now the girlfriend of the las vegas gunman has spoken out for the first time in a statement mary lou donnelly said she has no idea what prompted stephen paddick to carry out the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history she was in the philippines when patrick gunned down fifty eight people on sunday danley now returned to the u.s. where she is being questioned by authorities. this is the woman who police hope will be the key to unlocking the mystery behind the motive of sunday's mass shooting investigators have been questioning mary lou donnelly the las vegas shooter's girlfriend in a statement read by her lawyer she denied any knowledge of his sinister plans never said anything to me or took any action that i was aware of but i understood it anyway to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen. investigators say the shooter led a double life that he spent decades acquiring weapons and ammunition they described him as disturbed and dangerous we have found no evidence to this point to indicate terrorism. but this is an ongoing investigation we're going to cont

lou donnelly has now been described as a person of interest steven products family history is also emerging his father benjamin product was at one time on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list for bank robbery and theft president trump also declared without citing any evidence that patrick was mentally unbalanced he was the sick man a demented man. a lot of problems i guess we're looking into him very very seriously investigators say they're also looking at patrick's financial history described as a high roller he gambled heavily and sent large sums of money overseas what's clear is that steven part of plan does attack well in advance even installing a camera outside his hotel room to watch for approaching police his motives however remain a mystery this is a man with no criminal record and someone who neighbors describe as a recluse as this city continues to mourn its dead it's a question many want answered but so far the reasons remain unclear and the gallacher al-jazeera las vegas nevada. donald trump will travel to last vegas on wednesday the u.s. president praising police for their response an

lou donnelly has now been described as a person of interest steven products family history is also emerging his father benjamin product was at one time on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list for bank robbery and theft president trump also declared without citing any evidence that product was mentally unbalanced the sick man a demented man. a lot of problems i guess we're looking into him very very seriously investigators say they're also looking at patrick's financial history described as a high roller he gambled heavily and sent large sums of money overseas what's clear is that steven part of plan does attack well in advance even installing a camera outside his hotel room to watch for approaching police his motives however remain a mystery this is a man with no criminal record and someone who neighbors describe as a recluse as this city continues to mourn its dead it's a question many want answered but so far the reasons remain unclear and they gallacher al-jazeera las vegas nevada the investigators in last vegas are still examining the crime scene police say some of the guns belonging to the sh

lou donnelly a woman believed to have been with the gunman before the shooting here's a video from the scene of people taking shelter in a tent at the festival. i i. i. i i i. i. i i. i i i i. i we spoke to an eyewitness called abdi he told us how people were scared but had to remain quiet says no one me if the shooter was still around at the time i was actually working security at the. capitol as i walked away from my post which i'm glad that i and where i was supposed to be standing was actually there for me it was in front of the main stage where the jury of the stuff was happening and. i left my post and i remember walking towards my friends when i heard the first round of gunshots and i thought to myself that it was the music but when the second round of gunshots came it was clear that it was gunshots and it wasn't the music messing up. once i heard that and i seen people started running i completely just dropped everything and just ran. there was police officers maturity is everywhere i actually ran into a complex and just remember going inside this guy's house and there was a wh

lou donnelly a woman believed to have been with the gunman before the shooting took place. well police have released a photo of the sixty two year old who was a roommate of the suspected shooter or thought is now saying they think they've quarter space journalist dana gentry has more well we've just learned within the last few minutes from sure joe navarro it was vegas special police department that the death toll has been upgraded to more than fifty people dead as you said the injured is upwards of two hundred people stephen had. nearby that's about it is the dead suspect that mosquitoes about. an hour hour and a half outside of las vegas and we do know that he has some sort of police history in risky he is known to local police there boat as far as motive we just have no idea yet earlier this evening yes all of the clubs were on lockdown i can't imagine that any of them would be open at this point the strip is i was born here i have lived here fifty seven years i can't remember anything like this we are all in stop war from nine hundred ninety six until june this year the

lou donnelly the las vegas shooter's girlfriend in a statement read by her lawyer she denied any knowledge of his sinister plan c. never said anything to me or took any action that i was aware of. but i understood it anyway to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen. investigators say the shooter led a double life that he spent decades acquiring weapons and ammunition they described him as disturbed and dangerous we have found no evidence to this point to indicate terrorism. but this is an ongoing investigation we're going to continue to look at all avenues we're not closing down any doors u.s. president donald trump met with survivors of the attack many of them still in hospital but i just have to tell you that i just met some of the most amazing people we we met patients that were absolutely terribly wounded and the doctors the nurses all of the people of the hospital have. a job that's indescribable. and they were for the night that it happened before it happened and they found many people tramples met with some of the first responders and said in a prepared s

lou donnelly says she had no idea what her partner was planning describing him as kind caring and quiet. i was going on a two hundred year question who's in las vegas or did stephen do to prepare for the attack. i lauren so police officers say they found a cache of forty seven weapons they were inside hotel room in the mandalay bay resort as well as inside the two homes. in nevada authorities say the majority of those weapons were purchased legally by patrick within the last year with this purchase spree taking off in october of two thousand and sixteen what started that that's still a big question but it appears that that was the beginning of this meticulous planning that the gunman began about a year ago adding to that what they discovered inside the mandalay bay resort hotel room were also that many of these weapons were modified by a gun accessory easily and legally purchased in the united states that can convert a semiautomatic weapon into the automatic weapon essentially in all cases for all purposes a machine gun and that is what accounted for the rapid fire we heard during the t

lou donnelly the long time female companion of killer stephen paddick hugh come back to the united states from a trip to the philippines is landed in los angeles on tuesday night and is being interviewed by f.b.i. agents the law enforcement authorities here in las vegas have described her as a person of interest no one has actually suggested that she had anything to do with the commission of the crime in the murder of those fifty eight people on sunday night her sisters in an interview with australian television saying. just like that . that ms manley his name is done lee was. sent away by stephen paddick so that she would not get wind of what he was up to and try to interfere with his plans in any way the other major thing happening in las vegas today michelle the president is on his way to the city where he's going to meet with some of the family members and some of the injured and hope to provide a message of condolence to the city. the city says they are going to respect. the police who don't really. sure. how they're learning a lot. that will be different. very very sad day. so there

lou donnelly who is returning from the philippines they say patrick made a large international money transfer to her home country in the days before the shooting at least one hundred thirty people are still in hospital forty five in critical condition fifty nine people died in the shooting making it the deadliest in modern u.s. history. hearing more stories of heroism from the vegas shooting like this account from a man who found him bleeding after being struck by a bullet. i mean we were getting away and just we came across and he was in the bed of a pickup truck. there is a makeshift tourniquet it was kind of around his knee is clearly wrong spot. just walked up there and he was actively bleeding i just did the bell got it out where it should be down to stop the bleeding. and we hung out there for ten fifteen minutes and some. say here in a pickup truck came in they do we need a ride said yeah we threw mall in the bed of the truck in we took off to the hospital. over the wall of my pants are already in my shoes for blood so now i when i made it i know i would. you know i'm very tha

lou donnelly might provide clues as to his motives friends say she's out of the country a somber president donald trump address the nation we pray for the entire nation to find unity and peace and we pray for the day when evil is banished and the innocent are safe from hatred and from fear among the many unanswered questions are how public got hold of so many weapons some of which it's believed were modified to be fully automatic another nineteen weapons along with thousands of rounds of ammunition and explosives were found at his home in a quiet retirement community las vegas known around the world as the entertainment capital of the united states is a city in mourning its history has been changed by one terrible night and the motive behind the attack remains for now unknown and agalloch al-jazeera las vegas nevada more now from hiding joe castro from stephen paddick home in mesquite nevada . why would a retired american accountant with no known political or religious affiliations commit the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history the question has so far stumped investigators monda

lou donnelly might provide clues as to his motives friends say she's out of the country a somber president donald trump address the nation. we pray for the entire nation to find unity and peace and we pray for the day when evil is bad and the innocent are safe from hatred and from fear among the many unanswered questions are how product got hold of so many weapons some of which it's believed were modified to be fully automatic another nineteen weapons along with thousands of rounds of ammunition and explosives were found at his home in a quiet retirement community las vegas known around the world as the entertainment capital of the united states is a city in mourning its history has been changed by one terrible night and the motive behind the attack remains for now unknown to gallacher all jazeera las vegas nevada. tens of thousands of people have joined a general strike in catalonia capital barcelona following sunday's controversial vote to break away break away that is from spain these are live pictures you can see there the strikes were called by catalan trade unions in response to the

lou donnelly has now been described as a person of interest steven paddocks family history is also emerging his father benjamin patrick was at one time on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list for bank robbery and thing after president trump also declared without citing any evidence that patrick was mentally unbalanced he was this sick man a demented man. a lot of problems i guess that we're looking into him very very seriously investigators say they're also looking at products financial history described as a high roller he gambled heavily and sent launch sums of money overseas what's clear is that steven part of plan does attack well in advance even installing a camera outside his hotel room to watch for approaching police his motives however remain a mystery this is a man with no criminal record and someone who neighbors describe as a recluse as this city continues to mourn its dead it's a question many want answered but so far the reasons remain unclear on the gallacher al-jazeera las vegas nevada. the vast toll in puerto rico from hurricane maria has now climbed to thirty four present donald t

lou donnelly might provide clues as to his motives friends say she's out of the country a somber president donald trump address the nation we pray for the entire nation to find unity and peace and we pray for the day when evil is banished and the innocent are safe from hatred and from fear among the many unanswered questions are how public got hold of so many weapons some of which it's believed were modified to be fully automatic another nineteen weapons along with thousands of rounds of ammunition and explosives were found at his home in a quiet retirement community. let's go live to andy now so you've already outlined some of the huge questions that have to be answered by investigators. chief among those questions is of course the motive what would make someone who is a sixty four year old apparently wealthy retired accountant do something like this and we know this was a very pre-planned attack a huge tragedy we know that he booked a hotel room here days before managed to get twenty three weapons lots of ammunition into that room and we're told by law enforcement officials that some of

lou donnelly has now been described as a person of interest steven products family history is also emerging his father benjamin product was at one time on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list for bank robbery and theft president trump also declared without citing any evidence that product was mentally unbalanced the sick man a demented man. a lot of problems i guess we're looking to him very very seriously investigators say they're also looking at products financial history described as a high roller he gambled heavily and sent large sums of money overseas what's clear is that steven part of plan does attack well in advance even installing a camera outside his hotel room to watch for approaching police his motives however remain a mystery this is a man with no criminal record and someone who neighbors describe as a recluse as this city continues to mourn its dead it's a question many want answered but so far the reasons remain unclear and they gallacher al-jazeera las vegas nevada. a fellow head on al-jazeera allegations of a government crackdown cambodia's opposition leader calls for internationa

lou donnelly has now been described as a person of interest steven products family history is also emerging his father benjamin product was at one time on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list for bank robbery and theft president trump also declared without citing any evidence that patrick was mentally unbalanced he was the sick man a demented man. lot of problems i guess we're looking into him very very seriously investigators say they're also looking at patrick's financial history described as a high roller he gambled heavily and sent large sums of money overseas what's clear is that stephen paddick planned his attack well in advance even installing a camera outside his otel room to watch for approaching police his motives however remain a mystery this is a man with no criminal record and someone who neighbors describe as a recluse as this city continues to mourn its dead it's a question many want answered but so far the reasons remain unclear and they gallacher al-jazeera las vegas nevada stephen paddocks girlfriend marilyn danley has now returned to the u.s. from the philippines she was met by

lou donnelly who is returning from the philippines they say patrick made a large international money transfer to her home country in the days before the shooting at least one hundred thirty people are still in hospital forty five in critical condition fifty nine people died in the shooting making it the deadliest in modern u.s. history let's go live to heidi who joins us from vegas heidi what's the latest police are saying about the investigation what more are we learning about the killing. folly investigators say that the arsenal stephen paddick pad was even bigger than previously thought they discovered after combing through his second home in the city of reno nevada and even bigger stash of weapons ammunitions and electronic devices they also said that there was clear indication that this planned attack was premeditated there were things called bomb stops found on the weapons that were confiscated in the hotel rooms these are basically do it yourself kits that you can order online and modify weapons to make it a semiautomatic or automatic the sheriff of los vegas also said that pa

lou donnelly might provide clues as to his motives friends say she's out of the country a song but president donald trump address the nation. we pray for the entire nation to find unity and peace and we pray for the day when evil is bad and the innocent are safe from hatred and from fear among the many unanswered questions are how product got hold of so many weapons some of which it's believed were modified to be fully automatic another nineteen weapons along with thousands of rounds of ammunition and explosives were found at his home in a quiet retirement community las vegas known around the world as the entertainment capital of the united states is a city in mourning its history has been changed by one terrible night and the motive behind the attack remains for now unknown at a gala crawl jazeera las vegas nevada. the attack has once again sparked calls for increase control of the sale of firearms in the united states and the gun owners and lobby groups rail against such proposals they point out that the right to carry a gun is a central tenet of the u.s. constitution many argue that democ

the girlfriend of the las vegas gunman has spoken out for the first time in a statement mary lou donnelly said she has no idea what prompted stephen paddick to carry out the worst mass shooting in u.s. history describing him as a kind and caring man. now it is a one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time world leaders and scientists are meeting in malls to discuss ways to protect the world's oceans they cover seventy percent of the planet and major threats to our oceans include overfishing as the world's population grows so too does the demand for fish about a third of global fish stocks are close to exhausted or have already collapsed while another key issue is of course climate change our oceans absorb excess greenhouse gas heat and c o two and that impacts underwater organisms a rising sea levels also threaten our coastal communities and livelihoods and another major threat is pollution it's not just a matter of trash washing up on our shores contaminants like micro plastics risk getting into our food chain well the use the chief diplomat federico is at the conference in m

lou donnelly has now been described as a person of interest steven products family history is also emerging his father benjamin product was at one time on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list for bank robbery and theft president also declared without citing any evidence that product was mentally unbalanced he was the sick man a demented man. a lot of problems i guess we're looking to him very very seriously investigators say they're also looking at products financial history described as a high roller he gambled heavily and sent large sums of money overseas what's clear is that steven partick planned his attack well in advance even installing a camera outside his hotel room to watch for approaching police his motives however remain a mystery this is a man with no criminal record and someone who neighbors describe as a recluse as this city continues to mourn its dead it's a question many want answered but so far the reasons remain unclear and they gallacher al-jazeera las vegas nevada well before his visit to las vegas president trump slowdowns in the u.s. territory of puerto rico to see for himsel