women. what that says is there is no ceiling. >> you for her? >> i'm with her. >> this comes nearly nine years after winfrey first appeared with then-senator barack obama on the campaign trail in late 2007. this video from williams-brice stadium. it drew one of the largest crowds of the campaign season. her endorsement of obama in that race a pivotal moment for the young senator. much more ahead here on msnbc. i'm craig melvin. chuck todd will have an exclusive with house speaker paul ryan this sunday on "meet the press." hi everybody. i'm thomas roberts live here at msnbc headquarters in new york. we begin with breaking news out of florida. president obama in orlando this hour along with vice president joe biden. as we speak they're meeting privately with victims, families and survivors of the pulse

nightclub shooting inside orlando's amway arena. now, they're coming there to offer comfort, to offer strength to a community still reeling from the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. the president and vice president already met with first responders. and this is video of the president's arrival in orlando last hour. you saw him coming off of air force one. we are expecting to hear from the president at some point today. we're going to bring you those remarks as they happen. now, when the president goes back to washington, d.c., he's going to return to a capitol embroiled in a new debate over gun control. senate democrats led by connecticut's chris murphy wrapped up a marathon 15-hour filibuster early this morning. >> ask yourself, what can you do to make sure that orlando or sandy hook never ever happens again. with deep gratitude to all those who have endured this very, very

late night, i yield the floor. >> i want to begin our coverage today with our correspondents in florida and washington. chris jansing is just outside the pulse nightclub in orlando. ron allen live at the white house. chris, let me begin with you. you have covered the obama white house. you've also covered so many of these horrific shootings that have taken place in this country. and this is become a pattern for the president of having to come and offer comfort. he is doing this way too often. so what do you think is going on inside amway arena? >> reporter: yeah, this is tragically familiar. you know, these are always private meetings he has with the famili families, but i have talked to family members in the past about what has happened in these meetings and also senior staff. and a lot of this is about letting him know that they're not alone, right? that the president and vice president are there, that the entire country stands behind them. sometimes people just want to be hugged. often he will ask them about their loved ones who died and

they want to let him know about what they've lost. and often he'll take the cues as well from the families because some of them may have a political statement to make. they may want to know what he's going to do. they may ask him questions about the investigation. it will range the gamut, but he does a lot of listening. and of course with vice president biden it adds something else because he lost his son and so for the parents then there's this empathy that he has, understanding of the devastation of losing a child. and so these are very private moments, but for the families who decide that they want to meet with the president and some of them find that they just right now don't have the strength to do it, but for those who want to they will often at least have told me in the past that whatever their political persuasion may be that it matters a lot to them, that the leader of the free world and in this case the vice president as well has come to show his support, thomas. >> ron allen, as you hear chris

there talking about potentially families asking that question of the president, what is he going to do, we know back in washington the senate is going to be holding two votes on gun control. does the president really have a renewed strategy at this point for passing some reforms? >> reporter: well, thomas, i think the white house would say that they are well aware of the political realities on this issue, the tough political realities. remember, we're only talking about the senate dealing with this issue. we haven't even gotten to the house yet, which would be required for an actual law to be passed. so the president's going to continue speaking out about these issues that he wants to see happen on gun safety as he put it, but i don't think the white house is terribly obje optimistic that something is going to happen immediately. the president is going to use his bully pulpit. also the issues he holds dear are the matters of the basically expanding background checks, of trying to increase the staffing of the atf and fbi so there's more federal agents to conduct

checks. they want renewed assault webs ban, however that seems unlikely they would perhaps admit. although you just never know what the calculus may be now given orlando, given yet another of these episodes. now, the president has said on a number of occasions that this is the toughest thing that he has to deal with during his time in office, his inability to move gun safety legislation forward. so he's certainly going to make a big emotional push for it using his voice, using the power of his office. but again, the realities of this -- or the political realities are very tough, they would be the first to admit. >> nbc's ron allen at the white house and chris jansing live in orlando, thanks to both of you. want to go to pete williams with the latest on the updates in this investigation. and, pete, we've been watching the telegraph from investigators explaining what they're doing about the footprint, the profile left behind digitally and examining the messages and the photos from one of the shooter's facebook accounts. what more can you tell us about

how they're piecing this puzzle together? >> okay, well, this is a standard thing to do after an investigation. in terms of the facebook thing, there was a little confusion about this. first messages attributed to him then the fbi said they might be concerned that some of these were put in there by hackers after the fact to make it look like they were posted at the time. but now the analysts say they believe the message that's been most widely quoted about stop the bombing and this is a taste of isis vengeance was in fact posted by omar mateen when he was in pulse nightclub when he was calling 911 and a friend and a television producer. in terms of his other electronic devices authorities say they have found nothing so far that sheds any light on his motive, why did he attack that specific place. they have found some photographs, some pictures of people that they want to know who they are. they don't know whether they're colleagues, friends, who they are. and until they can figure that out they won't know what the significance of them is. and then finally in terms of his

wife, you know, we've been reporting that she had a feeling of fear that he was going to attack the pulse nightclub, that she told him not to do it the night that he left even though he said he was going to go visit friends. that was her fear. she didn't say anything to anyone, didn't give a warning and one question was did she fear abuse as his previous wife did, but authorities say so far she has not said that, that she did say mateen was controlling and she felt dominated by him, but she hasn't said she felt fear in fear of being abused. >> nbc justice correspondent pete williams in washington for us. pete, thank you. in the wake of tragedy we've been watching democrats lead this charge to pass new gun control amendment. and victims' families from past shootings were there on capitol hill this morning to lend their voices to support. >> hate becomes deadly when we make it far too easy for those

intent on causing harm to get their hands on a gun. and that is why i'm here today to disarm hate. after the shooting in charleston, i needed to be a part of the solution to find a way to keep on dreaming, like my mother did. >> right now there are so many families and trends dealing with the grief of knowing that they lost a loved one inside of pulse nightclub. and edward sotomayor was killed that night. his friend is joining me. thank you for joining me, eddrey sorry for the loss of your friend eddie. it's been four days, what do you want people to remember about the man eddie was? >> well, pete, i want to tell you about my dear friend eddie

sotomayor. but before i do i want to say some things that eddie would say if the roles were reversed. this wasn't just an attack on the gay community. this was an attack on the core of america itself. the fact that gays can live so openly in the u.s. is a symbol of our free society for the rest of the world where they cannot. this wasn't lost on the latinos that night at pulse. however, our culture still tolerates homophobia. eddie would say, you need to love your gay children. that's what he would tell parents. he would say we need to love everyone as if they're gay and they're too afraid to come out. he would say right now if ever a time for the country to come together as one and fight homophobia and fight violence, gun control isn't enough. in 1973, the upstairs lounge in

new orleans had 32 people who were burned alive when people barricaded the doors. homophobia is a problem, and that's what we need to take care of. i met eddie when i was in college. i wasn't out. and i was still figuring out my sexuality. and pulse was this refuge for young lgbt people. and for them to be themselves. and he saw me there alone and introduced himself. he had the kindest eyes and a beautiful smile. and he made me feel at ease. and we became fast friends. we're both hispanic, we're both named eddie. and he was there for me in a time when i was really struggling. and being latino, it's not easy being out. it's not easy coming from a culture where it's not viewed as being okay.

and so he was my personal hero. >> he sounds like a kind spirit. so many lgbt people when they come to terms with the reality of wanting to be confident and integrated with their lives are afraid telling those closest to them, their families. so the lgbt community becomes an immediate family because you find love and acceptance through people who have lived through similar experiences. so i think a lot of people, certainly i can understand that, when you're so afraid to tell the people around you. whether you're latino or you're not, it means so much to have that connection of acceptance. and this is such a tragedy for all people because lgbt people really are a bridge community because we come from all families. whether we're black, white, asian, muslim, we come from all families.

and we really bridge people together. i know that eddie leaves behind a partner. he was there that night. he had stepped outside of pulse. and eddie texted him to tell him not to come back. do you know how he's doing? >> he's unconsolable right now. he's helping raise money for eddie's family. right now eddie is survived by his sister among a few other family members. and so louise and trying to help them. and so louise was saved. louis is still here today because eddie kept him from going back into the club. and so eddie saved his life. eddie was so important to so many people in the community. he worked for a travel agency, the largest in the country, that was gay. and so gay travel was so important to people because of

homophobia, so they would travel in groups. so he was the face. he was the brand manager of that company. so he knew everybody from around the country and the world. so he was so important. and he was a symbol of being authentic, being proud and he was an amazing person. >> well, i'm sure he's very proud of you right now for speaking so eloquently and lovingly on his behalf. eddie menhert was a friend of eddie sotomayor, thank you for your time, appreciate it. >> thank you. so we continue to follow the breaking story out of orlando as the president has arrived on the scene along with vice president joe biden, meeting with families inside amway arena. we're going to be talking more about what this means for the community of orlando as they are now planning 49 different funerals for those lost early sunday. what's it like to be in good hands?

man, it's like pure power at your finger tips. like the power to earn allstate reward points, every time i drive. .want my number? and cash back r dring safe. and the wer automatically fi your car... i see you car! ani got the por to know who's coming and when if i break down. ...you must be gerry. hey... in means getting more from your car insurance with the all-powerful drivewise app. it's good to be in, good hands.

♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪ja rse, "day to feel alive" ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪ real is touching a ray. amazing is moving like one. real is making new friends. real is an animal rescue.ose. amazing over twenty-seven thousand of them. there is only one place where real and amazing live. seaworld. real. amazing

so there has been expectation of the fact donald trump would be deposed in a washington, d.c. law firm today, all stemming from an active lawsuit filed by trump university and two prominent chefs -- against trump and two chefs who backed out of the deal with the real estate developer canceling plans for a restaurant after trump declared his candidacy. both chefs have filed counterclaims. all this happening as another fracture forms between donald trump and the rnc. >> just be quiet because they have to get tougher, they have to get sharper, they have to get smarter.

we have to have our republicans, either stick together or let me just do it by myself. i'll do very well. >> sources telling nbc news there is deep distrust between the party and donald trump. and that has been amplified by trump's troubles on the trail. house speaker paul ryan was asked about the constant controversy but said he had no plans to rescind his endorsement. >> you wake up in the morning and you read the paper and say, oh, there he goes again, call brandon and ashley, say, okay, i got to say this -- how many more times can you do that? >> i don't know the answer to that either. >> but does that bother you you have to keep repeating it? >> he's a different kind of candidate. this is a different kind of year. i'm going to be myself and speak up in defense of our principles, not just our party's principles but our country's principles. >> nbc's katy tur joins me live from dallas where donald trump will be holding a rally later this eching. there's a lot of ground to cover as always when it comes to the trump campaign. let's go with this conflict

between trump versus the establishment. give us the background on what's happening between the trump campaign, the rnc and certain republicans that are recoiling at the continuation of his campaign trail message? >> reporter: well, sources in both camps tell me that there is a lot of deep distrust between the republican party and donald trump's campaign. both of them thinking the other is only serving themselves. i can tell you the party has been encouraging donald trump's campaign to staff up, to beef up, to match what they are doing on the ground in terms of their effort, their get out the vote effort, but the campaign has not been doing that instead relying on what's worked for them so far which is let donald trump be donald trump and having the candidate dominate the news cycle. now, the trump campaign officially pushes back on this idea saying they have a great relationship with the rnc, but we spoke with six different

sources who painted us a picture of what it is like behind the scenes. and right now it is less than pretty. both sides though saying they do believe they're going to be able to work together. this isn't the only problem donald trump has right now, thomas. you just laid it out in your intro. he's finding issues with republican leadership and the republican rank and file as well. many of them growing very tired of having to respond to donald trump's latest controversies. there is worry that donald trump could end up ruining the gop party during this election cycle. and there's a lot of pressure on him to step in line. the issue that they're having though is donald trump can have all the aides in the world tell him to shape up, all the donors, all the republicans, but ultimately he does what he wants and he listens to himself. and so far that has been successful for him, thomas. >> our katy tur traveling with the donald trump campaign. that's where trump will be holding a rally tonight in dallas. katy, thanks so much. we want to go back and talk more about what's happening as we

speak in washington, d.c., the continuation of a conversation about gun control, all the while president obama is in orlando to meet with the families of victims from the pulse nightclub shooting. this is tape earlier of the president arriving there in orlando. you can see just over his shoulder that is florida senator marco rubio who traveled on air force one with the president from washington, d.c. to orlando. and all of this just hours after senate democrats wrapped up a 15-hour filibuster on gun control. this would be a filibuster resulting in votes that could happen as early as this afternoon. joining me from capitol hill is michigan senator gary peters. sir, good to have you with me. i know you took part in this marathon filibuster yesterday, republican leadership coming out saying this is basically a talk-a-thon. even if these amendments were to go through, getting these two votes and having them passed, there are people saying that this would not have done anything to stop what happened in orlando and san bernardino

and a myriad of other mass shootings that have happened in the u.s. based on the no-fly, no buy policy. what do you say to those critics? >> well, first, let me say my heart also goes out to the families in orlando who are suffering from this tragic incident. and everybody who lives in orlando as well as the country that's grieving right now. and i think that is why we have to take action. you know, this was a hate crime against the lgbt community. it was an act of terrorism, it also showed access to weapons that are far too easy. this is a complex issue, requires a number of actions. but i think one action we can take now deals with the weapons. and that's about common sense regulations that allow us to say if you are a person on a do not fly list as a terrorist, you should not have access to a firearm. if the government doesn't believe it's safe for you to be on an airplane, it's certainly not safe for you to have a firearm. and we also have to have expanded background checks. too many folks are able to buy

weapons right now without a background check, whether it's a gun show or the internet. this is about tragedies that are occurring not just in orlando but tragedies that are occurring every single day. if we can prevent some of that from happening, we need to take action. we need to move beyond our thoughts and prayers, as important as that is and take action. that's what we're demanding right now. >> if you're going to take action, and a lot of people would say no-fly, no buy, is a good way to go. but if we go back a year in time, okay, to when donald trump announced his candidacy for president to just within 36 hours the shooting that happened in charleston, south carolina, we have had nine separate mass shooting attacks in this country. orlando, the mass shooting in kansas, kalamazoo a shooting spree, san bernardino, a planned parenthood clinic in colorado springs, colorado springs just prior to that halloween massacre, umpqua in oregon,

chattanooga middle school and back to charleston, we've lost 101 people and 111 other people wounded in these attacks. so isn't the root cause here easy access to assault weapons, military grade weapons that everyday citizens can buy, why should we have access to that? >> well, certainly that has to be part of the discussion as well. i think what we can do right now is take this action in order to prevent folks on a watch list from getting access to firearms -- >> but none of these people were on the watch list. that's the thing. none of these shooters from dylann roof to omar mateen were on the watch list even though omar mateen had been under fbi scrutiny, he was able to fly to saudi arabia for two visits for muslim pilgrimages, so none of these shooters i just mentioned would be on your list. >> well, that doesn't mean we won't have a future situation. and i think it's very important we can't hold each piece of legislation to a standard that it must cover every single situation. there isn't anything that we do

that's that comprehensive. if we throw up our hands and say this won't completely solve the problem, so why should we do it, we end up doing nothing. i think that's what's paralyzed this congress for too long. everybody says, well, it may not have worked in this case, but -- >> why not have the courage to go after an assault weapons ban? these are all basically assault weapons that were used in just a year of mass assaults that i mentioned? so not saying don't do anything. i'm saying go after the root cause. >> i don't disagree with you. i do believe we need to move further particularly when it comes to the large magazines. you don't need to have a situation where someone has in excess of 30 rounds of ammunition we need to be clamping down on that and not allowing people to have, which is really a weapon of war, which is to your point. i served in the u.s. navy reserve, there's a difference between a weapon of war and a hunting rifle and something for personal protection. we have to make those distinctions. i agree with you 100% we need to deal with that, but i also think

we need to take a first step and i think this is the first step we can take especially given the fact we know over 90% of the american people agree we should be doing this step. this is something we need to do. and then we need to move onto some of the other issues as well that are equally as important and to your point surely do go to some of the root causes of these issues. i agree with you totally. >> senator gary peters, thank you for your time. we have breaking news on the medical front to talk about. the zika virus, centers for disease control announcing three babies born in the u.s. with birth defects from zika virus. more breaking news after this. and so... my new packing rot more efficient... wn and save shoppers money. genius! (smoke alarm sounds) oh no... charlene? ...no... charlene. no. charlene. why is she wearing earrings?

why is it a she? shh... at jet.com, we always find innovative ways to save. get 15 percent off your first order. innovative sonicare tenology with up to 27% more brush movements versus oral b. get healthier gums in 2 weeks guaranteed. innovation and y. philips sonicare. save when you buy the most loved recharable toothush brand in america. what are you doingettinfaster huh? detecting threats faster, responding faster, recovering faster. when your security'suilt in not just bolted on, and yoprotthe data and not just the pereter, you get faster. wow, speed kills. systems open to all, t closed to intruders. trusted by 8 of 10 of the world's largest banks. think fixing your windshield is a big hassle? not with safelite. this family neededtheir wind but they're daughters heart was set on going to the o.

so guess what, i met them at the zoo. service that fits your schedule. that's another safelite advantage. ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ i drive to the hoop. i drive a racecar. i have a driver. his name is carl. but that's not what we all have in common. we talked to our doctors about treatment with xarelto®. xarelto® is proven to treat and help reduce the risk of dvt and blood clots. xalto® is also proven to reducehe risk of soke thin peoplwith afib, bnocaused by a heart valve problem. for people with afib currently well managed onarfarin, there is limited information on how xarelto® and warfarin compare in reducing the risk of stroke. you know, taking warfarin, i had to deal with that blood testing routine. i couldn't have a healthy salad whenever ianted. i found another way. yeah, treatment with xarelto®. hey, safety first. like all blood thinners, don't stop taking xarelto® without talking to your doctor, as this may increase your risk of a blood clot or stroke. while taking, you may bruise more easily and it may take longer for bleeng to stop. xarelto® may increase your risk of bleeding if you take certain medicines. xarelto® can cause serious and in rare cases,

fatal bleeding. get help right away for unexpected bleeding, unusual bruising, or tingling. if you have had spinal anesthesia while on xarelto®, watch for back pain or any nerve or muscle related signs or symptoms. do not take xarelto® if you have an artificial heart valve or abnorm bleeding. tell your doctor before all planned medical or dental procedures. before starting xarelto®, tell your doctor about any kidney, liver, or bleeding problems. xarelto® is the number one befprescribed blood thinner tell your doctor about in its class. well that calls for a round of kevin nealons. make mine an arnoldalmer. same here. with xarelto® there is no regular blood monitoring and no known dietary restrictions. treatment with xarelto® was the right move for us. ask your doctor about xarelto®. all right. so we're following this breaking news, developments on the zika virus front. we have the centers for disease control announcing three babies born with the disease in the u.s. showing birth defects caused by the mosquito born virus.

three others have lost or terminated pregnancies because their fetuses suffered brain damage from zika. the cdc says 234 pregnant women in the u.s. having diabetesed with the virus. all cases are connected to travel with areas with zika outbreaks. we're joined on the phone by senior health writer for nbcnews.com. maggie, because of the outbreak, is this news a medical surprise for health experts in the u.s.? or was this anticipated? >> unfortunately this is exactly what the cdc and other health experts have been predicting. they said people who travel to latin america and caribbean are likely to come back with infections. and because we now know for sure zika virus causes these birth defects in babies, they said at least some of these pregnant women are going to have babies with birth defects. now, as you said all of these are currently associated with travel, but the cdc has also predicted that as mosquito

season gets underway in the continental u.s. there will be local outbreaks of zika here and there. and they're really warning pregnant women to protect themselves, to make sure that they don't get mosquito bites either at home or when they travel because of the risk of birth defects. >> this can also -- and pregnant women certainly on high alert, but for any couple trying to conceive, man or woman, they need to think about this especially if they have any pending travel because of how the virus exposes itself later on if you do conceive, correct? >> that's right. it's the way the virus is transmitted. you can get it from mosquito bites, but a man can also pass it to a woman through sex. so all men are warned if there's any chance that they might have been infected with zika, they need to either abstain from sex or practice safe sex so they do not infect any woman and especially a couple that's trying to get pregnant. and any man whose wife or

partner is already pregnant and if he has any chance whatsoever that he might have had zika virus, he needs to use a condom for the whole duration of her pregnancy to make sure the baby does not get infected. >> maggie fox, thank you, appreciate you making time for me. >> my pleasure. >> absolutely. as we've been telling you just over the last hour or so president obama has arrived with vice president biden in orlando to meet with families of those lost at pulse nightclub. we are expecting him to deliver remarks once he's finished meeting with those families, also meeting with survivors of the attack and first responders to the club. when that happens we're going to bring you the president's remarks right here. but also today cia director john brennan testifying on capitol hill discussing the difficulty of capturing lone wolf operators like the orlando shooter. >> we have not been able to uncover any direct link between that individual, mateen, and a foreign terrorist organization. but that inspiration can lead

someone to embark on this path of destruction and start to acquire the capability, the expertise, maybe do the surveillance and carry out an attack without triggering any of those traditional signatures that we might see as a foreign terrorist organization tries to deploy operatives here. >> so the orlando tragedy has brought to light so many different intersections of what it means to live in modern times and to live through a terrorist attack as well as a hate crime. and orlando really highlights a difficult conversation about gay rights among american muslims. imam abdel la the first openly gay imam in the u.s. and joins me now from washington, d.c. im imam, thank you for being here. this has taken the muslim community and leaders -- to put them on the defensive, to be out there to have to react to what this attack means and especially to the idea of those that could

be radicalized using the islamic faith as a means to an end to show hatred and in this case kill 49 other people and injure 53. i want to play just part of a press conference and remind everybody what certain community leaders from the islamic faith said on sunday. >> for many years members of the lgbtqia community have to do shoulder to shoulder with the muslim community against any acts of hate crimes, islamophobia, marginal and discrimination, today we stand with them shoulder to shoulder. >> imam, right now as we speak we have images of the memorial set up there downtown orlando, that's where the vigil was held monday night. and senators rubio and nelson, florida senators, are there paying their respects and

visiting the tribute of flowers and photographs that are now in downtown orlando in memory of those lost. you were invited to the event on sunday where those leaders spoke. do you think that there will be a change in attitude towards the gay community, toward gay muslims based on what happened, the tragedy in orlando? or will it be status quo moving forward? >> thomas, thank you for inviting me. responding directly i really was happy that brother invited me and i hope this is a turning point so there will be more active participation having dialogue and discussion. and so this is what i'm looking forward to. however, if we look at the past and how the muslim community and the organizations in particular have responded to these particular issues islamophobia and homophobia, it doesn't look well that they do so. so i hope they're encouraged to

take the steps to move forward and have this discussion because they've been ignoring it for the last 20 years. and it's really important that they start to coalesce members of the muslim community totally, embrace us totally so that everyone there within the community can then stand up to islamophobia and stand up to the homophobia that's out there. >> well, meanwhile there is islamophobia, any type of phobia is based on something that people are unfamiliar with. >> yes. >> so while we talk about homophobia, all religions, well, not all, but primarily the biggest ones have preached homophobic teachings for years. >> yes. >> so islam is not alone in the fact that it is being unaccepted or not teaching young people to grow up and be integrated with a healthy self-sexual respect, as the only openly gay imam in the u.s., how much pressure is it on you to be a role model to

muslims that come to you for answers about spirituality? >> it's not just upon me, there are many other spokespersons out there, i may have the highest profile, but there are many others out there. and the role in terms of talking with them about their faith and talking with them about their sexual orientation, now, not that difficult of a problem because i definitely push them to know about islamic history. because there have been many times of islams and this pla particular issue has been present throughout and never one been pushed to the side or ignored. because even in 1858 when the ottomo ottoman empire -- when i bring these facts forward quite often the religious members don't know their history. so they're shocked by such a thing. and when they find out then there's this change or a lot of silence on the subject. so i think they need to review the history and also look at the way in which the religion has been taught over the last 200

years, particularly out of the gulf area, that they need to be much more consistent with islamic history. >> sir, imam abdellah, thank you for your time, your insights, appreciate here. >> thank you. >> back with more after this. viagra single packs... so guys with ed can... take viagra when they need it. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension. your blood pressure could drop to an unsafe level.

to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. ask youroctor about viagra single packsks

hi!

hey! i've made plans for later in case this date doesn't go well. same here. wouldn't it be great if everyone said what they meant? the citi double cash card does. earn 1% cash back when you buy, and 1% as you y. doub means double. all right. so wanted to show you these images coming to us out of orlando. that is florida senator marco rubio live and he is on the scene there in downtown orlando at dr. philip's performing arts center. this you may recall the spot where they held the vigil monday night where thousands came out to support and remember those that were lost early sunday morning. let's listen in. >> are you okay? >> yeah, i'm fine. thank you. >> all right. so unfortunately we really didn't catch much of the questions that were shouted out or answers there from senator marco rubio.

but he's been out front on this issue, and also it came out just over the last day that he's considering re-running for his senate seat in florida. but -- here, let's listen in now. >> i know has many issues at in time -- >> tell me about your visit with the families and how emotional that was. >> well, the -- we just met with the first responders -- families on the phone -- >> mr. rubio, could we pray with you? could we pray with you, please? mr. rubio, can i pray with you, please? >> the senator answering some

questions, but then also being asked by someone to pray with him. and right now we're witnessing that moment where pray together on the site of the memorial that has grown in downtown orlando. monday night i was there, thousands of people came out for the vigil where they heard from community leaders, elected leaders, the president of the hrc and glad was there as well as the owners of pulse nightclub. and some of those employees that were there that night when the shooting broke out. where they lost 49 of their friends and patrons and 53 others were injured. we want to switch gears to show what's taking place overseas because we have been following a story over the last several hours, this breaking news out of the uk where a british lawmaker has died after being shot and stabbed. 41-year-old jo cox was attending an open meeting with constituents, a 52-year-old man has been arrested, but it's unclear if he is the attacker. cox was elected to the house of commons just last year,

represents a northern part of england for the main opposition labor party. she's married with two young kids. cox has been a vocal supporter of britain remaining in the european union. both sides in the debate over british membership in the eu have suspended campaigning for today. the other big update, the breaking news on the egyptair crash, nbc news learning that the cockpit voice recorder has been recovered a day after the wreckage was found in the mediterranean and just days before the signal was expected to expire. nbc's tom costello joins us with the latest details from d.c. tom, when can we expect to hear the information on those voice recorders? >> could take a couple days at the earliest, thomas, because they've got to get the flight -- pardon me, the cockpit voice recorder back to the mainland, and then they've got to get it to a lab where they can read it out. what we know is the cvr, the cockpit voice recorder looks like this, but it was damaged apparently in the crash. they did however manage to extract the memory unit, so that

is good news. that is on its way to, we believe cairo, what's important is when you actually have this kind of an accident and the entire cvr is submerged in salt water, as soon as you retrieve it you put it in clean fresh water because the idea is you want as much as possible diffuse the salt because that's corrosive. so presumably that's what they've done, taken now this unit, the memory unit to cairo where it will eventually be read out. but there is another black box, right? there's the flight data recorder, looks very similar, and we're listening for the pings right now. there's only about another week of pings on the flight data recorder before this battery runs out. and the flight data recorder is critical, it contains about 1,000 parameters of data, everything from engine performance to electrical performance, wings, you name it. everything about the performance of the plane, computers, and if there's an issue onboard the plane, the fdr should have picked that up.

so in addition to the cockpit voice recorder they need the flight data recorder to tell the full story. was it a bomb or something else that brought down flight 804 with 66 people onboard, thomas? >> tom costello, tom, thank you for that update and we'll all be waiting to hear what data is recovered from that. we go back to focusing on the race for 2016 following reports on a growing rift in the republican party and its presumptive nominee. just a few minutes ago we got a tweet from rnc chair reince priebus. reports of discord are fur fiction, great events lined up all over, republicans will win in november. just a couple minutes ago we were talking with katy tur getting what's taking place among the gop establishment and donald trump. katy is in dallas getting ready for the trump rally there tonight. today not only marks the one-year anniversary of donald trump's presidential campaign, it also marks the beginning of hillary clinton's first battleground advertising blitz

of the general election cycle. the tv ad buy in colorado, florida, iowa, nevada, new hampshire, north carolina, ohio and virginia has a price tag of at least $7.3 million. nbc's kristen welker joins us from our washington bureau. she's following the clinton campaign. a price tag of $7.3 million, winning certain states in that lineup right there is priceless. so they're willing to spend whatever it takes. talk about the strategy about why they're going up now. >> well, look, those states are key, thomas. you laid them out, those battleground states, those are the hard fought states that could determine this race. virginia, colorado, new hampshire, iowa, a lot of the states president obama won back in 2012, secretary clinton making an aggressive play for them now. significant for a couple of reasons. she has the air waves to herself right now, thomas. so what are the folks who live there seeing? well, they're seeing ads that hit donald trump, but a majority of the ads that they're likely going to see are two of these

new ads that were released today that are really biographies of secretary clinton aimed at reintroducing her to voters and aimed at really improving her favorability ratings. right now her unfavorable's at 55%, that's pretty high. not as high as donald trump though, his at 70%. take a look at one of those ads. >> for hillary it's always been about kids. and when millions couldn't get health care, this first lady worked with republicans and democrats to fix it creating the childrens health insurance program. >> so that every child gets the health care that child deserves to have. >> now 8 million kids are covered. that's the kind of leader she is. and the kind of president she'll be. >> secretary clinton off the trail today, but she's picking up two key endorsements, one from the aflcio. another one from oprah winfrey, thomas. >> that is pretty key. we know how that worked out for

president obama. kristen welker in washington, d.c. for us, thank you so much. again, we're going to continue to follow breaking news out of florida watching as the president has arrived in orlando along with vice president joe biden we see on air force one senator marco rubio going back to florida with the president all there to pay their respects and remembrances to the families of those that were lost and the survivors of that night at pulse, plus the first responders. the president expected to speak this afternoon. when that happens we'll bring you those remarks. the rit things working together

advantage. can gn like trubiotics with immune support advantage. its unique formula supports immune health in two ways. and antioxidantsics that that workin your gut. throughout your by. trubiotics fromntsics that one a day.at workin your gut. what if ,000 people wnad the new app? we're good. okay... what if a million people download the new app? five milli? we're good. good. we scale on dend. hybrid infraructure, boom. ok. what30 million people download the app? we're not good. we're total heroes. in cloud infrastructure. the number one company

welcome back, everybody. at this hour, president obama is meeting with families of the victims of the nightclub shooting in orlando. also taking time to meet with

survivors and first responders. all this is going on while his party in congress is fighting for a vote on the senate floor for gun control legislation. senator bob casey joined a 15-hour filibuster stage, bringing with him a newspaper from the day after the tragedy in new town. >> as much of these stories of these children inspired me then and continue to inspire me, i don't want to add another set of stories to my desk or keep adding to the chronicle of suffering and the chronicle of murder and destruction that gun violence will leave us with. >> joining me now is senator bob casey of pennsylvania. sir, good to have you with me. we know senator ted cruz was speaking on the floor just a short while ago. i want to show everybody the type of pushback you're getting there. >> the question that every member of this body be asking is

why is the ball being dropped over and over and over again. it's not once. it's not twice. it is a pattern. it is a pattern of failing to connect the dots. i would suggest is directly connected to president obama and this administration's refusal to acknowledge what it is we're fighting. >> sir, i know you held up the paper that showed all the profiles of the young children that were lost in new town. we're talking about orlando. if all politics is personal, why do you think after gabby giffords was almost assassinated at a congress in your corner in tucson, arizona, that your colleagues wouldn't recognize the need for real reform rooted in assault weapons? >> thomas, there's no question, even if we -- and it looks like we will get the votes scheduled for next week on a background check vote finally after all these years, since 2013. and then secondly, a bill to

speak directly to the challenge that arose in the context of orlando, to give the attorney general some additional authority which the attorney general does not have now to be able to stop that kind of a circumstance where someone who is a danger gets hold of a high-powered weapon and able to use it in that way. in addition to that, we've got a long list of things we've got to do to deal with this problem. i believe we should have a vote on the ban of military style weapon. that a vote not just on background checks, but on limiting the clips or the magazines. we've got a long list of things to do including my hate crimes legislation as well. >> have you found it odd that you have an ally in donald trump about no fly, no buy? >> i'm not at all prepared to categorize him as an ally. >> but he agrees with you though. people on the no-fly list should

not have access to gun purchases. >> everyone says that, that they don't want terrorists to get access to weapons, and then they vote the wrong way. this is about voting for specific provisions which will stop this from happening. like some around here want to make it, this isn't some game. this idea that we can go along the way we have been going and not take specific steps like we did after 9/11 when our country came together and said we're going to stop terrorists from flying planes into buildings. >> we know you've got a lot of work ahead of you. there won't be a vote today. >> tuesday. >> advertise it is. senator bob casey of pennsylvania. thank you, sir. we're back in a moment. snipe

will your business be ready when growth presents itself? our new cocktail bitters were doing well, but after one tradeshow, we took of all i could thinabouwas our deadlines racing towards us. a loan would take too long. we needed money, now. my amex card helped me buy the ingredients to fill the orders. opportunities don't wait around, so you have to be ready for them. find out how american express cards and seices can help prepare you for growth at open.com. people are ting char of their type 2 diabetes with non-insulin victoza®. for while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar. but it didn't get me to my go. so asked my doctor about victoza®. he said victoza® works differently than pills.

and comes in a pen. victoza® is proven to lower blood sugar and a1c. it's taken once a day, any time. vioza®s not for weht loss, t it may help you lose some weight. victoza® works with your by to lower blood sugar in 3 ways: in the stomach, the liver, and the pancreas. that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exeise. it is not recommended ashe first medation to treat diabetes and should not be used in people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. victoza® has not been studied with mealtime insulin. do not take victoza®f you ve a personal or family history of medullary thyroid cancer, multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if you are allergic to victoza® or any of its ingredients. symptoms of a serious allergic reaction may include itching, rash, or difficulty breathing. tell your doctor if you get a lump or swelling in your neck.

serious side effects may happen in people who take victoza®, including inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis). stop taking victoz® and call your doct right away if you have signs of pancreatitis such as severe pain that will not go away inour abdomen or from your abdomen to your back, with or without vomiting. tell your doctor about all the medines you take and if you have any medical conditions. taking victoza® with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. the most common side effects are headache, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. side effects can lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. if your pill isn't giving you the control you need ask your dtor about insulin victoza®. it's covered by mostheth . . tell us about your brother okay? tell me about your brother.

>> he was her inspiration. he was her inspiration. positive all the time. he would help people all the time. you have no idea how much people at work appreciate him and love him because he was always helping someone. >> that was from our time on the girl earlier this weekend. simon, the youngest of four, was the main bread winner for his family. he was originally from wednesday w -- venezuela. simon's partner was also murdered at pulse nightclub on sunday. the couple just recently purchased their first home together. praim and vice president joe biden currently in orlando right now. meeting with the families of victims and the survivors and