Referred to the Boston Marathon bombers as, quote, unquote, home boys, the tsarnaev brothers. The hearts and minds of the people of orlando are on the victims here. The number of fatalities downgraded today to 49 from 50, because the 50th fatality was the gunman and as of yesterday, they were including that total as a victims total. The 50th person is in fact, the gunman. Now, 43 of the 53 wounded remain in the hospital. We hear that at least six are undergoing operations today on monday, pretty much two days after this shooting occurred or day and a half or so. And some are said to be in grave condition. Authorities warning not to be surprised if the Fatality List climbs. I want to ask you about omar mateens father who spoken out. What have you able to undercover about him, about what he has said in terms of his allegiance to the taliban and what role he may have played in the leadup to this . Talking to his son. I know he talked to him hours before this shooting happened. What do you know about him. Reporter thats a great question, his name is saddiqui mean born in afghanistan and omar was born in new york, and they resided here in florida about 90 miles or so south of orlando in port saints lucy but the father posted a video in his native tongue today on facebook. He basically acted confused as to how this could happen. He says hes well educated, very well mannered, very respectful. His father saying that if he knew one percent of what was going on, he would have contacted author he also said that he had a wife, which we know about, but the wife came out yesterday and basically said this guy was very abusive, that omar mateen was abusive and physically and verbally assaulted her numerous occasions. The father saying it was a design marriage and he had a child and everything to live for. A lot of interesting information. Joel waldman thank you so much. Tonight in washington, the head of the fbi is defending the bureaus prior investigation of the orlando shooter. Director james comey can disclosed details of three interviews the fbi had with omar mateen in recent years prior to his shooting. President obama was briefed about yesterdays shooting and spoke to reporters. We can say this is being treated as a terrorist investigation. It appears that the shooter was inspired by information that was disseminated over the internet. Fox 5 Tom Fitzgerald is continuing Team Coverage of the orlando shooting. Hes live at fbi to headquarters. They refused to say mateens name today. Reporter that is correct. Director james comey said he would only river to mateen as the killer because he didnt want to encourage fame and glory. Fbi disclosed they had interviewed omar mateen over the course of three times spanning 2013 and 2014 in regard to islamic extremist. However, they closed that case after determining they were no longer concern about him. We want you to hear what he had to say today. The fbi director here a headquarters defending the actions of fbi agents saying that he thought they acted properly. Within the same moment, that he would look into this case to see if anything could have been done differently. The honest answer is, i dont think so. I dont see anything in reviewing our work that our agents should have done differently, but well look at it in an open and honest way and be transparent about it. Our investigation involved introducing Confidential Sources to him, recording conversations with him, following him, reviewing tractional records from his communications and searching Government Holdings for any possible connections, derogatory information. Reporter comey says they first began investigating him back in may of 2013. Thats when they saw something, said something and contacted the fbi. They were concerned. Mateen had been bragging about his family being connected to islamic groups. The fbi says after two interviews with him they determine that he was no ba for mateens pleads. However, in 2014, mateen was interviewed again by fbi. This time investigating possible connections to a suicide bomber in syria when someone had identified mateen as a person who could have been radicaled, however, after that interview, agents again determine he was not a threat. Former c ia tells fox 5 he is concerned about how omar mateen case was handled. He says the president and the fbi director said that mateen was radicalized and a loan wolf but the administration is still reluctant to actually discuss what he was self radicalized as. That is extremist islamic ideology. It has gotten ridiculous, the degree to which Political Correctness and lack of preciseness and specificity has infected its amazing. Reporter adding to the confusion, the fbi director said today that it is still not clear exactly which group mateen pledged allegiance to, even though he was on the phone with a 911 operator pledging allegiance to isis, his former claims of being in solidarity with the Boston Marathon bombers and that syrian bomber are all groups they were not connected to isis. Of director james comey says there is still confusion about what mateen thought he was fighting for. Will you have at fbi headquarters Tom Fitzgerald fox 5 local news. The victims of the orlando shooting were remembered today on the steps of the u. S. Capitol. Lgbt and muslim Congressional Staff associations held a vigil and paused for a moment of silence to honor the victims a short time ago. Paul wagner continues our Team Coverage live at the dc police station. How is local responding to all of this tonight . Reporter well, we met with chief out here at the sixth district a little while ago ago and talked to her at length about security in the city. She said she got a call about 6 00 yesterday morning, where she was told what was happening in orlando, and at that moment, she decided to get on the phone 10 start moving resources around. She says she brought in Additional Resources into the city from her special operations division. She says those resources are in place today and they will be tomorrow. First give you the robs that we got today from dc mayor bowser. We caught up with her after that to get her reaction to what had happened in orlando. Heres the mayor. Most americans woke up yesterday morning in shock and mad quite frankly that we are having yet another violent attack on americans because of deadly that is what really has my attention, that we have to, in this country, face up to at the fact that assault rifles are only meant to devastate human beings, and we have to do something about it. Reporter now, the attack at Pulse Night Club in orlando raises questions about security here in dc where there is a large Lgbt Community, a town night club on 8th street northwest, the owners told in his an email, they employ a large uniform staff stationed throughout the club, which is supported by a sophisticated camera system and multiple uniformed Dc Police Officers working out front. Noting that many in the Gay Community go to these clubs where they can be themselves and feel safe. The dc night life and Hospital Association recently co sponsored a Terrorism Security briefing for local establishments with dc Police Homeland Security and the fbi. Late this afternoon, dc police chief told reporters night life zones in 2012. Specifically, to keep an eye on the clubs that could be targets for terrorism or other violence. Heres what the chief had to say about those zones just a short while ago. The creation of the night life establishment, the units we put together and the specialized training we give them is bet practice for most big cities around the country. Were is that righting to see other cities starting to also create these night life units. But theyre specially trained just to deal with that environment. Everything that could go along with that environment. Reporter the chief says she is keeping her ear on whats going on in orlando and said she could change her security measures at any time hour to hour. Live in northeast paul wagner, fox 5 local news. In light of the orlando shooting, americans are looking to the president ial candidates now more than ever to learn how they might respond to this type of attack. Also, americans want to know how the candidates prevent a similar attack. Fox 5 political reporter is here with a look at how the candidates have responded today. Reporter today we heard from both Hillary Clinton and donald trump. They each delivered remarks that focused extensively on the attack and their plans to stop this from happening again if they become president. Here is highlights. On sunday, americans woke up to a nightmare thats become mind numbingly familiar. The orlando terrorist may be dead. But the virus that poisoned his mind remains very much alive. As president , i will make identifying and stopping loan wolves a top priority and i will make sure our Law Enforcement and intelligence professionals have all the resources they need to get the job done. Is this a dark moment in americas history. Its ans of free people to live their lives, love who they want and express their identity. When im elected, i will suspend immigration from areas of the world where theres a proven history of terrorism against the United States, europe or our allies until we fully understand how to end these threats. They also spoke about gun control. Hillary clinton said, quote, we should all be able to agree on a few essentially things when it comes to looking at our gun laws and basically saying making some changes, she noted, quote, if youre too dangerous to get on a plane, youre too dangerous to buy a gun in america. In Donald Trumps remarks, he said he would defend the Second Amendment and highlighted his endorsement from the n ra. Both clinton and trump offered support to the Lgbt Community and expressed support to the nation at any with fox 5 as we continue to learn more. We will bring you the latest on the investigation as we learn them. Here on fox 5 on facebook and twitter and at fox 5 dc. Com. Other big sorries. A Maryland Police officer in trouble with the law. Coming up the disturbing charges he is facing tonight. How can metro afford the massive yearlong repair program . How the feds are helping outcoming up. Sue. Sarah and laura, which do you prefer . Saturday 96 or todays 82 . Today. Thats from the department. Its so great out there tonight. If you have evening plans, perhaps youre going down to take in the nats game, the cubs are in town. We need to take some of the sizzle out of that game. Ill let you know what to expect as we look at evening forecast and a peak at tomorrow when fox 5 local news at 5 00 comes right back. Skyfox over the scene of a massive house fire in potomac today. They broke out around 2 00 this afternoon. Montgomery county fire Officials Say no one was home at the time. Took about 65 firefighters to distinguish the fire. Fire marshals believe it started in the garage no word yet on what sparked the fire. A Montgomery CountyPolice Officer is behind bars after getting caught up in an on line sex sting. Were getting a better sense of how often a being forced to go undercover to keep your kids safe online. Fox 5 jim lokay is here with the details. Reporter these things happen more and more often. With good reason. Police in Prince William county where this happened say its a combination of parents not keeping a closer eye on their kids on line and would be criminals taking advantage. This is the officer, christopher dunkas has been on force less than two years, he answered a post it add by a 15yearold girl but it was actually a Prince William county Police Officer. He met up in a target park the lot to make the arrest. It wasnt any sort of incident or anything like that. We routinely do these types of operations to see. We hope sometimes we conduct these operations and we dont get anything from it. Thats our goal is actually have no one doing a sort of deviant. Thats not the age we live in. Reporter he added if they do a sting and make one arrest, theyre still doing the job. Hes suspended without pay pending investigation, hes charged with using a Communications Device to facilitate offenses with juveniles. Of others men from virginia ranging in april ages from 20 oh 58 j. The 22yearold was shot and killed friday night while she was signing autographs following her concert in orlando. The gunman, this man, later took his own life. Friends and family will gather for a candle light is vigil in evesham. She was a i tube star and a contestant on the voice. She apparently had no personal connection to the man who shot her. A federal Appeals Court overturned a jurys decision to award jesse venture. The money saying state law does not allow for a payout. The remaining am was reversed for defamation sending the case back to District Court for a new defamation trial. It was a major victory. He wrote the memoir that he said defamed him. Taking it outside where all of us want to be right now. We should be spending the whole show out there. It is just gorgeous. Quite a departure from where we were yesterday and the day before. Sue lets bring more of this on. Can we, please . We need it. It took your breath away this weekend. In particular, saturday and of course, yesterday was very breezy and hot but we trended back down closer to normal. Were getting a nice break, and you know what . Tonight looks like it will be just spectacular. Of earlier, i said the high was 82. We havent officially gotten the data but i believe the high may have only been 80 and thats below average. We dropped below 80 at reagan, all of the northern and western suburbs generally in the upper 70 to say to near 80 or 81. And it is delightful out there. Part of the reason is the wind direct dropped the due point temperatures, thats a measure of the humidity in the air and over the weekend, it was super high, close to 70 saturday. Now, 53 degrees. That is so comfortable. Cumberlands due point 48, higher at west minister. I believe there might be something wrong part of the reason also is the direction of the wind and the arrows showing us the wind are coming in out of the north, its a pleasant breeze out of the north about 12. What a great night for baseball, this will be. Going to show you that in a minute. New york is 71. Boston is 71, pittsburgh home of the stanley cup, graduations, 74 t few clouds may come in later but the nats are taking onhe cubs, ready hot, were going to wish them all the best. The nats, of course, 77 first pitch at 7 05, great night for baseball. 75 with partly cloudy conditions at the sixth inning and wrapping up about 10 00 at 73 and partly cloudys beautiful evening. Tomorrows headline more of the same. We do get unsettled as the week goes on. Well talk about that with the sevenday forecast in just a little bit. Laura . Thanks. Some good news tonight when it comes to metro. The federal Transit Administration has approved 20 million in federal funding to support metros safetrack program. The f ta signed off on the use of the money. The fta says its supervisors is performing daily oversight. Supervisors are monitoring how well well stick to procedure, rules and safety standards. A big honor is bringing a legendary actor to dc this fall. Tech fans apple making changes to its devices. How Artificial Intelligence will be playing a larger role on the companys future. Later, this adorable picture of a man and his new dog went viral. They both are so happy and they got the guy in trouble. Were going to explain why as fox 5 news continues. . Security was high on the campus of the American University today. The dolly lama was in town to speak at the school. The spiritual leader shared his thoughts on a Peaceful Mind in a modern world. Worked for years addressing the practice of compression. Dc mayor house leader and actor richard gear were all there as well. Hes known for making us laugh on saturday night live and in movies like ghost busters. Now bill murray will be this years recipient of the mark twain prize for american humor. Hes one of several saturday night alums who have received the prize, it will be handed out at the kennedy sunnier october. Major move for apple at siri is getting an upgrade. The digital assistant will now be available for the make. Apple says siri will make a lot of simple actions easier like adding things to your calendar. Siri will be working with apes made by other companies and it will be a compatible with apple tv as well allowing you to launch live tv with voice commands. Apple says they expect siri will be available for macs by this fall. They plan to make apple music more user friendly and introduce a cool feature for i messages where you can change the size of text bubbles to convey yo feelings. How about siri just actually worked . Half the time i try to use her and shes unavailable. Beyond what youre saying. Im like really . I have not found too many uses for her. Hopefully they improve her. She does have some funny. Yes, it was fun at first. Still to come more on the night club shooting. Were live in orlando with more on how the city is coping. Theres a problem parents and schools are facing when tragedy strikes. How do you explain what happened to children . Up next, an expert weighs in and tells us there are a few things parent will want to avoid next. Jamie wanted a taste of the real new orleans and we just couldnt say no to that face. Then we wanted more of that local flavor so betty says. Oh yeah, thats betty. Youre going to want to do this alligator thing. And betty didnt lead us wrong. A little later we passed some dancing. And who doesnt like dancing . Esp