WE HAVE A FOX NEWS ALERT AND
UPDATE ON THE CHAOS AT THE
ASTROWORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL IN
HOUSTON BRAIDWOOD NANO
TEENAGERS WERE AMONG THE EIGHT
PEOPLE KILLED WHEN THE CROWD
RUSHED THE STAGE DURING TRAVIS
SCOTT PERFORMANCE BUT SHOCKING
VIDEO SHOWS FANS PLEADING WITH
THE PERFORMER TO STOP THE
CONCERT AMID THE CHAOS.
[INAUDIBLE]
STOPPED THE SHOW.
>> EVENTUALLY THE FAMOUS
RAPPER REALIZED WHAT WAS
HAPPENING AND CALLED FOR
SECURITY TO STOP THE EVENT.
[INAUDIBLE]
[BACKGROUND NOISES]
IS ALIVE AT THE SCENE IN
HOUSTON WERE LAW ENFORCEMENT
JUST GAVE AN UPDATE, GARRETT.
>> THIS IS A TRAGEDY JUST
KEEPS GETTING MORE
HEARTBREAKING AS WE LEARN HOW
YOUNG THESE VICTIMS ARE.
EIGHT PEOPLE WERE KILLED LAST
NIGHT.
THE YOUNGEST WAS JUST 14.
ANOTHER WAS 16.
THE OTHER VICTIMS AGES WERE
21, 23 AND 27 YEARS OLD.
WE ARE ALSO LEARNING MORE
ABOUT THOSE WHO WERE TAKEN TO
THE HOSPITAL LAST NIGHT.
TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE WERE TAKEN,
13 REMAIN HOSPITALIZED
INCLUDING FIVE WHO ARE UNDER
THE AGE OF 18.
THE MAYOR SAID INVESTIGATORS
ARE NOW TRYING TO TALK TO AS
MANY PEOPLE AS THEY CAN TO
PIECE TOGETHER EXACTLY WHAT
HAPPENED.
>> WE ARE TALKING WITH THOSE
INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN
HOSPITALIZED TO TRY TO GET A
MUCH BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF
WHAT TOOK PLACE, WHAT WENT
WRONG, WHERE WERE THE MISSTEPS?
>> THE MAYOR ALSO STRESSED HOW
WERE CISCO TO BENEFIT WAS IN
FOR GOOD SAMARITAN STEPPING IN
TO HELP SOME OF THE FOLKS
WHO’D GOTTEN HURT OR PASSED
OUT.
ROUGHLY 50000 PEOPLE SHOWED UP
FOR THIS TO DATE MUSIC
FESTIVAL PUT ON BY TRAVIS
SCOTT.
WHEN HE TOOK THE STAGE LAST
NIGHT A LITTLE AFTER 9:00 P.M.
THE CROWD STARTED SURGING
FORWARD TO THE STAGE, PACKING
PEOPLE IN SO TIGHT WITNESSES
SAID IT WAS HARD TO BREATHE.
SOME PEOPLE STARTED PASSING
OUT THE CROWD RESPECT AND SO
TIGHT THEY COULD NOT GET OUT
SOME PEOPLE GOT TRAMPLED,
OTHERS CROWD SURF.
LIFELESS BODIES TO TRY TO GET
THOSE FOLKS HELP.
>> EYEWITNESS SOMEBODY
UNCONSCIOUS STRUGGLING TO GET
OUT LIKE THE FRIENDS WERE
TRYING TO GET THEM OUT.
THOSE PEOPLE WERE NOT CARING
ENOUGH TO MAKE A PATH.
>> WERE SITTING HERE HAD THE
TIME OF MY LIFE BUT IT’S SCARY
TO THINK THAT WAS THE LAST
TIME SOME OF THESE PEOPLE HAD
A WIFE.
TODAY TRAVIS GOT A HOUSTON
NATIVE RELEASED A STATEMENT
SAYING IN PART I AM ABSOLUTELY
DEVASTATED BY WHAT TOOK PLACE
LAST NIGHT MY PRAYERS GO OUT
TO THE FAMILIES AND ALL THOSE
IMPACTED BY WHAT HAPPENED IN
ASTRAL WORLD FESTIVAL.
I AM COMMITTED TO WORKING
TOGETHER OF THE HOUSTON
COMMUNITY TO HEAL AND SUPPORT
THE FAMILIES IN NEED.
TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT
ALSO WEIGHED IN SAYING WHAT
HAPPENED IN ESTHER WORLD
FESTIVAL WAS TRAGIC IN OUR
HEARTS ARE WITH THOSE WHO LOST
THEIR LIVES AND THOSE WHO WERE
INJURED IN THE TERRIFYING
CROWD SURGE.
EVENT ORGANIZERS HAVE ALSO
RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING
THEY ARE COOPERATING WITH THIS
INVESTIGATION PRE-POLICE JUST
TOLD US A SHORT TIME AGO ALL
OF THE FOOTAGE OF THAT EVENT
WILL BE TURNED OVER IT LATER
THIS EVENING FOR INVESTIGATORS
TO START REVIEWING.
>> LIVE IN HOUSTON, GARRETT
THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE.
SO LET’S DISCUSS THIS AND ABBY
I WANT TO BEGIN WITH YOU.
WE KNOW THERE WERE 50000
PEOPLE WHO WERE IN ATTENDANCE
HERE.
YOU HAVE AUTHORITIES NOW ON
THE SCENE.
IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE HOW THEY
EVEN BEGIN TO START TO SORT
THIS OUT WHEN YOU HAVE
THOUSANDS OF POTENTIAL
WITNESSES.
PLUS ALL OF THE VIDEOS.
>> YES, YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY
RIGHT.
THIS WAS A TRAGIC THING.
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HEAR THE
DEAD RANGE FROM 14 YEARS OLD
TO 27 YEARS OLD.
50000 PLUS PEOPLE AT THIS
CONCERT YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE
WHAT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
WERE TRYING TO DO IN THAT
MOMENT AS THESE PEOPLE WERE
PUSHING TOWARDS THE STAGE.
THINK WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS
HAPPENS PEOPLE AUTOMATICALLY
WANT TO POINT FINGERS AND
POINT TO BLAME.
I DON’T KNOW THAT WE CAN DO
THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE DOING
THAT WE SHOULD BE THINKING
ABOUT THESE VICTIMS AND THEIR
FAMILIES, TRAVIS SCOTT I KNOW
A LOT OF PEOPLE RIGHT OFF THE
BAT WERE SAYING WHY DIDN’T HE
STOP THE CONCERT?
A LOT GOES THROUGH A
PERFORMER’S HEAD WENT
SOMETHING LIKE THAT HEAD IS
HAPPENING BUT MAYBE HE DIDN’T
REALIZE MAYBE HE DID NOT HAVE
THE CHANCE WE WON’T KNOW.
I THINK ABOUT ARIANNA GRAHN
DATE WHAT HAPPENED IN
MANCHESTER WHEN THAT BOMBING
WENT OFF AND PEOPLE LOST THEIR
LIVES AT HER CONCERT, WHAT SHE
WENT THROUGH.
AND FOR FOR TRAVIS SCOTT,
FAMILIES AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
THE HOUSTON MAYOR SAID THE
SECURITY THAT WAS AT THIS
CONCERT OR THIS EVENT, WAS
MORE THAN WAS AT THE WORLD
SERIES.
I DON’T THINK IT WAS A LACK OF
SECURITY.
I DON’T THINK IT WAS ANYONE’S
FAULT WILL JUST HAVE TO WAIT
UNTIL MORE DETAILS COME OUT OF
OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GO
OUT TO THOSE FAMILIES.
>> SAME HERE, WE ARE THINKING
ABOUT ALL OF THOSE FAMILIES
OUT THERE WHO AT SOME POINT,
CHARLIE, ARE GOING TO BEAT
WANTING SOMEONE TO TAKE
RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL OF
THIS.
THAT IS WHEN HE GETS REALLY
TOUGH, RIGHT?
>> YES INDEED.
AND CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING A
PARENT OF ONE OF THOSE KIDS,
YOUR KID GOES TO A CONCERT YOU
THINK IT’S A PRETTY HEALTHY,
REASONABLE ENVIRONMENT AND
SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS.
AND OF COURSE IN THE BEST OF
CIRCUMSTANCES A CONCERT LIKE
THIS IS KIND OF A CONTROLLED
CHAOS ANYWAY PER THIS LOT OF
MAYHEM, THIS LOUD NOISE,
THERE’S A LOT OF PEOPLE
SCREAMING.
MY HEART GOES OUT TO TRAVIS
SCOTT.
CAN YOU IMAGINE IN HIS VOICE
YOU CAN HEAR THE FRUSTRATION
OF HIM TRYING TO CONTROL THE
CROWD ONCE HE REALIZES WHAT IS
GOING ON HERE.
IT REALLY IS INCREDIBLY TRAGIC
AND INCREDIBLY SAD FOR THINK
YOU ARE RIGHT, ABBY, IT IS FAR
TOO EARLY AND PROBABLY WILL
ALWAYS BE VERY DIFFICULT TO
ASSIGN ANY KIND OF A BLAME OR
ANYTHING LIKE THAT, WE WILL
SEE.
OBVIOUSLY IT WILL BE DEEPLY
INVESTIGATED.
IT IS TRULY, TRULY A TRAGEDY.
>> IS JOE I WAS THINKING ABOUT
THIS AS WE ARE HEARING ALL THE
STATEMENTS OF SO MANY ENTITIES
HERE SAYING THEY ARE
PARTICIPATING, WE KNOW, YOU
NOTE SPECIFICALLY THE MORE
COVERAGE THERE IS THE MORE
INTERVIEWS THERE ARE THAT
PEOPLE THEN START TO TAKE
SIDES AND BLAME STARTS TO
OCCUR PUT A LOT OF
FINGER-POINTING IS TO BE
EXPECTED IN THE COMING WEEKS.
>> OF COURSE, THAT IS JUST THE
DNA UNFORTUNATELY OF OUR
COUNTRY AS A WHOLE IN THESE
SITUATIONS.
IT IS A BLAME CULTURE.
AT THIS POINT WE CERTAINLY
HAVE MORE QUESTIONS THAN
ANSWERS.
TO CHARLIE’S POINT, WHEN YOU
HEAR A CHILD IS YOUNG AS TEN
YEARS OLD WAS BADLY INJURED
HERE, YOU HEAR ABOUT PEOPLE
EXPERIENCING CARDIAC ARREST
THESE ARE MOSTLY YOUNG
PEOPLE.
AGAIN I’M A PARENT OF A SIX
AND 8-YEAR-OLD I CANNOT
IMAGINE GETTING THAT CALL MY
CHILD WAS INJURED?
OR MY CHILD WAS KILLED?
THEY WERE AT A HARMLESS
CONCERT PRINTER CANNOT IMAGINE