national park service, might become a national monument for its symbolic importance and the lgbt community in this countr. p it's unexpected momented like this when thousands of people needed a place to go. look at this. thousands of people needed a place to convene together tonight, to mourn and to be angry and most importantly to be with other people who are also mourning and being angry, there was no question in the country's largest city that people would convene at stonewall, symbolic places are important. thousands of people there tonight to commemorate the 49 americans who were just killed at the pulse night club in orlando. in orlando tonight, more thousands of people gathered. this was outside the performing arts center in downtown orlando. but there were other vigils at the cathedral in orlando, at the american muslim community center there was a good size vigil. and honestly, vigils and commemorative events have been happening all over. in buffalo, new york, hundreds of people gathered. at niagara square, over a thousand people assembled in charleston, south carolina today. also earlier today, burlington, vermont where bernie sanders and his wife took part in a profession through the downtown streets. it was the congressional staff association as well as the congressional muslim staff association who observed a moment of silence on the steps of the u.s. capital. overseas in london, thousands of people lined the streets in so hoe. 49 ballooned released in the air to honor the 49 killed. in berlin they laid flowers and signed a condolence book in the u.s. embassy. and everywhere frommisten bull -- istanbul, to hong kong sao pallo, all over the world. in paris, the eiffel tower was lit up in tribute nin the color of the rainbow crowd. the stonewall inn itself is a touch stone of gay civil rights and literally going to be a national monument because police violence against lgbt people who went to that bar in 1969, that finally boiled over into a knock down, drag out violent riot in the streets as the lgbt community physically fought back against the attacks and abuse they had been subjected to with impunity for years. it's a place they had a riot. in 1973, there were about 65 people inside a bar called the upstairs lounge in new orleans. an arsnist sprayed lighter fluid inside that wooden building, they sprayed it all the way up the one stairway and went back down under the street and rang the buzzer for somebody to open the door. pulled that door open and the oxygen starved fire burst through like a fireball. a fire ball burst through as if shot from a flame blower, an updraft sucked it in within seconds, the walls were aflame and 32 people died in that fire bombing at the upstairs gay bar in 1973. some of them were never identified. still have never been identified. because it wasn't necessarily safe to have your real id on you if you were going to a gay bar afterall. in 1996, after he bombed the summer olympics in atlanta and got away, he started bombing both abortion clinics and also gay bars. >> there have been five bombs now in seven months. suddenly the atlantic mayor was a deranged killer. we got the latest from atlanta. once again a bomb in the night. once again a second one discovered. it happened outside a lesbian club called the other side. they were investigating a bombing at the same club when they found the backpack. the first bomb injured five people. >> dancing, about having drinks, having a ga g time and all the sudden, bam. it was nails everywhere on the dance floor and all. >> nails everywhere. nails packed into the bomb for shrapnel to do maximum damage. that was 1997 in midtown atlanta. three years laterer, a man named ronald edward gay who opened fire on a gay bar in roanoke, virginia. he said he was tired of people teasing him for having the last name gay and so he attacked the gay bar. and then a man wielding a hatchet and a handgun in new bedford, massachusetts, entered the puzzles lounge around midnight. when the bartender told him it was a gay bar, he pulled out a hatchet and struck the bar tender in the head and then struck a man who tried to help the victim, then pulled the gun out of his pocket and tried to them the man who tried to help the victim and then shot another man across the bar. in new year's eve 2013, eerily similar to the attack in new orleans, this time at a gay night club in seattle, poured gasoline in the stair well, lit it on fire. 750 people in that club at that time. thankfully this time, fire codes have gone some distance since then and the fire was extinguished and nobody was hurt. the gay community in this country is forged in fire and therefore a tough community. but what happened in orlando isn't just an attack on the gay community, it's the worst terrorist attack since 9/11. and amid calls for solidarity and resolve j new strategies against supposed loan-wolf terrorists. today this attack also led to the current republican candidate for president suggest that the president was maybe in on this attack somehow. donald trump repeatedly insinueating that president obama was deliberately allowing, somehow encouraging attacks like this one in the united states. mr. trump saying repeatedly today about president obama, quote there's something going on, there's something going on. it's also reiterating his call for a ban on muslims coming to the united states and today seemed to expand it on immigration from all countries who have a history of terrorism, which presumably everywhere since the attacks on 9/11 were planned in germany and the worst attack appears to have been planned here, right here. mr. trump also said today in his speech that had planned to be an anti-hillary clinton speech, he made the a different kind of anti-hillary clinton speech and one where he spoke awkwardly off a teleprompter about this attack in orlando and said the killer was quote born in afghan. a, that makes no sense. b, the killer was actually born in queens, new york, just like donald trump was. so, this attack, this latest attack, this worst attack in this country since 9/11, there's a lot still to be learned about it. we're going to talk about late developments, including some that are provocative and hard to get your head around. this has national imp ls and an attack with national security implications, which frankly putting a terrifying new cast in the stakes for this presidential election. right now, this is still just about the 49 americans who died. mostly but presumably not all of them, lgbt, mostly but not all of them latino, all of them warn tonight by their country and around the world. joining us now are tarry decarlo, the head of the lgbt center. it's a coalition of 24 national coalitions. they're both leading efforts in orlando. i appreciate you for having with us. as the director of the lgbt center in orlando, how are people coping? >> it has been a really long 24 hours. the community is hurt but we have seen our community come together. lgbt and non-lgbt and create a heck of a force to rally for the families of those who passed away and still in the hospital. we have had over $2 million pledged to help families. we've had so many corporations contact us. the community has come together. we are orlando strong and we're proving that and we're standing as a force. we're hurting, but we're hurting together. and we're standing strong. >> let me ask you for your take on this, obviously, anytime this number of americans lose their lives in any circumstance, it is an issue of national importance and it will cause a huge out pouring. obviously we've got a very specific community, an intersection of communities affected here. so many gay men of color killed here, so many latinos. how would you describe the community response and how people are copincoping? >> the community here in orlando, the response has been overwhelming. we opened our doors and said people, we need food, water, we need stuff for our first responders, for our people at the hospitals, for our people here from around the world that are reporting on this and it has been overwhelming. the community has pulled up to our center with trucks where we couldn't handle them, we were sending it over to a bar for them to hold for us but as it was coming into the center, we would take it in the front door, clock it in, and send it to the backer to get to the blood ban and people were waiting a couple of hours to donate blood. it's just a community that is hurting but hurting together and coming together and it is quite a site to see and i'm so proud to be part of this orlando community. >> let me put the same question to you in terms of various communities effected by this. obviously obviously, this is ain national incident and i'm thinking specifically about the gay community and latino gay community. what's your thinking on how people are coping and what's needed next? >> first and foremost when we heard the news, it was clear to everyone that this was a direct attack to the lgbt community but then as we went to offer as a community leaders our help, we suddenly and -- it was just overwhelming to realize that in large part, there was a loss of a lot of latinos, latinos and sisters and brothers and extended family. and so we were able to then organize and work in conjunction with the center and the other organizations to really rally up our resources within the latino non-profit center that addresses the needs of different community groups to be able to provide resources and access to information in language, predominantly, to the families. >> so, tarry decarlo, lgbt community, respectively. thank you for the organizing and thank you for being with us tonight. good luck to you. >> thank you, rachel. >> we have much more ahead tonight, including a wlilive ret from richard angle. and a very dramatic confrontation in congress on this issue they talked to anybody who might have known him. the owner of the gun shop where he bought the weapons legally, he said he vaguely remembered seeing him around. but on top of all that, here's a development from today that no one quite knows what to do with. we also heard from regulars at the pulse night club in orlando that they had seen the shooter in the club before, at least a dozen times. quote sometimes he would go in the corner and sit and drink by himself and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent and someone else recognized the shooter from several gay dating apps. >> he was very creepy in his messages and i blocked him immediately. >> you recognize him from a gay dating app? >> i recognize him off grinder. >> he says a couple of his friends have already given the fbi their phones to help in the investigation. so there's that. there's that reporting. the shooter was hanging around the edges of gay life in orlando, including the pulse night club for whatever reason as a quiet or belligerent or creepy figure. an fbi source tells nbc news that they're looking into these reports but at this point the fbi doesn't know what to make of them. stay with us. the secretary of defense announced for the first time u.s. apache helicopters are being involved in direct contact with isis members in iraq. we've had members killed in the ground both in iraq and syria. it's kind of a big war. and here at home congress never voted on it, never really debated it and as much as we like to fight about everything in this country, our existing hot war against isis has no political profile whatsoever. we fight about everything. we don't even talk about that. nobody really even knows that's happening here. but isis does. and when the u.s. expanded air strikes against isis into syria in september 2014, isis went a little nuts about that. they were super angry about those air strikes. in syria targeting them to the point where their spokesman basically embarrassed him in a statement at the time. it was an isis message telling isis supporters around the world that in the name of isis people should commit terrorist attacks in their home countries. if you can kill a disbelieving american or european, especially these spiteful and filthy french or an australian or canadian or disbeliever from the disbelievers war, then kill him in any manner it may be. then to the specifics. smash his head with a rock or throw him down from a high place or choke him or poison him. isis was so unnerved by the u.s.-coalition air strikes that started against them two years ago that their spokesman literally responded telling people to find a filthy frenchman and hit him in the head with a rock. it was a strange statement. but however strange it was, it also marked an important tactical change for them in that organization. in that statement, that angry weird statement saying how mad they were that all these western countries were bombing them, isis stopped calling on their western supporters to leave their homes and travel to iraq and syria to join the islamic state and inhstead told them to stay in the west and commit attacks there. they also said and this ended up being important. do not ask for anyone's advice and do not seek anyone's verdict. meaning don't ask for our permission, consider this to be your permission slip. go ahead. don't tell us you're going to do it, just do it. don't come here, don't ask us, you don't need to ask anything from us. just kill civilians in the country even if all you have is a car or a rock, we'll consider that being part of our movement and helping what isis is trying to do. that was issued september 21st, 2014. two days later in australia, which is one of the countries specifically mentioned, two days after that statement, an 18-year-old kid, alleged isis sympathizer in australia, walked to a police officer in melbourne, and stabbed two police officers before he was shot dead. they have strict firearm laws, so he had a knife, he used what he had at hand. less than a month later, canada, he didn't have a knife but he did have a car and the isis statement suggested that as an option, run him over with your car was one of the things they suggested. an isis sympathizer in canada used his car to gun down two canadian soldiers in the streets. two days later, another alleged isis sympathizer shot and killed another canadian soldier and then stormed into the parliament. and october 23rd, 2014, this guy took a run at four new york city police officers near a subway platform in queens. he was armed with a hatchet. he tried to attack the officers with an ax. that was the end of october 2014. the statement came out before the end of that year. another alleged isis sympathizer had taken 18 hostages, killed two of them before he was killed by police. less than a week after that, another sympathizer used his car in desean france, he injured 14 people, in another part of france, another alleged isis sympathizer drove into another crowd of pedestrians. he injured 11 people there. so, there was this ridiculous isis instruction that kill people at home, using anything you can and that will somehow help our movement. just kill people by any means, that will somehow help isis get its way in the world. it was insane, right? it was very strange. but isis supporters all over the world apparently took it to heart. and then last spring isis for the first time was able to claim credit for an attack that took place in the united states. the first isis affiliated attack in the united states was garl d garland, texas. two attackers armed with assault rifles and semiautomatic weapons. and cartoons showing intentionally blas fumous depictions of the profit muhammad. they found print outs of theize flag inside the it attackers' car. one of them had gone online in twitter and pledged his formal allegiance to isis. quote minutes before elton simpson arrived at the cartoon event, he went on twitter one last time to link the attack to the islamic state tweeted the brother with me and myself have given the amir of the believers quote may allah accept us as mujau huh demuj hadim. remember, in their september statement, they say don't ask for anybody's permission. don't ask us, just do this. even though they don't want anybody to ask for their permission, they do want credit for anything anybody does in their name. not ask them permission ahead of time but once they've decided to do it, they want those attackers to make a public pledge of allegiance. they may not know these guys existed but once the attack is under way, they want a public pledge of allegiance and that becomes an isis attack even though this group in iraq and syria never had anything to do with it directly. and so you get these claims of isis allegiance. you get everything from formally produced propaganda videos in paris, and brussels this spring and you get the hurried tweets from the guy on his way to blow up the cartoon contest. and the midst of the attack with all the complexity and adrena n adrenalin, they take time out to go on facebook and say hey, this is for isis. they pledge allegiance to isis. since 2014, there's been all of these attacks all around the world in all these countries. and since that went so well, they put out another call for more of the same. same isis spokesman who put out that call to carry out attacks with cars and rocks and knives in 2014. he just put out another statement calling again for western isis supporters to commit attacks at home, this time specifically naming the united states as a place they want attacked and these guys are wordy birds, they're full of themselves. they go on blah, blah, blah how terrible america is and how great they are and then they get to the instructions part of it. they specifically direct this to soldiers and supporters in america and they say don't travel to the islamic state. instead, commit an attack at home. truly the smallest act you do in their lands is more beloved to us than the biggest act done here. it's more effective for us and more harmful to them. they say they hear from their supporters they wish to reach the lands of the islamic state but quote each of us wishes to be in your place to make examples of the crusaders day and night, scaring them and tearerizitear tears areerizing them until every neighbor fears its neighb neighbor. they've heard from their supporters in the west they can't reach military targets and they're hearing objections from their supporters. quote it has reached us that some of you do not act due to finding fault with targeting those who are called civilians. but isis in the statement put out last month specifically says don't worry about that. actually what they want is attacks on civilians. if you are going to stay home and fight, please don't pick a military target, don't pick something hard to attack. please just kill random people. they actually prefer that. quote know that targeting -- know that you're targeting those who are called civilians is more effective and painful and a greater deterrant for them. so, go forth. and they specifically call for the attacks to happen in rom a n ramadan, which is right now. that's one context. now our latest american pledge of allegiance came in a 911 call from the pulse bathroom in florida where 49 people were killed. it was the worst terrorist attack on u.s. soil since 9/11. what set this off in the near term remains to be seen. a lot of times it's this complicating and clouding factor in isis inspired attacks around the world. but the person is not just thought to be an isis sympathizer, they're also thought to be mentally ill or motivated -- and that's confusing and conflicting and cloudy to us, but they don't care if it's just nut jobs doing their work. they just want credit for the attack. and there are reports tonight, including in the previous hour that the shooter in orlando was not making his first visit to the gay club. some people who were regulars said he'd been there many, many times. chris hayes recovering reporting that he is at least known to have messaged gay men on gay dating apps. it could be that he was gay. it could be that he was not gay and hanging out there and trying to get to know patrons of that club specifically as a way of a casing the joint. i mean, isis has taken great pains to not just claim this as their own but specifically focus on the fact that its victims were lgbt. isis has filmed a lot of executions and among the particularly gruesome are those which men have been stoned to death or thrown off tall buildings or both for the crime of being gay. the earliest report was syria, the most recent was earlier this year in iraq. live, pick soft te more civilians the better. live out your grudges, target whoever you feel like, go nuts. we don't care. just credit it to us. we don't yet know and isis doesn't care what drove this particular killer to that particular place that particular night to do what he did. but isis believes whatever the proximate cause here, whatever kind of nut job this guy was, isis believes this is how they win. they believe you're making war on us, this is how we win a war against you. they believe something like this makes them stronger. are they right? so, we've got nbc chief correspondent for a live report. but as we're looking at the isis angle and why this is something that isis wants to claim credit for. how this fits their business model of terrorism, basically. we also have new breaking news out of france that is disturbing. media reports in europe say an assailant with a knife stabbed and killed a police officer and reportedly the police officer's wife. in a suburban home roughly 30 miles west of paris. news reports are both that the police officer and his wife were killed. police managed to save a young boy who was also in the home at the time of the attack. police also killed the attacker. tonight, nbc news is confirming that a isis affiliating group claiming that 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>> we're trying to build out what should the fbi have done. what a day looks like at the bureau. you're looking at kids going to syria, there's more than a hundred have come back. you're look at people communicating with isis via al qaeda and yemen and then you add in cases like this where someone calls a friend or family member and says i think somebody might be radicalized. and i think you need to say how would you weigh it against these other priorities. >> i mean, there's obviously the question of how effective a job the u.s. is doing when these kind of individuals are on their radar. >> yeah, i think phil is correct but i think we also have to look at what is being done to make this better. we've seen the same scenario with the sanai brothers in boston. and we know there's some kind of problem but the fbi, i mean they're kind of stuck. they can't just glue an agent on these people for the rest of their lives. so, what do you do? i think that's a big dilemma that law enforcement is facing. >> it's not by chance he picked a gay club and now there are reports he'd been there many times. how much of that do you think is inspired by his radical islamist believes and by hatred of gays. his dad said he saw two men kissing and that angered and infuriated them. >> we're remembering the 9/11 attack and al qaeda who not only trains people, it selects a target for them. you have people self radicalizing who are looking for an excuse p. i'm angry at gay people, angry at rock venus because that's western culture. so, whatever i'm angry about, isis gives me validation. i don't think we should think of this as someone being targeted by isis. isis gave them the validation to act. >> his dad saying riltit'ser heaven's job to punish. it's not that big a stretch to imagine his son might go to a club and do something like this. >> there moilth ight be a major internal struggle going on in this guy's head. he's attending these clubs and at the next point shooting them up. he might be struggling between his view of his faith and what his personal urges are. you never know what's going on in these people's head. that's why the loan wolves are so hard to nail down. >> a lot to learn. ahead, what hillary clinton, donald trump said about the massacre and how their words hold up to the facts. we'll be right back. my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis made a simple trip to the grocery store anything but simple. so i had an important conversation with my dermatologist about humira. he explained that humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to my symptoms. in clinical trials, most adults taking humira were clear or almost clear, and many saw 75% and even 90% clearance in just 4 months. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don't start humira if you have an infection. ask about humira, the #1 prescribed biologic by dermatologists. clearer skin is possible. they are. do i look smarter? 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this could be a better, bigger, more horrible version than the legendary trojan horse ever was. >> reporter: that stat that clinton's refugee proposal would be a 500% increase over president obama's plan is true. to be specific, obama's plan allows for 10,000 refugees. clinton's is 65,000. that would be a 550% increase, about what trump claims. but he also argus there's no vetting. >> having learned nothing from these attacks, she now plans to massively increase admissions without a screening plan. >> reporter: the reality is refugees now go through months of processing and paperwork before being admitted into the u.s. so, that's false. then there's the question of how many are coming in now. >> we have to stop the tremendous flow of syrian refugees into the united states. >> reporter: on cnn's "new day." he was more specific. >> we have, by the way, thousands and thousands of people pouring into our country right now who have the same kind of hate and probably more than he has. >> reporter: on the numbers, what he said is true. 3,800 syrian refugees have been admitted since last october. more than 2,000 in the last month alone, though that's far f fewer than the 10 president obama said he would allow. and on guns. >> her plan is to aballish the second amendment and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns. no good. not going to happen, folks. not going to happen. >> reporter: he repeated his claim that hillary clinton wants to do away with america's right to bare arms. she wants to restrict access to guns but not abolish the second amendment. >> if the fbi is watching grou suspected terrorist links, you shouldn't be able to go buy a gun with no questions asked. >> and trump also seemed to paint the muslim community in g general with a very broad brush. >> his overall tone was probably alarming, because even as he said very clearly, some american muslim communities are great, he called for a partnership and said they know what's going on and said of the killer in orlando, they know that he was bad. but he didn't offer any evidence that the killer's fellow american muslims knew of his intentions. >> thanks very much. much more ahead on this two-hour of 360. all 49 lives lost. so many young people. plus the latest, including reports that the gunman had visited the pulse night club more than once and used a gay dating app. i love that my shop is part of the morning ritual around here. people rely on that first cup and i wouldn't want to mess with that. but when (my) back pain got bad, i couldn't sleep. i had trouble getting there on time. then i found aleve pm. aleve pm is the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour strength of aleve. for pain relief that can last into the morning. ♪ look up at a new day... hey guys! now i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis isn't it time to let the real you shine through? 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and how many times and for how long? >> i've personally seen him a couple times. i've never really talked to him. but like i said i've introduced myself once before when we first saw him there, me and a security guard that used to work at pulse. we said hello and everything and he was very friendly and all that. but yes, he has frequently been to that bar and it's been going on three years. and it's been almost a year 1/2 since the security guard left. so, it's been a while that he's been going to that bar. >> wait a minute. you're saying for at least three years this guy was seen in the bar? >> yes. i mean, i would say maybe two times a month, maybe more. i know when i was going there, i'm a performer and i'm going on tuesdays and maybe twice a month see him on tuesday nights. >> did he seem comfortable there? when you saw him -- >> yeah, he really did. he didn't seem like the kind of guy that just did what he did. i mean, it makes no sense of why? i mean, and -- i don't know. >> i understand there was an incident with the security guard. do you know what happened? >> i'm really not totally for sure. she said something about that she had to throw him out at least one to two times but like i gave you guys the number to her so you can talk to her as well. >> do you think -- again, if crow don't know, don't say, but do you think he was there to meet people? >> yeah. i mean, when i -- when we met him and we introduced ourselves and said hello and that was really all i got to do with him because i was performing but he seemed like -- and even my partner said he seemed like a nice, comfortable. he loved where he was at. he was drinking with another guy. he was actually standing with another guy when we were performing. a lot of it don't make sense. and we're never going to know. >> well, we're trying to learn all we can. i appreciate you talking to us. every bit of information helps. thank you very much. our chief national security correspondent with more on what we know about the investigation and where it stands. do we know much about the motivations of this guy? >> it's a confusing mix. we know the night of he expressed allegiance to isis and that's something they call on its members to do and we know the fbi has said in the past he expressed allegiance to other groups, al qaeda, and these are groups deathly opposed to each other. it appears that as he was claiming to the fbi and others to do this, it was a bit of bravado and they couldn't substanshiate those ties, which is one reason they ended the investigations. and his father saying he had been offended by seeing two men kissing. it was a hate crime and now you have this new line of inquiry which i know is part of the investigation as well that he had visited this club many times before. >> and been on hook-up apps. >> exactly. which become as personal profile. was it a self-enacted self-loathing. this is complicated. that's not unprecedented. it's not always as simple as them -- attackers like this having one allegiance to one group. there could be mental health issues but this particular mix, is particularly unusual. >> we think back to the reports in belgium of one of the french attackers had allegedly been seen in gay bars as well in brussels. whether that was confirmed or not, it didn't seem to be pursued. but kind of an interesting thing in the mix. in terms of this target, i mean the idea he had been here multiple times, was he scopeing it out? was he conflicted and drawn here? were there other targets possible? >> that is something they're looking at now. we know his second wife is cooperating with investigators, including telling them of other places he visited, one being a disney property here. he went with his family in april just two months ago. his wife provided that information to the fbi. that could have an innocent explanation but in light of what happened here, it could have a nefarious explanation that he went there to scope it out. >> another survivor story. norman castillano was shot in the back, once in the side, and once in the back. he was thin the bathroom of the night club and had to climb over the bodies of friends of him to get out. it's more than any 25-year-old s sld to go through, to see. so, you crawled into the bathroom? >> yes, and from that point forward, i just already knew this was -- it was going to go south from there. >> while you were crawling in the bathroom, did there continue to be shots? >> i was like the fastest crawling. like, military crawling. like, let's get out of here. so, we went into the bathroom and there's already people lined up near the wall. so, i could only sit near the front where if something was going to happen -- >> was this a small regular bathroom? >> probably this whole square right here. so, probably four by ten. like to the point where there's people sitting on top of each other. so, everyone ducked and we got quiet and i'm just -- i try to call 911, it was busy. at that point gun shots are getting closer and i call my mom. i don't know if it something was wrong with the service or had something to do with what was going on but i heard it pick up and said mom, mom, mom. and it dropped. and that was a time span of not even five minutes. from that point forward, that's when the gun shots got extra close and you hear everyone under their breath praying and crying and trying to be quiet. so, if he wasn't going to go in the bathroom he wouldn't hear us. it was gun shots after gun shots and you could hear the bullets hitting the floor. you could hear when he was adding more bullets. >> reloading. >> reloading the gun, yeah. >> how many people were in your stall? >> i counted about 20 or 30 people. because everyone had their own niche to stand and it was you need to sit -- one of my friends was laying on top of other people and it was to the pointed where people didn't care. everyone's ducking, hoping for the best. praying. i myself was saying please, this cannot be what happened tonight. so at that point, after the phone call, immediately after, i see feet and we're thinking it's the assailant -- >> from under the bathroom stall? >> there was space like this under the bathroom door. and someone drops to the floor and it was another patron of pau pulse and he was bleeding. the floor started bleeding. >> he was shot then and there? >> i figured he was running to go hide in one of the stalls and i guess he shot him from a distance. once he shot him, he laughed. that's something imprinted in my head for the rest of my life. i've literally been in the hospital for two days trying to sleep and i hear guns, bullets hitting the floor and that laugh. it wasn't like a multiple laugh. like a villain in a movie. it was a laugh of satisfaction, like i am doing what i came here to do. like a really quick chuckle. i can't even do it from how -- intense. it was just pure -- and everyone i've talked to. it was pure evil. it didn't even sound like a person at that point. the only sound we heard was a laugh. so, at that point someone starts screaming, like please, please, please don't shoot us. and he does the first round through the door. >> of the stall? >> of the stall i was in and that's when i got the first wound, which was an entrance and an exit. we start yelling again please, please don't shoot, people in the background begging him, we haven't seen your face, we don't know anything, please don't do this. and i guess it enticed him to do it more and he put his hand over the stall and just free shot. >> you saw his hand go over the door? >> that's the only description i was able to give to police was i know he was tan. >> do you remember the gun he was ususing? >> yeah. it was the handgun, yeah. .9 millimeter. i remember i just looked up for five seconds and looked down and shimmied over and that's when he got me here and he got other people and people screamed. because a few of them did pasawpass away at that moment in time and i dropped to the floor and i guess he thought whoever was in there he already got. so, he left. >> he'd been shot twice at that point. he was bleeding badly. when the gunman left the bathroom, he stepped on the buddy of his friend, young woman who died by his side. he had to step on her body to get out. he tried to get some of the peachal sti people who were still alive to come with him but they stayed. he made it out alive. so many people tell you about their lives cut far too short. next what we know about the layout of the club and how that may have affected how law enforcement responded. and two responses from the two people vying to become president of the united states. it...is thu typically shop? 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this bar. there are about 320 people there according to police and that's where the shooting initially began. a few shots followed by many, many more. there's a promotional photo of the bar from a time back showing how crowded it may have been. and then police say he turned around and started to go out the way he came in. that's where he was met by an armed officer working security, two other officers started shooting at him and he came back inside, anderson. >> and so when he got back in, what did he do? >> well, obviously, big threat to the people in this main room. but he moved to the long narrow room at the end. that gave people in the main room dozens of chances to escape. but people in this area had been trying to get out a narrow door in the end and several couldn't get out, so they went into the restrooms and a small dressing room. this is what the eye witness was telling you about, the victim, anderson, they were in these little rooms on the end and that's where the stand off began. this is where people were texting that they were trapped and couldn't get out and this is where people had him somewhat contained but couldn't get to him. finally by 5:00, they decided they had to do something and they set off detraction explosions and pucnched through these five holes in the wall. you may note aslong narrow one there. that is the one where he tried to come out with the hostages. and you can see bullet holes everywhere as he was met by the full force of police there. finally shot down and the three hours of terror inside that club came to an end. anderson. >> just incredible to actually see the layout and you start to under it more. i've talked to two people at least in bathroom stalls. thank you, cnn law enforcement analle anallea analyst. art, i mean, when you look at that club, you sort of realize one of the problems police were facing. the limited number of intrnss, the tight quarters. it's pretty small rooms. >> we used to practice these kinds of inties are all the time. this is the worst case scenario. 300 people packed into -- several different rooms people and the shooter can get into. >> often eye witness reports -- >> initial reports that there was more than one shooter because of the amount of rounds. this followed regular protocol up to a certain point where the two officers engaged initially and then the individual retre retreated back into the rooms and into the crowd and that's when it becomes difficult because you don't want to be firing rounds and take down innocent people trying to get out. >> one of the people in the bathroom said he heard the guy on the phone saying there were other people with him at locations and said north, south, east, and west, which must have made the police kind of unsure about where to enter. >> and they're getting a lot of phone calls. so, he's telling the police there's eight, and another guy saying one. what this story does tell me is different than what i believed a day ago. i think omar wanted to get away. he left the front door, his car is there. he did not anticipate those guys were going to meet him at the front door. that's more akin to the boston marathon and maybe explains why he picked up a phone. >> in a case like this, there's so many pieces to try to piece together, not just motivation. and obviously, he had -- he pledges allegiance to isis but also earlier had talked about the boston bombers. clearly targets a gay club. his father said he saw two men kissing and that might have freaked him out. but now we hear he's been going to this club for possibly three years. >> i think we're going to have a couple, if thougnot three diffe boxes. obviously had a problem with the gay community, pledged allegiance to isis and al qaeda. >> his father also ezgays will be punished in heaven. >> there are many fathers of mass murderers who like the pretend they had no idea. the father should be an irrelevant figure in terms of understanding and i agree with art there's not a single motivation in this case. there are multiple voteivationm. it's isis, it's radicalization, it's homophobia. it may be that he's gay, it's mental illness, all the above and i think that's why you hear people talk about -- we also have to address the means. because the motivation is always going to be very jumbled. >> thanks very much. hope your voice gets better as well. very dramatic though. i like it. as we said these are still early days. the grief here -- it's extraordinary to talk to people whose lives are forever changed and in the blink of an eye. i talked to a man whose partner of three years was killed and he found out about him dying just hours before i got there. you saw some of the other people i talked to. bit by bit we're learning more about the 49 people killed, what made them special and who they left behind. gary tuckman brings us more stories. >> reporter: nobody should ever have to endure this. family and friends of those who were missing in orlando told to meet at a makeshift crisis center where they would receive the official word on weather their loved ones had been identified. lopez was told to show up at 8:00 a.m. to find out about her closest friend in the world but instead received a call in the middle of the night that he had been killed. >> i always thought he was immortal. he always said he would never abandoned me and i trusted him. >> reporter: sarah always called him jimmy, he worked in retail. she's an artist. she met where they both grew up in puerto rico and both moved to the orlando area. when did you first meet jimmy? >> when i was 16 years old. and we fell in love immediate -- we knew that we were -- spend the rest of our lives together. even though he was gay and i quaswas gay. so, it was not a sexual attraction but soul mates. he was my brother. >> reporter: most of jimmy's family remains in puerto rico, same with sarah. they relied on each other coming to the mainland and for three 1/2 decades since. when she received the call, her mind raced. >> i remember when my son was sick and he stay with me at the hospital hospital. i remember when my sister died, when our best friend died a few years ago. in two seconds, he passed in front of me. >> reporter: she says jimmy was at the pulse night club with two of his friends that survived. they told her they started crawling toward a bathroom when the gunman was reloading. but jimmy didn't follow, hoping the gunman would ignore him. >> when he looked back, he saw jimmy in the fetal position. and the guy was shooting to everything that moved. he said that it was like -- bam, bam, bam, bam in a minute. >> reporter: her mind plays tricks with her. what if he had crawled, would he be alive? instead she is going to help his mother and sisters plan a funeral and wonders what it will be like now. >> i don't know. i might be surviving but i know i'm not without him. and i can prove you when i listen to salsa, he is right here with me. he's going to be right here. >> shortly after we talked with sarah, she and a niece of jimmy's went to the medical examiner's office. his body had arrived. >> it's incredible how many people's lives have changed. the circle of love that was around them is so huge. >> reporter: right, these two people loved each other so much. he worked for forever 21 the apparel store and he was a style merchandiser, which meant he was in charge of the look of the store and he loved that. and she talked about the salsa dancing. talked about he was an award-winning dancer. she says at the age of 50, he was a better dancer than at the age of 16 because he was dancing with a band and felt free. when she used to dance with him in the teens and 20s and 30, people would part the floor because they were so magnificent. >> he was really worried about how his family would accept him and his mom embraced him and was very accepting and again we're trying to learn as much as we can about the people -- >> that's what is beautiful about this 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>> good question, anderson. it's really hard to say. there's a clear insinuation that the president somehow has another agenda, one that doesn't share american values and in talking to republicans today, they were having a hard time kind of trying to figure it out. and as one of them pointed out to me, this is a pattern you see with donald trump, which is he throws these statements out there and tries to walk it back as he did later in the morning after that fox interview, he said there are a lot of people who think maybe he doesn't want to get it, he's referring to obama. and then he sdsaid i just happe to think he just doesn't know what he's doing. he puts it out there, puts it on other people and then moves away from it but he's thrown it out there which is red meat for people who distrust and truly dislike the president. >> yeah. i mean, david, it is remarkable that just hours after the attack, donald trump tweeted quote appreciate the congrats for being right on radical islamic terrorism. i don't want congrats. i want toughness and individual license. we must be smart. it sounds like he's patting himself on the back again. >> this has been a disappointing day in many ways for all of us who had hoped for a moment of unity. candidates on both sides came out swinging. i think donald trump has gotten himself into more trouble with these dark insinuations that the president has different allegiances. but it's very dark and it's not fitting. for this particular moment. on the tweet, i must tell you on that one, anderson, i do think that certainly among his followers there's a belief that he was out here early warning about this and so when what he said in his tweet i thing is a recognize that there are people who feel he should have been listened to earlier. his problem is he goes -- he engages so much excess that he -- people lose the point of what he's saying. today -- >> he certainly is not infirst person to warn about radical islamic terrorism in the united states. >> well, that's right. but he's certainly been at the forefront of presidential candidates saying this is an ever present threat and so threatening i'm going to ban muslims from coming here. i have to tell you for him to let the day -- to get a bad headline out of the washington post and to yank their credentials of the washington post from covering your campaign. that's extraordinary. why would he do something so stupid? 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[ gunfire ] >> reporter: today fbi director james comey said it's clear 29-year-old omar mateen was radicalized. but which terrorist group he was acting on behalf of remains a source of confusion to investigators after the gunman made reference to both isis and isis enemy al nusra front in 911 calls during the shoot-out. even referencing american al bu sa ha who was fighting in syria when he blew himself up. >> there were three different calls. he called and he hung up. he called again and spoke briefly with the dispatcher, and then he hung up. and then the dispatcher called him back again, and they spoke briefly. so there were three total calls. there are strong indications of radicalization by this killer and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations. >> reporter: authorities continue to sift through every aspect of the shooter's life, looking for any indication he was given direction by terrorist groups. >> at this stage, we see no clear evidence that he was directed externally. also at this stage there's no direct evidence that he was part of a larger plot. >> reporter: just after 2:00 a.m. sunday morning, as pulse nightclub readies for closing, the shooter sprays a barrage of bullets into a crowd of more than 300 people. witnesses believe the initial gunfire is part of the music. >> the bullets, you think it's part of a song. i looked behind me, and i noticed that it wasn't just a song, that there was bodies falling down. the guy next to me was shot, and that's when i dropped, and i made sure that i had to crawl my way out. >> what we thought was gunshots as part of the music, four shots, ba, ba, ba, ba, but for some reason it was different. >> reporter: an off-duty police officer working at the front entrance of the clib club engages in a gun battle, firing several rounds at the shooter. additional officers respond and get into another fire fight with the gunman, forcing him to retreat to the bathroom where officials say he held several hostages. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: 5:00 a.m. a s.w.a.t. team uses ang exploex and an armored vehicle to break through a wall of a different bathroom, rescuing dozens more people. >> that was a braesh. >> reporter: the gunman emerged from the same hole in the wall, firing on officers with a handgun and a long gun. he is killed in the battle. >> all i saw was cops coming in, people rushing out, and you could just hear the guns just going on. that's all you heard was bang, bang, bang. >> thanks to pamela brown for that report. jessica schneider is with us live for more on the investigation. jessica, these reports that we're getting from the orlando newspaper that, in fact, the gunman had been to this club on a number of occasions before the shooting, also word that he may have been using a gay dating app, that coming from the l.a. times. really, it seems, taken this investigation into a different area. >> reporter: yeah, new details now emerging, john. in fact, accounts emerging that this gunman had frequented the pulse nightclub in the months leading up to this horrific attack. in fact, four different people telling the "orlando sentinel" that they had seen him there numerous times in the month leading up. in addition, chris callen is a performer at pulse nightclub and he told cnn's anderson cooper that he had, in fact, met omar mateen, that he had talked to him, that he seemed very friendly and that he also seemed very comfortable at the club. so these are all details that investigators are looking at. they're piecing it together to see exactly why the gunman may have been at this club, how much he may have frequented it, and looking into exactly these accounts from people who say that he was, in fact, there on numerous occasions. john. >> so, jessica, on the one hand you have these reports that he went to that club on a regular basis almost. and then we also have the new information coming from the investigation into his social footprint that he had actually been watching a lot of jihadist propaganda. >> reporter: yeah. investigators now turning, in fact, to his cell phone records. interestingly and perhaps alarmingly, they found that omar mateen was in orlando in the day before this vicious attack. they actually traced his cell phone to someplace called disney springs. it's part of the walt disney world complex. it used to be called downtown disney. it's actually an entertainment and shopping and dining complex. they say that he was there in the hours leading up to this attack. they do believe that he was there alone. but they're working to piece all these details together from his cell phone to come up with the timeline as to exactly what his movements were in the hours and perhaps the days before the attack. they're also looking into his electronics, meaning his cell phones and his computers, and they're finding that in his searches, his history of searches, he actually looked up a lot of isis propaganda. he looked at some of the videos of isis beheadings, and investigators also say that he looked at videos of the imam, the american imam, anwar al a laky. of course that american imam had gone to yemen to join al qaeda, and he was actually killed by a drone strike in 2011. on monday, fbi director james comey said that the gunman had, in fact, been at least partly radicalized online. john. >> 2:06 here in the morning. jessica schneider live with the very latest. jessica, thank you. of course as this investigation progresses, we have to keep in mind that families are grieving for the 49 people who were gunned down inside that nightclub. the youngest victim, just 19 years old. jake tapper now has more on an evening that began with joy but ended in horror. >> reporter: saturday night was going to be a night of friendship and fun for pulse clientele such as 34-year-old edward sotomayor jr. and 25-year-old amanda al vee ar, capturing these moments on social media, not knowing those posts would be their last. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: they are just two of the 49 victims killed in the terrorist rampage. for survivors, horrifying recollections remain all too vivid. >> people were running. glasses were getting dropped, and then you know people were passing me. i'm getting covered in blood from other people. >> it went with the beat almost until you heard just too many shots. it was just like bang, bang, bang. >> there was about 20 or 30 people trying to push themselves through a very small cabinet looking door. >> reporter: luisver ba know escaped with his friend never looking back at the murderer coming towards them. >> i didn't want to look back. why? to look at them, that would be the last thing i see, the last memory i have. that's not something i want to remember. >> reporter: club goers hid from the terrorist in restrooms and dressing rooms. huddling together, hoping to survive. >> he said he was going to die, and he loved me. that's the last thing i heard. >> reporter: just after 2:00 a.m., mina justice received these texts from her son, eddie. mommy, i love you. in club, they shooting. trapped in the bathroom. calling them now, she wrote back. then messages from eddie kept coming. he has us, and he's in here with us. and then, i'm going to die. eddie's mother spoke to news crews as she waited outside for her son. >> i think something happened. i do. >> reporter: eddie justice did not make it out alive. the murdered range in age from 19 to 50. retail workers, accountants, bartenders, journalists, students, bright futures extinguished in a hate-filled terrorist attack. >> you stole a lot of people away from their families. >> reporter: some club goers were luckier, shot but saved because of the fast work of others. >> on the way to the hospital, the officer had him lay on top of me, and i had to bear-hug him. >> reporter: nursing student josh mcgill helped a man with multiple gunshot wounds outside the club, telling him what he needed to hear to stay calm. >> i promise you god's got this. you'll be okay. and i was mainly scared. i was like, god, please don't let me break my promise. >> reporter: as of now, that man is alive. and the promise to overcome lives on as well. >> we're standing up, and we're fighting. that's all we can do. all we can do is fight. >> earlier i spoke with giovanni nerve es, and he was on his way to the pulse nightclub. he changed his mind. he was tired. he went home. but five of his friends were murdered. i asked him if this international show of support has helped. >> it does go to show that we, as a community, do become one. as a community, we've only really had each other. we really haven't had the support from other communities like we have within ourselves. and even throughout time, you really see it. we always cling to each other for help, and we come together. so it feels really good to see australia, california, london -- >> paris. >> -- paris come together and say, orlando, we are with you in this. and it just shows. >> do you worry that people will move on and forget about the suffering that happened here, maybe not this community but elsewhere, especially around the united states? 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[ gunfire ] >> the woman you saw there was 25-year-old amanda alvear, one of the 49 people killed. federal investigators are going through more than 100 leads, trying to figure out the gunman's motive. an official says he had multiple online searches for jihadist propaganda. >> the gunman also received extensive firearms training as a student at a law enforcement academy according to two classmates and a former administrator. brian todd has more on what authorities are learning about the shooter. >> reporter: tonight a portrait of a mass killer with a deadly mixture of hate and radicalization. >> but we are highly confident that this killer was radicalized and at least in some part through the internet. >> reporter: fbi director james comey says the fbi first became aware of omar mateen in 2013, following reports of threats and inflammatory statements. and from that time to the night of the massacre, mateen gave vague and conflicting indications of allegiances to terrorist groups. >> first he claimed family connections to al qaeda. he also said that he was a member of hezbollah, which is a shia terrorist organization that is a bitter enemy of the so-called islamist state, isil. he said he hoped that law enforcement would raid his apartment and assault his wife and child so that he could martyr himself. >> reporter: the fbi tracked mateen, looking for terrorist connections for ten months before closing that case. questions tonight whether mateen should have been tracked more closely. >> we're also going to look hard at our woen work to see whether there is something which should have done differently. so far, the honest answer is i don't think so. i don't see anything in reviewing our work that our agents should have done differently. >> reporter: mateen was born in new york, the son of afghan immigrants. he worked for nine years as a security officer at g4s security, one of the world's largest private security companies. investigators are looking into what led him to this horrible act, but all indications suggest preparation and premeditation for a mass killing. at this gun store in jenson beach, florida, a man who didn't want to go on camera told us in recent weeks, omar mateen came here looking to buy level three body armor, offering protection that police officers don't even get. the manager here says they don't sell body armor of any kind, and mateen was out the door in about five minutes. but a u.s. official briefed on the investigation tells cnn that suggests to investigators that mateen might have been planning the attack for some time. >> you don't know why he did what he did? >> i have no theory at all. i wish he was alive. i could ask him the same question that you have. and i cannot -- i cannot tell you. why? why he did do such act? this is against the principle of me and the whole family. >> reporter: though his father gave no concrete answers as to why, others who knew mateen describe him as unhinged, home phobic and racist. >> there was definitely moments that he would express his intolerance to homosexuals. this was a sick person that was really confused and went crazy. >> reporter: this man says he worked with mateen as a security guard. >> he said, i hate all those n's, and i wish i could just kill them all. >> reporter: daniel gilroy's claims could not be independently verified, but he said he was so upset that he requested to be transferred and eventually quit the security company where they worked together. >> i saw it coming. i mean everything. i mean he told me he was going to do it. besides the date and the location, he said he was going to kill a whole bunch of people. >> reporter: daniel gilroy says he told their employer, g4s security solutions several times about mateen's behavior, and he says the company didn't do anything. a company official with knowledge of the situation tells cnn g force was not aware of any other complaints by other employees, including daniel gilroy's claims, and the company says while he worked for them, omar mateen went through two rigorous background checks. brian todd, cnn, fort pierce, florida. >> u.s. president barack obama will visit orlando thursday to pay respects to the victims of the mass shooting. on sunday, mr. obama described the tragedy as a result of homegrown terrorism and once again escalated the call for gun control. >> as far as we can tell right now, this is certainly an example of the kind of homegrown extremism that all of us have been so concerned about for a very long time. it also appears that he was able to obtain these weapons legally because he did not have a criminal record that in some ways would prohibit him from purchasing these weapons. >> legal experts say it's pretty easy to buy a gun in florida. semi-automatic assault rifles like the ar-15 used in the shooting in orlando are legal to buy in this state. buyers must first pass a federal background check. that's conducted by the fbi, and it's required for all gun purchases from federally licensed dealers. florida, like most u.s. states, does not conduct its own background checks, and there's no limit on magazine capacity in florida. the state does, however, require a three-day waiting period for handgun purchases. joining us now, cnn law enforcement analyst cedric alexander. he is also the public safety director for decall be county in georgia. we also learned today that mateen who was trained for about a month at a law enforcement academy. would he have been trained on an ar-15 at that time or different weapons? >> he very well could have. many police departments across the country today are utilizing that type of weaponry as opposed to the old remington 870 shotgun. so it's very well possible he could have been trained on that weapon. >> so when people say he was a security guard, it seems he had much more advanced training than, say, your average security guard, which is one reason why he was able to kill 49 people and wound 53 others. >> it wouldn't have been that advanced, but certainly it would have equated to some type of structured training that would have made it much more comfortable for him to feel familiar with those type of weapons. >> okay. we're also learning that inside that club, he was cool. he was calm. at some point he was smiling and laughing. what does that tell you about his state of mind? >> you're probably dealing with someone who is very psychotic and someone who has really removed himself from any emotional contact with people, whom he in his mind, somehow, may have had a great dislike for. whether they were part of an lgbt community or whether they just were americans, clearly he had a plan in mind and one that appears to have been full of hate. and that made him a very dangerous individual in terms of being able to go in, mix with people, carry on like anyone else would, leave, and then come back and end in such a dramatic and deadly way. >> we're also being told that most of the victims, most of the people who were killed, were killed in the early stages of what ended up being a three-hour-long siege. is that fairly typical in this type of situation? >> well, it varies. but anytime that you're using such a high-powered weapon such as an ar-15 that uses 223 rounds, which are high velocity rounds and of course it's my understanding he had a small arms weapon as well, a glock 9 millimeter, and at very close range can create some real threat as we saw. >> we're also being told that from our sources that he attempted to buy level-three body armor. is that the same that the police have, or this is even -- >> that's more military-grade. that's really more military-grade type of body armor. and that's just not going to be sold to anyone. but even your s.w.a.t. teams also have a much higher grade of body armor. >> if he managed to get hold of that type of body armor, what would have happened here? how would this have -- >> the fight could have gone on a little longer. more lives could have been lost certainly, but the fight would have certainly gone on a little longer had it not been -- had he had that type of vest on him. >> we're also being told that his wife is cooperating with investigators here. will she be of much help? >> i think she will be. she'll be able to tell us a lot about him in terms of his -- any changes in his moods and personality over time. who were some of his associates? what were some of his habits from the time that they met, married, and divorced or separated? so i think there's a lot of information that can be gathered from her in terms of helping us to determine who was this individual, and what was the motivation behind this massive killing. >> quite often in a situation like this, people wonder how is it that this woman could be living with this man who was planning this deadly rampage and not know anything about it. we're assuming that's the case here. is it possible for someone like these lone wolf attackers to carry out their plans completely separate to anybody else, without anybody picking up on it? >> well, it could be. if could be. but oftentimes as you dig deeper into these investigations, each one of them are going to be very different. if we go back and look at the san bernardino killing, we found that there were others that were involved. if you look at this case and what we know right now about mr. mateen, he could have been operating as a lone wolf. we're still -- you know, it's still early into this investigation. but over time, we're going to learn more about whether he was a lone wolf, whether there were some others who knew about, took part, had some knowledge of this act that took place. >> one lead, i guess, the authorities are following up here is possible accomplices who may have been in the club that night. cedric, thank you again. >> thank you for having me. >> our coverage will continue in a moment with a harrowing account from a survivor who faced the gunman. also the argument between donald 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for me. x1 makes it easy to find what you love. call or go online and switch to x1. only with xfinity. welcome, everyone. you're watching cnn's special coverage of the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. i'm amara walker in los angeles. >> i'm john vause live in orlando, where it's just gone 2:30 on a tuesday morning. all 49 people killed inside the pulse nightclub have now been identified. 53 others were wounded. five are still in a grave condition. investigators are learning more about the gunman. the fbi believes he was self-radicalized online. one official says the shooter searched for jihadist propaganda. and a survivor has described the terrifying encounter with the gunman. >> the scary part was that he didn't say anything. and what's scarier than that was that when he shot the boy that was already shot, he laughed. and as he's laughing, that's when he fires through the whole front of the stall, like just free-fired. we're yelling at him, like, please, please, don't do this. you don't want to do this. just spare us. we didn't see you. we can't tell anybody. i guess that enticed him more, and he put his gun over the top of the stall and just willy-nilly fired. >> well, it didn't take long for the presumptive presidential nominees to weigh in on this attack. they have sharply different ideas on how to handle the threat of terrorism. sara murray reports. >> reporter: in the wake of the orlando massacre, donald trump and hillary clinton are putting their commander-in-chief credentials on display. >> we are heading into a general election that could be the most consequential of our lifetimes. but today is not a day for politics. >> reporter: and adopting starkly different tones. >> she's in total denial. hillary supports policies that bring the threat of radical islam into america and allow it to grow overseas. >> reporter: clinton taking a more somber approach and laying out a plan to guard against terrorists who act alone. >> as president, i will make identifying and stopping lone wolves a top priority. >> reporter: while also promising tighter gun controls. >> i believe weapons of war have no place on our streets. >> reporter: and in a cnn interview, calling for the return of the assault weapons ban, first signed into law by her husband. >> we did have an assault weapons ban for ten years, and i think it should be reinstated. >> reporter: all as trump is railing against his political opponents, casting himself as tough on terror. >> i refuse to be politically correct. the days of deadly ignorance will end. >> reporter: though the orlando shooter was an american citizen, born in new york, trump misreading his speech appeared to suggest otherwise. >> the killer, whose name i will not use or ever say, was born an afghan, of afghan parents. >> reporter: as he renews his call to ban muslims from the u.s. >> i will use this power to protect the american people. when i'm elected, i will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the united states. >> reporter: insisting an influx of syrian refugees presents a danger to the country. >> we have to stop people from coming in from syria. we're taking them in by the thousands. >> reporter: in fact, less than 4,000 syrians have been admitted this year. president obama has called for resettling 10,000 by the end of september. after all his tough talk, trump is still backing on cooperation from muslim communities. >> the muslim community so importantly, they have to work with us. they have to cooperate with law enforcement and turn in the people who they know are bad. >> reporter: as clinton argues, trump's approach will only alienate muslim allies. >> inflammatory anti-muslim rhetoric and threatening to ban the families and friends of muslim-americans as well as millions of muslim business people and tourists from entering our country hurts the vast majority of muslims who love freedom and hate terror. >> reporter: today the presumptive democratic nominee also negated one of trump's loudest criticisms. >> hillary clinton for months and despite so many attacks repeatedly refused to even say the words "radical islam." >> reporter: intentionally using those words. >> whether you call it radical jihadi jihadism, radical i islam, i think they mean the same thing. i'm happy to say either. >> reporter: as trump embraces questionable semantics of his own. >> we're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he's got something else in mind. >> reporter: now, "the washington post" is one of those news outlets that seized on the idea that donald trump pointed out maybe obama knows more than he's letting on about these terrorist attacks, about islamic extremism. donald trump did not appear to like that story line. he went onto facebook after his event here to say he was going to be revoking the credentials from "the washington post." sara murray, cnn, manchester, new hampshire. >> pat shi sheehan is orlando's first openly day commissioner, and she joins us now. patty, thank you for speaking with us and taking the time. first things first, all the dead have now been identified. >> yes. >> families are being notified. >> yes. >> how are people coping with this? >> well, you know, i just came back from a huge rally down at the orlando performing arts center. it was a really amazing time to bring the community together. i was frankly reluctant at first to do it because i was afraid of putting more people in peril and stretching a thin law enforcement resources. but it was actually really, really wonderful. there are people who are in the muslim community. there are people from all different walks of life, and it was just really affirming. there was a candlelight vigil, and i have to tell you they were ringing a bell for every victim. and it was stunning. >> very moving. >> it was very moving, and how long it took to ring that bell for every victim. >> 49 victims. >> yes. >> do we have any idea -- do you have an idea why the gunman, mateen, would target the pulse nightclub because we're now hearing from police sources that investigators are looking into the fact that he may have been at this club on a number of different occasions before the shoot something. >> this is -- i mean i'm incredulous although they do say a lot of times that people who have internal homophobia tend to act out against other gay people. >> yeah, i guess that is one theory out there. this was a man struggling with his own sexuality possibly. >> yeah. >> clearly what happened here, it's unprecedented. but for the gay community, violence, it happens all too frequently. >> you know, we have been -- we've lost, you know -- aids decimated our community. we had a lot of death and lost people and had great suffering because of that. we've been victims of hate crimes. we've, you know, been the victims of discrimination. we have had to overcome a lot in this community, and i think because of that, we have a resilience and a strength that a lot of people -- a lot of communities don't have. that's why we get to together. that's why we can put together fabulous shows and things like that, and fabulous music because it's kind of our way of coping. >> you are going to need that strength in the coming days. >> we do need that strength, absolutely. >> especially in states like florida, there are laws on the books. there are anti-lgbt laws which are on the books and continue to be attempted to be passed. florida never got through the transgender bathroom laws, but the state legislature tried. it is about time that the lawmakers after what happened here maybe think about the discrimination that -- >> i asked to held them accountable. i said if you want to come here and talk about violence against the gay community and say it's really not a gay thing, yes, it is a gay thing and are you going to do hate crimes enhancements for crimes against my community? are you going to protect for public accommodation, employment, and housing at the state level like we do in orlando? what are you going to do to help my community after this? and, you know -- >> what do they say so far? >> so far, oh, well, you know, we love the gays. yeah, right. no, you know what? you need to show that you put your money where your mouth is. if you're going to come here and stand in front of the cameras and talk about how you want to support the community, do it. it's not that difficult. it's not that difficult to do the right thing. >> patty, good to speak with you. thank you. >> absolutely. >> still to come here, the shock of this deadly mass shooting is giving way to devastating reality for the friends and the family of the victims. >> i thought that he was immo immortal. he always said that he will never left me, he will never abandon me. i trusted him. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> we have some other breaking news to bring to you. france now says the murder of a french police officer and his partner was a terrorist act. let's get more on this from senior international correspondent jim bittermann joining us live now from paris. what can you tell us about these killings? >> reporter: hi, amara. in fact, the branding of it as a terrorist attack came from the french interior minister just a short while ago as he was heading out to the scene where all this took place last night. this police officer, a commander, in fact, at a police station to the west of paris, was coming home last night in civilian clothes, wasn't in unifo uniform, when he was attacked and apparently according to media reports stabbed nine times. and then later when he took refuge in the police officer's house and the s.w.a.t. teams went in and killed the assailant after a couple of hours of negotiation, inside the house they found the companion of the police officer dead. both of the couple members were members of police force. the woman was a secretary at a police station not too far away from where she was killed, and the husband, 42 years old, was the commander at another police station a short distance away. they are now saying that the assailant was known to police, that he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for association with a terrorist group, recruiting specifically terrorist members to go off to pakistan along with seven other people who were also convicted at the same time. he had a kind of a, according to the reports that we're hearing, he had a kind of -- sort of the way he progressed through terrorism was something similar to what we've heard all along. he was a petty criminal, went to jail for petty crimes, and then became radicalized. and this attack has now been claimed by the same terrorist website that claimed the orlando attack, which is just a few hours after the killings. in fact, the attack was claimed by this terrorist website. it should be pointed out, however, there was no indication that isis had directed this attack, but rather that the website claimed it after the fact, amara. >> and just quickly, jim, we should tell our -- remind our viewers that france is hosting their euro tournament, already increased security for this football tournament. what would the impact be on that, and will we see more heightened security because of this latest terrorist attack as it's being characterized as? >> reporter: one wonders how much higher it can get. the fact is we're in a state of emergency right now. this kind of an attack with a knife in a suburban neighborhood, with a policeman in civilian clothes, it's the kind of thing that it could happen practically anywhere in this country no matter how high the level of protection was. once again, it was a knife that was used in this attack. no arms other than a knife were found as far as the police are reporting at this point. amara. >> jim bittermann live for us there in paris. appreciate that, jim. thanks for that. we're going to take a short break. we're back after this. vo: 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by most health plans. welcome back, everyone. the world is sending love to orlando as the city mourns the mass shooting victims. here in los angeles, hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil and rally outside city hall monday evening, and pop star lady gaga delivered an emotional speech. >> i gather humbly with you as a human being in peace and sincerity, in commitment, in solidarity. >> and there was a show of solidarity in new york as well. huge crowds gathering there near the historic stonewall inn to honor those who died. riots at the inn back in 1969 launched the modern gay rights movement. >> clearly this tragedy has touched so many people around the world. but the pain is being felt the most for those closest to the shooting victims. cnn's gary tuchman met with one woman who says she didn't just lose her friend. she lost her family. >> reporter: nobody should ever have to endure this. family and friends of those who are missing in orlando told to meet at a makeshift crisis center where they would receive the official word on whether their loved ones had been identified. sara lopez was told to show up at 8:00 a.m. to find out about her closest friend in the world, who was missing. but instead she received a call in the middle of the night that he had, indeed, been killed. >> i thought that he was immortal, you know? he always said that he would never left me, that he would never abandon me, and i trusted him. >> sara always called him jimmy. he worked in retail. she is an artist. they met where they both grew up in puerto rico, and both moved to the orlando area. when did you first meet jimmy? >> i met jimmy when i was 16 years old in a get-together at her sister's house, and we fell in love immediately. we knew that we were stuck for the rest of our lives together that very moment. even when he was gay and i was gay. so it was not a sexual attraction. it was a soul mate maybe. >> reporter: but you were best friends? >> yes. >> reporter: soul mates? >> he was my brother. >> most of jimmy's family remains in puerto rico. same with sara. they relied on each other when they moved to the mainland, and relied on each other for three and a half decades since. when she received the call that jimmy was dead, her mind raced. >> i remember when we used to dance salsa. i remember when my son was sick, and he stayed with me at the hospital. i remember when my sister died. remember when our best friend died a few years ago, in two seconds, it's like he passed in front of me. >> reporter: sara says jimmy was at the pulse nightclub with two of his friends who survived. they told her they started crawling towards a bathroom when the gunman was reloading. but one of those friends say jimmy didn't follow. he was playing dead, hoping the gunman would ignore him. >> when he looked back, he said that he saw jimmy in fetal position, and the guy was shooting back and forth to everything that moved. he said that it was like a hundred bam, bam, bam, bam, bam in a minute. >> reporter: sara's mind played tricks with her. what if jimmy crawled too? would he be alive and with her tonight? instead she now begins to help his mother and three sisters from puerto rico plan a funeral and wonders what her life will be like now. >> i don't know. i might be surviving, but i know i'm not without him. and i can prove you when i clean my home, when i listen to salsa, he is right here with me. he's going to be right here with me. >> reporter: shortly after we talked with sara, she and a niece of jimmy's went to the medical examiner's office. jimmy's body had arrived. gary tuchman, cnn, orlando. >> well, equality florida, lgbt organization has started a page on the crowdfunding site gofundme for the victims here in orlando. they're collecting money for the victims and their families. so far you can see there they've raised almost $3 million and counting. >> for more resources and information on how you can help as well, you can visit cnn.com/impact. well, that does it for us here. i'm amara walker in los angeles. >> i'm john vause in orlando. cnn's special coverage of the massacre in orlando continues after the break. ♪ (ee-e-e-oh-mum-oh-weh) (hush my darling...) 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>> i don't know. he never personally or, you know, physically made any indication while we were together of that. but he did feel very strongly about homosexuality. >> investigators are also examining omar mateen's electronic devices, even his search history. an official says the 29-year-old had searched for videos of isis beheadings and of a radical american-born imam. cnn's boris sanchez is here and now joins us live in orlando this hour. boris, good to have you. so first let's talk about the gunman's electronic footprint. revealing several new clues now. >> reporter: that's right, george. just to give you an idea where we are, first, we're on the other side of this crime scene. it remains a massive investigation, and as part of it, we're getting kind of a window into the mind of this shooter and the process of self-radicalization. one u.s. official described what they found in his electronic records as, quote, he consumed a hell of a lot of jihadist propaganda that includes the isis videos that george mentioned, isis beheadings as well as videos produced by anwar al awlaki. he was based in yemen and inspired a generation of jihadis much he was mentioned in the september 11th commission report, essentially saying that he was the spiritual leader of some of the hijackers. of course he was killed in 2011 during a drone strike. some of these different influences might explain the discrepancy in the shooter's so-called pledged allegiances. when he was first on the phone with 911 and pledged allegiance to isis and then later pledged allegiance to al nusra, which is an al qaeda group based in syria. those are two competing groups, so this reveals the inner workings of the shooter's niemi. he was essentially looking for some kind of inspiration to carry out this attack. aside from that as you mentioned, president obama will be here on thursday, offering condolences and support to the victims and their families. this as we watch vigils unfold around the world, including some here in orlando that coincide with the release of the name of the last victim. that is geraldo ortiz-jimenez. he is the 49th victim that has been identified by officials. we can also tell you that officials are looking into the shooter's movements shortly before the shooting. it appears he had been scoping out several locations, and as they flesh out their timeline, that will certainly be the focus, george. >> boris, tell us just a bit more about that. apparently the gunman spending time at nearby disney springs. how exactly were investigators able to track this down? >> reporter: right. well, they said that they used cell phone tower data to be able to pinpoint his location. as you said, he was in an area known as disney springs. it was an area that i frequented when i was a kid. it's essentially an entertainment center. there are restaurants there and different businesses. a lot of families are there, and what investigators were able to figure out is that just hours before the shooting, he was in that area alone. and you can imagine that they want to hear from people that were there at the same time to see if anybody saw him and perhaps they can glean something from what his demeanor was at that time as they put together this timeline to figure out just how all of this unfolded, george. >> so investigators learning a lot more about his background, his online searches, and even his electronic footprint where he's been. boris sanchez live for us. boris, thank you. >> and another aspect of this investigation. a store manager says the orlando gunman tried to buy military-grade body armor in the days before the attack. he says the store didn't carry it, but the shooter was armed with a handgun and an assault rifle when he went into the pulse nightclub. well, jim sciutto has more on the hours of terror that then followed. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: this is the moment pulse nightclub turned from celebration to terror. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: gunfire caught on video as 25-year-old amanda alvear chatted online with a friend. she did not survive. tonight u.s. officials are calling the deadliest shooting in american history an act of terrorism. there is no evidence the shooter, omar mateen, had contact with isis or other terror groups. >> as far as we can tell right now, this is certainly an example of the kind of homegrown extremism that all of us have been so concerned about for a very long time. >> reporter: but today the fbi director james comey said the bureau investigated mateen for ten months in 2013 and placed him on two terror watch lists. though he was removed when the case ended. he was still able to buy two guns legally in the last two weeks. >> we're working to understand what role anti-gay bigotry may have played in motivating this attack. again it's early. we're working hard to understand the killer and his motives and his sources of inspiration. >> reporter: omar mateen sprays a barrage of bullets into a crowd of some 300 people. witnesses believe the initial gunfire is part of the music. >> i was just dancing to the music and you hear bang, bang. i thought really it's just not even -- i don't know, 150 feet in front of you. there's people being shot down. >> reporter: around 2:30 a.m., mateen calls 911 from the bathroom three times, pledging his allegiance to isis, other terror groups, and expressing support for the boston bombers and abu-salha, the american suicide bomber who killed himself in syria. >> there were three different calls. he called and he hung up. he called again and spoke briefly with the dispatcher, and then he hung up. and then the dispatcher called him back again, and they spoke briefly. so there were three total calls. >> he was cool and calm. when he was making those phone calls to us. >> reporter: jim sciutto, cnn, orlando. >> now, for the people who survived this mass shooting, we are hearing some incredible stories about how they escaped death. norman casiano is one of those people. he told my colleague, anderson cooper, what happened after he and several other club patrons ran into a bathroom to hide. >> so you crawled into the bathroom? >> yeah, and it was just from that point forward, my -- i just already knew that this was -- it was going to go south from there. >> while you were crawling into the bathroom, did there continue to be shots? >> yeah. there was like the fastest crawl. we were like military crawling, like let's get out of here. so we went into the bathroom, and we opened the stall, and there's already people lined up near the wall. so i could only sit near the front where if something was going to happen -- >> was this a small regular bathroom stall? >> just like a -- probably like this whole scare right here. >> uh-huh. >> like about four by ten. like a small little -- like to the point where there's people sitting on top of each other. so once i got in there, everyone ducked, and we got quiet. and i'm like just -- i tried to call 911. it wouldn't go through. it was busy. at that point the gunshots are getting closer, and i called my mom. and i don't know if something was wrong with the service or it had something to do what was going on, but she -- i heard it pick up, and i said, mom, mom, mom. and it dropped. and that was the time span of like not even five minutes that from that point forward, that's when the gunshots got extra close. and at that point you hear everyone just under their breath like praying and crying and like trying to be quiet so if he -- you know, if he wasn't going to go into the bathroom, he wouldn't hear us. >> could you hear people outside the bathroom? >> no. it was just gunshots after gunshots, and you could hear the bullets hitting the floor. you could hear when he was, like, adding more bullets. >> reloading? >> reloading, the gun, yeah. >> how many people were in your stall? >> i counted about like 20 or 30 people. >> wow. >> yeah, because there wasn't any room for you to just -- like everyone have their own little niche to stand in. it was like you need to sit on top of -- like one of my friends was laying on top of other people, and it's to that point where the people didn't care. everyone is just like ducking and, you know, just hoping for the best, praying, and i myself was saying, please don't let this be where i go. like this cannot be what's going to happen tonight. so at that point after the phone call, right directly immediately after, i see feet, and we're thinking it the assailant. >> you see feet from under the bathroom stall? >> yeah, because it was like a space this big underneath the stall. i'm thinking it's the shooter. you and just hear the door gets slammed on, and someone drops to the floor. and it was another patron of pulse, and he -- he was bleeding. the floor started bleeding. like it was just all over. >> he was shot right then and there? >> i figured that he was running away from him to go hide in one of the stalls, and as he was running, i guess he shot him from a distance. once he shot him, he left. >> the gunman left? >> yes. and that's something that's imprinted in my head for the rest of my life. like i have literally been in the hospital for two days trying to sleep, and one of the first things i hear what i close my eyes are guns, bullets hitting the floor, and just that laugh. like it wasn't like a -- like a multiple laugh. it's like a villain in a movie. it was like a laugh of satisfaction, like i'm doing what i came here to do. >> was it an extended laugh or just -- >> just like a really quick like a chuckle. i can't even do from how like intense -- like it was just pure -- and everyone i've talked to, it's like pure evil. that's what it sounded like. it didn't even sound like a person at that point. he didn't speak. the only sound we heard was the laugh. so at that point someone starts screaming, like please, please, please don't shoot us. don't shoot us. and he does the first round through the door. >> of the stall where you were? >> of the stall that i was in. that's when i got my first wound, which was an entrance and an exit. we start yelling again, please, please don't shoot. there's people in the background just begging him, like please, please don't shoot. like we haven't seen your face. we don't know what you look like. you haven't spoken. we don't know anything. just please let us go. like don't do this. and i guess that just -- like i said, i guess it like enticed him to do it more. and he put his hand over the stall and just free-shot. >> you saw his hand go over the stall? >> yeah, that's the only description i was able to give to police was i know that he was tan. >> do you remember the gun? >> yeah, it was the smaller one? >> was it a handgun? >> the handgun, yeah. it was a 9 millimeter. i could see it clearly. i remember i just looked up for five seconds and then i looked down and shimmied over. that's when i got me here. and he got other people, and people screamed. so like, you know, because a few of them did pass away at that moment in time. and i just dropped to the floor, and i guess he thought that whoever was in there, he already got. so he -- he left. >> clarity there of the description just chilling. but i also want to update you now on a breaking news story out of france. let's go straight to paris. jim bittermann is standing by. we understand officials are calling the murder of a police officer and his partner an act of terrorism. tell us more, jim. >> reporter: yes, robyn. the interior minister called it an abject act of terrorism. that was a short while ago after he had met with the president and other security officials here in france and before he headed to the scene of this crime, which was to the west of paris. it's about 45 minutes from the center of paris. and in that locality, which is a fairly calm suburb of mannianville west of paris, the police officer was heading home last night at about 8:30 in the evening when he was attacked and stabbed according to media reports nine times. he was in civilian dress, was not on duty at the time. and then the assailant went into the police officer's home and holed up there. s.w.a.t. teams came. they tried to negotiate with him for several hours and finally in a shoot-out killed him. when the police officers got inside, they found that the companion of the police officer, who also works for the police as a secretary, in fact she was killed as well. a 3-year-old child who was found inside the house was safe. now, they're saying -- the media reports here are saying that the assailant was connected to terrorism back in 2013, was sentenced to two and a half years in jail for his connections to a terrorist recruiting group. and the act has been claimed at least by isis and isis-related news site has claimed that this was something that was carried out by someone who was an isis soldier. the fact is, though, that this came after the fact, and there's no indication that isis was in fact directing this operation, robyn. >> jim bittermann in paris. thank you, on news that authorities are calling an incident there in paris an act of terror. thank you. back here in orlando, dozens of victims are still in emergency care. we will give you an exclusive look inside one of the hospitals working to save them. this is "cnn newsroom." be the you who doesn't cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dress. who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. before starting stelara® tell your doctor if you think you have an infection or have symptoms such as: fever, sweats, chills, 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in the pulse nightclub shooting. in orlando, it was a sea of glowing candles. look at those images. hundreds of people gathered to remember the victims. it was one of many, many vigils across the city on monday. in new york, a vigil was held at the symbolic stonewall inn, the site of the 1969 riots that launched the modern gay rights movement. again, very evocative images. in london, hundreds of people rallied in the streets in solidarity with orlando. and in paris, a city no stranger to terror, the eiffel tower was lit up in honor of the orlando victims, half in red, white and blue, and half in the colors of the rainbow flag. >> the pain and sadness real, but people coming together around the world. we're also learning more about the situation at nearby hospitals here in orlando as dozens upon dozens of victims arrived sunday morning for emergency care. cnn got exclusive access inside the orlando regional medical center, one of the places where doctors have been treating patients around the clock since the shootings. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has this report for us. >> they said there was a gunshot wound coming in, and they said that there were maybe a few more. the initial report was 20 gunshot wounds that were going to be coming our way. and one patient came in. another patient came in, and then i realized this was not a drill. >> reporter: trauma surgeon smith, cheatham, and ibrahim have been operating almost nonstop since the shooting at pulse nightclub. >> we were up to six rooms within about 90 minutes. they had 44 gunshot wound victims come in all within a space of about an hour and a half, two hours. it certainly exceeded anything we've ever seen before. >> reporter: 26 operations were performed in the first few hours. injuries so devastating, one patient alone requiring four separate operations. 90 units of blood and counting. >> the patients were wheeled indo this area. they'd have about a dozen people surrounding them, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, anybody who could lend a hand. they would make a decision quickly as to was this patient going to survive, was this patient going to need surgery, and how quickly was that operation going to be necessary? how much blood was a patient going to get? you can imagine 44 patients within a short time coming in. bed after bed after bed, and these doctors having to make those decisions. that's what's been going on here for quite some time. they finally feel they've gotten a handle on the situation but they still have many, many patients upstairs who need their care. and then in the midst of all that, a rumor that the hospital had become a target. >> we have the shooter currently inside ormc. we can't take anymore. >>. >> reporter: patients, many of whom were still conscious, trying desperately to communicate till the very end. >> several people asked if, you know, if they were going to die, where their friends were, where their loved ones were. and, you know, just everybody kind of came together, tried to reassure them at the same time. there were some patients unfortunately that due to their injuries, you know, they were unable to be saved, and we tried to make them as comfortable as possible. >> with us now, dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, when we talk about that night, it seems like hour after hour it got worse and worse and worse. what was it like for these surgeons? >> well, you know, i think they initially didn't know what really to expect. there was a doctor on call. he gets a call and says there's a couple of patients coming in initially. and that's not unusual for orlando. you might have a night where you have a couple of patients who have gunshot wounds. but then it was more and more, and at some point he had to make a decision. first of all, it's not a drill. this is real life. i need to call for backup. so he called two more surgeons. they called for three more surgeons. eventually there was at least six surgeons operating. they did 26 operations in a relatively short amount of time. so they were taking care of these patients, triaging the patients, triaging the blood. they needed to make sure they had enough blood. triaging the other resources that were necessary. so it's something that you think about. you try and practice for. but real life is always going to be a little bit different. >> you know, there was a point where mateen went outside and then came back in, and it's -- you know, did the surgeons notice that they had one round of patients and then another round of patients? >> very good point. and this was a crucial difference than san bernardino, than newtown. those are usually several minutes. this, in part because of the hostage situation as well, ended up being several hours. so the way they described it was they essentially had two mass casualty incidents. they had one wave of patients and then they basically had to stop. they weren't doing any triage or any recovery or rescue at the scene. and then all of a sudden they got that second wave after the hostage situation was over. so that was a whole nother thing. and you remember throughout the night, i mean the numbers were all over the place. >> right. >> because nobody really knew what was happening. >> i remember. i was on-set that night, and we got information initially, and then it seemed like the information changed drastically. there were so many more patients involved. these different hospitals, you know, in major cities, in chicago, for instance, in seattle, there are hospitals that are prepared for, that are designed for and trained for big situations like this. but orlando -- >> yeah. >> they do training. >> you know i think since i've been a journalist, this has been a big difference. the hospital where i work in atlanta, emery, we don't think about this. i'm sure in orlando, you don't think this is going to happen. no city is seemingly immune. so if you're a level-one trauma center now, you do training for mass casualty incidents. they've always done it, but now part of their training is for semi-automatic weapons, multiple patients coming in with multiple wounds, not just, you know, big car accidents or even shootings but just single gunshot wounds. these are mass casualty incidents, more military-style. >> different times. dr. sanjay gupta, thank you. >> yeah, thank you. >> robyn back to you. >> amazing insight from sanjay. after this break, there will be more stories of survival, and you'll hear from a man who lost eight friends in this mass shooting. stay with us. wanna drink more water? with sodastream you turn plain water into sparkling water in seconds. and because it's so delicious, you'll drink 43% more water every day. sodastream. love your water. welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm robyn curnow at the cnn center. >> and i'm george howell live in orlando, florida. the fbi says that they think the gunman self-radicalized online. one official says the shooter's devices showed numerous searches for jihadist propaganda. his current wife is cooperating with investigators with information helping them to build a timeline leading up to the attacks here. the u.s. president, barack obama, is calling the mass shooting a result of, quote, homegrown terrorism and is once again escalating the call for more gun control. on thursday, mr. obama will travel to orlando, travel here to pay respects to the victims of this massacre. french officials are calling the murder of a police officer and his partner an act of terrorism. an attacker stabbed the policeman to death outside his home late monday. a s.w.a.t. team killed the attacker and then found the officer's partner dead inside the home. we are learning some terrifying new insight about this mass shooting from people who survived and others who are struggling with devastating news about their friends and their family members. our nick valencia has their stories. >> it was the scariest day of my life. >> reporter: jason gonzalez was one of monther than 300 people enjoying a saturday night in pulse nightclub. but around 2:00 a.m., it didn't take long for him to realize something was wrong. [ gunfire ] >> oh, my god. >> we were trying to run for our lives, you know. everybody was running for their lives. some people were throwing themselves on the ground. some people were running on top of each other. some people were hiding in the bathrooms. it was just -- it was just straight chaotic. >> gonzalez, an operations manager at walt disney, jumped a fence to escape, ran to the subway across the street, and locked himself in a bathroom. he survived. but two of his friends didn't make it out alive. another friend was shot five times and is still in the hospital. >> why did these people have to die, and why did it happen to us? for people who give so much love, we receive so much hate. >> reporter: gonzalez hasn't slept much since the shooting. neither has melissa cruz, who has also best friends with one of the victims. >> i took a quick nap and woke up, and when i woke up, i started crying because i kept thinking, like, how did this happen? how did we lose all these people? like where did we go wrong? >> all our friends, a lot of them has already passed away. >> reporter: 49 people killed by the gunman. among them, a bouncer, a starbucks barista, an employee at universal orlando. for many friends and family who come to the orlando regional medical center, the gut-wrenching news. >> we were just having a birthday discussion with one of your friends. now they're gone. >> reporter: danny roderick easy and his friend drove from tampa bay as soon as they heard eight of their friends were killed. >> it's outrageous. >> reporter: for all of the victims affected by this tragedy, the next steps won't be easy. >> we need to now try to move forward and make sure that those people that are not here today are not forgotten. >> reporter: nick valencia, cnn, orlando, florida. >> 49 killed. 53 wungdounded. when it comes to buying a gun in the state of florida, we learned it's not that hard. semi-automatic weapons are legal to buy in this state. buyers are required to pass a federal background check conducted by the fbi. that's required for all gun purchases from federally licensed dealers. florida, like most u.s. states, does not conduct its own background checks, and there's no limit on magazine capacity in florida. the state does require a three-day waiting period for handgun purchases. joining us now to talk more about this, cnn law enforcement analyst cedric alexander. he is the public safety director for dekalb county just outside atlanta, georgia. it's good to have you. i want to talk about this issue of guns. when you talk about mateen, here is a guy who again was on the fbi watch list, but he wasn't under direct investigation. still he was able to go in and buy these weapons. how does that happen? >> well, you know, george, there's still a lot of work that has to be done as it relates to guns in this country. and we have a second amendment. we have to respect it, and we will respect it. however, both sides of the aisle need to come together and really begin to think about how do we find some resolve? the law as it is is what the law is. he's a u.s. citizen. he's born in this country. he did not have a record. there was no indication he had mental health issues. so, therefore, he was just as eligible to receive a gun just as much as anyone else. this is going to be an ongoing debate, and i just think we have to have the conversation not just when something like this happens, but begin to have this conversation before it happens the next time. but we also still have to respect the second amendment is our right, and people have the right to carry weapons. but this is just going to be an ongoing debate for some time. >> as you point out, this is the united states. >> that's right. >> the second amendment important. but, look, things like this happen. it brings this issue to light time after time after time. i want to talk about his training. >> mm-hmm. >> did he have -- i mean he did have some sort of specialized training. walk us through that. >> it has appeared from what we know he did do some training at one of the local academies here somewhere in the state. i think it was saint lucie county. with that training, certainly he had some familiarization with weaponry and became comfortable with it. now, whether he completed that training, i don't know. but a lot of time people will start out training. but what they will also do is go on their own and continue to practice with and become comfortable with those type of weapons. but when you start talking about high-powered rifles like an ar-15, it doesn't take a whole lot of training because they're very deadly weapons. and anytime it hits human flesh, it can cause a great deal of damage. so this is just sad, and it's unfortunate. but we have a lot still to talk about as it relates to this. >> very quickly here, let's talk about the crime scene. this is still an active crime scene. how long would it take to process something like this? >> well, it's going to take a while. this is a very large crime scene. we've had a lot of loss at this crime scene in terms of deaths and injuries. and a lot of rounds was fired at this crime scene as well, too, george. so it's going to be a while. but i think it's very important that they take their time, they be very methodical, and they put this case together in a way in which we all can learn from it. >> cedric alexander, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> robyn, back to you. >> thanks, george. you're watching cnn. after this break, donald trump delivers a fiery speech on the orlando terror attack. but some of his angry comments showed little regard for the truth. we'll check the facts. that's next. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. 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[ applause ] and i am wone of them. >> as for mr. trump, his speech on the massacre was filled with inpl inflammatory rhetoric. our dana bash checks the facts. >> reporter: donald trump's 34-minute speech was brimming with the kind of nativist rhetoric that helped him win the gop nomination. >> they're pouring in, and we don't know what we're doing. >> reporter: but as he doubled down on the solution to americans' fear of attacks at home, limiting immigration into the u.s., trump made lots of claims. some true, some not true. in the category of not true, this. >> the killer, whose name i will not use or ever say, was born in afghan of afghan parents, who immigrated to the united states. >> reporter: his parents did emigrate from afghanistan, but the killer himself was born in new york, which is why u.s. officials are calling it an act of homegrown terrorism. still, regardless of the orlando killer being american, the thrust of trump's response to the attack is focused on concerns about immigrants. he drilled down on hillary clinton's plan to let syrian refugees into the u.s. >> a 500% increase in syrian refugees coming into our country. tell me, tell me how stupid is that? this could be a better, bigger, more horrible version than the legendary trojan horse ever was. >> reporter: that stat, that clinton's refugee proposal would be a 500% increase over president obama's plan is true. to be specific, obama's plan allows for 10,000 refugees. clinton's is 65,000. that would actually be a 550% increase, about what trump claims. but he also argues there is no vetting. >> having learned nothing from these attacks, she now plans to massively increase admissions without a screening plan. >> reporter: the reality is refugees now go through months of processing and paperwork before being admitted into the u.s. so that is false. then there's the question of how many syrian refugees are coming in now. >> we have to stop the tremendous flow of syrian refugees into the united states. >> reporter: on cnn's "new day," trump was more specific. >> we have, by the way, thousands and thousands of people pouring into our country right now who have the same kind of hate and probably even more than he has. >> reporter: on the numbers, what trump said is true. according to the state department, 3,887 syrian refugees have been admitted to the u.s. since last october. more than 2,000 of them in the last month alone, though that's far fewer so far than the 10,000 president obama said he'd allow. and on the issue of guns -- >> her plan is to disarm law-abiding americans, abolishing the second amendment, and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns. no good. not good to happen, folks. not going to happen. >> reporter: trump repeated his claim that hillary clinton wants to do away with america's right to bear arms. but that is false. clinton does want to restrict access to guns, but not abolish the second amendment. >> if the fbi is watching you for suspected terrorist links, you shouldn't be able to just go buy a gun with no questions asked. >> reporter: beyond those specific statements, for muslims in america, trump's overall tone was no doubt alarming, even as he said some american-muslim communities are great and called for a partnership, he also said they know what's going on. they know that he was bad. despite offering no evidence any of the killer's fellow american-muslims knew about his intentions. dana bash, cnn, washington. >> they put their lives in danger to save others. just ahead, a look at the heroes who bravely stepped up in the mass shooting here in orlando, florida. stay with us. be the you who doesn't cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dress. who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may 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paris. french officials calling the murder of a police officer and his partner an act of terrorism. an attacker stabbed the policeman to death outside his home late monday. a s.w.a.t. team killed the attacker and then found the officer's partner dead inside the home. back in orlando, you can't help but feel the pain. you can't help but feel the agony for people who lost friends and loved ones here. it is just really hard to think about what people are dealing with. 49 people died just down the street. 53 others were wounded and still some are fighting to survive. as we remember the victims, we also want to mention those who risked their own lives to save others. >> he was spinning recording when bullets started to fly. ray rivera, otherwise known as dj infinite, had just started playing reggae music. >> i heard the shots getting closer and closer and said it's someti time to go. >> time to go but he wasn't alone. he was holed up behind his dj booth along with a man and another woman. the man took off running but the d.j. helped the woman escape unharm unharmed. >> i told her to be quiet and as soon as there was a break n the shots, i pushed her and said go. >> when the shooting started, josh mcgill ran outside. then more shots and screams. so he took cover underneath a car. that's when a stranger, this man named rodney sumpter, began stumbling toward him, covered in blood. josh pulled him behind the car. >> he had multiple gunshot wounds, one in each arm. so i took my shirt off, tied it around one arm as high as i could, took off his shirt, tied it around his other arm. >> reporter: the man had been shot in the back too. josh applied pressure on that wound all the way to the hospital in the ambulance. he talked to rodney to keep him conscious, telling him god has got this. >> i was mainly scared. i was like, god, please don't let me break my promise. >> reporter: rodney sumpter is alive and recovering. chris hansen thought the sound of gunfire was part of the music until he realized a gunman had entered the club. he hit the ground, then crawled to safety across the street. >> there was people who were just blood everywhere. i was helping somebody because he was laying down. i wasn't sure if he was dead or alive. i was like, hey, are you alive? hey, are you okay? >> the man, chris says, was named junior. >> i took my bandanna off and shoved it in a hole that was in his back. i was like talk to me, stay with me, and i was holding pressure down. >> this woman also jumped in to help. her friend, a nightclub employee, was bleeding badly. >> my only instinct was to help everybody else around me. my buddy, juan, was the bartender. the first thing i do was see his wound. i take off my shirt and i tied my shirt around his leg to stop the bleeding. >> reporter: this medical student stayed around to help too instead of running to his life. he saved man who fell to the floor on his stomach. >> he had a gunshot wound to his back. i held pressure on his wound for about 20 minutes or so, and still, you know, checking in with him, keeping him conscious. >> reporter: he also helped a woman who had been shot in the hand, even using his own cell phone to call the woman's man so the daughter could speak to her. >> it was so heartbreaking because even though she was saying those messages, i didn't want her to give up, and i didn't want her mom to give up on her. i didn't want them to say their last good-byes. >> reporter: in the face of hate, heroes emerged, randi kaye, skrn, new york. >> equality florida, an lgbt civil rights group, started a page on the crowdfunding site gofundme for the victims here in orlando. they are collecting money to distribute to the victims and their families. so far, they've raised almost $3 million and counting. live here in orlando, florida, and you can see this investigation continues. the crime tape is still up, and investigators processing this crime scene. there are many families that are dealing with the news 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[ gunshots ] new investigation into the orlando gay club massacre. 49 people killed. 53 injured. new stories of survival as we learn new information this morning about the killer from his online radicalization to why he targeted that particular club. patrons telling cnn they had seen him there many times before. was he is
loved ones and the countless people grap wlg that sad reality tonight. we will show you the victims and that's where we believe the focus belongs. pamela brown joins me and our senior investigate drew griffin have been working their sources since this began. what you are hearing? >> law enforcement sources tell us, anderson, that the wife knew her husband wanted to launch a jihadist attack. in fact, he expressed interest in doing that. she said his behavior became more and more violent. she claims, she's telling investigators that she didn't know about the specific plans to go to pulse nightclub and launch an attack. there she claims when she found out he wanted to launch an attack she dries to dissuade him from doing so and talk him out of it. >> but she never called any police. >> and that is key here. that is what investigators are focused on. that's a felony to know that someone wants to commit a crime and not go to federal authorities and tell them, conceal that knowledge. it's a felony. and so right now as we speak, doj investigators are trying to build a case to determine whether they can prove she had knowledge of the attack and didn't report it to authorities. it's one 1, 2, 3 inning to know it and even though she is saying she knew he was going to launch an attack. she is claim she is telling investigators she went to disney springs with him and pulse nightclub if early june. >> she claim she went to pulse nightcl nightclub. >> she went to pulse nightclub with him and went to disney springs. but it's unclear at this point whether she knew that the nightclub would be the target of a mass shooting. so they're trying to sort out the extent to which she knew of her husband's plans. >> drew, what you are learning about the family? >> the family very close. the father lives behind me in this house. one of his daughters lives down the street from here. the shooter and his wife live 20 minutes away. they saw each other constantly. maybe once a week, two, three times a week according to some members of this family. and that leads me to believe, when we hear from pamela brown that the wife knew something was up wlachlt did the family know was up? the father insists nothing. they knew he saw his was 3:00 in the afternoon on saturday and he described the visit as a friendly father/son visit as usual. obviously investigators are trying to find out what exactly these family members knew or didn't know but they are very, very close. >> pam, you spoke with the sheriff earlier. what did they say? >> reporter: the sheriff told me it was clear the gunman was scoping out several targets in the orlando area, but he made clear this gunman was very familiar with the night club, that it's clear he did preoperational surveillance there and perhaps went there for other reasons and he knew the ins and outs of this night club. what's unclear is why he settled on the nightclub for his target. when he was inside, we know he called 911 and was speaking arabic to the 911 operator and to the sheriff, talking about why he was launching this attack, doing it in the name of allah and so forth. >> one of the people performing at the club said they had seen the gunman there for over the course of three years on and off. have they confirmed that, do you know? >> reporter: the fbi is leading the investigation. the sheriff did say the extent to which it's clear he had knowledge and clear he had been there before but he couldn't elaborate on how many times. the patrons are the witnesses. >> if he'd been there for a three-year period, hard to imagine he would case the joint for three years. >> reporter: exactly. one source said this information certainly changes the perspective. >> they said that? >> reporter: mm-hmm. >> drew, the father had some sort of a television program or internet television program. i read at one point he'd expressed support for the taliban in afghanistan. is that confirmed? >> reporter: that is not true. that seemed to be a mistranslation. he is anti-pakistan. at one point he announced his candidacy for the president of afghanistan. he of course was born in afghanistan. his son was born here. but he is heavily involved, at least in his own mind, in the politics of afghanistan, but we didn't see anything from the father that -- on those tapes that showed he was pro-taliban and conversely anti-u.s. he seemed to be coming in from a perspective of a pro-afghan as a country. >> okay. and, pamela, a lot of reporting about -- a number of people have come forward and said that this gunman was on gay apps, on a variety of gay hookup apps. no direct commentary from any of the individuals who have come forward that he was there looking for sex or looking to actually hook up, but, you know, there have been a number of published reports that he was on these for an extended period of time. is law enforcement looking at that? >> fbi is looking into these claims, not only contacting these companies but talking to the people who claim he was on the site. now the question is they have to verify the profile, make sure it was actually him. there's a lot of vetting that goes into place. combine that with the information that he guarded this club for several years, it adds a different level of information that wasn't there. >> former assistant director of the u.s. marshal services art boderick. as someone who has interviewed jihadists, what stands out to you at this moment? >> i look at it as the worst mass shooting in the modern american history that took place at an intersection between a hate crime and terrorism. it is a hate crime because it happened at a venue that is very popular by the lgbt community and it happened at a time that is considered a month of pride for a community that has been discriminated against and persecuted for a long period of time. so if you have look at these two, the place and the time, it's definitely a hate crime. as for the terrorism, the only reason we're discussing terrorism is because allegedly this individual, when he made the call to 911, he pledged allegiance to isis and baghdadi. this is extremely important, it put the terrorism factor high on the list. however, it seems that this individual went through so many, you know, different and complicated -- he has a complicated personality. we have a lot of indications that, you know, he is mentally unstable, he is violent, he is a wife beater, and also at the same time, it appears that when it comes to terrorism, he's all over the map. at one point he claimed he is -- >> you are talking about al nusra and hezbollah. >> yeah. isis is totally different from hezbollah and al nusra. he claimed he knew the boston bombers, which is false. you know, he was all over the map. and a lot of the evidence as, you know, we heard pamela before, we really don't know exactly what's going on yet. i prefer to wait for the fbi investigation and for the law enforcement investigation to know exactly what his motive was. it's definitely a hate crime, it's a mass shooting. it is probably inspired terrorism. however, did isis control that? there is no indication of that. did isis order it? there is no indication of that. and i think we have to keep that in mind so far. >> i want to bring there art. we mentioned the killer's wife knew he wanted to commit some kind of jihadist act. can she be prosecuted for this? >> the federal conspiracy law is pretty broad. it's relatively easy to prove. when you're looking at conspiracy, if she knew he was going to be doing this act and verbally told her that and then she took him to buy ammunition or to purchase the weapons and got him around to different locations, that falls into the conspiracy, she could be charged. >> even if she didn't know a specific target? >> well, he claimed he was going to go out and kill somebody. even if it's not a specific target. he claimed he was going to commit some violent acts against person or persons. >> i was going to say just on an obvious way to look at this, if your husband is talking about committing radical jihadist acts in the united states and then he's taking you out to a gay night club, you put two and two together if you're the wife, i would assume. >> at this point she's talking to the fbi. this might be something that they're telling her she's going to do if she doesn't cooperate. i think that's what we're looking at right now to continue her cooperation, they're telling her they're going to charge her with this conspiracy. >> ali, do you buy the fact that it's possible she had no idea exactly what was going on? i mean, do families -- is there someone usually in a family who has some idea? >> i've seen a lot of cases where people in the family will have an idea, a brother, a sister, a wife, so it's not surprising. it's interesting i just saw on the screen down there that the fbi sources are saying they're not looking at her as co-conspirator. so there are a lot of information out there and i think i will prefer to wait to hear an official statement about that but i don't think it's surprising that someone in his family knew about what he wanted to do. >> art, the phone belongs to the gunman said to be now recovered from the club today. obviously if they can open it up and get information from it, that would be a huge source. >> it's always a huge source, any electronic communication device, i'm sure they took it all out of his house, gaming consoles, computer, whatever. >> i talked to one eyewitness who said he was outside the club, said he saw the killer walking around with his cell phone in his hand about an hour or so before the shooting began. >> exactly. plus we have the three 911 calls, the two he placed and the one the dispatcher placed back. that's going to be key information also. >> coming up, an incredible survivor story. jeff rodriguez sent text messages to his family from inside the club, telling them he'd been shot, saying he was dying. his family did not hear from him before more than 12 agonizing hours before they finally found out he was indeed alive. jeff's brother joins us to talk about that. and we continue to honor the victims, their names, their faces, their lives. faces, their lives. we will not forget. al you shine? 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"not a joke, sante." at 2:42, call mommy, tell her i love her. santos. jeff's brother did a google search and realized it did happen. his brother texted back apologizing and the family had to wait 12 hours to see if he survived and thankfully he did. his brother joining us right now. first of all, how is he doing? >> he's still in critical condition at the moment. they're very strict with the visit with him with the way he is right now. he's able to talk, able to move his hands and so forth but he's still -- he has a lot of excruciating pain. >> and he was shot two times? >> three times. one above the heart, one abdominal, and one in the legs. >> and are the bullets still inside? >> yes, the two from the neck in here and stomach area. this one landed by the lungs. didn't hit the lungs but it's right near it and the one here by the stomach area is by the lumbar. didn't hit the lumbar but right there. >> he was in one of the bathroom stalls, handicap stalls -- >> they were trapped in there. >> there were a lot of people in that stall and some of them never made it out. >> unfortunately, no, some did not make it out. but he did, a few friends did. there were a lot of injured. there have been a few casualties. i know thank good for his friend v. she's in the medical field. if it wasn't for her, i'm 100% positive my brother would have died. >> really? >> if it wasn't for her, she was just putting pressure on the wounds. >> she knew what to do? >> she's in the medical field. she knew what to do, what to tell them and so forth. she was waking up my brother, hey, wake up, wake up, they're coming, they're coming. he's like when are they coming, it's been forever? she said you have to wait, the bomb squad is searching the area. and he said i can't. she said wake up. his friend angel was trying to wake him up, come on, jeff, you have to wake up, wake up. >> it's so critical to not let somebody drift off. >> yeah, you don't want them drifting off at this moment. >> i can't imagine what this was like for you when you realize the text messages are real. >> my heart sank. i was like god forgive me, i didn't believe him. i keep telling myself i believe you now, i believe you now, i hope you can hear me. i was talking to myself i hope you believe me. i texted him put pressure on the wound, hopefully can you hear this, read this, put pressure on the wound and tie it up with a shirt if you have something and just sit tight. >> what's your brother like? >> he's like outgoing, funny, crazy, joking, loving person. always about family and friends. he loves 80's free style music. he loves dancing. dancing's his life. he's a huge fan of x-men. everything about him is all loveable. you can't go wrong with the guy. he meet people and they become friends and friends become family. that's the type of person he is. >> i know you and your dad both wanted to thank the hospital and all the folks who are working really hard. >> yes, we want to thank the hospital, the staff there, the police. we want to thank everyone around, cops, everything. like it's just all the stuff they put in, all the hours. and people bring in food, people that donated blood. my brother took a lot of blood. that helped a lot. helped him and helped a lot of people. >> please give your family our best and i know you're thinking about everyone. >> those folks who didn't make it, my heart goes out to those families. >> appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we're going to have a lot more tonight over the next two hours. president obama ripping donald trump and trump firing back tonight at a conference in north carolina. the policy of extremism when we hi baby! hi daddy! gain the freedom to fumble with the new water and shatter- resistant samsung galaxy s7 active. exclusively at at&t ...a tree that bore the most rare and magical fruit. which provided for their every financial need. and then, in one blinding blink of an eye, their tree had given its last. but with their raymond james financial advisor, they had prepared for even the unthinkable. and they danced. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. every ingredient is the main ingredient. the new green goddess cobb with avocado, bacon, freshly made dressing, tomato... and chicken. at panera. food as it should be. they found out who's been who? cking into our network. guess. i don't know, some kids in a basement? you watch too many movies. who? a small business in china. a business? they work nine to five. they take lunch hours. like a job? like a job. we tracked them. how did we do that? we have some new guys defending our network. new guys? well, they're not that new. they've been defending things for a long time. [ digital typewriting ] it's not just security. it's defense. bae systems. of course this terror attack struck orlando in the heat of a contentious presidential election and tonight the sparks continue to fly. here's what donald trump said a short time ago in greensboro, north carolina. >> and i watched president obama today, and he was more angry at me than he was at the shooter. and many people said that. [ crowd boos ] one of the folks on television said, boy, has trump gotten under his skin, but he was more angry, and a lot of people have said this, the level of anger, that's the kind of anger he should have for the shooter and these killers that shouldn't be here. [ applause ] >> donald trump was referring to president obama's fiery takedown today of donald trump, who has been slamming president obama's national security policies and criticizing him for not using the afraid radical islam. trump has also suggested president obama is somehow sympathetic to terrorists. here is how the commander-in-chief hit back. >> if the implication is that those of us up here and the thousands of people around the country and around the world are working to defeat isil aren't taking the fight seriously, that would come as a surprise to those who spent these last seven and a half years dismantling al qaeda and the fatah. they know full well who the enemy is. so do the intelligence and law enforcement officers who spent countless hours disrupting plots and protecting all americans, including politicians who tweet. and appear on cable news shows. they know who the nature of the enemy is. so there's no magic to the phrase radical islam. it's a political talking point. it's not a strategy. >> president obama did not stop there. he had a lot more to say about donald trump without ever actually mentioning the candidate by name. dana bash tonight reports. >> we are now seeing how dangerous this kind of mindset and this kind of thinking can be. >> reporter: a rhetorical explosion rare for any president, especially one who prides himself on keeping calm. >> we now have proposals from the presumptive republican nominee for president of the united states to bar all muslims from emigrating to america. we hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests entire religious communities are complicit in violence. where does this stop? >> reporter: tearing into donald trump with visible anger and disgust. >> that's not the america we want. it doesn't reflect our democratic ideals. it won't make us more safe. it will make us less safe. >> reporter: the power of his words amplified by the stage craft, a commander in chief, standing with his top military officer, a four-star general. >> we acted out of fear before and we came to regret it. we don't have religious tests here. our founders, our constitution, our bill of rights are clear about that. and if we ever abandon those values, we would not only make it a lot easier to radicalize people here and around the world, but we would have betrayed the very things we are trying to protect. >> reporter: and what really got him going, the gop refrain that he's weak on terrorism because he refuses to use the term radical islam. >> there has not been a moment in my seven and a half years as president where we have not been able to pursue a strategy because we didn't use the label radical islam. not once has an adviser of mine said, man, if we really used that phrase, we're going to turn this whole thing around. not once. so someone seriously thinks that we don't know who we're fighting? >> reporter: all that as the candidate obama endorsed delivered a more measured approach to the same message. >> he is fixated on the words radical islam. i find this strange. is donald trump suggesting that there are magic words once uttered will stop terrorists from coming after us? >> reporter: hillary clinton continues to use trump's response to the orlando massacre to define him as too volatile for the white house. >> yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on tv and suggested that president obama is on the side of the terrorists. now just think about that for a second. even in a time of divided politics, this is way beyond anything that should be said by someone running for president of the united states. >> dana bash joins me now look with cnn political analyst david gergen. how unprecedented is it for a president not up for reelection to be so engaged with the presumptive nominee of the republican party and where do we go from here? >> we've broken another precedent. after 9/11 there was unity for seven or eight weeks. our politicians weren't attacking each other, they were pulling together and trying to fight the enemy. here it's just the opposite. i think a lot of americans are dismayed by this. i think we are going to have a savage campaign. on the merits, i think president obama has the upper hand and enjoys the support of most americans as he oppose as ban on all muslims entering the country and very important the top leadership of the republican party and congress is again the ban. paul ryan has spoken out against it repeatedly. in that issue i think the president is in a strong position. on the issue of calling it radical islam, i think it runs the other way. a great number of americans feel -- our leadership is tiptoeing around by not calling what it is what it is. back in the early 1980s i was working for tried to decide whether he should call the enemy the evil empire. i didn't think he should and he did and i think it clarified. hillary clinton said if we want to use the phrase radical islam, that's okay with me. i think donald trump actually has a point, an argument on that, even though he does it excessively. >> right. i mean, i guess -- again, i'm not arguing one way or another, but to play devil's advocate, i guess what president obama is saying, it's not a question of calling isis or isil evil but it's linking it to islam. his point i guess is he doesn't believe or he doesn't want to paint it with the same brush as islam for strategic reasons i'm assuming. >> well, i can't tell why. he started saying we can't be against -- we can't declare war against islam. that's not a declaration against islam. it is to say that there are sick people -- and they're radicals. why are we tiptoeing around that? >> and the president explicitly said today, forgive me, that it is part of the strategy to not allow people to use that term to their benefit and to continue to foment and stoke the -- sort of the anti-american sentiment that is already out there. >> you know, dana, on another issue donald trump continues to say he's a much bigger supporter, a much better friend of the lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender community. he says publicly he doesn't support it, he said he disagrees with the supreme court. it's not just him. a number of politics that have strong positions against equal rights for gay citizens to marry who now seem to be very front and center talking about their concern for the well being of gay people under the thumb of islamic radicals. >> when donald trump gave the speech yesterday, there was so much in there that was, you know, intense and that was aggressive and that was of course much like the kind of tone and tenor he took during the campaign. the one thing that did really make me almost fall off my chair was for the first time to hear a republican candidate for president, never mind the potential -- the presumptive nominee, saying that people should love who they want to love and live how they want to live. it's just the rhetoric alone is new. but when it comes to the policy, you're dead right. it doesn't look like he is going to support any time soon policies that would be in line with allowing for gay rights, just the opposite. in terms of his personal life and his personal beliefs, as you said, he's attended gay weddings. he is known to have many gay friends. i think if you kind of gave him a lie detector test and said what do you really think about gay rights, he would probably say i think it's just fine but now he happens to be a republican running as a republican, a nominee for president so policy-wise he's not there. >> which is interesting, david. voters will have to make up their minds whether they want a politician who really does -- if they are opposed to equal rights for gays and lesbians and equal marriage, whether they want a politician who does secretly support a ban on gay weddings or a republican who does support it and really live what they said. >> donald trump also supported gays with regard to the transgender issue supporting bathroom issues and that sort of thing and that surprised a lot of people. there's no question, the lgbt community is very suspicious of donald trump. when he gets up and says i'm the friend of women here, women by 70% say, no, you're not, and hillary is. we shouldn't discourage him from embracing gay rights. >> he's also defied all thus far. i think we have to leave it there. we have breaking political news to tell you about. cnn will project that hillary clinton has won the washington d.c. primary. democratic voters casting their ballots in d.c. today. clinton is about to meet with bernie sanders this evening. my interview with florida attorney general pam bondi, i asked her how she says she supports the lgbt community when her record says otherwise. plus two young men planning on getting married, they died instead in the orlando shooting. we want to learn as much as we can about these two young men who died together. >> welcome our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i am in los angeles, right now, a search in florida for a child possibly dragged away by an alligator at a walt disney world resort. police are holding a news conference, that should be going on any minute, we will take it live as soon as it happens. here are the details, they are just coming in. a two-year-old boy, we are told, by the orange county department, was taken, dragged, into a lagoon. these are picture says, over that resort. this apparently happened at the disney grand floridian, right next to walt disney world. supposed to be the happiest place in the world. people there are terrified what may have happened. family members must be horrified as well. it apparently happened at the seven seas lagoon. disney grand floridian. the search is on right now for this missing child, believed to be have dragged into the water by an alligator, and people along the shore there had been evacuated as a precaution. obviously, a shocking and terrifying situation right now. martin savage, from the scene. what is the latest on the search? >> reporter: we can still hear the helicopters up now. one up for almost an hour and a half. searching with a high powered spotlight. it is over the area of the seven seas lagoon, the intense focus, what is the search effort for trying to find the two-year-old child. the report is that the child may have been taken by an alligator. it may give us insight as to how it all happened. >> according to guests of the grand floridian, itsome as the name implies, the biggest. it was movie night, people lined up at the lagoon. the report is that the child may have gone taken by an alligator. you have fish and wildlife out there t authorities searching the shore line there as well. the guests were told to go back to their rooms, everybody can be account accounted for what is taking place right now. we are waiting for input to learn this was other how is something horrific as it sounds, known to be a place of family fun, entertainment, always has been. that is all changed tonight. >> give us more information, about the seven seas lagoon. is in a recreational area? i lived in florida, i know that alligators are plentiful. you can see them anywhere. is this a lagoon where alligators are known to roam around. >> anywhere in florida, if you have a small body of wash. it is better that you would usually not necessarily a approach. you have the walt disney world theme parks gathered around here. then you have the hotel, on proper holets. that is the case of the grand floriddian. they had "movie night." they do special events, something has been horribly the report is that the two-year-old boy was somehow take find out where the where the child is, how the child is. most of the areas around the lake, the lighting is limited. there is part of the aththetics. now they are bringing in helicopters and search lights, the effort is underway to locate this child. we are hoping to get an update in a short time. >> absolutely. again. we are waiting for a news conference to happen any minute. it is supposed to take place three minutes ago. >> it area is the staging area for the authorities, it is now a staging area for the media presence, the location of the seven seasons lagoon, and the active search area is about half a mile away from us. one of of the things that you quick quickly -- the environment is quickly controlled. it is controlled for the purposes of disney controls the security. disney will be on top of the information that comes out. if you are not allowed to get into the area where this is plift sxhurt this is a standard kind of regimen. a standard response for disney. they want to protect the environment for their guests, and they want to make sure that what comes out about disney world whether they leave it to the orange county sheriff's defendant. it is obviously, a desperate and unless, in some way, here in a few a child, missing and poeblg taken by an alligator. >> in the u.s. and around the world, it is summer time. june. which means that a lot of families head to disney the word is a two-year-old toddler may have been dragged into the water there, at the disney grand floridan grand resort and spa near the disney world resort. just a quick question to follow up, martin. have you had a chance to talk to the people on the ground? witnesses? i what well people saying about the atmosphere? we were turned away. the guests, people told us, tweeting out, and speaking out from the property, that they were all told to immediately go back to their room. keep in mind, everybody is aware of what disney world is. one of the largest entertainment complexes in the world. one of the largest employers in the state of florida. you are talking about what is probably peek season. schools in the united states just let out. for families, the first thing to do is pack up the car. many families plan and save for a trip like this it you can imagine the horror of something like this. a tragic turn of events. the authorities here are right now not focused on what it means for the resort. they are focused on the family and want to find that child. >> we appreciate your reporting. awaiting a news conference to take place. >> we have been following a horrific child, two-year-old toddler is missing, the boy may have been taken by an alligator that is what we are hering. it was movie night at the resort, at the disney resort and spa. this child ended up missing. of course, the official its vaulting everyone in and around the lagone. a many on the scene, including florida fish and wildwildlife. we will have more information on the other side. stay with us. stay with us. # nope, even easier than that. more like taking a left on that street where you usually take a right that wasn't so hard. and if finding that paint made you and your walls beam with pride, is it still paint? benjamin moore. paint like no other. find one of our 5,000 authorized retailers near you. we're here with bud light party super delegate michael pena to talk about diversity. america is a nation of immigrants. we're a schmorgasbord of cultures. a korean taco of togetherness. an everything bagel of unity, each one of us a different seed. that was beautiful, amy. i thought it was also nice, yeah. yeah. we're a poutine of harmony. a gumbo of coexistance. we're a never ending, bottomless, all inclusive, super... buffet of... i can't do any more metaphors. ya know, alright. cheers cheers. i'm full. >> welcome to the viewers in the u.s., and around the world. thank you for joining us, we are following breaking news out of florida. a two-year-old is missing, who may have been taken by an alligator. martin savage has more details. martin, takes through what we know happened. >> reporter: it began, three and a half hours ago, there was a report that came in the orange county sheriff's department that oversees disney world. the report is that a two-year-old has on the beach of the seven-seas lagoon. you have florida, you can see, they are probing down in the area where they are searching, and relates of gets who had been gathered, we are now told to evacuate. two, allow the authorities to take over the scene. these are the children hours to fry to determine exactly what happened. as to where the child was, was the child in the water? on land? we don't know. alligators, part of the landscape. trying to find the child and make sure they are okay. you have others showing up. >> martin savage. we will take a short break ...even at the ripe old age of 187. life well planned. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. wannwith sodastreamter? you turn plain water into sparkling water in seconds. and because it's so delicious, you'll drink 43% more water every day. sodastream. love your water. . >> we are following breaking news out of florida, the desperate search for a two-year-old child that may have been dragged into a lagoon by an alligator. this happen at disney's grand floridian resort and spa. now, live with all the details, we are awaiting a news conference, we don't have a lot of information, martin, what is can you tell us about what we do know? it looks like we are having audio problems with martin savage. we will recap what he told us moments ago. the reports are that is a search is under way, where martin savage is, at the disney grand floridian resort and spa, at the disney world resort. the report is that a 2-year-old child may have been taken by an alligator into a lagoon. it happened hours ago. the child was reported missing. martin, back to what we were talking about. what we do know about what happened, martin? >> reporter: we, i do. can you hear me now. >> please, go ahead. >> reporter: we are anticipating within the next, five, ten minutes, we will get an update from the orange county officials, the law enforcement for this part of disney world. there may be representatives for disney world, since this is the complex, all of this is playing out at this particular time. it was after 9:30 local time, three and a half hours ago. a report came in, a two-year-old had been taken and dragged into the lagoon. the grand floridian is a hotel property this is one. it is said to be movie night. they do things like this. project a movie out of doors, along the beach front, part of the lagoon. this is where it is said to have helped. beyond that, we don't any -- alligators are part of the natural landscape. we don't know if they rye to o pro -- boats are out on the water. there is a very desperate search to try to locate the child. >> it emergency respond, it is extremely dark. to try to find a small child in that environment is very difficulty. we expect to get, what can be done to bring it to a good resolution. >> martin savage. just after 1:00 in the morning. it has been a tough week for orlando. on that, we bring the news to you as it happens. a law enforcement source said that gunman's wife may face charges for not telling authorities about his interest in a jihadi attack. she denied knows about his investigators believe he was scouting out possible targets, law enforcement they don't know if it was for performance. >> we heard a shot gun. we stopped what we were doing, then, it keeps going. we grabbed each other, started running. >> the gunman went into the bathroom, shooting the machine gun. we are screams at the top of our lungs. people are getting he is shooting everybody that is i was able to peek over, i at i look over he shoots the girl next to me. >> he said, are there any black people in here? >> i was tee afraid to answer. the gunman -- >> we want to interrupt you to take you out to the news conference. take a listen. >> regarding a 2-year-old child that had been attacked by an alligator. at that point, emergency services responded to the area. in conjunction with the sheriff office. we have two marine units on the lake, searching for the child to recover at this point. in addition, we will be working with the fish and wildlife comission, to continue these efforts for the next several hours. as a father, as a grandfather, we will hope for the best. we know we have challenging ahead of us. the morning, continuing the search, until we are able to have a peaceful, successful resolution, for the family. the family here is vacationing from nebraska, there is a mother, father, and i believe, three children who are here. for that hopefully, we are able to locate the child. fish and wildlife will be joinly working with united states. ch chad -- we would like to express thoughts and and prayers to the family. we are pulling officers from differents of the region and dropping the alligator. we have an al -- >> the name of the lake. >> i'm sorry. i don't that will be part of our investigation. we haven't checked in to see if we have any nuisance alligators. >> was the child alone? >> i am going to turn it over to jackie, she is with walt disney. >> everyone here at the walt disney resort are devastated, we are doing everything that we can to help law enforcement. i will turn it over from law enforcement. >> we haven't heard if it is a boy or a girl? >> a boy, two years old. they have given us fairly detailed nmpthds we have been a a act -- >> the family was out, simply relaxing. they had another child in like a baby play pen that was in the area. they were relaxing in the area, waiting in the water, there, along the lake edge at the time the alligator attacked the child. >> did anyone jump in the water, i am told the mother may have entered the they are unsuccessful in their effort says. >> did you say how big the alligator was? >> there are signs that what size is the alligator, it has been four feet to six or seven feet. it is disney's responsibility? >> we will investigate the activities here, we have not had any reports or complaints about it would be a concurrent information. >> at this point, we have it complete until we complete the search shall. >> we are not leave -- we don't have security video. >> it it was reported in that area, do you have any reporting before this? >> we don't have any of it is my understanding that is the father, at some point, struggled to try to get his son. and was not successful. then, aall righted others. >> did it happen before? prnchlths we have no this is the seven-seasons lathe family is staying there again, on vacation, i believe from the there were no other people in the water at the same time. >> it is a size able area. 2 is a fairly sizable i don't know, if you do we basically know that you have a -- >> did you actually have contact? >> he may have a minor scratch or something on his hands. >> call for hip? >> again, there was a life guard in the area, there were other. [ inaudible ] >> i can't speak to that. as the investigate we will have the priority is- recovering this child and. >> we have the searching is real. we have the dive attach on standby we brought out sonar equipment. that we we can continue to search the lake throughout. we will do that, even though it is dark. >> if not, the efforts will continue. >> the what did he say? >> i haven't spoken with the he alerted the life gashed to assist him, our investigators are interviewing them at this point as we speak. >>. [ inaudible ] >> i can't spelling -- >> we will update you when we have more information. thank you all for being here. >>. >> what do you say to everyone that lives here? during the new -- the staff is res resilient in trying to assist this family. >> you are watching a live new conference, florida officials and wildlich fitches what the family must be needing right now the father tried to retrieve the boy from the alligator, as the alligator took it from it lagoon. martin savage. it is heart-breaking to hear, what the family saw before their eyes. you can happen, to help it this alligator in the middle of a family having a movie, now, the waiting and the anguish 50 officers, on the it is they are doing everything that they in it sheriff's great challenges ahead. the it is just to say this is a very, very between the wild life many come down here to on that play, it looks like the interhow is it able to get so close to a trial. it will gallon all night long. we heard from the orange county. they were there on vathe mother, father, three children, waiting 50 personnel on the scene. talking about president search efforts, what you have been seeing in terms of man power. you need alligator there is another problem you deal with this is a problem. an you want to protect the other experts with a unique training, deadly animals, and law enforcement, prying to protect the wrong people get to keep all turn it over at the law enforcement, and the wild out on the floor. the they have talked about this, law and they have been dealing -- >> we as you heard him saying, it a between the -- >> a two-year-old boy, as witnesses saw, an there was a mother, father, and three children, all together. there is according to the slfr's department. you heard them live earlier. the fanly see the launchlg chairs, relaxing there. some sufficient them on the e e edge. drag that is 2-year-old boy unsrgfully. if you can only imagine for this now, the search has been underway, it is about 1:something like this has never happened before. doesn they are searching, sonar equipment, two marine units on scene. i think they heart them say this is a desperate search. we do hope that this yes, a horrible situation. we will take a short break from here. and when we come back, we will turn next to orlando, the massacre there. we will have more on the investigation when we come back ♪ ee. welcome, everyone, we are continuing to follow this story of a 2-year-old boy dragged away by an alligator at a disney resort. there it was a news conference moments ago, it is inconceivable, what this father saw before his eyes happen to his boy. what transpired. >> reporter: like so many they were on vacation from nebraska. many families save up, it is often referred to as the trip of a lifetime. it is now desperate and tragic, a 2-year-old was taken by the shore line of the seven sea review. a lake, in front of of the grand floridian resort. the alligator came out of the water took the child, and the father went into the water, and the alligator took the child. a strong search to am find the child. helicopters up in the air, shining down. sonar, under the water, then you have 50 officers, coming from the sheriff's department, wild life department, and even alligator trappers on the shore line. they evacuated the rest of of the guests, no reports of other injuries, the focus is trying to find the child. you can only imagine the horrific scene, what the family is going through. the sheriff said in 35 years, he has never known anything to happen like that here. this is a place of fun, a place of joy, it is not that tonight the effort focussed to find that child. in the darkness. it is not going to be easy. he said, there are a lot of challenges ahead of them. the family is being looked after now, treated for injuries to the father suffered, and being cared for for the trauma. >> it is so heart-breaking, we will stay on top of this. bringing you more developments as they come in. thank you, martin. turning to the investigation of the mass shooting in early at the pulse nightclub, a law enforcement official says that gunman's wife may face charges for not telling authorities about his interest in a attack. she told investigators she noticed a violent change in his behavior, and denied knowing anything specific about president plan. she was with him when he visit ed pulse and disney world. the gunman visited gay chat rooms on line. thank you for your patience. the nightmare is continuing. >> the wife of the gunman, and the orlando shooting, we heard from her, telling the fbi that she knew that her husband had the intention of carrying out an attack. she denied knowledge of what would happen at the pulse night club. she thankfravels with him to th night club and the disney spring nightclub. do you think she will face charges? >> i think she will probably face charges. the department of justice has convined a grand jury. >> they don't usually do that unless you think you got something. some of the survivors were saying, as he was killing, he would be laughing in satisfaction. cased out the location, the father of the shooter said he saw his son 11 hours before the attacks. he seemed normal. what does it tell you about the shooter? >> this shooter is a dichotomy. his dad said he wasn't religious. he is supposedly a family guy, beats his kids and beats his wife. he beats his borderline schizop. living both lives in both worlds. >> being on a gay dating app, having frequented the club where he killed so many people. >> to turn it back. they are trying to write a biography. specifically, the last few weeks and months, they are going to be determining, try to determine whether each one of the visits were casing visits or part of his lifestyle. that will be tough. with all the conflicting information that we have. the wife, going with him to disney world. she could face charges, because she may have facilitated, knowingly, even if she didn't know what the attack was going to be, she facilitated. he went to get ammunition. she was with him. she knew he was not throwing a party. >> she knew of his intentions in general. didn't report t obviously. we will have to leave it there. we are running out of time. we appreciate you talking with us. >> we will take a short break. just ahead here, he never mentioned donald trump by name. president obama came out swinging at the white house contender. next. next. # but i was just checking my... shhh... don't you know that checking your credit score lowers it! just be cool. actually, checking your credit score with credit karma doesn't affect it at all. are you sure? 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>> yes. this is nothing nuls. in recent years, people are accepting it as a whole. love is love. there is many layers into the situation right now. it is a i have to say that this is a hornet's nest that has been stirred up. the community is not going to get this happen. >> what kind of changes? >> fighting a lot. for common sense gun regulation right now. politicians, and lgbt, are using them to get elected, lining their pockets with pocket. who is getting paid by the nhr to make sure nobody needs an ar-15. look what happened it is not just not needed. >> gave appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. >> before we leave you, we want to recap the breaking news in florida. police say an alligator dragged a two-year-old boy into a lagoon. the boy was playing in the water when he was taken. the boy's police say the alligator is one two two this, of course, has been a tragic few days for the orlando these are pictur pictures, a live from los angeles, angeles, more on the breaking news after this break. # show me movies with romance. show me more like this. show me "previously watched." what's recommended for me. x1 makes it easy to find what you love. call or go online and switch to x1. only with xfinity. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello. i'm robyn curnow at the cnn center. we begin with breaking news out of florida. the search for a little boy dragged off by an alligator. it's been an unimaginable few days for orlando. first a popular singer from "the voice" is gunned down. she died a few hours later. then a terror attack which massacred 49 people at the pulse nightclub early sunday morning. dozens more were wounded. now police say an alligator, four to seven feet or more, grabbed this toddler and dragged him into a lagoon at disney's grand floridian resort and spa. the little boy was apparently playing in the water when the alligator attacked. >> there's a sandy beach area, and the family was out just simply relaxing. they had another child in like a baby playpen that was in the area, and they were just simply relaxing out in the area and wading just in the water there along the lake's edge at the time that the alligator attacked the child. >> how big do you think the alligator was? >> one at a time, please. >> did anyone jump in the water to help assist the child at this point? >> the father entered the water, and he tried to grab the child, was not successful in doing so. at some point i'm told that the mother also may have entered the water. so the parents diligently tried to get the child. they alerted a nearby lifeguard, who was there in the area as well. but they were unsuccessful in their efforts. >> martin savage joins us now live from florida with more details. and we heard there the sort of devastating description of a father, then a mother wrestling with an alligator, trying to get their toddler out of his jaws. >> reporter: it's almost beyond belief, robyn. i mean, you know, a nightmarish scene is probably just putting it mildly. it would be horrific, struggling with a creature like that, trying to rescue and pull the child away. it is -- it is an unimaginable struggle. and right now the effort is to try to locate that child, and every asset that can be brought to bear is being brought to bear. we're in the staging area. we're on the walt disney world resort property. it's a massive property. if anybody has ever been here, it is not just of court the entertainment part. it's also the resorts, and run of them is the grand floridian. that's where all of this played out. it was around 9:15, just coming up on almost five hours ago when the family was up at the water's edge, enjoying the late evening. and this is when the alligator came out of the water, took the child, and then you've already heard the horrific struggle that ensued. they had 50 officers that are either out in the water or are on the banks of this lake. it's a lake that is of some size. disney world has a number of lakes on its property. this is one of them. it's known as the seven seas lagoon. the hotel property backs onto it. a number of other disney hotel properties back onto this as well. there are signs, we're told, that warned people that there is no swimming. whether they are warned about the al gators and whether the alligator population on the lake is controlled, we don't know at this time. the authorities could not say. that will be part of the investigation that comes later. they also have had a helicopter up. we heard the helicopter just a short time ago. this is all happening about a half a mile away from this particular staging area. boats on the water, sonar being used. again, hampered by the lack of light. they are illuminating from the air. but it's a lot of territory to cover in the darkness. they evacuated the guests immediately from the shoreline. you want to make sure that no one else is harmed. now the effort is under way. we are told that a specialist and an alligator trapper is among those assisting here. the sheriff of 35 years says he's never known anything like it. alligators of course are part of the florida landscape. but interacting and carrying out such a tragic attack as has happened here at disney world is just unthinkable. robyn. >> indeed, what we're looking at is a luxury hotel in one of the world's most famous resorts. a family there just trying to enjoy their time. as you say, gators are common in florida. but this is very, very unusual. >> reporter: it is. i mean a particular attack like this, alligators are problematic. anytime you've got water, they can show up, whether it's a golf course, whether it's a hotel, whether it's an ornamental lake in your backyard. you're talking about walt disney world. everything here is carefully controlled for the safety and enjoyment of the guests. so how something like this happens, there are going to be a lot of people asking questions. how could it happen? why did they not control alligators, and why would there be one of such size? that is going to be looked at. but right now the effort to try to find this child is the most important thing. the family is being cared for. the father apparently was slightly injured in the effort to wrestle the child away from the alligator. that was unsuccessful. they've come from nebraska, and they have a mother and father and three children, and they initially -- a lifeguard heard the family screaming, and a call was put into the walt disney fire department. they have their own first responders. they initially responded, and then of course orange county, which oversees this, they've shown up. florida fish and wildlife have shown up. it just continues to grow. but there's only so much they can do in the darkness, and they realize these are the most desperate and most important hours. robyn. >> yeah, and we also heard from the authorities there that the family was receiving counseling as this desperate search is under way. martin savidge, thanks so much more bringing us up to date. we'll check in with you within the show. thanks so much. now, it has been a rough 48 hours for walt disney world. we've just learned that sunday's nightclub shooter scouted out disney ahead of his attack on the club. police say omar mateen visited the disney entertainment and shopping complex known as disney springs at the beginning of june during this year's gay days celebrations. and all this happening just as disney gets ready to open its highly anticipated shanghai location on thursday. and turning now to the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history and the information investigators are now gathering on how the gunman planned it. they believe he targeted possible targets including orlando's pulse nightclub and disney world. the gunman's wife is talking to authorities. a source says the fbi does not think she's a co-conspirator. but she could face charges for not telling authorities what she knew about his general plans. pamela brown has the latest developments in the investigation. >> reporter: tonight authorities now believe the gunman's wife, noor salman, visited a potential target with her husband in advance of the attack at pulse nightclub. they're trying to determine if she knew he was planning an attack. >> did you know your husband was going to do this? >> reporter: sources tell cnn she has been providing helpful insight to investigators. for the first time, we're seeing inside the couple's apartment. clothes and children's toys could be scattered on the ground. investigators have seized items in searches of this home and those of the shooter's relatives, including a dell computer, smartphone, digital camera and related media. sources tell cnn omar mateen was consuming large quantities of jihadi propaganda online, including isis beheading videos. >> the killer took in extremist information and propaganda over the internet. he appears to have been an angry, disturbed, unstable young man who became radicalized. >> reporter: one of the survivors today revealing what she heard the gunman tell 911 dispatchers. >> the reason why he's doing this is because he wants america to stop bombing his country. and from that conversation, from 911, he pledged his allegiance to isis. >> he was simply making statements about who he pledged allegiance to and other statements that was in a language believed to have been arabic. >> reporter: as authorities piece together clues painting a picture of the shooter's life, cnn is learning more about his movements in the hours leading up to the attack. investigators say they used cell phone tower data to determine that he spent several hours the day before the shooting at disney springs, a shopping and entertainment center in the orlando area, before the attack at the pulse nightclub early sunday morning. law enforcement sources tell cnn he also visited disney springs and the pulse nightclub at the beginning of june. investigators believe the visits were intended to conduct surveillance of the locations. >> he came with a plan of action. he had multiple rounds of ammunition. he moved through the facility fairly fluidly. so everything that he did indicates that he had given forethought to what he was doing. >> reporter: a performer at pulse nightclub tells cnn mateen visited the clubs dozens of times, averaging a couple visits a month over three years. cnn has learned the fbi is now looking into claims mateen was on gay dating apps such as grinder. but it's unclear what his intentions were on those apps. >> well, the 49 victims ranged in age from 18 to 50. many of them were just starting their lives as young adults, making plans for their futures. that was certainly the case for akyra murray. she was just 18 and had graduated from high school in philadelphia and had gotten a full basketball scholarship for college. she was in orlando on a family vacation. akira was with her cousin and another friend at pulse when the shooting began. she sent text messages to her mom reading, please come get us now. please. they're shooting. her cousin, who survived the shooting, told cnn's don lemon that they hid in a bathroom and that akira pleaded with the gunman. >> at some point we started to like just give out. like our bodies just started giving in because we were hit. everybody was injured. my cousin was pleading with him, trying to bargain with him. he's like, you know, he wasn't responding right. >> what was he say something. >> so he didn't say anything, but my cousin was more like so -- >> which cousin? >> akira. >> what was she say something she was saying, please, we're hurt. we're hurt. please don't. please. just leave us. she was just begging and pleading with him. he didn't come back, though. my cousin, she was calling and texting her aunt -- my aunt. she was calling and we was on the phone with the kocops. at this point you could hear that i'm losing myself because i'm just -- i'm about to go, and i was more so settled with it because i didn't know what to do. there was nothing i could do. my cousin, she just like -- we had like a system that my aunt was talking about. you know the morris code thing? that's kind of what we was doing, tapping each other's legs. just kept tapping each other and every time we saw a hand go up, she scratch me or tap me back real fast or something like that. she was communicating with me. when the shooter finally came back in, like when he came, he came back into the bathroom because i don't know if he got -- but when he came back in, the cops -- that's when the cops got on the horn after they blew down the two doors. he came into the stall with us. he didn't shoot nobody just yet. but when the cops blew in the bathroom door, you heard him say, hey you? and whoever looked up at him on that side of the room, he shot three more shots. >> hard to listen to, isn't it? well, angel cullen is another survivor. he says at one point he just knew he was going to die on the nightclub floor. mateen shot him at least five times. our dr. sanjay gupta has his emotional story. >> we just grabbed each other. we started running. >> reporter: you're listening to 26-year-old angel colon describe the horrifying seconds before he is shot by the gunman sunday morning inside pulse nightclub in orlando. >> i was shot about three times in my leg. so i had fallen down. i tried to get back up, but everyone started running everywhere. i got trampled over, and i shattered and broke my bones on my left leg. >> reporter: unable to move, angel just lays there, waiting. >> all i could hear was the shotgun, one after another, and people screaming, people yelling for help. >> reporter: in a cold, calculating move, the gunman seemed to zero back in on the victims. >> i hear him come back, and he's shooting everyone that's already dead on the floor, making sure they're dead. >> reporter: he closes in on angel. >> i can hear the shotguns closer, and i look over, and he shoots the girl next to me. and i'm just there laying down. i'm thinking i'm next. i'm dead. so i don't know how, but by the glory of god, he shoots towards my head, but it hits my hand. and then he shoots me again, and it hits the side of my hip. i had no reaction. i was just prepared to just stay there, laying down, so he won't know that i'm alive. >> reporter: angel is finally rescued by a police officer, who drags him to safety and becomes just one of 22 survivors who are now recovering at orlando's regional medical center. today the doctors tending to those patients described how they were overwhelmed in the immediate aftermath of the massacre. >> this is not a drill. this is not a joke. we have 20-plus gunshot wounds coming in. >> reporter: 44 victims all needing different levels of care. doctors had to make quick decisions on who was to be seen first. tonight as the hospital tries to return to normal, doctors and staff are trying to come to grips with what happened. >> i was walking out of the hospital, and walking out i saw team members walking into work, crying. and i just -- i just couldn't express how -- it's hard to describe how you feel, but i know how they feel. >> reporter: and i could tell you they do a lot of drills and a lot of practices to try and be prepared for this sort of thing. but after hearing those real-life scenarios, we can understand why it's never going to be the same as what they experienced here. back to you. >> so much strength amid so much loss. now this nightclub massacre is dominating the u.s. presidential campaign and sparking a new argument between president obama and donald trump. mr. obama says his words won't defeat terrorists, but his actions will. >> the main contribution of some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have made in the fight against isil is to criticize this administration and me for not using the phrase "radical islam." that's the key, they tell us. we can't beat isil unless we call them radical islamists. what exactly would using this label accomplish? what exactly would it change? would it make isil less committed to trying to kill americans? would it bring in more allies? is there a military strategy that is served by this? the answer is none of the above. >> republican leaders in congress were quick to respond. >> i think that is like beyond out of line. i have been all over president obama's failed policies when it comes to destroying, defeating, containing radical islam. i think his model of doing it is a complete failure, won't work. i've never doubted that he loves this country. >> i hope in the process over the next few months he realizes that in order to actually win this war, you're going to need people that he has already alienated. >> the what-ifs of people on both sides are talking about are really inappropriate. we should look as congress should always look at major failures and say, how did it happen? >> well, as you might imagine, donald trump has plenty to say about president obama's speech. we'll have that and hillary clinton's reaction in the next half an hour. but first russia gets a suspended disqualification from the euro 2016 tournament. we'll explain what that is and why authorities blame their fans. 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yeah? it's a message even the most belligerent russian officials appear to be heeding, including the m.p., who tweeted support for the fighting. out of step with the kremlin, which condemned the violence, he's now changed his tone. >> translator: the softest punishment would have been a fine. the harshest one who r would have been a total disqualification. uefa's decision was something in between and we only have to be thankful for that. i support the decision of the chairman, who said we would not appeal the decision. >> reporter: back in france, the authorities are finally, perhaps belatedly, getting tough. riot police surrounding a russian fan bus suspected of carrying some of the hard-core hooligans french prosecutors say were behind the violence. russian social media postings say many on board have been told they'll be deported. the rest are being returned to mar marseille serks for questioning as police struggle to prevent the events of this past weekend being repeated in the games ahead. matthew chance, cnn, moscow. >> ahead here on "cnn newsroom," the latest on the search for a 2-year-old boy snatched away by an alligator at a disney resort. ♪ (ee-e-e-oh-mum-oh-weh) (hush my darling...) 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(the lion sleeps tonight.) woman snoring take the roar out of snore. yet another innovation only at a sleep number store. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. okay. i want to return to our martin savidge and the breaking news out of florida. the search for a child dragged away by an alligator at a disney world resort. hard to imagine i'm even saying those words. a devastating wrestle between a father and an alligator, and this child's still missing. >> reporter: robyn, this is supposed to be of course the happiest place on earth. that is how disney world is often described. tonight it's a different scene playing out. it's about a half mile away that this search effort is being conducted on the seven seas lagoon. this all transpired around five hours ago. a little after 9:00 in the evening local time, a family of five -- they had come from nebraska, were playing along the waterfront right beside the grand floridian hotel. it's an upscale, beautiful, large hotel, one of a number that are on the properties of d disney world. and while the 2-year-old, according to authorities, way playing near the water's edge, the alligator that was said to be anywhere from four to seven feet in length came up and grabbed the child. the father was nearby and immediately dove into the water and wrestled with the alligator and fought to try to retrieve his own child. but the alligator was able to get away, and the child went with it. right now there are at least 50 officers, sheriff's department, fish and wildlife, as well as, we're told, an alligator trapper. out on the water or searching on the edge of this lagoon. and it's quite a substantial body of water to try to locate the child. they're up against a number of problems. of course, one, a wild animal. they're up against the darkness and the underbrush along the shore. all of that making this extremely difficult. as more time goes by, sheriff's authorities will tell you the outcome is not projected to be good here. the family is being cared for, but they know that with every passing moment, the odds of finding their child alive are less and less. the sheriff of 35 years says he's never known or seen anything like it. alligators are common, but this sort of thing is definitely not, robyn. >> okay. martin savidge, thanks so much. and u.s. president barack obama has clearly had it with donald trump and his reaction to the orlando terror attack. he met with reporters on tuesday at the white house, and without mentioning his name, blasted trump over his ideas on immigration and terrorism. chief political correspondent dana bash filed this story. >> we are now seeing how dangerous this kind of mindset and this kind of thinking can be. >> reporter: a rhetorical explosion rare for any president, especially one who prides himself on keeping calm. >> we now have proposals from the presumptive republican nominee for president of the united states to bar all muslims from emigrating to america. we hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests entire religious communities are complicit in violence. where does this stop? >> reporter: tearing into donald trump with visible anger and disgust. >> that's not the america we want. it doesn't reflect our democratic ideals. it won't make us more safe. it will make us less safe. >> reporter: the power of his words amplified by the stagecraft. a commander-in-chief coming out of a counterterrorism briefing, standing with his top military officer, a four-star general. >> we've gone through moments in our history before when we acted out of fear, and we came to regret it. we don't have religious tests here. our founders, our constitution, our bill of rights are clear about that. and if we ever abandon those values, we would not only make it a lot easier to radicalize people here and around the world, but we would have betrayed the very things we are trying to protect. >> reporter: and what really got him going, the gop refrain that he's weak on terrorism because he refuses to use the term "radical islam". >> there's not been a moment in my seven and a half years as president where we have not been able to pursue a strategy because we didn't use the label "radical islam." not once has an adviser of mine said, man, if we really use that phrase, we're going to turn this whole thing around. not once. so someone seriously thinks that we don't know who we're fighting? >> reporter: all that as the candidate obama endorsed delivered a more measured version of the same message. >> he is fixated on the words "radical islam." now, i must say i find this strange. is donald trump suggesting that there are magic words that once uttered will stop terrorists from coming after us? >> reporter: hillary clinton continues to use trump's response to the orlando massacre to define him as too volatile for the white house. >> yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on tv and suggested that president obama is on the side of the terrorists. now, just think about that for a second. even in a time of divided politics, this is way beyond anything that should be said by someone running for president of the united states. >> reporter: dana bash, cnn, washington. and donald trump is firing back at mr. obama. he says the president can't effectively deal with isis and terrorism if he can't even utter the words "radical islam." >> and i watched president obama today, and he was more angry at me than he was at the shooter, and many people said that. [ crowd booing ] one of the folks on television said, boy has trump gotten under his skin, but he was more angry, and a lot of people have said this. the level of anger, that's the kind of anger he should have for the shooter and these killers that shouldn't be here. >> well, the orlando terror attack is putting renewed focus on lgbt rights in florida. cnn's anderson cooper challenged the state's attorney general, pam bondi, on tuesday. take a listen to this. >> i want to ask you. i saw you the other day saying that anyone who attacks the lgbt community, our lgbt community, you said, will be gone after with the full extent of the law. >> that's exactly right. >> i talked to a lot of gay and lesbian people here yesterday who are not fans of yours and said they thought you were being a hypocrite. that you for years have fought -- you've basically gone after gay people, said in court that gay people simply by fighting for marriage equality, were trying to do harm to the people of florida, to induce public harm, i believe was the term you used in court. do you really think you're a champion of the gay community? >> let me tell you, when i was sworn in as attorney general, i put my hand on the bible and was sworn to uphold the constitution of the state of florida. that's not a law that was voted into our state constitution by the voters of florida. that's what i was defending. it had nothing to do -- i've never said i don't like gay people. >> but you did say -- but you worried about using language accusing gay people of trying to do harm to the people of florida when doesn't that send a message to some people who might have bad ideas in mind? >> anderson, i don't believe gay people could do harm to the state of florida. >> but you argued that in court. >> my lawyer argued a case defending what the supreme court allowed the voters to put in our state constitution. >> right. but you were arguing that gay marriage, if there was gay marriage, if there was same-sex marriage, that would do harm to the people of florida, to florida society. >> that it was constitutional to put that in the constitution. >> are you saying you do not believe it would do harm to florida? >> of course not. of course not. >> well, the state attorney general says more than 69% of florida voters decided the state's constitution should ban same-sex marriage. still ahead on cnn, a father delivers an emotional plea to a south african court which is deciding the fate of his daughter's killer. we'll hear why he says oscar pistorius has to pay. innovative sonicare technology with up to 27% more brush movements versus oral b. get healthier gums in 2 weeks guaranteed. innovation and you. philips sonicare. save when you buy the most loved rechargeable toothbrush brand in america. ♪ no, you're not ♪ yogonna watch it! ♪tch it! ♪ ♪ we can't let you download on the goooooo! ♪ ♪ you'll just have to miss it! ♪ yeah, you'll just have to miss it! ♪ ♪ we can't let you download... uh, no thanks. i 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whole thing. but every day of my life is the same. i talk to her, and little things that come up. if i see a feather or something like that, reeva is with me all the time, yes. ever since reeva's death, i, myself, have changed completely. i wouldn't say that i've become a recluse, but i can't really mix with people anymore. and i sit on that veranda at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, which has become a habit, and i smoke my cigarettes and drink my coffee. i don't wish that on any human being. finding out what happened, it devastated us. i ended up having a stroke, and so many things since then have happened. we have gone to doctors and to surgeons, which i still have to go in for my heart and everything like that. i just don't wish that on anybody in this whole world. >> cnn's david mckenzie joins us now from south africa. you're outside the high court where the sentencing hearing will continue. david, that was very dramatic testimony. what are we expecting to hear today? >> reporter: robyn, yes, it was perhaps the most harrowing moments of this entire legal saga. barry steenkamp breaking down several times during that testimony. you know, he was asked after the main testimony whether he had forgiven oscar pistorius, the disgraced olympian. they said, well, they have foregiven him, but they want him to pay. that's what these sentences hearings in the court behind me are all about. the prosecution will look for a heavy sentence, at least 15 years. we expect them to bring another witness, an emotional witness as they called it, but we don't know exactly who in the coming hours. and we will get closing arguments, we believe, today. it could be the last stages of this saga that has gripped south africa and frankly the world. >> as we know, david, i reported from there exactly where you are for many years. i think it started in march, 2014, this trial. so what happens next? is ois car pistorius coming to the end of his legal options? >> reporter: he has come to the end of his legal options except for one small possibility. if the sentencing is way out of the norm according to the defense -- i mean if he gets a sentence that they feel is harsh and unusual, they might appeal that sentence. but frankly his legal options have run out because the prosecution took the case to the supreme court of appeal where they changed the conviction from culpable homicide to murder. the defense attempted to get the court -- the highest court in the land, the constitutional court, to hear their case on constitutional grounds, and they said no. so frankly his options have run out. so he's just here to see whether he will spend a long time in prison or a longer time. and throughout this proceedings, it's been quite extraordinary, robyn. as you say, you were here through the trial. oscar pistorius is a shell of his former self. he seems heavily medicated. his hands -- his head is in his hands a lot of time. he's yawning even in the breaks of proceedings, looking very dazed, sometimes confused. a defense source has told us he does seem to be a broken man, a very far cry from the olympic hero of some years ago. but this does seem to be finally winding to a close. the end result will be oscar pistorius heading back to a maximum security prison. robyn. >> david mckenzie, thanks so much. we're going to leave it at that. i know you need to go into court to listen to today's proceedings. you're watching cnn. rock band led zeppelin goes to court to face accusations over their most iconic guitar riff. that's next. i work 'round the clock. i want my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® is a once-daily, long-acting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. i want to trim my a1c. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® provides powerful a1c reduction. releases slow and steady. works like your body's insulin. when my schedule changes... i want something that delivers. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ i can take tresiba® any time of 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hackers linked to russian intelligence are behind a computer attack on the u.s. democratic national committee. the party contracted a firm last month called crowdstrike when it discovered the intrusion. they say there were two hackers, but they weren't working together. now the intruders apparently roamed around the network for about a year. in one case they allegedly stole opposition research on donald trump. the u.s. has now officially determined the hackers are connected to the russian government. the copy right infringement trial against led zeppelin is happening in los angeles. their hit, "stairway to heaven," is at the center of this case, and millions of dollars in potential royalties could be at stake. cnn's paul vercammen has the details. >> reporter: led zeppelin superstars robert plant and jimmy page walked into court dressed for business. black suits, long hair, neatly pulled back into ponytails. they intently listened as the copy right infringement suit got under way. in the opening statements, the lawyers for the estate of randy california wolfe. he is the late singer/song writer of the '60s band spirit. they basically assert led zeppelin took the first two minutes and 14 seconds of the rock anthem "stairway to heaven" from the spirit song "taurus." >> it's irrefutable. if you listen to the sound recording, the actual composition, it's the notes itself which are very distinct, unique, and they're the same. >> reporter: the lawyer for randy california wolfe pointing out that at one point led zeppelin actually opened for the band spirit. led zeppelin's attorney saying robert plant and jimmy page and no one else, period, wrote "stairway to heaven." he said the band was not even aware of the spirit song "taurus" until long after "stairway to heaven" had been written. they have impaneled, as they do in federal court here, a four-woman, four-man jury. so that's eight jurors. 9 trial was not without some moments of levity. while they were picking the juror, one prospective injure claimed his love for plant and page. another said he learned "stairway to heaven," his first song ever, on the guitar. both of them did not make the jury cut. reporting from federal court in los angeles, i'm paul vercammen. now back to you. >> thanks to paul. i'm robyn curnow, and i'll be back in a moment with the second hour of "cnn newsroom." stay with us. there's a lot of news ahead. bend me shape me, any way you want me as long as you love me, it's alright bend me shape me, any way you want me... shape the best sleep of your life. sleep number beds with sleepiq technology adjust any way you want it. the bed that moves you. only at a sleep number store. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i'm robyn curnow. thanks so much for joining me. and we're continuing our coverage of breaking news out of florida. police now say the little boy dragged off by an alligator at a disney resort is likely dead. it's been an unimaginable few days for the orlando area. first christina grimmie, a popular singer from the nbc talent show "the voice" is gunned down after her concert friday night. she died a few hours later. then a terrorist opened fire at the pulse nightclub early sunday morning, killing 49 people. he wounded 53 others. now police say an alligator grabbed a toddler and dragged him into a lagoon at disney's grand floridian resort and spa. the little boy was playing on the water's edge when the alligator pounced. our martin savidge has been near the scene for the past several hours. he joins us live with more. and, oh, martin, this is just devastating. the description of this father trying to wrestle with this gator to try and rescue his child but unsuccessful. >> reporter: right. it's really just beyond what you could possibly imagine. the search effort here has been ongoing for about six hours. this all happened a little after 9:00 in the evening local time here. authorities say that the family was staying at the grand floridian. it's a beautiful hotel, massive property, on the disney world resort. they were down by the water's edge. they come from nebraska, a family of five, husband and wife, three children. the 2-year-old was sort of playing near the water line. and according to authorities, the alligator, about four to seven feet in length, came out of the water and struck. we had a briefing from the orange county sheriff. here's some of what he described. >> the father entered the water and tried to grab the child, was not successful in doing so. at some point, i'm told that the mother also may have entered the water. so the parents diligently tried to get the child. they alerted a nearby lifeguard, who was there in the area as well, but they were unsuccessful in their efforts. >> reporter: this is just so difficult to believe in a place that is so focused on family, on children, on fun, on memories to last a lifetime. this is the last place any family expects any tragedy, let alone something as horrific as this. i am told by -- i just got on the phone actually with a witness who was over by the lake. it's about a half mile away from where we're standing now. and he said that there are still about maybe seven boats that are out on the water. some of them are the pontoon boats. some of them are security boats. the helicopter has moved off some distance. this body of water is larger than just some little on mental lake. it's a fairly significant size of water. that's part of the challenge. they have sonar that's actively being used out there as well as they try to locate this child. but as we've already said, every minute that goes by, the likelihood of finding this child alive is not good. alligators are part of landscape here. we're told that there are signs warning guests to stay away from the water. but that said, there's also a beach, and it's a beautiful setting. it's your holiday. wow nev you would never expect something like this. robyn. >> thanks for keeping us updated. if you have any more information, we will come back to you. thanks so much. it's also been a rough 48 hours for walt disney world. we've just learned that sunday's nightclub shooter scouted out disney ahead of his attack on the club. police say omar mateen visited the disney entertainment and shopping complex known as disney springs at the beginning of june during this year's gay days celebration. and all this happening just as disney gets ready to open its highly anticipated shanghai location half a world away on thursday. turning now to the mass shooting and the latest details of how the gunman planned. investigators believe he cased possible targets, including orlando's pulse nightclub and disney world as i've just said. his wife was with him on those trips. now, a source says the fbi does not think she's a co-conspirator, but she could face charges for not telling authorities about what she knew about his general plans. here's pam brown with more. >> reporter: tonight authorities now believe the gunman's wife, noor salman, visited a potential target with her husband in advance of the attack at pulse nightclub. they're trying to determine if she knew he was planning an attack. >> did you know your husband was going to do this? >> reporter: sources tell cnn she has been providing helpful insight to investigators. for the first time, we're seeing inside the couple's apartment. clothes and children's toys could be seen scattered on the ground. investigators have seized items in searches of this home and those of the shooter's relatives, including a dell computer, smartphone, digital camera, and related media. sources tell cnn omar mateen was consuming large quantities of jihadi propaganda online, including isis beheading videos. >> the killer took in extremist information and propaganda over the internet. he appears to have been an angry, disturbed, unstable young man who became radicalized. >> reporter: one of the survivors today revealing what she heard the gunman tell 911 dispatchers. >> the reason why he's doing this is because he wants america to stop bombing his country. and from that conversation from 911, he pledged his allegiance to isis. >> he was simply making statements about who he pledged allegiance to and other statements that was in a language believed to have been arabic. >> reporter: as authorities piece together clues painting a picture of the shooter's life, cnn is learning more about his movements in the hours leading up to the attack. investigators say they used cell phone tower data to determine that he spent several hours the day before the shooting at disney springs, a shopping and entertainment center in the orlando area, before the attack at the pulse nightclub early sunday morning. law enforcement sources tell cnn he also visited disney springs and the pulse nightclub at the beginning of june. investigators believe the visits were intended to conduct surveillance of the locations. >> he came with a plan of action. he had multiple rounds of ammunition. he moved through the facility fairly fluidly. so everything that he did indicates that he had given forethought to what he was doing. >> reporter: a performer at pulse nightclub tells cnn mateen visited the club dozens of times, averaging a couple visits a month over three years. cnn has learned the fbi is now looking into claims mateen was on gay dating apps such as grindr, but it's unclear what his intentions were on those apps. >> pamela brown reporting there. dozens killed. dozens more wounded. 28 victims are still in the hospital, and some of them are sharing their story of survival. angel colon was shot several times in the leg. he described the horrifying seconds before he was shot and how the gunman aimed at his head. take a listen. >> i was talking to the last girl. i was talking to her and out of nowhere we just hear a big shotgun. we just -- we stopped what we were doing, and then it just keeps going. that happened and we just grabbed each other. we started running, and unfortunately i was shot about three times in my leg. so i had fallen down. i tried to get back up, but everyone started running everywhere. i got trampled over, and i shattered and broke my bones on my left leg. so by this time, i couldn't walk at all. all i could do was just lay down there while everyone was just runni running on top of me, trying to get to where they had to be. and all i could hear was the shotgun, one after another, and people screaming, people yelling for help. by this time, this man, he goes into the other room, and i can just hear more shotguns going on. i thought i was a little safe at this time because, you know, it's giving everyone time to tackle him down or get him down. but unfortunately i hear him come back, and he's shooting everyone that's already dead on the floor, making sure they're dead. i was able to peek over, and i can just see him shooting at everyone. and i can hear the shotguns closer, and i look over, and he shoots the girl next to me. and i'm just there laying down. i'm thinking i'm next. i'm dead. so i don't know how, but by the glory of god, he shoots towards my head, but it hits my hand. and then he shoots me again, and it hits the side of my hip. i had no reaction. i was just prepared to just stay there, laying down, so he won't know that i'm alive. and he's just doing this for another five, ten minutes. he's just shooting all over the place. >> such terror. such bravery. now, some of the victims ran to the nearby orlando fire department during the shooting. cnn's brooke baldwin spoke exclusively to the fire lieutenant on duty that night. >> there was groups of people in front of the fire station, hiding behind the wall over there, crying and screaming. and as soon as we put the bay door up, we had our first person shoot through and through. >> what was that person say something. >> he wasn't saying anything. he was shot twice through the abdomen, through and through. so what happened when the bay door went up, we immediately helped and carried him in there and laid him down on the bay floor right next to the engine. and the medics went to work on him, and immediately began to stabilize and triage him. and then we had another victim come in with a shot through the wrist, another shot through the leg. so the walking wounded, we could bandage those up, you know, and stabilize them rather easily. but the man who was shot through the abdomen twice was a priority. so he was really patient number one for the orlando fire department's response. >> reporter: did he make it? >> i have no idea. i have no idea. i don't know who he was. i don't know other than the fact that when we got a rescue down here to transport him, we loaded him in the back, and it was a hot scene, and off he went to the hospital. >> thanks to brooke baldwin for that. one of the haunting images from inside the club came from amanda alvear. she had been recording the crowd dancing when the shots began. gary tuchman spoke weith her brother. >> reporter: brian alvear was the first of three children. he lost his younger brother, kne nelson, to cancer years ago. his sister amanda went to the pulse nightclub in orlando saturday night. >> if there's anyone on earth that i thought could take a couple shots and survive just to spite the person that shot them, it's my sister. >> reporter: but tragedily, amanda, a nursing student at the university of south florida, was one of the 49 people killed. >> my parents should never have to bury one child let alone two. i mean it's unfathomable that my mom has to go through this again. like it's just -- she's the sweetest woman, has never said a bad word about anybody. >> reporter: brian and his parents got a call on sunday morning that amanda had gone to the pulse with several friends. they frantically tried to reach her and immediately feared the worst when they got no answer. they then saw the snapchat videos, short videos amanda had posted from the club, showing people dancing and having fun. but there was one last video. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: in which the first gunshots are heard. amanda with a confused and concerned look on her face, and those were the last images of amanda's life that they'll ever see. so when you saw this snapchat video of your sister, tell me how it made you feel. >> i mean fear, like just afraid for my sister, like helpless. i wanted to jump through the tv and, you know, it's your little sister. she's in trouble. you want to be there for her, and you can't. >> reporter: one of the friends amanda was with at the club was the women on the right, mercedes flores, her best friend, who was also killed. amanda tried to save mercedes' life. brian and his parents were told that by another friend, a woman who survived the attack. >> the shooting started. she grabbed amanda's hands. they bolted towards the door. they almost got there, and amanda turned around and said mercedes was missing. she was going to go back to get mercedes, and the friend went, okay. i'm going to meet everybody outside. they split up and that's the last she saw her. >> you saw her those last seconds and you know from her friend that she did something so brave, that she went to look for her friend instead of leaving. and i'm wondering if that gives you comfort right now. >> it does. i mean that's what -- that's what anyone in our family would have done. that's how we are. that's how my parents raised us. i mean if i was there with my best friend, i'd like to think i'd do the same thing, and i think i would. and i'm glad that my sister did. >> reporter: gary tuchman, cnn, orlando. >> devastating. coming up, reeva steenkamp's father makes a tearful plea to a south african court as it decides the fate of his daughter's killer. >> i feel the same that oscar has to pay for what he did. if you have medicare parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? 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yeah? it's a message even the most belligerent russian officials appear to be heeding. including the m.p., who tweeted support for the fighting. out of step with the kremlin which condemned the violence, he's now changed his tone. >> translator: the softest punishment would have been a fine. the harshest one would have been a total disqualification. uefa's decision was something in between, and we only have to be thankful for that. and i support the opinion of the russian football union chairman, who said we would not appeal the decision. >> reporter: back in france, the authorities are finally, perhaps belatedly, getting tough. riot police surrounding a russian fan bus suspected of carrying some of the hard-core hooligans french prosecutors say were behind the violence. russian social media postings say many on board have been told they'll be deported. the rest are being returned to marseille for questioning as french police struggle to prevent the events of this weekend being repeated in the games ahead. >> well, matthew chance joins us now live from moscow. hi there, matt. these images of this hooliganism rare affecting many people who are going to be attending these games. >> reporter: that's right. and the actual violence itself threatens to raise its head again as you said, later on today, when russia plays slovakia in lille in northern france. and of course close by to that in another town just a short distance away, england will be playing their second match in this euro 2016 championship as well. and so there's a possibility that the fans from both of those countries could meet yet again, and that's why there's additional security been put in place by the french police. alcohol bans have been imposed on the various tangs where these two teams are playing. and so, yeah, the french, as we're saying in that report, are finally getting as touch as they can, it seems, on the fans to police this tournament. >> and why is this so important? we've got security concerns about terror, but this is also, as i was saying, one of the most watched sports tournaments in the world after the olympics and the world cup. i mean russia, it seems, is also taking this very seriously. >> reporter: football is taken very seriously. it's something that ignites passions in russia and in england and in all the countries essentially around europe and of course across the world. i mean what makes this violence, i think, so important at the moment is because in just two years from now, it will be russia that hosts the biggest football championship of them all, the world cup in 2018. that's coming to moscow. and the fact that russian fans and the russian team is now being sanctioned by uefa for this violence, for smuggling fireworks and flares into the stands, for fighting and targeting fans from other countries, in this case, england, raises serious questions about the worthiness of russia to host that world cup championships in 2018. it's unlikely at this point that that competition is going to be taken off them, of course. but, you know, there could be further sanctions at this euro 2016 competition. as uefa has said, if the russian fans continue with this kind of behavior, the russian team will be kicked out of the championship altogether. >> thanks so much for bringing us that update from moscow. let's go back to our senior international correspondent, jim bittermann, in paris. authorities there on high alert after the murder of that police commander and his wife. hi there, jim. hopefully our connection has been sorted out. this is also very disturbing incident amidst very high security in france. >> reporter: absolutely, and there's a lot of calls for investigation into how this could have happened. on the other hand, a lot of people saying this morning this was a lone wolf attacker, acted on his own. he was under surveillance. at tacker, larossi abballa, 25 years old, gradually radicalized. but he had been in prison for two and a half years. coming out of prison, he was watched. he had to report to a parole officer. he did all the things he was supposed to do, and so the police kind of ignored him. and then early this year, they began tapping his phone, suspecting that he had become more and more radical. but, again, there was nothing in his phone conversations according to the prosecutor yesterday that indicated that he was getting as radical as he was getting. his ex-girlfriend was on government radio this morning, and she was saying she saw none of the signs of real radicalization. she said that he was getting more and more religious, but she didn't believe it was to the point where he was radicalized. and then about three days before the crime, he asked to get back in contact with her. she refused and then tried to reach him the day -- just a day ahead of the crime. and she was unable to get him on his cell phone. so at that point he was probably already moving into action and killed the two police officers in their home, in front of and in their home, in cold blood and in front of their 3-year-old child, who witnessed the whole thing but is safe now but an orphan. >> indeed. and also authorities finding a hit list which also is of great concern to the french security forces. thanks so much. jim bittermann there in paris. you're watching cnn. coming up, president obama on the offensive. we'll tell you about his blistering criticism of donald trump in the wake of the orlando massacre. stay with us. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome back to viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm robyn curnow. i want to take you right now to south friafrica where the sentencing hearing for oscar pistorius is under way. he could face 15 years in prison for murdering his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. that is her cousin that has taken the stand in the sentencing hearing. let's listen in. >> they suffer very much because of this. >> has it changed your life? >> yes, it's changed my life completely. besides the obvious anxiety and depressi depression, as a family we'll never, ever be able to carry on life normal. just standing in the queue at a shopping center poses difficulty. you know, people recognize you and they start mentioning the trial or start mentioning oscar or reeva. you can never be prepared tore what might come up. i attended a workshop a couple weeks ago, a self-awareness workshop. and without the people realizing, the lecturer started speaking about oscar and his gun complex, and i just went cold. you know, it's never going to leave us. >> the broader family, how are they coping? >> my dad, for instance, is -- i saw my dad cry for the very first time when reeva died, and i saw him cry for the very second time with he heard that i had to testify again. it's -- it's very unfair what our family has been put through, you know. losing a family member that was such a big part of our lives in the way that we did, and then to have to be exposed to the media, to have to sometimes defend ourselves, it's -- it's very difficult. >> talking about medium, do you know anything of an interview that the accused gave to the media? >> the only thing that i do know is what i've heard on the radio and tv, that he's going to be doing what he's done, an interview, and that it's going to be viewed on the 24th of june. >> and how do you feel about that? >> i'm not happy about that at all. i just think it's very unfair to want to talk to the world about your version when you had the opportunity in court to do so. and it's just -- it's hurtful. i just don't understand why. i can't understand why. >> so as a family, you have christmases and birthdays. how does that affect the family of reeva's? >> it's terrible because we want to be there for each other. we want to be able to celebrate. and for my children, i can't let every special occasion be about reeva being murdered, about not saying anything. we have to celebrate. you know, my youngest daughter is 17 years old. she doesn't deserve to have every special occasion cut sh t short. as it is, valentine's day is the worst day for us. christmas, we all want to be together, but we also are scared to mention something. we're going to set somebody off. we want to honor reeva's memory by putting a candle out for her, but we don't want every occasion to become a funeral, you know? >> and your uncle barry, how is he coping? >> as far as i'm concerned, my uncle is a broken man. you know, he lives day to day on his phone, just watching the posts about reeva. the guilt, the father not being able to protect his daughter. it's very difficult for him. >> you've said during your consultations that you expected something from the start. what was that? >> i didn't hear your question. >> you explained that you had expected something from the accused from the start of the trial. what was that? >> all we've ever wanted is the truth, and people have said, but you got the truth. but we didn't. oscar's version changed so many times, and i never, ever heard him saying that, i apologize for shooting and murdering reeva behind that door. i don't feel there was an apology from him. i don't feel the true version came out. we just wanted the truth. that's what we wanted. >> thank you, my lady. nothing further. >> ms. martin, i was very, very careful when -- >> okay. we were just listening there to proceedings in the pretoria high court. i'm going to go to david mckenzie. he stands outside the courtroom. he was listening to that testimony. this has been a very long court case. oscar pistorius, the olympian, shot and killed his girlfriend on valentine's day 2013. and this is coming towards the end of the legal process. >> reporter: that's right, robyn. what you heard there is something crucial from kim martin, reeva steenkamp, the victim's cousin, was all the family wanted from their perspective is an apology from oscar pistorius, who shot reeva steenkamp four times through a bathroom door on valentine's day. she said that he has changed his testimony, his reasoning for shooting through that door several times and that they just wanted, quote, the truth from him. emotional testimony again from family members of the victim. you know, through this whole court proceedings, much of the focus has been on oscar pistorius. in the last few days we've seen that shift over to the victim as the family members, the father, her cousin all explain the pain they've gone through because of these series of events that unfolded after their family member was killed. she also said that valentine's day is the worst day for their family. that was the day, of course, reeva steenkamp was shot by oscar pistorius. the testimony continues, but we could see at the end of these proceedings, pistorius heading back to prison for a long time indeed. robyn. >> indeed. thanks so much. david mckenzie there. the lawyer there cross examining reeva steenkamps cousin. as you say, this will continue throughout the day, and we'll continue to check in with you. you're watching cnn. more news after the break. wanna drink more water? with sodastream you turn plain water into sparkling water in seconds. and because it's so delicious, you'll drink 43% more water every day. sodastream. love your water. well, let's go back now to our breaking news from florida. the alligator attack at a disney resort. martin savidge is there live, keeping an eye on this story. devastating details about a father trying to wrestle a gator to try and save his toddler, but no real hope that the baby will be found alive. >> reporter: no. i'm afraid, you know, as each moment has passed, it is looking more and more grim. right now i've talked to people who have had their eyes on the search effort that's under way. clearly it's the middle of the night here. it's dark, and that area is a large body of water that is being looked upon. the helicopters and the boats have sort of moved away from the area of the grand floridian. this is the resort hotel where the family had been staying, where this attack took place. so, you know, it's clear they're spreading out, and they're looking further and further away to where this alligator may have gone. they've also brought in, in addition to the security boats that are out there, they now have pontoon boats that are out there, and the orange county sheriff's office has supplied them with what appears to be like a dive boat. what's significant is not necessarily that they have divers in the water because you might have to worry about that with alligators, but that they're using sonar to propose the depths there. anything that might lead them to the whereabouts of the child. any hope that they might find this child alive is what this is all about. the family is deeply, deeply shocked according to authorities, understandably so. right now the effort is let's find this child. let's bring this to some sort of resolution. robyn. >> thanks for that update. martin savidge there. appreciate it. well, the orlando terror attack is inflaming tensions between the u.s. president and the man would wants to replace him. barack obama says donald trump's response to the shooting and his proposed muslim ban are dangerous and unamerican. here's white house correspondent michelle kosinski. >> reporter: president obama this time confronting his critics head-on. >> that's the key, they tell us. we can't beat isil unless we call them radical islamists. what exactly would using this label accomplish? what exactly would it change? calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. this is a political distraction. >> reporter: flank the by his national security council, including the non-partisan chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the president excoriated those who say he has not done enough to fight isis. >> has not been a moment in my seven and a half years as president where we have not been able to pursue a strategy because we didn't use the label "radical islam." not once has an adviser of mine said, man, if we really used that phrase, we're going to turn this whole thing around. not once. >> reporter: the usually collected obama lashed out at republican rhetoric, and donald trump in particular. >> and the reason i am careful about how i describe this threat has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with actually defeating extremism. and if we fall into the trap of painting all muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them. >> reporter: in what appeared to be a carefully choreographed one-two punch, hillary clinton was using much the same language during a speech in pittsburgh, calling out her republican presidential rival but his first name. >> he is fixated on the words "radical islam." so if donald suggests i won't call this threat what it is, he hasn't been listening. but i will not demonize and declare war on an entire religion. >> reporter: you know, on those highly controversial remarks that donald trump made, saying that president obama is either not smart, not tough, or has something else in mind, the white house hasn't really wanted to respond directly, saying only that it's important not to be distracted by things so small. but hillary clinton did respond, saying even in a time of divided politics, this is way beyond anything that should be said by someone running for president of the united states. michelle kosinski, cnn, the white house. >> thanks michelle, for that. well, donald trump is firing back at mr. obama. he says the president can't effectively deal with isis and terrorism if he can't even utter the words "radical islam." >> and i watched president obama today, and he was more angry at me than he was at the shooter, and many people said that. one of the folks on television said, boy has trump gotten under his skin. but he was more angry, and a lot of people said this. the level of anger, that's the kind of anger he should have for the shooter and these killers that shouldn't be here. >> coming up, survivors of the orlando terror attack are dealing with so many emotions right now. just ahead, we'll hear from one young woman who is trying to cope through her poetry. be the you who doesn't cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dress. who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. before starting stelara® tell your doctor if you think you have an infection or have symptoms such as: fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough. always tell your doctor if you have any signs of infection, have had cancer, if you develop any new skin growths or if anyone in your house needs or has recently received a vaccine. alert your doctor of new or worsening problems, including headaches, seizures, confusion and vision problems these may be signs of a rare, potentially fatal brain condition. some serious allergic reactions can occur. do not take stelara® if you are allergic to stelara® or any of its ingredients. most people using stelara® saw 75% clearer skin and the majority were rated as cleared or minimal at 12 weeks. be the you who talks to your dermatologist about stelara®. i want to take you right back to our breaking news story from the orlando area. police there now say it's unlikely they will find a little boy alive after an alligator dragged him away. the 2-year-old was playing on the edge of a lagoon at the walt disney world resort tuesday night when the alligator grabbed him. his dad tried to wrestle the gator away. we know the mother tried too. authorities have been searching with helicopters, sonar, and marine units. it's been a rough week, hasn't it, in orlando? we know that people around the world are paying tribute to the orlando shooting victims. late-night comedians are weighing in as well, taking a more serious tone. >> the news out of orlando yesterday is still impossible to fathom. that so many people can lose their lives so quickly because of one person's demented rage will never make sense, and god help us if it ever does. >> what can we learn from this? what if my kids are gay? what do i tell them? maybe there's a lesson from all this, a lesson in tolerance. we need to support each other's differences and worry less about our own opinions. >> there have been outpourings of love throughout the country and around the world. love in response to hate. love does not despair. love makes us strong. love gives us the courage to act. lov love gives us hope that change is possible. >> powerful words there. well, patience carter was shot in the leg during the orlando terror attack, but one of her friends was among the 49 killed early sunday. she's in hospital recovering and is trying to deal with her grief through poetry. take a listen to this. >> the guilt of feeling grateful to be alive is heavy. wanting to smile about surviving but not sure if the people around you are ready. as the world mourns the victims killed and viciously slain, i feel guilty about screaming about my legs in pain because i could feel nothing like the other 49 who weren't so lucky to feel this pain of mine. i never thought in a million years that this could happen. i never thought in a million years that my eyes could witness something so tragic. looking at the souls leaving the bodies of individuals. looking at the killer's machine gun throughout my right peripheral. looking at the blood on everyone's facing. looking at the gunman's feet under the stall as he paces. the guilt of feeling lucky to be alive is heavy. it's like the weight of the ocean's walls crushing uncontrolled by levees. it's like being drug through the grass with a shattered leg and thrown on the back of a chevy. it's like being rushed to the hospital and told you're going to make it when you lay beside individuals whose lives were brutally taken. the guilt of being alive is heavy. >> such el consequence, bravery, such anguish. i'm robyn curnow. "early start" with christine romans and john berman is up next for viewers in the united states. for everyone else, stay tuned for more news with hannah vaughan jones in london. this is cnn breaking news. our breaking news right now, a 2-year-old child attacked and dragged in to the water by an alligator at a popular disney resort, a desperate search happening right now. what did the wife of the orlando club gunman know about his plan to attack? new information that she told the fbi. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans in new york. >> and
in, new video here, this is just inside pulse nightclub showing the moment that those shots rang out. >> at the club. >>. [ [ bleep ] ] >> i'm at the club. [ gunshots ] >> at the club. >> the main woman there you saw in that video, her name amanda alviar, she did not survive. she recorded this video on her cell phone on snapchat, recording of what would become her final moments. the gunman apparently inspired by isis calling 911. not just once or twice but three different times in the middle of his siege here at the pulse nightclub. apparently one of the calls he pledged his allegiance to isis. he also pledged his allegiance to the boston bombers from a couple of years ago. the fbi declaring a short time ago, quote, this killer was radicalized. >> we are working hard to understand the killer and his motives and his sources of inspiration. but we are highly confident that this killer was radicalized and at least in some part through the internet. >> authorities telling cnn today the shooter tried to buy military grade body armor recently. we know he bought those guns and body armor we have learned here suggesting the attack in the works for at least a couple of weeks. let's begin this coverage this hour with pamela brown with more on the key details. pam, beginning with the body armor and by the way we have law enforcement analyst and former assistant director to the u.s. marshal's office art roderick with me, as well. let's begin with you, pamela. the gunman claimed to be working directly, on, behalf of the islamic state and there's absolutely no evidence of that. >> reporter: at this point, there's no evidence that he was directed, brooke. adding further confusion to investigators, appears he had sympathies toward al nusra and al qaeda and in fact during the 911 call he talked about the american suicide bomber who lived in florida, who he went to the mosque with, whom he had ties with and suicide bomber was tied to al nusra, an enemy of isis and we know this gunman talking about his thfamilial associations when he was a security guard and raised alarm bells for co-workers. they went to the fbi and the fbi checked this out, interviewed him twice and he admitted to saying this but then he only said it because he felt like his co-workers were taunting him because he was muslim and nothing to substantiate the claims and then the next year, actually, interviewed him as part of that investigation into this american suicide bomber to see what kind of a relationship he had with him. here's what director james comey had to say about that today. >> in july of 2014, the killer's name surfaced again in an indirect way. our miami office was investigating the florida man who had blown himself up in syria for the nusra front, being in conflict with isil and the killer knew him casually from attending the same mosque in that area of florida but our investigation turned up no ties of consequence of the two of them. in the course of that investigation, one witness told us when asked, do you know anybody else who might be radicalizing, he was searched about the killer, because the killer mentioned alaqi videos. >> reporter: and director comey said that the fbi could not find any derogatory information on the gunman so essentially the fbi moved on from there. he was not considered a high priority target. brooke, that is something under scrutiny. was anything missed after that? he did say that the fbi is looking at whether he was scoping up targets and as we know cnn spoke to a store owner claiming the past couple of weeks he went in to buy the body armor and denied the request and the store didn't have it and it's raising questions. brooke? >> all right. pamela, thank you so much. art, on a couple of pamela's point, trying to get the military grade body armor and denied, i'm thinking thank goodness and also thinking if he was on some sort of list, had been investigated, by the way, i think the fbi is phenomenal and i know there are hundreds of isis sympathizers out there, right? if you try to buy body armor, why is there not a red bell that goes off somewhere? >> there should have been. military style body armor is armor to stop high-profiled rifles. usually law enforcement has and carry day-to-day basis is like a level 3-a vest to stop handguns. that's another add-on plate in the front to stop rifles. this sounds like what he was trying to purchase. very difficult to get and should have raised some red flags somewhere. >> couldn't get the body armor but he could get and i have covered so many of these. >> i know. >> mass shootings conversations and i keep -- i mean, the ar-15. >> right. >> it is the weapon of choice apparently. he was able to get the weapon and other weapons, what? because he was a security guard. >> that's partly to do with it. i mean, he was licensed to carry in the state of florida. had a security job. probably the revolver that they found in the van very possibly could have been his work revolver. if you're going into a mass casualty situation, and trying to take out as many people as you can, you don't use a revolver. the glock holds 13, 15 rounds before you have to reload. the ar-15 he got can hold 20 or 30 rounds in a magazine. so and those are very easy, very quickly to load and reload and can cause a lot of damage as we can see here. >> survival tales and hearing more and they have been saying how is it that somebody continues to shooting so much and waiting for him to stop and he wouldn't stop. stay with me. renee marsh, let's bring you in. you have details on the investigation and perhaps the gunman. what are you learning? >> more from g4s secure solutions which hired him in 2007. the security company described to cnn this background check that was conducted in 2010 and a second check that was done in 2013. the check included a criminal record check, they also looked into prior employment, education, social security, credit report, driver's license, a drug test, as well as work references. this security company says that the background check also included a psychological evaluation. now, the specific evaluation is a test called mmpi. that stands for minnesota multiphasic personality inventory test. it was described to me as an in-depth psychological evaluation. this security company says they then rescreened mateen in october of 2013. they say they rescreen about 15% of their employees just as a precaution each year and he was one of those employees. in 2013. but they didn't find any red flags, anything that would suggest that he shouldn't be working for them. i do want to note that this specific security company has a huge presence here in the united states. they have many federal contracts. the company provides service to federal buildings, airport, nuclear power plants. it is partnered with more than 90% of the u.s. nuclear facilities so they do a lot of federal work and they have confirmed to us that omar mateen did not work in any federal building. so again, brooke, now we are just getting more insight of what kind of checks were done on mateen before he got that position as a security guard. >> sure. no. it sounds like this highly representable security company dotted the "i"s and crossed the "t"s. art, you heard all the tests done, passed. >> that's the standard procedure they use. any time you get a government contract, this's usually written into the contract for that private security company to do all that. and they have to provide that themselves. you know, we are talking 2007. sounds like they retested in 2013. not sure if they did the psychological testing in 2013. generally what happens is after so many years you do a reinvestigation and a lot of times that's just a criminal history check. >> not the full, in-depth -- >> check you get when you first get hired on. >> thank you so much. don't go too far here. again, we are live in orlando about a block from the pulse nightclub. and right now, so many of the young people, a lot of them victims, still in area hospitals. there's one just another block away. all of this right in the tight area here of orlando. so many of them still sitting in hospital beds fighting for their lives. cnn's victor blackwell is live about a half mile south of here. victor, what do we know about those who are being treated today? >> reporter: well, we know that 36 hours after the shooting began, this is a very urgent day here at the orlando regional medical center. six people underwent surgery today. surgeries overnight and a fuller picture of the number of victims and the severity of injuries that came to this hospital. we're told that 44 victims were brought to this hospital system, 11 to other hospitals. nine died but the hospital leaders say that those deaths in the first few hours after the shooting. none in the last 24 hours or so. six people have been discharged. by their count, 29 remain in the hospital. of those 29, 5 patients are in grave condition. now, of course, we know that 49 people in all were killed by that gunman. we know that now 46 names of the 49 have been released by the city. just the last few and just the last five minutes and still got three names out for those family who is are waiting for confirmation from the city of the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. brooke, back to you. >> victor blackwell, thank you so much. and coming up next here, we'll take you live to the shooter's home. hear what investigators have found inside. you know they have been combing through everything they can get their hands on. plus, now hearing the shooter attended the same mosque of an american suicide bomber p eer worshipped. but did they meet? and moments from now, donald trump will address the attack here in orlando after suggesting, quote, there's something going on with president obama because he doesn't say the words radical islam. you're watching cnn's special live coverage here. i'm brooke baldwin in orlando. we'll be right back. 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time ago and where we have polo sandoval just outside of his apartment. polo, what have they found? >> reporter: brooke, not necessarily what they found but outside of the vehicle that we are actually not standing not too far from. a vehicle that if you walk to it, look in the window, you see federal court documents inside with a gunman's name on it. it reads, titled a search warrant and then below that it's basically an inventory of what federal authorities removed from that vehicle and that includes dna samples, also different vacuum samples, as well. dna swabs and trinkets from inside of the vehicle and outside of the apartment complex omar mateen called home. this is rather standard when it comes to the federal investigations. however, when's significant here is that we have to recall what we heard from proors just this morning that they're looking into the responsibility of at least other people who acknowledged that this attack was in the works. again, that brings you up to speed on the investigation happening about two hours south of where you are there in orlando. as for people here, brooke, they were shaky after the incredible amount of police activity we witnessed here after daybreak yesterday. the scene, though, was cleared by federal authorities just before sun rise and last thing i should mention and kind of a bizarre twist here, brooke, investigators are back out here again. this time, though, at the local level because just behind the apartment complex, behind what we're told is actually mateen's apartment, the rear sliding door was open after it was secure so now there's question about whether or not people actually gained entry into that apartment complex, into that actual apartment itself and state investigators are back out here as well as some local authorities here namely and processing the scene again for evidence, however, federal authorities are very confident that anything that would have been considered evidence is no longer here but, again, they have to be safe and make sure that this investigation was not jeopardized and something to keep a close eye on right now, brooke. >> of course. you can understand the shakiness, right? of some of the people in the neighborhood after this happened in their community. polo sandoval, thank you so much. here, the entire city of orlando, the lgbt community has been absolutely devastated we the events in the pulse nightclub a block behind us here. we have two guests in the thick of june heat in orlando. terry decarlo and also with me john cutter, the managing editor of orlando sentinel. thank you so much. i hate that we're meeting under these circumstances. but this is what's happened. just first, terry, to you, you know some of the victims. you have been essentially hospital hopping, correct? >> yeah. it's been a when i will wind. >> are you still in the blur? stepping within it? >> i leapt 15 minutes in 24 hours. it's been nonstop since i got the phone call at 3:30 yesterday morning and we heard it was just a shooting and made the way down and as things developed we realized how bad it actually was. >> can you tell me a little bit of the stories you have heard from the folks that survived who you have spoken to in the hospital? >> you can't imagine. the three-hour standoff and people inside the club snapchatting from inside and taking pictures or trying to get messages out to friends and family and looking from where they were being held hostage out to a siege of bodies laying on the floor. it's just -- they're -- we have grief counselors. we have 17 working right now to talk to people and to talk to the regular community in large because there are so many storys that are coming out. it is just really devastating. >> you hear the stories of people barricading within the bathroom. >> right. >> initially thought it was fireworks and didn't understand why that was. can you share one specific story just of someone -- >> somebody, a girl who thought her life was over was on snapchat and was just snapping away, trying to for lack of a better word get her life out there. >> oh. >> thinking that she wasn't going to make it out. and to be able to tell the people this is what we went through. she made it out, thank god. >> thank god. >> but total trauma on a 25-year-old girl. >> i have more for you. john, let's show our viewers, this is a pretty -- it's a beautiful cover of the paper this morning with two young people just in an embrace. you can see the bold print, our community will heal. you know, i've seen other newspapers where, you know, you see on the front page the young man and most cases who's done this. why did you choose this? >> kind of things terry's talking about, the grief, the horror. this is our community, too. this is where we live and work. we really felt as if we needed to make a statement and make a connection with the readers and we thought the best way was to take this editorial and talk about healing. talk about the grief we're feeling. but also where we're going. >> this is something that people watching need to understand. we're journalists and wear the journalistic hat and this is when, you know, you are rushing to a newsroom. you have friends potentially in the nightclub. you're covering the story. right? yet you're not sure if your friends are okay. >> no. when i arrived yesterday, there was a couple of people close to tears but they were just what terry and friends are doing, trying the reach people that they knew and loved and were they okay and trying to work, too, sending text messages. that thing happening all day led us to that. we didn't want to see a big, huge headline that said, 50 dead in orlando. everyone knew what happened. we felt we needed to make a statement. >> can i just say, i don't think i've been to orlando since i was a little girl and getting off the plane this morning and seeing people, excited to be in orlando, with their mickey mouse hats and i just -- it's such the die out chotomy of what they're looking for and what's happened and what's happened right there. right there. for the people who are watching around the world, what do you want them to know? >> orlando is hurt. orlando is -- had a cold slap in the face. you know, this could happen any city in the world but it happened in our ours. orlando's hurt. we will heal. i have seen within the past 24 hours this amazing city and the amazing people in the city not only lgbt community but the community at large come together. i have gotten calls from berlin, the mayor of berlin, the mayor of london. the world is watching. but here in orlando, lgbt coming together and standing together. they'll heal. they'll cry together. and orlando will come back stronger but we tell everybody to grab your loved ones and tell them you love them because you never know if you might go out to a nightclub and something like this might happen. >> terry, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. john, thank you very much. >> thank you. coming up next here on cnn, we will have new details here on this investigation. we have new information about the shooter's attempt to buy military grade body armor. we'll tell you he didn't get to make that purchase. he was stopped. we are waiting for donald trump to speak here. he's set to take the stage in mere minutes. live pictures. his speech will focus we're told on terrorism and national security there in manchester, new hampshire. i'm brooke baldwin. we're back right after this. anyone with type 2 diabetes knows how it feels to see your numbers go up, despite your best efforts. but what if you could turn things around? what if you could... love your numbers? discover once-daily invokana®. it's the #1 prescribed sglt2 inhibitor that works to lower a1c. a pill taken just once in the morning, invokana® is used along with diet and exercise to significantly lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. in fact, it's been proven to be more effective at 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country's history. so many people, such, i mean, hard to believe, but just so many people dead. so many people gravely injured. so much carnage. such a disgrace. the horror is beyond description. the families of these wonderful people are totally devastated and they will be forever. likewise, our whole nation and, indeed, the whole world is devastated. we express our deepest sympathies to the victims, the wounded and their families. we mourn as one people for our nation's loss and pledge our support to any and all who need it. i would like to ask now that we all observe a moment of silence for the victims of this attack. thank you. our nation stands together in solidarity with the me believes of orlando's lgbt community. they have been through something that nobody could ever experience. this is a very dark moment in america's history. a radical islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub, not only because he wanted to kill americans, but in order to execute gay and lesbian citizens because of their sexual orientation. it's a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation. it's an assault on the ability of free people to live their lives, love who they want and express their identity. it's an attack on the right of every single american to live in peace and safety in their own country. we need to respond to this attack on america as one united people with force, purpose and determination. but the current politically correct response cripples our ability to talk and to think and act clearly. we're not acting clearly. we're not talking clearly. we've got problems. if we don't get tough and if we don't get smart and fast, we're not going to have our country anymore. there will be nothing, absolutely nothing left. the killer whose name i will not use or ever say was born in afghan of afghan parents who emigrated to the united states. his father published support for the afghan taliban, a regime which murders those who don't share its radical views. and they murdered plenty. the father even said he was running for president of afghanistan. the bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in america in the first place is because we allowed his family to come here. that is a fact and it's a fact we need to talk about. we have a dysfunctional immigration system which does not permit us to know who we let into our country and it does not permit us to protect our citizens properly. we have an incompetent administration and if i'm elected president, that will not change. i will tell you. that will not change over the next four years. we have an administration that will not change. but if i get in there, it's going to change and it's going to change quickly. we're going from totally incompetent to just the opposite. believe me. [ applause ] thank you. with 50 people dead, and perhaps more ultimately and dozens more wounded, we cannot afford to talk around issues anymore. we have to address these issues head on. i called for a ban after san bernardino. and was met with great scorn and anger. but now, many years and i have to say many years but many are saying that i was right to do so and although the pause is temporary, we must find out what is going on. we have to do it. it will be lifted this ban when and as a nation we're in a position to properly and perfectly screen these people coming in to our country. they're pouring in and we don't know what we're doing. the immigration laws of the united states give the president powers to suspend entry into the country of any class of persons. now, any class it really is determined and to be determined by the president. for the interests of the united states. and it's as he or she deems appropriate. hopefully it's he. in this case. [ applause ] thank you. i will use this power to protect the american people. when i'm elected, i will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the united states, europe or our allies. until we fully understand how to end these threats. [ applause ] thank you. by the way, we have no choice. after full and partial and long overdue security assessment, we will develop a responsible immigration policy that serves the interests and values of america. [ applause ] we cannot continue to allow thousands upon thousands of people to pour into our country, many of whom have the same thought process as this savage killer. many of the principles of radical islam are incompatible with western values and institutions. [ applause ] remember this. radical islam is anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-american. [ applause ] i refuse to allow america to become a place where gay people, christian people, jewish people are targets of persecution and intimidation by radical islamic preachers of hate and violence. [ applause ] this is not just a national security issue. it's a quality of life issue. if we want to protect the quality of life for all americans, women and children, gay and straight, jews and christians and all people, then we need to tell the truth about radical islam and we need to do it now. [ applause ] we need to tell the truth, also, about how radical islam is coming to our shores. and it's coming. with these people, folks, it's coming. we're admitting terrorism in by the president. even our own fbi director has admitted that we cannot effectively check the backgrounds of people we're letting into america. all of the september 11th hijackers were issued visas. large numbers of somali refugees in minnesota have tried to join isis. the boston bombers came here through political asylum. the male shooter in san bernardino, again, whose name i will not mention, was the child of immigrants from pakistan and he brought his wife, the other terrorist, from saudi arabia through another one of our easily exploited visa programs. [ applause ] immigration of afghanistan into the united states increased nearly fivefold, fivefold in just one year. according to pew research, 99% of the people in afghanistan support oppressive sharia law. we admit many more and that's just the way it is, we admit many more from other countries in the region and i'll tell you what, they share these oppressive views and values. we want to remain a free and open society. then and if we do, then we have to control our borders. we have to control. and we have to control them now. not later. right now. [ applause ] yet hillary clinton for months and despite so many attacks repeatedly refused to even say the words radical islam until i challenged her yesterday and guess what. she will probably say them. she sort of has said them but let's see what happens. she really has no choice but she doesn't want. however, she's been forced and she has been forced to say these words. she supports and the reason is she supports so much of what is wrong and what is wrong with this country and what's going wrong with our countries and our borders. she has no clue in my opinion what radical islam is and she won't speak honestly about it if she does, in fact, know. she's in total denial and her continuing reluctance to ever name the enemy broadcasts weakness across the entire world. true weakness. [ applause ] i don't know if you know this but just a few weeks before san bernardino, the slaughter, it's all it was, a slaughter, hillary clinton explained her refusal to say the words radical islam. here is what she said, exact quote. muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. that is hillary clinton. so she says the solution is to ban guns. they tried that in france which has among the toughest gun laws anywhere in the world and 130 people were brutally murdered by islam terrorists in cold blood. her plan is to disarm law-abiding citizens abolishing the second amendment and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns. no good. not going to happen, folks. not going to happen. [ applause ] not going to happen. thank you. she wants to take away american's guns and then admit the very people who want to slaughter us. let them come into the country, we don't have guns. let them come in. let them have all the fun they want. i will be meeting with the nra which has given me the earliest endorsement in a presidential race to discuss how to ensure americans have the means to protect themselves in this age of terror. i will be always defending the second amendment. [ applause ] the bottom line is that hillary supports policies that bring the threat of radical islam into america and allow it to grow overseas and it is growing. in fact, hillary clinton's catastrophic immigration plan will bring vastly more radical islamic immigration into this country threatening not only our society but our entire way of life. when it comes to radical islamic terrorism, ignorance is not bliss. it's deadly. totally deadly. the obama administration, with the support of hillary clinton and others has also damaged our security by restraining our intelligence gathering and we have no intelligence gathering information. we need this information so badly. he stopped it. we don't have the support. we don't have the support of the law enforcement system because obama is not letting them do their job. they are not being allowed to do their job. and they can do it well, better than anybody. we need a new leader. we need a new leader fast. [ applause ] thank you. they have put political correctness above common sense, above your safety and above all else. i refuse to be politically correct. [ applause ] i want to do the right thing. i want to straighten things out and i want to make america great again. [ applause ] the days of deadly ignorance will end and they will end soon if i'm elected. as president, i will give our intelligence community, law enforcement and military the tools they need to prevent terrorist attacks. they don't have those tools now. [ applause ] we need an intelligence gathering system second to none. second to none. that includes better cooperation between state, local and federal officials and with our allies, very importantly. i will have an attorney general, a director of national intelligence and a secretary of defense who will know how to fight the war on radical islamic terrorism. [ applause ] and they will have the support that they need to get the job done right. not like it is right now. it is not right. we also must ensure the american people are provided the information they need to understand the threat. the senate subcommittee on immigration identified hundreds of immigrants charged with terrorist activities inside the united states since september 11th. nearly a year ago, the senate subcommittee asked president obama's department of justice, state and homeland security to provide the immigration history of all terrorists inside the united states. these departments refused to comply. nobody even knows why. they refused to comply. president obama must release the full and complete immigration histories of all individuals implicated in terrorist activities of any kind since september 11th. so important. the public has a right to know how these people got here, how they came on to this great land, why are they here? [ applause ] we have to screen applicants the know whether they're affiliated with or supporting radical groups and beliefs. very simple. we have to control the amount of future immigration into this country and we have to prevent large pockets of radicalization from forming inside america. [ applause ] not complicated. every -- just think of this. take a look. every single event, even a single individual can be devastating and all you have to do is take a look at what happened in orlando and what happened in other cases, just a single event. and just one person. can you imagine what they'll do in large groups, which we're allowing now to come here? truly, our president doesn't know what he's doing. he's failed us. and he's failed us badly. and under his leadership, this situation will not get any better. it will only get worse. and i've been saying that for a long time. each year, the united states permanently admits 100,000 immigrants from the middle east and many more from muslim countries outside of the middle east. our government has been admitting ever-growing numbers year after year without any effective plan for our own security. in fact, clinton's state department was in charge of admissions and the admission process for people applying to enter from overseas. having learned nothing from these attacks, she now plans to massively increase admissions without a screening plan including a 500% increase in syrian refugees coming in to our country. tell me, tell me how stupid is that? this could be a better, bigger more horrible version than the legendary trojan horse ever was. altogether, under the clinton plan, you'd be admitting hundreds of thousands of refugees from the middle east with no system to vet them or to prevent the radicalization of the children and their children. not only their children, by the way, they're trying to take over our children and convention them how wonderful isis is and how wonderful islam is and we don't know what's happening. the burden is on hillary clinton to tell us why she believes immigration from these dangerous countries should be increased without any effective system to really to screen. we are not screening people. so why don't we have an effective screening system? we don't. we're being laughed at all over the world. the burden is on hillary clinton to tell us why we should admit anyone into our country who supports violence of any kind against gay and lesbian americans, the burden is on hillary clinton to tell us how she will pay for it, her plan will cost hundreds of billions of dollars long term. wouldn't this be money better spent rebuilding america for our current population, including the many poor people already living here? we have cities. we have inner cities. we have poverty all over. this is how we're spending billions of dollars. we have to stop the tremendous flow of syrian refugees into the united states. we don't know who they are. they have no documentation. and we don't know what they're planning. and we won't. unless we have proper supervision and proper leadership. in which case, they're out of here. what i want -- [ applause ] what i want is common sense. i want a mainstream immigration policy that promotes american values. that's a choice i put before the american people. a mainstream immigration policy designed to benefit america or hillary clinton's radical immigration policy designed to benefit politically correct special interest. that's all it is. we've got to get smart. and tough. and vigilant. and we have got to do it now because later is too late. going to be too late for our country. and the media talks about home grown terrorism. but islamic radicalism, that's a very, very important term, a term that the president refuses to use, and the networks that nurture it are imports from overseas whether you like it or whether you don't like it. yes, there are many radicalized people already inside our country as a result of poor policies of the past but the whole point is that we'll be much, much and it will be easier to deal with our current problem if we don't keep on bringing people who add to the problem. and that's what they're doing. we're letting all of the people, hundreds of thousands of people come in. and all they're doing is adding to this incredible problem we have. for instance, the controversial mosque attended by the boston bombers had at its founder as its founder an immigrant from overseas charged in an assassination plot. this shooter and amazingly in orlando was the child of an immigrant father who supported one of the most repressive regimes on earth. why would we admit people who support violent hatred? hillary clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay community as long as she continues to support immigration policies that bring islamic extremists to our country and suppress women, gays and anyone else who doesn't share their views or values. [ applause ] she can't have it both ways. she can't claim to be supportive of these communities while trying to increase the number of people coming in who want to oppress these same communities. how does this kind of immigration make our lives better? how does this kind of immigration make our country better? why does hillary clinton want to bring people in in vast numbers who reject our values? why? explain. ask yourself, who is really the friend of women and the lgbt community. donald trump with actions or hillary clinton with her words. i will tell you who the better friend is. and some day i believe that will be proven out bigly. [ applause ] by the way, the lgbt community is just what's happened to them is just so sad and to be thinking about where their policies are currently with this administration is a disgrace to that community. i will tell you right now. clinton wants to allow radical islamic terrorists to pour into our country. they enslave women and they murder gays. i don't want them in our country. [ applause ] immigration is a privilege. and we should not let anyone in to this country who doesn't support our communities. all of our communities. every single one of them. america's already admitted four times more immigrants than any country on earth. anybody in the world four times more at least. we don't know who's coming in and we continue to admit millions more with no real checks or scrutiny. not surprisingly wages or our worch workers haven't budged in almost 20 years. you wonder why we get the crowds and the support and why i have gotten more voting than any republican in any primary in the history of the republican party. take a look at that. take a look at your security. take a look at the wages. for 18 years they have been sta stagnant and gone down. whether it's a matter of financial security or national security, we can't afford to keep on going like this. we owe $19 trillion in debt and no options. our communities from all backgrounds are ready for some relief. this is not an act of offense against anyone. it's really an act of defense. i want us all, all of us to work together. we have to form a partnership with our muslim communities. we have muslim communities in this country that are great. and we have to form that partnership. now, the muslim community, so importantly, they have to work with us. they have to cooperate with law enforcement and turn in the people who they know are bad and they know it. and they have to do it and they have to do it forthwith. i want to fix our schools. i want to fix our bridges and our jobs market, we are going to have it rocket again. we are going to make great trade deals. but i want every american to succeed, including muslims. but the muslims have to work with us. they have to work with us. they know what's going on. they know that he was bad. they knew the people in san bernardino were bad. but you know what? they didn't turn them in. and we had death and destruction. hillary clinton wants to empty out the treasury to bring people in to the country that include individuals who preach hate against our citizens. i want to protect our citizens, all of our citizens. the terrorist attack on pulse nightclub demands a full and complete investigation into every single aspect of the assault. in san bernardino, as an example, people who know what was going on, they knew exactly, but they used the excuse of racial profiling for not reporting it. they said we thought so but we didn't want to use racial profiling. probably an excuse given to them by their lawyer so they don't get in trouble. we need to know what the killer discussed with his relatives, parents, friends and associates. we need to know if he was affiliated with any radical mosques or radical activists and what if any is their immigration status. we have to know. we have to know fast. we need to know if he traveled anywhere. and who he traveled with. we need to know and we need to make sure every single last person involved in this plan including anyone who knew something but didn't tell us is brought to justice. so when people know what's going on, and they don't tell us, and we have an attack and people die, these people have to have consequences. big consequences. [ applause ] america must do more. much more. to protect its citizens, especially people who are potential victims of crimes. based on their backgrounds or sexual orientation. as you just saw in orlando. it also means we must change our foreign policy. the decision to overthrow the regime in libya, then pushing for the overthrow of the regime in syria, among other things, without plans for the day after have created space for isis to expand and grow like nobody has ever seen before. these actions along with our disastrous iran deal reduced the ability to work in partnership with the muslim allies in the region. that is why our new goal must be to defeat islamic terrorism, not nation building. no more nation building. it is never going to work. and by the way, we've spent almost $5 trillion over the years on trying to nation build in the middle east. and it has been a complete and total disaster. we're further away now than we were 15 years ago. for instance, the last major nato mission was hillary clinton's war in libya. that mission helped unleash isis on a new continent. i've said nato needs to change its focus and stop terrorism. we have to focus on terrorism. and we have to stop terrorism. since i've raised that criticism, and it's okay, i've gotten no credit for it, but these are minor details, nato since announced a new initiative, front page of "wall street journal" four days ago, focused on just that. america must unite the whole civilized world in the fight against islam terrorism. [ applause ] pretty much like we did with communism in the cold war. we've tried it. president obama's way doesn't work. he gave the world his apology tour. we got isis. and many other probables in return. that's what we got. remember the famous apology tour. we're sorry for everything. i'd like to conclude my remarks today by again expressing our solidarity with the people of orlando who have come under this horrific attack. when i'm president, i pledge to protect and defend all americans who live inside our borders. wherever they come from, wherever they were born, i don't care. all americans living here and following our laws, not other laws, will be protected. [ applause ] thank you. thank you. we're going to be tough and we're going to be smart and do it right. america will be a tolerant and open society. america will also be a safe society. we will protect our borders at home. we will defeat isis overseas. we have no choice. we will ensure every parent can raise their children in peace and safety. we will make america rich again. we will make america safe again. we will make america great again. thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. >> the republican presidential presumed nominee donald trump issuing a very, very strong statement. strongly reiterating the call for a ban on muslim immigrants coming to the united states. he says the u.s. has to suspend immigration from areas where terrorism is prevalent right now. we have no choice, donald trump said, we need to tell the truth about radical islam. repeatedly going after hillary clinton, the presumptive democratic nominee point after point after point. gloria borger is with us. dana bash, peter bergen, david gergen. hillary clinton's speech an hour or so ago and implied severe criticism of donald trump. never mentioned his name at all. he was not that reluctant. >> no. she talked about scapegoating in reference to his policy on muslims and his ban. but she didn't mention donald trump's name. this speech was all about hillary clinton. this speech was laying the blame for all of this basically at the feet of hillary clinton. he said hillary clinton supports policies that promote the growth of radical islam. and he said the days of deadly ignorance will end. he declared the end of political correctness. he said very strongly that, you know, you can't, you know, you can't have political correctness and attack the problem at the core. and, you know, is very clear to me that we saw today two completely different visions of what we have to do to stop these attacks in this country. and also, by the way, he had this reasoning which said that hillary clinton can never be a friend of the gay community if she lets in these people in this country who would attack and kill gays. and so, he sort of turned hillary clinton's reasoning on its head. clearly playing to his base in the republican party. but also, trying to expand his base and say the republican -- the democrats haven't done a thing about this. i am the only one who can say it and actually get these things done because they've been ham strung by president obama and hillary clinton. >> dana, he said she has no clue what radical islam is. when she was on cnn earlier this morning, she did say something previously she had been reluctant to say. let me play a clip of that. >> from my perspective, it mat earls what we do more than what we say. i have clearly said we face terrorist enemies who use islam to justify slaughter innocent people and, you know, whether you call it radical jihadism, radical islam, i'm happy to say either. what i won't do because i think it's dangerous to defeat the efforts is to demonize and demagogue and declare war on a religion playing into isis' hands. >> in her speech she did speak of radical jihadists. >> that was a very clear attempt to try to take one rhetorical, very potent rhetorical weapon from republicans and right now donald trump. which is, and we heard it from all of the republican candidates before there was only one left, that you can't -- it's weak to not say that, say the term radical islamic terrorism because it shows that, you know, you sort of care more about political correctness than defining the problem and if you don't define the problem you can't find the solution. that was the goal of hillary clinton there. in terms of donald trump's speech, i thought it was vintage trump. using all of the buzzwords and the sort of catchphrases that made him so successful with republican primary voters. be tough. end it. we have to make sure that we, you know, do the right thing, stay at this. make america great. i mean, a lot of kind of trumpisms not a lot of policy prescriptions. he talked about sharing intelligence and intelligence gathering. hiring an attorney general, appointing one to fight radical islamic terrorism. you know, that certainly i think you would hear the obama administration argue that they have tried to do that. the bush administration post-9/11 tried to do that, as well. that's interesting. also, just one note that, you know, i think that there are probably a lot of conservatives out there, maybe not a lot. there are some conservatives out there who heard what donald trump said about the gay community and went, oh, okay. that's where the republican party is now. i think that we should note that. the fact that he said obviously this attack in orlando was on a gay nightclub, people who -- people should be able to love who they want and express their identity for republican nominee to say that is pretty incredible, especially. >> hillary clinton is not really for you. >> exactly. going back in time to 2004 last republican president ran against gay marriage and here you have him as you said trying to sort of be supportive of gay rights and a club on those who want to get rid of gay rights is pretty astoni astonishing. >> peter bergen, you were listening, studying terrorism for a long time. you heard hillary clinton's comments. now you have heard donald trump's recipe for dealing with it. your thoughts? >> his big idea is banning muslim immigration from countries where terrorism exists. i have looked at cases since notch. four out of five of americans and every lethal attack in the united states since 9/11 by an american citizen or an american legal permanent resident. so, you know, we can't -- i mean, for his idea to work, you have to ban the parents of major hassan in ft. hood, texas. you can't go back. so i mean, whole idea is nonsensical and ineffective and unconstituti unconstitutional. he was quite careful to say we will ban muslim immigration. we'll ban immigration of certain areas. it's unconstitutikonconstitutio nothing similar to that. we like saying, well, members of the mafia are italian and therefore no italians should come in the country in the 1920s and no one said that. if they had it would be a bad idea and the country would have been a different place. so i think there are grounds to be very -- i think constitutionally what he's suggesting is unreasonable and ineffective. >> he said suspend immigration where terrorism is prevalent. until he said until we fully understand when's going on, similar to what he said earlier. let's get bob baer as well. what did you think of the presentation? >> i agree with peter. it is impractical to ban immigration of saudi arabia, pakistan. way too many people are coming this way. on the other hand, what i'll say and i have to agree with trump is immigration system is broken. a lot of these people are just waved through. the background investigations depend on the countries they come from. a lot of countries not turning the police files over. so what skaerls me now is another attack and going to be an immigrant and going to be somebody who passed through the filters of some country that's not cooperative and this is going to be a whole new discussion but right now he hasn't offered any solutions to work. this man in orlando was an american citizen. and there was no grounds to arrest him. he hadn't committed violence. he'd spoken his mind which for the fbi is not enough and we simply cannot bring on preventive detention on people like this. so, you know, he is not offering a helpful solution. >> david gergen, we did hear, also, from hillary clinton and donald trump, two very, very different approaches toward the issue of guns in america. you heard that distinction and it was powerful. >> it was, indeed. this is one of the most important speeches donald trump has given in the campaign. i think it was trump at full throttle, fiery, passionate and he's going to be very polarizing. for supporters and gaining supporters out of this speech, there will be an argument, listen. he took the bark off. he told it like it is. he was plain spoken of what we face, radical islam. the other candidates, the president dancing around the realities here. they not only use rhetoric and don't take strong action. we'll take the action. at least he's a man who bring it is sort of muscular sense to responding to it where i think he's going to really, really anger the left is that he's dismisses so quickly anything about guns. you know? he wraps himself in the second amendment and nra. when, in fact, there is room here for finding ways to work together across party aisles on guns. and that is whether the question -- how is it that a guy interviewed three times for ties to terrorism and is on a list, in a database and goes out and buys a salt weapon and an assault rifle, why doesn't that database on the purchase ping the database on this guy and people are alerted to it? it's nuts they're not connected to each other and you'll find reasonable political figures say let's do things that work and enough of the sides. it's time to stop calling each other names and settle down and find real solutions. that's what the 9/11 commission did after 9/11. we need some effort like that now. >> all right, guys. stand by. we'll continue our special coverage on the aftermath of the orlando terror attack. meantime, i want to go back to brooke baldwin live in orlando. brooke? >> all right, wolf. thank you so much. thank you for being here with me in orlando. i'm brooke baldwin. deadliest shooting in history. we are midwday in orlando, just see it the pulse nightclub, the black sign and actually just another block the other way is the hospital where so many of the victims are being treated. we'll have an update for you in a moment. but let's just pause because we're getting new video here. this is just absolutely gutwrenching video inside of the nightclub showing the exact moment when those initial shots rang out. i want to play the video for you in full just so you can hear, you can feel how this night went so horribly wrong. >> [ bleep ]. >> i'm at the club. ♪ [ gunshots ] >> the woman right there, you saw in the glasses on that snapchat video, here name amanda alvear, 25 years young. she did not make it out sunday morning. recorded the video, a recording that would be her final moments here. the gunman, we are learning a little bit more about him. apparently inspired by isis. he actually dialed 911 himself three different times in the midst of opening fire on all of these innocent young people. and one of these calls he pledged his alley yans to isis, to the boston bombers, the fbi declaring a short time ago this killer radicalized and he was not following any direct orders. >> we are going through the killer's life, especially his electronics, to understand as much as we can about his path and whether there's anyone else involved, either in directing him or assisting him. so far, we see no indication that this was a plot directed from outside the united states and we see no indication that he was part of any kind of network. >> we are also learning a very good possibility that this attack appears to have been in the works for a number of weeks. authorities telling cnn that the shooter tried to buy -- he had weapons and tried to buy the military grade body armor and the store owners refused to sell it to him. let's begin with justice correspondent pamela brown with more on the investigation and also on the shooter who we now know was investigated by the fbi at least once before. he was on some sort of watchlist. he was cleared years ago. what is the fbi saying to you as far as determining the why, the how this happened? >> reporter: well, the fbi director james comey came out today defending the way the fbi handled it in 2013 looking into the gunman, essentially he had made some remarks to co-workers talking about associations with al qaeda and hezbollah and co-workers came to the fbi and he was checked out, the fbi says. they looked into his past travels to saudi arabia and found that there was no ties to any terrorist groups there. they looked at any holdings related to him, his past criminal record. and they actually interviewed him twice where he admitted that, in fact, he made the remarks but made them up because he felt like the co-workers were taunting him because he was muslim. so after ten months of investigating the gunman, the fbi decided to close the case because it didn't find any derogatory information on him according to james comey and again the next year, the fbi as part of an investigation into the american suicide bomber, the fbi wanted to know how close his relationship was with him. they went to the same mosque. but again, the fbi at that point essentially found that he did not have close ties to the suicide bomber and didn't find any derogatory information and moved on and essentially he just fell off the radar for the fbi and was not considered a high priority target and now the fbi is going back taking a good, hard look to' what might have been missed. >> we're also going to look hard at aur own work to see if there's something we should have done differently. the honest answer is, i don't think so. i don't think anything in reviewing the work that the agents should have done differently. we'll look at it in open and honest way and be transparent about it. >> reporter: so right now, the fbi still trying to piece together the time line here. when did he decide that this would be his target? pulse nightclub, indications to scope out other targets. and also, when he decided to target the gay community, brooke. we know from talking to family members and through sources telling us that he did share these anti-gay views with others. and so, there's still a lot to piece together here, especially whether or not she was in touch with any terrorist groups and i can tell you the fbi's perplexed right now in terms of what motivated him. as we know, brooke, al nusra is an enemy of isis. he mentioned the star brothers. >> it doesn't make sense. i can tell you that the police searched the gunman's home in ft. pierce, florida. that search is apparently complete. let's go to brian todd just outside of his home and what have you learned so far? >> well, brooke, the search may be complete but police and evidence specialists are coming in and out of mateen's apartment and the scene still very active. at the apartment, you talked to pamela a short time ago about the concerns of law enforcement had and reported to law enforcement about omar mateen and the years of being a security guard. one of the security guards who worked with him guarding a place of the pga village, daniel gilroy, said that while he was working with mateen, that mateen made inflammatory comments all the time, homophobic and racist comments and talk about killing people and gilroy so concerned he told the supervisors at g4s security slugss several times about it and they did nothing. we have reached out to them. they have no immediate comment on that but said that mateen had two extensive security screenings, once when he was hired in 2007 and again in 2013 and that those security screenings involved extensive psychological screenings, as well. now, along the lines of what law enforcement did know about omar mateen, the fbi director james comey said that they first became aware of him in 2013 when some of his co-workers at a place he was guarding, a local courthouse, became concerned about his comments about being affiliated with al qaeda, being a member of hezbollah. according to james comey mateen at this time said he hoped that law enforcement would raid his apartment and assault his wife and child to become a martyr. and james comey said when the fbi found out about the comments they did an extensive ten-month basic investigation of him, tailed him, introduced him to informanted and concluded at the end of it it was not a security threat and ended that investigation, brooke. so, some really kind of eye opening detail about this man's behavior a couple of years before this attack took place. >> yeah. been my question, too, would be if the employer rescreened, you mentioned all the "t"s crossed and if they did another site test in the recent years. brian todd, thank you so much. and, yes, we are focusing on this investigation to how, the why. but also, the priority here today, the people. we cannot, we will not forget about the many men and women, many of them so, so young, who lost their lives in this senseless shooting. al ferguson is good enough to be with me today. he was a close friend of freddy sotomayor killed in that nightclub in the wee hours of sunday morning. al's also the owner of a travel company where eddie worked. al, thank you so much for being with me. i'm so, so sorry for your loss. >> thank you very much. >> can we just begin with a fact that you were -- eddie was sending you videos. am i right? he was here at pulse with his partner saturday night and sending you videos having a great time on the dance floor and pleading for you to come out. >> that's -- he sent me a text about coming to pulse and he made a funny joke. eddie was just in cuba in april organizing the first gay cruise in the world. and he made the joke that pulse was like the malacon which is a very famous area in havana and i should come to pulse. and i told him i couldn't because i was visiting a friend i hadn't seen in a long time. and then about 23 minutes before the shooting began, he sent me a snapchat of him and his partner inside pulse with the stage and the music in the background. and eddie was -- he's very famous in the gay community in the united states and in europe as this black top hat he wears and the snapchat with a graphic top hat in it and he sent me this snapchat and then shortly after everything else began. >> how, al, how did you find out what unfolded and then how did you find out about eddie? >> i was -- i was approximately an hour away. i live here in sarasota as eddie does. eddie working in our sarasota office. but someone came to wake me up at -- very early. about 6:30 to tell me what was going on. and to call his partner. i called his partner and he was obviously very emotional and had not heard from him. he was actually outside the club and i've said -- >> they were on their way out. >> they were on their way out. in fact, i really believe that eddie saved his partner's life because eddie and his partner were staying with the manager of pulse for the night and they had come over for the latin night and his partner was outside loading the trunk of the car when the shooting began and he texted eddie and eddie told him about the shots and that he was hiding but he was safe. but he told him not to come back into the club and to immediately go to the manager's house. and he did do that. and then about 25 minutes later, another text between the two of them and eddie said that he was still safe and that he was -- but he was hiding and he was safe and after that, there was no more message. when i talked to his partner, he had not heard from him and he was obviously distraught and going to orlando regional medical center to try to get accurate information and i left my location and went there yesterday morning. >> can you tell me -- i mean, it's extraordinary, the selfless he said to his partner, don't come back in and to your point probably saved his life. tell me more about eddie the man, top hat eddie. what will you miss the most? >> well, eddie was very smart. he was very funny. he was very sarcastic. he had so many friends. you can see him all over social media today where people are changing their profiles to top hats and posting pictures of him. i mean thousands and thousands of people are doing that. it's a reflection of what a great spirit and a person he was. eddie was a person that people wanted to be with. they wanted to talk to eddie. and eddie would be sarcastic and joke and that would give you the opening, an opportunity to be sarcastic and joke with him. and when you spent time with eddie, you would enjoy that time because it would be very special to you because you would enjoy it so much. and that's what i'm going to remember so much about eddie is his sense of humor and also his desire to get out and explore the world. he wanted to come to the travel because he loved travel so much and traveled extensively in his years as our national brand manager. i remember after the paris attacks, he was one of the first people in the gay community to suggest in the gay community that we should change the colors of our profile to the french and specifically would talk about it's not about paris. it's about all of us. and he convinced and many people did in the gay community in supporting paris and encouraged people to go to paris and same on brussels and he constantly talked about the idea of getting out in the world and that when we got out in the world you learned about other people and it helped tear walls down instead of building them up. >> and now, sadly, sadly, paris is returning the favor and changing the colors of the eiffel tower to reflect the community here in orlando. al ferguson, thank you so much. and by the way, i've seen a number of top hats here in orlando already abe nnd now i f understand eddie's legacy. i'm so sorry. my condolences to you. coming up next, we'll hear stories of those who lost their lives and who survived and the standoff of the s.w.a.t. teams and the gunman as these club goers had to hide in bathrooms, wherever they could and just ran as fast as they could away from the madman. also ahead, chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta here in orlando. he just went inside the hospital where some of these injured are now fighting for their lives. hear what happened in the frantic moments inside the hospitals. how did they handle the influx of victims? i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn's special live coverage. i have friends here at pulse and orlando who suffered physically and emotionally. and now, mentally because this day is never going to be forgotten. this is a wake-up call for everyone, you know, you don't know when you see the person for the last time. >> welcome back to our special cnn coverage here of the worst terror attack in america since 9/11. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me here. this entire community i think is still walking through this. still very in shock. in mourning. will be for sometime to come after the shootinging inside the pulse nightclub there. if you can see the black sign over my left should. half a block away as we learn the identities of a number of victims, also learning their stories from loved ones, and friends. kimberly was a bouncer at pulse nightclub and did not escape here in the wee hours of sunday morning. her friends say she was the kind of friend who would have kepd everybody else out. joining me is star shelton, former partner and friend. thank you so much for joining me. >> thank you. thank you for having me. >> star, just begin with saturday night. i mean, you all were constantly in touch. you lived together in hawaii before she came back here to take care of what i understand is her mom and grand mom. you were texting with her saturday might? >> that's correct. at around 12:30 a.m. orlando time, i did send her a message. i knew that she would be working at pulse that night. and i just wanted to check on how she was doing in the hours on her shift. and i sent her a message saying hi an i missed her. and around 12:38 orlando time she did respond with a text message that said, oh, i miss you, too. so i was very thankful that i was able to get that message to her and that she was able to respond to me, as well. i did not hear from her again after that. >> and how did you hear? >> i was awakened the next morning. i did receive two text messages from two of her very, very close friends in massachusetts asking me if i heard from her because of what had happened at pulse. at this point, i was not aware of what happened. i immediately did get up. i turned on the news and social media. just to kind of see what was going on and then i found out about this deadly shooting that did occur at her workplace. i immediately tried to call her cell phone and text her and see if i could get through to her. unfortunately, her phone was going directly to voicemail. >> what, starr, was that feeling like when you were trying to incessantly call your dearest, dearest friend and she wasn't picking up? >> i was scared. at first, i kind of just thought, well, maybe her phone died with all the commotion or maybe it fell somewhere and broken or, you know, and she was able to get out or she's hiding or she might be at one of the hospitals or something. so at first i really just believed that maybe her cellphone died and that she was still okay. >> and so, as the bouncer, an i know she was so proud of her job and i want to ask you about that. she was thrilled to be involved in the lgbt community here in orlando. she would have been at the entrance. >> yeah. i did hear from her family members that did speak to her boss there confirm that she was inside of the club so i'm not sure if she was by the door or further in the club. i'm not sure of those details. but she did love her job and she just loved to be a part of lgbt community. she was a bouncer back in massachusetts at -- in northampton at the diva's nightclub and well-known there in the community and did drag queen performances and so i know the community is hurting and missing her dearly. she just started working there at pulse about two weeks ago and she was so excited to start working there and to be a part of that community and she was really going to get involved and try to do drag king poirmgs pers there. she was quite excited to be there and such a great person. i know that, you know, she would have helped everybody that she could at the last moment. >> i will take your word for it. i'm sorry i never got to meet kj. starr, i'm so sorry and thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> so many people, lives just gone. and so many others, dozens of others remain in area hospitals. operations under way on some of them. fighting for their lives. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is actually at the orlando regional medical center and, sanjay, i mean, in those initial hours when you initially have reports of perhaps a shooting and then all of a sudden this influx of people on -- you know, the middle of the night on sunday morning, how were they able to handle that? >> reporter: well, you know, it's amazing, brooke, the way they were getting information initially. they thought it was a few patients with gunshot wounds which was a lot but not that unusual. this particular hospital has taken care of situations like that before. but then they started to get more and more as you well know. and then there was sort of a break in the action for a period of time. remember, brooke, because of the hostage situation that was taking place in the club, there was several patients that came in quite a bit of time after that. so you almost had two separate incidents for the hospital and it was a very difficult thing to handle. what do they do? they started calling for more and more backup. and resources. there was one trauma surgeon initially there on call. he called two more trauma surgeons. eventually six surgeons and they have been operating until recently as you mentioned, brooke. i got a chance to spend sometime with them in the trauma bay taking care of the patients for the first time they let people actually see the particular area and they really described everything that happened moment by moment. there was one moment in particular, brooke, i want you to listen where the doctor explained how he was trying to communicate with some of these patients. take a listen. >> some of them were awake. and they were frightened. >> what did they say to you? >> confused. several people asked if, you know, if they were going to die. where their friends were. where their loved ones were. and, you know, just everybody kind of came together, tried to reassure them at the same time. there were some patients, unfortunately, that due to their injuries they were unable to be saved. and tried to make them as comfortable as possible. >> i mean, brooke, you can get an idea of what it was like in there. beyond the triage, trying to figure out who would likely survive and who would not and who needs an operation, when that operation would be performed. those types of conversations, brooke, that dr. smith you were hearing from having with the patients trying to reassure them in the midst of all of this, very challenging on all levels. >> i amy just so mindful in covering horrendous stories, it is the doctors, the nurses, the first responders, the police, it's everyone involved in this and they will never be able to unsee what they saw. dr. sanjay gupta on the hospital angle, thank you so much. coming up next, in images today of the shooter's home as we learn more about the why in this equation. why would someone want to do this? and 911 calls pledging allegiance to isis. this is cnn special live coverage here in orlando. i'm brooke baldwin. we'll be right back. you both have a perfect driving record. >>perfect. no tickets. no accidents... >>that is until one of you clips a food truck, ruining your perfect record. >>yup... now, you would think your insurance company would cut you some slack, right? >>no. your insurance rates go through the roof. your perfect record doesn't get you anything. >>anything. perfect! for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. and if you do have an accident, our 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not found any evidence of direct communication with isis. although we do know that the shooter did call 911 multiple times apparently one of those phone calls from when he was in the club here. he pledged allegiance to the terror group as he was murdering innocent people. we also know that this terrorist traveled to saudi arabia. not just once but twice. apparently was on a pilgrimage. let's bring in cnn national security analyst julia kiam and cnn military analyst general kirkland. you call orlando home. nice the see you all. but i'm looking at you first because i know that he was on some sort of list. he'd been investigated by the fbi and so just recently this guy goes in to go buy body armor, military grade. they don't let him. why didn't an alarm bell go off then? >> because basically the dots are not connected. sometimes laws prohibit the dots being connected. fbi interview does not constitute guilt. two fbi interviews do not constitute guilt so when the checks were occurring for the guns, no way for them to say, look, for all people you don't want to give guns to, this is one of them. right? the body armor, this's a decision by the vendor. there's a lot of gaps in how we can address limiting the capability of people with bad motives to kill lots of people in a short period of time. so, we can focus on the motivation but it's also as you are reporting on the means. access to weapons that kill lots of people. >> i have said this before and there's a whole piece in "the washington post" and covered too many of the mass shootings and the ar-15 seems to be the weapon of choice for these deranged most of the time young men. on the investigation, but also on what we have seen even out here, they have extended the crime scene while we were listening to donald trump. they were actually all the atf were out here looking for brass, right? because they're still -- why? why now? >> you will see multiple sweeps the try to find the brass, the cartridges of the ammunition. >> all the way out here? >> all the way out here. potentially. they went to make sure. if they missed something and a week from now someone comes up with a cartridge saying you missed something and might change the dynamics of the crime screen. they'll sweep probably four times for brass to make sure they got it all. >> what about the barcat? the fact that apparently it was -- there were not multiple entrances and exits so there was a massive 6 foot tall wall. >> what we realized is local law enforcement, the people meeting and interviewing here are really on the front lines so what the department of homeland security has done over the years is given lots of money to local jurisdictions to buy it turns out, orlando got about 65 million since the department started doing this and one of the purchases they made was that bearcat. people can see how the federal government can support local and state efforts but in the end it's the local police officer who is the front lines. there's no military here. >> this is tough, brooke. when you talk about clearing a building, put infantry men in to make sure nothing wrong is going on, there's usually a window, a door, a small room. what you have over there is a large auditorium. there were 350 people packed in there. it was 2:00 in the morning. it was dark. there's no windows in that building. there's one entrance. when you're talking about delays and people second-guessing the police, they are always going to find different ways to do it and better ways to do it. that was a tough action going in there. >> in the last hour, just getting off the plane today and seeing everyone excited to go to disney world. you can see her with the mickey mouse hat. i would say never in the million years would i be here doing this. appreciate it. and now, we'll be right back. inflammatory anti-muslim rhetoric and threatening to the ban the families and friends of muslim americans as well as millions of business people and tourists from entering our country hurts the vast majority of muslims who love freedom and hate terror. >> we cannot continue to allow thousands of upon thousands of people pour into our country, many of whom have the same thought process as this savage killer. many of the principles of radical islam are incompatible with western values and institutions. >> all right. this mass shooting in orlando, carl bernstein is joining me. nice to see you, sir. your thoughts on the tone and substances on both the speeches today, both donald trump and secretary clinton. >> first, i thought trump was predictably abhorrent and terribly, terribly effective in a way he hasn't been until now, that his speech will appeal to independents, even some democrats and certainly republicans because hillary clinton, obama and the democrats are very late to acknowledge by name that there is a real threat of islamic terrorism in this country and all over the world and they have been very reluctant to use the word islamic terror and it's coming back to haunt them. >> what about hillary clinton? she says this is not about semantics. >> i think she's got real semantic problems and that it comes very late in trying to parse things at this point. the important point that barney frank, the former liberal gay congressman from massachusetts made today is that the left and the democrats have got to start acknowledging the problem of islamic terrorism, call it for what it is and come up for a real strategy with dealing -- for dealing with it. and the impression trump gave today with some effectiveness, despite his almost neo fascist receipt trick is that the democrats have not done that. there's no move in the this this country and trump got to this by american-muslim peace-loving community to stage anti-terror marches. why isn't there a million person muslim march on washington against terror that we are going to have an anti muslim in this country if trump continues to say some of the things he says and if the american-muslim community, indeed, muslims all over the world do not believe in the terrorist agenda of, quote, radical islam, don't start doing things in their own backyards. >> carl bernstein, thank you. >> that's what barney frank was talking about. >> i know. we talked to him just the other day. i know. carl, thank you. thank you, sir. before i let you go, many of the people in orlando who were killed were latino and even though pulse was a safe haven, saturday night was latin night. here with me now, ramon escobar, a cnn executive, he knows florida very well, the latino community, the gay community. what were your thoughts? >> one of the things about this particular community in particular that a lot of people haven't talked about is the overwhelming amount of latino population here. you know, over the last ten years, we've seen an explosion of puerto rican growth here. people think of cubans and puerto rico is what orlando is to cubans. incredible growth. now even more puerto ricans are coming. four out of every five of the victims when we're done here are going to be latino. the biggest portion, for those of us who know orlando, they were playing all puerto rican, c caribbean type of music. >> having a good time. >> that's why it was such a shocker for all of us. >> something to think about, a lot of young people and everyone has different relationships with their family and some of these folks, i imagine, were out. >> this is something that we don't talk a lot about in our community, especially in the latino community. for many latinos who came out, they felt safer. some of them did. probably at that club because they didn't have to talk to their mom and they haven't come out to their grandmother, their mom. it's a very safe place. that's why everyone feels so violated. it's not just about a gay bar, it's about a place you go and you discover that everyone is just like you and you let your guard down and everyone let their guard down in the latino and gay community because they felt comfortable. and we know -- we are trying to confirm but we know there are probably one, two, maybe more who found out that their children were gay at the same time they found out that they were dead. and so it's something you don't hear a lot about but that's why i think so many people's hearts are so heavy right now. the last thing i would say is the puerto rican population, this place has embraced orlando because it's a big population and stone wall in new york, it was a lot of blacks and transgender. here we are in 2016 and it's puerto ricans who i think are making a stand today in what happened at the pulse. >> before i let you go, with all of the excellent points that you're making, what kinds of conversations should we have out of this? >> i think what we need to understand is this is complex and we have to lean into it. right now there is a bunch of people at another location who don't speak the language, who don't speak english and are trying to understand their children and we've got to be more patient. we don't have those conversations about other shootings where people are walking in and just discovering not that their child is dead but a whole other stuff that they didn't know. i think what we need here is conversation. we need dialogue and not be afraid to talk about these things, gay issues. this story has everything the shooting involved so many issues in america today. the gay issue, the latino issue, which we've heard both about those in our election. it has everything else. terrorism. it's sort of touching every single hot spot in america today. >> we should go find some of those families as i'm looking at the hospital down the road. ramon, thank you so much for sharing that. thank you for being here with me. i'm brooke baldwin. live in orlando, special coverage continues right now with jake tapper. jake? welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. we have breaking new details about the worst mass shooting in u.s. history and the deadliest terror attack on american soil since 9/11. 49 people were slaughtered, 53 others wounded. some grieve yously at a gay nightclub yesterday morning by this terrorist, omar siddiqui mateen who pledged allegiance to isis. >> oh, my god. they are shooting back and forth. >> reporter: the terrorist was killed in a shootout with police after s.w.a.t. team tried to get in to the club to save hostages. while there's no
in the next two hours, we want to keep the focus where it belongs, on people whose lives were cut short, we're going to start by honoring them. there are more than a list of names, they're a people that were loved, people with families, friends, dreams. the truth is we don't know much about some of them. we want you to hear their names in a little bit. edward so the meyer, he worked in a travel agency. his family says he was ee, charming. and always left things better than he found them. 34 years old. stanley almodovar, last video showed him laughing and singing on the way to the night will you be, just 23. and luis oh ma'am ocasioo. and ron came out to his family this year, was afraid they wouldn't accept him but they did and embraced his boyfriend as well. he was 22. christopher andrew leinonen. his mom says he established the the gay, straight alliance at his high school. and eric rivera, he was 36. peter gonzales cruz worked at a ups store, memorized all of the regular customers' names. can make anyone smile. he was just 22. kimberly kj morris moved from hawaii to florida to help her mother and grandmother. she was a bouncer at paul's night club, 37. eddie justice, an accountant that texted his mother from the club. saying mommy, i love you. he was 30. enrique rios. a friend says he was cool, a funny dude, tell people don't let the world hold you back from your dreams. he was 25. anthony luis, 25. and jonathan vega. cory james caan he will, student at valencia community college, hoped to become a firefighter. he was 21. mercedes march sol flores, a happy girl with so many dreams, she was 26. her family called her didi, bartender at pulse, just 32. migel angel honorato. 30. jason benjamin, student at southern technical college, sweet kid with a bright future. he was 19. daryl roman burt. 29. perfume salesman, hit the gym every day, his friends say he was always happy, 35. long time partner leon grew up in a small town in puerto rico and shoe store manager, he was 37. they died together. a professional dancer, specializing in folk dance. amanda alvear, nursing student at university of south florida, 25. martin benitez torrez. juan martinez, a kind, loving person, just 25. gerald arthur wright, worked at disneyworld. co-worker said he was wonderful with guests, always smiling, he was 31. leo fernandez leased apartments. he sang adele in the office until they couldn't take it any more, he was 25. dedicated hard working business owner from michigan, tevin crosby. and brenda, had 11 kids, beat cancer twice, went dancing with her gay son, supported him that much. she was 49. her son survived the shooting. angel pad row started a new job at the florida retina institute. he was 28. and his family says he was the lied and life of family gatherings. he was a salesman at gucci, always positive, humble, he was 40. shane evan tomlinson, gifted singer that performed at clubs. 33. simone fernandez, worked at mcdonald's, brought in birthday cakes for co-workers, got back from a trip to niagara falls with his partner. they also died together. worked alta blood donation center. loved to dance. he was 33 years old. frank hernandez worked at a calvin klein store, great brother, no gender tattooed on his arm, he was 27. xavier emanuel soriano rose at oh, hard working dancer, proud of his son. he was 33. and akyra was planning to go to university and play basketball. she was just 18. christopher joseph san feliz worked at a bank, said to be the most positive guy around, 24 years old. luis con day, makeup artist, with his partner. he was 39. he was partner to luis, 37. antonio devon brown, captain in the u.s. army reserve, graduate of florida a & m. and jean rodriguez, 27. we don't have pictures. paul tore he will henry, 41 years old. we think it is important you hear their names. there are other people's stories to tell. stories of survival. i spent much of the day talking to people that survived, that lost partners and loved ones. joshua lewis, richard ache in, joshua managed to get out, his friend richard was held hostage in a bathroom stall with several others. could hear the shooter talking, two friends were texting through the ordeal and i spoke to them both a short time ago. >> we were in the bathroom, the stall, the handicap part. you have the first part of the bathroom, the entrance, then the urinals, the stink, and big handicap. that's where i was at. we heard pop, pop, pop, we went in the stall. >> do you know it was gunshots? >> i knew because i fired weapons before, so i can distinguish between this music and actual gunshots. my best friend kevin was saying is this for real, is somebody really shooting. people kept coming in the bathroom, running inside. and crammed in there. i got on the floor. we got on the floor and people just came, kept coming in. pretty much got on top of my me. >> how many people were in there. >> nine of us in there. it was nine of us in there. we were all in there crammed up and my best friend was looking at the door, trying to see if the gunman was coming. and when the man -- gunman came in the entrance, he fired some shots, best friend tevin closed the door. >> the door to the bathroom was open. >> the main entrance of the bathroom door is open. but the stall that we were in had a door. the lock was broke. the gunman could still come in, he has a gun, could still come in. once he came in the bathroom, fired some shots -- >> how long had the shooting been going on before the gunman came to the bathroom. >> since we was in the bathroom, getting ready to walk out, there were two sets of rapid, five rapid gunshots, two sets. it was pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, we wondered is this for real, and people continued to come in, kept coming in. kept hearing continuously rapidly gunfire and it got closer and closer. >> you could hear it getting closer. >> yes, getting closer. guy came in, he fired some shots. want to say i am not 100% sure, maybe that's when tevin got shot. my best friend. when he came in, tevin heard it, he fired shots. people on the other side of the stall that wasn't in with us, they got hit. >> while you're in the stall, when did you start to text joshua? >> i called my mom first to tell her what was going on. >> before the gunman came to the bathroom. >> right. before he came in the bathroom, and while he was in there, i was on the phone with my mom telling her everything that was going on. my phone was at 20%. i didn't want to be without a phone. i continued to text her through the whole time. >> what were you saying to her? >> telling her it is a guy there shooting and i wanted for her to pray. i kept telling her to pray with me. she started saying some prayers. after the prayer told her i wanted to get off the phone, i would text her. we texted the the remaining of the night. when the gunman came in the bathroom, phone was going off, texting, the gunman said please, no texting, no talking on the phone. >> saying that to everybody. please no texting, no talking. he was a calm person. >> he wasn't yelling. >> wasn't yelling or screaming or being combative with anyone, just said please no texting, no talking. >> did he actually say please? >> yes. please no texting, no talking. people's phones were going off. at that point he would say whose phone is it, give me the phone, they would slide it under the door. >> could you see him. >> we couldn't see him. he never came inside. if he did, i couldn't see, my head, i am turned around with my head to the wall so i didn't see anything. people on top of me, i wasn't trying to look. i was pretty much hiding. he was saying give me the phones whenever they ring. they would give him the phone, at one point i could hear him reloading the weapon, dropping the bullets, picking them up, reloading the trip to the weapon. at one point he did get on the phone, was speaking to obviously the police. he called 911, that i was told. >> you didn't hear him talk to 911. >> i did hear. my mother told me later he called 911. i thought someone called him. my mom told me later he called 911. >> you heard him talking to authorities, didn't know he had called 911. >> heard him talking to people, saying his name was only a forgot his last name, that he pledged allegiance to isis. and that drn. >> you heard that. >> yes. that he pledges allegiance to isis, we were bombing his people, need to stop bombing his people. after the telephone call he hung up, told everyone in the stall that he had no problem with black people. he had no problem with black people and he referenced the south carolina shooting at the church. >> he talked about that. >> yes. >> do you remember what he said? >> he didn't say much about it, he said do you remember the shooting in south carolina at the church. he said i don't have a problem with black people and that was the end of the subject. he did say there are four of us left. there were four of us left, they were positioned north, east, south locations, there was four of us left. i said get this to people now, let them know exactly where we are. >> the gunmen said there were. >> four of them left. >> four survivors? >> four of them left. >> he was acting as if there were more people. >> yes. yes. he did say something about a vest, he had like he was strapped with a vest, and i'm like oh, my gosh. >> what do you want people to know? >> you never know -- petty arguments, situations where people, lot of families go a long time without speaking to people, and when things like this happen, you regret i stopped talking to them because this happened. you feel bad because you have a grudge you shouldn't have held, you should always show love. >> sources, including the hometown newspaper, orlando sentinel say this is not the shooter's first time at the nightclub. at least four regular customers had seen him there before. one said he would sit in the corner drinking, sometimes get very drunk, loud, belligerent. joining me, l.a. times reporter molly hen see fisk. thanks for joining us. what are you learning about the killer? >> thanks for having me. i spoke with kevin west who said he had been chatting with the shooter or a year off and on, said the man contacted him looking for clubs to go out. he contacted him on a dating app, a gay dating app and was looking for places to hang out but they hadn't met in person until the night of the shooting. >> so they actually met at the club that night? >> that's what kevin west told me he said. he was dropping a friend off and said his friend is one of those killed in the shooting. as he was dropping his friend off, looked out, saw a man he believed was the gunman. looked at him, said hey, the guy said hey back, appeared to recognize him. then across the street, entered the nightclub. >> and is your understanding, you say he was on the gay dating or chat app on and off for a year, was it your understanding he was trying to meet up with people in order to daylight them or have some sort of relationship with them or was he trying to scope out gay bars, understand how gay bars work to commit this act, do we know? >> the man i talked to said it wasn't clear to him. he said that the man who he was chatting with he believes was the shooter didn't mention having a wife or a child and repeatedly said he wanted to meet in person, that he wanted to meet up, and kevin, the guy i was talking to got impatient saying i am not going to sit around waiting for you, he would track the guy, you can track people in the app, see how far away they are. sometimes he was right in downtown orlando, so he could tell if the guy was there, but he said kevin, the guy i talked to said he goes to pulse, he is a regular there. has friends there, and he had never seen him there, although the orlando sentinel has am reported other people said they did see him there and heard him making comments. >> right. i'm not clear from the orlando sentinel report, molly, maybe you can clarify this, if whethee went there repeatedly to actually meet people because he had feelings or whatever. >> i think that's still unclear, anderson. kevin was telling me that it seemed like he did want to meet him. kevin said pictures he posted on the app were not -- that kevin posted were not provocative pictures, per se, that it was clearest gay and it is a gay club and the man he believes was a tutor was contacting him to see where he hung out, which would be a gay club that he told him about. >> molly, appreciate your reporting and talking with us. trying to piece together things we know. coming up, more survivor stories as we remember others that saved others and those that lost their lives. take you through how the scene unfoamed in that night club, a tragic story told through text messages and social media, also tell you about the shooter and new information about his visits to disneyworld before the shooting. you're looking now at pictures, about 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still here in the bathroom, he has us. they need to come get us. hurry, he is in the bathroom with us. she asked is the man in the bathroom with you? his last reresponsibility at 2:50 a.m. he is a terrorist, yes. eddie justice died in the nightclub bathroom while eddie was texting for help, another man brandon wolf was tweeting. 2:17, omg, shooting at pulse. we hid in the bathroom and we can't find our friends. he tweeted he made a run for the door. neither of his two friends survived. the calls for help kept coming. this woman who didn't want to be identified got text messages from her daughter and two nieces who were inside the club. her daughter had been shot in the arm. >> please come and get us, please come and get us now, they're shooting. >> amanda alvear was snap chatting when it started. a friend captured that video and posted it on facebook. what you're about to hear in the background is the gunman's rapid fire. amanda did not survive. jeff rodriguez texted his brother while the shooter was firing. >> i got shot, i am bleeding out, i think i am dying. i love you guys, tell mom and dad and everyone how much i love them. >> reporter: his brother's fate is unclear, even the shootout between the suspect and police was posted on facebook. >> oh, my god. they're all shooting back and forth. >> reporter: the poster wrote online people are screaming that people are dead, adding crazy. at 5:53 a.m. orlando police tweet the attack is over, the shooter inside the club is dead. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> justice correspondent pamela brown joins me with the latest. where do things stand? >> investigators have gone through more than 100 leads, anderson, and there's more work to be done. initial indications are that the gunman did do some reconnaissance, scoping out possible sites lead to go the shooting. we know according to orlando sentinel he visited a dozen times, perhaps he was looking at other areas. people saw him around town, different places, the fbi has to corroborate that. we know back in april the gunman visited disneyworld with his family, but at this stage it is unclear if he was casing or just a family trip. >> one of the survivors heard him on the phone talking to 911, pledging support to isis. what's known about that. the fbi had investigated him before, interviewed him previously. >> that's right. conflicting signals to investigators. not only did he pledge aloojance to isis but also to the tsarnaev brothers. some contradictory statements, unclear which terrorist group he aligned with most. >> and we don't know whether there were actual connections to one of the called jihadist groups or if it was aspirational. >> some of the calledization came online, that would suggest it was self radicalization at the least. at this point there's no indication there was direction by any terrorist group, but it is so early, they don't have confirmation of that. in 2013 they looked at him, he talked about familiaral associations with al qaeda to co-workers. they interviewed him twice, he did make the comments but said it because co-workers were taunting him because he was muslim and it didn't pan out, it wasn't true. so the fbi felt there was no derogatory information. closed that case. at that point taken off the watch list. next year he was interviewed in a case surrounding an american suicide bomber, he wasn't the subject but interviewed. >> guy blew himself up in syria that was from the area, went to the same mosque. >> went to the same mosque, had some interaction along the way. ultimately the fbi found they didn't have a substantive relationship, he mentioned him, moner mohammad abu-salha, in that call to 911. they want to know what their connection was, did they miss something. that's a big part of the story, back in 2013 or 2014 they should have uncovered something or if the radicalization happened after that. >> all right, we will continue to work our sources. a desperate work to save the wounded. surgeons have been 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killed in cold blood early sunday morning. the club was packed when the killer went inside before police killed him. he shot nearly one of every three people inside the nightclub. the wounded were rushed to nearby hospitals, including orlando regional medical center, level one trauma center. dr. sanjay gupta and his team got access in the hospital where staff have been working around the clock to keep survivors alive. >> said there was a gunshot wound coming in, said there were maybe a few more, the initial report was 20 gunshot wounds coming our way. one patient came in, another patient came in, then i realized this was not a drill. >> reporter: trauma surgeon smith, cheatham, abraham operated almost nonstop since the shooting. >> up to six rooms in 90 minutes, 44 gunshot wounds, victims come in all within a space of an hour and a half, two hours. certainly exceeded anything we've ever seen before. >> reporter: 26 operations were performed in the first few hours. injuries so devastating one patient alone requiring four separate operations. 90 units of blood and counting. >> patients were being wheeled into the area, they had about a dozen people surrounding them, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, anybody that could lend a hand, they would make a determination was the patient going to survive, was the patient going to need surgery, how quickly was the operation necessary. how much blood was the patient going to get. imagine 44 patients in a short time coming in, bed after bed after bed and doctors having to make those decisions. that's what's been going on quite some time. they finally feel like they've gotten a handle on the situation, still have many, many patients upstairs that need their care. and then in the midst of all that a rumor that the hospital had become a target. >> on scene, we have the shoot shooter, we cannot have any more. >> went back to focusing on the patients. >> patients, many of whom were still conscious, trying desperately to communicate until the end. >> several people asked if they were going to die where their friends were, where their loved ones were, just everybody came together, tried to reassure them at the same time. there were some patients unfortunately that due to their injuries, you know, they were unable to be saved and we tried to make them as comfortable as possible. >> sanjay gupta joins us. in the video, saw people loaded into pickups to get them to the hospital as quick as possible. >> people don't realize level one trauma center, only one in this area, just a couple blocks from this nightclub, people literally walking down the street, going into regular citizen vehicles. police officers throwing them in their car to get over there. i think it made a difference in terms of speed of care. >> and the kind of injuries, they require heavy attention from medical personnel. >> it is interesting, anderson, all of the various covers, san bernardino, oregon, newtown, they do drills now, hospitals, they have been doing drills at the hospital i work trying to plan for mass casualty. but doctors here and every other doctor you have spoken to says it is hard to practice for something like this in part because you have patients with so many injuries. >> an ar-15, the bullet enters and spins once inside and causes massive injuries inside. >> and it is unpredictable, sometimes goes through and through, sometimes it spins, enters one part but causes damage in an entirely different part of the body, and that's an investigation. you triage 44 patients simultaneously, looks like the injury is here but it is here. >> i interviewed a guy, we will play it later in the broadcast, got shot twice, with four wounds because bullets came in through different areas, strange tra yek trees. incredible the work doctors do. up next, what we know about the shooter, latest information. the fbi gathering new information. also some live pictures from a vigil in orlando, florida happening now. also what's 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survived as well. we want to update what we are learning about the shooter, the orlando sentinel and l.a. times are saying this is not the first time he was at the nightclub, say regulars had seen him there before. he used a gay chat app on and off for a year. drew griffin has more on what we know about the killer. >> reporter: it was 2007, the shooter in the back row in a baseball cap attending the law enforcement training academy, about to attend a post practice barbeque. he took one look at the meat being grilled and walked away. >> lot of guys said probably a religious thing. i said what are you, a muslim? he said yeah. i said okay. and we just left it at that. he didn't seem mad. he turned around, walked away, didn't talk to anybody, kind of sat by himself. >> reporter: according to a fellow student who doesn't want us to use his name, it was the first time anyone knew the shooter was a muslim. a day later he says the shooter failed to show up for class, instead administrators came and he says chastised the academy cadets for teasing someone about religion. several days later he says the shooter did pull up to the academy parking lot and was met immediately by administrators before he could even leave his car, as if he says school officials were waiting for him. >> his car comes in the parking lot, they rush his car. didn't see him or hear from him after the incident so we have no idea of what happened. >> details have not been confirmed of what happened next. but a source says the orlando shooter was for some reason removed from the class and around the same time fired from his job at florida department of correctio corrections. before he left or was kicked out of the school, the shooter had extensive training in firearms, spending nearly a month in the classroom and on the firing range. instead of graduating in law enforcement, the would be corrections officer became a security guard. in 2014 guarding the st. lucie courthouse, he was checked. >> he said he hoped law enforcement would raid his apartment and assault his wife and child so he could martyr himself. >> two months later as cnn first reported, the fbi found another concern, another possible terror connection, american suicide bomber killed in syria had been attending the same tiny florida mosque as the orlando shooter. again, the fbi investigated and again found nothing to make an arrest. according to the shooter's father, his son did become upset after witnessing two men kissing in miami. in his bizarre announcement of his son's death, the father apologized to the people of afghanistan saying homosexuality is something that those that do it are accountable to god, it is not up to human beings to punish them. >> drew joins me with cnn counter terrorism analyst philip mudd, formerly with the cia and fbi. was something missed? was the ball dropped? >> i don't think so. if you look at this, we have to frame it differently. we look at one case and build out what should the fbi have done. i would go the opposite way looks like. what a day looks like at the bureau. more than 100 come back, you look at people communicating with isis via twitter or al qaeda yemen, and add into that cases like this where someone calls, a friend or family member, somebody might be radicalized. before we jump to judgment on a gap, look at this and say how would you weigh it if you were the investigator against these other -- >> not really a job how effective the job the u.s. is doing even when the individuals are on the radar. >> i think phil is correct, but look at what's being done to make it better. seen it with the tsarnaev brothers in boston, nadil hasan at fort hood, now this guy. on the radar, know there's some problem, but the fbi are kind of stuck, they can't just glue an agent on these people the rest of their lives. what do you do. it is a big dilemma law enforcement is facing. >> phil, in terms of motivation it is not by chance he picked a gay club. there's reporting he had been there many times, talked to people on gay hook up apps and stuff like that. how much of that is inspired by radical islam beliefs. his dad said he saw two men kissing, and it angered him and infuriated him. >> we are making a basic mistake, living in the past, the 9/11 attack, you have an organization, al qaeda that not only trains people but selects a target for them. transition 15 years ahead, people are self radicalizing. i am angry at gay people, at tourists, at paris at rock venues, because that's western culture. whatever i am angry about, isis gives us isolation. someone thought he was angry and isis gave validation to act. >> you play the video of his dad saying gay peach will be punished, it is heaven's job to punish people, his father says i don't know where he got the ideas, if his father is spouting that at home, not that big a stretch imagining his son might go to a club and do something like this. >> and there might be a major mental internal struggle going on inside 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worst mass shooting in history. not even 48 hours since it happened. on the campaign trail, it's already making a mark. both presumptive nominees talked about it in speeches. here's what hillary clinton said on cnn's "new day." >> from my perspective it matters what we do more than what we say, and it mattered we got bin laden, not what name we called him. and i have clearly said that we face terrorist enemies who use islam to justify slaughtering innocent people. whether you call it radical jihadism or radical islamism, they mean the same thing. i am happy to say either. >> she called for a ban on assault weapons. >> orlando and san bernardino, terrorists used assault weapons. the ar-15 and used it to kill american. that was the same assault weapon used to kill those little children in sandy hook. we have to make it harder for people that should not have those weapons of war. >> the ar-15 is an assault rifle, considered a tactical weapon. she did not mention donald trump by name but trump had a lot to say about her in new hampshire and called for a ban on muslim immigrants. dana bash is checking the facts. >> reporter: donald trump's 34 minute speech was brimming with the kind of nativist rhetoric that helped him win the gop nomination. >> they're pouring in and we don't know what we are doing. >> reporter: as he doubled down on the solution to americans' fear of attacks at home, limiting immigration in the u.s., trump made lots of claims, some true, some not true. in the category of not true, this. >> the killer whose name i will not use or ever say was born in afghan of afghan parents who immigrated to the united states. >> reporter: his parents did immigrate from afghanistan, but the killer himself was born in new york which is why u.s. officials call it an act of home grown terrorism. still, regardless of the orlando killer being american, the thrust of trump's response to the attack is focused on concerns about immigrants. he drilled down on hillary clinton's plan to let syrian refugees into the u.s. >> a 500% increase in syrian refugees coming into our country. tell me, tell me how stupid is that? this could be a better, bigger, more horrible version than the legendary trojan horse ever was. >> reporter: that stat that clinton's refugees proposal would be a 500% increase over president obama's plan is true. to be specific, obama's plan allows 10,000 refugees. clinton's is 65,000. that would be a 550% increase, about what trump claims. he argues there's no vetting. >> having learned nothing from these attacks, she now plans to massively increase admissions without a screening plan. >> reporter: the reality is refugees now go through months of processing and paperwork before being admitted into the u.s., so that is false. then there's the question of how many syrian refugees are coming in now. >> we have to stop the tremendous flow of syrian refugees into the united states. >> reporter: on cnn's new day, trump was more specific. >> we have, by the way, thousands and thousands of people pouring into our country right now who have the same kind of hate and probably even more than he has. >> reporter: on the whole, what he said was true. according to state department, 3387 refugees have been admitted since october. more than 2,000 in the last month alone, but that's far fewer than 10,000 president obama said he would allow. and on the issue of guns. >> her plan is to disarm law abiding americans, abolishing the second amendment, leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns. no good. not going to happen, folks. not going to happen. >> reporter: he repeated the claim that hillary clinton wants to do away with america's right to bear arms, but that is false. clinton does want to restrict access to guns but not abolish the second amendment. >> if the fbi is watching you for suspect terrorist links, you shouldn't be able to just go buy a gun with no questions asked. >> trump also seemed to paint the muslim community in general with a very broad brush. >> reporter: that's right. beyond those specific statements for muslims in america, his overall tone was probably alarming. even as he said very clearly some american muslim communities are great, called for a partnership, he also said they know what's going on and he said of the killer in orlando they know that he was bad. but anderson, he didn't offer any evidence that the killer's fellow american muslims knew about his intentions. >> thanks very much. more ahead on this two hour edition of we remember the victims, continue to do that. all 49 lost, dreams cut short for so many young people. and the latest on the investigation, new reports that the gunman visited the pulse nightclub several times before and used one gay dating app if not more.
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evacuations for hundreds as high winds and bone dry brush fueled the santa barbara county fire. burning to nearly four times its previous size in just 24 hours. this water cistern surrounded by firefighters into the night, destroyed by morning. a declaration of emergency bringing out hundreds of hand crews, air tankers, including converted passenger jets. that's a dc-10. helicopters and hot shot specialists on the ground. it's not just california. parts of the west could see their highest all-time temperatures by monday. in all, parts of 19 states, more than 70 million americans, under sweltering heat advisories. hydration essential. in memphis the heat index, 119. and in houston, tragedy. a 3-year-old boy slipped unnoticed into the family car parked at his house, dying of heat exposure. neighbor marlene gonzalez witnessed the anguish. >> heartbreaking because i have three kids of my own, and when i seen it, it was sad. >> reporter: in the east, powerful storms along the midatlantic knocking out power to thousands. david, the 1,200 firefighters working the lines on this blaze are beginning to get the upper hand, but the temperatures are still soaring. david? >> jim avila leading us off tonight. jim, thank you. as we said at the top, the heat will be felt coast to coast. let's get right to meteorologist rob marciano live outside tonight. good evening. >> good evening. it's only going to get hotter especially out west, continued dry. and the winds will pick up. not good for the fire situation there. and if you work outside, look at these numbers. hydration is key. temperatures getting up and over 100 east of l.a. 120 plus in palm springs. that is all-time record stuff. in the plains, not as hot but humid. again, going to feel like over 100 degrees in dallas. some of this feeding into severe storms tonight across the deep south. these watch boxes up in the next couple hours. 70-mile-per-hour winds with the storms. be aware of that. if you live in the hot zone, this weekend, certainly keep that water bottle handy. david? >> great advice, thank you. we move to major new developments in the meantime in the terror in orlando. abc news has learned the fbi has now obtained surveillance video from inside the orlando night club. multiple cameras, chilling scenes. they have not released the video. but sources are describing what they have seen. the gunman moving from room to room. abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas with what he's just learned. >> reporter: these chilling images, people struggling to survive the onslaught at the pulse nightclub, huddled together in the dark on the bathroom floor. >> stay with me, okay? >> reporter: but tonight we learn the fbi has obtained high quality security video, which captures the massacre in horrific detail. surveillance cameras showing multiple angles in different rooms, from the patio to the dance floor to the lounge, previously, the only glimpse we had of the massacre, this moment, amanda alvear recording those first gunshots. her last moments alive. in the surveillance video, sources say, you can see the killer firing his assault rifle and systematically executing victims. one source familiar with the investigation tells abc news the video shows omar mateen walking through the rooms, mowing people down, cold blooded. a relentless assassin, reloading his weapon more than once. david, this video is critical because it gives a precise time line and shows so much of what actually happened. again just tragic. david. >> pierre, thank you. we are also learning more this evening about omar mateen and the laser focus this evening on his wife. we have also learned the gunman signed over his interest on a home he co-owned with his father, just two months before the massacre, taking his name off the title for a mere $100. sources also telling abc news that mateen and his wife exchanged text messages during the rampage. abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross. >> reporter: her family tonight says omar mateen's wife noor became a stranger to them once she got married. they say she is now telling them mateen beat her, just as his first wife, sitora, says she was treated. >> he wouldn't allow me to speak to my family. he would beat me as i tried to call them. >> reporter: and now the fbi is investigating whether mateen's current wife was somehow involved in or knew about the attack. recovering a brief text message they exchanged as it was happening, as she was apparently unaware of where he was. did you see the news, he asked. and then messages between the two, i love you. >> every mass murder is premeditated. she lived with him. she knows something. >> reporter: one of the many questions she can answer, why just two months ago mateen signed over his interest in a home he co-owned with his father, for a mere $100. noor was one of the witnesses. and investigators want to know what she knew about the emerging contradictions of mateen's life, his secret life. as he filled out his application for a police academy just last year, mateen wrote that his parents told him to appreciate the blessings of being raised in a safe country and society. i want to pursue a career in public safety. i want the streets to be safe for my son, the way it was safe for me growing up. >> and brian, back with us tonight. it was last night here, you reported on the florida gun store that said it called the fbi weeks ago about a suspicious man that they now believe was omar mateen. the fbi responding to that tonight saying they did get back to the store. >> the owner claimed they never checked in. but the fbi strongly disputes the store owner's account. but they did go to the store but there was not enough information to conduct what they call any meaningful investigative follow-up. >> two different accounts of the story. thank you. there are also new developments after the deadly alligator attack at disney world. the autopsy results revealed more about the death of 2-year-old lane graves today. disney keeping its beaches closed and today installing temporary barriers and new signs going up, warning of alligators. abc's gio benitez is in orlando. >> reporter: tonight, barriers going up at disney's grand floridian resort. workers blocking access to the same beach where 2-year-old lane graves was killed by an alligator. disney now saying, "we are installing signage and temporary barriers at our resort beach locations and are working on permanent, long-term solutions at our beaches. we are reinforcing training with our cast for reporting sightings and interactions with wildlife and are expanding our communication to guests on this topic." and our first look at those signs guests will see, warning of alligators. autopsy results show little lane died of drowning and traumatic injury, after he was grabbed by an alligator in ankle-deep water. the animals can lunge at 20 to 30 miles per hour. >> in the blink of an eye that gator's from the water to its prey grabbing it and pulling it back in. i mean, in just tenths of a seconds. >> reporter: and experts warn tonight that tourists feeding alligators can make them more aggressive toward other guests at the resort. >> as a matter of fact, in the state of florida, it's against the law to feed wild alligators. because they are very easily trained. it's not as common knowledge but alligators can be trained to come to food. >> reporter: tonight back in nebraska, family and friends of the graves family offering support with prayers and blue ribbons. >> as a neighborhood we hope they just feel the love basically, of how much we care about them. >> reporter: tonight, i'm told disney will be putting up the alligator warning signs. around the rest of the property very soon. they're still trying to decide if they'll ever open those beaches again. david? >> thank you. there are new terms for the race for president tonight in this week as the country comes together for the victims of the orlando terror. donald trump now declaring he would be better than hillary clinton when it comes to supporting the lbgt community. abc's jonathan karl tonight with hillary clinton's one word response. and trump suggesting he would pick oprah as a vp. if he ran. so what is she saying tonight now that he is running? >> reporter: in the wake of the massacre, donald trump is portraying himself as a staunch supporter of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. >> lgbt is starting to like donald trump very much lately. i will tell you. >> reporter: he says he is a stronger ally to the gay community than hillary clinton because the clinton foundation has taken millions of dollars in donations from countries like saudi arabia, a country that prosecutes gays. >> saudi arabia, they throw gays off buildings. countries that contribute to her foundations. >> reporter: trump says he could take on anti-gay terrorists. hillary clinton retweeting a quote of trump's, you tell me who is better for the gay community and who is better for women than donald trump? hillary clinton responding, hi. >> oprah would be great. >> reporter: he may have been joking. jimmy kimmel asked him about it. >> he would like to you be his running mate. >> i think he was joking about that. >> i don't think he was joking. >> i think he was. but okay. >> has he contacted you? >> have not gotten the call. >> if he did make the call, would you take the call? >> i would say, donald, i'm with her. >> oh, i see. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: what about oprah for president. >> for many years, i used to think, until this election year, i thought, why do people say that? i have no qualifications to run. i'm feeling pretty qualified. >> reporter: when it comes to gay rights, it's hillary clinton who supports gay marriage, not donald trump. even so, there is little doubt, david, that trump is the most pro gay rights republican candidate we have ever seen. >> jon karl with us tonight, thanks, jon. overseas and the history making ruling concerning russia and the olympics. the entire russia track and field team barred today from competing in the summer games in rio because of a widespread doping scandal. president putin calling it unjust and unfair. how many medals did russia win over the americans last time? here is abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time in olympic history, a country's entire track and field team has been banned from the summer games. in a stunning rebuke of russia for its ongoing doping scandal, the world governing body for athletics, the iaaf, voted to ban all russian track and field athletes. >> finally, we have an international sports federation that is just saying enough. you cannot cheat and get away with it. >> reporter: in a blistering 300-page report released last fall, the world anti-doping agency found that russia committed 225 violations, the highest in the world. >> this is just a confirmation of russia's demise as a world power in sports. >> reporter: russia denies it engages in systemic doping. this is a big hit for the russians who won 18 medals in track and field at the london games. two of those medals were stripped from its dominant women's 800 meters team in london last year. too late for runner alysia montano. is it possible to rid the sport of cheating and doping? >> i hope so. i hope this is a lesson to the athletes that choose to do wrong and to steal from other athletes that are doing it right. >> reporter: david, that track and field body says russia even refuses to accept it has a doping problem. case in point, one russian sprinter we spoke to says she didn't understand why all athletes aren't allowed to dope. david? >> matt gutman, thank you. the famous singer collapsing on stage. falling to the ground in the middle of a packed concert performance. fans were stunned as a team rushed to the stage. we have much more on this. also, this explosive moment inside this walmart. what ignited an entire aisle. and america strong tonight. we needed this story this week. a father's day surprise. inside the bumble bee, they hadn't seen their father in months. he's home. we'll be right back. we asked a group of young people when they thought they should start saving for retirement. then we asked some older people when they actually did start saving. this gap between when we should start saving and when we actually do is one of the reasons why too many of us aren't prepared for retirement. just start as early as you can. it's going to pay off in the future. if we all start saving a little more today, we'll all be better prepared tomorrow. prudential. bring your challenges. or if you're young or old.are if you run everyday, no matter who you are a heart attack can happen without warning. if you've had a heart attack, a bayer aspirin regimen can help prevent another one. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. bayer aspirin. 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>> he asked me if he was going to be okay. and i tried to reassure him. >> how hard is that? >> it's very hard. because they seemed to helpless. and it's just like -- you know. there's only so much we can do on the road. you know. >> there were the doctors and nurses who did not stop for days. surgeon joshua langford and the question he so often heard, will we walk again? will we be the same again? >> that is a hard question to answer. you don't want to lie. what you can be reassured of, they will have everything possible done to make them as whole as we can possibly make them. >> there was the survivor who spoke at the hospital this week, angel colon, and the officer who saved him. >> i'm grateful for him. he looked at me, and he makes sure i'm alive. and he grabs me hand. and he says this is the only way i can take you out. >> and tonight, look who walked in his hospital room. >> how you doing, angel? >> i'm good. >> officer omar delgado. and he was the one asking for something. >> i need a big hug from you. he grabbed me and he didn't want to let go. you can tell when they hug and you want to squeeze you. that was his appreciation. >> so we choose all of those quiet heros in orlando. thank you for watching on what's been a very difficult week. i'm david muir. hope to see you monday. good night. each of these three men has been the chief of oakland's police department within the last eight days. we're leshing -- learning a fourth person is taking over the job. >> the resolving door of chiefs comes as the department finds itself in the middle of sex scandals with multiple officers. >> reporter: hi, dan. another stunning development here in oakland. we have learned within the past hour that the most recent acting chief is out now, after just two days after replacing ben farrow, just two days ago. we learned if sources that figueroa removed himself from the position, we understand, for personal reasons and we're told by the sources that now city administrator sabrina landren will be in charge on a temporary basis. earlier today we saw protests. with the oakland police department embroiled in a scandal, a banner demonstrated their concerns. >> their demands are to accuse, charge, convict and jail not only people engaged in statutory rape with this young woman, but anybody who knew bit. >> whatever going on needs to be flushed out now to make good assess manies about what caused the problems. >> this a day after the mayor announced a new investigation into the department, unrelated to the sex scandal. abc7 news learned it involved homicide
welcome back for another live hour of "ac360" from orlando. dozens are killed and injured from a gunman opened fire. we'll also remember the names and faces of all 49 people whose lives were taken that night. we think it's so important for you to see their faces, to learn their names and remember so they are not another gotten. we will not mention the shooter's name or show his picture but we want to get you up to date for the latest on the shooter. what are investigators saying, particularly about the shooter's wife? >> reporter: she is now the focus of an active investigation. the question being what did she know before these attacks? did she have warning, particularly about targets? she told investigators she knew he was thinking about some kind of jihadist attack and tried to stop him but didn't know where and investigators are looking at whether she knew enough that she should have come forward to keep this from going. >> they haven't made the determination about whether or not she knew specific targets? >> reporter: they do not. but they do know she went to potential tarets wigets with hi. >> she went to pulse. >> she went to pulse and she went to disney. the question is did she know if he was scouting out that target. >> and they found his phone. >> they did, phone in the club, dell computer and other digital images as well. they found he downloaded and watched jihadist videos, and beheading videos, and videos of the american cleric killed in the u.s. drone strike, this classic path of being radicalized online. the key about the phone, it was covered in blood and considered a biohazard. >> do they know if they'll be able to get that information? >> that we don't know. it was a samsung phone and apple phones are harder to crack. >> we know there were 911 calls. i talked to a witness who was outside about an hour before the shooting began, saw him outside the club with the phone in his hand. it's very possible if there was somebody else involved -- are investigators still looking at that as a possibility? >> absolutely. they have not closed out any of these paths. the wife we know is a target of investigation, but we know they're continuing to look at others to see if they had any sort of support network for him. that's a standard thing they do. they did it after paris and after belgium. to our knowledge they haven't discovered an accomplice in that category. to be clear about the wife, they don't believe she's an accomplice as they say. the question is was it a sin of omission. did she know something and not report it. >> jim sciutto, thank you. in the middle of the chaos, there were stories of people helping others. one of them was jeanette mccoy. she was at the club with friends. she tied her shirt around one of her friend's leg to try to stop the bleeding after he was shot. another friend shot was named angel. jeanette wrote on facebook that she's only alive because as they were trying to escape, her friend angel was behind her. >> the last girl i was talking to, out of nowhere we just hear a big shotgun. we stop what we're doing and then it just keeps going. that happened and we just grabbed each other, we started running. and, unfortunately, i was shot about three times in my leg. so i had fallen down. i tried to get back up but everyone started running everywhere. i got trampled over and i shattered and broke my bones on my left leg. >> joining me now are survivors jeanette mccoy and evans carnoy. when did you realize something was happening at the club? >> right after i turned from angel. i was facing where the bartender was and the shots were automatic. it was just the sound of it, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, back to back. and i turned to my side and there's a young female next to me and she gets shot -- >> you saw that? >> yes. so automatically i'm ducking and trying to turn and then angel pushes me because right there there's nothing but chaos and at that time it's just i'm feeling so many bullets just flying by so fast, there's glass everywhere and i start turning to my right and start heading towards the patio because i know there's the outside is that way and i just needed to go outside and we fall to the ground and as i'm trying to get up, the sound of bullets passing me, i was bracing to pretty much get hit. i just told myself if i get hit, i just want to be able to run. and i was hoping to get hit in an area that i was going to be okay. and i finally run out, i lose evans, i lose everybody, my brother, my friend jillian and i'm out, i finally make it out and i run all the way across and i go to the front part of the entrance because i was infuriated with all the shots and the cops just weren't going in and i was screaming at the cops -- i was telling them, i had video and i was cursing for them to enter the building. i didn't feel it was necessary for somebody to have that many shots. i already felt by then there was already a hundred rounds already shot. >> evans, were you inside when you got separated? >> yes, i was leaning against the ball by the bar area where her friend juan was actually working. i just happened to lean against the wall and i was watching them have a good time, sidelining as you'd say. when i shots went off, i knew automatically what it was. i just about faced and there ended up being a room behind me, a storage room by the bar. i bust through there and four or five people bust in behind me. i put my body against the door because i was worried that the shooter might come in the room. that's when i kind of cracked the door and peeked out and i saw him shooting. >> you actually saw him shooting? >> yeah. i mean, not hitting people but i saw him shooting. >> i've heard him described as calm. how did he seem to you? >> it was normal. he was literally just standing there and letting it go. from the barrel, i could see the fire, the spark, whatever you say. and that's when i closed the door and i said my god, my god and they could notice the fear. and that's when we noticed the ladder and we climbed the ladder and that's how we got out of there. >> what do you want people to think about? there's so much focus on who did this instead of who lost their lives. >> you know, there's so many mixed emotions from anger to sorrow. to me it was the people in there bleeding to death. the question of why, why am i here and why they're not. >> you think about that a lot still? >> it plays in my head every day. >> you took off your shirt to make a tourniquet to save others? >> yeah. once i realized i didn't have any gunshot wounds, i automatically -- it was human nature to just go and help. i actually found juan, the bartender that i was in front of, and he was shot in his right quad. somebody must have wrapped something but he was still bleeding and i automatically just took my shirt off and wrapped -- >> we see new the video with juan. >> yeah, that's me. i started to help other individuals. there was a young lady shot in her arm and was going into shock and i was speaking to her in a calm voice and told her she was going to be okay and we started to put pressure on her arm. i told her to relax and she was going to be okay. they didn't hit any major arteries. i didn't get home until 6:00 in the morning because i had to make sure that i was there for my people, for our community and it was already hurtful that i knew that my people were in there already suffering. >> this has brought people together in an extraordinary way, the outpouring last night here, there was a vigil in new york. i feel like it's sort of an extraordinary time here in the midst of this horror and tragedy of people that come together. >> and it's people of all. i bring my straight friend to the club with me. i said i just want to smile and have a good time and just be among my latin people. >> it's important to point out not everybody that goes to a gay club is gay. >> exactly. i brought my straight brother. it was just a time for us to have a good time. that's what we go to pulse for. you doesn't see that in the gay scene, some type of shoot-out. you don't see that. it's not common. >> and in gay bars, there's very few fights. in other bars you'll see fights with alcohol involved. for so many gay people and their friends, it's a safe space. they can express emotion and affection in a way they can't on the street normally. >> we're human. we can represent our gay flag but we all bleed the same and we're all human. there was a bunch of humans in there. my thing is how long are we going to come together as a community? it shouldn't take tragic events like this for us to come together. that's the disappointing part. how can we come together as a community, as a town, as a country, as a nation, what is it we're going to be pro active about in that area? >> thank you so much. i'm so sorry for yours loss. thank you very much. we're going to have a lot more ahead over this next hour. coming up, another story of survival. a young, her name is patience, she wrote an incredible poem about surviving when others did not. and we remember amanda, a nursing student. the moment gunfire rang out, she and her friend didn't make it out that night. her brother shares his memories ahead. the other guys can't say that! we got you covered. 80% of recurrent ischemic, strokes could be prevented. and i'm doing all i can to help prevent another one. a bayer aspirin regimen is one of those steps in helping prevent another stroke. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. been trying to prepare for this day... and i'm still not ready. the reason i'm telling you this is that there will be moments in your life that... you'll never be ready for. your little girl getting married being one of them. ♪ ♪ think yotry nexium 24hr.'s best for your heartburn? 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i mean, we all react to grief differently. there are a lot of people who are a lot more composed than i'm able to be. >> yeah, i don't think i could do it, when i see some of these parents talking about their children. i think part of it is a sense of empowerment. you feel so -- you've lost all control. >> and they want people to know about their loved ones. when somebody dies violently, you don't want to just remember how their life ended, you want them to know how they lived their life. >> and with survivor's guilt, part of it is also honoring the people who died. you have such self-preservation when you're being targeted like this, you want to save your own life but then you start to think about it, reflect, could i have done more to save other people's lives as well? doctors and nurses, they've been describing how they behaved when the patients came in. one of the doctors spoke quite a lot about this. take a listen. >> our first patient was relatively stable, awake and talking to us, and we thought maybe they're all going to be like this and that would be great. and then we quickly got two or three more that were very critical in nature. we quickly got about five patients and that was a lot for us and we thought maybe that was going to be it and then they started lining up in the hallway. they weren't being brought in by ambulances. there was no paramedics coming in and giving us report and dropping them off. they were being dropped off in truckloads and in ambulance loads where our amazing nurses and techs were putting them on stretchers and rolling them in to us and telling us that another patient's here, another patient's here, another patient's here. and quickly our trauma bay came quickly to capacity and we had to move people out. >> you know, beside the words that she's saying, you can hear a little bit of that cathartic nature as well getting some of this out here. anderson, they were bringing patients in in pickup trucks. you can typically get advance notice -- >> so can you triage. >> triage and so cuff get an --n get an idea of what the injuries are. we saw this during wartime. it's a lot of how they get through this psychologically. >> for many of these doctors, they've obviously -- unless they had military training, they've probably never seen anything like this at this level. >> and the number of wounds, the multiple gunshot wounds. the bullets, the way they behave when they get in the body, they tumble and all of a sudden, the patient may look okay, blood pressure is okay and five minutes later they're completely unstable. so it's a lot of monitoring, a lot of diligence they have to spend. >> i appreciate you've had such great access. thank you for sharing it with us. >> amanda posted a snapchat video right when the gunfire started. it's the last images her family has of her. they also learned about her brave actions before she died when we continue from orlando. wanna drink more water? 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>> he wasn't saying anything. he was shot twice through the abdomen. through and through. so what happened when the bay door went up, we immediately helped and carried him in there and laid him down on the bay floor right next to engine and the medics went to work on him and immediately began to stabilize and triage him and we had another victim come in with a shot through the wrist, another shot through the leg. the walking wounded, we can bandage those up and stabilize them rather easily, but the man who was shot through the abdomen twice was a priority. so he was really patient number one for the orlando fire department's response. >> reporter: did he make it? >> i have no idea. i have no idea. i don't know who he was. i don't know other than the fact that when we got a rescue down here to transport him, we loaded him into the back and it was a hot scene and off he went to the hospital. >> just imagine the fog of it all. roughly 25 people they treated, whether it was at the fire station or across the street from pulse nightclub is a bagel shot. that quickly became another triage situation. keep in mind, this lieutenant has been a firefighter for 35 years. never would you train for a scene like this. he told me about the text he sent to his wife, he has children, he's a dad. and working in the wee hours of the morning, he texted "don't let the kid turn on the tv." i said what is the one thing when you close your eyes at night that you think of? and he said, the courage, the heroism. >> brooke, thank you for doing that. >> and text messages, phone calls to loved ones and on video. this is snapchat. snapchat video, she was at pulse with friends. they look like they're having fun and then gunshots you hear ring out. she looks confused and the video end. amanda didn't make it out alive, a nursing student who tried to help others even in the final moments of her life. gary tuchman talked to her brother today. >> brian was the first of three children. he lost his younger brother nelson to cancer years ago. his younger sister, amanda, went to the pulse nightclub on saturday night. >> if there's one person on earth that i thought could take a couple shots and survive just to spite the shooter, it was amanda. >> reporter: but amanda was killed. >> a parent should never have to bury one child, not two. it's unfathomable she should have to go through this again. she's the sweetest person ever. >> reporter: they got a call that amanda had gone to the pulse and feared the worst when they got no answer. they saw the snapchat videos from the club showing people dancing and having fun. but there was one last video in which the first gunshots are heard. amanda with a confused and concerned look on her face, and those are the laimast images of amanda's life they'll ever see. >> so when you saw this snapcat video of your sister, tell me how it made you feel. >> i mean, fear for my sister. you feel a sense of helplessness. you want to jump in the television and be with her but you can't. >> mercedes flores, her best friend, was also killed. amanda tried to save mercedes' life. brian and his parents were told that by another friend, a woman who survived the attack. >> the shooting started, she grabbed amanda's hand, they bolted towards the door, amanda turned around and said mercedes was missing so she was going to go back and get mercedes and they said okay and they split up and that was the last they saw her. >> she did something so brave that she went to look for her friend instead of leaving. i'm wondering if that gives you comfort right now. >> it does. i mean, that's what anyone in our family would have done. that's how we are. that's how my parents raised us. if i was there with my best friend, i'd like to think i'd do the same thing and i would. and i'm glad that my sister did. >> it's amanda alvear. i can't imagine how the parents are coping. >> reporter: they're such a nice family. i talked to the father for a little while. he wasn't ready to go on camera yet. he said it's an absolute nightmare he's going through this with a second child. brian wanted to go on camera and wanted to be strong for his sister and talk about how wonderful she was. brian happens to work at a dance club and he's a k.j. do you know what a k.j. is? >> no. we're old. >> it's a karaoke deejay. financially it's so difficult. the family set up a go fund me page and so far a lot of very generous people have sent them some money but it's a very difficult situation. >> it's on the screen right there. >> we have it on the screen right there. >> up next, donald trump facing a lot of criticism from hillary clinton and from president obama over his response to the orlando tragedy. what trump had to say about it is coming up in a moment. we're also going to bring you all that we know about all of the victims. we want you to see their images, to see their photos and to learn their names. that's going to be at the end of the broadcast coming up in a few moments. let's do more. add one a day women's 50+ complete multivitamin. with vitamin d and calcium to help support bone health. one a day. you recommend synthetic and can yover cedar?to me why "super food"? is that a real thing? it's a great school, but is it the right the one for her? is this really any better than the one you got last year? 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the orlando killer, one of the san bernardino killers, the fort hood killer, they were all u.s. citizens. are we going to start treating all muslim americans differently? are we going to start subjecting them to special surveillance? are we going to start discriminating against them because of their faith? >> well, mr. trump held a rally in north carolina in the last hour, did not hold back again. sarah marie is there, joins us now. so has trump responded to president obama's comments today? >> reporter: anderson, trump came out tonight ready to hit back. he suggested that president obama's anger was misdirected, saying he felt obama should have been angrier at the shooter of the orlando massacre rather than focusing his anger at donald trump. >> and i watched president obama today, and he was more angry at me than he was at the shooter. and many people said that. one of the folks on television said, boy, has trump gotten under his skin, but he was more angry -- and a lot of people have said this -- the level of anger, that's the kind of anger he should have for the shooter and these killers that shouldn't be here. >> reporter: now, anderson, this sort of follows in the same vein of what we've been hearing from donald trump earlier this week, him suggesting that maybe president obama even sympathized with muslim extremists, holding out these possible vague notions and declining to clarify what he meant. he seems to be following in those same steps tonight, anderson. >> and hillary clinton spoke out against donald trump tonight? >> reporter: that's right. it was kind of a united effort. we saw the sharpest rebuke yet by hillary clinton against a donald trump presidency, her essentially laying out the case she believes he is unfit for the white house and she took an opportunity to take a jab on his history on tv saying the presidency is a much more real thing. >> it was one thing when he was on reality television, raising his arm and say, "you're fired." it's another thing when he's the republican party presumptive nominee for president. americans, we don't need conspiracy theories and pathological self-congratulations. we need leadership, common sense and concrete plans because we are facing a brutal enemy. >> reporter: now, anderson, i think this is the kind of attack you're going to continue to see from clinton and her allies, this notion that while donald trump may be entertaining on the campaign trail that the things he says, the policies he prose posing would actually be dangerous if he were president. we'll see have it goes from here. we have to take a quick break. >> coming up, i'll speak with a member of the orlando city commission in just a moment and we'll continue to remember more of those whose lives have been lost. ♪ ♪ wannwith sodastreamter? 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>> oh, no, this has made us one community in orlando strong, that's the haitian community, the gay community, the black community, the homeless community. i've had homeless people come out the corner and say what can we do. i heard a young lady say last night, what good can come of this? nothing. she's true with that. but he also stated what can we do that make the situation good and that's what i see the community and businesses doing. >> commissioner, thank you so much. appreciate all you're doing. right now we want to show you another makeshift memorial that has sprung up outside. juan and his partner luis were together for 14 years. we remember them and the names and the faces of all the lives taken away too soon. that coming up next. please stick around for a look back at all those we now know have lost their lives. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. now i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. we're here with bud light party super delegate michael pena to talk about diversity. america is a nation of immigrants. we're a schmorgasbord of cultures. a korean taco of togetherness. an everything bagel of unity, each one of us a different seed. that was beautiful, amy. i thought it was also nice, yeah. yeah. we're a poutine of harmony. a gumbo of coexistance. we're a never ending, bottomless, all inclusive, super... buffet of... i can't do any more metaphors. ya know, alright. cheers cheers. i'm full. callinall providers.rs. all self-motivated self-starters. drive with uber and put a dollar sign in front of your odometer. like this guy. technically i'm a cook. sign up here. drive a few hours a day. make $300 a week. actually it's a little bit more than that. that's extra buy-you-stuff money. or buy-them-stuff money. calling all early risers, nine-to-fivers and night owls. with uber-a little drive goes a long way. start earning this week. go to uber.com/drivenow well, after our broadcast last night a friend of mine sent me a text about the role call of those who died here that we read out on our broadcast last night. we knew all those boidz, andy said. i haven't been able to get that thought out of my head. he's right, of course. we knew all those boys and girls, those men and women and i think many gay and lesbian americans feel the same way right now. we knew those who lost their lives because those killed at pulse were no different than any of us. nothing separates us from them. as gay people, we share strands of a common bond and no matter where we were born -- or how we grew up or what we do for a living, we share those strands of a bond. if this killer hoped to set us backwards, to make us live in fear, i think he's made a sickening mistake. just as concert goers returned in paris and diners once again fill the cafes in that great city, the survivors and the orlando attack and gay and lesbians across this country will continue to stand up and continue to express love and show the world they and we are not afraid. it is, i think, one of many things we owe all those who are nothing longer here. we have photos of all 49 victims of the shootings. we want to leave you this hour with each of the photos and with each of their name. we wish their families aendz friends and partners and spouses and all the people that lived and loved them and all the lives they touched, we wish them peace and streng njt days to come. the song you're about to hear is the orlando gay men's chorus -- excuse me, the orlando gay chorus performing "you'll never walk alone" at a vigil here last night in orlando. ♪ walk through a storm keep your head up high ♪ ♪ and don't be afraid of the dark ♪ ♪ at the end of the storm is the golden sky ♪ ♪ and the sweet silver song of the lord ♪ ♪ walk on through the wind walk on through the rain ♪ ♪ walk on walk on ♪ ♪ with hope in your heart and you'll never walk alone ♪ ♪ you'll never walk alone ♪ when you walk through a storm keep your head up high ♪ ♪ and don't be afraid of the dark ♪ ♪ at the end of the storm is a golden sky ♪ ♪ and the sweet silver song of our life ♪ ♪ walk on through the wind walk on through the rain ♪ ♪ let your dreams be blown ♪ walk on walk on with hope in your heart ♪ ♪ and you'll never walk alone ♪ you'll never walk alone alone ♪ >> we will remember them. that was a phrase yelled out or spoken out at the vigil in the wake of the shootings in aurora, colorado, at the names each of the dead was read out. the crowd said, we will remember them. i leave you with that tonight. we will remember them. cnn with don lemon starts right now. >> this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. anderson is with me now. i want to talk you to today. you've been going around. we've been on so many of the terrible stories. i've been noticing the hero nix this community and in spite of such tragedy. what is your take away from this so far? >> you talk to -- we've talked to so many people who survived the attack who hid in a handicap stall in the bathroom with
of now that this attack was directed about i a specific overseas terrorist group, the terrorist was known by the fbi and had been interviewed three times about possible terror connections. we are now learning that authorities continue to investigate whether others may have been involved in planning or helping to carry out this deadly carnage. we have a team of correspondents and analysts covering every angle of the story, a closer look inside the law enforcement response and questioning whether anything could have been done ahead of time to prevent the massacre. let's start with cnn justice correspondent pamela brown who joins me now live from outside pulse, the nightclub in orlando in question. pamela, the terrorists spoke with police multiple times during this three-hour-long standoff. what did he say to them? >> reporter: that's right. he was negotiating with the police officers. he called 911. in fact, there were three calls with the 911 operator and in those calls he made some seemingly contradictory statements. he said he supported isis but at the same time supported isis' enemy, al nusra front and talked about a terrorist that he went to the same mosque as him. all of this was going on during the shootout. new video posted by a victim inside the nightclub, the moment the shooter opened fire. >> i'm at the club. >> just after 2:00 a.m. sunday morning as pulse nightclub readies for closing, omar mateen sprays a barrage of bullets into a crowd of more than 300 people. [ gunfire ] witnesses believed the initial gunfire is part of the music. >> i was just dancing to music and you hear bang, bang. you just think it's the music, like it's the bass but really it's not even -- i don't know, 150 feet in front of you. literally, there's people being shot down. >> what we thought was gunshots as part of the music, four shots, but for some reason it was different. >> reporter: an off-duty police officer engages in a gun battle firing several rounds at the shooter. additional officers respond and get into another fire fight with the gunman. forcing him to retreat to the bathroom where officials say he held several hostages. around 2:30 a.m., the gunman calls 911 from the bathroom pledging allegiance to isis, subpoena board for hezbollah and al nusra and abusalha, a suicide bomber who killed himself in syria. >> he called, hung up, called again, spoke briefly with a dispatcher, he hung up, and then the dispatcher called him back again and they spoke briefly. so there were three total calls. >> cool and calm when he was makes those phone calls to us. >> reporter: at 5:00 a.m., a s.w.a.t. team breaks through the wall of a different bathroom rescuing dozens more people. >> there was a breach. that was a breach. >> reporter: the gunman emerged from the same hole in the wall firing on officers with a handgun and a long gun. he is killed in the battle. >> all i saw was cops coming in, people rushing out and you could just hear the guns going off. that's all you heard was bang, bang, bang. >> reporter: today, fbi director james comey said he looked into the ties with the american suicide bomber abusalha adding confusion to investigators about the motivation behind the attack. >> there are strong indications of radicalization by this killer and a potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations. >> reporter: authorities continue to sift through every aspect of the shooter's live looking for any connections he may have had to terror groups. >> at this stage, we see no clear evidence that he was directed externally. also, no direct evidence that he was part of a larger plot. >> our thanks to pamela brown for that report. now let's join a press conference in progress. this is the owner of the st. lucie center from where he got his firearms. >> have been following some of it on the news. i wish them all the best. i personally worked down at the twin towers and retired in march of '02 and also was a first responder on flight 587. i have an idea of what they are facing in this investigation and it's horrific. so my feelings go out to the law enforcement people as well. i would like to avoid any political issues and stick to the facts regarding this case. an evil person came in here and legally purchased two firearms from us. and if he hadn't purchased them from us, i'm sure he would have gotten them from another local gun store in the area. this man held multiple security licenses. he had an armed and unarmed license. he passed the background check that every single person that purchases a firearm in the state of florida undergoes. let me say that again. a full background check was performed by florida department of law enforcement in coordination with their agreement with the fbi, however they conduct their background. there is no such thing as an abbreviated background check even though that's what has been wrongly reported. on another note, lee tell you this for those who don't know, if a law enforcement officer walks into this gun store and purchase as firearm, if that officer has a concealed carry permit in addition to his credentials, he can make a purchase. there is a full background check done on that officer at that time. hard to believe but that's the truth. if the officer has no concealed carry permit, that officer has a three-day wait and that doesn't include the day he purchased the gun or any holidays and weekends. i have no information regarding where this evil person took the security class so i can't really discuss that with you. i can tell you and recommend you to call the florida department of agriculture division of licensing. they are responsible for any security licenses being issued as well as the concealed carry permit in the state of florida. there have been a couple questions directed to me regarding whether this evil person bought body armor here. number one, he's familiar to me vaguely. i don't know him personally. he's been here, obviously he purchased two guns legally. i have no recollection of anybody asking for body armor, number one. number two, we've never sold body armor and we currently don't sell it. any other questions, i don't know what i can tell you. i hope you do some truthful reporting and get to the facts and stay focused at least and say your prayers for the victims. it was horrific. we all feel the same thing. >> did he purchase the long gun and handgun at the same time? >> i really don't want to answer questions, but he did not buy the handgun and the long gun at the same time. it was approximately a week apart. it's a quick identification, florida resident. as long as you clear the background check, you can leave with that long gun. a handgun, as i said earlier, is a three-day wait. palm beach county is a five-day wait. it's called a cooling off period. i don't know anything else on this case. unfortunately, he's evil, we happened to be the gun store he picked and there's nothing else i can say. >> he said that he had been to your shop and -- >> obviously he's been to the shop and i don't want to get into too many questions and debates but he's been here. if a customer saw him and came in here, god bless him. i've seen him. i can't tell you i know him. i'd be lying to you. he's a customer. he made a purchase and it's horrible. i'm just sorry he picked my place. i wish he picked no place. >> do you know when he bought the gun, roughly? >> i believe it was a week or ten days, something like that in the timespan before it happened. >> he had to wait the two weeks? >> yes. and sometimes you have a conceal carry permit. even though you have it, there still has to be a background check done regardless and they can also deny you or give you a conditional hold and say, well, there's an issue there. and that has nothing to do with us. we follow the rules. we don't make the rules. and i'm sorry you're frustrated. i don't have any more answers for you. >> [ inaudible ]? >> no. that's the thing. i don't know. we do a very big business here. like i said, we're a security training facility. we do civilian stuff and all and that's all i can tell you. >> when was the [ inaudible ]? >> i don't know the date. it was well over the three-day period or whatever. >> does the atf ask to -- >> we're going to break away from the press conference there. that's the owner of the st. lucie shooting center, ed henson, explaining how he complied with florida and federal law while selling firearms to the terrorist. let's go to drew griffin who is outside the terrorist's home in ft. pierce, florida. drew, what more are you learning about the terrorist and about his family? >> reporter: we're digging more and more into his personal past and learning that possible warning signs developed many years ago, as far back as 2007 when we have now learned he was trying to become a corrections officer. in 2007, the shooter here in the back row wearing a baseball cap was attending indian state river law enforcement academy when something went wrong. a former administrator says the suspect was removed from the course and fellow students tell cnn they were told he was expelled. at the same time, cnn has learned that the shooter was fired from his job at the florida state department of corrections. what took place that would cause the suspect to be expelled from school and fired from his job? school officials refuse to say, referring cnn to the fbi. one thing we do know, before he left this school, the shooter learned how to shoot. spending a month in both a classroom and out on the range. instead of becoming a police officer, the orlando shooter got a security guard license which allowed him to carry a weapon. he worked security at various private and public buildings, including the st. lucie county courthouse where the fbi confirmed in 2013 he suddenly became a target of a homeland security investigation. >> he made some statements that were inflammatory and contradictory that concerned his co-workers about terrorism. he said he hoped that law enforcement would raid his apartment and assault his wife and child so that he could martyr himself. after ten months of investigation, we closed the preliminary investigation. >> just two months after that, jake, he appeared on the radar again with the fbi. this time, because of something else that happened in syria. an american-born suicide bomber who blew himself up in syria, cnn confirmed earlier today, had attended the very same small mosque that this orlando shooter was attending right here in this town in ft. pierce, florida. the fbi investigated and, once again, cleared him finding no real true connection that would keep that investigation opened. jake? 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(vo) call 844-4-brightstar for your free home care planning guide. welcome back to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. it's almost exactly a day and a half since the deadly terrorist attack on a gay club in orlando. let's go to dianne feinstein of california, the vice chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee. thank you for being here. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome, jake. >> so you have been briefed. what's the latest that you can tell us on this investigation and what we now know about this terrorist? >> well, what i can tell you is that the fbi has been going through his cell phone, computer and has thus far found nothing that relates him to any other kind of activity or communication. so we'll have to wait and see until that's over. i don't believe there's been any kind of an intelligence failure connected with this. i think, in my mind, what it points out is the enormous unpredictability of exactly who is going to be stigmatized and moved to this kind of jihadism. and here's a young man who had a good job, who held it for nine years, who i gather was able to keep that job for nine years and yet who went off the track with the hostility that's really beyond anything i've seen in terms of the numbers of people he killed. >> so i hear you saying that there's not been an intelligence failure and obviously the only person responsible for this horrific act is the terrorist himself. but just asking the question, he was known to the fbi. he had been interviewed in 2013 and in 2014 about possible terror ties. he was flagged then as a possible isis sympathizer. if that's not an intelligence failure, what is it? should they have been following up more, should they have been paying more attention? what do you think? >> well, as you know, the fbi interviewed him on two occasions over different years and found nothing there and ended the investigation. during the investigation, he was put, as i understand it, on the terrorist watch list. when the investigation ended, he went off the list. i think we have to take a look at that. i also believe and i happen to be the main author of a piece of legislation that was written actually by the bush justice department that provides criteria for the attorney general to prohibit the transfer of a weapon to certain people and i think that that bill, it's called no guns for terrorists. it should be passed. it's just terrible that we -- terrorists could buy a gun in this country and they are not on any kind of watch list. it's easy to go through a background check, at least 91% of the people who have been tested by background checks have gone through them. but i think this bill would be very, very helpful and if you want to know what it says, i'd be happy to tell you. but essentially, it gives certain criteria that the attorney general has the discretion to prohibit sale of a weapon and put that individual on a terrorist watch list. >> but as far as we know, senator, and obviously i wish we could go back in time and stop this man from doing what he did. >> oh, so do i. >> but as far as we know, he didn't have a criminal record. he had never committed a terrorist act. he may have been a terrorist sympathizer but the fbi ultimately decided that he wasn't enough of one to keep an eye on him. so would your law have even affected this case? >> well, it would have certainly given the attorney general the authority to keep him on the watch list. that's all i can say, that if he or she -- in this case, she -- felt that there were enough information from those two investigations to fulfill the criteria in this bill. and i believe there is a very good likelihood that she would have put him back on the watch list. and that would have prevented him from buying a gun in this country. >> all right. senator dianne feinstein, thank you so much. appreciate your time as always. >> thank you, jake. >> the orlando terrorist told co-workers he wanted to be a martyr before he was put on the fbi watch list. did the fbi 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situation quickly started developing in the main room. this club is essentially three different areas, dance floor and bar over here, dance floor, main stage and here and then a patio bar over here. the shooting seems to have started in this area and then, according to authorities, at some point he tried to come back outside and there was a gun battle that broke out between an officer who was on the scene who was working security there and two others who showed up and he went back into the club and then all indications are that he basically got pushed by the pressure of the officers up this way. so by 2:17 or so, we know that people were already pushed up into this area with him and we know that he seems to have hunkered down in this bathroom and dressing room. a lot of people fled trying to get out these ways. but somewhere up in here is where he was. it looks like it was probably this bathroom because we know, then, after that long standoff, those phone calls you talked about, maybe even some communication with officers inside the building at that time, according to police, they finally hit this outside wall here. when we talk about them attacking from the outside, there were two explosives set off and then they hit that outside wall. that's what this is, where they hit the ball with this bearcat device, a large armor personnel carrier smashing holes in the wall. and that's why it looks like the center bathroom. if you look over here, you can see all of the bullet holes in this wall, particularly around this big hole suggesting this is where he tried to come out of the wall and was finally shot down by the police three hours into it. so it gives you a little lay of the land, jake, and you can tell with all of the noise inside there, the darkness and everything else, why it was such a chaotic atmosphere and so hard for people to find the exits and get out in that chaos. >> tom foreman, thanks. let's take a deeper look into the past investigations into the terrorism in the area that involved the orlando terrorist. did the fbi miss any critical clues that could have possibly prevented the deaths of 49 people in the sunday morning massacre? let's bring in cnn's evan perez. as i understand it, the orlando terrorist admitted to the fbi that he made several terrorists or terror-related comments to co-workers, that his family had connections to al qaeda, claimed he was a member of hezbollah and that he wanted to be a martyr. at what point does the fbi hear this and say, something is wrong with this guy? we've got to keep our eye on him forever? >> that's the question that everybody is asking. there's no real textbook way to do this. the fbi says they investigated the shooter for ten months in that case, jake. during that time, he was added to a watch list which would have prompted them to ask questions if he tried to travel. but the fbi closed the case after finding not much to go on and the shooter was removed from the watch list. now, here's fbi director james comey describing the steps that they took. >> our investigation involved introducing confidential sources to him, recording conversations with him, following him, reviewing transactional records from his communications and searching all government holdings for any possible connections, any possible derogatory information. >> there was a second investigation that prompted the fbi to take another look at the orlando shooter and this time it was because he attended the same mosque as someone who was a suicide bomber in syria. he thinks that the fbi was thorough in what he did. >> he also said that the fbi does more investigations like this than you think. it's fairly often. does that mean that there are others out there who could be ticking time bombs just like this terrorist? >> that's exactly true. this is routine for the fbi and the fact is that the fbi comes under a lot of criticism from the other end, jake. they do dozens of sting operations that they use to arrest 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know. what we don't know is what situational awareness that they had at the time that they decided to wait. if you're a terrorism expert, they often don't work alone and don't know if he had a detonator or debt nation device that would have killed 200 people. so all of these will become known over time and i'm confident that we will have an understanding. but right now, you know, they saved a lot of lives and that's sort of where i'm focused on right now. >> okay. fair enough. phil, the fbi had interviewed and they could not predict if he could do something like this. apparently one of these was a sting operation and he could not take the bait. do you find any of this troubling? >> no, i don't. you have to take this from a different direction. you're taking this from the individual and saying, could we have done more? you're dealing with hundreds or thousands of cases annually. some of those cases are much higher profile. for example, attempted communication with isis, people returning from the battlefield in syria, people attempting to travel to turkey. this guy was saying things that were suspicious at work. he didn't appear to have co-conspirators. if you put him in that big hopper, jake, with all of the other cases, i think you can get a sense of how the fbi prioritizes had and puts him down on the list. >> harry, listen to something that hillary clinton said in response to the attack. >> the fbi is watching you for a suspected terrorist link. you shouldn't be able to just go buy a gun with no questions asked. >> what do you think about that policy if somebody is on the terror watch list or no fly list, should they be prohibited from purchasing a firearm? >> heck yes. i mean, i applaud that speech that she gave and i'm not a hillary fan. i thought her speech was very good. shouldn't be any reason why. and the 2013 investigation, this guy admitted he wanted to be a jihadi. the fbi knew that but they conducted a background investigation on this guy and came up with nothing. all right. that's our laws. there's nothing we can do here. in other words, he probably could not be put on any kind of a list at that time. now, senator feinstein said that there was a bill that she's trying to get passed in congress regarding this. this is something that we need to take a look at. there's no reason why somebody could have been investigated by the fbi for possible terrorism that made statements like that should be able to be put on a no fly, no gun buy list to protect the american people. >> very interesting. and for those who are not familiar with former detective houck, he's not a bleeding heart liberal, i'd like to point out, in terms of that opinion. when the terrorists spoke to police during the siege, he pledged loyalty to isis. you're skeptical. why? >> i am. first of all, the investigators have talked about him having interest in a variety of groups, some of which are not only in competition, they are killing each other. it's not clear to me he understood the ideology of these groups. the second point, jake, is more significant. and that is, we think of isis as an ideology. i don't. i think of it not like al qaeda but like its own organization. it's an excuse. anybody who is angry with the west, with nightclubs, says i'm angry about something? who gives me the validation and justification to ask. i don't see this as a straightforward piece of terrorism like we would have seen with al qaeda. >> all right. phil, harry, juliette, thank you. presidential candidates weighing in on the terrorist attacks. hillary clinton using the term radical islam for the first time that we know of. this, while donald trump implies something sinister and quite nefarious about president obama. that story, next. nding new ways to be taken care of. home, car, life insurance obviously, ohhh... but with added touches you can't get everywhere else, like claim free rewards... or safe driving bonus checks. even a claim satisfaction guaranteeeeeeeeeee! in 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cnn's sara murray who is in manchester, new hampshire. clinton made only illusions to donald trump but he took her on repeatedly. >> absolutely, jake. hillary clinton said this was not a day for politics but donald trump had something else in mind entirely. he went after hillary clinton and barack obama, all as he tried to cast himself as the toughest candidate to fight terror. in the wake of the orlando massacre, they are putting their foreign relations credentials on display. >> the orlando terrorist may be dead but the virus who poisoned his mind remains very much alive. >> reporter: and adopting starkly different tones. >> i refuse to be politically correct. the days of deadly ignorance will end. >> reporter: while clinton lays out a multifaceted plan to act against terrorists who act alone -- >> as president, i will make identifying and stopping lone wolves a top priority. >> reporter: and promises tighter gun control. >> i believe weapons of war have no place on our streets. >> reporter: trump is positioning himself as tough on terror, renewing his call to ban muslims for migrating to the u.s., even though the orlando shooter was a u.s. citizen born in new york. >> when i'm elected, i will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the united states. >> reporter: and claiming that syrian refugees are pouring into the u.s. >> we have to stop people from coming in from syria. we're taking them in by the thousands. >> reporter: in fact, less than 4,000 syrians have been admitted this year. president obama has called for recalling 10,000 by the end of this year. today, clinton is arguing trump's approach will cause more harm than good. >> inflammatory, anti-muslim rhetoric and threatening to ban the families and friends of muslim-americans as well as millions of muslim business people and tourists from entering our country hurts the vast majority of muslims who love freedom and hate terror. >> reporter: the presumptive democratic nominee dismissing one of trump's loudest criticisms, that she won't utter the words radical islamic terrorism. >> hillary clinton for months and despite so many attacks repeatedly refused to even say the words radical islam. >> reporter: saying she's more focused on solutions than semantics. >> what do you call a radical jihadism, radical islamism, i think they mean the same. i'm happy to say either. >> we're led by a man that is either not tough, not smart or has got something else in mind. >> reporter: now, "the washington post" is one of the news outlets that suggested that the president may know more about these terrorists attacks, things like the shooter in orlando and trump said he did not appreciate that coverage very much. he took to facebook today to say he plans on revoking "the washington post" credentials and pulling the credentials of reporters an alarming one from the pro sprek tif of those that cover it. >> that sound bite that you heard from mr. trump, he's been very critical of president obama for on the using the term radical islamic terrorism and that criticism is certainly within the bounds of modern politics. but this morning on "fox & friends," mr. trump also said the following about the president. >> he doesn't get it or he gets it better than anybody understands. it's one or the other and either one is unacceptable. >> he gets it better than anybody understands. later in the interview, mr. trump elaborated. >> we're led by a man that either is -- is -- is not tough, not smart or he's got something else in mind and the something else in mind, you know, people can't believe it. people cannot -- they cannot believe that president obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words radical islamic terrorism. there's something going on. it's inconceivable. >> i reached out to the trump campaign hours ago for clarification as to what specifically mr. trump was suggesting about the president. i have not yet heard 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"may i be excused?" get the new xfinity tv app and for the first time ever stream live tv, watch on demand, and download your dvr shows anywhere. four heartbreaking words for any parent to hear from a child. i'm going to die. can you imagine? that's one of the last text messages a victim sent to his mom before he was brutally murdered in the orlando terrorist attack. we're also learning more about the other 48 innocent victims. one as young as 19 years old, slaughtered so senselessly at a gay nightclub. saturday night was going to be a night of friendship and fun for edward sotomayor jr. and 25-year-old amanda alvear capturing these moments on social media. they are just two of the 49 victims killed in the terrorist rampage. for survivors, horrifying recollections remain all too vivid. >> people were running and glasses were getting dropped and people were passing me. i'm getting covered in blood from other people. >> it went with the beat until you almost heard too many shots. it was like bang, bang, bang. >> 20, 30 people tried to push themselves through a cabinet looking door. >> louis escaped without every looking back. >> i didn't want to look back. that would be the last thing on my face and last memory i would have. that's not something i want to remember. >> reporter: club goers hid from the terrorist in restrooms and dressing rooms huddling together hoping to survive. >> he said he was going to die and he loved me. that's the last thing i heard. >> reporter: just after 2:00 a.m., she received these texts from her son eddie. mommy, i love you. in club. trapped in the bathroom. then the messages kept coming. he has us and he's in here with us and then -- i'm going to die. eddie's mother spoke to news crews as she waited outside for her son. >> i think something happened. i do. >> eddie justice did not make it out alive. the murdered range in ages from 19 to 50. retail workers, accountants, journalists, students, bright futures extinguished in a hate-filled terrorist attack. >> there are a lot of people taken away from their families. >> some club goers were lucky, shot but saved because of the fast work of others. >> on the way to the hospital, the officer had him lay on top of me and i had to bear hug him. >> nursing student josh mcgill helped a man with multiple gunshot wounds outside of the club telling him what he needed to hear to stay calm. >> i promise you, god's got this. you'll be okay and i was mainly scared. i was like, god, please, don't let me die. >> the promise to overcome lives on as well. >> we're standing up and we're fighting. that's all we can do. all we can do is fight. that's it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper. i turn you over now to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." ♪ happening now, breaking news, terror investigation. chilling new information about the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. we're learning more about the gunman, his victims and the horror that happened inside that orlando nightclub. missed signals. the fbi reveals that they investigated the killer and even placed him on terror watch lists. a former co-worker describes him as an angry, violent bigot. how defa how did he fall through the cracks? some victims reaching out to lo
disney springs at the walt disney resort. a "people" magazine source told us omar's wife said he did scout that area. it's still unclear whether that's true. however, disney world tells us they have increased skecurity. we're getting details from inside, those who survived and those who know those who did not. one of those killed, 25-year-old amanda alvear. it shows her having a good time and ends with her mouthing the word "shooting." >> i'm at the club. i'm at the club. >> that's hard to watch. a young life cut tragically short. another man, norman shot four times survive. he hid out in the bathroom. watch. >> reporter: when you were in the stall, what were you hearing? what did you see? >> inside the staal i saw everyone's face, genuine fear, just terrified. no one was doing a lot of talking. we were trying to be quiet so he wouldn't find us. outside you could just hear bullet after bullet after bullet after bullet just going off as it got closer and closer to our stall. >> did you hear this terrorist saying anything? >> he never spoke when i was there. he laugh when he was shooting inside of the stall. >> reporter: was he laughing a lot? >> it was like a laugh of like satisfaction like i'm getting done what i came here to do. it's imprinted in my head forever. >> reporter: how are you feeling? where were you shot? >> i was shot four times, twice on my side right here and then twice on the opposite side, and i'm just -- i'm in pain, i'm ready go home and relax and try to -- not forget but put it in the back of my head at least for a few hours. >> tonight there are also questions about how authorities handled the rampage given the three-hour window between the first shot and when the s.w.a.t. team actually rammed the building. busting out holes for the hostages to escape through. and then the terrorist escaped through one of those very holes, guns ablazing and part of what occurred was caught on video here. watch. we have a huge show lined up for you tonight starting with trace gallagher on what the terrorist's family is now saying. trace? >> megyn, his father says he does not believe he was rad kazzi kazzi callized. he has been widely quoted as saying god will punish those involved in homosexuality. but a short while ago he said while god says marriage is between a man and a woman, he has nothing against homosexuals. listen. >> it's a free country, freedom of choice. anyone lives the way they like, more than welcome. who am i to approve or disapprove. >> he talks about how great americans are but he speaks out against america and in favor of the taliban who he call, quote, our warrior brothers. when we questioned him about that, he reversed it calls the taliban the terrorists. and we asked him if he ever talked to his son about shari'a law. watch. >> that means you're to promote good behavior, serving people. that's why i'm out to say to the whole people that what my son did was the wrong act. >> clearly different story. and atz for the killer's first wife saying she left him because he beat her repeatedly, siddique mateen said she never came to him for help. noor zahi salman said omar had been scouting disney springs and now we're getting our first look inside the shooter's home, which appears normal. couches, tv, cartoon character, even a hello kittsy clock and a wall of family pictures. no signs of a tell tear terror and the hatred within. megyn? >> it's incredible to see as he took the lives of 49 others with families of their own. thank you. joining us judge andrew napolitano. what do you make of it, judge? >> the fbi put us into an am big was situation. we know he was employed by a security contractor, one of whose principle clients was the federal government of the united states and when they have that kind of relationship, they're required to perform certain background checks which at a minimum ask about contacts with the f bbi. so there was a breakdown. stated differently, had they communicated, it's extremely unlikely he would have been found suitable to have the licenses necessary to carry the military hardware that he brought into the building that night. >> and on top of that we know the authorities have been scouring his apartment looking at his electronics. i'm sure they're looking at his devices and anything else he had and now they're coming on the record and saying they're looking for other polices a acc and see if there are others. >> it's their civic duty to see if there are confederates. fit's derived from the constitution itself, i don't doubt for a moment that there are hundreds of fbi agents not far from where you are now looking for every tidbit and evidence piece of evidence they can to know about him. >> quick question. he had two wives, ex-wife and one he married. they say he had scouted other locations including this disney springs. could she be in trouble? i didn't hear that she went to authorities and told them about this prior to the event. >> she's certainly a person of interest the fbi would want to talk to. if you held this back, what else do you know? we need to know everything you know because we're putting the pieces of the puzzle together. >> judge, good to see you. >> thank you. we're also getting new information about omar mateen including those who knew him personally, including a high school teammate who was with him on september 11th, 2001, when they were in the ninth grade. he said omar mateen celebrated and lafd on that day. he joins me now along with co-worker dan gilroy. good to have you both with me here. thank you. dan, i want to ask you because you worked with him relatively recently. when did you work torkt? >> march 2014 to march 2015 approximately. >> in that time frame how often was it you heard him make bigoted remarks? >> any time i saw him. half hour, an hour to shift change, it was only him and i. he made horrible statements every time i saw him. >> did you go to the boss or how soon? >> it took me about eight months before i went to the boss. >> why? >> i wanted to make the job work, i wanted to keep the peace, i wanted to not be the troublemaker at work, and after realizing this gentleman had some serious issues, i went to the company. >> did they fire him? >> no. >> you quit. >> yes. >> why? >> because after four months of asking for a transfer to get away from him, they simply were dragging their feet and not complying and double talk. >> why do you think that is? >> they actually said it was for financial reasons, they didn't want to have to train two people. >> so when you heard the news, you were not surprised? >> no, not at all. >> robert, you knew omar mateen when you were in high school, ninth grandparents' day togetth. you heard the remarks he made on the day of attack. tell me what you heard. >> i rode the bus with him. when he got on the school bus, he would act like a plane, hold his arms out and make plane noises and when he got to his feet, he would make an explosion type of sound and fall into his seat. on that day he fell into his street and made screaming-type noises and laughing about it like it was a big joke. >> were there any religious referen references? >> on that day, not that i can remember, no. >> didn't mention allah or any of the terms that we've come to understand. >> not to me personally, no, i don't believe he mentioned allah or anything of that nature. not to me anyway. >> did you believe he -- did you believe he might have been a kid horsing around? did you think there was anything more to it? >> i thought so back then. yeah, i thought like maybe he was trying to gain friends or trying to make himself more popular maybe because he really didn't have a lot of friends in high school as far as i knew, but my friends and i kind of didn't really take it for granted. we kind of joked around like, man, this kid might grow up one day and be one of those people. that's why i was shocked find out it was somebody i knew but at the same time i wasn't because we spoke about this in high school. >> somebody else in your classroom said the same thing, said they made similar references. what happened to him? was this reported up the line? >> i don't really know -- i nojt know what happened. like i say, maybe he was trying to impress people, make people mad, but he definitely made my whole school bus mad. >> and i'll ask you as well whether you ever heard any religious references or whether it was all bigoted remarks or sexist remarks. >> our conversations weren't. but he'd brick a prayer mat and neil down and make gees turs and kiss and put on a hat. he did that for about ten minutes. he was a devout muslim. >> a devout muslim making several bigoted remarks at a time we know the police were looking into this man. thank you very much for being here, both of you. as you just heard his former classmate said early warning signs pointed to trouble with this man. but his faerks hther, his imam, ex-wife say he showed no signs of radicalism. so which is it? thank you so much for being here tonight. the father, you know, coming out and saying, i condemn this, i have no sympathy for him and trust me when i tell you this had nothing to do with religion and he was not radicalized, what do you make of it? >> one would think the father is afraid he might get charged himself. this is why i don't like using the term lone wolf. we know from our own empirical studies and also anecdotally, those attacks are rarely alone even if they're not operationally directed by group, they're not ideologically linked. clearly his father sympathizes with jihadism or he wouldn't have praised the taliban. >> the fact that he comes out as a 14-year-old and celebrated on 9/11, that's not something a kid does. that's got to be learned. >> of course. there's an atmosphere. people that celebrate death over 3,000 people must find encouragement to do fwhaus it's not normal behavior. he's not getting that from his clatmates. we heard from them. there's an atmosphere that must have moved him that found that the death of 3,000 people over 15 years ago was something to laugh about and he's continued that ever since. >> but his imam comes out and says, he was very pro-american, he was a cop, a security guard. he said something along the lines of we thought he was more aligned with you than with us. your thoughts. >> yeah rk, megyn, look. we're constantly looking for the wrong signs of radicalization. let's not forget the possible 9/11 hijackers were found in bars and strip clubs. let's not forget that the san bernardino ataerks were also government employees. in fact, with these other examples that i mentioned, the one commonality they all share is these are people who worked in inconspicuous circumstances and then turned their guns on their own colleagues, and in this instance we know omar mateen freaked the pulse nightclub himself. perhaps he had those ten decies or was scouting it out for himself. we know that these jihadists have attacked areas that they're familiar with, either where they worked or visited. it's no surprise because that's exactly what jihadists do through their self-starter manuals. that's exactly what they instruct their followers to do. >> what do you make of the history of the wive, one said she was abused badly shortly after they got married and the second telling police she knew he was scouting locations. >> my sympathy goes to the first wife. when you're a homophone, you're a misogynic, when you're an extremist, you're a wife beater. they take medieval attitudes to religion and with women. i extend my solidarity to her. she must have suffered. the second wife, however, bears a responsibility. whelp she found that her then husband was scouting areas for attack, that's what she confessed to, it was her loyal patriotic duty to report that. in fact, people who report such things whether it's of their husbands, siblings or friends, they give muslims like me and everyone else bad nachlt it was her duty to report that the minute she became aware of it. >> thank you so much, sir. great to see you tonight. >> thank you. pleasure. well, also tonight, some critics are suggesting that the orlando s.w.a.t. team waited too long to move in. they're coming under fire this evening for the three-hour delay before they went in. mark furman is here on that. plus former cia director james wolfcy is here. first we have james calendar, on why he thinks the feds are in over their heads here. he's next. don't go away. >> our work is very challenging. we're looking for needles in a nationwide haystack, but we're also called upon to figure out which pieces of hay are which pieces of hay are nightles has been a struggle. i considered all my options with my doctor, who recommended once-daily toujeo®. now i'm on the path to better blood sugar control. toujeo® is a long-acting insulin from the makers of lantus®. it releases slowly, providing consistent insulin levels for a full 24 hours, 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name surfaced again in an indirect way. our miami office was investigating the florida man who had blown himself up for the nisra front. and he knew him casually from attending the same mosque but we turned up no ties between the two of them. we will work all day and all night to understand the path from that terrible night. we're going to look hard at our own work to see if we could have done something differently. so far the honest answer is i don't think so. >> this is at the time he's working as a security against according to our guest at the top of the hour. fbi investigating him, meeting with him, doing all this stuff when at the same time he's worki working as a guard. pivot we go to our chief intelligence correspondent katherine live. >> it was a critical period after the fbi investigation concluded in march. the men went to the same central florida mosque. asked if anyone else was radicalizing a witness identified omar mateen to the fbi and claimed he was watching videos of anwar al awlaki. the cleric lived a double life, and this mugshot comes from a san diego arrest for prostitution. reading aal a aal his sermons. this is what they were watching before they kill 14d last december. the cz major nadal ha son exchanged e-mails with the clerk before opening fire. today a leading democrat said the bar was high in the orlando case. >> if there wasn't evidence of material support for terrorism, if there weren't over acts and supported conspiracy, if there wasn't evidence that an actual crime that was committed, they were not in a position to arrest the suspect. >> the new evidence that mateen was directed by a foreign terrorist group, but this in so many ways is an old-fashioned concept. you don't need a phone call or text because they give you standing order to act. isis says do it wherever you are and if you do it in our name, we'll claim you as a soldier of the caliphate, megmegyn. >> it's unbelievable. thank you. joining me now the former assistant director in charge of the fbi and a senior counterterrorism adviser after september 11th. here we are again and this guy's watching al awlaki videos. the fb i says there's no there there. your thoughts on it. >> i've known jim comey a long time. he's a good man. of course, i know the fbi. i know the agents, support people, the analysts. they're all good people. they don't want anything like this to ever happen. but, megyn, they're weighed down with this wet blanket of political correctness, number one. their training manual has been deleted of all words that were objectionable to the people, so-called educated people of the national security council and the white house. they don't have the resources to keep up. why that case was not flagged to stop him from getting weapons, why it was not flagged, why he wasn't on a no fly list, i don't know the answers to that. this terrorist task force is around the united states. you know, i spent 4 1/2 years with governor pataki to get every police force in new york state from a four-man force to the biggest in the state to be tied into the task force even if they weren't in their jurisdictions. >> that's one of the questions, isn't it, jim? whether they were inform. you guys have to keep an eye on it. >> i don't know. i don't know if port st. lucie had a clue. these things should never, in my view, never be closed. they should have some sort of activity. but director comey talks about hundreds of cases around the states. i can tell you, megyn. i can tell the people watching the show, i was instru mental -- not bragging but instrumental in setting up the surveillance both technical and physical. they cannot keep up -- i'm not going go into great detail but they can't keep up with the number of cases that deserve surveillance. >> right. you can't do 24/7 surveillance on all these people. >> no, you can't. and the hoops they have to jump through, sometimes which are, you know, just a private citizen could do things the fbi can't do. crazy. you know, i saw all these congressmen today, you know, in a moment of silence on the stones. the hypocrisy. they've done nothing to make the fbi's job easier. i'm sure they've tried, but nothing has happened. you know, i can't say enough about -- at 50,000 feet, you know, you've got people associated with the administration in the muslim brotherhood. you've got high ranging people in the muslim brotherhood. you've got monies from saudi arabia and the other from qatar and others going into the clinton foundation, and you've got this connection going on and there are also connections with iran, which is the other big supporter. the saudi arabian government -- >> i want to say for the record, though, jim, i realize you ran the surveillance program for two decades but those facts are in dispute. i'm not taking a position on it. i want for the record the viewers the know there are controversial claims and there's been pushback on the voracity. i want to ask you about loretta lynch -- i understand it's your opinion. i want to make sure the viewers understand it's opinion and controversial. you have -- it's not an opinion. >> you've got loretta lynch out there -- go ahead. >> yeah. loretta lynch soon after the last one before this out in california, you know, came out with this statement about how they were going to prosecute people that said bad things about muslims. >> anti-muslim rhetoric. she said the doj will take action against anti-muslim red lick or violent talk. >> what about violent talk from black lives matter talking about roast i roasting cops on a spit. we need to go to the next dimension, megyn. >> understand, i understand. you know, but the truth is -- >> it's a matter of public -- >> to both the bush administration and obama administration have had some very controversial -- come in and advice them, clerics and others advise them on this islam problem and the record is clear on who that is. i've got to go, jim, but thank you, sir. it's 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the president he doesn't get it or he gets it better than anybody understands. what you do mean by that? >> well, there are a lot of people who think he doesn't want to get it. a lot of people think maybe he doesn't want to know about it. i happen to think he just doesn't know what he's doing. there are many who think he doesn't want to get it, he doesn't want to see what's really happening. joining me now, katrina pierson. she's the trump campaign's spokesperson and regina. good to see you both. it started on an interview with "fox and friends" where trump said people can figure it out themselves what he meant when he said there's something going on. that's what he kept saying. there's something going on, something going on with barack obama when he isn't forceful in his response. i'll give it to you. >> well, look. if you're implying that the president is doing that, that's quite a statement to make. look. this is not a new thing for donald trump. he implied he didn't release his birth certificate because he could be potentially a muslim. this has been a dog whistle that's been going on for some time. now it's no longer a dog whistle. he's saying the president is m sympathetic to isil. i think it's unfair. this is not the cleric union. we're not russia. this cannot happen in this country where you ban an outlet you don't like. >> katrina t "washington post" later softened its headline from donald trump suggests obama was involved in the shooting to suggest president obama -- that he seemed to connect president obama to the orlando shooting and they didn't call attention to it. they said, we did it on our own. the trump campaign didn't ask us to do it, so there. >> you know, megyn, this has been going on for quite some time. mr. trump has already talked about "washington post" asigning these hits to him. this is what they do to drive traffic. it's called click bait. just because you're a media outfit doesn't mean you get a front row seat. he's not going to make it easy for them. to insinuate that donald trump says the president was involved with what happened in orlando is absolutely absurd and offensive. >> what did he mean, katrina, with there's something going on. >> that's what i was going to say, megyn. he's obviously right. something is going on. here we are 48 hours after the fact and even today president obama refused to even say the word islam when talking about this incident. he refused it. >> what do you mean. >> domestic terrorism. he means that something is wrong. why do we have a president that refuses to talk about the problem. we just had americans butchered, murdered, and he refuses to acknowledge the radical islamists. >> he said that. he said the reason. he said the reason, julie, which he doesn't feel the language is important, that it's going to play in the terrorists' hands. my question is this. your thoughts on donald trump banning the "washington post" and whether hee deserves it. >> the first time he said it, i might 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hostages and people inside, we believe further loss of life was imminent. i made the decision to commence the rescue operation and do the explosive breach. >> well, that was the orlando police chief defending his department's decision to send in the swat teams three hours after orlando terrorist omar mateen opened fire on the pulse nightclub. while some police experts have suggested that the decision to wait may have cost people their lives, our next guest thinks that decision is not as simple as some would have you believe. mark fuhrman is a fox news contributor former homicide detective. some say the protocol, mark, would have been to interimmedias a risk averse swat commander. you say not so. tell us. >> well, you can't interim immediately. the shooting spree had ceased at that moment and there was silence. and then the game changer once swat and officers set up a perimeter make any kind of assessment was when the suspect called 911 and claimed that he was an isis terrorist. that is a game changer because of the possibility of ied explosive devices at the entryways, suicide vests and multiple suspects, so they had to get some kind of eyes and ears, electronic eyes and ears in the location. they had to interview some witnesses. the officer that exchanged fire with the suspect, they had to have some intention before they gained entry. >> so you think this is a case of monday morning quarterbacking where people just say hey, had you three hours, you should have gone in there. >> absolutely. it's monday morning quarterbacking pause these swat officers trained specifically for incidents like, this looking at paris and belgium and san bernardino and every other terrorist attack in the world that has a confined area in a civilian location with civilian hostages. can you imagine if they made entry quickly and they had a wall of hostages between them and the suspect? the suspect gets to fire, officers can't. >> this is said to be an elite squad that knows what it's doing. 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[sirens] >> boom, boom, boom, three shots right in there. >> and then he was change, another ammunition. >> and then change, another ammunition. >> he said he was doing this for the leader of isil, who he named and pledged loyalty to. >> hearing the bang, bang, bang. and then when you turned around the person next to you screaming, there is blood splattering, i didn't know if it was mine or somebody else's. >> you could just hear
has been a crime scene with law enforcement looking on the sidewalks left and right for bullet casings everywhere. you can see the authorities still there and command and control vehicles trying to find out what they can inside that nightclub. as that happens we're getting brand new details about the gunman who went in there guns blazing at the pulse. we learned just a short time ago that authorities do not believe that there is a direct link to isis. they do not believe he tried to communicate with isis. they do believe that he tried to buy military grade body armor just weeks before he went into that nightclub, but for some reason he was not sold that body armor. again, investigators have found no evidence of direct contact with isis though obviously he did pledge his loyalty to isis during the attack. we also now know that the gunman traveled to saudi arabia twice. the saudi interior ministry says he visited in 2011, also 2012, also new this morning, the death toll has been revised to 49. he killed 49 people, wounded more than 50. a full one-third of the people inside that building were wounded or killed by this one gunman, this horrific ordeal that lasted three hours and ended when a s.w.a.t. team smashed into the building killing the gunman in a shootout. >> they're shooting back and forth. look at this. oh, my god. they're all shooting back and forth. >> the orlando police chief detailed the final minutes of the standoff. >> we used our armored vehicle, the bear cat armored vehicle, to purve punch a hole in that wall. we were able to rescue dozens and dozens of people that came out of that hole. the suspect came out of that hole himself armed with a handgun and a long gun, engaged in a gun battle with officers where he was ultimately killed. >> all right. we have a number of new developments this morning in the investigation. just over the last few minutes. joining me now cnn's boris sanchez who has been here since the gunfight itself and national security correspondent jim sciutto. jim, it is your reporting, despite the fact that this gunman called 911 and pledged allegiance to isis, as of now no known contact between the shooter and isis. >> that's right. a u.s. official with knowledge of the investigation says no communication with -- contact with isis central commanders or known operatives overseas. but as you know with isis, you don't need that, right? because one of their weapons, and we've seen that in paris, that was a directed, coordinated attack, they were dispatched by isis central into europe, but you have other attacks that were pure lone woflf, self radicalization attacks which were just as dngedz aangerous a be just as deadly but harder to catch because you don't have those contacts that you can surveil to prevent something like this from happening. isis is able to direct and also inspire from afar. >> absolutely. to be clear, just because there was no known contact, it doesn't make it deadly and dangerous. in fact, it is a goal of isis for this to happen. >> they said -- their spokesman said during the holy month of ramadan which we're in right now, it's a time of fasting, encouraging supporters around the world to carry out attacks in any way that they can. >> two known trips to saudi arabia. >> that's right. this is also new information. we know he traveled to saudi arabia in 2011, 2012, for what's known as the umra, the lesser of the two muslim pilgrimages. the hajj is the big one. regardless, it's a religious pilgrimage to saudi arabia and during that trip he went through the united arab emirates, dubai. officials don't know of any contacts during those trips with bad actors in saudi arabia. doesn't mean they might not find out about those at a later date but to this point they don't. that travel is interesting. it's a line of inquiry, but it doesn't yet tell us something that was functional to this attack. >> boris, we're also getting new information over what happened for the three hours of the standoff right behind us at this nightclub. >> there's been a lot of questions about what happened exactly during the standoff. officials this morning confirm it wasn't just that off-duty police officer that was outside the club that went in when shots were fired. there was also a contingent of additional police officers that went in shortly after, and they essentially forced the shooter to retreat into a bathroom. we saw a lot of text messages between family members. one of them specifically mentioning being in a restroom and fearing for their lives. police mention that the situation was stabilized after the gunman reportedly mentioned some kind of explosive device. all day yesterday the atf was here scanning for explosive devices partly because they believe he had something on him that may have gone off. from what we understand there was some indication from police, it may have been the call to 911 saying that he was pledging allegiance to isis, that something tipped them off there was going to be an imnent loss of life and that's when they decided to move in. they took that bear claw armored vehicle and put it through the wall of the bathroom where they saw dozens of people coming out, fleeing for their lives. one of them happened to be the gunman. he exchanged fire with them and that's when they took him down. >> boris sanchez, jim sciutto, great reporting. i will let you get back to the streets to find out what you can. appreciate it. >> thanks. we have also new details about the gunman's activities in the weeks before the shooting. cnn has learned that omar mateen tried to buy military-grade body armor recently. just a short time ago we heard from mateen's father. he said he is sorry and upset about what happened, and he claims he doesn't know why his son did it. >> as a father it's painful, but i don't approve. again, i repeat myself that what he did was act of terrorist, and it's against my principle, against what i taught him. i wanted him to get more education to serve the community. >> all right. i'm joined by cnn justice correspondent evan perez. evan, you broke the news about this body armor, military grade. exactly what's going on mere? >> reporter: well, john, we know investigators have now learned that the shooter attempted to buy this body armor from a local store in recent weeks, about a month ago. now, the store wasn't able to sell him what's known as level three body armor. it turns out because they didn't carry it. but the attempt suggests to investigators mateen may have been plotting this attack for some time according to law enforcement officials i have spoken to. this type of body armor is higher grade than even the kind that most police departments issue to their officers. in fact, it's a kind that some militaries use. now, again, the store apparently just didn't carry it. we know that he worked as a security guard and nothing in his background prevented him from buying the firearms that he was able to buy in the weeks before the shooting. and, john, we're also learning that mateen attended a mosque, the same mosque that another terrorist who carried out a suicide bombing in syria attended, and his name is mohammed abu saleh, and he attended occasionally apparently the services at this ft. pierce islamic center according to a spokesman for the mosque. back in 2014, the fbi looked into possible ties between mateen and abu saleh. they decided that there just wasn't much of a connection there, john. >> that was one of the point of contacts the fbi had with mateen. they questioned him about his relationship, but at the time decided it was not significant. evan perez, again, with the news that omar mateen tried to buy military grade body armor within the last few weeks. let's go to kate in new york. >> john, we'll get right back to you in a moment. 49 people are dead. 53 others wounded after the shootout -- the shootings early sunday. of those 53, 43 remain in the hospital. 6 of them are undergoing surgery today we are told. cnn's richard blackwell is outside the orlando regional medical center with much more on this. victor, what are you hearing the state of those wounded? what injuries they sustained and how it's looking for them right now, what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, kate, it is an urgent situation here at the hospital. we've learned from officials through a tweet that there were surgeries late into the evening and several of the survivors are undergoing surgery right now. and with so many people inundating the hospital system at once, there was a massive call for blood donations, and this community responded en masse. let's look at some of the people we saw in lines. 5,300 donations of blood in one day, a record we're told by oneblood, the system that's collecting those donations. people stood in line for five hours or more, and we know that they were working overnight until maybe 4:00 in the morning processing those donations and sending them off for testing. many of those people are back in line today. the people who could not get in to make those donations yesterday. we spoke with one of them. her name is carrie gray. watch. >> it's love. this is orlando. this is what we always do. we come together regardless of the situation, and it's just what we do. and as an american, you do more. so after this i'll probably go for a couple hours. >> reporter: again, the lines are growing for people who want to donate blood, but there is some frustration because the fda prohibits collecting donations from gay men who have been sexually active within the last 12 months. however, this facility is on an old computer system, so they're using the old fda regulations that lifetime ban for sexually active gay men over the last 40 years. so, again, some frustration here, but i can tell you that the system is working nearly around the clock trying to process those donations. they say it's about a two-day span from donation to getting it to the hospitals available for transfusion. we know that the hospital not only working to take care of those victims, those survivors we're calling them, but also the nearly 200 family members who have been coming here to check on those loved ones. the hospital also saying that they are working to collect the latest on their conditions and to give that information as soon as they get their handle around those 43 patients who are still here. kate? >> the pressure on that hospital system still great right now. just a reminder to our viewers, 43 people are still in hospitals. victor was just telling us many of them, several of them in surgery today. we're going to continue to follow those developments on those injuries and those wounded and bring them to you as we get them. let's get back to john in orlando. >> thanks, kate. as many as six operations going on today for those inside the hospital. we will watch that. no doubt that the pulse nightclub was targeted because it is a high-profile gay bar. whatever the motive of the shooter, that much is certain. i'm joined now by orlando city commissioner patty sheehan and g.l.a.d. ceo sara ellis. not only are you a city official in orlando, you're also part of the gay community here in orlando. a community that i believe has to feel targeted this morning. >> it's the heart of my district and, of course, yes, many people in the community are just horrified by this violence that's happened in our community. we've never had something of this scale before, and it's just a horrible day in orlando. but i'm really encouraged by the number of blood donations. the community coming together and just the outpouring of love and support internationally. >> you know, i have been told by many it's a gay-friendly city. it's a pop. >> very much so. we're 100% on the human rights index. our mayor is wonderful, a wonderful ally in the gay community. we've passed discriminations and public accommodation, housing, employment. we had the first gay marriage ceremony in florida on the steps of city hall. we're a welcoming community. >> when you're dealing with 350 people inside that club on saturday night, i have to believe almost everyone in this community knows someone or knows of someone who was inside those doors when the terror broke out. >> yeah. i just talked to a couple of people who were waiting for word from their friends and they're just heart broken. they're showing pictures of their friends and it was just awful. i can't imagine what they must be going through. >> sara, as president of g.l.a.d., you have dealt with a lot but nothing quite like this. >> nothing quite like this. this is heartbreaking for the community, not just here in orlando but absolutely here but abroad and in this country as well. from coast to coast and country to country. >> you know, and i think it's important for people to know, pulse is a gay nightclub, one of three or four in the city i have been told that are very well known, but this is the kind of place you go to feel safe. not safe from attacks like this but safe because there are other people there you feel comfortable with, people like you, and for many people in the gay community going to a gay bar is the way they can feel safe. >> yeah. a gay bar and a nightclub are so much more than just that. they're a place where we come together as a community, and they've been a safe haven for decades, and they've been a place where as a community we've organized. i mean, stonewall 1969 is one great point where we came together at stonewall and organized a gay liberation movement. so i think it's really important, a sense of security has been taken away. we will fight harder and we will fight longer, and we'll do what we need to do, but they really -- that was an attack on our heart and soul. >> it was an attack on america's heart and soul, not limited to any one community. >> agreed. >> sarah, patty, thank you for being with us. and we're here right along beside you. >> thank you. we do have breaking new details about the gunman's activities in the weeks before the shooting, including how the killer tried to buy that military-grade body armor. that's coming up. plus, abusive and unstable. chilling new details about his past, his possible mental state. the shooter's ex-wife says that she was held hostage by him from her own family. beautiful day in baltimore where most people probably know that geico could save them money on car insurance, right? 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right. that's awful. you can hear the shots ring out at the end there. amanda, 25 years old, was snapchating that to a friend who captured it on facebook. amanda did not survive. she's one of the 49 people who died inside the pulse nightclub behind me. that's first time we have heard the actual sounds of gunshots from the shooter as he first went in to the building there. all right. also we're waiting to hear from president obama. president obama just a short time ago was briefed by his intelligence team with the very latest on what's going on in the investigation. we will get video from that in just a moment. until then, i want to bring in our national security analyst juliette kayyem and law enforcement an analyst, art roderick. the president is about to speak to us. i know what he said. what the president said, no known direct contacts between isis and this man. however, they believe he was a ho homegrown terrorist inspired by international terror. that's what this has all been leading to. >> exactly right, and that matters. there's a big difference, not to the victims, of course, or their families but there's a big difference in terms of an investigation between isis directed, there's some person in syria or iraq training people to come to the u.s. or sort of telling them, dreshthing them what to do and someone who is alone in the room or has mental illness and radicalizing and going out and doing a tragedy or horror like this. it means who are you going to investigate? where is the path going to lead you? who else might know? so i think this is going to be a domestic investigation for the most part and there will probably be other arrests. there's no question in my mind that some people will be arrested because of knowledge or complicity in this. >> who else will be arrested. if no one else was part of the attack or the planning, how will they be culpable. >> they may be part of the planning. we don't know that yet. fbi has been doing a search warrant at his residence. that information i'm sure will come out of there. if he had a playstation 4, if he had some type of gaming console, there could be communication on that also. so i think they'll get to the bottom if he did have any help and if there was a conspiracy. >> they're tracing the guns right now. right now three guns, two used inside, a handgun and a long gun, an ar-15 rifle. also a revolver found in his car. what we know is this guy had no problem buying guns because he was a security guard, worked for a security company. >> actually made it easier. >> let's listen to the president right now. >> are we all set? okay. i just had the opportunity to get the latest briefing from fbi director comey as well as deputy attorney general yates and the rest of my national security team about the tragedy that took place in orlando. they're going to be doing a more extensive briefing around noon, a little bit after noon over at fbi headquarters, so i will allow them to go into all the details, but i thought it was important for you to hear directly from me. first of all, our hearts go out to the families of those who have been killed, our prayers go no those who have been wounded. this is a devastating attack on all americans. it is one that is particularly painful for the people of orlando, but i think we all recognize that this could have happened anywhere in this country, and we feel enormous solidarity and grief on behalf of the families that have been affected. the fact that it took place at a club frequented by the lgbt community i think is also relevant. we're still looking at all the motivations of the killer, but it's a reminder that regardless of race, religion, faith, or sexual orientation, we're all americans, and we need to be looking after each other and protecting each other at all times in the face of this kind of terrible act. with respect to the killer, there's been a lot of reporting that's been done. it's important to emphasize that we're still at the preliminary stages of the investigation, and there's a lot more that we have to learn. the one thing that we can say is that this is being treated as a terrorist investigation. it appears that the shooter was inspired by various extremist information that was disseminated over the internet. all those materials are currently being searched, exploited, so we will have a better sense of the pathway that the killer took in making a decision to launch this attack. as director comey i think will indicate, at this stage we see no clear evidence that he was directed externally. it does appear that at the last minute he announced allegiance to isil, but there's no evidence so far that he was, in fact, directed. also at this stage there's no direct evidence that he was part of a larger plot. in that sense it appears to be similar to what we saw in san bernardino, but we don't yet know, and this is part of what is going to be important in terms of the investigation. as far as we can tell right now, this is certainly an example of the kind of homegrown extremism that all of us have been so concerned about for a very long time. it also appears he was able to obtain these weapons legally because he did not have a criminal record that in some ways would prohibit him from purchasing these weapons. it appear that is one of those weapons he was able to just carry out of the store, an assault rifle. a handgun, a glock, which had a lot of clips in it he was apparently required to wait for three days under florida law. but it does indicate the degree to which it was not difficult for him to obtain these kinds of weapons. director comey will discuss the fact that there had been some investigation of him in the past that was triggered, but as director comey i think will indicate, the fbi followed the procedures that they were supposed to and did a proper job. at the end of the day, this is something that we are going to have to grapple with, making sure that even as we go after isil and other extremist organizations overseas, even as we hit their leadership, even as we go after their infrastructure, even as we take key personnel off the field, even as we disrupt external plots, that one of the biggest challenges we are going to have is this kind of propaganda and perversions of islam that you see generated on the internet and the capacity for that to seep into the minds of troubled individuals or weak individuals and seeing them motivated then to take actions against people here in the united states and elsewhere in the world that are tragic. and so countering this extremist ideolontifology is increasingly to be just as important as making sure that we are disrupting more extensive plots engineered from the outside. we are also going to have to make sure that we think about the risks we are willing to take by being so lax in how we make very powerful firearms available to people in this country, and this is something obviously i have talked about for a very long time. you know, my concern is that we start getting into a debate, as has happened in the past, which is an either/or debate, and the suggestion is either we think about something as terrorism as we ignore the problems with easy access to firearms or it's all about firearms and we ignore the role, the very real roale, that organizations like isil have in generating extremist vows in this country. it's not an either/or. it's a both/and. we have to go after these terrorism organizations and hit hem hard. we have to counter extremism, but we also have to make sure it's not easy for somebody who decides they want to harm people in this country to be able to obtain weapons to get at them, and, you know, my hope is that over the next days and weeks that we are being sober about how we approach this problem, that we let the facts get determined by our investigators, but we also do some reflection in terms of how we can best tackle what is going to be a very challenging problem not just here in this country but around the world. again, my final point is just to extend our deepest sympathies to the families of those who were affected and to send our prayers to those who are surviving and are in hospitals right now, their family members hoping that they get better very soon. but in the meantime, you can anticipate some time around noon that director comey and a deputy attorney general yates will provide you with a more full briefing about this. okay. [ inaudible ]. >> i think we don't yet know the motivations, but here is what we do know is organizations like isil or organizes like al qaeda or those who have perverted islam and created these radical, nihilistic, vicious organizations, one of the groups that they target are gays and lesbians because they believe that they do not abide by their attitudes towards sexuality. now, we also know these are organizations that think it's fine to take captive women and enslave them and rape them. so, you know, there clearly are connections between the attitudes of an organization like this and their attitudes towards tolerance and pluralism and a belief that all people are treated equally regardless of sexual orientation. that is something threatening to them. women being empowered is threatening to them. so, yes, i'm sure we will find that there are connections regardless of the particular motivations of this killer, there are connections between this vicious, bankrupt ideology and general attitudes towards gays and lesbians, and unfortunately that is -- that's something that the lgbt community is subject to not just by isil but by a lot of groups that purport to speak on behalf of god around the world. >> what are your thoughts about the fact that a lot of these incidents over these years -- [ inaudible ] there has not been any move to reform gun control in this country? >> april, i think you know what i think about it. the fact that we make it this challenging for law enforcement, for example, even to get -- to get alerted that somebody who they are watching has purchased a gun, and if they do get alerted, sometimes it's hard for them to stop them from getting a gun, is crazy. it's a problem. and we have to i think do some soul searching, but, again, the danger here is that then it ends up being the usual political debate and the nra and the gun control folks say that, oh, obama doesn't want to talk about terrorism, and if you talk about terrorism, then people say why aren't you looking at issues of gun control? the point is that if we have self-radicalized individuals in this country, then they are going to be very difficult oftentimes to find ahead of time, and how easy it is for them to obtain weapons is in some cases going to make a difference as to whether they're able to carry out attacks like this or not. and we make it very easy for individuals who are troubled or disturbed or want to engage in violent acts to get very powerful weapons very quickly, and that's a problem. it's a problem regardless of their motivations. it's a problem for a young man who can walk into a church in south carolina and murder nine people who offered to pray with him. it's a problem, you know, when an angry young man on a college campus decides to shoot people because he feels disrespected. it's certainly a problem when we have organizations like isil or al qaeda who are actively trying to promote violence and are doing so very effectively over the internet because we know that at some point they're going to be out of 300 million people, there are going to be some individuals who find for whatever reason that kind of horrible propaganda enticing, and if that happens and that person can get a weapon, that's a problem. >> thank you, everyone. thank you, guys. >> thank you, guys. you can just see president obama there speaking rather extensively after his intelligence briefing in the morning. he said the attacks here at the pulse nightclub were homegrown extremism inspired by ex trtrei information disseminated over the internet but there is no evidence, he says, of a larger plot. he also spent a great deal of that impromptu news conference talking about guns and the availability of guns to people who would commit acts of terror. joined by art and juliette. juliette, the president was quite passionate. >> and good for him. we have a tendency to look at motivation only. how do you stop a terrorist? how do you stop any violence? you get some motivation and you get to the means. we tend to focus on motivation. was he directed by isis? was he inspired by isis? and we don't talk about the means, and so i think maybe because he only has a year left, we can't forget that access to weapons that can kill 50 people just down the street is part of what makes terrorism successful. so it's not to deny that motivation is important and we need to work to counter violent extremism but that we also have to address the means. i think he said don't go down one lane or the other. that it's both. gee said y >> he said -- >> i'm in counterterrorism. the -- it's an important message whether it's kids on a school campus or a nightclub. >> these are discussions that will bed in the co head in the weeks to come. coming up, the moment the shooter came in and opened fire. that's after the break. 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i woke up at 2:00 to the sound of gunshots. i originally thought it was a couple of cars backfiring. there is usually a lot of commotion and things going on. i went out and i saw people fleeing. i figured it was some guy in an argument grabbed a gun and made the shot. four seconds after that, everything erupted. those shots we just heard here, 60 rounds. and everybody was fleeing. through my yard. into my garage. and others went back towards the club recognizing their friends weren't with them and shouting their names looking for them. >> went back to get people out. what happens during the intervening hours. >> as soon as the real shots rang out, i have two young daughters. i went inside to make sure they were secured. my back balcony overlooks the overflow valet. that's where everything was triaged. they were going through every car. checking out people who were injured, determining who may be a threat and so forth. it was that, tactic the nooiz noise. they had -- their battering ram was positioned in that parking lot as well. ultimately it moved across the street behind the back wall of the club. at one point, i think it was getting close to 5:00 they punched through. and then we heard the debt nation. it literally shook my town home. after that ended, i actually went out on the balcony and filmed, you know, the team as they moved forward. and i think you guys have seen that with the volley of shots from s.w.a.t. >> david ward sh we are glad you and your kids are okay. you live across from pulse. we know this is a tough day for you as well. thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. we heard from president obama just moments ago. the president calling the orlando shooting a devastating attack on all americans. he says it's being treated as a terrorist investigation calling it homegrown extremism. the tragedy, the investigation, they have now become a big focus for the candidates hoping to replace president obama to become the next president of the united states. donald trump and hillary clinton weighing in and facing off over the orlando shooting. listen here to both of them on cnn this morning. >> the first thing you need is you need a president that's going to mention the problem. and he won't even mention what the problem is. and unless you go into mention -- unless you are going to say it's radical islamic terrorism, and hate, unless you are going to say that christine you are never going to say that. and hillary clinton refuses to use the words. >> from my perspective it matters what we do rather than what we say. i have clearly said we face terrorist enemies who use islam to justify slaughtering innocent people. whether you call it radical jihadism, radical islamism, i think they mean the same thing, i'm happy to say either. >> let's bring in dana bash. this is something we have heard very often. kind of a prime criticism that republicans have against president obama. donald trump is levying it against hillary clinton. you need to define your enemy first before you can defeat it. hillary clinton, she's -- she said it. she said radical islamism. says she has no problem saying it. how significant is that? >> significant in that this has been as you said a huge rhetorical and political club that republicans across the board have been used. and they think quite successful -- they have been using quite successful rather against the president and then painting it more broadly against dmts democrats and now hillary clinton. by kind of taking that off the table, it does rob donald trump, and now her opponent going into the fall of that sort of rhetorical jab. but it also -- it's not just rhetoric. i mean, the reason why republicans have thought it was so successful is because it conotes weakness, they think. that if you are not willing to call it what it is, which is radical islamism, and radical islamic terrorism, you can't define the problem, how are you going to fight the problem? so that's why this is sort of a pivot point for hillary clinton. especially since, kate, this was something that she went out of her way not to say during the democratic primaries, during a debate with cbs. i was looking back at the transcript. she was asked point blank about using that term. and she danced around it. as did bernie sanders, by the way. so this is a change and one that i think shows that on a presidential level the clinton campaign and democrats i talked to here in washington think that national security could be a plus for them and they are going to aggressively go after donald trump on national security. that's usually not something we see on the presidential level from the democrats. >> one thing we have definitely seen in the aftermath of this mass car is two wildly different responses from these two candidates. >> yeah. >> they have changed their schedules kind of dramatically. we're going to be hearing from both of the candidates speaking and making big speeches today on the issue in the aftermath of orlando. this sets up to be a really crucial day, i think. >> absolutely, it does. this is, unfortunately, the way we see a lot of the ebb and flow of political campaigns and of the national narrative that when something happens at home, then it's obviously front and center. it makes national security much more front and center in voters' minds. obviously, this is on the level that we haven't seen since 9/11 because it is so devastating just in terms of the sheer numbers of people who were killed, who were massacred. but this is one of those test moments. and if people the campaigns on both sides feel that people are paying attention and they feel understandably afraid of what happened at home because there is homegrown terrorism as the president just said, that how each of them frames the argument now and portrays themselves is absolutely crucial going forward to november. >> absolutely. we're going to be hearing from hillary clinton speaking in cleveland around 12:30 today. donald trump making a speech in new hampshire 2:30 today. important moments -- an important moment for the nation, but as we look at these two candidates who want to be the next president of the united states who would be the voice in the aftermath of a horrific tragedy like this, important words coming up. coming up, john berman in orlando, myself here in new york thank you for joining us. our special news coverage of the orlando massacre continues right now. hello to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to legal view. my colleague chris cuomo joining us live from orlando right now as we follow the breaking news of the terror attack and deadliest mass shooting in united states history. within the past few minutes, cnn brought in the first video of the orlando rampage as it happened. a young woman named amanda alvaer was snap chatting when
all current patients have quote, a positive prognosis, and appear to be improving. meanwhile, last night in downtown orlando, thousands gathered at an emotional candlelight vigil. i was there. there were a lot of hugs. a lot of tears. the white house says president obama will travel to orlando thursday to meet with the victims' families and to stand in solidarity with the community. meantime, as the investigation into the orlando shooting unfolds, we are learning more about the gunman. omar mateen. right now, the fbi is looking into whether mateen had previously visited pulse nightclub. let's bring in nbc news correspondent blake mccoy. a lot has happened, just in the late night hours last night. early morning hours today. what have we learned about him? >> reporter: right. the reason the fbi is investigating the claim is because several men have said that they had witnessed mateen at pulse nightclub before. at least one person saying that he had been there for years before. sometimes drinking alone, sometimes becoming agitated. that "the orlando sentinel" has spoken with four of the men. one named ty smith said he'd go over into the corner and sit and drink by himself and other times he'd get so drunk and was loud and belligerent. nbc's -- msnbc's chris hayes said that mateen was on gay dating apps like grinder on his phone and had tried to speaking to the men before the shooting. we don't know the time line, but it was in the months before the shooting. this is what he had to say. >> i recognized him from one of the apps. i instantly blocked him because he was like very creepy in his messages. and i blocked him immediately. but my other friend -- >> from a gay dating app? >> yeah. >> you recognized him from the gay dating app? >> yeah, i recognize him off grinder. >> reporter: the fbi says while they're investigating the claims they aren't sure to what to make of them yet. does this mean he had been scoping out the nightclub as a potential attack for some time or did this mean he was a patron at that nightclub and something happened over the last several weeks and months that made him then think of this nightclub as a target and become hostile towards it? a key piece of evidence will be a cell phone that has been recovered. we can tell you a samsung cell phone has been recovered among other electrics and the fbi has had no problem accessing the information on the phone so far. so chris, as we know these cell phones can be a treasure trove of information. >> thank you so much, blake mccoy. in the meantime, james comey has been shedding new light on the agency's prior contact with mateen. he said that he was investigated by the fbi for ten months. between may of 2013 and march of 2014 after telling co-workers he had family connections to al qaeda and he was a member of hezbollah. he was put under surveillance and placed on a terror watch list. but the investigation didn't produce enough evidence to arrest him. >> he admitted making the statements that his co-workers reported but, plained that he did it in anger because he thought his co-workers were discriminating against him and teasing him because he was muslim. our work is very challenging. we are looking for needles in a nationwide hay stack, but we are also called upon to figure out which pieces of hay might some day become needles. that is hard work. if we can find a way to do that better we will. >> now the fbi revealed yesterday that in one of those 911 calls that mateen made on sunday night he made a reference to the tsarnaev brothers calling them his home boys. officials revealed that mateen seemed cool and calm during that shooting standoff. and according to the police chief here, there were talk of bombs and explosives and a reference to isis. despite that, senior law enforcement sources said that mateen has never travelled to syria, although he has been to saudi arabia twice for religious pilgrimages. though orlando police department has released the names of the officers involved in the shoot outwith omar d shoot-out with omar mateen. adam grueler was working security that night. ten others would later show up, including officer michael napolitano whose kevlar helmet was hit during that shoot-out. a front page article in "usa today" focuses on the possibility that police gun fire may have hit some of the patrons. the large crowd and complex layout of the club presented challenges for the officers who entered in the armored bearcat after an explosive didn't open a big enough hole. and speaking yesterday, orlando's police chief said the decision to act with force was a tough one. >> the information that i received from my team is that loss of life was imminent. so, yes, had to make that decision. hard decision to make. but like again i wasn't alone. i did have a team of people advising me. we knew that was the right thing to do. and believe we prevented a lot -- future loss of life and saved many lives. >> when you look at the number of victims, it's staggering. and you put faces to the names. stories from siblings, from partners and friends. a picture emerges that's hard to shake. and in a snapchat video one of the victims of the shooting amanda alvear captured the moment when the gunman opened fire in the club. ♪ >> i'm at the club. ♪ [ gunfire ] >> alvear who you saw at the end of the video was confirmed of one of the 49 victims killed in the shooting. nbc news spoke to her brother last night. >> watching that video, you can clearly see my sister look up and kind of realize what's going on and drop the phone and then run. and it was heart breaking because as a big brother like, you know, when you -- that fear that you see in her eyes you want to be there. you want to be there immediately and getting this, you know, almost 24 hours later knowing there's nothing you can do is heart breaking. >> one survivor, tony orear row is still in the hospital. he is here dressed up a as teenage mutant turtle. but last night, he described the terrifying moments. >> there was a reason i was very calm. everything was -- it was happening so fast. i didn't have a chance to cry or be scared. so i remember the cops asking are you alive, somebody alive? anybody alive just put your hand up. but apparently the guy was making it seem like he was a victim almost. so he got on the floor too. so that's what made it difficult. they didn't know who they were looking at because the guy played it like he was one of the victims too. >> the owner of the pulse nightclub is speaking out for the first time about the tragic night that forever changed her business, her community. in an exclusive sit down with matt lauer, barbara comas spoke about learning about the bloodshed. >> can you describe how you found out about this? >> it was the most surreal phone call i ever received. when i manager called me and he told me, he was yelling into the phone. i just didn't understand him. i couldn't wrap my brain around it. he kept saying, we have a shooter, we have a shooter. i said, what? finally, it sunk in. and it -- you can't wrap your brain around that. you just can't. >> you know every inch of that club. >> mm-hmm. >> how do you stop yourself from imagining what it was like? >> i can't stop. i can't stop imagining what that was like for them. sorry. >> it's all right. >> i don't think i'll ever stop that. >> she's beloved in the lgbt community. she was at that vigil last night. she and her partner got sustained applause. you can hear more of matt lauer's conversation with her coming up on "today." let's shift to the political fallout from this. trump with how he plans to quote make america safe again. focusing on the subject of immigration, he doubled down on the ban on muslims entering the united states as well as bans on other areas. after incorrectly claiming the shooter was foreign when he was actually a citizen born in new york. >> i called for a ban after san bernardino. and i was met with great scorn and anger. but now, many years and -- i have to say many years but many are saying that i was right to do so and although the pause is temporary, we muss find out -- we must find out what's going on, we have to do it. it will be lifted, this ban, when and as a nation we're in a position to properly and perfectly screen these people coming into our country. when i'm elected, i will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there's a proven history of terrorism against the united states, europe or our allies. until we fully understand how to end these threats. >> trump's speech yesterday was originally planned to be about hillary clinton and though he began by telling the audience he would address her at a later date he did repeatedly return to attacking his democratic rival. >> hillary clinton for months and despite so many attacks repeatedly refused to even say the words radical islam. until i challenged her yesterday, and guess what? she will probably will say them, she has said them. she's in total denial and her continuing reluctance to ever name the enemy broadcasts weakness across the entire world. true weakness. her plan is to disarm law abiding americans, abolishing the second amendment and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns. she wants to take away americans' guns and then admit the very people who want to slaughter us. ask yourself who is really the friend of women and the lgbt community? donald trump with actions or hillary clinton with her words? clinton wants to allow radical islamic terrorists to come into this our country. they murder gays and enslave women. i do not want them in the country. >> hillary clinton did not mention trump yesterday. clinton laid out a multipart plan to defeat the isis threat abroad while recognizing the u.s. cannot conit's the the middle east. she called for new gun restrictions as well as partnerships across government and communities. >> we have to stem the flow of jihadists from america from iraq, syria and 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no group has claimed responsibility. an unnamed source told an isis affiliated agency that the man was one of his followers and this morning, francois hollande said it was a terrorist attack. stocks for the gun manufacturers have been rising since the orlando attack as investors anticipate a surge in sales ahead of possible weapons control actions by the government. cnbc's chris -- steve sedgwick joins us from london. good morning. >> good morning to you, chris. this pretty much what happens every single time we see a deadly attack and indeed the threat of the stronger gun laws comes into the mindset of many investors as well. smith and wesson moved 6.9%, stern ruger moved to the outside and having been up as much as 11% at one stage. smith & wesson shares are up around 40%. as i say, whenever the president makes protestations about tighter gun laws as well we see a big increase in background checks which is a prelude of course to more gun purchases. one of the last big surges was the election, and it rose by 90%. to the transition of the world market, equity markets following asia, they're going down. the latest catalyst for this is the concern about the referendum, on whether or not it remains in the european union. the brexit getting some good polling recently. that means a lot of people are concerned. they're going into bonds and that means that germany is now in the negative territory. >> steve sedgwick, thank you so much. let's get a check of your weather with msnbc's meteorologist bill karins. >> good morning to you, chris. amazing pictures out of north texas, north of the amarillo area. we had some confirmed tornadoes and amazing visual imagery. this is the base of the thunderstorm, mesocyclone. this produces a tornado eventually. so impressive stuff. a lot of active lightning. there's the actual tornado itself out over the open fields. exactly where we like it. the lightning was pretty intense too. the thunderstorm today has ended for now. but later on 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trying to become the first ever nba team to take the title after trailing 3-1 in the finals. well, they live to play at least one more game after defeating the warriors 112-97 in game 5. lebron james, kyrie irving, each had 41 point, that's 82 of the total points, making them the first duo to score 40 or nor the nba finals game. the series heads back to cleveland for game 6 on thursday night. chris, let's send it back to you in orlando. >> i can't complain about my cavs. fingers crossed. thank you so much, bill karins. live to play another day. some of my conversations are coming up, i talked to many people who came out last night to remember the victims here in orlando. we are live this morning and we'll be right back. using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the fruit... veggies... needed to create a pop-up pick-your-own juice bar veggies... in the middle of the city, so now everyone knows... we have some of the freshest juice in town. see what the power of points can 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families and the victims and the people of orlando, but let's remember that love is a verb and to love means to do something. and i don't know what else to say. >> that was how stephen colbert opened his show last night before inviting bill o'reilly on for a conversation about radical ideology and guns in america. welcome back to "way too early." i spent last night at a vigil in orlando with thousands and thousands of people. and they answered the question that stephen colbert just asked -- what can you say in the face of this horror? they answered with supporting each other, with love, and with resilience. take a listen. >> you can do whatever you want to do to whoever, but people we're going to band together. you throw a hundred messages of hate, we're going to throw a thousand messages of love. >> what do you make of this crowd? thousands and thousands of people. >> it's amazing. i'm so proud of orlando right now. i'm proud to be living in orlando. and i'm proud of the orlando community for getting together and just having each other's backs. >> eddie was one of my first friends when i was in college, one of my first gay friends. i met him at a bar and we immediately became fast friends. i was in the closet, i didn't have many gay friends. the message i have if you don't think we're people you're wrong. if you think that that's a mild form of homophobia then you're wrong. if you think -- and if you don't do something about this, it's going to kill me. it's going to kill my friends. it's going to kill my friend's friends. >> some very emotional moments last night. for this morning that's going to do it for me and "way too early." i'll join joe and mika coming up on "morning joe" with the latest from orlando. that and much more after a short break. my bladder leakage made me feel like i couldn't be the father that i wanted to be. now i use depend. i can move the way i really want. unlike the bargain brand, new depend fit-flex underwear is now more flexible to 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