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WUSA CBS Overnight News June 16, 2016

As shocking as the attack in orlando is, violence against the Lgbt Community is common even sanctioned in some parts of the world. Some islamic countries impose the Death Penalty for homosexuality. But none of them compare to the depravity of isis. The first images in Holly Williams story are honest but troubling to watch. Reporter isis propaganda videos like this one show men accused of having sex with other men executed in typically barbaric fashion. And it is not just under isis that gay and lesbian people face the Death Penalty. Samesex, sexual relations are illegal in more than 70 countries. But only in seven Muslim States can you be sentenced to death for it. This man told us he fled iran last year after spending three months in prison for handing out leaflets against homophobia. Translator they beat me. They tried to suffocate me with a pillow. And they stuck their shoes in my mouth, he said. Reporter not all muslims societies are intolerant of homosexuality. Here in turkey which is majority muslim, gay sex was legalized in 1858. Thats nearly 150 years before it finally became legal in all american states. Both the koran and the bible condemn homosexuality according to some interpretations. But as the the west has become more tolerant when it comes to sexuality, it sparked a culture clash with many conservative muslims. The massacre in or lane been praised by isis and its supporters. But scott, at this point there is no indication that the shooter had any contact with the group or its leaders in the middle east. Holly williams reporting from istanbul tonight. Holly, thank you. Orlando suffered yet another tragedy today. The body of a 2yearold boy was recovered this afternoon after he was taken by an alligator at a disney resort. Mark strassmann is covering. Reporter in the lagoon behind the grand floridian resort, dive teams searched for 15 hours. And in murky water about 6 feet deep they spot aid childs body completely intact. Sheriff jerry dennings. We recovered the remains of the 2yearold from the water and and that bed has now been turned over to the Orange County medical Examiners Office. Reporter matt and melissa vacationers from elk horn, nebraska, walked along the lagoons edge last night. Lane, their 2yearold son, waded into water 1 foot deep around 9 00 p. M. An alligator then pounced. His father tried but failed to wrestle his son back to safety. And the gator and the boy disappeared into the water. In their search, divers helped by sonar found and killed five alligators. Mark mccue, an alligator expert says summer is their breeding and nesting season. These alligators can pop up almost anywhere in florida . Pop up almost anywhere. I am not real familiar with the situation, there are canals, pond. Lakes that interconnect through the disney property. Wouldnt be unusual for alligators to move from one body of water to the next. Gators are part of the landscape at Walt Disney World. We found signs inside the park, warning against feeding alligators. At the was killed, signs say no swimming. No signs warn about alligators despite the fact that disney has had to relocate gators discovered in the past. Disney says it will reevaluate the messages and added in a statement everyone here is devastated. We are helping the family and doing everything we can to assist Law Enforcement. Alligator fatalities are rare in florida, scott, this was the states third since 2007. And the first in the 45 year history of Walt Disney World. Mark strassmann tonight, thank you. Well the president ial primary season came to a quiet close with Hillary Clinton defeating Bernie Sanders and the democratic contest in washington, d. C. She now takes on Republican Donald Trump in a cbs news poll out tonight, finds clinton has a sixpoint lead. Trump advocated a return to waterboarding terror suspects. And the cia has declassified documents from its socalled enhanced interrogation program. This release was a response to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties union which claims that the cia tortured suspects. Heres david martin. Reporter the heavily censored documents give a real time look into what the cia was thinking when it began waterboarding senior al qaeda captives. This is a train wreck waiting to happen one officer wrote announcing he was quitting the cia. But director george tenet assured the white house, socalled enhanced interrogation techniques enabled cia to disrupt terrorist plots, capture additional terrorists and collect critical intelligence on al qaeda. The first al qaeda prisoner to be water boarded was abu zebeta, a draft memo shows before the water board being gain, the cia wanted attorney general John Ashcroft to state in write he would not prosecute anyone f what they were about to do. In a cable from the secret prison where the prisoner was held, said he must never be allowed to tell what happened. We need to g reasonable assurances that subject will remain in isolation and out of communication for the remainder of his life. Abu zubaydah was water boarded 83 times. Evaluation by the cia office of medical services said az probably reached the point of cooperation even prior to the institution of enhanced measures. The same office of medical Services Also pointed out what appears to be a glaring conflict of interest. Psychologists who had a say in whether the enhanced interrogation should continue were getting paid 1,800 for each day they worked. Eventually the cia stopped using some of the harsher techniques. The cia director told his staff, president bush was concerned about the image of a detainee chained to the ceiling, clothed the bathroom on themselves. Scott. David martin reporting from the pentagon. David, thank you. The cbs overnight news will be right back. T, i get into it and. Feel the difference with ky ultragel. What are you doing . Sara, i love you, and. 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The judge who is under fire for sentencing a Stanford University swimmer to just six months for Sexual Assault has been blocked from a similar case. Prosecutors objected to the judge in the trial of a nurse charged with attacking an unconscious patient. Reporter the Santa Clara County das office took unusual step of removing judge aaron persky from a new Sexual Assault case. We lack confidence that judge persky can fairly participate in the upcoming hearing. Comes after a local newspaper published a scathing letter from one of 12 jurors in the brock turner case who unanimously convicted the stanford student on three counts of felony Sexual Assault. When persky handed down a six month sentence, the unnamed juror called it ridiculously lenient adding it makes a mockery of the trial and ability of the Justice System to protect victims of assault and rape. Justice has not been served in this case, the jury continued. Shame on you. This is someone who is very frustrated the judges sentence doesnt fit what they believe they reached the verdict in the case. Law professor Laurie Levinson said jurors rarely speak out like this. Even more out of the ordinary aamount of public backlash persky received forcing the da to act. There is a rationale basis for the District Attorney to say, that came out of the blue. We cannot take another chance at A Brock Turner type of result. We want him off these types of cases. Perskys problems are unlikely to end here. Last week a womens Rights Advocacy Group Calling for perskys removal delivered nearly 1 million online signatures to the state commission on judicial performance. The Santa Clara County District Attorneys office handles 40,000 cases a year, but scott, the das office tells me last year, they only requested to have a judge removed less than 10 times. From our los angeles newsroom, thank you very much. Coming up next, was this rock riff ripped off . For years led zeppelin fans debated the meaning of the mystical epic stairway to heaven. Now carter evans tells us the songs origins are being argued in court. Reporter dressed in a suit with his hair pulled , stage in his own defense this afternoon claiming it was two years ago when he first heard the song he and robert plant are accused of plagiarizing in 1971. At stake whether led zeppelin stole that famous stairway to heaven opening guitar riff from a lesser known band spirit and their song taurus. Now listen to stairway to heaven. Again. Spirits guitarist Randy California first released taurus in 1968. An attorney representing his estate claims page and plant heard the tune when the two band played the same venues in the late 60s. Attorneys for led zip lynn say the 10 second riff is rooted in a core progression that goes back hundreds of years. This piece by giovanni is from the 17th century. Larry iser, a copy right attorney you got to remember there is only 12 notes in a music scale. There is only a certain number of genres. Its almost impossible to not be influenced by what came before you. I know you want it reporter the lawsuit at the heels of another controversial decision that rocked the Music Industry last year when a judge awarded marvin gayes family 4. 7 million saying robin thicke and Pharrell Williams song, blurred lines copied give it up. Stairway to heaven earned 5550 over,00045 years. Randy californias estate wants a portion of that and future royalties. Carter evans on the stairway tonight. Thank you. Well be right back. Moisture so i can get into it ao enhance mbit quicker. Ral and when i know shes into it, i get into it and. Feel the difference with ky ultragel. We have told you how doctors are healing the bodies of the wounded in orlando. Jon lapook tells us, souls need mending as well. Reporter in a small house in downtown orlando. Good afternoon. Reporter healing starts with a call for help at an lgbt resource center. It is also in the work of a performer called blue star. Reeling from news of a friends death, but continuing to offer support from her theater headquarters. Providing love. Anything that we can do to ensure that someone makes it through this day and that when they wake up tomorrow they know they have a safe place to go. For people like aaron hernandez, healing begins with a vigil for those who were lost. Why did you come here today . To celebrate my friend. I lost five of them. Reporter oh, my. I think that the best way for mae to get better is to be surrounded with people that i love. Reporter since 9 11 research taught Mental Health experts the best medicine following traumatic events is not having people relive the events in their minds but instead making them feel safe, calm, and connected to others. All around this grieving city, there are signs of healing. When you wake up in the morning and it is your family, it is your community, unless people experience it you the cut actually is. Reporter how does the cut heal . I dont know. Reporter no one knows. But this is how it begins. Dr. Jon lapook, cbs news, orlando. Thats the overnight news for this thursday. For some of you the news continues. For others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im scott pelley. This tis the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im michelle miller. The investigation into the orlando massacre is focused on the killers wife. Investigators tell cbs news, noorsalman went to pulse nightclub with her husband at least once went with him to buy am nation and told the fbi she tried to talk him out of committing the attack. 49 people died and more than 50 others were wounded when omar mateen turned the club into a killing ground. Jeff pegues has more. Reporter cbs news learned that sunday, omar mateen went to work as a Security Guard in a gated community in florida. Went home only to go out back again ending nightclub. Investigators believe he was in the area for several hours before walking into the nightclub carrying a backpack and then launching the attack at abt 2 00 a. M. [ gunfire ] reporter sundays shooting rampage wasnt omar mateens only objective during the threehour attack. He was on face book, declaring allegiance to isis. He repeated his pledge in a phone call to 911 and to a Television Producer according to a local cable news station. He started saying he did it for the Islamic State, isis. And he started speaking in arabic. Reporter Law Enforcement source says mateens wife noor videotaped with her head covered is telling investigators she tried to stop her husband from committing the attack. Investigators have interviewed her twice and given her a polygraph test. She told them the couple had been to the club at least once before. Everybody knew his name. Omar says mateen was a regular. He used to come in the bar on the weekend some times. He would be there, some times he would miss a couple weeks and be in again. Reporter the fbi has been speaking with owners of the clubs in the area, michael bass who operates gay club revere. He says he received a face book friend request from mateen three days before the shooting. I saw that picture that morning of the incident. Ive swallowed my tongue it was omar mateen. Good morning. Reporter 2012 documentary appears to show mateen working as a Security Guard following the bp oil spill. Where he seems skeptical of the cleanup efforts. No one gives a [ bleep ] here. Everybody is just out to get paid. Theyre hoping for more oil to come out. More people to complain so they will have the jobs. They want more disaster to happen. Reporter the killers wife has been cooperating with authorities. But prosecutors are kidding whether to charge her for having prior knowledge of the ever called police to warn them that she believed he was planning an attack. The orlando massacre has renewed the debate over gun sales. President obama said it is just crazy to allow someone on a terrorist no fly list to buy a gun. And now the nra says it agrees. The group which supports donald trump for president , now says anyone on a terror watch list who tries to buy a gun should be thoroughly investigated and the sale delayed. While that investigation is under way. The nra also wants people to be able to get their names off of the terror watch list. Right now there is no mechanism for that. Nancy cordes reports from the campai campaign trail. He said i will abolish the second amendment. Thats wrong. Reporter clinton said he favors a return to restrictions for people on the no fly list. People being watched for buy a gun with no questions aske democrats on capitol hill chimed in pointing to a new federal report that shows in the last year alone, people on the terrorist watch list were able to pass federal background checks and buy a gun in 223 cases out of 244 attempts. Let our republican colleagues contemplate that. They want to fight terrorism, but they say theyre going to continue a situation where 91 of suspected terrorists can get a gun. Republicans have their own bill. They say would do the same thing while making sure those denied a gun have a right to appeal it. An assault weapons ban they say would be unconstitutional. Do you think the founders anticipated assault weapons that could very quickly kill 50 people . Right now, our democratic friend seem to be more interested in opportunistically using this tragedy to advance their agenda rather than looking to work w u problems. The amendment is not agreed to. Reporter republicans noted last time an assault weapons ban came up for a vote in 2013, 16 Senate Democrats voted against it including west virginias joe mansion. Where do you stand on an assault weapons ban now . I know with the ar15 theyre talking about, type of weapon, what it is used for. The people that go hunting we dont use that type of gun. There is an awful lot of people that collect and go sports shooting. They use it very legitimate, legal way. The senator did coauthor legislation to close loopholes in background checks after the sandy hook massacre. And it was seen as the best chance for a bipartisan compromise back then. But it also failed. He is hoping this tragedy could give it new life. More than two dozen people shot in the pulse nightclub are still in the hospital. About a half dozen are listed as critical. Some survivors well enough off to talk described their we are all scrambling in the bathroom screaming. Reporter the survivors gut wrenching accounts of the massacre are difficult to listen to. People are getting hit by bullets. Blood is everywhere. Reporter during the attack, patience carter and 32yearold angel santiago sought shelter in pulses bathrooms. When it didnt stop. The gunfire kept going. We heard it getting louder and closer. I did think to myself. Wow, this is probably it for me. Both shot in the leg. Santiago hit multiple times. Every time the phone rung or text message went off. He would say where is

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