attacks and that's not all. we'll have new information on the investigation. plus, president obama prepares for an emotional trip here to orlando. as the two people trying to succeed him trade blows over who's more qualified to be commander in chief. it is 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west. this is "way too early." good morning, it is tuesday, june 14th. i'm chris jansing, live in orlando. a community still in grief this morning at the senseless violence that unfolded over 48 hours ago. an attention grabbing headline features the names of 49 people killed. strategically placed above the latest details of the investigation. at last check, 29 of the 44 patients who were rushed to orlando medical center are still there this morning.

all current patients have quote, a positive prognosis, and appear to be improving. meanwhile, last night in downtown orlando, thousands gathered at an emotional candlelight vigil. i was there. there were a lot of hugs. a lot of tears. the white house says president obama will travel to orlando thursday to meet with the victims' families and to stand in solidarity with the community. meantime, as the investigation into the orlando shooting unfolds, we are learning more about the gunman. omar mateen. right now, the fbi is looking into whether mateen had previously visited pulse nightclub. let's bring in nbc news correspondent blake mccoy. a lot has happened, just in the late night hours last night. early morning hours today. what have we learned about him? >> reporter: right. the reason the fbi is investigating the claim is because several men have said that they had witnessed mateen at pulse nightclub before. at least one person saying that he had been there for years before. sometimes drinking alone,

sometimes becoming agitated. that "the orlando sentinel" has spoken with four of the men. one named ty smith said he'd go over into the corner and sit and drink by himself and other times he'd get so drunk and was loud and belligerent. nbc's -- msnbc's chris hayes said that mateen was on gay dating apps like grinder on his phone and had tried to speaking to the men before the shooting. we don't know the time line, but it was in the months before the shooting. this is what he had to say. >> i recognized him from one of the apps. i instantly blocked him because he was like very creepy in his messages. and i blocked him immediately. but my other friend -- >> from a gay dating app? >> yeah. >> you recognized him from the gay dating app? >> yeah, i recognize him off grinder. >> reporter: the fbi says while they're investigating the claims they aren't sure to what to make of them yet. does this mean he had been scoping out the nightclub as a potential attack for some time or did this mean he was a patron at that nightclub and something

happened over the last several weeks and months that made him then think of this nightclub as a target and become hostile towards it? a key piece of evidence will be a cell phone that has been recovered. we can tell you a samsung cell phone has been recovered among other electrics and the fbi has had no problem accessing the information on the phone so far. so chris, as we know these cell phones can be a treasure trove of information. >> thank you so much, blake mccoy. in the meantime, james comey has been shedding new light on the agency's prior contact with mateen. he said that he was investigated by the fbi for ten months. between may of 2013 and march of 2014 after telling co-workers he had family connections to al qaeda and he was a member of hezbollah. he was put under surveillance and placed on a terror watch list. but the investigation didn't produce enough evidence to arrest him. >> he admitted making the statements that his co-workers reported but, plained that he did it in anger because he thought his co-workers were

discriminating against him and teasing him because he was muslim. our work is very challenging. we are looking for needles in a nationwide hay stack, but we are also called upon to figure out which pieces of hay might some day become needles. that is hard work. if we can find a way to do that better we will. >> now the fbi revealed yesterday that in one of those 911 calls that mateen made on sunday night he made a reference to the tsarnaev brothers calling them his home boys. officials revealed that mateen seemed cool and calm during that shooting standoff. and according to the police chief here, there were talk of bombs and explosives and a reference to isis. despite that, senior law enforcement sources said that mateen has never travelled to syria, although he has been to saudi arabia twice for religious pilgrimages. though orlando police department has released the names of the officers involved in the shoot outwith omar d shoot-out with

omar mateen. adam grueler was working security that night. ten others would later show up, including officer michael napolitano whose kevlar helmet was hit during that shoot-out. a front page article in "usa today" focuses on the possibility that police gun fire may have hit some of the patrons. the large crowd and complex layout of the club presented challenges for the officers who entered in the armored bearcat after an explosive didn't open a big enough hole. and speaking yesterday, orlando's police chief said the decision to act with force was a tough one. >> the information that i received from my team is that loss of life was imminent. so, yes, had to make that decision. hard decision to make. but like again i wasn't alone. i did have a team of people advising me. we knew that was the right thing

to do. and believe we prevented a lot -- future loss of life and saved many lives. >> when you look at the number of victims, it's staggering. and you put faces to the names. stories from siblings, from partners and friends. a picture emerges that's hard to shake. and in a snapchat video one of the victims of the shooting amanda alvear captured the moment when the gunman opened fire in the club. ♪ >> i'm at the club. ♪ [ gunfire ] >> alvear who you saw at the end of the video was confirmed of one of the 49 victims killed in the shooting. nbc news spoke to her brother last night. >> watching that video, you can clearly see my sister look up

and kind of realize what's going on and drop the phone and then run. and it was heart breaking because as a big brother like, you know, when you -- that fear that you see in her eyes you want to be there. you want to be there immediately and getting this, you know, almost 24 hours later knowing there's nothing you can do is heart breaking. >> one survivor, tony orear row is still in the hospital. he is here dressed up a as teenage mutant turtle. but last night, he described the terrifying moments. >> there was a reason i was very calm. everything was -- it was happening so fast. i didn't have a chance to cry or be scared. so i remember the cops asking

are you alive, somebody alive? anybody alive just put your hand up. but apparently the guy was making it seem like he was a victim almost. so he got on the floor too. so that's what made it difficult. they didn't know who they were looking at because the guy played it like he was one of the victims too. >> the owner of the pulse nightclub is speaking out for the first time about the tragic night that forever changed her business, her community. in an exclusive sit down with matt lauer, barbara comas spoke about learning about the bloodshed. >> can you describe how you found out about this? >> it was the most surreal phone call i ever received. when i manager called me and he told me, he was yelling into the phone. i just didn't understand him. i couldn't wrap my brain around

it. he kept saying, we have a shooter, we have a shooter. i said, what? finally, it sunk in. and it -- you can't wrap your brain around that. you just can't. >> you know every inch of that club. >> mm-hmm. >> how do you stop yourself from imagining what it was like? >> i can't stop. i can't stop imagining what that was like for them. sorry. >> it's all right. >> i don't think i'll ever stop that. >> she's beloved in the lgbt community. she was at that vigil last night. she and her partner got sustained applause. you can hear more of matt lauer's conversation with her coming up on "today." let's shift to the political fallout from this. trump with how he plans to quote make america safe again.

focusing on the subject of immigration, he doubled down on the ban on muslims entering the united states as well as bans on other areas. after incorrectly claiming the shooter was foreign when he was actually a citizen born in new york. >> i called for a ban after san bernardino. and i was met with great scorn and anger. but now, many years and -- i have to say many years but many are saying that i was right to do so and although the pause is temporary, we muss find out -- we must find out what's going on, we have to do it. it will be lifted, this ban, when and as a nation we're in a position to properly and perfectly screen these people coming into our country. when i'm elected, i will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there's a proven history of terrorism against the united states, europe or our allies. until we fully understand how to end these threats.

>> trump's speech yesterday was originally planned to be about hillary clinton and though he began by telling the audience he would address her at a later date he did repeatedly return to attacking his democratic rival. >> hillary clinton for months and despite so many attacks repeatedly refused to even say the words radical islam. until i challenged her yesterday, and guess what? she will probably will say them, she has said them. she's in total denial and her continuing reluctance to ever name the enemy broadcasts weakness across the entire world. true weakness. her plan is to disarm law abiding americans, abolishing the second amendment and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns. she wants to take away americans' guns and then admit the very people who want to slaughter us.

ask yourself who is really the friend of women and the lgbt community? donald trump with actions or hillary clinton with her words? clinton wants to allow radical islamic terrorists to come into this our country. they murder gays and enslave women. i do not want them in the country. >> hillary clinton did not mention trump yesterday. clinton laid out a multipart plan to defeat the isis threat abroad while recognizing the u.s. cannot conit's the the middle east. she called for new gun restrictions as well as partnerships across government and communities. >> we have to stem the flow of

jihadists from america from iraq, syria and afghanistan and back again. the only way to do this is by working closely with our partners, strengthening our alliances, not weakening them. or walking away from them. i remember how it felt on the day after 9/11. we had each other's backs. i was a senator from new york. there was a republican president, a republican governor and a republican mayor. we did not attack each other. we worked with each other to protect our country and to rebuild our city. >> we will have much more from here in orlando. including a look at the markets. once more stocks of gun manufacturers going way up. plus, a new incident in europe that francois hollande is

calling terrorism. as we go to break, some more scenes from last night's vigil. we'll be right back.

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an unnamed source told an isis affiliated agency that the man was one of his followers and this morning, francois hollande said it was a terrorist attack. stocks for the gun manufacturers have been rising since the orlando attack as investors anticipate a surge in sales ahead of possible weapons control actions by the government. cnbc's chris -- steve sedgwick joins us from london. good morning. >> good morning to you, chris. this pretty much what happens every single time we see a deadly attack and indeed the threat of the stronger gun laws comes into the mindset of many investors as well. smith and wesson moved 6.9%, stern ruger moved to the outside and having been up as much as 11% at one stage. smith & wesson shares are up around 40%. as i say, whenever the president makes protestations about

tighter gun laws as well we see a big increase in background checks which is a prelude of course to more gun purchases. one of the last big surges was the election, and it rose by 90%. to the transition of the world market, equity markets following asia, they're going down. the latest catalyst for this is the concern about the referendum, on whether or not it remains in the european union. the brexit getting some good polling recently. that means a lot of people are concerned. they're going into bonds and that means that germany is now in the negative territory. >> steve sedgwick, thank you so much. let's get a check of your weather with msnbc's meteorologist bill karins. >> good morning to you, chris. amazing pictures out of north texas, north of the amarillo area. we had some confirmed tornadoes

and amazing visual imagery. this is the base of the thunderstorm, mesocyclone. this produces a tornado eventually. so impressive stuff. a lot of active lightning. there's the actual tornado itself out over the open fields. exactly where we like it. the lightning was pretty intense too. the thunderstorm today has ended for now. but later on today we are going to see a risk of more severe storm, kind of a two-day outbreak. we're focused on the enhanced risk. even up to rochester and possibly minneapolis. 7 million people are at risk. then tomorrow, from the lower great lakes and the ohio valley, that's why we have 48 million at risk. not everyone will get hit, of course. that's the potential, that's who has to watch out for the storms.

everyone in ohio and chicago and toledo and detroit and cleveland, damaging wind,ise lated tornados. then the heat is the big story towards the end of the week. oklahoma city to dallas, to san antonio in the 90s. we're cooling off in the southeast with some showers and storms. you have been very hot. enjoyable weather from d.c. northwards up to new york. and we have to watch out, phoenix could hit 120 this upcoming weekend. could be the hottest temperatures they have seen in three years. that's a check of your weather. let's get an update on what happened in the big game in sport, cavaliers trying to become the first ever nba team to take the title after trailing 3-1 in the finals. well, they live to play at least one more game after defeating the warriors 112-97 in game 5. lebron james, kyrie irving, each had 41 point, that's 82 of the total points, making them the first duo to score 40 or nor the nba finals game.

the series heads back to cleveland for game 6 on thursday night. chris, let's send it back to you in orlando. >> i can't complain about my cavs. fingers crossed. thank you so much, bill karins. live to play another day. some of my conversations are coming up, i talked to many people who came out last night to remember the victims here in orlando. we are live this morning and we'll be right back. using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the fruit... veggies... needed to create a pop-up pick-your-own juice bar veggies... in the middle of the city, so now everyone knows... we have some of the freshest juice in town. see what the power of points can do for your business. learn more at chase.com/ink see what the power of points can do for your business. ♪ could get used to this. now you can. when you lease the 2016

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naturally we each ask ourselves what can you possibly say in the face of this horror? then sadly you realize you know what to say, but it's been said too many times before. it's as if there's a national script that we have learned. it's easy -- it's almost tempting to be paralyzed by such a monstrously hateful act, to despair and say, oh, it's the way the world is now. well, i don't know what to do, but i do know that despair is a victory for hate. hate wants us to be too weak to change anything. what allows us to change the script. so love your country, love your family, love the families and the victims and the people of orlando, but let's remember that love is a verb and to love means to do something. and i don't know what else to say.

>> that was how stephen colbert opened his show last night before inviting bill o'reilly on for a conversation about radical ideology and guns in america. welcome back to "way too early." i spent last night at a vigil in orlando with thousands and thousands of people. and they answered the question that stephen colbert just asked -- what can you say in the face of this horror? they answered with supporting each other, with love, and with resilience. take a listen. >> you can do whatever you want to do to whoever, but people we're going to band together. you throw a hundred messages of hate, we're going to throw a thousand messages of love. >> what do you make of this crowd? thousands and thousands of people. >> it's amazing. i'm so proud of orlando right now. i'm proud to be living in orlando. and i'm proud of the orlando community for getting together and just having each other's

backs. >> eddie was one of my first friends when i was in college, one of my first gay friends. i met him at a bar and we immediately became fast friends. i was in the closet, i didn't have many gay friends. the message i have if you don't think we're people you're wrong. if you think that that's a mild form of homophobia then you're wrong. if you think -- and if you don't do something about this, it's going to kill me. it's going to kill my friends. it's going to kill my friend's friends. >> some very emotional moments last night. for this morning that's going to do it for me and "way too early." i'll join joe and mika coming up on "morning joe" with the latest from orlando. that and much more after a short break.

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