a terrorists motive? a domestic dispute? they have to sort through that. the main thing is, is there any other conspiracies, and that's what they want to find out and then they can get more in anaesthetic mode. >> new details are coming in on the shooting. for those of you just joining us, we have been covering breaking news out of orlando, florida, where there were reports of a shooting in the pulse nightclub, and police called this as mass casualties, and people have been taken to the local area hospitals and eyewitness accounts saying there was 150 people or more when shooting started. police were on the scene, and one eyewitness said as he was

helping others, the shooting was still going on, and there have been 30 to 40 police cars in the orlando area, and s.w.a.t. team and k-9 units and helicopters on the scene, and it was a very busy nightclub in downtown orlando. the shooter inside the club is dead and that was after a controlled explosion and since then we have seen ambulances leaving the scene of the nightclub, and possibly taking those injured to the hospital units. right now we are going to go to sarah dallof who has been following this. what can you tell us about the scene now? >> reporter: we are seeing movement here on the scene, especially since the announcement from the police that the shooter is dead. we have seen ambulances leave and we have a crime scene investigation unit pulling up here on scene and we are seeing movement, we are seeing law enforcement officers coming down the street, more and more, and

orlando police confirming this has been a massive response to this scene. they are getting assistance from local, state and federal, and the news that the shooter is dead comes less than an hour after the controlled explosion that we heard out here, a single large boom, after which orlando police released that that was a controlled explosion, and just moments after that controlled explosion we heard stau cotto bursts, and that may have been gunfire that has not been confirmed yet. the shooter in the situation, confirmed dead. this was the work of a lone gunman although they have not come out and confirmed that just yet, and now begins the difficult wait for the family and friends, people who were inside the nightclub who have not been able to reach them and

we have area hospitals receiving patients, family members and friends waiting there. i spoke to some of the eyewitnesses who said they were inside the club and got separated from the group they were with, and one man calling his friend and not getting an answer, and another man climbing over bodies to get out of the club, and he saw a number of bodies and was not sure how many, but witnesses just describing this scene of horror inside the nightclub. orlando police said they will be updating the media hopefully giving us better insight about where people can go to get information about loved ones, and we don't know how many are injured. we do know the gunman inside the nightclub is dead and there are a number of wounded and a number of dead and just a scene of shock and horror here for those who lived through it. back to you.

>> sarah dallof reporting live from the scene of the nightclub. we can still see so many police behind you and what has this done to the area? i know it has been cordoned off, and have people been coming up to see what is going on or staying at bay to let police do their job? >> reporter: it's early in the morning and people in the neighborhood have been woken up by the activity and coming down to see what is going on, and you have people trying to locate their loved ones, and there are a lot of people volunteering their assistance here right now, and they want to do what they can to help. there's not a lot that can be done while police are performing the operations, and the area was cordoned off and people were not able to get here and we are hearing about a number of heroic

acts where people put their own safety out there, and they could have run but helped, and we are hearing about acts of courage inside the nightclub as we wait to hear more about what went on inside. >> we know this happened at the pulse nightclub, which is south of downtown orlando on south orange avenue by west esther avenue downtown orlando. just a normal saturday night that went a little hey wear there -- a lot of haywire. there are hero moments. they have helped people get out of the scenario, so let's hope for the best and hope there are

not as many casualties as predicted. we know the shooter inside the club is dead, so obviously tactics on the ground are going to change here. i can hear the helicopter in the pack ground now and at one point it was there and then went away. has the action around the scene increased? >> the movement has increased. we have police dogs, k-9 units going over the parameter where the media is staged. this is new. the police have not come down this far quite yet and you are seeing more movement on the ground and ambulances leave, lights and sirens and you seeing crime scene investigation trucks pull in now. we have not seen the bomb squad leave, and that is something that caught our attention, and they pulled in and then a short

time later the controlled explosion, and then leading up to the shooting, saturday night, events going on all night and the party migrated for a lot of people down to this nightclub and it was latin night and it was crowded and there was a good beat going on and people enjoying themselves and everybody had a reason to be there, and celebrating with friends and they heard good things about this nightclub and wanted to give it a try and it was a party atmosphere, and then the gunshots, one after another after another, and people didn't realize what was going on at first, and one man even told us he thought it was part of the song initially, and then he saw the blasts, the light coming from the barrel of the gun and he immediately realized how serious it was. >> sarah, thank you so much for your report. we are going to come back to you in another few minutes. i want to bring in jim cavanaugh who is a former law enforcement

and msnbc analysts. the bomb squad has not left the scene yet. >> usually when a situation like this occurs, you know, an assailant is doing a mass shooting, once the scene is static, he could have dropped a backpack or bag or come in a vehicle, and all that has to be searched. they have to be extremely cautious. could he have left something around, inside or outside they don't know about. bomb sniffing dogs can work the area, and the bomb squad will deal with a suspicious package and the shooter's car, if there is one. that's pretty routine to do that to make sure that somebody doesn't leave a bomb, you know, when they are in a mass murder plot.

it happens a lot, just to remind everybody, aurora, colorado, where the assailant booby trapped his whole apartment with explosives, and when they get to the person's residence, they have to search their vehicle or something they left or dropped and there could be indications that something is a explosive device. >> as of now we have no identification to who the shooter is or what the motive was, and we just know the shooter inside the club is dead. question for you about this crime scene investigative unit that is now coming in. obviously this is the progression the way the night unfolded here, and now the crime scene investigation, and it begins another phase of the way the police are handling this. what can we expect from them? what are they going to do at the scene? >> you can expect a long and

slow crime scene processing, because you have multiple casualty event and it's going to be a slow unfolding crime scene once the injured are cared for, it's going to be slow. there will be a family center set up, and you saw the heartbreak of the one mom who doesn't know where her son is. a slow crime scene processing. the quick part we don't see is the white collar side of the detectives and investigators trying to determine who is this guy. how do you do that? the first thing, get his wallet. who is he? what is his reason for being here? is he a patron? does he have a dispute with the club or anybody here? is it a targeted group he is after for a variety of reasons?

they have to look at everything. who is this guy and why is he here? detectives want to answer that quickly, but processing the scene will not be as urgent and that will unfold all day, and maybe even a couple days depending on how large that scene is. >> as we witnessed the scene unfold, and the shooting happening around 2:00 a.m. and the police were quick to respond and people were helping people out of the club, stopping the bleeding wounds while shooting was still going on, and the response has been very quick to this, and according to you, this is standard operating procedure, and the night was their scene because they could get to these scenarios quickly, and we have seen the ambulances and the police cars, and now that we

have the shooter is dead, and we don't know if it was a suicide or shot by police, we don't know that. this will change the rest of the day. the sun is now coming up in orlando and the scene is going to be changing. what can we expect as the day unfolds? >> well, we can expect a lot of heartache and grief and sadness the police department and any agencies helping, and we can make sure this is the end of the event and there are no other explosiv explosives, in a car left there or assailant's home, and the motive will probably unfold as well, and the police have a lot

of jobs here. but you have one of america's top police forces, orlando pd. you will have family center, and forensics, and white collar investigation, and public briefings, and lots of work going on, command posts set up investigatively, and on scene tactical command, which looks like they already did their job quick, and you can't say enough praise for the patrol officers who by the eyewitness accounts were there so quickly. >> jim, if you could hold on for one second, please stay with us, and sarah dallof is standing by with a witness. let's see what the witness account is. >> reporter: hey, there, we don't yet quite have the witness. i apologize for that information, but we are working on it right now. it's one of the gentleman we

talked to earlier that had the tale of terror from inside the nightclub not realizing initially the gunfire was part of the music, and he needed to take a break for a second and gather himself and get fluids in him. it has been a traumatic morning overnight as you can understand. the nightclub itself has posted on facebook a new statement, as soon as we have information we will update everybody, and please keep everybody in your prayers as we work through this tragic event, and thank you for your thoughts and love. hours ago the nightclub posted to facebook everybody get out of pulse, and that's the name of the nightclub, everybody get out of pulse and keep running. you can see movement on the street behind me now that the information came through that the shooter is dead, we have seen fire trucks and ambulances

and police cars starting to move out of here, move out of the scene as the crime scene techs begins to arrive. we are waiting on information to give us more insight on what happened, how many are dead and how many are wounded and where the families and friends of the people in the nightclub can go to get more information about their loved ones. >> you have been speaking to witnesses and speaking to them all night since this has been unfolding, and the initial, their recounting of the scene, and how is the emotional state now, and how has the scene changed where they are recounting and recounting, and is there still shock? has that turned to grief? what is the scene there? >> reporter: the shock has not worn off and for some people it

did immediately so you are getting a variety of responses here, and the more time that goes by the more opportunity people are having to absorb the enormity and the horror of what happened here today. people inside describing having to climb over bodies to get outside and having to hide in bathrooms and waiting for the police to come and get them. one man just kept looking at me saying, you don't understand, you don't understand, you don't understand, and trying to describe what he saw inside. >> sarah dallof reporting live from orlando at the scene of the pulse nightclub where there was a shooting early this morning. i want to go back to jim cavanaugh for a win. we are seeing scenes from the helicopter, and what changes now with the fact that a shooter came into a nightclub and it's 1:30 in the morning, and shots rang out possibly wearing

explosives. with a does this change for orlando police? what does this do to change the night clubs? >> once the emergency is over as far as an assailant, and the tempo will change because they will have, you know, at that scene, assailant or assailants not able to hurt anybody and that changes the tactical tempo, and the scene where the detective bureau wants to uncover who the person is, to make sure there is no other attack afoot. sometimes people who are homicide annual and suicidal, they will leave explosives, or they could have killed somebody before they came here, and you saw that recently in the shooting in california where the

person killed somebody in minnesota and then travelled over to ucla and killed a professor. so sometimes there's a murder first. the detective has to find out who the guy is, and we still don't know if there is one or more, and who they are. motive is critical because it helps you establish if there could be any other confederates or conspirators that are want to go hurt people. once they can get that locked down, if it's a lone assailant that is now dead, the focus turns more towards the families and the processing for evidence and the ability to stop the next murder from whatever information can be gleaned from this one. >> the sun is just coming up in orlando. jim cavanagh, stay with us, we

will be coming back to you. i want to keep you informed. this is orlando, and this is the scene we are looking at at orlando, where there was a shooting at 2:00 a.m. this morning and the shooter has confirmed to be dead and there was roughly 150 people in the nightclub and we are getting details as to what happened. stay with us, and we will be back after a short break and we will go live to orlando. why do so many businesses rely on the us postal service? because when they ship with us, their business becomes our business. that's why we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. here, there, everywhere. united states postal service priority: you ♪ experience the thrill of the lexus gs f sport.

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we are covering breaking news out of orlando where at the pulse nightclub around 2:00 a.m. there was a shooting. we are getting reports that the shooter has been killed and we don't know how that happened, but police say the shooter is dead. people have been taken to hospitals, and reports are there are mass casualties and the police reported a mass casualty event. we are going to take you to eyewitness accounts. a woman is trying to get in touch with her son and she spoke to a reporter earlier. let's take a listen. >> my son, sean, was at the club. he was sitting out on the patio,

and he heard several pop, pop, pops, and he heard people say run and he jumped over the wall across the street, so he didn't injured, but the friend that brought him, he has been shot three times. we don't know what his condition is. there was another one of their friends and we have not found him yet. my son is just -- he's just devastated. he's just devastated. he called me at 2:30 this morning, and i didn't know what had happened, so my husband and i rushed down to try and get to him and they have him secluded so we can't get to him. >> witnesses have been coming to the media all night talking about what is going on, what happened in the nightclub area. this happened about 2:00 a.m., and we are seeing live scenes of the area in downtown orlando. the club is located on orange

avenue by weste esther avenue. people heard pops in the club and ran out, and some helped others, and we are hearing stories of heroics, and others are saying they had to climb over bodies to get out of the nightclub. sarah dallof is live. do we have her on the line? there you are, sarah. thank you for joining us. can you tell us what is going on in orlando? >> reporter: we are awaiting a news conrence from the police who said they would update the media on what they know. we are seeing a different scene from a couple hours ago before the announcement that the shooter was dead, and we have

seen a number of vehicles leave, and we are seeing crime scene investigation units showing up and the helicopter is ahead circling and a k-9 unit walked their dog around the parameter of the building, and they seem to be searching the yards and the grounds of some of these buildings in the area, and whether it's a precaution or if they are looking for something specific, we are not sure. awaiting the news conference update from orlando police, they tweeted out the shooter inside the club, shooter, i will emphasize, singular and not plural, but the shooter is dead. there was a controlled explosion, and then a few minutes later what sounded like gunfire. we have been working with an eyewitness and a few minutes ago police came and got him and took him back to the scene, and still

more eyewitnesses here. one of the hospitals they are presumably taking witnesses to, two blocks or a block from the shooting scene so we are seeing a lot of cars show up there, news vehicles, media and friends and family of those who were in the nightclub looking for information. i talked to one man earlier today who had told me that he was -- he had a female friend who he got separated from in the club and he was trying to call her on the phone, and he was not getting any response. back to you. >> live from orlando, thank you so much. stay with us. right now we have sound from a witness who was in the emergency room. let's take a listen. >> we went on what they call a cold silver where they thought the active shooter was in the hospital, and they had us locked in different rooms and it was crazy, and i am still not discharged yet but i was able to go outside and get my car, and now my car is in the parameter

zone so i can't move my car, and i won't be able to move my car all day. >> what were you thinking when you were inside? >> i was wondering what was going on. i heard they had massive victims coming in, but i had no idea what to expect. i was in the hallway when they brought people in and it was ugly. >> the details have been coming in slowly. this happened around 2:00 a.m. in orlando, and there were reports that the shooter was dead inside the club, and as this progressed, sarah had been on the ground and she was reporting when there were pops in the background, and there had been a controlled explosion, possibly more pops, the police have not brought attention to that, but they did go on the website and go to twitter and say there was a controlled explosion, and shortly after that they came back on and said

that the shooter inside the club was dead. as soon as that broke, ambulances started moving and they were able to bring more of the victims out. we are getting reports now there will be a police news conference at 7:00 a.m. again, we are covering this breaking news situation in orlando outside of the pulse nightclub where around 2:00 a.m. this morning there was a shooting, and the shooter is confirmed dead, however, they are saying there are mass casualties involved and that's coming from the orlando police department. we had many chilling eyewitness accounts of the event, people saying they thought it was part of the music and others saying as it continued, they realized it was real and they started running out of the club, and walking over people, and some people had been shot, and some stayed to help and others climbed over walls and escaped. jim cavanagh has been giving us details from the police, and

sarah dallof has been on the ground for us in orlando. stay with us because we have more details emerging on the shooting in orlando. right now we are going to take a quick break. stay with us and we'll be back with more breaking news details. ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ thisproof of less joint pain and clearer skin. this is my body of proof that i can fight psoriatic arthritis with humira. humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms.

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we are still following breaking news out of orlando where the scene is still unfolding. the shooter is dead, and around

2:00 a.m. there were reports there was a shooting at the pulse nightclub south of downtown orlando, and in the shooting there was word of possible multiple injuries and there are mass casualties, and police confirmed the shooter is dead and there are mass casualties. there's no confirmation there was any fatalities. a few hours later the police set off a controlled explosion in the area and had pretty much contained the area. the k-9 units called in and the s.w.a.t. team and bomb squad and ambulances and local support systems and teams are in place while this has been going on. social media played a huge part in this. the club's facebook page when this initial happen said everybody get out of pulse and keep running, and people took to twitter putting up pictures of the police presence saying something is going on, and what we are seeing now is the pulse

nightclub, which is just south of orlando, and day is breaking down there, when all this starred it was 2:00 a.m. and very dark and now we are getting a better aerial picture of the pulse nightclub. more details will be emerging as this day unfolds and as police and the crime scene investigators there on the scene now will be coming up with hopefully some answers as to why a shooter went into the nightclub and just started shooting, and possibly help on that, clint van zant. this is a scenario you covered before, but it's always -- it's very difficult when this happens because we don't know if there are casualties other than the shooter and we don't know what is going on and the scene is developing. what can you tell us? >> i think this is one of the reasons why msnbc tries to be so careful in scenarios like this.

so far this morning we have heard large numbers of casualties, double digits, if that is to be believed. we heard perhaps there were two shooters, and there was a hostage situation. some of these, may, of course, not be correct at all. one of the challenges, even though we are told the shooter is dead we have seen in a few scenarios there could be multiple shooters, and we could have seen in some cases where there are two shooters, and the second one would attempt to come out as having been a patron of the bar in an effort to escape. that's why it's so critical to get the interviews from witnesses and realize how challenging it is for law enforcement. they are trying to save the lives of people who were shot, who were wounded. they are trying to protect the crime scene and interview witnesses and dealing with the mass trauma situation all at the

same time. you can have investigators stepping on each other as they are trying to do this job they are doing right now, trying to understand what is going on. one witness inside reported hearing 20 to 30 shots, and should that be true, that suggests obviously a semiautomatic pistol that had been reloaded twice or a situation like the virginia tech shooter years ago, and others, where they have two handguns, and they are using them, and the reverberations of the sound even side of a nightclub look this, it could bounce off of a wall and make it sound like more shots and shooters. >> these details will change as the day goes on. right now we are seeing live pictures of an atf robot that just came out of the pulse club. police still being very careful with the information they are giving out, and obviously very careful because they brought out

a robot. jim cavanagh, could you comment on this, could they be checking for more bombs inside? >> robots are used both by s.w.a.t. teams for tactical robots to send in and look over an area with a camera, and they are used by bomb squads to go in and look for devices and they have the ability to disrupt or render that device safe, and they have the ability to pick the device up, the suspicious package, and robots can be used for a variety of different things and they come in different sizes. they used to be a larger size and now there are smaller ones that s.w.a.t. officers can use to send them in somewhere and me make sure there was not a bomb left somewhere. like clint said, there could be somebody else in there, and the

dead assailant would have had time between the shooting and the time he died to leave a device somewhere. we saw that in the san bernardino case where the two people left a bomb in a remote controlled car on the desk and then went into a mass murder situation. you always have to be careful if something was left, how can we deal with that? that's what robots do. >> in this case if they are sending in a robot, and jim if you could hold on. we are getting new details about this shooting south of orlando at the pulse nightclub. we will be right back with more news after this quick break. oun. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on all of my purchasing. and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means

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breaking news. we are still following the news out of orlando, south of orlando, and you are looking at the live aerial view of the pulse nightclub. a shooting broke out at 2:00, and police have been covering this and having things on their twitter page saying to run away from the club and to stay away from the area as police secure the area and they posted a few hours later, that the shooter who had been inside the club was dead. they also posted that this is a mass-casualty event in this area in orlando in the nightclub. we heard that from some eyewitness accounts. they have been on the scene to tell us what transpired through the night. day is breaking in orlando, so obviously the scene is different. we are getting a live picture right now where it looks like the s.w.a.t. team and police team are out. just a few moments ago we saw a

robot emerge from the pulse nightclub and police have been inside checking out the scene there. i want to bring in jim cavanaugh, who is an msnbc analysts. we know there was controlled explosions, and we don't know much about the shooter. there has been no identification or information on that end, but where is this now, if they had the robot there. does that mean the injured have all been taken out and the area has been somewhat cleared? >> it's hard to tell if the injured are all out. let's hope that is true. the ambulances were seen leaving right after sarah reported on the ground the explosion and the static stau cotto gunfire. we saw the ambulance leave and

then the o orlando pd reporting the assailant is dead. at least one assailant they knew about is dead, and s.w.a.t. can move fast but they are the most cautious and methodical agents and police officers in the world. if they have time they will do every inch correctly and if they have to move swiftly, they do that as well. they want to make sure there is nobody else, and they want to make sure there's no explosive devices left like we saw in san bernardino or aurora, colorado, so they use robots to scan the area for that and use robots to pick up packages and bomb-sniffing dogs on the parameter.

is there a vehicle outside? if the assailant is dead, he had to get there somehow? did he walk? take a bus? take a car? a rental car? did somebody drop him off? all those questions come into play and if there is a car that suspected to be his car, that will be dealt with remotely by the bomb squad, and the robots opening the door before they will make a hand entry into the car and they want to make sure there's not a bobby trap. i remind everybody of aurora, colorado, where the shooter at the theater completely booby trapped his residence. that's not unusual in the suicide-homicide events. we have seen it over the years, people do this, set bombs in their cars and leave traps at the scene, you know, for other

people, and they sometimes commit murder before they commit mass murder. all of these things have to be put together by the police, and i can tell you the white collar side of this is going on very heavy with the orlando police detective bureau who has the ticket on this right now, and they are the ones, and they will be backed up by the orange county sheriff detectives, and fbi -- >> we see, looks like a s.w.a.t. team going back into the pulse nightclub. obviously there are many, many questions that remain unanswered about the shooter and motive. we do know that they are going to have a press conference at 7:00 a.m. police are going to hold a press conference and they posted on their twitter page, anybody who was at the pulse nightclub and was a witness to please come to the orlando headquarters. witnesses have been giving accounts of what happened in the club and how the shooting started and some thought it was part of the music. they didn't know what was going

on. there had been early reports, possibly two shooters, again, and we don't know. as you are saying this, you are saying there are so many details they have to find out, and so many scenarios that could possibly play out in this. we don't know if it was intentional and we don't know the motive behind this person who just showed up in a nightclub and started shooting. many of these details will hopefully be answered by the orlando police in the press conference or in the hours and days to come. the eyewitness accounts have been chilling as this night has unfolded. we know the shooting happened around 2:00 a.m. this morning, and police were on the scene, in fact one eyewitness was talking about how he was helping -- he took off his bandana and tried to stop the bleeding as police were coming in and there was still shooting going on. and sarah dallof has been covering this all night and we are showing you live scenes, and

sarah, you have been here all night and what can you tell us about the scene, what has changed? >> reporter: the scene on the ground, you are looking at a live picture from just outside the parameter. you can see it has changed pretty dramatically within the last little while. we have seen quite a number of law enforcement vehicles leaving the scene, and we have seen fire trucks pulling out, and before that we saw ambulances with lights and sirens, presumably taking the wounded to area hospitals, and now we are seeing the crime investigation teams come inside and the helicopters overhead and we are awaiting a news conference with the orlando police department. they promised to update this scene here, tell us exactly -- well, not exactly but more about what they know about what happened overnight. we were talking with witnesses

earlier today, and the police came and got him and took him into the scene and they issued a plea to the public, anybody that was inside the nightclub they are asking them to come to police headquarters, and they are saying any information people have or know will aid them in this investigation as they begin to piece together what happened, but they do know, they have confirmed the shooter inside is dead. we know they have been talking about that quite a bit, and they are asking eyewitnesses to come forward to talk about what they saw so they can begin to provide answers to so many questions we still have at this hour. >> sarah dallof live for us in orlando. we are going to have continuing coverage throughout the morning, especially as these details emerge. we have a 7:00 a.m. news conference planned by the orlando police, and they have been posting things on twitter saying there was a controlled explosion, and then that the shooter was dead and now they

are asking for people who have been at the pulse nightclub that witnessed the event to please come forward to the orlando police headquarters to give details. it's been a night where we had many eyewitness accounts but not many answers. we don't know anything about the shooter but we know the shooter is dead and we don't have any numbers of the fatalities or mass casualties. the k-9 units have been on the ground. we have had sarah reporting the helicopter came early and it became quite as the s.w.a.t. teams went into the club before the controlled explosion went off. we have breaking news out of south orlando, the pulse nightclub, there was a shooting at 2:00 a.m. this morning, and now the daylight is coming, and we are going to have continuing coverage throughout the day on this and my colleague, francis

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i am francis rivera here in new york, and we are following breaking news. the start of this morning here, the mass casualty shooting at a nightclub. aerial pictures of the nightclub on your screen, and mass casualties and police say he or she is dead, the shooter. a little timeline to update you if you are just joining us as we are waiting for a news conference from the orlando police to start at the top of the hour. 2:00 a.m. police responded to a shooting at the pulse nightclub

downtown orlando on orange and esther. at 3:00 a.m. the nightclub posts, quote, everybody get out of pulse and keep running. a few hours later multiple gunfire reports from our reporter who was live, and she did hear a series of gunshots, and shortly after police tell us they set off a controlled explosion, and that loud blast was heard by witnesses on the ground and reporters on the scene and police did confirm that was a controlled explosion, and shortly after that around the 6:00 hour local time, orlando police say this is a mass-casualty situation and confirmed the gunman inside this club is dead. for the latest, as we are following this, and again, you

are looking at live imedges of the investigator and s.w.a.t. teams and other law enforcement outside the club there. i want to bring in sarah dallof. is there anything more you can tell us? are we still expecting the 7:00 a.m. news conference? they had a 4:30 conference they had to cancel. >> reporter: we are still expecting the 7:00 a.m. news conference although it appears they are running a few minutes behind, understandable. we are told at that press conference the chief of police and the county sheriff and the mayor of orlando and the fbi will answer questions and address the media providing more details about what unfolded at this nightclub. meanwhile here on the scene, we are seeing a lot of personnel switching out those police cars are starting to leave the ambulances that left immediately

with the lights and sirens as soon as the shooter was pronounced dead, those have gone by. helicopter still overhead, but we are seeing more of the investigative side and crime scene techs showing up on scene. nobody has been asked to move or to go anywhere. meanwhile orlando police issued a statement, asking anybody inside the club to please come down to police headquarters to take the statement and they say any information they can provide in the case may be important to the investigation, but the big development this morning is the confirmation is the shooter, i say shooter, it's singular and not plural at this point, that shooter is dead inside the nightcl nightclub. >> what can you tell us how the scene changed especially in the last hour when the police confirmed the shooter is dead? is there any indication they

could be looking for everybody else that may have been involved? you also reported on a robotic device, and tell me how the scene changed? >> reporter: if they are looking for another person, they have not said anything publicly yet and they have not asked anybody to shelter into any of the buildings or please leave the scene at this point. we do see the helicopters still above keeping an eye on the situation, and there are news helicopters as well, and it's clear there's concern, as least precautionary concern there could still be danger in the area, but at the high point of the evening, we started with 30 to 40 cars and then 40 to 50 and a lot of the police cars cleared out and you are seeing a smaller

active scene, and ambulances have left with lights and sirens, but we have not seen the bomb squad leave and they came around 3:30, 4:00 this morning, an arson and bomb van came in and we have not seen those vehicles leave, and we saw people in the neighborhood checking out what is going on, but the scene shifted since the announcement the shooter was dead. and family members and friends moved to the hospitals to get information about the family and friends they can't reach, and i spoke to one young man who was trying to get a hold of his friends, and he was not having any luck reaching his friend so that speaks to me to the lack of answers people don't have now. >> so tough for so many involved

there. is there a staging area around or has everybody moved to the police department and the medical center that is about three blocks away from the club? >> reporter: everybody is scattered right now, and this is where they staged the media, and they are moving the press conference a couple blocks away and we have injured being taken to the hospitals. this is a huge scene with multiple agencies involved. >> thank you for the quick update. if you are just joining ugs at the top of the 7:00 hour eastern time, many people waking up to the horrific news, word of what police are calling a mass-casualty shooting at a orlando nightclub and you are looking at the images on the left of the scene there. and there are reports of a shooter, and then there was a st