1 00:00:15,807 --> 00:00:20,145 There's been a lot of buzz about Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival. 2 00:00:20,228 --> 00:00:22,564 Talk to any high schooler in Houston. 3 00:00:22,647 --> 00:00:24,441 They're talking about this concert. 4 00:00:24,941 --> 00:00:26,568 Astroworld! 5 00:00:33,199 --> 00:00:36,202 We're young. We want to live life to the fullest. 6 00:00:36,911 --> 00:00:39,497 It was a concert that you didn't want to miss. 7 00:00:42,375 --> 00:00:44,002 It's a carefree world. 8 00:00:45,879 --> 00:00:47,547 It's just anything goes. 9 00:00:48,256 --> 00:00:49,966 Hey! 10 00:00:50,050 --> 00:00:52,177 There's people that are just like you. 11 00:00:52,677 --> 00:00:55,764 Yeah! 12 00:00:55,847 --> 00:00:59,017 This is like a playground. Like, this is crazy. 13 00:01:05,982 --> 00:01:08,276 Should've been the best day of our lives. 14 00:01:12,697 --> 00:01:15,700 But it was the worst. 15 00:01:19,162 --> 00:01:21,915 Folks are coming out, complaining of difficulty breathing. 16 00:01:27,420 --> 00:01:28,880 Houston 911. 17 00:01:28,963 --> 00:01:32,217 Help at the Astroworld concert, now, please! I need help! 18 00:01:32,759 --> 00:01:33,843 Stop the show! 19 00:01:38,223 --> 00:01:40,350 You go to a concert to have fun. 20 00:01:41,726 --> 00:01:45,105 I never thought that I would see death. 21 00:01:47,899 --> 00:01:50,693 People are dead and hundreds others hurt. 22 00:01:50,777 --> 00:01:54,114 Police in the United States have opened a criminal investigation. 23 00:01:54,197 --> 00:01:57,283 Victims were young, in their teens and 20s. 24 00:01:59,202 --> 00:02:01,663 When looking at the evidence in this case, 25 00:02:02,622 --> 00:02:04,582 I was shocked by what I found. 26 00:02:08,086 --> 00:02:10,046 I never spoke about it before, 27 00:02:10,755 --> 00:02:14,467 but we're doing this so that people will know the truth. 28 00:02:17,345 --> 00:02:19,264 People don't die at festivals. 29 00:02:20,890 --> 00:02:22,642 What the hell happened? 30 00:02:39,492 --> 00:02:41,494 The world is starting to open up. 31 00:02:42,829 --> 00:02:47,125 It's a beautiful thing for all music fans. Festivals will finally start to happen. 32 00:02:48,251 --> 00:02:51,337 Something that, you know, is anticipated every year 33 00:02:51,421 --> 00:02:54,132 and that's Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival. 34 00:02:57,427 --> 00:03:01,723 We knew that it was gonna be big. Like, people are ready to party. 35 00:03:05,435 --> 00:03:07,645 I was like, "He's bringing back Astroworld?" 36 00:03:07,729 --> 00:03:09,689 I just thought I had to be there. 37 00:03:12,483 --> 00:03:14,444 Travis Scott is my favorite rapper. 38 00:03:16,154 --> 00:03:17,572 His music is very hype. 39 00:03:19,282 --> 00:03:22,785 So I would listen to Travis before my games just to be ready to ball. 40 00:03:25,455 --> 00:03:27,332 Basketball is my world, you know. 41 00:03:28,917 --> 00:03:30,877 It is my ticket to college. 42 00:03:32,962 --> 00:03:38,092 To see Travis get as big as he is today is, like, inspiring to me. 43 00:03:39,177 --> 00:03:41,930 Move! I told you to back up! 44 00:03:46,351 --> 00:03:49,479 I was like, man, someone who grew up in the same city as me… 45 00:03:49,562 --> 00:03:51,522 Yeah! Travis Scott! Yes, sir! 46 00:03:53,566 --> 00:03:56,027 …can take over the music industry. 47 00:03:59,155 --> 00:04:00,406 Travis Scott! 48 00:04:03,326 --> 00:04:04,953 It was like he was repping us. 49 00:04:07,413 --> 00:04:09,666 Travis represents a lot for Houston. 50 00:04:09,749 --> 00:04:10,959 Kids look up to him. 51 00:04:12,168 --> 00:04:14,754 Houston has a little bit of everybody. 52 00:04:14,837 --> 00:04:18,758 And I think that Travis, he brings people from all over together. 53 00:04:27,475 --> 00:04:30,144 This week has been dubbed Astroworld Week 54 00:04:30,228 --> 00:04:33,398 with Travis Scott holding events leading up to this weekend. 55 00:04:35,775 --> 00:04:37,986 I'm Coco Dominguez at Minute Maid Park 56 00:04:38,069 --> 00:04:40,029 where this is just one of the events 57 00:04:40,113 --> 00:04:42,115 that is raising funds for the youth 58 00:04:42,198 --> 00:04:45,493 ahead of Astroworld's third annual festival happening this weekend. 59 00:04:46,077 --> 00:04:48,037 Houston! 60 00:04:48,121 --> 00:04:50,790 I cover feature stories here in Houston. 61 00:04:51,833 --> 00:04:54,210 So I feature anything that's buzzing. 62 00:04:57,338 --> 00:05:02,010 I've been covering Travis for a long time. And he's a hip-hop rock star. 63 00:05:02,093 --> 00:05:04,220 Just a kid just making it. 64 00:05:04,304 --> 00:05:08,182 - Why give back to the community? - Man, it's the only thing to do. 65 00:05:08,683 --> 00:05:13,479 What's all this if you can't bring it back to the community and share it with people? 66 00:05:13,563 --> 00:05:15,064 And have fun, man? 67 00:05:17,233 --> 00:05:22,113 He was born in the Houston scene, but he took it to another level. 68 00:05:23,406 --> 00:05:25,950 Hip-hop has always been going against the system. 69 00:05:26,868 --> 00:05:28,578 He was positioning himself 70 00:05:28,661 --> 00:05:32,665 as that person to be like, yeah… ?an I curse? "Fuck the system." 71 00:05:32,749 --> 00:05:35,168 Everybody, jump, jump back! 72 00:05:35,251 --> 00:05:39,172 Pull out the zip Pull out the ride, yeah! 73 00:05:39,255 --> 00:05:42,342 Travis Scott live is an experience. 74 00:05:42,425 --> 00:05:46,387 Yeah! We so fuckin' high Upper echelon, yeah! 75 00:05:46,471 --> 00:05:48,765 His fans are called ragers, 76 00:05:48,848 --> 00:05:51,225 and they look at him like he's God. 77 00:05:51,309 --> 00:05:53,061 Like he's the messiah of music. 78 00:05:53,144 --> 00:05:54,479 Five, four… 79 00:05:54,562 --> 00:05:57,023 Take-off! 80 00:05:59,484 --> 00:06:02,153 That rager element comes from the mosh pits. 81 00:06:02,737 --> 00:06:05,782 - Deep off in the main. - M&M 82 00:06:06,366 --> 00:06:10,119 He tells people, "Yo, if you came to a Travis Scott show to look cool, 83 00:06:10,203 --> 00:06:11,537 get the fuck out." 84 00:06:11,621 --> 00:06:13,998 Because it's real. He wants you to turn up. 85 00:06:14,082 --> 00:06:16,751 Fuck that! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce 86 00:06:16,834 --> 00:06:20,171 Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! 87 00:06:20,254 --> 00:06:21,923 You feel the energy off of him 88 00:06:22,006 --> 00:06:24,634 because we feed into him, but he feeds into us. 89 00:06:24,717 --> 00:06:28,763 - Everybody in this, say Astroworld! - Astroworld! 90 00:06:28,846 --> 00:06:32,266 - Say Astroworld! - Astroworld! 91 00:06:32,350 --> 00:06:35,103 You get an overwhelming sensation of, like, happiness. 92 00:06:35,186 --> 00:06:39,816 Travis! Travis! Travis! 93 00:06:44,529 --> 00:06:46,614 We're living in wild times right now. 94 00:06:46,697 --> 00:06:48,699 People just want to be themselves. 95 00:06:52,203 --> 00:06:54,122 He was in the right place at the right time 96 00:06:54,205 --> 00:06:56,165 to fit in that pocket for people. 97 00:07:04,340 --> 00:07:07,593 And then Astroworld Festival took him into outer space, 98 00:07:07,677 --> 00:07:09,846 into the heavens, you know what I mean? 99 00:07:14,851 --> 00:07:17,353 We don't get a lot of festivals in Houston. 100 00:07:18,688 --> 00:07:20,773 There was a huge buzz about it. 101 00:07:28,448 --> 00:07:31,325 Then he did it again at Astroworld Festival 2019. 102 00:07:33,286 --> 00:07:35,329 Everything was bigger. 103 00:07:36,622 --> 00:07:38,124 The artists were bigger. 104 00:07:41,252 --> 00:07:43,379 2020 came, the pandemic happened. 105 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:46,340 The world shut down. Ah. We didn't get Astroworld number three. 106 00:07:46,424 --> 00:07:48,759 And then he wanted to bring it back in 2021. 107 00:07:51,679 --> 00:07:54,599 For the first time, this would be a two-day event 108 00:07:54,682 --> 00:07:57,477 with a ton of artists playing across the two stages 109 00:07:57,977 --> 00:08:00,104 and Travis playing the headline set. 110 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:06,277 All of us had been locked up for so long. 111 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,198 This was, "Let's go get it." It's about to go down. 112 00:08:32,762 --> 00:08:34,388 Manny, want one? 113 00:08:37,099 --> 00:08:40,019 We knew it was gonna be the biggest event in the whole year. 114 00:08:40,102 --> 00:08:41,604 They had a great lineup. 115 00:08:45,233 --> 00:08:47,318 You know, a boys trip is the best thing. 116 00:08:49,237 --> 00:08:51,906 We had a group chat and we planned everything out. 117 00:08:51,989 --> 00:08:53,783 - Outfits. - Shades. 118 00:08:57,870 --> 00:09:00,540 Travis Scott had just dropped some new music. 119 00:09:00,623 --> 00:09:03,709 So we were listening to that, getting ready to dance. 120 00:09:07,463 --> 00:09:10,466 Our friend Rudy listened to every type of music. 121 00:09:12,260 --> 00:09:16,639 Music was very important to us and connected all of us together. 122 00:09:19,058 --> 00:09:21,644 We had gone to Astroworld two years before that, 123 00:09:21,727 --> 00:09:23,980 but Rudy hadn't gone before. 124 00:09:25,815 --> 00:09:29,569 And he was excited. He wanted to go and go. He couldn't wait. 125 00:09:29,652 --> 00:09:31,821 This one looks really good. 126 00:09:33,614 --> 00:09:35,658 Things opening up after COVID, 127 00:09:36,158 --> 00:09:38,411 we were stoked like, "We're gonna to go." 128 00:09:38,494 --> 00:09:42,915 There was nothing that we didn't want to do more than be at that place. 129 00:09:53,092 --> 00:09:54,552 Before the pandemic, 130 00:09:55,303 --> 00:09:57,680 I loved going to experience music. 131 00:09:58,514 --> 00:10:02,268 I was super excited about going to Astroworld. 132 00:10:03,019 --> 00:10:05,813 Like, "Oh my God! All this time, we haven't been able to see." 133 00:10:05,896 --> 00:10:09,942 "And all this good music has come out and all these artists. We have to go." 134 00:10:11,944 --> 00:10:13,738 I had just started nursing school. 135 00:10:15,031 --> 00:10:16,699 I always wanted to help people. 136 00:10:16,782 --> 00:10:21,287 Vaccination appointments! Please drive to Dodger Stadium! 137 00:10:21,370 --> 00:10:24,373 Three weeks before Astroworld, I had just received 138 00:10:24,457 --> 00:10:26,334 my license to practice nursing. 139 00:10:26,959 --> 00:10:31,213 And what better way to celebrate than going to Astroworld Fest? 140 00:10:32,757 --> 00:10:35,509 It was a concert that you didn't want to miss. 141 00:10:35,593 --> 00:10:37,303 And you know it was gonna be fun. 142 00:10:40,181 --> 00:10:44,518 There has been a lot of buzz about Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival. 143 00:10:45,019 --> 00:10:48,773 Tickets for the festival sold out in 30 minutes. 144 00:10:48,856 --> 00:10:52,943 This is the setup at NRG Park where Travis Scott will be performing. 145 00:11:01,786 --> 00:11:03,954 I've gotten ready for Astroworld. 146 00:11:05,873 --> 00:11:07,583 I'm so excited. 147 00:11:07,667 --> 00:11:10,169 I'm from Houston, so we're going to get down right now… 148 00:11:10,252 --> 00:11:13,089 - Show us what it's like to party! - Yes, sir! 149 00:11:13,172 --> 00:11:15,925 Aw! 150 00:11:17,968 --> 00:11:21,055 - We slept what, three, four hours? - Three hours. 151 00:11:21,138 --> 00:11:23,808 You guys always get crazy. 152 00:11:24,642 --> 00:11:25,893 Coming from a small town, 153 00:11:26,727 --> 00:11:29,188 going to a huge city, seeing all these artists 154 00:11:29,271 --> 00:11:31,065 I never thought I would see in my life. 155 00:11:32,191 --> 00:11:34,026 We were just so excited to go. 156 00:11:34,777 --> 00:11:36,612 We got the wristbands. 157 00:11:36,696 --> 00:11:38,739 - Yeah… - Yes, sir. 158 00:11:38,823 --> 00:11:43,202 We all met up early in the morning. Just hyping each other up before the day. 159 00:11:46,539 --> 00:11:48,374 It was my girlfriend Mikaela. 160 00:11:50,376 --> 00:11:51,502 Her friend Bri. 161 00:11:52,002 --> 00:11:54,880 She liked Travis, and I was like, "Oh! Common ground." 162 00:11:56,590 --> 00:12:00,302 Bri was just excited to see Travis and enjoy the show. 163 00:12:05,099 --> 00:12:07,893 I flew out for Astroworld from LA. 164 00:12:08,394 --> 00:12:11,147 I really wanted to see Roddy Ricch. 165 00:12:11,230 --> 00:12:13,023 I was really excited to see SZA. 166 00:12:13,607 --> 00:12:16,569 Earth Wind & Fire, Bad Bunny, Houston's Don Toliver, 167 00:12:16,652 --> 00:12:18,696 and even Master P are expected to be there. 168 00:12:18,779 --> 00:12:22,700 Good luck if you don't have a ticket, because the show is sold out. 169 00:12:22,783 --> 00:12:26,620 Headed to Astroworld, man. We got this, y'all. We out. 170 00:12:35,087 --> 00:12:38,466 When I heard that Astroworld 2021 was happening, 171 00:12:39,508 --> 00:12:41,802 I immediately reached out to our team 172 00:12:42,887 --> 00:12:46,140 and was like, "2021, are we back?" 173 00:12:46,223 --> 00:12:47,892 "Because I'd like to be back." 174 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:54,523 I shot all of the previous Astroworld festivals along with other photographers. 175 00:12:55,274 --> 00:12:59,028 My entire career changed once I was hired for Astroworld. 176 00:13:00,279 --> 00:13:02,615 Because it proved to Live Nation 177 00:13:02,698 --> 00:13:04,825 that I could be a part of the festival team. 178 00:13:06,744 --> 00:13:09,789 They hold so much of this industry in the palm of their hand. 179 00:13:10,289 --> 00:13:11,999 If you're working in live music, 180 00:13:12,541 --> 00:13:16,962 there's a really high chance that you're working for Live Nation. 181 00:13:19,173 --> 00:13:23,052 So by talking about what happened at Astroworld, 182 00:13:25,262 --> 00:13:29,683 I know that I'm jeopardizing my career, ultimately. 183 00:13:34,647 --> 00:13:38,692 Astroworld 2021, it was a Live Nation concert. 184 00:13:38,776 --> 00:13:41,987 Live Nation is the driving force 185 00:13:42,071 --> 00:13:44,698 in the live entertainment industry globally. 186 00:13:45,658 --> 00:13:49,995 Live Nation works with the most iconic artists in the touring world. 187 00:13:51,747 --> 00:13:54,208 Concerts, festivals, 188 00:13:54,291 --> 00:13:56,585 artist management, and ticketing. 189 00:13:57,837 --> 00:13:59,046 They're running the game. 190 00:13:59,755 --> 00:14:02,383 We're the largest concert company in the world by far. 191 00:14:02,466 --> 00:14:04,969 So we think the festival business is incredible business. 192 00:14:05,052 --> 00:14:08,556 There's a boom going on in America. Highest margin piece of our business. 193 00:14:08,639 --> 00:14:11,225 So think of us as Disneyland for live. 194 00:14:13,936 --> 00:14:16,105 Going into Astroworld, hearing that Live Nation 195 00:14:16,188 --> 00:14:18,816 is working with Travis, was like, "Oh, all right." 196 00:14:19,733 --> 00:14:22,236 He's valuable, he makes people money, 197 00:14:22,736 --> 00:14:24,154 and he makes people feel good. 198 00:14:24,238 --> 00:14:25,656 You can't beat that. 199 00:14:29,743 --> 00:14:31,287 Live Nation are gonna see that, 200 00:14:31,370 --> 00:14:33,998 and they're gonna be like, "Word, let's work with him." 201 00:14:34,999 --> 00:14:37,751 "He's one of the biggest stars. Let's make this poppin'." 202 00:14:53,183 --> 00:14:55,728 The morning of the first day of the festival, 203 00:14:56,896 --> 00:15:00,649 I was shocked at how big the festival had grown. 204 00:15:04,236 --> 00:15:07,072 There was a whole stage dedicated to just Travis. 205 00:15:08,115 --> 00:15:09,825 It wasn't gonna be used all day. 206 00:15:17,124 --> 00:15:23,797 We were instructed to lean into the fans and the chaos. 207 00:15:23,881 --> 00:15:27,134 The promo video that they put out showed footage from 2019 208 00:15:27,217 --> 00:15:30,512 of the fans breaking down the fences to get in. 209 00:15:30,596 --> 00:15:33,682 Astroworld Fest in full swing but now with extra security. 210 00:15:33,766 --> 00:15:35,559 We want to show you what it looked like 211 00:15:35,643 --> 00:15:38,145 when the festival opened its doors today. 212 00:15:38,228 --> 00:15:43,484 It was stressed to us that we try and match that energy, 213 00:15:44,068 --> 00:15:46,028 showing how crazy it all is. 214 00:15:57,414 --> 00:16:00,209 We got ready to shoot doors. 215 00:16:04,713 --> 00:16:07,508 It's gonna be crazy. We know kids are gonna run in. 216 00:16:07,591 --> 00:16:10,511 They're gonna try and get to merch or get on the barricade. 217 00:16:13,806 --> 00:16:15,641 It was palpable, 218 00:16:15,724 --> 00:16:17,226 the energy and the excitement. 219 00:16:26,443 --> 00:16:29,863 We were working as security guards at Astroworld in 2021. 220 00:16:30,489 --> 00:16:33,242 A friend of mine had made a post asking, 221 00:16:33,325 --> 00:16:36,286 "Do anybody want to work the Travis Scott concert?" 222 00:16:36,370 --> 00:16:38,831 I looked at my uncle like, "You wanna do it?" 223 00:16:38,914 --> 00:16:42,626 I didn't know much about Astroworld. Just, you know, heard about Travis Scott. 224 00:16:46,964 --> 00:16:49,258 I'm in the space where everything counts. 225 00:16:49,341 --> 00:16:51,218 I'm 27 years old. 226 00:16:51,301 --> 00:16:54,763 I got five children, and my finances gotta make sense, you know? 227 00:16:56,098 --> 00:16:58,017 So I was blowing the number up. 228 00:16:58,517 --> 00:17:01,854 Like, "Look, I'm all the way ready. I'm all the way prepared." 229 00:17:01,937 --> 00:17:03,731 "If you're looking for somebody, I'm the guy." 230 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:13,657 This all happened in literally one and two o'clock in the morning. 231 00:17:14,199 --> 00:17:16,577 The day before the concert. 232 00:17:20,372 --> 00:17:23,042 They hit us back and told us to wear all black. 233 00:17:26,670 --> 00:17:29,715 And be there for 5:30 in the morning, and we were there. 234 00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:43,270 The only instructions that we had 235 00:17:43,353 --> 00:17:46,523 came from other workers that was working with us. 236 00:17:48,776 --> 00:17:51,987 And they were like, "Hey, they're gonna rush the gates." 237 00:17:52,071 --> 00:17:53,197 "So y'all be ready." 238 00:17:58,744 --> 00:18:02,831 It started immediately, as soon as they let the gates open. 239 00:18:03,874 --> 00:18:05,209 And it didn't really stop. 240 00:18:05,292 --> 00:18:07,711 Hey, they're rushing in. 241 00:18:08,545 --> 00:18:10,839 Oh my God! 242 00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:13,175 They in the festival! 243 00:18:21,725 --> 00:18:22,726 Let's go. 244 00:18:26,396 --> 00:18:29,483 We were going over the hill to hold the barricades 245 00:18:29,566 --> 00:18:31,610 and try to stop everybody from bombing in. 246 00:18:37,825 --> 00:18:39,451 These fans were little. 247 00:18:40,285 --> 00:18:42,454 Slow it down. Stop! 248 00:18:42,538 --> 00:18:44,164 But there's so many. 249 00:18:46,166 --> 00:18:48,210 It didn't matter how big you were. 250 00:18:48,293 --> 00:18:51,088 It was more than what I had bargained for. 251 00:18:57,886 --> 00:18:59,471 Kids are gonna be kids. 252 00:19:00,347 --> 00:19:02,099 Young people do young people stuff. 253 00:19:02,182 --> 00:19:05,477 Doesn't make it right or acceptable, but I understand it. 254 00:19:07,521 --> 00:19:10,691 Astroworld Festival paid for the Houston Police Department 255 00:19:11,191 --> 00:19:12,818 to provide police security. 256 00:19:13,986 --> 00:19:18,073 We don't have any control over the planning, the strategies, 257 00:19:18,157 --> 00:19:19,867 security guards, any of that stuff. 258 00:19:19,950 --> 00:19:21,577 We're there for law enforcement. 259 00:19:25,414 --> 00:19:28,625 What was going on was so totally predictable. 260 00:19:30,294 --> 00:19:33,005 There didn't seem to be any contingency plans or mitigating. 261 00:19:33,589 --> 00:19:35,591 - Yes, sir! - Yeah! 262 00:19:36,133 --> 00:19:38,343 They lost all control of the entry points. 263 00:19:41,305 --> 00:19:43,223 People were getting in unticketed. 264 00:19:48,395 --> 00:19:50,647 And it was just overwhelming chaos. 265 00:19:52,691 --> 00:19:56,653 We worked on trying to just get some control over this situation. 266 00:19:56,737 --> 00:20:02,201 Get the fuck back! Get back! Go. Go that way! 267 00:20:04,703 --> 00:20:07,080 Travis Scott had developed a reputation. 268 00:20:08,165 --> 00:20:12,628 We had seen crowd management issues at other festivals. 269 00:20:12,711 --> 00:20:15,172 Yeah! 270 00:20:15,255 --> 00:20:18,508 Straight from Mexico Call her Quintana 271 00:20:18,592 --> 00:20:19,676 Come here, kid. 272 00:20:22,179 --> 00:20:23,972 You tried to take my shoe? 273 00:20:24,848 --> 00:20:26,099 You wanna be a thief? 274 00:20:27,017 --> 00:20:29,937 Fuck him up! 275 00:20:30,687 --> 00:20:33,398 Fuck that kid! 276 00:20:33,482 --> 00:20:37,236 They're gonna catch you. Don't be scared. Don't be scared! 277 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:38,987 Five, four… 278 00:20:42,658 --> 00:20:45,369 We want rage! We want rage! 279 00:20:45,452 --> 00:20:47,788 Chaos in the crowds at Lollapalooza. 280 00:20:48,830 --> 00:20:50,999 All the security, back the fuck up! 281 00:20:53,877 --> 00:20:56,755 A performer is charged with causing the commotion 282 00:20:56,838 --> 00:20:59,758 that sent fans over security barricades. 283 00:21:04,888 --> 00:21:10,102 That type of energy requires a high, high level of planning. 284 00:21:14,648 --> 00:21:18,193 Generally speaking, you don't want to go to a concert with me, you know. 285 00:21:18,277 --> 00:21:20,362 Um, it's hard to turn off. 286 00:21:22,239 --> 00:21:25,784 I provide public safety management in high-risk environments. 287 00:21:26,493 --> 00:21:30,956 In an ideal scenario, we're brought on for the site design of an event. 288 00:21:31,540 --> 00:21:33,417 More often than not, we're brought on 289 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:36,420 after some sort of critical incident has occurred. 290 00:21:38,463 --> 00:21:41,717 In the aftermath of the Astroworld tragedy, 291 00:21:42,843 --> 00:21:45,137 I was asked to work with Live Nation. 292 00:21:46,388 --> 00:21:48,890 I wanted to look honestly at what occurred. 293 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,687 I was in receipt of a treasure trove of evidence. 294 00:21:55,564 --> 00:21:59,860 This was not a case of missing red flags. 295 00:22:00,944 --> 00:22:05,615 This was a case of ignoring blaring warning sirens. 296 00:22:06,825 --> 00:22:09,786 I was shocked by… by what I found. 297 00:22:15,042 --> 00:22:19,129 Travis Scott's much-anticipated Astroworld Festival is in full swing. 298 00:22:19,212 --> 00:22:21,465 The event is two days 299 00:22:21,548 --> 00:22:24,843 and is expected to attract tens of thousands of music lovers. 300 00:22:25,510 --> 00:22:27,763 We're here at motherfucking Astroworld. 301 00:22:27,846 --> 00:22:31,808 We're lit. I just broke two fingernails in the first hour. 302 00:22:31,892 --> 00:22:33,268 Big Astroworld. 303 00:22:35,062 --> 00:22:37,564 - Astroworld day! - Let's go! 304 00:22:38,732 --> 00:22:40,108 Hey, we are here. 305 00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:42,611 It is day one Astroworld Fest. 306 00:22:43,737 --> 00:22:45,697 How many times have you been here before? 307 00:22:45,781 --> 00:22:47,032 This is our first time. 308 00:22:47,115 --> 00:22:49,701 - Where are you from? - I'm from Houston. 309 00:22:49,785 --> 00:22:54,247 Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! 310 00:22:58,335 --> 00:23:00,337 Who are you most excited to see? 311 00:23:00,420 --> 00:23:01,838 Oh, my gosh. You go first. 312 00:23:01,922 --> 00:23:03,924 A couple, but of course, Travis Scott. 313 00:23:07,010 --> 00:23:08,345 It's a carefree world. 314 00:23:10,806 --> 00:23:12,265 Hey! 315 00:23:13,433 --> 00:23:15,644 Wanna walk around with your clothes off? Do it. 316 00:23:17,896 --> 00:23:21,108 You can do whatever you want because you're in Astroworld now. 317 00:23:23,151 --> 00:23:26,655 There's people that are just like you who are just like… 318 00:23:30,992 --> 00:23:34,454 This isn't just a concert. This is, like, a playground. 319 00:23:34,538 --> 00:23:36,832 This is crazy. I liked it a lot. 320 00:23:38,875 --> 00:23:41,837 So it was Mikaela, Bri, and Talia. 321 00:23:42,754 --> 00:23:46,633 They were all having a really good time because it was their first Astroworld. 322 00:23:51,054 --> 00:23:54,391 Seeing the mountain, you know it's gonna be a good show. 323 00:23:54,474 --> 00:23:57,686 It just gave you more of a rush. Like, "What does he have planned?" 324 00:24:02,691 --> 00:24:04,901 So I was on assignment for Billboard. 325 00:24:05,902 --> 00:24:09,281 I was walking around the festival. Everybody was enjoying the games. 326 00:24:09,364 --> 00:24:10,574 Heave that ball! 327 00:24:12,701 --> 00:24:14,619 They had a mini rollercoaster. 328 00:24:16,621 --> 00:24:18,415 It felt like a theme park. 329 00:24:18,498 --> 00:24:23,211 Where in the world but Astroworld Can you have so much fun? 330 00:24:24,212 --> 00:24:27,757 Astroworld Six Flags in Houston was a legendary theme park. 331 00:24:27,841 --> 00:24:29,426 All of a sudden it closed down. 332 00:24:29,926 --> 00:24:32,053 Turn out the lights. The party's over. 333 00:24:32,137 --> 00:24:35,557 Thirty-seven years of Houston history have come to a close. 334 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,810 Six Flags Astroworld has shut down for good this evening. 335 00:24:38,894 --> 00:24:42,105 Then Travis came into the picture and started talking about it. 336 00:24:42,772 --> 00:24:44,441 I grew up here. 337 00:24:44,941 --> 00:24:46,610 I was inspired by Astroworld. 338 00:24:47,903 --> 00:24:51,740 When they took it away, um, it kind of took a big piece of my heart away. 339 00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:55,535 It ended up becoming his album. 340 00:24:56,036 --> 00:24:58,747 You know, he kept building the lore of that. 341 00:24:59,456 --> 00:25:02,959 That kind of awoken the kid in his fans. 342 00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:10,342 The older you get, the more you separate from your adolescence. 343 00:25:10,425 --> 00:25:13,512 With Travis doing that, he kind of brought us back to it. 344 00:25:18,308 --> 00:25:21,436 We were so excited that we were in Astroworld. 345 00:25:24,189 --> 00:25:26,608 So we took pictures everywhere. 346 00:25:33,031 --> 00:25:36,326 I remember I was so excited I took a selfie in the porta-potty. 347 00:25:37,911 --> 00:25:40,247 I was in the porta-potty, but at Astroworld. 348 00:25:40,330 --> 00:25:42,040 I need to see that. That's funny. 349 00:25:45,877 --> 00:25:47,629 We were flying in the air. 350 00:25:50,257 --> 00:25:52,342 Rudy would always like, "Take me a picture!" 351 00:25:53,343 --> 00:25:54,844 Find a spot. "Take me a picture." 352 00:25:55,887 --> 00:25:59,975 He knew what trends were going on, what the vibe was. 353 00:26:00,058 --> 00:26:01,768 He had all the swag. 354 00:26:03,061 --> 00:26:04,354 Look at the stage. 355 00:26:07,107 --> 00:26:08,107 Hey! 356 00:26:09,859 --> 00:26:10,859 Astroworld! 357 00:26:15,615 --> 00:26:19,703 You guys gotta get the merch! Get the merch! Yes, sir! 358 00:26:20,829 --> 00:26:24,791 I was a really big Travis Scott fan. And I loved the energy it brings. 359 00:26:25,292 --> 00:26:27,961 If you really love the artist and what they stand for, 360 00:26:28,044 --> 00:26:31,339 you just want to represent them in any way you can, you know. 361 00:26:31,423 --> 00:26:34,759 So we waited four hours in line for the merch. 362 00:26:36,177 --> 00:26:39,347 It was under the scorching sun too. It was pretty bad. 363 00:26:40,557 --> 00:26:42,684 I held onto my merch the whole time. 364 00:26:44,144 --> 00:26:47,105 And I have a really bad habit of getting FOMO. 365 00:26:47,188 --> 00:26:49,316 This is where Travis Scott's gonna perform. 366 00:26:49,399 --> 00:26:51,943 - We're checking it out. - 8:45 we're gonna be right here. 367 00:26:54,529 --> 00:26:58,658 So I just went immediately to Travis' stage, and I camped it out. 368 00:27:05,999 --> 00:27:08,293 I said! 369 00:27:08,376 --> 00:27:11,755 Skrrt, skrrt on niggas Skrrt up on niggas! 370 00:27:11,838 --> 00:27:14,382 Skrrt down, you acting like me! 371 00:27:14,466 --> 00:27:16,843 - She acting like… - Acting like me 372 00:27:16,926 --> 00:27:18,470 SZA was so much fun. 373 00:27:18,553 --> 00:27:21,181 I… I danced. I was singing my heart out. 374 00:27:21,264 --> 00:27:25,685 Baby, hold me '?ause I like the way you groove 375 00:27:26,811 --> 00:27:30,148 SZA is, like, finishing her songs. 376 00:27:31,691 --> 00:27:33,401 We know the set is almost over. 377 00:27:33,485 --> 00:27:35,487 Everybody, have a good night! 378 00:27:36,780 --> 00:27:39,324 We see people kind of start to leave. 379 00:27:40,367 --> 00:27:41,493 We follow the people. 380 00:27:41,576 --> 00:27:44,037 - Let's go! - It's fucking Disneyland. 381 00:27:45,789 --> 00:27:47,791 We're going to Travis' set. 382 00:27:49,084 --> 00:27:50,084 Let's go. 383 00:27:52,295 --> 00:27:55,298 I was like, "Let me make sure I get to a good spot for Travis." 384 00:27:56,132 --> 00:27:58,218 You had to turn this corner. 385 00:27:58,968 --> 00:28:01,429 And once you turned the corner, it was just boom. 386 00:28:02,389 --> 00:28:03,765 I was just like, "Wow." 387 00:28:07,394 --> 00:28:09,938 We sort of just followed that group of people, you know? 388 00:28:10,772 --> 00:28:13,692 But that's when it started getting pretty hectic. 389 00:28:13,775 --> 00:28:15,402 We lost each other. 390 00:28:16,736 --> 00:28:18,446 Wow, this place is fucking dope. 391 00:28:24,661 --> 00:28:27,497 When I agreed to work Astroworld, I was excited. 392 00:28:28,206 --> 00:28:32,627 I thought I would just show up as a paramedic. Just walk around. 393 00:28:34,129 --> 00:28:35,588 Enjoy some music, 394 00:28:36,965 --> 00:28:38,258 make some easy money. 395 00:28:39,759 --> 00:28:43,805 You know, because I've always told myself, if I have to do real paramedic work, 396 00:28:44,431 --> 00:28:47,142 someone else is having a really bad day. 397 00:28:52,522 --> 00:28:56,359 When we arrived at the stage, there was a countdown clock. 398 00:28:56,443 --> 00:28:59,154 It was counting down until Travis Scott came out. 399 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:01,948 And I just remember thinking, 400 00:29:02,031 --> 00:29:05,034 "We gotta get closer before the timer goes, so we can see him." 401 00:29:05,785 --> 00:29:08,705 "It's gonna get crazy. You're gonna have a great time." 402 00:29:11,499 --> 00:29:12,625 Okay, let's go! 403 00:29:12,709 --> 00:29:16,254 So once that clock got up, it got a little bit tighter. 404 00:29:16,337 --> 00:29:19,549 Yeah! 405 00:29:19,632 --> 00:29:23,303 When it got to that last minute, it got even more tighter. 406 00:29:23,386 --> 00:29:28,558 USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! 407 00:29:29,267 --> 00:29:34,105 It's time to see Travis Scott. People were trying to get in the front. 408 00:29:35,106 --> 00:29:36,107 Appreciate it. 409 00:29:38,485 --> 00:29:40,820 We're trying to tell Manny and Marshall, 410 00:29:40,904 --> 00:29:43,364 "Hey, we're here. Come with us. We got a good spot." 411 00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:44,824 I couldn't get close to them. 412 00:29:45,533 --> 00:29:48,787 It was so quick, so quick, that it just got packed. 413 00:29:54,125 --> 00:29:56,920 Mikaela's looking at my face like, "Is this normal?" 414 00:29:57,003 --> 00:29:58,922 Well, we're here, Astroworld. 415 00:29:59,672 --> 00:30:02,342 I'm fucking dying out of breath in this bitch. 416 00:30:02,425 --> 00:30:05,303 - And everybody else is dying… - Get him up! 417 00:30:05,386 --> 00:30:09,140 And I'm kind of just like, "This really isn't normal." 418 00:30:09,224 --> 00:30:13,102 Ten, nine, eight, 419 00:30:13,186 --> 00:30:18,817 seven, six, five, four, three, two, one… 420 00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:33,331 The music started playing and everyone just… 421 00:30:33,414 --> 00:30:35,792 You just felt your whole body just move forward. 422 00:30:45,301 --> 00:30:46,511 Let's go! 423 00:30:50,682 --> 00:30:53,810 Go! Go! Go! Go! 424 00:30:59,107 --> 00:31:01,860 Twelve-figure estate plan That was the escape plan 425 00:31:01,943 --> 00:31:04,279 But hate investigatin' That shit was a… 426 00:31:04,362 --> 00:31:08,116 I stopped the facin' 'Cause shit just start erasin' 427 00:31:08,199 --> 00:31:11,369 It opened gates And this shit just start paradin' 428 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:13,997 He came out to "Escape Plan." 429 00:31:16,124 --> 00:31:17,333 Let's go! 430 00:31:20,545 --> 00:31:22,505 It felt like an earthquake. 431 00:31:22,589 --> 00:31:25,675 My body was jumping up like this. 432 00:31:25,758 --> 00:31:27,051 It was wild. 433 00:31:30,430 --> 00:31:34,434 And of course, he's giving that to his fans. He wants that back. 434 00:31:34,517 --> 00:31:39,564 Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! 435 00:31:39,647 --> 00:31:43,651 During that first minute, whenever Travis just entered the stage. 436 00:31:44,277 --> 00:31:46,029 And then everyone's really hype. 437 00:31:47,614 --> 00:31:49,866 And everyone's body moves forward. 438 00:31:51,826 --> 00:31:53,578 And then the wave comes back. 439 00:31:53,661 --> 00:31:56,623 It's stuck like magnets do I put you in that magnitude 440 00:31:56,706 --> 00:31:59,083 I embrace the pussy I'm not tryna embarrass you 441 00:31:59,167 --> 00:32:01,252 That was like being stuffed 442 00:32:01,336 --> 00:32:04,213 into one little spot and just being squeezed. 443 00:32:04,797 --> 00:32:06,591 Houston! 444 00:32:11,304 --> 00:32:13,348 Yeah! 445 00:32:16,184 --> 00:32:18,436 I'm like, "Oh, my God. I can't breathe." 446 00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:21,648 "I can't take a deep breath." 447 00:32:22,148 --> 00:32:23,900 It was full-blown panic. 448 00:32:26,819 --> 00:32:29,364 I started to feel a certain fear. 449 00:32:30,031 --> 00:32:34,327 That's when I feel like I was like, "Hold on. This is not okay." 450 00:32:35,745 --> 00:32:37,038 She can't breathe! 451 00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:41,000 I was center stage. 452 00:32:44,337 --> 00:32:47,590 It's, like, secured area where they were supposed to be empty 453 00:32:47,674 --> 00:32:50,718 to allow for medical personnel and security to get through. 454 00:32:52,887 --> 00:32:55,640 People were already coming over the edge. 455 00:33:00,395 --> 00:33:01,604 Give me your other hand! 456 00:33:05,650 --> 00:33:08,236 That's typical in any concert that I've been to. 457 00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:11,698 People get hot. They get tired. They pass out. 458 00:33:12,907 --> 00:33:15,410 I didn't know it was gonna happen to this magnitude. 459 00:33:16,411 --> 00:33:18,496 People just kept coming and coming. 460 00:33:23,584 --> 00:33:25,837 When we got to the main stage situation, 461 00:33:26,838 --> 00:33:27,839 it was crazy. 462 00:33:29,132 --> 00:33:32,135 Anywhere you look, you seen somebody 463 00:33:32,218 --> 00:33:37,223 either hyperventilating, changing colors, or that wanted help out of there. 464 00:33:40,393 --> 00:33:43,563 I had helped out maybe 20 people 465 00:33:43,646 --> 00:33:46,065 in my little section right there, just me alone. 466 00:33:47,191 --> 00:33:50,361 I was positioned in the left-hand of the cross. 467 00:33:55,241 --> 00:33:57,160 Once Travis was on stage, 468 00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:02,040 I kind of just went into work mode, 469 00:34:02,915 --> 00:34:04,250 like everybody else. 470 00:34:06,085 --> 00:34:08,921 And tried to get my shots, 471 00:34:09,839 --> 00:34:12,967 trying to do what I was told, which was lean into the chaos. 472 00:34:14,761 --> 00:34:17,388 There were people wanting to come over the railing. 473 00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:21,184 When I saw the condition they were in when they were coming over, 474 00:34:21,267 --> 00:34:23,644 I… thought, 475 00:34:25,396 --> 00:34:26,981 "It must be really bad up there." 476 00:34:35,448 --> 00:34:37,658 It became overwhelming real fast. 477 00:34:38,493 --> 00:34:42,872 And I remember thinking to myself, "What the hell is going on?" 478 00:34:45,666 --> 00:34:48,586 One thing that was different about Astroworld 2021 479 00:34:48,669 --> 00:34:53,299 was that Travis had kept his own stage unused all day until his performance. 480 00:34:56,177 --> 00:35:00,515 This meant thousands of concertgoers moved to his stage at the same time. 481 00:35:01,974 --> 00:35:04,435 Compounding this dangerous situation 482 00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:08,606 was the fact that the concertgoers were approaching the stage from the side, 483 00:35:08,689 --> 00:35:11,400 pushing into a T-shaped barrier system. 484 00:35:13,444 --> 00:35:15,988 This was supposed to make the stage safer. 485 00:35:16,072 --> 00:35:19,033 But instead, its configuration created a trap 486 00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:21,035 on the left-hand side of the stage. 487 00:35:24,288 --> 00:35:27,542 And so the compression just built and built 488 00:35:27,625 --> 00:35:29,210 where people could not escape. 489 00:35:33,756 --> 00:35:35,133 People were pushing left, 490 00:35:35,216 --> 00:35:38,177 people were pushing right, to the back, to the front. 491 00:35:38,261 --> 00:35:40,054 There was just no space. 492 00:35:56,195 --> 00:35:58,865 I wasn't even, like, breathing right, 493 00:35:58,948 --> 00:36:03,077 so I had to look up, trying to calm my breathing down. 494 00:36:03,161 --> 00:36:05,621 It was a nightmare. That's the best way I could put it. 495 00:36:06,873 --> 00:36:09,250 Well, Rudy was behind me the whole time. 496 00:36:10,042 --> 00:36:11,878 Rudy told me, "I can't breathe, man." 497 00:36:13,713 --> 00:36:15,840 And I just told him, "Try and relax, man." 498 00:36:16,924 --> 00:36:18,259 "Just drink some water." 499 00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:28,477 The crowd was swaying, and I was swaying with the crowd 500 00:36:28,561 --> 00:36:31,189 because it was so tight I had no control over my body. 501 00:36:33,524 --> 00:36:35,234 And I just remember thinking, 502 00:36:35,318 --> 00:36:37,653 "Don't fall down because you won't make it back up." 503 00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:39,864 Help! Please! Help! 504 00:36:42,158 --> 00:36:45,494 One of those waves just hit both me and Bri. 505 00:36:49,540 --> 00:36:50,833 We all fell to our backs. 506 00:36:57,256 --> 00:36:59,342 I could hear her in pain. 507 00:37:00,092 --> 00:37:03,638 You know, asking, "Help me get out," and stuff like that. 508 00:37:09,310 --> 00:37:12,188 I was the second layer. There was people under me. 509 00:37:12,271 --> 00:37:15,900 And then me falling on my back, and then people stacking on top of me. 510 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,237 And I felt like the more I kept fighting it, 511 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:20,947 the more I was wasting energy. 512 00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:23,574 Like if you're holding your breath underwater. 513 00:37:30,915 --> 00:37:33,626 I could feel the oxygen just leaving my body. 514 00:37:36,128 --> 00:37:39,715 All those pains, all those panicking moments. Um… 515 00:37:41,342 --> 00:37:42,551 I'm sorry, I just… 516 00:37:43,928 --> 00:37:44,929 Um… 517 00:37:47,556 --> 00:37:49,767 - Help! - I know! We're trying! 518 00:37:55,189 --> 00:38:00,987 Help, help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! 519 00:38:01,070 --> 00:38:03,572 Houston 911, do you need medical, police, or fire? 520 00:38:03,656 --> 00:38:05,825 We're at the Astroworld concert. 521 00:38:05,908 --> 00:38:08,536 It's getting really fucking dangerous. 522 00:38:08,619 --> 00:38:10,162 It needs to stop. 523 00:38:11,122 --> 00:38:14,750 - What are you reporting? - Everyone's piled on each other. 524 00:38:16,877 --> 00:38:19,255 Wait, you're good. 525 00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:25,970 Man. It was crazy, man. 526 00:38:31,142 --> 00:38:34,145 There's people over here screaming for help. 527 00:38:34,228 --> 00:38:38,190 But then you look to the right, and there's people having a fun time. 528 00:38:38,774 --> 00:38:41,861 The rest of the people seemed to have no idea what was going on. 529 00:38:42,361 --> 00:38:44,530 Bounce! 530 00:38:44,613 --> 00:38:46,032 Everybody! 531 00:38:52,913 --> 00:38:54,123 Help! 532 00:38:55,416 --> 00:38:58,878 Help! Help! 533 00:39:00,588 --> 00:39:01,547 Yo! 534 00:39:01,630 --> 00:39:05,718 I don't know how long I was under there but it felt like forever. 535 00:39:06,927 --> 00:39:09,013 And then people moved off of me. 536 00:39:09,722 --> 00:39:12,183 I saw someone's face. They looked at me. 537 00:39:12,975 --> 00:39:14,101 He pulled me out. 538 00:39:17,104 --> 00:39:19,190 How am I gonna get up? Oh, shit. 539 00:39:20,775 --> 00:39:24,737 And I just remember feeling so many different things. 540 00:39:24,820 --> 00:39:25,863 Where's Mikaela? 541 00:39:26,447 --> 00:39:27,907 Uh, did Bri get out? 542 00:39:31,911 --> 00:39:34,080 I looked for Mikaela. I found her. 543 00:39:35,373 --> 00:39:36,791 She was asking me questions. 544 00:39:36,874 --> 00:39:39,001 "Where's everybody? You saw them get out?" 545 00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:46,175 I knew where I saw Bri. 546 00:39:48,761 --> 00:39:52,890 Anyone who was at the same level as me was not receiving oxygen. 547 00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:57,853 I just remember kind of panicking in that moment, like, let's try to stop this. 548 00:40:05,945 --> 00:40:08,781 I went up the ladder to get on the camera platform. 549 00:40:10,032 --> 00:40:11,867 I was just yelling, "Stop the show." 550 00:40:11,951 --> 00:40:14,703 - People are fucking dying! - Get the fuck down, bitch. 551 00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:18,791 Y'all weren't in there, bro! Shut the fuck up! 552 00:40:19,333 --> 00:40:21,544 Y'all weren't in there. People are fucking dying. 553 00:40:21,627 --> 00:40:24,046 I'm trying to save somebody's life. That's somebody's kid. 554 00:40:24,130 --> 00:40:27,842 - Two hands to the sky. - I want to save them. 555 00:40:27,925 --> 00:40:29,593 Calm down. 556 00:40:29,677 --> 00:40:31,387 I felt like nobody was on my side. 557 00:40:32,304 --> 00:40:35,808 Except there was this one person. And then I was like, "I'm not alone." 558 00:40:35,891 --> 00:40:38,644 - There's someone dying! - Stop the show! 559 00:40:39,812 --> 00:40:42,815 Stop the show! Stop the show! 560 00:40:44,942 --> 00:40:46,110 I felt like I'm helpless. 561 00:40:47,987 --> 00:40:50,865 I knew Bri was in that area still struggling. 562 00:40:57,079 --> 00:40:59,206 I just wanted to find some help. 563 00:41:06,547 --> 00:41:08,549 Yeah 564 00:41:08,632 --> 00:41:11,677 Custom the things Custom the wings 565 00:41:12,219 --> 00:41:14,221 I had to custom the vibe 566 00:41:14,305 --> 00:41:19,643 I get pulled to a patient that's on the ground. 567 00:41:19,727 --> 00:41:23,355 And I cannot ascertain a pulse. 568 00:41:25,191 --> 00:41:26,817 I need to start CPR. 569 00:41:29,195 --> 00:41:32,072 I needed a life pack, a defibrillator. 570 00:41:32,698 --> 00:41:34,366 I needed a lot of stuff. 571 00:41:35,659 --> 00:41:40,247 I key up my radio, and I'm communicating with command center. 572 00:41:40,331 --> 00:41:44,168 "I have a patient down. CPR is in progress." 573 00:41:44,251 --> 00:41:46,420 They were a little shocked and taken aback. 574 00:41:46,504 --> 00:41:50,090 Because they asked me to repeat, "Hey, did you say CPR in progress?" 575 00:41:54,845 --> 00:41:57,932 They have to stop the show because there's people trampled. 576 00:41:59,350 --> 00:42:00,851 They're not breathing. 577 00:42:01,477 --> 00:42:03,395 Multiple reports of people being injured. 578 00:42:03,479 --> 00:42:07,316 We have another report of a cardiac situation with CPR by the stage. 579 00:42:10,236 --> 00:42:15,157 In the commotion, the pressure of people, I… I lost my balance, and I fell. 580 00:42:17,910 --> 00:42:20,538 I fell on something. I fell on someone. 581 00:42:23,457 --> 00:42:25,501 And I just remember feeling, like, pressure. 582 00:42:26,001 --> 00:42:29,421 Like… Like… Like… Because people were falling on me. 583 00:42:30,089 --> 00:42:35,594 Hey! Help! 584 00:42:48,774 --> 00:42:50,985 I remember looking up 585 00:42:51,777 --> 00:42:54,572 and just being like, "I'm gonna die here." 586 00:42:58,450 --> 00:43:01,161 And then someone saw my hand. 587 00:43:05,124 --> 00:43:06,667 And they helped me up. 588 00:43:13,465 --> 00:43:16,594 And I had got myself together, and I'm still shocked 589 00:43:16,677 --> 00:43:19,179 because I'm like, "What just happened?" 590 00:43:29,648 --> 00:43:32,776 Around that time, people were starting to pile up 591 00:43:33,736 --> 00:43:34,736 around me. 592 00:43:39,742 --> 00:43:41,493 It almost made me feel like 593 00:43:42,161 --> 00:43:43,245 I was going crazy, 594 00:43:43,329 --> 00:43:47,207 like it wasn't actually happening, because surely, they would stop the show. 595 00:43:47,291 --> 00:43:50,252 If it was as bad as it looked, they would stop the show, right? 596 00:43:56,008 --> 00:43:57,009 Travis! 597 00:43:59,261 --> 00:44:01,388 Travis Scott is playing this whole time. 598 00:44:04,099 --> 00:44:05,976 I was in shock, I was shaking. 599 00:44:07,353 --> 00:44:11,774 And at this point, I was like, "I have to be out there helping people 600 00:44:11,857 --> 00:44:13,859 because I'm a registered nurse." 601 00:44:14,526 --> 00:44:16,362 And there was this guy on the floor. 602 00:44:20,115 --> 00:44:21,867 I do my assessment on him. 603 00:44:22,409 --> 00:44:24,870 He has a pulse, but it's really faint. 604 00:44:26,455 --> 00:44:29,833 I grab his legs, and I just remember putting them up. 605 00:44:31,377 --> 00:44:32,878 I'm doing sternum rubs. 606 00:44:35,130 --> 00:44:38,717 I was like, "I really hope this works. I really, really hope this works." 607 00:44:40,302 --> 00:44:42,846 And then his chest went from not moving 608 00:44:43,472 --> 00:44:45,224 to, like, rising and falling. 609 00:44:47,351 --> 00:44:48,977 His eyes opened up. 610 00:44:52,064 --> 00:44:55,901 Like, "He's breathing! He's breathing! He's opening his eyes!" 611 00:44:55,984 --> 00:44:57,403 I'm like…"Okay." 612 00:45:01,365 --> 00:45:03,951 I was fighting for my life at that point. 613 00:45:04,451 --> 00:45:07,204 I was practically being suffocated to death. 614 00:45:08,872 --> 00:45:12,042 What led up to me passing out was like a heart attack. 615 00:45:15,045 --> 00:45:18,215 The doctors really had to explain to me what had really happened. 616 00:45:19,007 --> 00:45:22,428 And I was like, "Holy shit, she, you know, brought me back to life." 617 00:45:22,511 --> 00:45:23,762 "She was there for me." 618 00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:30,936 And I'm like, "God bless her." 619 00:45:37,609 --> 00:45:38,861 Yeah. 620 00:45:42,740 --> 00:45:47,077 Oh, oh, oh… 621 00:45:48,203 --> 00:45:51,540 Play it slowly. Somebody help him. Somebody passed out right here. 622 00:45:52,875 --> 00:45:55,794 Somebody passed out right here. Hold on. Don't touch him. 623 00:45:55,878 --> 00:45:57,337 Everybody, just back up. 624 00:45:57,421 --> 00:45:59,882 There was a part where he stopped. 625 00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:03,093 I was a few feet away from him. 626 00:46:03,969 --> 00:46:08,891 Somebody jump in. Come on, security. Let's get in there. 627 00:46:08,974 --> 00:46:12,561 Yeah 628 00:46:13,854 --> 00:46:16,356 I remember seeing this kid being carried out. 629 00:46:18,984 --> 00:46:21,195 Normally, you see people carried out, 630 00:46:21,278 --> 00:46:23,197 they're all nestled in the person 631 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,325 or they got their arms or legs, and they're taking them out. 632 00:46:26,408 --> 00:46:30,329 I've never seen anybody carried out the way that this kid got carried out. 633 00:46:31,246 --> 00:46:32,790 Yeah 634 00:46:33,999 --> 00:46:36,210 Yeah 635 00:46:37,586 --> 00:46:39,338 Yeah 636 00:46:39,421 --> 00:46:43,634 And it looked like Travis is trying to process it 637 00:46:43,717 --> 00:46:46,094 and try to figure out what to do next. 638 00:46:46,178 --> 00:46:49,681 Stop the show! 639 00:46:49,765 --> 00:46:52,434 Standing in the ocean 640 00:46:54,311 --> 00:46:57,731 90210, 90210 641 00:47:01,485 --> 00:47:03,320 It felt like a horror movie. 642 00:47:04,696 --> 00:47:08,575 You see people going like this. You can hear the screams. 643 00:47:08,659 --> 00:47:09,785 You don't see this? 644 00:47:15,457 --> 00:47:17,292 Then he goes back to performing. 645 00:47:22,756 --> 00:47:26,260 And I'm like, "No. What are you doing, bro?" 646 00:47:29,388 --> 00:47:35,686 Any key decision maker from police, fire, EMS or Live Nation 647 00:47:35,769 --> 00:47:39,940 should have been able to very quickly initiate a show stop process, 648 00:47:41,483 --> 00:47:43,151 what should have been as simple 649 00:47:43,235 --> 00:47:46,530 as a literal or figurative button being pushed. 650 00:47:49,074 --> 00:47:50,951 But what made it confusing 651 00:47:51,034 --> 00:47:53,787 was that according to the event operations plan, 652 00:47:53,871 --> 00:47:56,206 there were only two people from Live Nation 653 00:47:56,290 --> 00:47:58,959 that had the delegated authority to stop the show. 654 00:48:03,881 --> 00:48:06,884 We're only hearing what was coming through the police line. 655 00:48:08,886 --> 00:48:12,306 They were looking for the manager from Live Nation, 656 00:48:13,599 --> 00:48:17,644 trying to locate him and to either end the concert 657 00:48:17,728 --> 00:48:20,188 or delay the concert, and they could not find him. 658 00:48:21,023 --> 00:48:24,693 Stop the show! Stop the show! 659 00:48:24,776 --> 00:48:27,237 Stop the show! Stop the show! 660 00:48:27,321 --> 00:48:28,321 Man… 661 00:48:29,990 --> 00:48:32,534 New York City has birthed a lot of good people. 662 00:48:32,618 --> 00:48:35,829 And this person was a really good friend of mine. 663 00:48:35,913 --> 00:48:36,789 And he was going… 664 00:48:36,872 --> 00:48:41,501 I've seen numerous artists stop a show. 665 00:48:43,503 --> 00:48:46,924 And not just stop here or there, make sure somebody's okay, 666 00:48:47,799 --> 00:48:49,384 but stop the show. 667 00:48:51,386 --> 00:48:53,096 And nobody was doing that. 668 00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,432 My bitch love coco 669 00:48:55,515 --> 00:48:56,600 Yeah 670 00:48:57,100 --> 00:48:58,894 Woo back, baby 671 00:49:00,562 --> 00:49:01,855 Let's go, y'all 672 00:49:01,939 --> 00:49:03,982 Let me see some 673 00:49:04,066 --> 00:49:06,318 Okay, okay 674 00:49:07,152 --> 00:49:09,029 You cannot say Pop And forget the Smoke 675 00:49:09,112 --> 00:49:10,781 I'm from the Floss Where niggas tote 676 00:49:10,864 --> 00:49:12,449 They couldn't be Crips 677 00:49:12,532 --> 00:49:13,533 Droppin' the cho 678 00:49:13,617 --> 00:49:15,243 I gotta laugh 'Cause these niggas jokes 679 00:49:15,327 --> 00:49:18,497 They're like, who these niggas? Who these niggas? I don't know 680 00:49:18,580 --> 00:49:19,580 Oh, what? 681 00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:29,424 We eventually make it to the medical tent, and I continue chest compressions. 682 00:49:34,930 --> 00:49:38,558 I ended up getting a pulse back, and we had vital signs. 683 00:49:38,642 --> 00:49:40,602 We had blood pressure, which was great. 684 00:49:40,686 --> 00:49:44,272 I have this, like, sense of relief where I can just… 685 00:49:44,356 --> 00:49:47,484 …kind of rest and relax. 686 00:49:48,610 --> 00:49:52,572 And when I look up to assess what's going on around me, 687 00:49:53,573 --> 00:49:58,537 to my right, there's two other patients being worked on. 688 00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,542 Behind me, there's another patient being worked on. 689 00:50:04,751 --> 00:50:06,878 And if I look down the medical tent, 690 00:50:07,504 --> 00:50:09,923 there were two more patients being worked on. 691 00:50:10,424 --> 00:50:13,635 Anything can happen at the night show 692 00:50:15,512 --> 00:50:17,014 At the night show 693 00:50:18,557 --> 00:50:22,686 And the evidence shows that a manager from Live Nation 694 00:50:23,311 --> 00:50:26,815 finally went backstage and talked to an audio engineer. 695 00:50:27,899 --> 00:50:29,776 I have a transcript of what was said. 696 00:51:03,393 --> 00:51:05,228 When Travis Scott performs, 697 00:51:05,312 --> 00:51:09,399 that audio engineer has the ability to speak into his ears. 698 00:51:10,358 --> 00:51:11,443 You know what? 699 00:51:12,819 --> 00:51:16,281 We don't know what was actually said to Travis after that. 700 00:51:16,782 --> 00:51:20,410 Houston, I wanna see the motherfuckin' rage, and Chase B… 701 00:51:20,494 --> 00:51:24,456 But then, amid this chaos, a different conversation takes place. 702 00:51:24,539 --> 00:51:27,209 This time between police and Live Nation, 703 00:51:27,292 --> 00:51:29,294 allowing the concert more time. 704 00:51:31,338 --> 00:51:34,007 And in that time, Drake comes on stage. 705 00:51:40,889 --> 00:51:45,102 The police and organizers said they didn't want to trigger crowd panic 706 00:51:45,185 --> 00:51:48,271 by stopping abruptly, but people were dying. 707 00:51:54,486 --> 00:51:58,824 The idea of a performance continuing 708 00:51:58,907 --> 00:52:05,038 while even one CPR in progress is underway 709 00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:06,248 is insane. 710 00:52:07,207 --> 00:52:08,416 Unprecedented. 711 00:52:09,292 --> 00:52:11,628 Not to mention, multiple. 712 00:52:12,462 --> 00:52:14,840 You a little Post Oak baby 713 00:52:14,923 --> 00:52:17,509 You a little 48 baby. 714 00:52:17,592 --> 00:52:21,179 Got a little candy in her pocket She gon' take off… 715 00:52:24,349 --> 00:52:28,228 Of all the things that trouble me about this case… 716 00:52:30,856 --> 00:52:32,899 that's one thing I can't get past. 717 00:52:32,983 --> 00:52:34,943 How could they make that decision? 718 00:52:40,407 --> 00:52:42,993 Houston, Texas! My name is Travis. 719 00:52:43,076 --> 00:52:45,579 Everybody, I love y'all. Make it home safe. 720 00:52:45,662 --> 00:52:46,955 Good night! 721 00:52:59,676 --> 00:53:01,845 As soon as that concert finished, 722 00:53:02,512 --> 00:53:03,805 it was so chaotic. 723 00:53:03,889 --> 00:53:05,348 There was ambulances everywhere. 724 00:53:07,475 --> 00:53:09,060 - Move! - Open up! 725 00:53:09,144 --> 00:53:14,149 I immediately started calling Raul, calling Manny, texting the group chat. 726 00:53:14,232 --> 00:53:17,027 I got the messages, "Where are y'all? Let's meet here." 727 00:53:17,694 --> 00:53:19,237 Bro, look at this shit. 728 00:53:20,030 --> 00:53:21,907 Got the helicopters everywhere. 729 00:53:22,991 --> 00:53:26,786 Everybody started slowly getting there, but Rudy. 730 00:53:26,870 --> 00:53:30,040 That was so strange to me because the whole time I had thought, 731 00:53:30,123 --> 00:53:31,416 "Oh, he got out." 732 00:53:31,917 --> 00:53:33,877 You know, he made it out safe. 733 00:53:34,377 --> 00:53:37,589 But he's the only one missing. That's when I hit full panic. 734 00:53:40,091 --> 00:53:43,803 I just started running towards the emergency and all the ambulances. 735 00:53:43,887 --> 00:53:46,806 - Move! - That's what we're doing. 736 00:53:46,890 --> 00:53:48,892 Move the fuck out of the way! 737 00:53:55,815 --> 00:53:57,817 There was no sign of him. 738 00:53:58,693 --> 00:54:00,528 So I start calling hospitals. 739 00:54:02,948 --> 00:54:04,491 This hospital answer me. 740 00:54:04,574 --> 00:54:07,452 They say that they do have someone under my friend's name. 741 00:54:10,664 --> 00:54:13,750 There was no information due to us not being family. 742 00:54:17,045 --> 00:54:19,464 So that's when I called Rudy's mom. 743 00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:25,804 His friends called me. 744 00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:29,683 And I tell them, "Where's Rudy?" They say, "We don't know." 745 00:54:30,976 --> 00:54:35,814 Then I had a bad feeling. 746 00:54:35,897 --> 00:54:39,859 But at the same time I said, "No, it's not possible. It can't be." 747 00:54:42,404 --> 00:54:46,116 His older brother says to me, 748 00:54:47,993 --> 00:54:50,578 "Mother, you have to go to Houston." 749 00:54:53,623 --> 00:54:56,251 I tell his stepfather, "We have to go." 750 00:54:59,713 --> 00:55:04,009 On my way, I kept saying, "Rudy has to be okay. He has to be fine." 751 00:55:20,734 --> 00:55:23,153 This is a… a tragic night. 752 00:55:23,236 --> 00:55:28,992 And we had scores of individuals that were injured here in this event. 753 00:55:29,075 --> 00:55:32,954 If your relative, family member was at this event, 754 00:55:33,038 --> 00:55:36,041 and you have not spoken to that individual, 755 00:55:36,124 --> 00:55:38,001 go to the reunification center. 756 00:55:38,084 --> 00:55:40,879 We will have units there available to assist. 757 00:55:42,797 --> 00:55:44,966 We were frantically looking for Bri. 758 00:55:45,467 --> 00:55:48,887 We end up finding out that Bri was getting rushed to the hospital. 759 00:55:53,058 --> 00:55:54,726 Right when we get there, 760 00:55:55,393 --> 00:55:56,394 her family 761 00:55:57,437 --> 00:56:00,023 just starts crying like really, really loud. 762 00:56:04,778 --> 00:56:06,988 We're thinking, "Oh, they're still trying." 763 00:56:07,072 --> 00:56:08,281 "It's not over yet." 764 00:56:08,365 --> 00:56:11,785 "There's still an opportunity for her to be saved." 765 00:56:11,868 --> 00:56:13,036 So we're still waiting. 766 00:56:18,333 --> 00:56:20,085 Waiting for some good news. 767 00:56:26,841 --> 00:56:30,261 Until they come back and they're just, "Yeah, we can't do anything." 768 00:56:33,890 --> 00:56:36,393 Everyone just, like, dropped to the floor. 769 00:56:38,144 --> 00:56:39,521 I just remember crying… 770 00:56:41,398 --> 00:56:44,943 and feeling like this is the worst night of my life. This is… 771 00:56:48,988 --> 00:56:50,240 I felt defeated. 772 00:56:51,574 --> 00:56:54,577 I thought I had everything figured out up until that point. 773 00:57:11,302 --> 00:57:12,302 We arrived 774 00:57:13,513 --> 00:57:14,722 at that address. 775 00:57:16,891 --> 00:57:18,101 "Where is my son?" 776 00:57:19,936 --> 00:57:22,063 "I want to see him." 777 00:57:25,775 --> 00:57:29,279 I run into a cop at the door. He grabs me, and I say to him, 778 00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:31,364 "Where is my son?" 779 00:57:34,242 --> 00:57:36,786 "Is he okay?" And he says, "No, he's passed away." 780 00:57:38,288 --> 00:57:40,498 So that's when I just lost it. 781 00:57:41,749 --> 00:57:42,792 I was screaming. 782 00:57:44,711 --> 00:57:47,755 What am I gonna tell his siblings? What am I gonna tell his friends? 783 00:57:47,839 --> 00:57:50,049 What am I gonna say to my heart, to my soul? 784 00:57:51,092 --> 00:57:53,636 They stole my light. They stole a part of my heart. 785 00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:55,430 I couldn't bear it. 786 00:57:56,097 --> 00:57:58,183 And so far, I still can't. 787 00:58:06,399 --> 00:58:10,236 It's a pain that I don't wish on any mother. 788 00:58:32,509 --> 00:58:35,929 If you're just waking up and haven't watched the reports, 789 00:58:36,012 --> 00:58:38,598 we know that at least eight people are dead 790 00:58:38,681 --> 00:58:41,476 and hundreds others hurt during opening night 791 00:58:41,559 --> 00:58:43,811 of rapper Travis Scott's Astroworld. 792 00:58:47,982 --> 00:58:50,693 So many unanswered questions right now like, 793 00:58:50,777 --> 00:58:53,154 "What caused these eight people to die?" 794 00:58:55,073 --> 00:58:58,243 It's really hard because I've been following Travis' fans 795 00:58:58,326 --> 00:58:59,911 for a really long time. 796 00:58:59,994 --> 00:59:02,205 You know, they're good kids. 797 00:59:05,500 --> 00:59:07,335 We came back the next day. 798 00:59:07,835 --> 00:59:10,255 It was an active crime scene with a large perimeter. 799 00:59:10,338 --> 00:59:11,923 We had to secure the perimeter 800 00:59:13,091 --> 00:59:16,177 and spent most of the day just gathering information, 801 00:59:17,387 --> 00:59:19,305 take pictures and measurements. 802 00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:24,644 At the time, we didn't know what had actually happened. 803 00:59:26,145 --> 00:59:29,315 We had to investigate everything and kinda eliminate everything. 804 00:59:37,532 --> 00:59:40,910 The next morning, we got a text from Live Nation 805 00:59:40,994 --> 00:59:42,787 that day two wasn't happening. 806 00:59:45,039 --> 00:59:47,458 And that we were going to have a meeting. 807 00:59:49,419 --> 00:59:52,088 They didn't really touch on what had happened. 808 00:59:53,506 --> 00:59:56,926 For me, it was more about not talking to the press, 809 00:59:57,010 --> 01:00:01,055 not posting, not making any sort of public comment on it. 810 01:00:03,808 --> 01:00:06,644 I just thought, like, they were trying to cover their asses 811 01:00:06,728 --> 01:00:09,856 and make sure that we didn't say anything that could hurt them. 812 01:00:12,692 --> 01:00:15,028 I want to send condolences to the family. 813 01:00:15,528 --> 01:00:17,780 This is now a criminal investigation. 814 01:00:17,864 --> 01:00:20,033 We leave no stones unturned. 815 01:00:20,658 --> 01:00:23,620 A lot of narratives out there right now. A lot of them. 816 01:00:24,329 --> 01:00:29,959 Someone allegedly injected a police officer with some type of substance. 817 01:00:30,043 --> 01:00:32,253 …was injecting other people with drugs. 818 01:00:32,337 --> 01:00:34,672 A bad batch of illegal drugs. 819 01:00:34,756 --> 01:00:37,842 This narrative is going around that many people were on drugs, 820 01:00:37,925 --> 01:00:39,344 and that's what caused this. 821 01:00:41,262 --> 01:00:44,766 These people did not die from a needle in their neck. 822 01:00:44,849 --> 01:00:47,644 That's not why what happened happened. 823 01:00:49,103 --> 01:00:52,482 The answers are in front of you. We're telling you what happened. 824 01:00:52,565 --> 01:00:54,609 Like, why are people not hearing us? 825 01:00:55,985 --> 01:00:59,989 I'm waiting on Travis. I'm waiting to see how he plays this. 826 01:01:01,741 --> 01:01:03,743 I want to send out prayers to the… 827 01:01:05,328 --> 01:01:08,164 …to the ones that was lost last night. 828 01:01:08,247 --> 01:01:12,585 You know, my mans… my fans like… my fans really mean the world to me, 829 01:01:12,669 --> 01:01:16,923 and I always really want to leave them with a positive experience. 830 01:01:17,423 --> 01:01:21,636 Anytime I can make out, you know, anything that's going on, 831 01:01:21,719 --> 01:01:23,971 I'll stop the show and… 832 01:01:24,931 --> 01:01:27,350 help them get the help they need, you know? 833 01:01:27,433 --> 01:01:28,433 Um… 834 01:01:29,310 --> 01:01:32,188 I could never imagine the severity of the situation. 835 01:01:32,897 --> 01:01:36,067 An apology video, it was like a slap in the face 836 01:01:36,150 --> 01:01:38,152 to me, to everyone who suffered. 837 01:01:38,236 --> 01:01:41,864 Like it wasn't really like… You know, he made it because he had to. 838 01:01:42,365 --> 01:01:45,326 "Oh, well, I'm sorry, guys. Catch you at the next one." 839 01:01:45,827 --> 01:01:47,578 That's what the vibes were to me. 840 01:01:47,662 --> 01:01:48,955 It just looked bad. 841 01:01:49,455 --> 01:01:53,876 It looked really bad, and you didn't look like a superhero like you once did. 842 01:01:57,422 --> 01:01:59,132 A 9th person has died 843 01:01:59,215 --> 01:02:01,592 in connection with the Astroworld concert tragedy. 844 01:02:01,676 --> 01:02:03,344 22-year-old Bharti Shahani, 845 01:02:03,428 --> 01:02:07,014 a senior at Texas A&M, was declared dead last night 846 01:02:07,098 --> 01:02:10,226 after being on life support since Friday's event. 847 01:02:10,309 --> 01:02:12,895 The youngest victim crushed in the crowd surge 848 01:02:12,979 --> 01:02:14,272 has succumbed to his injury. 849 01:02:14,355 --> 01:02:16,691 Nine-year-old Ezra Blount has died. 850 01:02:16,774 --> 01:02:18,776 He had been in a medically induced coma. 851 01:02:18,860 --> 01:02:23,364 Ezra is now the 10th and youngest person to die from the disaster. 852 01:02:32,457 --> 01:02:35,418 The more I see with all of this, the more damning all of it is. 853 01:02:39,213 --> 01:02:41,966 He wanted this mob mentality chaos, 854 01:02:42,049 --> 01:02:43,885 and it killed people. 855 01:02:44,594 --> 01:02:47,930 A new development now, Nike is delaying the release 856 01:02:48,014 --> 01:02:51,350 of a sneaker collaboration with Travis Scott amid the tragedy. 857 01:02:52,935 --> 01:02:55,146 There is a petition circulating 858 01:02:55,229 --> 01:02:58,441 asking that Scott be removed from the popular Coachella music festival. 859 01:03:00,651 --> 01:03:03,362 You fail to provide a safe atmosphere at your show, 860 01:03:03,446 --> 01:03:05,364 and your fans die right in front of you. 861 01:03:05,448 --> 01:03:07,575 And you treat them as completely worthless. 862 01:03:10,119 --> 01:03:12,413 There was so much noise around Travis 863 01:03:12,497 --> 01:03:17,293 that eventually, he had no choice but to come out and defend himself. 864 01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:20,671 People said they collectively heard folks screaming "help" 865 01:03:20,755 --> 01:03:23,758 every time you stopped the song to get your attention. 866 01:03:23,841 --> 01:03:25,968 Did you… Did you hear any of those screams? 867 01:03:26,052 --> 01:03:30,181 Nah, man. And you know, it's so crazy because I'm that artist too. 868 01:03:30,264 --> 01:03:33,392 Anytime you can hear something like that, you want to stop the show. 869 01:03:33,476 --> 01:03:35,436 I just didn't hear that. 870 01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:39,982 Was there ever any communication to you on stage that you should end this? 871 01:03:40,066 --> 01:03:44,445 Well, yeah. They told me right after the guests get off stage, 872 01:03:44,529 --> 01:03:47,114 "We're gonna end the show." And that's what we did. 873 01:03:47,615 --> 01:03:50,451 Other than that, there was no other communication. 874 01:03:50,535 --> 01:03:52,620 - So they didn't say, "Stop now?" - No. 875 01:03:52,703 --> 01:03:54,789 - Nobody said, "Stop now." - Gotcha. 876 01:03:54,872 --> 01:03:57,875 You know, a lot of the criticism from the tragedy, 877 01:03:57,959 --> 01:04:02,630 they say is in the poor planning and understaffing of the event. 878 01:04:02,713 --> 01:04:06,300 As an artist, do you have any involvement in any of that? 879 01:04:06,384 --> 01:04:09,053 Well, I mean, as an artist, you just do the creative. 880 01:04:09,136 --> 01:04:12,265 You know, I just can control what I can on the stage, 881 01:04:12,348 --> 01:04:15,226 and you have the professionals control what they can in the crowd. 882 01:04:16,519 --> 01:04:18,938 This notion that Travis had the ability 883 01:04:19,021 --> 01:04:21,440 to stop the concert is ludicrous. 884 01:04:21,524 --> 01:04:24,735 The only two people that have the authority to stop the concert 885 01:04:24,819 --> 01:04:27,822 were the executive producer and the concert producer. 886 01:04:31,617 --> 01:04:34,495 For so many to just think Travis is at fault, 887 01:04:34,579 --> 01:04:39,500 you're creating a void for a lot of people that organized that concert 888 01:04:40,001 --> 01:04:42,295 to step back and not even be in the light. 889 01:04:44,839 --> 01:04:46,966 It's the first time I've been back. 890 01:04:47,466 --> 01:04:49,010 I can see all of it. 891 01:04:51,846 --> 01:04:56,017 I say whoever had any parts in organizing and putting it together 892 01:04:56,100 --> 01:04:57,435 should be accountable. 893 01:05:01,898 --> 01:05:04,191 Live Nation, you guys were in charge of this. 894 01:05:04,275 --> 01:05:05,860 What was the failure? 895 01:05:08,821 --> 01:05:10,948 49 lawsuits filed in Harris County 896 01:05:11,032 --> 01:05:12,533 in connection to the tragedy 897 01:05:12,617 --> 01:05:15,036 against Live Nation, Astroworld's promoter. 898 01:05:15,119 --> 01:05:18,247 Rapper Travis Scott, Apple Music, and Epic Records 899 01:05:18,331 --> 01:05:21,626 are among those facing a $750-million lawsuit. 900 01:05:21,709 --> 01:05:23,794 One lawsuit claims the festival was 901 01:05:23,878 --> 01:05:26,213 a "predictable and preventable tragedy." 902 01:05:26,714 --> 01:05:30,384 We will make sure that they get justice 903 01:05:30,885 --> 01:05:35,056 because this should have never, ever happened. 904 01:05:38,351 --> 01:05:41,771 In the months afterwards, Live Nation got in touch with me. 905 01:05:44,190 --> 01:05:48,027 I knew the venue. I knew the event. I knew the politics. 906 01:05:49,236 --> 01:05:51,530 I could quickly make sense of what happened. 907 01:05:53,574 --> 01:05:58,371 I was given text messages between executives to emails. 908 01:05:59,747 --> 01:06:02,083 Documentation and site plans, 909 01:06:02,166 --> 01:06:05,628 thousands of photographs and videos, 910 01:06:06,629 --> 01:06:09,048 all of which have been made public. 911 01:06:09,131 --> 01:06:12,635 I believe Astroworld 2021 was not an accident. 912 01:06:13,344 --> 01:06:16,722 It was an inevitability due to the lack of foresight 913 01:06:16,806 --> 01:06:19,850 and the abandonment of basic safety protocols. 914 01:06:22,645 --> 01:06:24,188 To understand what happened, 915 01:06:25,439 --> 01:06:27,233 you have to go back to the beginning. 916 01:06:32,196 --> 01:06:36,033 Live Nation reportedly sold 50,000 tickets to the festival. 917 01:06:38,744 --> 01:06:41,455 But these tickets were sold before they'd worked out 918 01:06:41,539 --> 01:06:45,292 how this number would be able to safely view Travis' set. 919 01:06:47,211 --> 01:06:48,754 Following the tragedy, 920 01:06:48,838 --> 01:06:51,841 experts for the plaintiffs examined the evidence 921 01:06:52,633 --> 01:06:54,760 and believed there was viewing capacity 922 01:06:54,844 --> 01:06:58,514 for just 35,000 concertgoers at the main stage. 923 01:06:59,849 --> 01:07:04,562 Which would mean they planned for many thousands more people 924 01:07:04,645 --> 01:07:07,440 than could safely view Travis' performance. 925 01:07:11,652 --> 01:07:16,240 And to compound that, the moment they lost control of the gates, 926 01:07:16,741 --> 01:07:21,287 there's now an unknown number of people at the festival. 927 01:07:25,541 --> 01:07:29,170 In the days leading up to the event, we can actually see text messages 928 01:07:29,253 --> 01:07:31,422 between key members of this management team. 929 01:07:36,218 --> 01:07:39,555 Expressing 50,000 people are not going to fit here. 930 01:07:44,852 --> 01:07:47,480 They knew this was going to be an issue. 931 01:07:48,314 --> 01:07:52,485 So not only was Travis' stage in danger of being over capacity, 932 01:07:53,486 --> 01:07:57,448 this poorly designed site led to people approaching the stage from the side 933 01:07:58,324 --> 01:08:02,912 and getting trapped in an area where they were crushed, unable to breathe. 934 01:08:06,082 --> 01:08:11,337 All ten fatalities were caused by compression asphyxiation in this area. 935 01:08:14,090 --> 01:08:18,302 Further text messages, sent just minutes before Travis got on stage 936 01:08:18,385 --> 01:08:22,556 show that Live Nation was aware of the tragedy that was unfolding. 937 01:08:36,862 --> 01:08:40,658 But they failed to act before it was too late. 938 01:08:46,163 --> 01:08:47,832 In all the failures of Astroworld, 939 01:08:47,915 --> 01:08:51,418 a common denominator is a failure to speak truth to power. 940 01:08:53,921 --> 01:08:56,966 There were many missed opportunities to speak up. 941 01:08:58,467 --> 01:09:00,970 Somebody to raise their hand and say, "Time out." 942 01:09:01,053 --> 01:09:03,597 "This doesn't make sense. We're gonna hurt somebody." 943 01:09:27,746 --> 01:09:31,750 It was just a sadness in our city because this is our festival. 944 01:09:33,836 --> 01:09:36,630 You didn't have to know somebody to be affected 945 01:09:36,714 --> 01:09:39,300 because it's affected, you know, our community. 946 01:09:48,225 --> 01:09:52,313 My love for Travis was definitely at one point boiling hot. 947 01:09:56,233 --> 01:09:57,233 But now… 948 01:09:58,444 --> 01:09:59,695 Hate's a strong word, 949 01:10:00,237 --> 01:10:05,159 but I just… I can't support that anymore. 950 01:10:08,954 --> 01:10:13,083 For the first time in my life, I felt, like, true depression and true anxiety… 951 01:10:15,502 --> 01:10:16,921 because I didn't think 952 01:10:17,004 --> 01:10:19,798 I was more deserving of other people to make it out. 953 01:10:20,799 --> 01:10:22,301 Why me and why not them? 954 01:10:24,553 --> 01:10:28,432 Thank God I have another chance to live the life that I do now because of her. 955 01:10:32,561 --> 01:10:33,938 - Oh, my God! - Hi! 956 01:10:34,730 --> 01:10:38,609 - You scared me! Hey, Sophia! - Hi! 957 01:10:39,401 --> 01:10:40,653 Oh, my God. 958 01:10:41,153 --> 01:10:44,531 There's no way this happened, and we don't talk afterwards. 959 01:10:44,615 --> 01:10:47,868 That we're not in each other's lives after all this just happened. 960 01:10:51,038 --> 01:10:53,290 - There you go. You won. - I won! 961 01:10:53,374 --> 01:10:54,959 You got the two out of three. 962 01:10:55,042 --> 01:10:56,043 Fair enough. 963 01:10:56,126 --> 01:11:00,547 Our connection is so strong. Like hopefully, we're… we're friends forever. 964 01:11:03,342 --> 01:11:06,220 I'm just happy you're here. 965 01:11:14,270 --> 01:11:17,815 I was 18 years old whenever Astroworld happened. 966 01:11:19,733 --> 01:11:22,653 My life has completely changed from that moment. 967 01:11:24,321 --> 01:11:26,323 Just the fact that Bri passed away 968 01:11:28,033 --> 01:11:30,286 put me down, like, a dark depression. 969 01:11:42,214 --> 01:11:45,551 I was gonna go to school because I was gonna play basketball. 970 01:11:49,305 --> 01:11:51,223 And I just gave up on it all. 971 01:11:55,686 --> 01:11:57,479 I think about that day all the time. 972 01:12:02,484 --> 01:12:05,571 What I did too slow or what I wish I did first. 973 01:12:06,447 --> 01:12:10,075 When I relive that moment, um, trying to change my actions, 974 01:12:10,159 --> 01:12:13,370 hoping for a different outcome, but it's always the same outcome. 975 01:12:14,830 --> 01:12:16,540 It could have been preventable. 976 01:12:28,218 --> 01:12:31,597 It's still difficult to talk about our friend's passing. 977 01:12:32,890 --> 01:12:34,391 - For Rudy. - For Rudy. 978 01:12:34,475 --> 01:12:35,684 For Rudy. 979 01:12:38,312 --> 01:12:40,731 We said that he brought people together. 980 01:12:40,814 --> 01:12:43,650 After that, he brought even more people together. 981 01:12:44,318 --> 01:12:45,486 The whole city. 982 01:12:54,453 --> 01:12:57,081 His funeral was so big. Everyone was there. 983 01:13:15,557 --> 01:13:18,185 Every day, I go to the grave. 984 01:13:22,731 --> 01:13:24,775 They ask me why I go so much. 985 01:13:24,858 --> 01:13:26,652 I say, "Let me live my pain." 986 01:13:27,152 --> 01:13:28,445 It's the mother's pain. 987 01:13:30,948 --> 01:13:34,326 Seeing my mom suffer every day 988 01:13:35,577 --> 01:13:36,578 hurts us. 989 01:13:36,662 --> 01:13:37,662 A lot. 990 01:13:38,580 --> 01:13:41,583 Because we too are feeling that same pain. 991 01:13:47,589 --> 01:13:51,635 As a family we share the same pain. 992 01:13:59,977 --> 01:14:01,478 I say my prayers for him. 993 01:14:02,938 --> 01:14:03,939 He knows 994 01:14:05,065 --> 01:14:06,775 we'll see him soon. 995 01:14:14,992 --> 01:14:16,410 I wish there were changes 996 01:14:17,953 --> 01:14:20,789 because of what happened with Rudy and the other people. 997 01:14:20,873 --> 01:14:23,917 I wish that now those artists who perform, 998 01:14:24,001 --> 01:14:27,546 those owners of those companies were better. 999 01:14:29,339 --> 01:14:32,843 So that what happened to Rudy doesn't happen to anyone else. 1000 01:14:36,388 --> 01:14:39,808 He always motivated us to reach for higher goals. 1001 01:14:39,892 --> 01:14:42,561 And if we were scared, he would say, 1002 01:14:42,644 --> 01:14:44,980 "Just do it, man. Don't be scared." 1003 01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:49,776 He deserves justice. 1004 01:14:52,070 --> 01:14:54,031 Someone should be accountable. 1005 01:15:10,839 --> 01:15:13,383 We don't ever want it to get lost 1006 01:15:13,467 --> 01:15:20,098 that Live Nation is the largest concert promoter in the world. 1007 01:15:21,558 --> 01:15:23,143 They do these every day. 1008 01:15:25,437 --> 01:15:29,233 We gotta be talking to the industry leader. 1009 01:15:30,150 --> 01:15:32,236 That's the only way you get change. 1010 01:15:32,319 --> 01:15:35,113 That's the only way we save lives. 1011 01:15:35,197 --> 01:15:38,951 We don't just point at the little people, we point at all of them, 1012 01:15:39,034 --> 01:15:41,411 and we don't let the big people get away. 1013 01:15:43,372 --> 01:15:47,209 There has to be some level of accountability that's industry-wide. 1014 01:15:47,292 --> 01:15:52,589 And that's not your stock price dipping momentarily. 1015 01:15:52,673 --> 01:15:56,760 That's not you missing out on sponsorship deals. 1016 01:15:56,843 --> 01:15:59,846 We have to learn from this. Otherwise, it'll happen again. 1017 01:16:07,187 --> 01:16:11,066 One thing that I find inspiring is 1018 01:16:11,900 --> 01:16:13,694 the young concertgoers 1019 01:16:14,194 --> 01:16:17,531 that stood up courageously 1020 01:16:17,614 --> 01:16:19,491 and advocated for one another. 1021 01:16:21,034 --> 01:16:22,536 Calling for action. 1022 01:16:24,037 --> 01:16:25,037 It's powerful. 1023 01:16:32,588 --> 01:16:35,924 Whoever cut the corners, that's who I hold responsible. 1024 01:16:37,884 --> 01:16:42,598 I need to see that these people get justice and that things change. 1025 01:16:47,978 --> 01:16:49,896 Will we ever get "I'm sorrys"? 1026 01:16:50,897 --> 01:16:54,735 I want people to listen. I want people to hear us whenever we say, 1027 01:16:54,818 --> 01:16:58,905 "This is not okay. This is not how concerts go."