New Details Emerge On Route 91 Las Vegas Shooting

On the evening of October 1st, a gunman positioned in a room at the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino in Las Vegas began firing semi-automatic weapons from his hotel window down into a crowd below that had gathered for a music festival. The videos from the tragedy shocked the nation, as thousands of terrified people ran for their lives in between rounds of gun fire. In the end, the shooter - 64-year-old Stephen Paddock - killed 58 people and injured more than 500…

But there's a lot more to the story, including the failures of the security staff at the hotel where Paddock was located, the concert promoters, and a host of others, and that's why lawsuits are being filed by the victims of this tragedy.

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On the evening of October 1st, a gunman positioned in a room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas started firing a semi-automatic weapons from his hotel or window down into a crowd below that had gathered for a music festival. The videos from the tragedy shocked the nation as thousands of terrified people ran for their lives in between rounds of gunfire. In the end, the shooter, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, killed 58 people and injured more than 500.

But there's a lot more to this story that the media simply doesn't grab most of the time, including the failures of the security staff at the hotel where Paddock was located, the concert promoters and the host of others, and that's why lawsuits are being filed by the victims of this tragedy. Peter, again, to me, what I'm always amazed at is sometimes how reporters are in the midst of ... they're hearing the facts, but they don't understand how the facts come together. Why is it that there may be multiple parties involved that are all, to some degree, responsible for what happened here? I mean, something as basic as these people being shot at and not being able to have any kind of escape route ... Some of them were pinned in between fences, and the shooter's on the 32nd floor-

There was metal barricades-

... and they're-

... so you couldn't get out.

... simply sitting there.

They couldn't get out.

Yeah, they could not get out. What is your-

It's a goldfish in a-

What is your take on this?

Well, the lawsuits have been filed. I think this is one of the biggest filings to date, at least in the last few months, that ... There have been about 400 of these cases getting filed against both the hotel for the lack of security, the lack of proper training, the employees, and then also the concert promoters because the ingress and egress ... People couldn't get out. They had metal barricades kind of blocking them in.

Let's just talk about the employees of the hotel.

Yeah.

Okay? First of all, the story we have heard is "Well, he had a do-not-disturb sign on his door for seven days. He was using the-

It seems like a long time.