President Trashes GOP Senator Bob Corker In Tweets; GOP Senator Calls W.H. "Adult Day Care" After Trump Attacks; Source: Gunman Left Behind Calculations For Targeting Crowd; Authorities Returning Personal Items To Victims; Singer Jason Aldean Honors Shooting Victims On SNL.
HOLMES: Hurricane Nate stoking the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida, the category 1 storm making a second landfall in Biloxi, Mississippi, with wind speeds of 85 miles or 137 kilometers an hour. On Saturday, Nate made its first U.S. landfall in Southeast Louisiana. As the storm moves north, some areas could get up to 10 inches or 25 centimeters of rain. Officials expect dangerous storm surges to continue, also fallen trees and, of course, downed power lines. More than 15,000 households across Florida, Alabama and Mississippi are already without power. Well, "Saturday Night Live" paid tribute tonight to the victims of the Las Vegas massacre. The show opened with the singer, Jason Aldean, who was the artist who was on stage when a gunman opened fire on those 22,000 concert-goers, who had come to see him and others perform. The singer opening with a message to the victims and their families. Here's part of what he said.</s>JASON ALDEAN, COUNTRY MUSIC PERFORMER: This week, we witnessed one of the worst tragedies in American history. Like everyone, I'm struggling to understand what happened that night and how to pick up the pieces and start to heal. You can be sure that we're going to walk through these tough times together, every step of the way because, when America is at its best, our bond and our spirit, it's unbreakable.</s>HOLMES: And Aldean went on after that to pay tribute by playing, "I Won't Back Down" by Tom Petty.</s>HOLMES: While the nation tries to heal, investigators at the crime scene have made a significant discovery. They now know the meaning of numbers written on a piece of paper found in the shooter's hotel room. Police say the note indicates he was trying to shoot as many people as possible. Stephanie Elam with more.</s>STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Calculations, that's what investigators now believe that the numbers written on the note pad found in the shooter's suite were. This was first reported by CBS News, but what they believe is there were calculations related to distance and trajectory from the window of the shooter's suite on the 32nd floor down to the venue. Of course, having this one piece of information doesn't help at all with the motive, which is the one thing that is still very much frustrating investigators, they still say it's unclear why this 64- year-old man would do such a heinous crime, they do not know why he would do that. But we do have a little bit more information about the man who may have really helped stop this from being a much more tragic event. It's hard to believe that we could even think of that. But here's what they're saying Jesus Campo did. He was responding to an open door alarm on the 32nd floor. Several doors down from where the shooter was staying. It had nothing to do with the shooter. But when he came upon that floor, remember, the shooter had cameras out in the hall, they believe the shooter saw him on the camera and then started to engage with him, shot through the door, hitting Campos in the leg. But because of Campos' quick reaction, he radioed down to security, they were able to tell police where this shooter was on the 32nd floor, if it hadn't been for him showing up on the floor and then also making that call, it could have taken first responders much longer to figure out which floor the shooter was using to rain down bullets on the concert venue. So, wrinkle, huge detail there, this could have been a much worse situation had it not been for Jesus Campos -- Stephanie Elam, CNN, Las Vegas, Nevada.</s>KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the president continues to fuel a series of questions and raise a lot of eyebrows after he's made a string of cryptic remarks lately. After he lamented on Twitter that he thought negotiations with North Korea had failed for the last 25 years, he said that he believed there was only one option left there. The catch, he didn't tell us what that one option is. The president was asked about this on the South Lawn of the White House as he departed for a fundraiser in North Carolina. But his answer just left reporters guessing.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Clarify your "calm before the storm" comment.</s>DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Nothing, nothing to clarify.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's the one thing that'll work with North Korea?</s>TRUMP: Well, you'll figure that out pretty soon.</s>COLLINS: When reached for comment, press secretary Sarah Sanders did not add to the president's remarks but did maintain that for right now all options remain on the table regarding North Korea. The president was also asked about another ominous remark he made at the White House this week, as he met with senior military leaders, which he said could be "the calm before the storm." The president did not clarify which storm he was talking about. And when he was asked to do so at the White House, he said he had nothing to clarify. He did comment on the relationship between him and the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, after tensions were at an all-time high between the two men this week, after it was reported that Tillerson had referred to the president as "a moron" over the summer. The president said he has a good relationship with the secretary of state but acknowledged that they disagree on a few things and that he wishes he would be tougher in some areas. We've seen one of those disagreements play out in the public eye lately, after Tillerson told reporters that he had an open line of communication to North Korea. The president swiftly got on Twitter and said that Tillerson should stop wasting his time trying to negotiate with them. But for right now, at least publicly, the president maintaining that things between him and the secretary of state are all good -- back to you.</s>HOLMES: Our thanks to Kaitlan Collins there. Exactly five weeks ago, North Korea detonated its largest nuclear device to date. People in one city in Eastern China felt the underground blast as a frightening earthquake. Many of them have been worried ever since about their unpredictable neighbor to the south. CNN's Matt Rivers with the report.</s>MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The nuclear test on September 3rd was North Korea`s largest to date that triggered an earthquake and international reaction was swift. The U.N. Security Council passed new sanctions, Donald Trump threatened to completely destroy North Korea and Kim Jong-un warned his next test would be over the Pacific Ocean. But at the exact moment of this latest test, the people in the Chinese city of Yangzi (ph), just 120 miles from the test site, didn`t know about the nuclear blast or the international outcry that would follow. All they knew was that the earth was shaking.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Is this an earthquake in my apartment?</s>RIVERS: Hundreds of thousands of people felt the physical repercussions of a nuclear test without knowing at first what it was. Many rushed outside to safety. (on camera): This is where you were when the earthquake happened. (voice-over): This man, a butcher, was asleep in his bed. (on camera): So, were you scared?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): All of a sudden, everything began shaking back and forth. So, I ran outside and everyone was saying it was an earthquake. I had no idea what was going on.</s>RIVERS (voice-over): An entire city thinking the same thing, though collectively about to connect the nuclear dots.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Everybody came in and said it was an earthquake. A bit later, we realized it was from the North Koreans.</s>RIVERS: Wang Zhou Zhion (ph) runs a restaurant in town, where conversations have lately focused on Kim Jong-un`s nuclear program and what it could mean for them.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I`m worried about the radiation. It could really hurt us.</s>RIVERS: Concerns over radiation escaping from the test site have increased with each explosion. Some experts have suggested that the mountain at the site had even collapsed, spewing deadly radiation into the air and quickly across the Chinese border. China says it has not detected anything of the sort and that its military keeps a vigilant watch over air quality levels. But in Yangzi (ph), for some parents, it`s of little comfort.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I have a 4-year-old daughter. These tests could make buildings collapse. There could be radiation. I`d like to move to Beijing or Shanghai, but I don`t have the money.</s>RIVERS: So, it`s fair to say that people are more nervous about the constant nuclear activity going on not that far away from here. But there is also this kind of pervasive sense that, well, there is not much that we can do about it and we still got to pay the bills and we still got to take the kids to school, so life goes on, right? (voice-over): So, the restaurants are still open. There is still outdoor recess and new buildings are going up, even if they might be shaken by another nuclear test soon -- a concerted effort to look past a problem that`s becoming increasingly hard to ignore -- Matt Rivers, CNN, Yangzi (ph), China.</s>HOLMES: When we come back here on the program, much more on Hurricane Nate as it lashes the U.S. Gulf Coast. We'll get the latest on the storm's location and where it's headed. Also, in Puerto Rico, people are still desperately waiting for help, two long weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.