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The Mandalay Bay hotel room where Stephen Paddock opened fire Sunday night has 2 windows obliterated by gunfire.

The curtains in the 32nd floor room were billowing Monday morning through the massive holes left after the shooting. Police stormed the room to find Paddock already dead ... apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot.

He'd reportedly checked in to the hotel on Thursday.

Paddock killed at least 50 people and injured more than 400 people Sunday night who were attending the Route 91 country music festival.

U.S. Olympic pole vaulter Sandi Morris says she was "across the street" from the Vegas shooting Sunday night -- and was kept in lockdown at the Luxor Hotel for 5 hours until officials deemed it safe to leave.

The Luxor is actually closer to the site of the shooting than the Mandalay Bay -- and Morris says she was inside the hotel watching The Blue Man Group show when the incident began.

Morris -- who won silver at the 2016 Olympics in Rio -- details how officials stopped the show and locked down the building to keep everyone safe.

She says show officials passed out blankets, water and food -- including bananas that were supposed to be used in the show.

Stephen Paddock is an outlier for police profilers ... at least so far.

The 64-year-old Nevada resident lived in a retirement community. He has no criminal record, at least none we've been able to find so far.

We found Paddock has a hunting license in Alaska. He got a pilot's license in 2003, which means he's undergone some physical and mental evaluation.

As we reported, Paddock, died in his hotel room after slaughtering more than 50 people and injuring more than 400. It appears he died from a self-inflicted gunshot.

The frantic police audio during the Vegas massacre underscores the terror at the venue as bullets rained down into the crowd.

You hear law enforcement in the audio frantically screaming as they determined the shots are coming from an upstairs room at the Mandalay Bay resort. Some scream about multiple people being hit.

And then there's this ... a warning to police to lock their police cars because people in the area are trying to take their rifles that are inside the vehicles.

The White House became a pink house Sunday to raise awareness for breast cancer ... and Melania Trump's got a great view.

The First Lady tweeted a photo from inside the White House Sunday night, which was illuminated in pink lighting to kick off the start of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The timing is nothing short of uncanny ... Julia Louis-Dreyfus just announced last week that she'd been diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after her sixth Emmys win for "Veep." She didn't reveal what stage she's in ... but she did take the opportunity to call for universal health care.

4:15 PM PT -- ISIS has claimed responsibility for the knife attack in France.

A man stabbed 2 women to death with a knife Sunday at a train station in Marseille, France while yelling "Allahu Akbar" before he was gunned down by soldiers ... and it's being called a likely terrorist attack.

The suspect used a butcher knife in the attack at the Saint Charles train station, and it was reportedly unprovoked and random. He lunged at the 2 ladies -- who were 17 and 20 years old -- screaming the Arabic phrase, before slashing 1 in the throat and stabbing the other in her chest and stomach.

As you can see, the scene was a bloodbath ... with people panicking and authorities drawing their weapons.

The man was shot dead by nearby soldiers who were patrolling the area. France is currently in a state of emergency due to other terror attacks that have plagued the country as of late.

Tomi Lahren subscribes to this theory -- you can take Megyn Kelly out of FOX News but you can't take the conservative out of Megyn ... and that's why she's struggling at NBC.

We got Tomi out in NYC and asked her why she thinks Megyn's morning show is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. For the uninitiated ... Megyn asked a "Will & Grace" fan if he became gay after watching the character Will. Megyn also drew a mean side-eye from Jane Fonda, who totally ignored her question about plastic surgery.

Simply put, Tomi says it ain't easy being conservative.

Anthony Scaramucci's ready to restore balance with "The Scaramucci Post."

The former White House Communications Director teased his new venture earlier this month but The Mooch is finally revealing details -- "The Scaramucci Post" will host a launch party at his restaurant, The Hunt & Fish Club in NYC on October 2 and the site claims to be "the center lane in a two-lane highway."

Check it out ... Scaramucci's adamant the pendulum's been split in half with far-right views against far-left views, leaving the center wide open. The site's tag line -- "Everything in moderation, including moderation."

The national debate over whether NFL players should kneel for the National Anthem bled into Monday night after Donald Trump's "son of a bitch" comments ... 'cause Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys just took a knee (kinda).

Jerry and the entire Cowboys organization -- including the players -- knelt down on one knee while locking arms before the start of the National Anthem, but then stood up once the song was about to start. The Cardinals stood arm-locked the whole time.

It's interesting ... each team seems to have had different reactions to Trump's remarks from over the weekend, when he suggested owners should fire players who kneel in protest.

Looks like Jerry's down to ... well, get down.

Donald Trump was defending the honor of the American flag when he called for NFL owners to fire any "son of a bitch" who doesn't stand during the national anthem ... this according to the White House press secretary.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders just fired back at reporters during a White House press briefing -- where she was asked if Trump's 'S.O.B.' comments crossed the line.

"It's always appropriate for the president of this country to promote our flag," Sanders said.

Jennifer Lopez is opening her wallet A LOT wider than she did for Houston to help out her parents' homeland of Puerto Rico ... with a $1 million donation.

J Lo made the announcement Sunday in NYC alongside the state's governor, Andrew Cuomo, saying the American island nation was in desperate need of help after being devastated by Hurricane Maria ... which she said she'd contribute to with a mil from the proceeds of her Vegas show.

She also said she was teaming up with Mark Cuban in the relief effort by sending supplies and generators by aircraft.

J Lo and A-Rod donated $25k each to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts last month.

Mel B will not be prosecuted for intimidating a witness in her domestic violence case against Stephen Belaftone ... TMZ has learned.

The L.A. County D.A. says it will not move forward because the text messages Mel sent to rapper Siya were "too vague" to be clearly interpreted as threats. The messages also don't show that Mel was even aware Siya was going to testify against her.

TMZ broke the story ... Siya had filed a police report, claiming Mel sent threatening texts warning her not to take the stand in Mel B's divorce and domestic violence case.

Mark Wahlberg's gone into the abyss ... of landlocked Missouri, and he's loving it.

Marky Mark hit up the grand opening of the Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium in Springfield, MO ... the handiwork of Bass Pro Shops CEO Johnny Morris.

Mark was the special guest and later dove into the 2-story, 1.5 million gallon aquarium in front of conservation leaders from around the globe. Construction of the museum and aquarium reportedly took a whopping 9 years.

The museum features 35,000 live fish and mammals. That does not include Mark.

Ever wonder what would happen if a Porsche 911 Turbo banged a yacht and made a baby? Well, here ya go ... the first Porsche superyacht!!!

It's called the Dynamiq GTT 115 and it's incredible inside and out. It's fast too ... sailing at over 21 knots. We got pics of the first one being dropped into the water in Viareggio, Italy, not too far from where it's making its international debut next week at the Monaco Yacht Show.

Wondering the price? Then you probably can't afford it ... but anyway it's $16 million. Not cheap, but a lot less than Steve Jobs' dingy.

Only 7 of the 114-foot vessels have been made so we imagine the race is already on to get one.

Any takers ... Jay-Z & Beyonce? Neymar? Oprah?

Keep your damn hammers quiet when MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell is working or he'll have to ... go down to the "goddamned floor" himself and stop it!

O'Donnell hammered that point home when he absolutely melted down while shooting an MSNBC broadcast, reportedly on Aug. 29. The veteran reporter lost it on the floor crew, the control room ... and whoever had the audacity to hammer during his show. He said he was also getting extraneous noise in his earpiece.

In his defense, the construction noise was blatant, and would reasonably be distracting O'Donnell as he tried to do his job. He added the whole situation was "f**king out of control."

Lawrence apologized about the incident Wednesday evening, tweeting ... "A better anchorman and a better person would've had a better reaction to technical difficulties. I'm sorry."

LO's flip out is good, but for our money -- Bill O'Reilly's still got the crown. 'Cause he did it LIVE!

Ryan Phillippe's ex-girlfriend tried just about everything to dodge questions about the explosive lawsuit she's filed, claiming he brutally attacked her.

Elsie Hewitt was tight-lipped after landing Wednesday in London, but after suing Ryan and filing for an emergency protective order ... photogs and reporters swarmed around her. Hewitt tried, unsuccessfully, to hide under a Kendrick Lamar hoodie.