From the New York Times? I'm Michael Barbara. This is to do today, loan gunmen with no history of crime booked a suite at all LAS Vegas Hotel, and finally shot at least fifty nine people. What we know about one of the deadliest Mass shootings in U S history, a single day in Porter weaker as President Trump I've to survey the wreckage from Hurricane Maria, it's Tuesday October. Third, Richard Paris Petya. What do we know at this point about what happened in

buy this hotel room in LAS Vegas, a man named Stephen paddock who lived in Mesquite Nevada and who was a wealthy person's like to gamble. Apparently I had checked into a high level suite in the Mandalay Bay Casino resort. It's this very fat luxurious hotel casino on the south end of the last biggest strip. He'd been there for a couple of days in a sweet that had multiple rooms on the thirty second floor so very near the top. Apparently, smashed out the windows with a hammer and had on an arsenal with them and in the two windows that he smashed out, he had set up on tripods rifles with scopes. They were a our fifteen style, assault rifles which apparently we don't know this for certain yet but seem to be the main weapons that are used in the shooting and what is happening on the ground below where

He was finding his targets, so this was this three day: country, music festival called the route, ninety one harvest festival and at the time of the shooting, the police rest meeting them. Twenty two thousand people to honour this scene. Yeah is basically just a big empty lot where they set it up, then we get like three or four and a lot of people at first thought every kind, electronics, it I just firecracker. If and when we heard about any just get going and going in my hasn't said that's not firecrackers, that's half a semi artic. I thought and they didn't immediately react. We refused to believe it was a shooting at so they just kept going going or if they did, they did what you would ordinarily do when you think that there's gunfire, which is you hit the ground, but if a person's firing from on high that's not going to help,

what is all sitting there. Looking like thinking that we're gonna die security guards, shockwave run about another guy got shot right. Next to me, you know I thought you were gonna die, so I called my mom data. I was applying them on become my mom that I love on goodbye, do bursts gunfire pauses in between either he was reloading or changing weapons or something and people say remain running away. Ass. I was going on and they said it was the shooter in and then we realize it was sounded like machine guns assent like more than one machine gun, just didn't. Stop and a lot of people would when the second burst came, and they understood how bad things actually were started to run. And then there was just a complete stamping. Without penetrative. You die immediately to everyone involved in the here, and now you can register a job. I,

Richard what's been so disturbing about this case is how a single person could kill an inch or so many People? What do we know so far about how that was possible, that this is a thing that comes up with many mass shootings that we ve seen? The people are surprised that so much damage can be done by an individual or to people and that's when there aren't even fully automatic weapons involved in the Virginia attack, shooting in two thousand seven a gunman using only pistols, not even rifles, killed. Thirty two people one shot at a time this guy. If he had a fully automatic weapons, the only limitation really is on how much time he has to shoot and how much ammunition he has to. Load how much time passed from the beginning of the shooting into the Andaman? That's not clear. We ve heard estimates of may be seven minutes, ten minutes plenty of time to do a lot of killing and how did the shooting and right,

Swat team swarmed into the hotel and they realised that the shooting was coming from an upper floor and starting on the twenty ninth floor. They went up going for by floor room by room, very methodical, cautious process, because you dont know whether than you know he's gonna shoot you as you approach you dont know whether their booby traps and finally they found him on the thirty second floor and when they entered his room according to the police, he had already shot and killed himself. Do we know the motive of the sugar to early in? That may still be of all things, our understanding, but what do we now at this point? Nothing! Absolutely nothing and the police are just when a figure out why on earth, if they know anything they haven't said, and what do we know about the shooter himself? Sixty four years old retired lived with his girlfriend, the neighbors thought him as a nice quiet guy. He has a brother who lives in

we're land of Florida, whose talked of media a number of times and has said you know, I mean my brother did this I this is like it was done. Like he shot us, I mean if you to kill my kids, I couldn't be more downtown, I mean it doesn't so laughter nothing. You know just completely shocked by this and saying that he was as ordinary a guy, as you could hope to meet. He talked about how, after Hurricane Irma had blown through Florida. His brother was texting him checking up on their mother to see how she was an and had sent her a walker to make sure she can move around the last time. She toppling no indication anything mean we can't.

Did a gun store where he bought three of his weapons and last year and the guns store owner said he set off no alarm bells. He passed a background check. The police, where he lives and has lived in the past, have all said that he has no criminal history. They have no record of hymns and find out who sold in the machine. There's. No, I don't know what else to say ages. I mean it's your fault that he did something but I'd like to know where he found his that's Muslim, sends you combine zoo we do have this one sort of odd possibility, which is that ices has taken credit for this and said that he's a soldier inspired by them and that he converted to Islam a few months ago. We don't have any of guinea. Confirmation of any of that, and some of ISIS is claims,

the past turned out to be unfounded, saw a little leary of that. What the F b, I said, is that so far at least they have no knowledge of his being involved in any extremist group of any kind, so finely matured. What did president Trump have to say about this attack? I believe this is the first time he had to do

the mass shooting as president right. The president's response was: it was an act of pure evil, fairly standard standard for president talking about bringing people together and and making the country safe in moments of tragedy and horror. America comes together as one, and it always has he invoked togetherness and God, may God bless the souls of the lives that may God may God give us the grace of healing and may God provide the grieving families with strength to carry on? Thank you. God bless America.

Thank you very much. On Monday night police inspecting Stephen Paddocks home in Mesquite Nevada said they had found in excess. Of eighteen, more guns as well as splices, and several thousand rounds of ammunition we'll be right, back support for the daily comes from tee be presenting. The alien is angel of darkness. The all new season of the acclaimed Emmy Award winning television series at the turn of the twentieth century, uncover a dark and sinister trail of death and deceit as an intrepid team of crime. Solvers reunite to hunt and elusive killer

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So I drew the short draw and ended up with a night shift, so Erika Rodriguez, who is a local photographer? She loves him, put recall we climbed into her Nissan versa. Now we just said about driving along the South coast to see what we would find it This vote is open. The three that connects. Why am I jus upon so we were driving along this smells now, and smells smelled, really terrible stange like what is that I looked up and there was a supermarket. It was called the plaza to permit gallery somethin like that one should we go over there, don't even look like it had been hit by a hurricane. It looked like somebody paid and spit it out loud,

as you said, about the New York Times, it's obvious. If food had There is a lot of food Roddy in that supervise. Get some me. Some of the things that you ve seen since the hurricane he came from here, three guards are outside to make sure that nobody lutes the remaining browser. Is that are in the store. I'm in other Europeans data, but what and where the kinds of things that people do to intimidate you to? Let you in to let them into the story of my guys, but he understood very clear really that people were really in a moment of crisis have a I'm only gave him a very big try to get it on. You just said

a desperation from them of just like look, there's no jobs here and this I'm really lucky to be sitting here in this parking lot, make you seven hundred and twenty five, because not everybody has that opportunity driving around the town square. Looking so after you're done business supermarket you get back in the car. Where did you go we started heading. What's ritual ongoing west towards bonds and we got to a town called Salinas throws the other way, but either worsen story. Said our semi between them. We came upon a funeral home, so we holds up an idea. No small. So there was a really LAO generator in the in the driveway you can. I think I just answered my own question about how they keep the bodies cold, and there was this guy, worker man posing

he's down and tying up cables warehouse, one another You mean you. Can you put me in direction of the funeral director and he sat on the funeral director. I don't wanna Hobart illicit opium poppy so all the suits that he wears for the funerals or soaked. Wearing jeans and follow sure and there's awake going on right now, someone who is this man and wide did the open up his funeral home for a week, despite it being in the in the pretty awful condition it sounds like it. Then all you need money. I mean he had got a whole week without any work, so he was thrilled that somebody came by two to give him business. When I thought of this than your comments, I interviewed the the family that was doing the wig and they said that they had gone to three different fields: homes, and they were all in shambles. She said I got to this. One

Was dragging out, wet, muddy furniture onto the street and said: are you open for business and my son died the day of the hurricane and he said? Well, you see how it is. I knew if, if Europe, if you're willing to accept it in these conditions, that's doing she. So let's do this as a gas that is only job. So frankly, I dont speak Spanish, but the funeral home director used a particular phrase a sad day. Three pass cortisone us. What does that mean He said there that the deepest Khorasan us that believers Khorasan basically from intestines you make hearts so kind of like if you would translate the expression. You know someone, your ball of lemon than you make lemonade. Sweden

springy. You met the mother of this man who had died and for whom the week was being held. How did he die? They can when you want- and I don't know. Over eight, he had a heart condition. He was only twenty nine years old and he D in the morning of the hurricanes this lady. She describes this really crow shipping moment or though this period of time, where, because there in the middle of a hurricane. She can't even go, so her sons, wine and then even a week after the death, which is when I see her, she still haven't, been able to tell people that he die, because this no phone site no amount of money, And so you have looked around, she was happy to have the people that were there, but she said you know that it would have been part of people knew people were going to be so upset when they learned that he had died.

And they didn't get a chance to say goodbye, something french about how challenging it has to be for anyone to communicate with family or friends on the island. The way you're describing the challenges for this family. How widespread problem is it right now for families importer we go to even find out that some one in their favour, or that a friend is missing. People are desperate to find out information about their relatives as we're driving down. Since the radio spectrum and crying as and when we know what is that ragged and it was listening, and it was someone desperate to find out who is missing being a people.

This is because I think they they're the ones that are transmitted channels or Algeria, because they radio, right now, it's only wave communication cell phones are out. Even if our objective is our so there's a desperation like, even though not that many people died in the hurricane? Or how do you know that my family was one of them? You dont know, and so when, as I drove around the last ten days. Nobody asked me for anything. Nobody asked me for a bottle of water. Nobody asked me for granola bar. Nobody asked me for gas. The thing that they ass before over and over and over again was to send a text message to. Ralph tips like they were like? Oh god, you have a phone you're gonna go back to someone with as a signal for five minutes. You know, will you use five of your minutes to send? Oh, my god his mind, my son in Japan and here's this one. And what did you do? I did it. I did it.

And everywhere a hospital yeah you got, the hurricane has had an absolutely crippling effect the health care system and put a week or so hearing people with thought cancer who go for their chemo treatments and, oh sorry, we didn't get the chemo drugs your hearing, dialysis patients who, oh sorry, the dialysis place, doesn't have any diesel. So what Send you over to the other place so my mother his brother lives in the countryside. He's diabetic. His insulin has been out of the refrigerator since Maria hit, it's gonna, be too weak on Wednesday. So was that's more so yikes eat how you're not supposed to keep in France in this kind of temperature. And so right, I'm gonna be lethal if he hasn't, if, if, if, if it basically turns it ineffective,

I slowly so that you know, I think that's gonna be the next stage of this I says where you know. If people like my uncle go into a diabetic com, as you know, is that a hurricane related injury or death, I you know, I think it is We have lived through a dozen that one of the guys that I in the emergency room, told me that after he left the e r, he was gonna go to the ice factory to get in line, and I was like what he's you. Four click the morning right here, there were times the place open. Is it like a twenty four hour ice sharp and he said no, it opens its seven bud If I get in line now, maybe I'll get some ice, and so I went over to the place was few blocks away, and there were hundreds of people in line in the enlarged

chair, that was sleeping. You know it was like it was like they were camping out for tickets to a concert and they were camping out for two bags of ice. So if his four hundred and forty eight I think this is gonna, be our last sob and about five. In the morning we found the police station. It was on this tucked in this residential street, surrounded by crowing roosters, no oil He says precinct five, five aids and saw lady come running in with a pink bathrobe and blue slippers, and I realize than that is no communication on the island, she had a problem she needed to dry. To the station herself to report and it was a bunch of officers sitting around again, not patrolling and not patrolling, because they did

the gas to do so So driving home at the end of this really long night. What was on your mind, fringing the thing that is most impressive to me is how widespread the damages are it's just Everybody is in the same boat of Troy to make due in the dark with this? Really daunting realisation that we're in this for the long haul, because who knows how long did it take particularly to get the power back on prince you, you're porter weaken yourself. What is it been like for you to be on this island covering the aftermath of the storm

It's interesting question because remember that I also adjusted Hurricane Irma right so that hit Florida and I Florida, so you, this has been like in a personal hurricane month for me and this one there's a sense of panic that I dont think you fell in Florida, the Florida the panic was the day, the storm was passing and I was terrified but then once the storm past, I felt okay and here no never really feel that. Ok, you never feel. Ok, now really useful. Little scared scared of what exactly scared that everything is gonna go south. How many days can they go without now much food in supermarkets? How many days can chemotherapy patients go without getting their chemo? What would happen to the diabetics

I mean, I know, they're saying that all the people who get dialysis are being transferred. Are they No maybe they're, leaving a note on the dog like I don't know how I don't have it in the word out to everyone, and I really we fear that right, you're, there's gonna, be casualties here I just don't see how there's not going be fringy. Thank you very much, and I wish you and your family they are the best. Thank you so much for having me Michael on Monday, President Trump said of Puerto Rico. Quote: there's never been a piece of land that we ve known

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