Many broadcasts tonight began by telling you the name of a murdererer who killed 11 people in the synagogue behind me. They may show you his pictures and repeat his name so much that it will become as well known as other mass murderers whose names you probably remember. We hope history does not remember this killers name and we wont be saying it or showing you his photo in the hour ahead. Instead we want to take a few moments on those who really matter, on the 11 people who lived good and decent lives, loved by family, friends and leave behind them broken hearts and happy memories. Daniel stein was killed saturday. He was retired and according to his son didnt require much. His son said he was a simple man. His nephew said he had a dry sense of humor. And he was deeply loved and will be deeply missed. Daniel stein, we will remember. Joyce fienberg was a former researcher at the university of pittsburgh, who treated her phd students like family, were told. Her late husband taught at cmu just down the road from tree of life. Those who knew her say she had a huge personality that lit up the room. Joyce fienberg, let us remember. Let us also remember richard gottfried, he was 65 and had a dental practice with his wife. He was jewish, she was catholic. They counseled other interfaith couples at her church about what to expect. Bernice and sylvan simon were married at tree of life 62 years ago. Imagine that. Sylvan simon was a retired accountant. Bernice was a nurse. Devoting time to charitable work, charitable causes. They were always ready to help said a neighbor and always with a big smile. Bernice and sylvan simon died as they lived, together. We will remember them. Jerry rabinowitz has treated all kinds of patients with kindness and compassion, particularly those with hiv aids, at a time when fear of the virus was running high. A patient wrote, he often held our hands without rubber gloves and always, always hugged us as we left his office. Another called him the sort of doctor who sent you on your way always in better respects. Melvin waxs sister says she always used to kid him that he should have been a rabbi. Instead he was a dedicated congregant. He would always be the first to arrive, she said, always in a good mood, always full of jokes. Melvin wax, we will remember. Irving younger was a greeter. His friend said he was the kind of guy who walked down a street and say hi to everyone he saw. It served him well to one local cafe where he liked to go. Irving younger, we will remember. David and Cecil Rosenthal were called tree of life ambassadors because they were always there. Both had special needs, both were inseparable. Calling cecil the kindest soul you would ever meet. It served him well at one local a cantor at a nearby temple told cecil the kindest soul you would ever meet. Another says his laughter was infectious and david was so kind. The two, he said, looked out for one another and in return, their community treasured them. David and Cecil Rosenthal, brothers in life and in death. We will remember. And last, but certainly not least in anyones thoughts tonight is rose mallinger. She was 97 years old and lived her whole life in this state. I visited her daughter, andrea, earlier today. She was wounded and is recovering in the hospital, surrounded by family and friends who smiled and laughed and shed tears when they talked about rose. Bubby as she was known in her family. She lived for her children and her grandchildren. She was, they said, a pillar of the community, vibrant, full of life. Moments ago her family gave this statement. Family was everything. She knew her children, grandchild and great grandchildren better than they knew themselves. We will miss her presence and her company greatly. Rose, we will remember. So many people to remember. A writer on this program who grew up just four blocks from here knew many of those names. He wets to bar mitzvahs at tree of life and scout troop meetings as well. He remembered what it was like to be a kid in pittsburghs Jewish Community. He said it was hard to believe that the whole rest of the world wasnt jewish too, when youre growing up here, wasnt happy as well. Squirrel hill was then and is now a special part of this city and this country. Not just because of its jewish population. You walk three blocks from here and youll come to the local jcc, which is right across the street from the Sixth Presbyterian Church whose members swung into action after the shooting here. Squirrel hill is home to members of every major faith. Home to medical professionals to rushed to the scene to treat the wounded or received them at nearby hospitals. Home two blocks from here where officers risked their lives to save others, some were wounded. It was home just a minute from here to fred rogers, mr. Rogers who said at times like these we should look for the helpers. This literally is mr. Rogers neighborhood as the mayor said to me. Squirrel hill is a neighborhood of helpers. Tree of life was and is will be a congregation of helpers. A lone gunman decided the worshippers inside were his enemy. A husband and wife married in 1956 and still in love were his enemy. A doctor who reached out to hiv patients when others reached away was his enemy. Its obvious to think why someone would think like this, why someone would kill like this . But there is no answer to that question that would truly make sense or make the hurt go away. And tonight the alleged killer made his first court appearance. We will be taking a close look at what may have motivated him and well do the same as awell for the alleged serial bomber who also was in court today even as another one of his package bombs showed up in atlanta, the third package sent to cnn. He is jewish and a frequent target of the far right including some members of congress. Arizona republicans suggesting that soros was behind the violence in charlottesville. And look at the background. George soros is one of those people that actually helps back those individuals who is he . I think hes from hungary, i think he was jewish and i think he turned in his own people to the nazis. Well keeping them honest that last bit, of course, is a lie. A lie and a slur. More recently things took on a new dimension took on building a different conspiracy around soros, one linking him to the migrant caravan. Heres a tweet from republican congressman matt gates. Photos giving cash. Soros, question mark. Lets investigate the source. Theres no evidence to support that insinuation, yet a day later at a rally in montana the president seemed to pick up on it. The one thing they stick together, but they wanted that caravan. And there are those that say that caravan didnt just happen it didnt just happen. A lot of reasons that caravan, 4,000 people. A few days later, george soros got a pipe bomb in the mail. After calling for national unity, the president was chuckling along with calls to lock soros up. Theyre called globalists. They like the globe. I like to globe, too, but we have to take care of our people. We have to. Globalists. The word globalist might not mean anything special to you. Perhaps it doesnt either to the president. However, to White Supremacists and antisemites the word means jew and has for many years. President s have known this, which is why they dont say things like this. It clearly meant something to the alleged synagogue shooter, who actually attacked President Trump for being, in his view, secret globalist sympathizer, on the social media site gab writing trump is a globalist not a nationalist. He went on to rail against jews the world infestation. It showed an obsession with george soros, with hias and hatred for the immigrant caravan. Whether the president knew what he was saying, the alleged gunman heard something that resonated. And this came on top of other statements from the president and that migrant caravan. And the democrats want to invite caravan after caravan of illegal aliens into our country, and they want to sign them up for free health care, free welfare, Free Education and for the right to vote. They want to sign them for the right to vote. Whats that all about . That was friday. The president describing a group of people, 1,000 miles away from the nearest u. S. Port of entry and several thousand miles from pittsburgh. A threat to no one, but to the alleged gunman it was apparently all too much. His last post reads i cant sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, im going in. With the country struggling to cope, the president called for unity. He also attacked the press and weighed in again on the caravan. We hear all the time from the president s supporters to take him seriously but not literally. Maybe for rational, reasonable people who arent antisemitic and believe in conspiracy theories thats good advice. Perhaps its better if we all dial back the heat on the left and the right, to not call as former attorney general eric holder did to kick them when theyre down, to not harass opponents in restaurants. Its true, there is never enough civility to go around. He was not filling the air waves with heated rhetoric, violent imagery and conspiracy theories. The president may chafe at not being able to say anything that pops into his head. What he should know people are listening and worse, some are acting on what they hear. Joining us now is the tree of life rabbi and the mayor of pittsburgh. R rabbi, you are preparing the funeral, one of several. What are you thinking about saying, whats going through your head and heart tonight . Its not a day to show anger. Its not a day to show bitterness. Its a day to celebrate the lives of two wonderful decent human beings and for gratitude that they were in our lives. And thats what this and all the funerals will be about. Tomorrow its the brothers who i mean, everybody talks about them as being i mean, everybody seems to have known them here. They were the sweetest most wonderful people you could know. Not an ounce of hate in them whatsoever. And, you know, if you just sit and wonder why this could happen, were not going to find the answers. We need to just turn to what was good about them and be able to say with gratitude, were so glad they were in our lives at all. Mayor, how are you dealing with this as leader of the community . As best we can. We have priorities that we happen to be able to take care of. The first is to the families of the victims. We start with the funerals tomorrow and continue all the way through friday. Making sure that the families have everything that they need. We extend that out to those that have been wounded, trying to get them out of the hospitals by the end of this week, making sure their families have everything they need. Its the way we do things in pittsburgh. We take care of one another. And then we look at the Jewish Community itself, and we looked at ways to be able to show not only support but to build bonds that will last long after this. And we think ahead about how we can take something so horrific and find goodness, and use those few little rays of light to be able to create something here in pittsburgh that will help to eradicate hate, that will stop the use of terms of hatred and bigotry in the Public Discourse on a daily basis and put it back into the basement where it belongs. Do you have any doubt that that some rhetoric that has been used over the last that has entered public life in a way we havent seen in quite a while, that that has had an impact . Words matter. If you take a drop of dye and put it into a glass of water, it turns the color of the water. If you put words of hate into a place where those words had been hidden and recognized as words that were not acceptable and you allow that to become acceptable then you allow the next steps to occur. The next steps where theres violence against people walking down the street. The next steps where theres graffiti being written on walls. The next steps where somebody enters into a place that is so sacred where people go to find sanctuary and peace with god and somebody feels that is the way that they will express their hatred, with murder. Yes, words matter. Rabbi, i dont want to make you relive what happened saturday morning, but how quickly did you realize something terrible was happening . Id never heard live gunfire in my life before. Initially, within the first few minutes of our service starting, there was a crash and i thought it was one of our metal coat racks in the lobby had fallen, that perhaps somebody had fallen and grabbed onto it and yanked it down. And i would say in the next ten seconds the next volley came, again rapid succession. And while i didnt have any experience in it, there was a gut extinct that told me this is not something good, this is semiautomatic fire. And i knew this was a serious situation. And did you see you saw this person . Never. I never saw the person. I made it out of the sanctuary before. I immediately told the congregation to drop on the floor, do not utter a sound and dont move. We have heavy wooden pews, 3 inches thick oak. Thought it could provide some modicum of protection. The several near the front, i quickly escorted them up the stairs, out through one of the back doors of the sanctuary, into one of the labyrinth of our buildings, find an exit door, find a closet, if you find a closet stay in it until the police come get you. And then turned to see about the eight people in the rear of the sanctuary, and i heard at that moment the gunfire, the volume was increasing. And i knew that if i would move forward another 150 feet towards the rear of the sanctuary, that there was nothing i could do at that point because it was just too dangerous a situation. So i left the sanctuary. One of those people you visited today, she survived. The other 7 were slaughtered in my sanctuary, and i live with that for the rest of my life because, well, i know i couldnt have done something. I still wonder, gee, could i have done something. You called 911 . Yeah, the minute i got through there i called 911 and was on the phone with them for 20 minutes as i sought shelter for myself. The exit i envisioned i knew was not an exit because of the proximity of the shooter. As a person of faith, how does one face this . I mean, how does one make sense of it . As a person of faith, what is it i dont know. My faith, my deep faith tells me it wasnt some divine plan with god in the control room pushing buttons saying im going to send a shooter into tree of life and slaughter all of these people, that gods the one i turn to at moments like this to say give me strength, give me inspiration to help lead my flock through this difficult time. Mayor, i think you said something to the Washington Post that the president , he shouldnt visit while burials are still taking place. The president and his wife are planning on coming tomorrow. If you spoke to them, do you have a message to them . Well, we did try to get the message out to the white house that our priority tomorrow is the first funeral, that well be using Public Resources in order to be able to have adequate Public Safety at the site to be able to use Public Safety for the procession and also to be able to make sure that well still be at our schools, our synagogues, the jck and other large jewish institutions. Having that i do believe that it would be best to put the attention on the families this week. And if he were to visit, choose a different time to be able to do it. Our focus is the city, it will be on the families and the outreach theyll need this week and the support they need to get through it. Once we get past that, then i think theres the opportunity for president ial visits. Rabbi, i spoke with as i said i spoke with roses family in the hospital tonight. And what an extraordinary family they are. Just they had so many stories about her. 97 years old. Shed attended this synagogue for i believe it was 60 years, she said. She was married for 50 years. She just sounds like an incredible pillar of this community. She was. And we had this really wonderful thing partway through the service, and in many Faith Services there are responsive readings in english. It was one that was hers which she owned. And when we get to that part of the service i would look at rose and smile and she would lead. And the ironic thing is the responsive leading she led was the perfect piece. Do you know how it goes . I dont want to put you on the spot. Off the top of my head in enlie english after these past few days, i dont remember. Mr. Mayor, thank youo much. Im so sorry its under these circumstances. Well get through. Its a strong community. Coming up next the ceo of hias on what his group really does and what its done for decades to help americans become americans. And people who save lives in the crucial moments after the shooting, more from pittsburgh. 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On a social media site youve most likely never heard of, but it turns out gab. Com has become an online home for those who love to hate. What you find is just an absolute cesspool of the most vile commentary you can find. Extreme misogyny, antisemitism, racism. Reporter gab is currently not operating. An online statement says the company has spent the past 48 hours proudly working with the doj and fbi to bring justice to an alleged terrorist. Until now the site has put few restricts on its users. According to the site itself gabs mission is very simple, defend free speech and individual liberty for all people. On saturday evening after the shooting gab users were calling the shooter a hero. On its website gab says its the alleged shooter who holds sole responsibility for his actionsch when cnn tried to get more information on the suspects profile gab tweeted you have our statement, deal with it. Surn Poverty Law Center says its no surprise to anyone the shoo