>> this is nicer than my hotel room. bottles flying, tear gas fills the air, at euro 2016 football tournament, russia and england. and trump launches a new attack on a former presidential nominee. and iraqi troop close in on fallujah. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. cnn "newsroom" starts right now.

♪ violence among football fans for a third straight day in france. take a look at these images from the stadium. english and russian fans met again on saturday. in the streets, authorities were determined to make sure that fans fighting each other, neither side would win. police used tear gas against bottle-throwing crowds. they made over a dozen arrests. cnn's alex thomas has more for us from paris. when a sensational goal was made, it appeared that football shoved the negative incidents

were aside. after the game, russian fans charged into the section containing england supporters. there was panic and there was a bit of a crush. we have yet to receive details precisely of injuries. we know the authorities were expecting trouble. bars were asked to close and not serve alcohol. inside the grounds there did appear to be a lack of policing and stew warding according to social media reports. the wife of one of the players said on twitter that has to be up there with the worst experience ever as an away game. tear gs for no reason. caged and treated like animals, shocking. the organizers said they won't comment about possible sanctions

until they receive more information. they have observers at all their matches, of course. it was the latest of a long line of violence. 500 people were rioting. police were having to break it up using tear gas once again. on saturday, there were a total of 31 injuries, four seriously hurt, and three police officers receiving minor injuries. the french interi don't remember minute tri -- ministry are banned 6,000 known trouble makers, including 3,000 from the u.k. and 200 foreign police officers are helping the police forces here in france to deal with it. they had planned for possible football hooliganism.

as i said all those bad headlines taking the focus from matters on the pitch where england had led so long before russia scored a great equalizer. albania 0, switzerland 1 in group a was the other result in day two of euro 2016. there is a great deal of focus now on how france is handling the violence at euro 2016. my colleague, nick parker spoke with cnn law enforcement analyst steve moore about how this latest situation unfolded and what police can do about it. >> with the lack of officers separating the russian and english fans that maybe they had their eye on counterterrorism and either did not expect this much hooliganism or did not

prepare for it qael -- adequately. i think this caught everybody, apparently, by surprise. >> i mean, obviously as you are looking into the terror threat, this is really the last thing that french authorities sneed, to be honest with you. i wanted to ask you whether you had an opinion as somebody that has great expertise in mob violence, why football or soccer as it's known here in the united states seems to attract more violence than other sports? >> we looked into that and it goes back almost to the turn of the 20th century and you have -- there's a lot of books on the social dynamic of it, but suffice it to say that this is not about football. the hooliganism is not about football. it's about social class. it's about race. it's about politics, but it is not about football. >> so far, the clashes that we've seen in this tournament, have they surprised you or are

they broadly in line with what you were expecting? >> they were bradley in line in what would have expected about 10 to 15 years ago. britain more than anyone else has made great strides in ending this type of violence and taking steps that would stop this. i'm very surprised that some of the standard -- it appears that some of the standard precautions that the british take were not taken in a euro championship like this. >> indeed. i just want to ask you about the terror threat that's obviously hanging over this competition to some degree. what is your perspective on the preparations the french authorities have made at this stage and is there a danger that they could be overstretched with these kind of scenes breaking out? >> that's a good observation, nick. i cannot think -- if you were out there as a terrorist trying to plan a vulnerability, trying

to plan a way to attack these games, the one thing that you would pray for is this type of violence that would distract the police there, the police and the authorities away from counterterrorism and on top of it create confusion in the streets and at the stadium which would have -- which would of course make it easier to get in and out of the stadium with things that you shouldn't have. >> that was cnn law enforcement analyst steve moore speaking with my colleague nick parker. now on to syria where isis claims that it targeted a shia mosque revered by foreign fighters. twin suicide bombings killed at least 20 people near a shrine in damascus. that is according to the syrian opposition group based in the u.k. protecting the shrine is one of the main reasons that hezbollah and militia men have given for

entering the war. isis continues to lose ground on the front lines. the group is being slowly turned back in iraq, syria, and libya. >> reporter: isis is now under more pressure than tavenltd since its creation. in libya forces from both the eastern and western parts of the country have stripped isis of its control of a stretch of almost 200 kilometers on the mediterranean coast. on saturday, forces from the west said they retook the city f of the port five kilometers east of the city and they are poised to go into the city proper. fallujah came under isis control, the first major urban center to be taken by isis in

january 2014. since a year and a half, iraqi forces have retaken from isis the cities of tikrit, beigei and ramadi. according to u.s. officials and iraqi officials, measures are afoot to begin an offensive eventually. it's not clear when. in syria, russia is backing syrian forces who have reentered for the first time in well over the year of province of raqqah, well, of course, the city of raqqah, city's defacto capital is located. elsewhere in the western part of syria, the u.s.-backed syrian democratic forces have surrounded the town northeast of aleppo pressing the offensive there. the worry is that as isis loses ground and territory, it's

striking back. in syria two massive bombs in damascus, killing more than 20 people, on thursday there was a suicide bomb and a car bomb in baghdad. all of them claimed by isis. that clearly sees as it loses on the battlefield, it will resort evermore to terrorism in the cities. cnn baghdad. thank you. the director of the cia says there's no evidence that the saudi government supported the 9/11 terror attacks. in an exclusive interview with the saudi owned network, 28 pages have been withheld from the commissions report. brennan says those pages will show conclusively there was no backing by the saudi government or by senior sawed -- saudi official. protests about food with becoming a daily event in

venezuela. that country has been hit hard shortages. amid all the unrest, the president says a referendum to remove him won't be coming any time soon. >> translator: if the recall referendum's requirements are met, it will be next year and that's it. if the requirements aren't met, there will be no referendum and that's it. and we should respect that. >> if the referendum does happen in 2017, maduro's vice president would replace him if he lost. this is cnn "newsroom" and 4:11 on the east coast. donald trump and mitt romney are trading jabs. police in the u.s. state of florida make a breakthrough in the death of a young singer.

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breaking news. >> we have some breaking news to report here on cnn this hour. police if orlando, florida, are

dealing with the shooting at a night club with multiple injuries, multiple people being hit. details are just beginning to come into the "newsroom" at this hour, but police are telling everyone to stay away from a night club that is called the pulse night club. again, in orlando, to stay away from the pulse night club. that club is apparently a gay dance club. june is gay pride month. the club tweeted for its patrons to get out, run, and keep running. we continue to follow the story and we'll bring you details as we get them. authorities are telling everyone to stay away from the pulse night club in orlando, florida. we'll continue to follow this here on cnn. america's choice, 2016, the presumptive republican nominee for president is swinging back at a top republican. in pennsylvania donald trump responded to a cnn exclusive

interview with former presidential nominee mitt romney. a vocal trump critic, he told cnn that trump would bring trickle down racism and misogyny. >> it's absolutely pathetic. he lost. he choked. like a dog, he choked, and now it's time for somebody else. we're going to win, folks. we're going to win. we're not going to be choking. i don't choke. >> donald trump there. and in another cnn exclusive, cnn obtained an audio recording of mitt romney speaking at a private retreat with millionaire republican donors. romney got emotional talking about the rise of trump and the future of the republican party. >> i find this so troubling and i know a lot of folks, mitt,

just get off your high horse on this and get behind the guy. these things are personal. i love this country. i love the founders. i love what this country is built upon. its values. and seeing this is breaking my heart, from the party that -- [ applause ] >> the presumptive democratic nominee for president is celebrating the support of an influential civil rights leader. the reverend jesse jackson says he's endorsing hillary clinton. he trusts hillary clinton that she will promote the civil rights of marginalized communities, including refugees, immigrants and the poor. police in florida have identified the man who shot and killed singer christina grimmie. they say kevin james loibl

approached her after when she was signing autographs after her show on friday and opened fire. authorities have yet to determine a possible motive. >> reporter: singer christina grimmie, a former contestant on "the voice" is dead. shot and killed after her concert in orlando. >> they were selling merchandise and signing autographs. the suspect walked up and shot christina. her brother tackled the suspect and that's when the suspect shot himself. >> the suspect is dead himself and her brother is called a hero for protecting others inside the venue. >> we don't know if they were friends, we don't know if he was a crazy fan that followed her on twitter, on social media. ♪ ♪

>> this is believed to be video of her last performance filmed by a fan just before the kedly shooting. grimmie, 22-year-old, was best known as a finalist on season six of "the voice." restarted out performing on youtube as a teenager where she amassed 3 million followers. fans tweeting with the #rip christina. >> it's probably one of the worst things that could happen right now. tens of thousands of palestinians are unable to enter israel from gaza and the west bank on. for the latest, we go to phil black in jerusalem this hour. what is the latest at this point? >> reporter: george, as you say,

it is correct that there continues to be a complete ban on movements for palestinians between the territories in the west bank and the gaza strip and israel itself and those measures will be in place until the end of the day. it's not unusual for that sort of measure to be put into place over a jewish holiday which today is. this was announced specifically as a response to the terror attacks of wednesday night. in addition to that, the government is continuing its freeze on allowing people to visit family members and to cross into israel during ramadan. for religious reasons, essentially, usually to see family during this very holy time for muslims. that particular restriction will continue until the government decides otherwise. they have not yet indicated just how long that will be. meanwhile, around the town in

the south of the west bank, this is the town where two attackers came from, there continues to be something of a partial blockade with roads blocked and also some israeli military presence, so vehicles cannot get in and out. people can get in and out on foot. this is a direct response to attacks. it's difficult to see it purely as a security measure. people are allowed to go and come freely on foot but the restriction on vehicles is an inconvenience to people who live there to get food in and out. they have to carry it in and out. that's an issue that specifically inconveniences them during ramadan, where muslims are fasting during the day, breaking the fast at the end of the day. they have to carry the meal them in. it applies to everyone, it seems. children, adults, men, women, the elderly, so forth, all are being made to walk in and out in

this way and that's why the people in this town sees it as collective punishment because of the actions of a few for that terror attack. it's unclear how long that particular measure will take place. there's also been raids in that town as well. homes searched. people arrested. from the town itself we're hearing there's been no further israeli military action over the last 24 hours. >> phil black discussing the different measures in place and actions taken following the attacks there. phil, thank you for your reporting today. israeli troops destroyed the home of a 16-year-old palestinian who was arrested in the stabbing death of a settler. israeli police say the two gum -- gunmen who carried out the deadly attack on wednesday,

they were from the same village. ramadan is well under way and the holy month is coinciding with extremely hot temperatures across the middle east. our meteorologist is here to tell us about it. >> temperatures have been peaking in the upper 40s to around 50 degrees in some part of the are world that celebrates ramadan which is on a lunar calendar. this impacts the weather or at least the fasting that takes place because it's coinciding with the summer solstice, the hottest time of the year. this is ramadan, begins 10 to 11 days earlier each particular year and as daylight increases by several minutes and days, as we reach that summer solstice, the fasting that takes place from sun rise to sunset, no water and no food during that

time of ramadan makes it that much more difficult, especially when temperatures are so hot. we're approaching the summer months and heat has been excessive across the middle east. take a look at this picture. people trying to cope with the heat. these are some of the children playing in kuwait city, the other night, where temperatures only dropped into the lower 40s overnight after peaking a maximum over 50 degrees. we're well above average in these locations, iran, saudi arabia, the united arab emirates. it's coinciding with ramadan. not a great coincidence there. kuwait city not much relief from the heat. temperatures continue to go up into the second half of next week. here's a look at weather forecast for certain locations across the world, perhaps celebrating ramadan. hot and sunny conditions. blue skies overhead forry had,

an bu dawb by i -- abu dhabi. the heat continues today cross the middle east and no rain in sight to bring any real major relief across this region we will keep with the sunny and dry and hot conditions for the next foreseeable future. i want to take you to a different part of the world that is celebrating a different victory. this is actually from australia. pretty interesting footage. i'm a surfer myself. this is the red bull cape fear surfing competition, and these pictures speak for themselves. they have been charging some of the world's most fiercest waves off the coast of sydney this week and an 18-year-old took home the championship. there he is. >> that's awesome. you can do that. >> i wish.

they are talented. this is cnn "newsroom." we want to update you on the breaking news that we're following in orlando, florida. police telling people to stay away from a night club, called the pulse. there are multiple people who have been hit. a shooting there. we'll have the latest for you as cnns continues. wanna drink more water?

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this is cnn breaking news. welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. this is cnn "newsroom" and we are following breaking news out of orlando, florida. police there are at the scene of a shooting at a night club with multiple people that have been hit. details are just coming into the

"newsroom," but police are telling everyone there to stay away from a night club that is called the pulse night club, again for people in that area to stay away from the pulse night club. it's a gay dance club. june is gay pride month. the club also tweeted for its patrons to get out, to run and keep running. we continue to follow this breaking news and we're also reaching out to people there in orlando, florida, to get information to also speak with witnesses that we have vetted that are in that situation and could give us detail of what they are seeing at this point. but police telling everyone in that area to stay away from a night club called the pulse night club. multiple people have been hit by shootings there. ♪ britain is less than two weeks away from a critical vote on whether to leave the european

union. polls indicate the race is too close to call at this point. cnn meets eu citizens in london who are worried about the upcoming vote and their futures. ♪ >> i came to the u.k. about three year ago and i've been in london for about a year. london is a buzzing city. there's always something happening here. if i was a brit, i would never vote for brexit. it's a horrible idea. i would be worried you migrants would leave. london is really the european capital. >> i like the fact that the british society compared with other societies is definitely more open. it's definitely more accepting to foreigners. i do not believe that i will need a british passport.

i'm fully eligible for one because i've been living here for nine years, but i do not think it is worth it. >> when my great grandparents and grandparents were alive, they were fighting each other in the wars and today we have peace and that's largely due to the european union. i'm concerned working here will be much more complicated, much more difficult, maybe impossible. >> i'm sad to hear that one of the main reasons why the u.k. wants to abandon the eu focused on migration. in my heart, i feel people of britain will be pro europe. >> i tell them to definitely go vote. >> be very aware of the consequences, the u.k. leaving the eu would have. >> voting in this country is not as popular as in my country, greece. >> since i've been here for

almost five years, i think i will apply for citizenship. one of the most divisive issues surrounding that upcoming vote is the issue of immigration. our kelly morgan has more for us. >> reporter: a bombard many of headlines. an invasion they claim. migrants are coming on small boats. the english channel could become a more tour -- mortuary. enough to stoke fears over immigration. matt mclaughlin is a seasoned skipper who has navigated these waters for 40 years.

he's alarmed by the headlines. >> the english channel is notoriously a dangerous place. the cold water even in the height of summer, you are not going to last long in these temperatures here. it's about not being faced with the prospects of discovering young bodies facedown in the water. >> reporter: other fears are legitimate, thomas rains says no. >> some sparts -- parts of the press we have a hiysterical and dysfunctional debate about immigration. those terms are very emotional, divisive. what we have is a debate that's very separated from the facts. >> reporter: these are the images being used in the debate on whether or not britain should leave or remain in the eu. images of migrants camped in france desperate to get to the u.k. these scenes are not relevant to

the debate. >> it's the right of citizens from other eu countries to come live and work in the u.k. that's entirely separate from the issue of controlling illegal immigration. >> these beaches and small harbors have long been targeted by smugglers. keen to plunder as many votes as they can before june 23rd. kelly morgan. cnn, london. queen elizabeth celebrating her 90th birthday with a huge spectacle in london this weekend. three days of festivities filled with pomp and pagentry and she sended the day by greeting the masses from the balcony of buckingham palace. >> reporter: the queen appeared

in a spectacular neon green outfit. she always says she wants to be seen. she headed to horse guard parade to see the troopg of the guard. this is the queen's official 90th birthday, a year of celebration and she's had three celebrations personally this year. a special year for her and the country as well. she headed back to the palace in another carriage procession, the big question was would we get to see princess charlotte and prince george. they did appear. one group, one photo, bound to make the front pages of newspapers around the world. in the background, concerns about security, but the queen always wanting to get as close to the public as she can and in the end, it went off without a hitch, on sunday, another party,

this time for all of her charities, they are going to fill the streets here, all the volunteers that work for those charities and they have lunch together and the queen quill wander through. cnn continues to follow breaking news out of orlando, florida, multiple people injured after a shooting there. authorities telling everyone to stay away from a night club called the pulse night club. we continue to reach out to people there to get witness information. also to learn the latest information from authorities. following this breaking news in orlando, florida. stay with cnn.

♪ following the breaking news out of orlando, florida, authorities say there has been a shooting at a night club there. police say multiple people have been wounded. this happened at a night club called pulse, which is a gay

dance bar. june is gay pride month. pulse night club tweeted out a warning to get out of the club, to run, and to keep running. again, cnn is reaching out to people in that area. the latest again from authorities, though, for anyone near this night club to stay away from the pulse night club. we continue following this breaking news. we'll have the latest for you here on cnn. ♪ well, we are just three days into the euro 2016 football championship and almost a month still remains in the tournament with 47 matches left to play. to get up to speed, we run through the a-to-zs of euro 2016. >> 2016 football and fun in france. but that's only the letter f. what else does the country hold for us? let's find out. ♪

>> they were as low as 124th in the fifa rankings two decades ago but now albania qualified for its first major football tournament. what's for dinner? hour beef burginon. the eiffel tower is one of the most famous landmarks in the world. no many, france is the favorite for 2016. you can understand why. there's talent and depth. and golden goals. they are all playing for the henri delauney cup. how do you say i love football in french, j' aime foot!

>> the netherlands are the highest qualified team not to qualify for the euro. >> and christineo ronaldo is the best player in the field. security is expected to be extremely tight for less than a year from the paris attacks.

t is for france's high speed trains. best uniforms for 2016, one of the finest yuls you'll ever see is the 88 since'88 sincere sinc '88. and despite never previously won a game in a major tournament, sweden's zlatan ibrahmovic is likely in his last tournament. >> you heard what was a family affair at the euro 2016 tournament. two brothers faced off against each other in the switzerland albania match.

23-year-old rene jacka and 25-year-old tyrone jacka. it is the first time two brothers have started a european championship match on opposing teams. by the way, switzerland beat albania 1-0. for all the latest euro 2016 action, you can go to cnn.com. we have the very latest highlights and scores there on the championship, including the three matches set for sunday. those are germany versus ewe rain, poland, turkey versus croatia. various problems facing the games in rio, many athletes have been training their entire lives to compete there. cnn's ivan watson. >> we're out with members of the

german olympic sailing team on a training run off the coast of rio. ♪ >> is this a good day for sailing? >> perfect day for sailing. the sun came out. we have a really nice breeze. it's perfect. sailing is a complex sport. it's about wind, weather, technique, current, strategy and tactics with all your opponents, so that makes it exciting. >> what is the moment on the boat that is the absolute most exciting for you? even as veteran athletes? i mean -- >> finishing first. [ laughter ] >> finishing first and i'm always second. >> she's in front. women will be competing in olympics in this class of sail boat, the 49er fx. it is very light, very versatile

and requires remarkable athletic skills. take a look. ♪ ♪ you are going to have sailors from all around the world competing in these very waters, and i got lucky enough to come out here with these athletes and get a taste of what it's like on their incredible boat. i'm iech watson reporting for cnn from the coast of rio deyou can't ordinary yo. we continue following breaking news this hour out of orlando, florida. authorities say that everyone should stay away from a night club called the pulse night club. they say that multiple people

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this hour, out of orlando, florida, there have been shootings at a night club there. police say that multiple people have been wounded. this happened at a night club called pulse, which is a gay dance club. june is gay pride month. the club had been hosting a latin dance night and witnesses say the shooting started about 2:00 in the morning local time. when the shooting started, the pulse tweeted out a warning to its patrons to get out of the club, to run and keep running. right now, we do not have any information on the number of people wounded or the suspect. we continue to effort that, to get information from authorities. we have our correspondent on the way and we'll bring you the very latest as we get it. authorities telling everyone in the orlando, florida, area, to stay away from a night club call the pulse night club. we'll continue to stay on top of this story for you. donald trump has repeatedly promised to make america great again. it's a slogan that he's printed on his hats for supporters.

jean jeanie moss brings us a story of a young trump fan. >> this is a story how make america great again ended up looki looking not so great. >> he's not a politician, but he knows what this country needs. >> lowgun autrey got his hat autographed by trump himself. he even touched his air. >> it felt softer than a puppy. >> but when he wore his hat to school in fresno, california, kids gave him a hard time. he was asked to temporarily remove his hat after there was an incident of substantial disruption says the school superintendent. logan refused to remove his hat and stayed home. as the controversy continued to swirl around him, logan decided to take a dip in the pool.

he took off the hat and left it on a patio table. that's where his step mom's dogged found it. >> i think she's a hillary supporter. >> was the culprit? >> the trump campaign says it's sending logan a care package including a replacement hat. forget make america great again. make this hat great again. >> does this fat look familiar? also, i want to update you on the breaking news we're following here on cnn. a shooting at the pulse night club in orlando, florida. authorities telling everyone there to run, to keep running, again this apparently happened around 2:00 eastern time, 2:00 in the morning. this is still a fluid situation. they are telling everyone to

stay out of the area, to stay away from the pulse. a witness tells cnn he heard rapid gunfire as he ran from the night club and, again, we understand that multiple people have been wounded from shootings there. this is cnn. we continue to follow the breaking news as we move into the next hour. stay with us.

welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world.

we continue following the breaking news here on cnn. a shooting at a night club called the pulse night club in orlando, florida. we understand that multiple people have been injured in that area. police say that a gunman opened fire inside the night club. they say that this is an ongoing situation and they are telling everyone to stay away from the pulse night club. it is a gay night club in the heart of the city of orlando. june is gay pride month. a witness tells cnn that he heard rapid gunfire as he ran from the night club around 2:00 in the morning eastern time which is when that bar was closing. we continue to follow this breaking news as we get more information or as we hear from witnesses on the scene, we will bring it to you. joining us now cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes is on the line. let's point out that it's important to wait. you know, we don't know a lot at this point. we're waiting to hear the first statement from police. we have our reporters, our affiliate reporters and our own

correspondent following this developing story, but i do want to talk about the safety situation for people in that area. again, pulse is tweeting out for people to run, to keep running, and authorities saying stay away from the pulse night club. what can you tell us about that as police try to make sure that everyone is safe in that area? >> well, there's several problems with that, george. first of all, the night club, may tell people to run and of course police are going to need witnesses to try to figure out who did this and how many were involved, what exactly happened. i've seen multiple accounts that maybe the shooter is still inside the night club, barricaded, possibly has hostages or fled. they are going to need to try to determine what the situation is there. one witness account had a person firing an assault rifle inside and someone else firing from a vehicle passing by. so you are going to have so many reports that are going to turn

out to be not create, but with the exception of the reports that there are multiple shooting victims, it would indicate that the part about it being an assault rifle involved might be true. >> also want to point out for our viewers you are looking here -- if we can go back to those live images, we do see and you may see a reporter standing in the way. you may see the reporter covering the story but we're following live video feeds there from orlando. that is affiliate wftv covering the breaking news in the city. cnn does know we understand the person fired inside the night club, but we don't know whether the person is still in the night club. we do not have information about whether hostages are involved. still waiting to hear from authorities to get the latest from them on this situation. when this club is telling people to run and keep running, you mention the concern there that they may have trouble then finding those witnesses who heard, who saw things, correct?

>> no, that's true. hopefully anybody that was in there and saw something, even if they did run, will later call back to the police and say, you know, what they had seen while in there. you know, obviously the people that are wounded are going to, you know, be witnesses as well, and we're hoping there's no fatalities, but don't know that yet either. it is important for the police to talk to as many people as possible to get the identity of who did this and whether they are still at large, whether they still pose a threat to others outside of that night club. >> cnn's tom fuentes on the line with us, our senior law enforcement analyst. tom, please stand by for us as i recap for our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world who may be watching this breaking news coverage. the latest that we understand, police in orlando, florida, say that a gunman opened fire inside a night club. they say there are multiple victims in this situation.

it is an ongoing case and they are telling everyone to stay away from this night club called the pulse night club there there in the center there in the heart of orlando, florida. keep in mind that june is gay pride month. this was a gay dance club. witnesses tell us that they heard rapid gunfire as he ran, i should say from the night club. this happened around 2:00 in the morning eastern time, around the time the bar was closing. what you are seeing there is images in orlando as police are doing their best to keep people away from the pulse night club and to deal with the situation at hand. let's bring in law enforcement analyst tom fuentes who is joining us following this situation as well. tom, as police go about keeping that area closed off from other people, what's the methodology? what will they be doing next to move in, i guess, closer to that night club and determine what's happening there? >> well, that will depend on

whether they still think they have a shooter inside the night club or not. obviously, they are going to have a crime scene within that night club and they are going to do crime scene investigation there, try to recover the bullet casings, other forensic evidence, you know, inside there, and figure out what exactly happened. first thing involved for the police is whether they still have a shooter on the premises or whether that person has fled or taken his own life. that's the big problem right now. we don't know what the police know and we don't know what they know at this point as to what happened inside that club and whether they have an active shooter the premises. >> let's talk about what we don't know. there are many reports out there. whether the shooter is still

inside the club, still unclear about that, whether there are possible hostages as you mentioned, unclear about that. we're waiting to hear a statement from police about the situation there. you are looking at live images there in orlando, florida, where it's 5:05 in the morning and reporters are on the scene covering this breaking news in orlando. the latest that we understand, there are multiple victims in this case, an ongoing situation and the club telling everyone to run and keep running. authorities are telling people to stay away from the pulse night club. tom fuentes back on the line with us. tom, one question that i have for you, as investigators go about trying to get back in touch with those people who saw something or heard something, how crucial is the timing for them to talk to them as quickly as possible? will they have trouble finding them? >> well, it depends on how much they know or what they saw. if it's just someone inside the club heard shots fired, they can at least say how many shots they heard or if they saw other people outside the club with

weapons as they left or as they fled the area, but you mentioned the police getting in touch with the witnesses. that situation it's going to be the other way. the police are going to have to rely on people who were there that fled the scene, getting back in touch with them, and they will have to sort out whether they are being given truthful informing and people were at the club. a lot of time you can have a situation where there were 100 people in the club and 500 people claim they were witnesses. that's going to be another situation for them trying to verify that the information they are getting. >> i want to point out some information we're getting into cnn. it comes from our own producer, said an explosion was just heard in the vicinity of the pulse night club. that's the latest we have from cnn producer john coles who is

on the ground and covers the news there in orlando, florida. a loud explosion heard outside the night club. police telling everyone to stay away. there have been multiple people injured. tom, there's a lot that's out there on social media about what's happening. cnn going with the information that we can vet, the things that we see and hear and the information we get from authorities. given what we know so far,s what's your read on things? >> that's hard to tell. if they have the possibility of a person being locked inside of a room and they are trying to do a building clearing exercise in there, they may have used a stun grenade before entering a room that they think might be occupied by a shooter. so we'll find out later if that's the case, if that's just a tactical, you know, a tactical use of explosive device by the police just to distract somebody if they are in a room and they want to try to capture them.

>> that's a good point. thank you for pointing that out. important to keep that in mind. again, our producer john coles saying he heard an explosion in the vicinity of the pulse night club. a loud explosion we're told. again, police say that the gunman opened fire inside the night club. they say that there are multiple victims in this case. an ongoing situation and, again, authorities telling everyone to stay away from the pulse night club. we're now being told exactly, tom, what you said. the explosion that was heard was a controlled explosion by law enforcement. so clarifying the situation there. all of this information is coming in, and you get to see the process of vetting information. a loud explosion heard outside the pulse night club. it was a controlled explosion by authorities there. investigators telling everyone to stay clear of that night club. all of this happened around 2:00

a.m. eastern time in orlando, florida, and the video you see now, these are live video feeds coming from wftv, our affiliate in orlando, at 5:09 in the morning. keep in mind, you may see reporters stepping in and out of these shots. that's because again we're talking live feeds from our affiliate that is covering the breaking news in their city. we understand also that this happened in the heart of orlando. 2:00 in the morning. we understand there are multiple victims. don't know the extent of those injuries. tom, i would like for you to come in and talk to us about again what we know now to be controlled explosions by authorities. talk to us about how that would be part of this process. >> well, that could be one of two things. first of all, if they were trying to say say a locked steel door or something and they couldn't enter it, they might use a controlled explosive such as detonation cord as a

breeching tool. the secondary use or common use by s.w.a.t. teams is if they think they have a person armed on the inside of a room, before they enter it, they would use a -- what's commonly called flash-bang or stun grenade which is like a hand grenade except it doesn't have shrapnel. it has the noise and impact and concussion of a regular grenade and what that does since the police know they are about to detonate it and the bad guy doesn't know they are about to detonate it, his central nervous system would be stunned and it gives the police a one or two-second advantage to try to take control of an individual before they realize what's happening. those are the two common ways that an explosive device would be used in a situation like this. >> tom fuentes, stay on the line with us if you will. i believe that you'll be joining cnn u.s. as they take our programming here in a moment. you are looking at live images

coming from orlando, florida, this is where a shooting happened at a night club called the pulse night club. again, this happened around 2:00 in the morning. we understand that there are multiple victims in this case. the extent of the injuries, still unclear. we're waiting to get a first statement from authorities there. authorities have not come out on camera yet to talk about what happened. the latest we understand, this happened around 2:00 in the morning. authorities say a gunman opened fire inside the night club. stay with cnn as we continue to cover this breaking news in orlando, florida. ♪ many sleep-aids have pain medicine but zzzquil is different because why would you take a pain medicine when all you want is good sleep? zzzquil: a non-habit forming sleep-aid that's not for pain, just for sleep.

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at that club and around an emergency room of the orlando regional medical center which we understand is in that vicinity. authorities are telling people to stay away from that area, and the night club itself posting this cryptic warning to facebook. quote, everyone get out of pulse, and keep running. our boris sanches is there with breaking details. >> reporter: details are hard to come by right now. but i can describe the scene to you behind me right now. a moment ago we heard several loud noises coming from three or four blocks down the street. you can see a giant police presence here. all kinds of agencies from central florida are here to assist city of orlando firbleds. a few moments ago, we heard some loud popping noises. the club is three or four blocks

away. before that, we heard a very loud explosion, a very loud sound that shook us all and startled us all. we got a tweet from orlando police that it was a controlled explosion. we didn't see any flames or smoke emerging from the scene. we had heard reports earlier that there was potential for a hostage situation that was unfolding. we're still working to get information. one telling thing. orlando police were supposed to have press briefing to give us information about 3:40 this morning, actually, 4:30 this morning and they canceled that because they said it was a fluid situation and they didn't have enough information to provide us with. so far what we're getting, we're hearing from witnesses, we spoke to one witness an hour ago to says he was inside the club at shortly before 2:00 a.m. when he started hearing loud popping noises inside the club and he couldn't tell whether or not it was the music that was playing inside the club that was very

loud or something else and immediately he realized it was something else when he said he started watching people around him hit the floor. he himself took to the ground, he got on the ground and he tended to someone who has been shot. he had a bandanna and he was able to plug a bullet wound with that bandanna. many people were trying to flee the scene through multiple exits of the club. he was fortunate to make it out. he did see several bodies. he didn't specify whether or not they were dead or injured. it's impossible to tell in a chaotic scene like that. there are multiple injuries here. we heard from another witness, a gentleman who works at a dunkin' donuts across the street from the club, at 2:00 a.m., he heard very loud noises, he took cover and shortly after that, he saw three or four people leaving the club that were obviously bloodied and injured. moments later, police arrived

and the scene was completely locked down. information hard to come by. we're wait to go hear more from orlando police. things are still unfolding. we're still hearing a lot of activity behind us, of course, once we get more information, we will make sure to bring it to you right away. >> all right. boris sanchez for us in orlando outside pulse night club and you can see that that area is shut off for several blocks around. we want to go now to christopher hanson. this is tape of his account. he was at the night club. let's watch and we'll talk more in just a moment. >> i didn't see any of the actual shooters. i just saw bodies going down and i was ordering a drink at the bar. i fell down. i crawled out. people were trying to escape out the back.

i just know that when i hit the ground, i was crawling and i hit my elbows and my knees, when i got across the street, there were people -- blood everywhere. i was helping somebody because he was laying down. i wasn't not sure are you dead or alive? are you okay? he didn't speak english. i don't know if it was portuguese. i took my bandanna off and shoved it in the bullet hole in his back. the second person i helped, she got hit in the arm, and her name is karlisha, she came from ohio as well. moving here, this is my first night club, being out two months and this is the experience. i didn't even know it was latin night. i didn't understand the music. i'm still wet. i don't know if it's sweat or blood. it was tragic. >> what did you hear? >> loud banging noises, like

gunshots going off, of course, i wasn't sure the music. i thought it was a song or something, it went with the beat almost until you heard too many shots. it was like, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. that's when you just know chaos is just -- it was in turmoil. there had to be more than one or two. there's no way. or an extended clip. i don't know how much about guns. it sound like a handgun or something. >> chris hanson, christopher hanson who was an eyewitness inside the club. again, you are getting video here. this is live from our affiliate wesh in orlando. you can see that there are multiple ambulances, law enforcement there as well, and christopher there was describing just the may dgs lay inside. cacophony of sound, you can imagine the music, gunshots, and what was going through those people's minds here.

at some points you'll see live video, at some points you'll see tape. we're getting video in from our affiliates. our crew is there as well. we have cedrick alexander, cnn law enforcement analyst. >> as you take a look at what we're seeing and i'm curious to know because this doesn't happen very often, when they say there's going to be a press conference, there's going to be a press conference. the fact that they called that press conference off, what does that tell you they are dealing with? >> what it suggests is there is still a lot they do not know. i think the chief or authorities before they get to the cameras and reveal any information that they have, i'm quite sure that they want to give you something that's going to have some legitimacy and accuracy to it. as the morning continues to unfold, what you are going to see is an evolution of what occurred from the time of that shooting up till the point of that press conference, but it's at a point right now where it's very, very early in the investigation, and you don't want to disclose information

that is not considered to be accurate this early on. >> tom fuentes is with us as well. what can you tell us about the reason for a controlled explosion by law enforcement that we're hearing about this morning? >> well, normally the two main reasons for using a controlled explosion would be either to breech a door, if you have some kind of barricade. >> tom, i'm so sorry. we want to get to some live coverage that's happening right outside or right near that club right now. >> we heard over 100 shots and it was still active. they weren't taking any bodies out of the club because they had a potential bomb in there, so i don't know if he's still in the club, if he's incapacitated or if he's dead or he's being worked on at the hospital. >> you heard there was a potential bomb inside?

[ inaudible ] >> you heard there from a woman who was apparently waiting for someone or hoping to hear from someone who was still inside the club and apparently was not able to get out. tom, i want you to finish that answer on what we're hearing from orlando, police. there was a report of a loud explosion. several witnesses described t our own cnn producers heard it and the tweet from orlando police saying that sound was a controlled explosion by law enforcement. so when you hear that, you say what? >> i say they are either trying to get through a door that they can't open and want to open and are using some type of either detonation cord or some other explosive breeching material to blow the hinges of the door lock off.

that's one method. more commonly is if they think they have a barricaded subject into a room that they want to enter, they may throw in a stun grenade which gives law enforcement a 1 to 2-second advantage. the sound and the concussion of the grenade stuns the person inside. it freezes their central nervous system for one or two seconds. since the police know that they are using that device, it doesn't stun them. they are able to have a one or two-second advantage to try to take control of have been. d somebody. cedrick, i want to bring you back into this conversation because i think one of most urgent things that people are trying to discern from themselves and not getting answers for is is there still a threat? is this shooter or shooters, are they still in this complex? >> well, we do have some unconfirmed reports that it may be a barricaded subject. i think that's still yet to be determined and confirmed by

local authorities, but what you are going to have here is a very large crime scene. that's going to involve a lot of people that appear to have been -- injured. so as the morning continues to move forward, i think we'll gather much more information in regards to what you are asking, but in addition to that, it will begin to crystallize for us what may have occurred, who was involved in this event, a person or a number of people, and i think we'll see that as we continue to go through the morning. >> we have a witness account from a gentleman who was there at the club with friends. his name is anthony tourez and i'm reading a bit of what he said. he said there were a lot of people still inside the club because they had already done the last call and everything, so it was toward the end, before it closed. he goes on to say the shots did not sound like a regular

handgun. it sounded like it was shooting repetitively and it wouldn't stop. from what we're hearing from police and people around there, they are saying there was a shooter inside the club, locked in the bathroom. now, that is one eyewitness account. it is important to say that early on in breaking news situations like this one, that many of the early details are not specifically accurate because there is what we're seeing, the cloud, the rush here, with all the law enforcement there, and people may have thought they heard one thing and it was actually something else. much like the case with this explosion. there were reports early that it was a bomb. police now say that it was a controlled explosion by law enforcement. so it's important to say that these details, the specific numbers will change as the morning goes on, as police get their handle on what's happening there. >> absolutely.

>> so how do you proceed, cedrick? when you are looking at this situation at least from what we can see and we don't know if there is still a threat inside the building, we know that law enforcement as tom was talking about had this controlled explosion, but when you look at these pictures, how do you proceed? >> well, if you look at the pictures, just from the pictures that we have that are in front of us, that is a huge crime scene. there are a multitude of things that are going on at that scene. you could potentially have s.w.a.t. there that's attempting to engage an unconfirmed report of a hostage situation. you have people on the scene clearly that are still injured and being treated and transported to hospitals. you have investigation of witnesses who may have heard, seen, or witnessed anything that's relevant to this particular case, so there's a lot that's going on this morning. as the morning continues, as you heard victor say, it's going to

continue to crystallize, and i think it will begin to make a little bit more sense to our viewers in terms of what occurred. >> we're approaching 5:30 a.m. about 3 1/2 hours after this shooting at a night club in orlando. you have live pictures there. some tape that came in from facebook, from eyewitnesses there. we're going to take a quick break but again a shooting at pulse night club in orlando. multiple injuries reported. we are awaiting a news conference that was postponed. scheduled for an hour ago. as soon as we get more information from police, we'll bring that to you live. we just got an update from orlando regional medical center. we'll have that for you right after the break. so let's restat started at nine ♪ ♪ and while we're at it, let's give you back your 'do ♪ ♪ and give her back the guy she liked before you ♪

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welcome back and welcome to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. if you are just joining us, let's reset on the breaking news we're following out of orlando, florida. police say multiple people have been injured after a gunman opened fire in a crowded night club there early this morning. >> the night club is pulse there in orlando. it's a gay night club. they say in the heart of the city. we know there are bomb-sniffing dogs in this club. an explosion was heard near the area. we have confirmation on that. orlando police say that was a controlled explosion by law enforcement. our boris sanchez is on the scene right now with new details. help us understand what's going on right now. >> reporter: it is essentially unfolding before us. right now we're about three or four blocks away from the location of the night club. i'm not sure if you can see behind me just how expansive

this police presence is. it's huge. there are a dozen agencies. sheriffs deputies, we've unconfirmed reports there is a potential hostage situation inside this night club. that's not been confirmed. in the past hour, we heard a very loud explosion we mentioned. we later found out that was a controlled explosion. we heard some stacatto bursts out of that. a ambulance is rush outstanding of the scene right now. we don't have any idea of the number of wounded or potentially number of dead. we have heard from witnesses from inside the club who told us shortly before 2:00 a.m., they heard very loud popping. one witness said he wasn't sure it was part of the music or something else, he realized it was something else when people around him hit the floor. he took to the ground himself. he tried to assist several people that were wounded as he was leaving. he saw quite a bit of blood and people on the ground. so again not sure exactly how

many may have been hert but it's clear that several people were at least injured in this shooting. we also spoke to a witness who was across the street. he worked at a dunkin'donuts there and similar story, he started hearing very loud noises around 2:00 a.m. he saw people emerging from the club bloodedied and after that and after that, police arrived and it's been on lockdown. as we try to get more information on what these explosions were and how fluid the situation is, we were expecting a press briefing at 4:00 a.m., that got pushed back. orlando police said the situation was too fluid to provide us with any information right now. this gives you an idea how ever-changing this situation is. we don't have any concrete details. >> all right. boris said about three or four blocks away from the pulse night club there in orlando. if you are familiar with orlando, you visited you live

nearby, it's on south orange avenue, which is a major thoroughfare there in the city. they are in the heart of orlando there. many of the injured were taken to orlando regional medical center which is just a few blocks away, fortunately. moments ago, we got this sound in from just outside of the hospital from our affiliate wftv. this is with the mother of one of persons inside that club. watch. >> 2:07 i got a text message from my daughter and two nieces, police -- please come and get us now. they are shooting. i got a phone call from my daughter said she was hit and she was bleed frg her arm and she was going to pass out and come and get her and help her. call the cops and help. she was just afraid. just tragic. >> i also want to take you to our affiliate wesh who just filed this report outside of that hospital.

>> stuart, i can tell you from the people we've been visiting with here outside the hospital, not knowing what's going on with loved ones, waiting for confirmed information, as you can see the frenzy of activity going in and out. we counted two or three pick ups coming in and out of here literally with police screaming over the loud speakers for folks to get out of the way so they can come your honor -- rushing up to the emergency room. that's how fluid the situation is. for the folks who have already been here two or three hours, there's a sense of desperation to find out information what's going on. we talked to one woman who said her son's friend was shot in the back. he's here. it gives you a sense of the scene here. you have all these folks inside this club where it's not secure yet, obviously, where they had

to go working through this club and get the injured people out finally when they felt it was secure enough to do so, and rush them down to the emergency room here. we don't have any confirmed information from opd yet on the extent of the injuries, but just from the urgency of watching what's going on back and forth in front of us, clearly the injuries are severe. the emotions here are raw as people just don't know, and at this point it's not an overstatement to say that they are absolutely desperate to find out some information. that just gives you a sense of the enormity of this situation, police have multiple jurisdictions are having to deal with. stuart, at this point, as we're standing here outside the emergency room and you are listening to this raw emotion with these folks not knowing, this is tough. >> it's tough to see. tough to witness, especially because -- all right. that coming in from our affiliate wesh, coming in just a few moments ago outside of orlando regional medical center,

where we know that several of the victims from this shooting at pulse orlando, a night club shooting at 2:00 a.m. this morning, where that shooting happened. they were taken. this just came in from orlando regional medical center, statement saying the hospital was placed on lockdown as well 2:00 a.m. you might have noticed there was police tape, caution tape in the background of that shot from wesh, as police are onguard outside of that hospital as well. let's go back to wesh live now. >> his boyfriend who is in here getting treated. >> have you had any communication with them at all? >> no. they won't -- >> any messages, anything? >> no, none at all. he went there with two other men and two other friends and those two friends happened to be in the bathroom and when the shooting -- when it happened and they were able to run out at the time the shooting happened, but

lon is in hearshot and my son is unaccounted for right now, so i don't know if he's still in the club, if he's dead, if he's shot, in here. i hope he's okay. >> reporter: we do too. >> i know you do. >> reporter: we know you're not alone in your sense of not knowing what's going on. did your son go to this night club a lot? >> yeah. he's single. he's dating a young man, but they are single men. they don't have any kids. they enjoy -- they both work and enjoy going to clubs on the weekend. yeah. he lives in downtown. >> reporter: witnesses are saying that it was a very peaceful atmosphere at the time all of this started. i mean, had he given you the sense that this was a place he went a lot and enjoyed going? >> yeah. he lives in downtown orlando. they go to all the places in downtown orlando. they love orlando, and p he went to ucf as an undergrad and a

grad student. he's been in orlando since 2003 and after he became employed, he wanted to stay in orlando, so he does go to, you know, the clubs. he was just at sea world. i just talked to him at 6:00. >> we're going to stand right by here with you as we try to get more information about what's happened to your son as well as the other victims. >> yeah. >> all right. that was just one woman who is really displaying to us the desperation of people there trying to find people that they know were in that club and the chaos at the hospital, outside the hospital, let alone what's happening at the club itself. we have to take a quick break here. tom fuentes has been watching all of this with us. our law enforcement analyst. he is with us again after a quick break. stay close. gary, gary, gary... i am proud of you, my man. making simple, smart cash back choices... with quicksilver from capital one.

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we're getting more on the breaking news this morning out of orlando, florida. police say multiple people have been injured. now headed to orlando area hospitals. this happened after a gunman opened fire on a crowded night club very early this morning. >> this is the latest video we're getting in. you can see the emergency vehicles as they try to get people to those hospitals. we do not have conditions on any of those people nor how many people are affected here, but this was something that happened at pulse orlando. it's a gay night club in the heart of the city there. i want to show you a facebook post here from the club at 2:00 a.m. that told everyone to get out of the club. recently, an explosion, we know, was heard near that area and we have confirmation now that orlando police have said that was a controlled explosion by

law enforcement, but look at this huge picture. we just lost it there, of the police presence, the cordoned off blocks around it. our affiliate wftv, i want to take you live right now to what they are hearing. >> reporter: did he give you any indication there were multiple gunmen? >> from what i've heard and from other people, it sounds like there was two gunmen because one of them was in the bathroom supposedly right now. i'm not quite sure how accurate that is right now because his phone is like dead or something. last i heard from him about 20 minutes ago, there's a gunman in the bathroom. there's been cops out here with rifles and dogs searching the area for someone else. there's multiple gunmen, i think. >> reporter: overall reaction to you will aof this, thankful you've heard from your friend. many people standing out here are waiting to hear from loved ones. >> exactly. i'm terrified. i was disappointed. i was going to come out to pulse

tonight and i was at a friends house. i work in all the clubs down here, so it's kind of scary to think last night with plaza. tonight with pulse. the clubs seem like they are getting targeted. >> reporter: thank you so much. that's the very latest out here. you heard that man reference a shooting at a club last night. that was the location where "the voice" finalist christina grimmie was shot and killed last night. no update from police on this shooting, no connection between the two. that man said he was not inside the club, but we do have an account from someone who was inside the club describing a chaotic scene to cnn. his name is anthony torres and here's part of his statement. there was a lot of people still inside of the club because they had already done the last call and everything, so it was toward the end before it closed. torres goes on to say the shots did not sound like a regular handgun.

it sounded like it was shooting repetitively and wouldn't stop. from what we're heard from the police and people around there, they were saying there was a shooter inside the club looked in the bathroom. we have no confirmation from police of anyone being locked inside the club. what we have is there was a shooting, multiple injuries, taken to multiple hospitals in the area. we have our cnn law enforcement analyst here in studio. we have cedrick alexander on the phone we have our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes and tom, i just want to go to one thing we learned from the hospitals, that the orlando regional medical center, where several gunshot victims we're told through a statement were taken is on lockdown, has been on lockdown since 2:00 a.m., going on four hours now and also arnold palmer hospital and winnie palmer hospital, they both are on lockdown. what would lead hospital

management to lock down these three hospitals? >> the only thing i can think of is that maybe they thought that whoever did these shootings might do more and follow some of the victims to the hospital and create a situation in one of these hospitals. i think that would probably be the only reason that they have to fear for the safety of individuals at the hospital and also not want other people coming in, family members and everyone else, just trying to keep the hospital able to operate and keep the emergency rooms opened without being interfered with people even though they are good wishers can still cause a chaotic situation. >> tom, when we're dealing with a situation like this and we just heard that gentleman saying he thought there were two shooters. again, we have absolutely no confirmation of that, but when you don't know what you are dealing with in a situation like this, how do authorities deal in with what -- okay -- i'm sorry.

i want to let you know we're getting some breaking news in. orlando police have just tweeted that this is a mass casualty situation. you can see it there. we can confirm this is a mass casualty situation. support from local, state, federal agencies. we expect to brief media shortly. we will take you to that press briefing as soon as it actually happens, but, tom, your thoughts as we now hear this is indeed a mass casualty situation. >> well, right now, there's two main issues for the police to deal with and the first one is to try to save lives. anybody that's wounded and still inside that facility, if they can get them out and get them to the hospital for medical treatment, that's priority one, but obviously the other priority is safeguarding the community and others that, you know, do they still have an active shooter. do they have a shooter who has survived this and is at large?

either did lock himself in a room in the club or left the club and is in the neighborhood and maybe far away from the scene right now and feeling like that person could do another attack today or at another time? so that's part of, you know, what they are dealing with right now is the unknown, and as many witness statements of survivors they can get that will be accurate, people that are in there and actually saw, if possible, saw who was firing the shots. that will be a huge issue because all these rumors will spring up by the number of shots fired, it will sound like multiple people and automatic weapons and all of that, but even one individual with two handguns can do massive damage as we saw in the virginia tech shooting. he killed 33 people with two pistols. so you can fire a lot of shots out of handguns, with extended magazines, and semiautomatic pistols as well and not

necessarily have to use an assault rifle, but again that's what we're going to find out and the police will be trying to gather bullet casings and find out what kind of weapon was used. they will be at the hospital, you know, and this is gruesome, but recovering bullets as people are being treated in the emergency room, and in surgery, and trying to determine what kind of weapon or more than one weapon involved, what they are up against. >> all right. i want to read again what just came in from the orlando police. this tweet coming in. we can confirm this is a mass casualty situation. support from local, state, federal agencies, we expect to brief media shortly. we will advise shortly on media staging area. all info comes through twitter for now. no phone calls or emails you are seeing. let me come to cedrick alexander. mass casualty is a very

important classification. what is the threshold for law enforcement to now turn this from multiple injuries to mass casualty? >> that is very strong language and what they are telegraphing to us there could be some very significant casualties there, not just injuries. >> is there typically a minimum number that changes from -- >> not necessarily. not necessarily. it certainly depends on the situation. we know that a night club on a saturday night, it probably was a very, very large crowd. what's going to be determined here once a press conference is conducted, we'll have a better assessment in terms of what they mean by mass casualty. if they are tweeting out mass casualty, then they are pretty convinced that this is a very serious situation, but before i put any more inference on that, i think it would be important to wait until we get this press conference hopefully here very shortly but that is certainly telegraphing some severity here. >> tom, let me come to you with

this information that support from local, state, and federal agencies. you are the former assistant director of the fbi. what would be the threshold to reach the -- okay. we just got an update from orlando police. this tweet coming out just seconds ago. the shooter inside the club is dead. that coming in from orlando police now nearly four hours after the shooting at pulse orlando, downtown orlando. the shooter inside the club is dead. how will that change this investigation moving forward in the near future, tom? >> it will make it a lot easier to know that they don't have the threat continuing from the shooter, so at least that person that caused all of these mass casualties is no longer a threat and they can proceed to the next phase which is going to be crime scene investigation and gather the forensics and identify the

shooter as quickly as possible, go to that person's residence and do searches there to try to recover his computers and gather information that may give a reason as to why he may have wanted to do this. is this a hate crime against gays? was it a jilted lover in there and he went in there and that is the reason? or we may never know. that often happens in these type of situations. at least, if the shooter has been neutralized and probably in these cases, it's often a self-inflicted wound that causes that, at least this will make it a lot easier for the police to go forward with the crime scene investigation, and then safely get wounded persons out of that location. get them to the hospital, and as i said go forward with the forensic work they have to do. >> when we listen to what's happening right now, we're getting this world that the -- word that the shooter is dead,

do you believe based open what we know and historically what do cases like this tell us, is this something that is usually well planned in advance? >> oftentimes it is. oftentimes. there's some thought. >> what kind of clues could you find? >> what tom just indicated is going to be very important to the investigation. once you identify the shooter, whoever it may happen to be. once they are identified. getting into their residence, getting into their vehicles, getting into their electronic equipment and maybe making some determination in terms of -- maybe there was some messaging that could have been done prior to this. evidence may show within his home or his car some things that might be very, very relevant to the investigation, but this is certainly a very sad and tragic event this morning and a lot of pain for family and friends that are there on the scene.

>> the latest reporting here, the shooter inside the night club is dead. the question is is there just one shooter here? police make that qualification inside the club. we got to take a break. we'll be right back. continuing the breaking news. mass casualty event here in orlando overnight. no, it's..no.. this about a boy? dad! stop, please. oh, there's tracy. what! [ horn honking ] [ forward collision warning ] [ car braking ] bye dad! it brakes when you don't. forward collision warning and autonomous emergency braking. available on the redesigned passat. from volkswagen.

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