 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. ralph northam: i'm ralph northam, candidate for governor, and i sponsored is ad. they're studying for 21st century jobs. but ed gillespie supports donald trump's plan to take money out of virginia public schools and give it to private schools. as a washington dc lobbyist, ed gillespie worked for lenders trying to keep student loan rates high. school funding, too. ed doesn't stand for education. . ad

jason aldean was performing. this was the finale of a three-day outdoor country music festival when the found of automatic gunfire erupted. [ sound of gunfire ] >> you can hear it on that tape. a lot of people at the concert have already told us they sort it was some sort of or fireworks. it turned out to be gunfire coming from a high floor. during a news conference the sheriff of clark county announced that more than 20 people are dead, more than 100 others wounded. officials say the gunman was on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay resort firing down with what has been described as an automatic weapon, a submachine gun, at the crowd below. police eventually got up to the 32nd floor of that hotel. they breached the door of that room, and the gunman is now dead. >> police do know who this person is. they have not identified him publicly. they've just said it's a local resident of nevada, las vegas. there's a search under way for a woman who was traveling with him. authorities called her his companion. her name mar

jason aldean was performing. this was the finale of a three-day outdoor country music festival when the found of automatic gunfire erupted. [ sound of gunfire ] >> you can hear it on that tape. a lot of people at the concert have already told us they sort it was some sort of pyrotechnics or fireworks. it turned out to be gunfire coming from a high floor. during a news conference the sheriff of clark county announced that more than 20 people are dead, more than 100 others wounded. officials say the gunman was on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay resort firing down with what has been described as an automatic weapon, a submachine gun, at the crowd below. police eventually got up to the 32nd floor of that hotel. they breached the door of that room, and the gunman is now dead. >> police do know who this person is. they have not identified him publicly. they've just said it's a local resident of nevada, las vegas. there's a search under way for a woman who was traveling with him. authorities called her his companion.

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jason aldean wrapping up that ringing out. you can hear rapid, rapid gunfire, multiple shots aimed at this crowd of people who were really trapped in this venue scrambling to try to get out but again 20 plus people dead included in that are some police officers who were killed in this mass shooting incident. much more to come from vegas. we have reporters on the scene and we'll bring you the latest updates as we get them. 6:23 is the time. >> let's get a quick check on business right now. we'll check the markets in our business beat this morning. joining us from fox business network studios lauren simonetti. good morning lauren. >> reporter: what a morning. >> not the way you want to wake up. >> reporter: this is the first day of the week, first day of october, first day of the fourth quarter, the final quarter of the year and on investors plates, wow where do we begin? if we look at the geo politics we have a terror incident in canada, in france and quite frankly i'm going to call it terrorism right here in the u.s. as well w

local time, headliner on stage was jason aldean. he was performing in front of a crowd of about 22,000 people at the route 91 harvest festival when the shooter, 64-year-old stephen paddock of mesquite, nevada, smashed through a window right there and started firing from the 32nd floor of the mandalay hotel killing himself before officers stormed his hotel room. it was there in his hotel room where police found evidence of premeditated mass murder. a stockpile of weapons, at least ten rifles, to start to explain this barrage of unrelenting gun fire. [ shots fired ] [ bleep ]. >> get down! >> i remember just getting around this cop car and just hearing bullets whizzing and just bouncing, like -- oh, like on the ground nearby and these girls were, like, just screaming and crying and they were just, like, covered in blood. >> i put the baby on the ground and got on top of her, and when we heard a little break we ran to the bleachers that were just behind us. >> i didn't know he had that vantage point and seeing these corpses around me a

jason aldean on stage. he was singing, as his concert going on, rounds of fire completely overtake the concert. 20 people were killed. including off-duty police officers that were at the concert. 100 injured, some critically. a single shooter from mandalay bay hotel using assault rifle. he's now dead. >> we are pretty confident that there is no longer a threat other than we are attempt to go locate the person of interest. right now we believe it's a seoul -- sole actor and we have the place under control. maria: authorities are not revealing the shooter's identity yet. the manhunt underway for the shooter's roommate and companion. they have identified her as marilou danley, they are urging anyone who sees her to call call 9-1-1, including in france where two women were killed in train station. markets have not react today this this morning. take a look at markets right now where we are expecting a higher opening from the broader averages as we learn more of vegas shooting. dow industrials expected to be up

jason aldean playing. all of a sudden the shots of gunfire and you hear it as we show you this video. you can hear that patter of the gunfire and this went on for several minutes. everyone who has heard it fluent in these matters says this is an automatic weapon, an illegal weapon. it has inflicted mass damage, more than 50 people killed. this makes it the deadliest shooting in u.s. history. more than 200 injured. the sense you got from the sheriff that is not a final number. they are still trying to assess how many people have lost their lives today. >> and they're desperately trying to save lives at the local university medical center, a level one trauma center. savannah and i talked to an eyewitness earlier, probably a couple hours ago now, who described in a way what was going on as the shooting was occurring that i think bears repeating because it's something we've all heard of and can identify with. he said as the shots rang out it almost became that game of red light/green light where when the shots

jal al is on the stage. -- jason aldean is on the stage, cheb it out. you can see it here in the video. -- check it out. you can see it here in the video, he is running from the stage, he teethed out that he and his crew were not injured, they kept playing, people thought it was fire works going off. when people realized what was happening, they ran for cover but people had no place to run, the death toll is at least at 50, this surpasses the pulse nightclub shooting in orlando as the deadliest mass shooting in united states history. >> we have never before seen anything like in with an attack from the outside from the upper level of a hotel. we talked to the police. he worked at homeland security, he said that he is certain, moving forward, there will be changes to event security both in las las vegas and around the country. >> having worked in security, the softest target ever is this, i am certain that there will be some changes, i do not expect that everyone's luggage will be searched. i do not expect that because that is carry to what hospitality i

that came from jason aldean. behind me, folks, a quarter mile down the street, that's where three body ts were found. they were taken on tables. people were being brought in all directions away from the scene, away from the gunfire to get them to safety, three bodies, that's why you see the balance down there as well as law enforcement were found on top of tables that had been carried at some point the realization that they did not make it. to give you distance, this is how far their fellow concert goers took them, all this direction, all this distance, over there was the concert. that's how far they brought them. we met people all throughout the eaching in the last four hours who had no shirts on because they used their shirts to stuff wounds, to cover bodies, to help people, blood all over them, that was confirmed by the firefighter, la fire department who was here with his wife celebrating a birthday that that was used as a gurney. that was used to transport a body because it has wheels. they were using whatev

local time there. >> jason aldean was on the stage. we have video of those moments when the first shots rang out. ♪ [ gunfire ]rapid gunfire ] >> it went on for 4 1/2 minutes. more than 200 rounds fired, bursts of fire. this is what the scene looked like from the concert goers perspective. >> all this unfolding. it was the last day of the three-day country music festival. the shooter taking aim from the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay. >> here what we know. more than 50 people killed, more than 200 injured. the shooter is identified. he's 64-year-old stephen paddock. they also located a woman who was his roommate, his companion. we're live across the country. we want to start with matt gutman on the scene. good morning matt. >> george, good morning. when you hear the stripgs of the guitar playing and you see that video and hear the gunfire you understand why some of the concert goers called it the kill box. it was shooting fish in a barrel for that shooter. mass chaos erupting bursting on to the nearby runway. terror and carnage erupt

fans had convened at the harvest festival, headliner jason aldean was singing in front of 22,000 people when the shooter on the 32nd floor began firing at the mandalay hotel. >> we had people say they thought it was part of a show, maybe the audio program. it came as a complete surprise when bodies around them started dropping to the ground. thousands of people ran for cover. one witness described hearing gunshots lasting 10 to 15 minutes. joe fryer of nbc news shot this video inside the hotel. police were going door to door. they say they breached the room where the shooter was low cat and found him dead along with the stockpile of weapons including ten rifles. fbi says there is no known connection as of now to any overseas terrorist groups. a short time ago, president trump led this moment of silence. >> a moment of silence at the white house for the victims of this latest sense less massacre. let's go to the shooting seen in las vegas. dan is there for us live. so much evidence that the law enforcement to comb through. >> reporter: yeah, jake, a lot to look at. looking about a hotel

she took this photo with jason aldean's pregnant wife brittany last night. they escaped unharmd. she witnessed many who did not. >> we saw a girl gt shot standing two feet away from us. she was completely covered in blood. and like her face was like, like bleeding. it was the most horrific scene i have ever seen. >> moments like this, the best word to describe it is shock. >> reporter: country duo big & rich played the festival just hours before. >> our hearts weep with all those who are lost. and music lovers out there fighting for their lives in hospitals right now. we're just praying with everything that we got. god be with all. >> reporter: today, the strip is in mourning. at least two major shows have been cancelled. and others this week with watching and waiting. expected to go on tomorrow night. she posted this message, quote, praying for all the innocent victims and their families in las vegas. >> i still live with the fear and tragedy. >> reporter: after the may attack, c rks line said she was concerned about safety. >> we're taking as many precautions as possible. >> re

jason aldean was performing. we were in the artist's tent area off the stage. no one knew what it was. it was the last day of a three-day festival, last act. we took it was fireworks, took a while for anybody to do anything. we heard a rumor it was possibly power lines. everybody moved out of the tent. and by the time we realized it was gunshots, we were -- we were pretty much -- everybody was hiding under the tour buses, the artist tour buses backstage. we were there for a while. you heard the rounds going and a pause and it would start again. and then i don't know if it was law enforcement or civilians, but somebody started to try to move everyone out. everybody in the back, we had to run across the actual stage and joined the mass exodus. it was chaos. you know, people were on the ground. you see some were injured. people were running fast and as far away as they could as quickly as they could. >> can you estimate how long from when you first heard the noise -- and i know you didn't know they were gunshots the

you saw jason aldean start running off the stage. and from the front where we were at where the studio was, you saw people running, you saw a body on the floor. people started running. it was hectic. >> what was going through your point when you saw that body on the floor, going from listening to jason aldean to seeing a body on the floor in your hometown of las vegas, a place you likely feel safe walking every single day? >> caller: it's a mind freak because you think you're safe. an amazing concert, great time. that somebody could do this, it's mind-blowing. there's obviously people there drinking, running around. some people thinking, you know, saying one thing, everyone was hiding and diving under bleachers. we were pretty much running and ducking. you heard gunshots, everyone told to get down. we hid in the concession stands. and then they orchestrated everybody to mgm, and then after mgm, it was on lockdown, and everybody saying, you know, everything. we were at mgm, and people started running at the bar. it was crazy. >> if i

we see when we saw jason aldean on stage. he was on stage continuing his concert, while the shots are ringing out. i'm listening to the soundtrack here. it sounds like the soundtrack of "saving private ryan." >> you have to remember his perspective. he's on a stage that was almost just ahead of where the gunfire was coming from. it was coming from behind and over the shoulder of the stage. >> my point is that with everything that's going on, all that music, people don't know what's happening. it is a surreal moment when you can't imagine what's happening. and when you do realize what's happening, your first thought is, it can't be. >> so terrifying. the people didn't know which direction it was coming. didn't know where to run. even if they did, there wasn't much in the way of shelter. shawn, stay with us. we continue to cover the deadliest shooting in u.s. history. we're back in a moment, after a check of your local news. on thi in a moment - we will return to national coverage of the >>> welcome to "today in the bay" on thi

jason aldean was on stage when shots rang out. shots of an automatic weapon rang through this crowd, from 32 floors up at the mandalay bay resort. he fired. he emptied magazines and relo

and jason aldean did not stop playing. it was only until he reloaded or a second burst, and that is when it sunk in, that this is not part of the show. >> harris: james, i mentioned you are a middle school teacher and you have an eye for spotting young people and a crowd. there were some young people in that crowd last night. was there any kind of direction as first responders were coming onto the scene that helped in the way of communicating to some, because it is hard to hear with to begin with? what impression did you get with the first responders can ask because it was everyone involve involved. it seemed like more military in a crowd and a direct -- those cast, but there's a lot more people looking to help anyone who needed wind up jumping behind in bunker down until it cleared off and made a run. >> harris: with all of the noise, the music finally stopped playing, after the second round of gunshots that you heard. a lot of times you see this, like in manchester, england, with the speed 21 concert. you see a lull in t

been there all day waiting for jason aldean and it was real surreal. all of a sudden you contrary popping going on. i don't think anybody understood what was tet and my buddy was like, i got hit, he got shot three times and then everybody knew there was a shotter so everybody pretty much dove on top of each other, got down, it was a lot of chaos. people trampling each other and trying to get like forever but we were just trying to take care of the people wounded. a lot of pooh were selfless and stayed with people. >> get a little closer to you. you're an avid hunter and recognize immediately this was not just gunfire but it was automatic gunfire coming in rapid bursts. >> yeah, it was very obvious. whoever was shoot, it was a fully automatic and they had to reload so whether there's one person or two but there was a break between clips being, you know, shot out. >> now, you describe it rather casually, but, you know, your best friend, you're here on your 48th birthday trip, you're a retired teacher and came with your best friend and he took three bulle

everybody trying to get closer to the stage where jason aldean was playing and they tried to scatter. people were trampling each other, trampling the wounded. people tending to the wounded in that spot they called a kill box, george, trying to staunch the wounds to stop the bleeding. incredibly chaotic scene but tremendous heroics. and the problem is it was so densely packed there were so many people that at first medics and first responders couldn't get in there to help. so people had to load the wounded out, carry them over fences to try to get them out of that kill zone. this man mike kronk tried to carry his friend over a fence and then under the stage. they tended to him. there were military personnel, possibly law enforcement on the scene as well who were helping render first aid. that mansur visited. but they managed to get that injured person into a truck. that was the only way to evacuate, a pickup truck. there was another man shot in the chest there and he died in this man mike kronk's arms seconds later. incredibly harrowing scene for the thousands here and all around the s