good morning. breaking overnight, mass casualty shooting. a horrific scene outside a popular gay nightclub in orlando when a gunman walks in with an assault-style rifle and a handgun and opens fire. approximately 20 dead according to police and dozens injured. >> make sure that whoever was coming to help us could help him. >> the shooting turning into a hostage situation. police storming in to save at least 30 hostages and killing the gunman. this morning the violence being investigated as an act of domestic terror. >> we are investigating this from all parties' perspective as an act of terrorism. >> and the horror, the full scope of this shooting just unfolding this morning. good morning,

mass violence. orlando police say approximately 20 people are dead, at least 42 injured, after a gunman walked into a popular gay nightclub called pulse. witnesses describing a scene of terror. some running from the scene, others held hostage inside. the gunman has not yet been identified, but we do know he is dead, killed by police. investigators, again, describing a hostage situation and that's when they moved in. authorities say the gunman was armed with an assault-style rifle, a handgun and some sort of device on his person. the fbi saying this will be investigated as a domestic act of terror. we've got complete coverage this morning, beginning in orlando with sarah dallof. good morning. >> reporter: a tragic scene just south of downtown orlando where authorities say just after 2:00 this morning the shooter entered the nightclub. he exchanged gunfire with a uniformed orlando police officer who was working in the club off duty. the shooter re

inside the club and that is when he took hostages. >> we were being contacted by people in the bathroom, nearby, at least 15 people that were in a separate area, and our biggest concern was future loss of life. we want to save those people, so we did an entry and exchanged gunfire with the suspect again after some explosive devices were used as well as our bearcat was used to get through the wal wall. >> reporter: the suspect was shot and killed. an orlando police officer also shot. however, officials say that his kevlar helmet did save his life. now, as this was all unfolding, people in the nightclub who were able to escape were helping others and helping treat the wounded. >> we were across the street and you could still hear the

one person too because it was just too continuous. it's like you're at a gun range and all you hear is just boom, bang, bang, and it was just -- i can't even describe it. it was -- i mean i am, but it was really difficult to see in real life a horrible situation. >> did people realize what was going on? >> no. i don't think anybody really knew what was going on until they saw people on the ground bleeding and heard people screaming and heard the commotion, because you didn't know. when you're in a bar like that, you really think that it's music because there's three different places, they're playing three different music. there's the sounds on the pat yoerks sounds inside where the main area is and another area where they were dancing, so there was three types of music playing at the same time. so how would you really know what's what. and it was just -- >> reporter: 42 people were taken to

treated and this morning we're seeing survivors being loaded on city buses and taken to the police department to give statements. meanwhile they do not believe there is any credible threat to the city of orlando but a lot of shock and a lot of sadness here. >> you listen to those eyewitness accounts of those inside it's just chilling stuff. pulse nightclub posting at 2:00 in the morning on its facebook page, everyone get out of pulse and keep running. what else did you hear? you've been on the ground there for several hours from people streaming out of that club, many running for their lives. as you heard the police chief, some contacting police and loved ones trapped inside bathrooms waiting for this to pass. >> reporter: and that is the most difficult part for people right now, the waiting. i met with one young man who had fled the nightclub and he had been separated from his friend during his escape. he had been calling her repeatedly, not able to rea

don't understand, you don't understand, the bodies, the bodies. so people are trying to process what they have seen, they're trying to track down their friends and loved ones inside that nightclub who they haven't been able to get ahold of. it's a horrifying situation all around. >> all right, sarah, we'll come back to you shortly. you're looking at a live helicopter shot over pulse nightclub in south orlando where again police are saying approximately 20 people are dead. they don't have that number exact yet but as much as they were willing to say publicly, approximately 20 dead, 42 more victims transported to three area hospitals. this all began at 2:00 in the morning when a man walked in with an assault-style rifle and a handgun and was engaged by uniformed orlando police department officer working security at the time. that instance, exchange of gunfire, turned into a three-hour hostage situation. at 5:00 local time, orlando police said the decision was made to send

team and engage the shooter, at which time he was shot and killed. let's go to jim cavanaugh, an nbc news law enforcement expert. jim, good morning. we heard in this press conference the sheriff saying this is being treated as an act of domestic terror but then you have the fbi saying we always look into these things as potentially terror and obviously this is terrorism in some form but they're not willing to go that far yet. as you listen to them speak about this crime, what did you hear? >> i heard them, it looks like the motive might be domestic terrorist related. in other words, hate and targeting a minority community, the lgbt community. maybe this was latin night, latin community. this is an unusual target for an internationally inspired actor late at night at a club like this. now, we did have the bataclan at paris but this is not the typical target of internationally inspired terrorists. so when they're t

like they have indicators that this was targeted for this particular club and he came with the assault rifle as you described. that's why we have so much carnage inside there because the velocity out of those rifle, it's just awful. so you have 42 wounded and maybe 20 people killed. if it wasn't for orlando pd engaging him immediately, boxing him up, keeping him static until s.w.a.t. could get to him and rescuing everybody with entry and the bearcat, it could have been even worse. >> this is a coordinated effort between local police, state and federal authorities obviously that started at 2:00 in the morning in orlando, jim. what would be the protocol there. this turned into a hostage situation. over the course of about three hours they decide then at 5:00 in the morning to send in the s.w.a.t. team. what would that decision be like to send in s.w.a.t.? >> it's the on-scene tactical commander. the orlando s.w.a

they're going to make the decision reading the escalation and deescalation of the event whether they can stay negotiating or make a move. the chief said they had to make a move to rescue people, 15 to 30, who were in a bathroom and they used explosive entry, they used a bearcat armored vehicle and they punched in there and engaged the subject when he came out in the hallway. of course s.w.a.t. officers are well trained, great shots, and they were able to take him out but he wounded one of the orlando pd officers, hit his helmet and maybe wounded his eye slightly. but they were able to stop any more killing by that decision to make the entry at that time. >> and we don't know the exact layout of the nightclub but you look at that space, 320 people in a relatively tight space, a shootout in there obviously would have huge ramifications and has this morning. the decision by the police there to engage him, pretty quick, i imagine. >> yeah, you know, it's hard

trigger first, it's hard to get there before he does that, but orlando pd had an officer there working an extra job and he engaged the guy pretty quickly once he heard gunshots. by then he might have unloaded a magazine into the crowd. and then there was a gun battle and more shots. so, it's an awful, awful case and there will be a lot of heartache in orlando tonight. >> orlando police saying the suspect walked in, quote, prepared and well organized. we're getting some new tape, jim. i want you to listen along with me of sounds of gunfire early this morning in orlando. let's listen. [ gunfire ] jim, we don't know exactly what time or at what stage of the operation that was, but obviously automatic gunfire there. what did you hear? >> that's a gun battle because you can hear the guns going -- the rounds going each way. so that's the police

the suspect at some point in the event. rounds going each way. >> jim, as we look at this now in the bigger picture, where will the investigation go? again, domestic terror incident is how it's been investigated according to the sheriff's office there. the fbi says there's no suggestion of a further threat to the city of orlando or to anyone else but they will be looking at this as an act of terrorism first. how do they proceed with this investigation as we sit here this morning? >> very large forensic footprint. going to go real slow through that scene, probably today, maybe even a couple of days. a very aggressive white collar investigation that's going on right now by detectives and agents. you know, basic 101, you're going to get the guy's wallet, cell phone and see who he is and why he's there. then you're going to get to his car at the scene, make sure it doesn't have a bomb or explosives in it and get to his house or his apartment and see what's there. you're going to get on his computers. why did he do this. he's going to have it all written down likely.

there, it's going to be clear, and they're going to uncover that. and then of course the thing that's also of import, is there anybody else planning it with him, helped him, encouraged him, facilitated with him or is planning yet another attack. >> and that's an important point. police saying at this point eyewitnesses gave no account of a second gunman. it was

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we're back on a sunday morning following the breaking news out of orlando. orlando police saying approximately 20 people killed. they don't have a definite number, that's their terminology, approximately 20 killed. 42 more taken to local hospitals after a gunman opened fire inside pulse nightclub there in orlando. let's go back to orlando

hostage situation that developed beginning at 2:00 in the morning lasting until 5:00 a.m. eastern time there in orlando when a s.w.a.t. team went in to engage the people. >> we were being contacted by people in the bathroom, nearby, at least 15 people in a separate area, and our biggest concern was future loss of life. we wanted to save those people so we did an entry and exchanged gunfire with the suspect again after some explosive devices were used as well as our bearcat was used to get through the wall. >> let's bring in nbc analyst former fbi profiler, clint van zandt. he's on the phone with us. clint, good morning again. let's talk about what we heard in that press conference from local police, the sheriff's office, federal authorities as well about the decision to go in with the s.w.a.t. team. again, a hostage situation that developed when a uniformed orlando police officer engaged the shooter who was armed and well prepared according to police. he had an

situation lasted three hours. as you've dealt with these situations before, clint, talk with me about the decision to send in s.w.a.t. >> as you know, willie, part of my background is as an fbi hostage negotiator and i've been involved in these decisions before, whether to go tactical, send in s.w.a.t. obviously the first thing that law enforcement would rather do would be to get a hostage negotiator and talk the shooter out, get him or whatever we have to lay down their weapons and surrender. if at the same time you're doing or attempting to do negotiations and yet you're getting information from inside that there are shots still being fired, people still being injured, then law enforcement is moving toward that tactical resolution. but we don't have s.w.a.t. teams on the scene all the time, even though i'm sure there were a number of patrol officers ready to go in. s.w.a.t., that's their job, their full-time job. so a decision was made to get w.

see what they have to deal with. the on-scene commander made a decision between himself or herself, the s.w.a.t. team, the negotiators, now is the critical time to do it. the best way, willie, is for a negotiator to be talking to the subject when you go through. as you've heard from the police, they used a bearcat, an armored vehicle, to burst through the wall. part of the reason you go through the wall is because there is probably concern that the subject may have put a booby tr trap, on explosive device on the door and they didn't want to get law enforcement officers killed going through to get the hostages. so they go through the wall and use tactical diversion devices, called flash bangs, to make very loud noise, smoke, a flash, to get the subject to look the other way and then law enforcement engages him. we're told at least nine tactical officers entered, engaged the subject in a sh

but of course by that time we're also told that 20 had been killed, 42 had been wounded over this approximately four-hour time period. >> and, clint, i would think this location presents some unique challenges to law enforcement. you have a nightclub that was crowded with police say about 320 people. some of those had escaped during this hostage situation and before it. dark, perhaps. a lot of nooks and crannies in a place like that. what were the specific challenges you'd think as an fbi investigator here? >> well, you've hit on a number of them. number one, there's a high likelihood that the lights had been turned off inside. number two, we're told that there are multiple various size rooms, so it's not like you're going into a big auditorium and it's wide open. when the tactical team breached the wall and went in, they had to not only consider but probably by briefing know how many different little rooms there were, and then they ha

rooms. and, willie, if you can imagine those conditions. it's dark, now it's perhaps smoky because of the diversionary devices that have gone off. some of the doors are locked because hostages are wounded or simply hiding. the subject may have been in a main room, he may have been in a side room and officers had to go through every door and in every room with the full understanding they were going to engage someone with an assault rifle and a pistol. so it was a terrible situation for the people inside to go through, and obviously a very tough situation for law enforcement. they did what they had to do. but we saw this terrible loss of life and a number of wounded. one more time, we see these shootings across the united states where someone goes in heavily armed. in this situation, willie, with that type of weaponry and likely ammunition, we're told this individual who's likely been

suggests some type of preplanning, pretargeting that went on to carry this out. >> yeah, and again the police saying that this guy was prepared and well organized when he entered that nightclub. as the investigation goes forward here, clint, let's talk about how it's been classified so far. the sheriff's office in that press conference saying it's being treated as a domestic terror incident. the fbi saying there's no suggestion of a further threat to orlando or anywhere else. certainly they always have to consider some form of terrorism. what did you hear in the language that law enforcement used in that press conference? >> i think the language was very guarded. we hear domestic terrorism. well, whenever you have this many people killed and wounded, it rings terrorism to all of us. there's no way to get away from that preliminary definition. then the question becomes was it an act of domestic terrorism

bar because someone had a problem with it? was it an act of foreign terrorism where individuals have come in and were prepared and because of the -- because it was a gay bar, for example, they made a decision they were going to attack and make some type of statement against america or against that type of establishment. we just don't know. what we do know is that there are a number of individuals in the united states who don't like other people's lifestyle, and this could very well be just some angry person for whatever his or her reason that carried this out. but that's the challenge for law enforcement. if the fbi thinks they know who this guy is, whos sho the shoote believe male, is, they'll quickly run him down through his cell phones, through his e-mails, through his automobile. today is the day that if we find this guy's car and determine there's no

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that's the way it looks. we are following all the latest developments on that shooting in orlando. join us back at we're back on this dark sunday morning, june 12th, 2016, as we follow a breaking story overnight. a mass shooting at a popular gay nightclub in orlando, florida. orlando police say approximately 20 people have been killed by a gunman. another 42 taken to local hospitals. the gunman killed by police after a s.w.a.t. team stormed the nightclub. it all started around 2:00 this morning local time. that's when police say they first heard shots fired. the scene of terror began to unfold both inside and outside the nightclub. then at around 5:00 in the morning local time, police began to move in with a s.w.a.t. team. by 6:00 a.m. orlando police tweeted the gunman had been killed. a chilling facebook post this

started from that club, pulse orlando, that just reads everyone get out of pulse and keep running. the eyewitness accounts have been equally terrible. i heard 20, 40, 50 shots. the music stopped. it was around closing time. everyone was drinking their last sip, said one man who was in the club. another woman was outside the club trying to find her 30-year-old son named eddie. after she heard what had happened, he had been texting his mother. told her to call police. he said he ran into a bathroom with other patrons to hide. he then texted her he's coming. the next text says he has us, he's in here with us. she went on to say that was the last conversation as she still looks for her son. we also have some new videotape we want to play for you here. listen closely to the audio. 5:15 a.m. when s.w.a.t. moves in to engage the shooter. [ gunfire ]

>> again, a situation that began at 2:00 in the morning, ending right there at 5:15 a.m. approximately local time, as local police make the decision along with state and federal authorities. the fbi on the scene as well to engage the shooter. he was killed, but not before approximately 20 people also lost their lives. 42 more injured. nine police officers from the orlando police department engaged this suspect. one of them shot in the head, injured but saved, police say, by his kevlar helmet. let's go back down to orlando. that's where we find nbc's sarah dallof. sarah, good morning. >> reporter: hey there, willie. you know city buses have pulled up and loaded some of the survivors in those buses presumably to take them to the police department to give their statements to police, issuing a

inside that nightclub to please come downtown and give them their statement. they say all of their information, anything anyone saw is going to be very key to this investigation as they look into the possible motivations of this shooter who they say walked into the nightclub just after 2:00 a.m. with an assault-type style rifle and a handgun. they say he engaged in gunfire with a uniformed orlando police officer who was working at the club off duty right now trying to find out more about who he is and why he may have done this. >> one of the important things that obviously we'll get to the bottom of is do we have any indicators before this event happened today. we will have some more information, i'm sure, forth coming to all of you about who this individual is. was he a lone wolf, does he have

these are things that will be looked into as part of our intelligence and investigative activities. >> reporter: now, after that officer engaged in gunfire with the suspect, the suspect then retreated back inside the nightclub taking hostages. officials say they were prompted to act because about 15 other people were trapped in a nearby room by what had happened and they were reaching out to authorities. they made the decision to make an explosive entry into the nightclub. this all happening just a couple of hours after this began. they believe by doing so and engaging in gunfire yet again with that suspect and killing him, they believe they saved about 30 lives. now, as this was all unfolding, people were fleeing the nightclub, they were helping one another and helping treat the wounded. let's hear from one of those eyewitnesses. >> a person who was on the ground, who was shot in the back. when i walked by him, i didn't know if he was dead or alive. i was just like hey, hey,

i did hear a moan. i threw his arm over mine and carried him out. when i realized he was all bloody and his blood was all over me, it wasn't my blood, i took my bandana off, died it and put it on the hole to make sure that whoever was coming to help us could help him. >> reporter: 42 people injured, approximately we are told 20 people dead. now begins that terrible wait for friends and family who had loved ones in that nightclub who have not been able to get ahold of them. hospitals asking them to go to specific locations, immediate family members, so they can begin the difficult task of trying to identify or help them find their loved ones, willie. >> i suspect we'll hear more and more accounts like the one we just heard, which is just staggering. a young man taking off his bandana, to fill in a gunshot wound for someone who was inside the club. let's bring in nbc's justice correspondent pete

pete, at that press conference about an hour or so ago, the sheriff's officer said we're looking at this as an act of domestic terror. the fbi following up saying we're absolutely investigating the possibility of terrorism. what more are you hearing, pete? >> well, let's take those statements apart. first of all, what the sheriff's officer said is any time you have a mass shooting like this, you obviously think it's terrorism, so on its face they were saying that. what we're told by authorities is that some early indication, and i don't know what that is, suggests that this person whose name they know but are not releasing had some interest or some exposure to radical influences, but that's very vague at the point and they're still trying to run that down. so what you've got is sort of three scenes of investigation right now. the first is at the nightclub itself. that will -- that process will play out over several days because when you have a mass shooting like this, you try to reconstruct these

to be a very slow process. secondly, the hospitals where the victims were taken, authorities will try to get statements from them about what happened. that will be an important part. thirdly, trying to trace down the suspect and what exactly led up to this, reconstruct that timeline. what we're told this morning is that this is a u.s. citizen, someone from elsewhere in florida, but not from orlando. where in florida we don't know. right now there's a very intensive effort by the fbi and other investigative agencies to trace back that person's communications, look at social media, look at computers, e-mails, phone calls. who was this person reaching out to. were there some indicators early on that this was going to happen. those are all things that are very intensively going on right now and we're told that they don't have any good answers from that, but are aggressively following leads. so i think it's safe to say they have a pretty goodde

answer the questions that we have, which is why, what led up to this. they do say and they have been emphasizing this all morning that they believe this to be an isolated incident. you know, we've seen, unfortunately, in situations like this elsewhere around the world that when something like this happens, there's oftentimes more than one scene of attack or a sequence of attack. they say two things, number one, they don't believe it's related to the shooting earlier of the singer. secondly, they don't believe this person was involved in anyone else. they can't rule that out completely at this point, but they say they have found nothing to indicate there were other attacks planned or there were some other accomplices who had plans of their own. that's all their initial assessment at this point. >> just to echo what you said, police said at that press conference that none of the witnesses they spoke to identified a second shooter and they all believe it was one suspect. you mentioned interest and exposure to

obviously that could mean a lot of things. >> right. >> many people have speculated and your first instinct was a gay nightclub that it was targeted for that very reason. >> yes, and i think they just don't know the answer to that question. they said this morning at the news conference there was no obvious indication of that. whether it was a target of opportunity, someplace in orlando where a lot of people were gathering at that hour. there are not many places where there would be a lot of people at 2:00 in the morning. whether that was singled out because it was a gay nightclub, they just don't know at this point. >> pete williams, we'll let you get back to the phones, thank you very much. much more coming up on this terrible sunday morning, approximately 20 dead in orlando at a shooting at pulse nightclub. "sunday today"

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began at pulse nightclub in south orlando. police say a gunman walked in with an assault-style rifle, a handgun and some type of device with him and began shooting. a uniformed orlando police officer was working security at the club, immediately engaged the man, but a hostage standoff lasted for nearly three hours. sometime after 5:00 a.m. local time, the decision was made to send in the s.w.a.t. team. there was an exchange of gunfire. the gunman was killed, but not before police say approximately 20 people are dead. they have not released that full number. and 42 more were transported to area hospitals. let's bring back former fbi profiler clint van zandt. clint, let's get you updated on what pete williams was reporting to us talking to his law enforcement sources who say this man had interest and exposure to radical influences. obviously as pete and i were discussing, that could mean any number of things. what does that sound like to you? >> well, i think you're absolutely right,

many times in today's date our minds go to some type of radical religious or political belief system but that doesn't necessarily mean it in this case. we're told that the individual is from florida, although not the local area. previously discussed, to come to that location at that time of night with an assault rifle, a handgun and perhaps some type of explosive device, that would take a significant amount of preplanning to put together and targeting. what law enforcement will be looking at, of course, is to positively identify this person. willie, a lot of times we get what's called psychological leakage. in other words, when someone is going to do this, even if they are a lone wolf, they bright about it on their blog if they're young enough or tell somebody, gee, i'm angry at this group or that person. there would be some type of emotional or psychological leakage that the fbi and the

investigation may welcome up with as they're trying to determine a motive for this terrible incident. >> pete williams also reporting from his law enforcement sources that was wan isolated incident. witnesses telling police they saw only one gunman. they didn't have an account of any second gunman. put those things together, how do they arrive at that conclusion so quickly in the investigation? >> well, so far they haven't come up with anything that suggests this is going to continue. although that explosive device may, for example, have been intended for first responders, be they police officers, medical, fire, something like that. we still have to determine that. and realize it was just friday night in orlando that a popular singer from "the voice" was gunned down as she was signing autographs. so law enforcement had to determine if there was any type of linkage between the friday night shooting and

shooting. >> and they did conclude, according to pete williams, that there was no connection between those two things. it seems to me this nightclub did what it had to do in terms of security, pete -- excuse me, clint, having a uniformed police officer standing at the front door. what more could they have done? >> well, it's going to be hard pressed to see. there will be an after action review, willie, but of course the purpose of that uniformed officer is for a number of reasons. number one, it's a deterrent. that uniformed officer standing out there in a complete uniform armed with a radio is a deterrent that we have a first responder on the scene, so, you know, don't try anything here. well, evidently this shooter as so heavily armed, that it didn't appear to make a difference. either he wasn't aware of that first responder or he didn't care when first one and then a total of three officers e

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friends. and i know that his boyfriend has been shot multiple times and is in the emergency room, but i don't know where my son is. no one can tell me where my son is. >> a mother looking for her son outside an orlando nightclub where there's been a terrible shooting. early this morning, 2:00 eastern time, a man walked in with an assault-style rifle and a handgun and some type of device on him and began shooting. he was engaged immediately by a uniformed orlando police officer who was working security at the nightclub at the time but it led to a three-hour hostage standoff. police saying approximately 20 people have been killed. they don't have an exact number yet, but they were saying it's approximately 20. 42 more sent to local hospitals. here's another eyewitness account from inside pulse nightclub. >> we were across the street and you could still hear the boom, boom. it had to have been more than

just too continuous. it wasn't -- it's like you're at a gun range and all you hear is just boom, bang, bang. it was just -- i can't even describe it. it was -- i mean i am, but it was really difficult to see in real life a horrible situation. >> did people realize what was going on? >> no, i don't think anybody really knew what was going on until they saw people on the ground bleeding and heard people screaming and heard the commotion, because you didn't know. when you're in a bar like that, you really think that it's music because there's three different places. there's the sounds on the patio, there's sounds inside where the main area is and then there's another area where they were dancing, the go-gos, so there's three different types of music playing at the same time. so how would you really know what's what. >> that's christopher hansen. he was inside the club at the time of the shooting at 2:00

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we're back on this sunday morning. orlando police say approximately 20 people are dead. that's the language they're using. they don't have a number yet. approximately 20 dead after what they're saying was a lone gunman opened fire inside a popular gay nightclub called pulse. at least 42 people were taken to local hospitals, three of them in all. the gunman is dead, killed by police after the s.w.a.t. team stormed into the nightclub. we will h

station, >> the minute he heard gunshots, he hit the ground. >> the drink was in my hand. >> my son was in the club with his boyfriend, juan, and juan got shot multiple times. >> a case of domestic terrorism, 42 wounded, approximately 20 dead. a tough sunday morning. ite i'med a democrat tuss. >> and i'm angie goff. we begin with darcy spencer who is at the live desk with the very latest information. >> good morning. police in orlando are calling this an act

terrorism. at least 20 dead, dozens more injured. he they say the gunman was well organized and prepared and opened fire with an assault style rifle as well as a hand gun. it started at 2:00 this morning at the pulse night club when he stormed the club, exchanged gunfire with an officer and took dozens of hostages. it came to an end three hours later when s.w.a.t. went in, there was a shoot-out and the gun man tidied. nine officers involved, one hurt but saved by a helmet. we're hearing horrible stories from witnesses who were there. >> he was on the ground, shot in the back. and when i walked by him, i didn't know if he was tdead or alive and i heard him monan. >> we'll have the latest throughout the newscast. and we are hearing that police plan to brief us on the whole situation out of orlando in about half an hour.