Trump Leads Moment of Silence
STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: -- the way the city has it operating like many cities, they were able to alert the hospitals that these -- that this large number of casualties was going to come to the hospital and because of that they were prepared and they were able to save as many lives as they could -- Brooke?</s>BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Amazing. Stephanie, thank you so much. I'm glad you reiterated the point. They need blood. Please donate blood if you're in the area, specifically, if you have O-negative blood. That is really the prized possession at the moment in Las Vegas. Let's go back to Joseph Ostunio, who is standing by live. We were cut off by the White House briefing. Thank you so much for your patience.</s>JOSEPH OSTUNIO, WITNESS: Glad to be here.</s>BALDWIN: So you were telling me about your friend. She'd been shot in the shoulder. The doctor couldn't get the bullet out so presumably for the rest of her life she will have this piece of evidence in her body of this horrific, horrific moment. When did she -- where were you and when did she realize she had been hit?</s>OSTUNIO: We were near the stage when the shooting broke out. We thought it was fireworks and then shortly after Jason Aldean went on stage we fled, and as we were fleeing she kept complaining about a pain that she had and she was heavy breathing. I thought she was hyperventilating, but I checked her body regardless and I could not find a wound on her and we kept moving and we're lucky we got out.</s>BALDWIN: How did you get out? I understand at some points there were ten-foot high walls. It was hard for a lot of people.</s>OSTUNIO: We hopped the ten-foot wall to get out.</s>BALDWIN: You hopped a ten-foot wall to get out with your friend with a gunshot wound.</s>OSTUNIO: I don't -- I -- she must have been going off pure adrenaline. I'm amazed that she got over the wall, but there were people helping us and we couldn't have made it out without the help that we got.</s>BALDWIN: Can you just talk to me about -- it was law enforcement, you know, and ultimately first responders and it was concert goers, grabbing people and throwing them in pickup trucks and grabbing garbage trucks and tell me about the actions of heroism that you saw.</s>OSTUNIO: There were acts of heroism everywhere, and somebody actually was driving us to the emergency room, but we couldn't get out of the strip because it was barricaded. Luckily there was an ambulance that pulled over to the side any I got out of the car and they took my friend.</s>BALDWIN: Help me understand, we were talking about 22,000 people. This is the end of this huge country music festival. I mean, was it all kind of different ages and were there a fair amount of children? It was a family-friendly event, and yes, there were children there. Your friend went to the hospital and at what point did this sink in and you realized it wasn't fireworks and it was a mad man hanging out of a hotel window?</s>OSTUNIO: I mean, I don't think we knew where the shots were coming -- we knew they weren't inside the venue, and it was pretty obvious because it sounded like fireworks in the distance. It took us a while to realize they were actually gunshots. It wasn't until Jason Aldean went on stage that panic ensued and it was like a war zone. People were just dropping to the ground and running.</s>BALDWIN: And then -- just lastly, if you can hear me. I know that you're near the airport. Was there a security perimeter for concert goers? Did you have to have bags checked?</s>OSTUNIO: There were bag checks, there were pat-downs and metal detectors on them if they needed them, but I was patted down when I walked into the venue that day.</s>BALDWIN: It's, like, all of you all did the right things and it was this man, Joseph Ostunio, I'm so sorry. And I hope your friend is going to be OK. Thank you so much for the time. I appreciate it.</s>OSTUNIO: You're very welcome.</s>BALDWIN: We just heard from the White House moments ago there. We will be hearing or seeing the president and the first lady leading a moment of silence from the South Lawn in the wake of the murders in Las Vegas. We will take that live 10 minutes from now. Also ahead, my next guest is a mother who was at that country music festival with her 14-year-old daughter. They had won tickets through their local radio station. Where were they? What did they see? How did they feel? That's coming up. And we will start to piece together how this shooting unfolded and what eventually led police to this suspect, to the shooter on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Hotel. A smoke alarm playing a key role here. I'm Brooke Baldwin. You are watching CNN's special live coverage.