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visit your weight matters dot org. it's tuesday, june 14th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." new details this morning in the orlando terror attack. ♪ i see your true colors shining through ♪ >> we snow the naknow the names faces of all 49 people killed in the pulse nightclub. while family and friends mourning the loss, we're hearing incredible stories of heroism. >> there was one choice. either we all stay
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all die, or i could take the chance and get shot and save everyone else. good morning, everyone, from the studio 57 newsroom here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. the fbi says there is no indication the deadly attack in orlando was directed from outside of the u.s., but exactly why the gunman, omar mateen, opened fire at a gay nightclub remains unclear. president obama will visit orlando thursday to pay his respects to the 49 victims. the fbi says it's confident mateen was self-radicalized through the internet. the agency is investigating whether he scouted other potential targets, including disney world. the orlando sentinel reports mateen visited the pulse nightclub several times, and "the washington post" reports he used a gay dating app. kenneth craig is in orlando. >> reporter: good morning. investigators are still trying to sort out what
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of this, whether it was this attacker's allegiance to various and conflicting terror groups or his potential hatred of gays or a combination of both. thousands lit candles, cried, and shared hugs during a vigil for the 49 victims of the pulse nightclub shooting in orlando monday night. carlos lebron's close friend was among those killed, and his sister barely made it out of the gay nightclub alive. >> thankfully she's okay. she was able to stand. i love her so much. >> reporter: omar mateen opened fire on party goers early understood morning. the fbi says mateen appeared to be self-radicalized. mateen's father says he was homophobic. luis barbano feels remorse he survived. seconds after he escaped the club, he stopped to help a stranger. >> his arm was split in two, forearm. he had a gash on his side. i quickly
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used it as a tourniquet and comforted him, talked to him, distracted him from being negative. >> reporter: surgeons tell cbs news the hospitalized victims are expected to recover. and later this morning about 10:30 eastern time, we are expecting a news conference with surgeons and even some of those survivors who are expected to tell their stories. anne-marie? >> kenneth craig in orlando. thank you so much, kenneth. all 49 victims have now been identified, and they range in age from 18 to 50. one was celebrating her high school graduation. some were regulars at the club. others were there for the first time. it was latino night at the club, so many were hispanic. they are being mourned and remembered by family and friend, simply trying to understand the incomprehensible. >> reporter: family members gathered in orlando for the heart wrenching news about their loved ones. cecil flores lostis
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mercedes. she was just 20 years old. 34-year-old edward sotomayor, known to his friends as top hat eddie, texted this video just minutes before he died in the gunfire. and this video appears to show the last moments of 25-year-old amanda alvier's life. she was working at a hospital and a drugstore to pay for nursing school. 22-year-old luis vielma was a leader at his church and worked on the harry potter ride at universal. j.k. rowling tweeted she can't stop crying. at orlando regional medical center, nicolas perez and angel torres learned their friend brenda mccool had died. she was 49 years old. >> from what we heard, she was missing. but we just saw now -- >> she's gone. >> reporter: mercedes flores wanted to be a party planner and work with her brotrs
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deejays. shane tomlinson brought music to the world with his band frequency. juan ramon gear row and drew were planning to marry. their families are now planning a joint funeral. she graduated third in her prep school class and committed to play college basketball. she was the massacre's youngest victim. >> we are learning more about the orlando gunman, omar mateen. he claimed connections to isis but also connections to other extremist groups considered enemies of the islamic state. one co-worker at the security firm where he was employed said he was an angry, profane colleague who threatened violence. >> reporter: fbi agents and technicians are examining omar mateen's cell phone and computer as they try
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talking to and what he was reading in the weeks and days before the attack. sources tell cbs news the 29-year-old was active on social media and on the internet. the fbi has found evidence he may have researched disney world as a possible target before choosing the pulse nightclub. investigators say mateen had been inspired by extremists and the radicalization stretches back years to groups like hezbollah, al qaeda, and isis. fbi director james comey said mateen appeared to be self-radicalized. >> we see no indication that this was a plot directed from outside the united states, and we see no indication that he was part of any kind of network. >> reporter: mateen had been on the fbi's radar. in may of 2013, co-workers complained that he was boasting of family connections to al qaeda and that he was a member of hezbollah. comey says he also expressed a desire to take his own life. >> he said he
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apartment and assault his wife and child so that he could martyr himself. >> reporter: the fbi's investigation included wiretaps and informants and agents interviewed mateen twice. they cleared him after determining he was not a threat. he resurfaced again when the fbi was investigating an american suicide bomber in syria. that man and mateen went to the same florida mosque, but the fbi cleared mateen. the fbi is promising a review to determine if something should have been done differently. >> our work is very challenging. we are looking for needles in a nationwide hay stack, but we're also called upon to figure out which pieces of hay might some day become needles. >> reporter: cbs news, washington. well, the orlando shooting prompted donald trump to expand his call for a ban on muslims entering the u.s. on capitol hill just after the house observed a moment of silence, democrats shouted down
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>> the clerk will report the title of the bill. >> hr-5312. >> they want the house to consider gun control legislation. at the white house, president obama weighed in. weijia jiang reports. >> reporter: president obama spoke about the need to address both terrorism and gun violence. >> we have to go after these terrorist organizations and hit them hard. we have to counter extremism. it was not difficult for him to obtain these kinds of weapons. >> reporter: gunman omar mateen legally bought the assault rifle he used to shoot more than 100 people, even though he was on the fbi's radar for ties to terrorist groups. >> 91% of those who try to act as terrorism legally buy guns in america. >> reporter: senate democrats called on colleagues to immediately pass legislation that would prevent people on terror watch lists from buying firearms or explosives. presidential
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clinton and donald trump are presenting drastically different approaches on counterterrorism and gun control. trump doubled down on his call to ban foreign-born muslims from entering the u.s. >> the only reason the killer was in america in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here. >> reporter: while clinton said the only way to stop lone wolf attacks is through cooperation with muslim-americans. >> we should be intensifying contacts in those communities, not scapegoating or isolating them. >> reporter: clinton said she wants to create task forces to find and stop lone wolf attacks before they happen. weijia jiang, cbs news, the white house. still to come this morning, emergency room heroes. we will hear from the surgeons who treated dozens of wounded in the orlando shooting. and we'll meet the former marine inside the nightclub who jumped into action to save lives. this is the "cbs morning news." he is.
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in the predawn hours sunday, the lives of more than four dozen shooting victims were in the hands of six trauma surgeons at orlando regional medical center. the doctors told scott pelley they were faced with wounds usually seen only on the battlefield. >> they brought the first patient in, then they brought another patient in, then they brought another patient in. they said there were possibly 20 more gunshot wound patients coming in. at that point, i called my ba backup. it was very chaotic. there were patients that were in pain. there were patients that were crying. there were staff that was very busy but very task oriented. >> we had gunshot wounds to the chest, gunshot wounds to the abdomen, to the extremities. most fairly severe because of the high velocity projectiles. >> what do you mean by that? >> well,
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rifle. so this is a military weapon. the bullets have a lot more energy to them, a lot more speed, so they cause more tissue entry. >> there's an individual who required multiple operations in the same 24-hour time period because of active ongoing bleeding. actually got operated on twice in the operating room and once in the icu. >> but you saved him. >> we did, yeah. >> of the surgeries you performed, does any patient stick in your mind? >> i think they all stick in your mind. after something this horrific, going from operating room to operating room, to patient to patient, i don't think any of us will ever forget this. this is not something that goes away. >> we had hundreds of family members in the lobby of the hospital, all clamoring to know how their loved one was. i think the thing that struck many of us is just the devastation to these families and not knowing for h
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hours because so many of the victims were still inside the club. >> i was trying to put myself in their position, just not knowing if their loved one was in the hospital or if their loved one was still at the nightclub. you know, i just want to say that i'm proud that we were there to be there for them. it's very humbling. >> that was scott pelley reporting. cbsn will be streaming a news conference from orlando regional medical center. we'll hear from the shooting survivors and surgeons. that starts at 10:30 eastern. still ahead, he helped dozens escape the nightclub carnage. we'll meet a former marine who describes the terrifying first shots and how he narrowly missed the killer.
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>> he must have literally walked in as i walked to the back staff hallway, and that's when the shots went off. >> reporter: imran yousafzai never saw the gunman saturday night. right after last call, he was making his rounds and barely missed coming face to face with omar mateen. a 24-year-old hindu, served as a u.s. marine in afghanistan. on saturday night, he found himself in another combat zone. >> shots go off. how many? >> the initial one was about three or four. that was a shock. three or four shots go off. you could tell it was a high caliber. everyone froze. i'm here in the back, and i saw people start pouring into the back staff hallway. >> reporter: he knew just beyond that pack of panicked people was a door and safety, but someone had to unlatch
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door, open the door. no one is moving because, you know, they're scared. there was only one choice. either we all stay there and we all die, or i could take the chance and get shot, save everyone else. i jumped over, opened that latch, and we got everyone we could out of there. >> how many people went through the door? >> probably over 60, 70. as soon as people found out that door was open, they kept pouring out. >> you saved a lot of folks. >> i wish i could save more, to be honest. there's a lot of people that are dead. there's a lot of people that are dead. >> reporter: before that interview, yusuf told me he hadn't really processed all the lives that were lost, but once he talked to us about it,
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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. law enforcement sources tell cbs the orlando attacker used a glock handgun and a sig sauer assault rifle. omar mateen purchased those rifles on consecutive days in the city where he lived. the store owner says all requirements were met. >> an evil person came in here and they legally purchased two firearms from us. if he hadn't purchased them from us, i'm sure he would have gotten them from another local
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this man held multiple security licenses. he had an armed an unarmed license. he passed a background check that every single person that purchases a firearm in the state of florida undergoes. >> police say they also found a .38-caliber handgun in the car. french president francois hollande says there's no question the killing of two police officers in that country were terrorism. police killed the attacker. isis says the man was one of its followers. the man had been convicted of helping islamic militants. and still mourning its own victims from november's attacks, bright lights framed an american flag on the eiffel tower, a tribute to the victims in orlando. and londoners lit candles in a church yard where a vigil was held for the 49 orlando victims. i'm anne-marie green, this i
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right now an act of terrorism and hate. president obama plans to travel to orlando this week to pay respects to the victims in orlando. what we are learning about the man at the center of the addely attack.
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the district. hillary clinton and bernie sanders will have their next private meeting. >> are your kids getting enough sleep. the new guidelines that will have you tucking the littler ones in early. let's check in with the forecast. will this be a nine out of nine. >> absolutely. >> two thumb's up for sure. we are looking at a nice day today. a little cloud cover. as we head through the rest of the afternoon, more and more sunshine. maybe a few more clouds than what we saw yesterday. still remaining rain free. winds are out of the northwest. still low humidity. that will change later on tonight as the winds turn out of the southeast. it's warm. 68 frederick. winchester 64. in the 70s for southern maryland. we are seeing a few clouds. we do remain dry. highs today low 80s. it will be comfortable just like it was yesterday. the clouds will
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the afternoon. lunch hour, 750 degrees. probably don't need the jacket and you don't need the umbrella today. when you do need the umbrella in a bit. >> allyson, good morning. we are in store for a quiet ride. i do want to let you know we have possible police activity on the southbound side of i- 295. watch out for that. once we learn more we will pass it along to you. the beltway shows us a lot of green. great start on inner and outer loop this morning. 395 and i-66 great start in both directions. travel on the dulles toll road or greenway, no issues. prince george county, no issues and 301 is free and clear of issues as well. weather and traffic back on the 9s. new this morning, testimony resumes in baltimore for one of six officers charged in the death of freddie gray. william porter testified monday at the trial of fellow officer
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with murder and manslaughter. he drove the police van gray was riding in when he suffered a fatal neck injury. porter testified gray said yes when asked if he needed to go to the hospital. he relayed that to goodson. he will be retried after last year's case ended in a mistrial. a judge turned down dylann roof's request for a federal bench trial so a jury, not a judge will consider federal hate crimes. he is ac accused of killing nine -- he is accused of killing nine people in charleston, south carolina. his murder trial in state court is set for january. arguments resume in the sentencing hearing for oscar pistorius in south africa. he is facing up to 15 years in prison for murdering his girlfriend. a psychologist says he doesn't think pistorius would be able to
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severe psychological problems. he is expected to learn his sentence by friday. a bomb targeting leep baton's -- lebanon's second biggest bank. damage to the facade and parked cars. one person was wounded. no one is claiming responsibility. police gave the all clear to a hospital near st. louis. they found nothing dangerous in two suspicious packages. a mental health patient apparently carried the packages into the hospital being admitted monday. an employee took them outside. police shut down the emergency room and a nearby stretch of highway while they investigated. that is a quick look at what is happening this tuesday morning. >> the news at 4:30 starts right now. >> good morning, i'm andrea roane. >> i'm mike
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yesterday. larry miller will have the morning commute. allyson rae starts off with another beautiful day. >> the dew point is increasing, but another day with low humidity to enjoy. take a look. it won't last long. 69 dulles. germantown 68. a little warmer than yesterday for sure by a few degrees. the clouds this morning keeping the temperature a little higher will go away. sunshine this afternoon. 75 degrees by your lunch hour. we top out into the low 80s and remaining dry today. rain back in the forecast coming up. larry, over to you. thanks. 4:30 is your time. we are traveling on maryland 210, indian head highway, good to go in both directions. no issues, especially traveling northbound working into oxon hill. the same for route 5, 4 and 301.

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