We were trying to comfort him. New details about the orlando shooters wife the couple was apparently texting one another during the rampage. Those who were killed and injured here were gunned down by a single killer with a powerful assault weapon. Hes blaming guns, and im going save your second amendment, folks. President obamas strategy in syria coming under fire. A cable signed by 51 mostly midlevel diplomats urges air strikes against the Bashar Al Assad regime. Iraqi troops recapturing a building in central fallujah from isis. Cia director john brennan saying we have not been able to stop isis from growing. Our efforts have not released the groups terrorism capability and global reach. Britain is mourning the loss of jo cox, member of parliament shot and killed. Weve lost a great star. Wildfires forcing the evacuation of thousands across southern california, new mexico, and arizona. Terrifying really. Singer meat loaf is hospitalized in canada after collapsing during a show in edmonton. All that this dude with the onehanded grab of the foul ball with a little girl. Fantastic. How about this give me that souvenir a wiretowire victory for the cavs. All that matter today is the oneyear anniversary of Donald Trumps announcement that he would run for president. Its hard to believe that it was only one year ago that democrats were worried about jeb bush. On cbs this morning. Simply times. Oprah has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. [ applause ] yeah. Yeah. When asked about hillarys chances of becoming the most powerful woman in the world, oprah said, oh, im not stepping down. Welcome to cbs this morning. The president Obama Administration faces an unprecedented challenge to his Foreign Policy from within. 51 career diplomats from across the state department signed an internal memo calling for new military action in syria. Its sharply critical of the administration. Multiple sources say secretary of state john kerry has also urged the president to do more. This morning, kerry says he has not seen the memo. According to his spokesman, hes been briefed and calls it an important state. Margaret brennan with more from the white house. Reporter good morning. It is rare to see dozens of american diplomat formally object to u. S. Policy. After five years of brutal war, some within the Obama Administration have had enough and are calling for action. With an estimated 500,000 dead in syria and thousands of refugees fleeing for their lives, dozens of american diplomats called for a radical change. The 51 state Department Officials who signed the classified internal memo argue that the u. S. Should destroy syrian dictator Bashar Al Assads military might. The diplomats told cbs news that assad has faced no consequence for his brutality, continuing to ignore assad while fighting isis is dragging out the fiveyear war, and they believe is creating new extremists. President obama has long been hesitant to intervene in another mideast war. In 2012, he threatened military action if assad used chemical weapons. We have communicate d with every player in the region that thats a red line for us. Reporter but backed off when assad killed more than a thousand people with an attack outside damascus a year later. Isis has thrived inside the war zone. While mr. Obama has committed teams of special operators to target isis leaders, he told charlie rose that u. S. Military involvement would be sharply limited. That does not mean that we should be deploying troops everywhere where a crisis is taking place. We have to be judicious about how we use military power. Reporter on thursday, senator john mccain blamed president obamas policies in iraq and syria for the isisinspired attack in orlando. He pulled everybody out of iraq, and i predicted at the time that isis would go unchecked, and there would be attacks on the United States of america. So he is directly responsible. Reporter mccain later said in a statement he doesnt hold president obama personally responsible for orlando. Gayle, what is really remarkable about this state Department Memo is that it was written by politically neutral diplomats, and they really hope that the white house doesnt dismiss this in the midst of a political campaign. The state department has to respond in 30 to 60 days. Air strikes targeted u. S. Trained rebels inside syria. The attacks in the southern part of the country hit forces who have received u. S. Military support. They were equipped to fight isis. Russias military has been backing the assad regime. A center u. S. Defense official says the strikes raised serious concerns about russias intentions in syria. Cia director brennan is offering a new take on the strength of isis that appears to contradict the president. Brennan told the Senate Intelligence committee yesterday that u. S. Efforts have not reduced the groups terrorism capabili capability, and he cautioned there could be new attacks here at home. The group is probably exploring a variety of means for infiltrating operatives into the west including in refugee flows, smuggling routes, and legitimate methods of travel. President obama recently touted gains in the fight. Brennan also said the agency has been unable to find any isis link with the orlando gunman, omar mateen. Were following breaking news from the front lines of the fight against isis. Iraqs military says its forces have retaken a cue government complex in the center of fallujah. Iraqi troops have been battling for nearly four weeks for control of the city west of baghdad. Libya palmer is following Elizabeth Palmer is following the latest from london. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Were waiting for more detail on the iraqi orems overall progress. This push to the center happened very early this morning about 6 00 local time. Taking that government compound is certainly a big symbolic victory for the iraqi army. Of course, the latest in a whole series of highprofile defeats for isis. It comes after, as you mentioned, almost a month of heavy fighting with the iraqi forces making slow progress through the countryside and villages surrounding the city itself backed by american air strikes. Fallujah was the first iraqi city that isis took, and its being con been consolidating its hold this for more than two years. The battle to bring it under government control has been fierce. The push for the center was no exception. May be that the isis fighters that had been there are escaping or escaped hiding among fleeing refugees, or perhaps theyve withdrawn to areas outside the city center where the battle is continuing. An officer with the baghdad command center told us a little while ago that the iraqi army is now in control of roughly half of fallujah city, and that the remaining isis defensive lines are in disarray. Gayle . Thank you very much. The orlando terror attack investigation is looking closer at the gunmans wife. Sources tell cbs news that noor salman was communicating with omar mateen during the shootings, and there is evidence that he may have done some of the planning with her. Salman is cooperating with investigators, but she could face charges herself. We also know that one of the gun stores mateen visited before the attack tried to warn the fbi. Jeff pegues is tracking that part of the investigation. Jeff, good morning. Reporter good morning. Investigators continue to examine forensic evidence and the digital trail of the killer and his wife. Still no signs that plans for this mass shooting came from overseas. The theory continues to be that he was inspired to kill, and the focus for a motive is stretching back years into his troubled past. Law enforcement sources confirm that mateen and his wife were texting as he carried out the attack. The words i love you were exchanged. Investigators are still trying to determine the extent of his wifes involvement. Sources say she purchased ammunition with him and believed she was in the car with him when he cased the pulse nightclub. There was evidence he had been planning the attack for weeks. Were doing what every gun shop in the United States should do. Reporter gun storeowner robert able says mateen tried to buy body armor and up to 1,000 rounds of ammunition in the weeks before the shooting. Able says the store didnt sell to mateen and flagged the incident to the fbi. The start of the eyebrow drawn up was the request of the body armor. When he pulled away, he immediately came back and wanted bulk ammo. Reporter the video was not preserved, and didnt get his name. Investigators are uncovering other new details about mateens actions during the rampage. [ gunfire ] according to sources, mateen was active on social media searching for pulse orlando and shooting on facebook. Perhaps to see if the massacre was trending on line. He also made calls to 911 and to a television station about the ongoing shooting. [ gunfire ] at around 5 00 a. M. , the s. W. A. T. Team reached the club, about three hours breached the club, about three hours after the shooting. A misconception that we were waiting three hours. Reporter s. W. A. T. Team captain mark cante was asked why they wait. During the entire time officers were rescuing people, try to get people out. We got a lot of people out before the last breach. Reporter mateen was a troubled child. School records show he was suspended for 48 days in high school. In an application for a criminal Justice Program in college, he admit that he was arrested and the subject of a criminal investigation. In 2007, mateen was dismissed from a job at the Florida Department of corrections. Its not clear why. President obama and Vice President biden met with victims families in orlando yesterday. They laid 49 white roses at a memorial, one for each of the dead. I held and hugged grieving family members and parents, and they asked why does this keep happening. They pleaded that we do more to stop the carnage. They dont care about the politics. Neither do i. A newly revealed video shows some of the horrors inside the pulse nightclub. Cbs news obtained the chilling cell phone video that shows hostages huddled inside a restroom stall among the dead and dying. They wait about four hours to be waited about four hours to be freed. Some seen in the video did not survive the attack. Jamie yuccas is outside the dr. Phillip center for the performing arts at the memorial for those who died. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Many of the 49 victims who are being remembered here at this memorial had sought safety in the nightclubs bathrooms. With no window and only one way out, the stalls became deathtraps when the gunman barged in. It was like 17 of us in there and only five of us made it out. Reporter worried the shooter would come back to finish them off, these survivors did their best to keep quiet and help those who were gravely injured. There was a guy, he was choking on his own blood. He wanted water so bad. We were trying to comfort him as much as we could. Reporter miguel leiva recorded videos and sent him to his girlfriend hoping she would stop calling. Everybody whose phone was ringing, any noise he heard, he was going that direction and shooting and killing people. I didnt see his face. I just remember seeing the sparks coming from the front of the muzzle of the gun. But it sounded like he was having enjoying himself. He didnt care at all. Reporter in another bathroom, Club PromoterOrlando Torres hid on top of a toilet when omar mateen walked in. Thats when he started pop, pop, pop, pop, pow, and shooting at the people in the other stall. They were screaming. Reporter torres said mateen returned a few minutes later, and his gun apparently jammed. Nobody made a move because i think everybody was still didnt have the strength in their legs to run out and tackle him. Reporter as police surrounded the club, torres says an injured man crawled into a stall causing him to fall off the toilet and on to the floor. His back was to the killer. I felt a nudge on my left hip, and i did not i did not move. I just laid there as if i was dead. Reporter leiva, who had been shot in the foot, says a 911 operator connected his group with a Police Hostage negotiator outside the nightclub. We followed their instructions to the t, and we just stayed focused and tried not to panic. [ gunfire ] reporter they were finally freed after the s. W. A. T. Team broke through the bathroom walls. I was helping them carry the guy we were trying to keep alive. Thats when the gunman came from behind us and started shooting at the s. W. A. T. Again. Thats when i got shot in the leg, and thats when the Police Killed him. Reporter leiva says he is a cancer survivor, and in this case he was only just released from the hospital on wednesday. He says hes uninsured. With months of therapy and rehab ahead, he did start a gofundme page to pay for medical bills and living expenses, gayle. Details are just terrifying. Thank you very much. The senate is likely to vote in coming weeks on tighter gun laws. A filibuster lasted nearly 15 hours. Senate republican leader Mitch Mcconnell called it a Campaign Talk thatathon. The democrats say the guncontrol plans would interfere with the constitutional right to bear arms. Egyptian investigators this morning say they have retrieved the second black box recorder from egyptair flight 804. The device shows why the planes computer what the planes computers recorded in the moments it crashed in the mediterranean sea. Crews already recovered the first black box which taped conversations in the cockpit. The killing of a british lawmaker has led to a worldwide outpouring of grief. Jo cox was killed in her district in england. Her mother said she believed in a better world and fought for it every day. The killing came a week before a divisive vote on whether european should whether britain should leave the european union. Reporter good morning, jo cox devoted her life to public service. She was brutaled attack doing what friends and fame said she loved most connecting with her community. A purse and pair of shoes were all that was left in the middle of the street where jo dock jo cox was brutally attacked. The gunman, tommy mair, had a gun and knife. Witnesses said he rushed cox saying britain first, the name of the antiimmigrant right wing party. Other witnesses said cox got caught in a fight between mair and another man. I saw him pulling the gun and went like that. Fired one shot. Reporter her murder comes on the homestretch of a bitter Referendum Campaign over whether britain should remain in the european union. Elected to Parliament Last year, cox was an outspoken advocate for refugees. These children have been exposed to things no child should ever witness. And i know i personally would risk life and limb to get my two precious babies out of that hell hole. Reporter by the river thames, a memorial grew around the houseboat cox lived in with her husband and two young children. Police are not saying anything about a possible motive. On thursday, an american nonprofit that tracks hate groups reported mair supported a neonazi organization in the u. S. And purchased a manual on how to make guns and explosives in 1999. Mairs brother said he had a history of mental illness. Coxs husband brendan believes she was targeted for her politics. We must all unite, he wrote, to fight the hate thread killed her. And the killing shocked the nation which has some of the toughest gun regulations in the world. Semiautomatic weapons were entirely banned in the u. K. In 1997, just one year after 16 children were killed. To put this in perspective, its believed there are about seven guns for every 100 people here in the u. K. Staggering numbers, though, when you look at the u. S. 101 to 100 people. Thanks, jonathan. Wildfires in the west this morning are spreading fast. Possible record heat is in the forecast. The fire near Santa Barbara has burned at least 1,400 acres. 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