The suspects name is omar mateen, he lives in port st. Lucie. Something really horrible happened that happened to all of us. As americans, we are united in grief and outrage. You will not break us. We are better people than this. Good evening from orlando. Im lester holt and this is a special edition of dateline. At least 50 dead, 53 wounded, many of them in critical condition. The biggest mass shooting in american history, and says president obama. An act of terror. The gunman omar mateen, stormed a gay nightclub, armed with an assault style military nightclub, opened fire and left the dance floor covered in blood. His motive, pure rate. Reporter it was supposed to be a night of fun, letting your hair down, saturday night had become early sunday morning, the music loud and funky. This video posted on the internet from inside club pulse around 1 00 a. M. Last call, last dance, latin theme night was wrapping up. A crowd of about 300 packed into orlandos popular gay nightclub. Approximat
Time ago and he visited a disney property a few weeks ago. He may have been planning violence for some time. He bought military grade body armor. He called 911 three times while the attack was unfolding and likely radicalized himself online. But did the fbi drop the ball here . Did they drop the ball . We now know the kill wears under investigation for ten months. To night there is chilling new snap chat video of at tack as it is happening. You can clearly hear shots being fired. Were going to get to all of that this evening. We have a lot to get to in the next two hours. We want to begin with cnns pamela brown. Pamela joins me now. You have been following this investigation for us, the fbis investigation into the shooters. You have new information. What can you tell us . Thats right. We know that investigators have been speaking to the wife of this gunman. We know at least a day theyve been speaking to her, they lived in ft. Pierce, florida. And she has actually given some helpful inf
Is he out . Is he gone . I was criticized in the newspapers because i had a staff of 73 people at that time and i want in orlando. He has a staff of they say 873 people and she goes on and on. And the papers said she has many more people than. And im saying to myself, wait a minute they make be it sound bad for me. Isnt it great when you win with a Smaller Group of people. And isnt that what we . I have spent a fractions of what she spent winning. And like i went to, so many places. I won so many states and have such great experience including georgia. Boy, did we win georgeia. We won in a land slide in georgia and we are going to win it big. But i went to New Hampshire and Something Special about New Hampshire. That is where we had our first victory and the people were amazing. And i went to New Hampshire and i got to know the people and saw what was happening. I spent a tiny fractions of what the favored candidate was spending. I will not say who it was. I spent a little bit and i wo
Inside americas election headquarters. We are now lending that the gunman called 911 just before the attack pledging allegiance to isis coming from a United States official. We also know the f. B. I. Was aware of omar mateen by 2013. Authorities say he was not the subject of any active investigation. The city of orlando now coming together to mourn the dead and help their families in anyway they can. We not be defined by a hateful shooter. We will be defined how we support and love each other. We have a Fox Team Coverage at the scene. We start with katherine herridg what do we learn of his previous contacts with the f. B. I. . We are learning a lot about the two contacts with the f. B. I. The first was in 2013, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Told fox news that in that particular episode, there everyone inflammatory statements made by the suspect, omar mateen, and they were so alarming to the coworkers they contacted the f. B. I. There were two meetings with the f