still showing up. grief counsellors are talking to anyone who may need help in the community. >> pelley: jamie yuccas, thank you. today senator john mccain said that president obama is "directly responsible for the orlando massacre" because of the rise of isis happened on the presidents's watch. mccain, who lost to mr. obama in 2008 told reporters when he, the president, pulled everybody out of iraq, al qaeda went to syria, became isis, and isis is what is today thanks to barack obama's failures, utter failures. later, mccain said he misspoke and did not mean to imply that the president was personally responsible for orlando. cbs overnight news will be right back.

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. >> pelley: america's two-year war defense isis has not reduced its capability or its global reach. that was the conclusion of the head of the cia. the orlando attack was inspired by isis's online propaganda, he said. but the cia has found no direct links between the group and gunman omar mateen. today in br

baltimore was shot and stabbed to death. 41-year-old jo cox was an outspoken campaigner for britain to remain in the european union. that has been a heated debate that goes to a vote next week. a suspect is in custody but the motive the unclear. jonathan vigliotti is following this. >> reporter: police tackled the gunman identified as 52-year-old tommy mayer. british media quoted witnesses that that cox got caught in a fight. >> i saw him pull the gun out and fired one shot. >> reporter: police would only say cox was shot and stabbed as she was wrapping up a meeting. she leaves behind a husband and two

homestretch of a bitter campaign over whether britain should remain in the european union. both sides suspended their campaigns today. the former aid worker was an outspoken add cat of immigrat n immigration. >> are the speaker tell the house whether he thinks he's led or followed? >> reporter: her husband believes she was targeted because of politics. we must all fight the hatred that targeted her, he said. police are not saying anything about a possible motive. they said he had a history of mental illness. the flags at westminster flies at half-staff. >> pelley: jonathan vigliotti in london tonight. jonathan, thank you. well, it was a year ago today that donald trump entered the presidential race. now, just over a month before the republican convention

there is a growing resist between the supporters of the standard bearer and the rest of the party. here's nancy cordes. >> look. we're going to agree to disagree on some things. >> reporter: the latest disagreement is on whether to add the washington post to the media that are banned from attended his briefings. >> i don't know a lot about it. i hope and assume this will get worked out. >> has it so far? >> who's with the post? is debone is here? >> reporter: he was there. >> don't talk, please. be quiet. just be quiet. either stick together or let me just do it by myself. i'm going to do well. i'm going to do very well. ok? >> you can't make this up sometimes. >> reporter: the family

is deep epging, maryland's republican government says he can't vote for trump. richard armitage said he's vote for clinton. and fred upton said he won't endorse the nominee. >> it seems to us that the train is off the track. >> reporter: trump spent part of his one-year anniversary at a district of columbia law firm being ge bowsed in a $10 million suit against a chef who backed out of their partnership over trump's comments about mexicans. protesters were waiting outside. trump does not discriminate when it comes to news outlets. he had black bald the right leaning national review and the left leaning "mother jones." >> pelley: nancy cordes up on capitol hill for us. nancy, thank you.

today an autopsy confirmed that 2-year-old lane graves of elk horn, nebraska, died of traumatic injuries and drowning after an alligator snatched him from his parents at a disney resort in orlando ties night. ma mark strassman was there. >> reporter: it's hashedly the first time park visitors have ebb countered algate oars rers. a lawyer's five-year-old son waded calf deep into a lagoon behind their hotel. >> i looked and i said, oh, my god, that's an alligator. it was probably about six to seven feet. >> reporter: he grabbed his son to safety and spotted another alligator nearby. cornado

a year earlier hiden said he warned a hotel manager, even showing her a photo he took of one of the gators. >> i couldn't believe it. those will resident pets and they're harmless. they're not going to attack anybody. >> reporter: this is the seven seas lagoon where the little boy died. disney says it's reviewing the fact that there were no warning signs. disney said the review will be swift and thorough and include the number, placement and wording of our signage. lane graves was the first alligator fatality in disneyworld's 45-year history. david hiden still remembers what he told his disney hotel managers after his son's close call. >> i said i hope i'm wrong, but at some point, i bet i'm going to read about you guys or one of your resident

somebody and i hope to god that never happens because it's going to be on your shoulders. >> reporter: wild life officials still don't know if they've caught the alligator that killed lane grave. his family said words cannot express the grief our family is experiencing. any family can relate. >> pelley: mark strassman, thanks. several people have been forced from their homes in santa barbara california. firefighters are unagainst high winds and dry brush. a fire in eastern arizona started yesterday near the town of sholo. coming up next, how quickly can you guy an assault rifle? and after a tragic loss, the navy's dare devils have returned to the sky.

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>> pelley: none of the killers in mass shootings of recent years had any trouble obtaining their weapons. in most states buying guns is quick and easy, as kris van cleave shows us. >> reporter: the orlando nightclubs have restarted the debate on guns, particularly the assault rifles. in virginia, the law to buy one is pretty straightforward. you have to pass a background check and pay for your purchase. in virginia where the shootings killed 32 people, there is no waiting period for a fire arm. even a so-called assault rifle similar to those used in orlando and san bernardino. we sent a cbs news producer into a g

outside washington, d.c. >> i'd like to buy an ar-15. >> reporter: she filled out these federal and state forms requiring her name, date of birth, social security number and a few basic questions about any past criminal activitior current restraining orders and she passed a brief electronic background check. >> did it go through? >> yes. >> reporter: all told, it took $1,030 to walk out with the gun. >> you can go into a gun store and buy an ar-15 in most places. >> reporter: four states and washington, d.c. impose a waiting period on all firearms ranging from 10 days in california and d.c. so 24 hours

minnesota requires a week-long wait for hand gunsaged long weapons. >> generally hand guns are subject to more extensive commercial sale restrictions. hand guns are used far more often to commits crimes. a patch work quilt of gun laws is destined to be ineffective. >> miguel, angel. >> gun control supporters recalled their -- murdering 49 people. >> what would be more productive than waiting periods, back yound checks would be to get rid of the gun-free zones where this dirt bag operated in orlando. >> reporter: larry pratt from gun owners

laws. >> we want it so a good guy can act immediately. to have to call the police and wait five minutes, ten minutes is is to wait to die. >> reporter: as for the rifle we legally purchased, it was transferred to a federal yesterday licensed fire arm dealer and weapons struktdor in virginia following state law within hours of us purchasing the weapon. >> pelley: kris van cleave for us. thank you very much. coming up next, a critical clue in an air disaster mystery.

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>> pelley: today philadelphia game the first major city in the united states with a soda tax. one and a half cents an ounce on sugary drinks, including do it societia. the idea is to steer people away from fat thing in drinks. today's searchers record the cockpit voice recorder from egyptair flight 804. the airbus a-320 spiraled into the mediterranean last month in route from paris to cairo. 6 were killed. the recorder should have taped the conversation of the pilots, a flight data recorder that captures aircraft performance has not been found. today the blue angels soars once again through the blue skies of pensacola florida. it was theirst

since marine captain jeff cuss was killed in a crash in tennessee two weeks ago. their next show is a week from saturday in vero beach, florida. we'll be right back. . >> pelley: we were reminded today of how many times in recent years a presi

of america's pastor. to lead the nation in prayer for victims of a deadly attack. bill clinton, after oklahoma city, george w. bush after september 11, and the massacre at virginia tech. but president obama has done it most of all. 14 times, including fort hood, texas. newtown, connecticut, charleston, south carolina, and now orlando, florida where 49 died. mr. obama asked god to comfort the families, heal the wounded, bring solace to those whose hearts have been broken and give us resolve to do what's necessary to reduce hatred in the world. that's the overnight news for this friday. nor some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and for "cbs this

from broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. in a scene that's become all too familiar, president obama tried again to console those mourning a mass shooting, the worst one in u.s. history. the president made a low-key visit to orlando where 49 people were gunned down in cold blood at a nightclub. he and vice president joe widen laid white roses at a memorial to the victims and sat for hours with survivors and families of those killed. the hospital workers who helped save the lives of the 53 people wounded that night. te

best of humanity came roaring back. if we're honest with ourselves, if, in fact, we want to show the best of our humanity, we're all going to have to work together at every level of government, across political lines to do more to stop killers who want to terrorize us. we will continue to be relentless against terrorist groups like isil and al qaeda. we are going to destroy them. we are going to disrupt their networks and their financing and the flow of fighters in and out of war theaters. we're going to disrupt their propaganda that poisons so many minds around the world.

we're going to do all that our resolve is clear. given the last two attacks were on our soil, orlando and san bernardino, were homegrown, carried out, it appears, not by external plotters, not by vast networks or sophisticated cells but by deranged individuals warped by the hateful propaganda that they had seen over the internet, then we're going to have to do more to prevent these kinds of events from occurring. it's going to take more than just our military. it's going to require more than intelligence teams. as good as thesh, as dedicated

are, if you have lone wolf attacks like this hatched in the minds of a disturbed person, then we're going to have to take different kinds of steps in order to prevent something like this from happening. those who were killed and injured here were gunned down by a single killer with a powerful assault weapon. the motives of this killer may have been different than the mass shooters in aurora or newtown, but the instruments of death were so similar. and now another 49 innocent people are dead.

another 53 are injured. some are still fighting for their lives. some will have wounds that will last a lifetime. we can't anticipate or catch every single deranged person that may wish to do harm to his neighbors or friends or co-workers or strangers. but we can do something about the amount of damage that they do. unfortunately, our politics have conspired to make it as easy as possible for a terrorist or just a disturbed individual like those in aurora and newtown to

buy extraordinarily powerful weapons and they can do so legally. so today, once again, as has been true too many times before, i held and hugged grieving family members and parents and they asked "why does this keep happening?" and they pleaded that we do more to stop the carnage. they don't care about the politics. neither do i. neither does joe. and neither should any parent out here. thinking about their kids being not in the wrong place, but in placing where kids are supposed to be.

this debate needs to change. it's outgrown the old political stalemates. the notion that the answer to this tragedy would be to make sure that more people in a nightclub are similarly armed to the kill er defies common sense. those who defend the easy accessibility of assault weapons should meet these families and explain why that makes sense. they should meet with the newtown families, some of whom joe saw yesterday, whose children would fwhou be finishing fifth grade on why it is we think our liberties requires these repeated tragedies. that's not the meaning of li

i'm pleased to hear that the senate will hold votes on preventing individuals with possible terrorist ties from buying guns, including assault weapons. i truly hope that senators rise to the moment and do the right thing. i hope that senators who voted no on background checks after newtown have a change of heart. then i hope the house does the right thing and helps end the playing plague of war that these weapons inflict on so many young lives. i've said this before. we will not be able to stop every tragedy. we can't wipe away hatred and evil from ever heart in this world, but we can stop some tragedies. we can save some lives.

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unfortunately our politics have con spooird to make it as easy as possible for a terrorist or just a disturbed individual like those in aurora and newtown to buy extraordinarily powerful weapons, and they can do so legally. >> the massacre in orlando has renewed the nationwide debate over gun control. no other developed nation embraces firearms the way ours does. and gun rights advocates insist it's always been that way. lee cowan has a look back at the lift of guns in america for sunday morning. >> reporter: the good

flower, not a single gun was known to survive. but they were probably there, accompanying the pilgrims to preliminary of the rock. on the fourth floor of the smithsonian's national museum of american history, they have their very own vault. >> i'm sure there's people that would give anything to come in here and see these things, right? >> yes, lots of visitors who are astounded and don't want to leave. >> reporter: david miller is curator here. he's got guns of all sizes, shapes, and cal bers. >> that one's probably from russia. >> reporter: and every one has a reas to be here. >> this would have been the type that would have been at lexington of concord. >> reporter: the plus ket is in every history

symbolize freedom. even in the musical "hamilton." guns are just part of our every day language. going off half cocked, flash in the pan, bite the bullet. they're all based in fewer arms lower. but were we born a gun loving country? she says not necessarily. >> americans have always loved guns, they've always had guns. these things are much more complicated than that. the meanings of guns have changed. >> reporter: she says most settlers viewed the gun as a cool that's necessary and yet as ordinary as a plow or an ax. >> we think we have a gun culture because of the special status of guns. really, commercially, the gun was unexceptional. it was tre

commodity. >> reporter: at the start of the war we didn't have enough guns. today, however, it's estimated we have more guns than people. how did we get from there to here? and here. >> the gun industry is not the only reason that we got here. however, it is the reason it never gets talked about. >> reporter: it's not just a matter of salesmanship but gun industrialists like oliver winchester and samuel colt did their level best to create a market for their wares. out of their connecticut factors known as gun valley, they'd produce guns with the same speed and efficiency as henry ford would later do with the automobile. best known, the winchester 73 and the colt single action army rele vovler, two of the guns that won the west. but as the frontier disappeared so did the desire of many

>> these guns weren't selling themselves. they weren't flying off the shelf. >> reporter: so by the 20th century, they were marketing guns. there was a strong appeal to the young, too. and the notion of a gun as a riot of passage. >> one of the advertise jmgts said you know your boy wants a gun. he can't tell you it's beyond words. >> reporter: there were catalogs full of them. immortalized in the christmas classic. >> the two range shot air rifle. >> reporter: it imitated the iconic rifles of the west. from real life legends from wild bill hick ok, w

came to represent the rugged individualists of the untamed west. asoohe gd guys and the bad guys changed, so did the guns. >> say hello to my new friend! >> reporter: some became as famous as the stars who fired them. >> go ahead. make my day. >> reporter: we do take our guns seriously. owning them is a constitutional right. but we've also tried to legislate how to control them. >> americans have always had mixed feelings about gurchs. so for as much as the gun slingers are part of our heritage, so, too, is disquiet and discomfort with guns. >> reporter: even in the supposed wild west, towns like tombstone and dodge city, prohibited people from carrying guns in public. fdr signed the first federal gun control legislation in 1934, hoping to reduce the bootleggers

with tommy guns. then the next three decades. >> president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. >> reporter: john f kennedy along with robert kennedy an matter luther king jr. led to a gun law. >> wvee ha been through much anguish. >> reporter: too much anguish for back then but what about now? today there seems to be an alarming sameness to our gun violence. from a colorado high school to a tuscon parking lot to a movie theater in aurora and a grade school in newtown. gun sales tend to go up. u.s. gun makers produced nearly 11 million firearms in the year after sandy hook. not far from there in

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>> there was a memorial service in elk horn, nebraska, for two-year-old lane graves, the boy who was dragged off and killed by an alligator in walt disney world. dozens of family friends turned out to pay their respects. an autopsy showed the boy drown from -- died from drowning and traumatic injuries. mark strassman has the latest. >> reporter: 16 hours into their search dive teams found the body of the little boy on wednesday in murky water in the area of where he was snatched by the alligator. >> no doubt in my mind that the alligator drown him.

the family was distraught but also i believe somewhat released that we were able to find their son with his body intact. >> reporter: disney closed all the park's beaches while search teams scoured the lagoon. it's man made and sprawling, covering about 200 acres. parts of the lagoon are 14 feet deep and feed into a series of canals that wind through the disney property. >> a lot of canals and ponds and lakes that interkwekt all the way through the disney property. it wouldn't be unusual at all for alligators to be moving from one body of water to the next. this is one of the most aggressive times of the year, from now until august. >> reporter: at the lagoon where lane graves was killed there are no swimming signs but no warnings about alligators, despite the fact that disney has had to remove gators from the property in the past. they say "we are

heart broken by this tragic accident and are doing what we can to help the family during this difficult time. wild life officials are examining the bite marks of five alligators they've captured and euthanized to see if they've caught the one responsible for killing the thrill boy. >> we're going to be certain that we have the alligator that killed the little boy and that we move it from the lake. >> about 15 people have been killed by alligators in florida in the past 20 years. our reporter spoke with experts at the east texas gator and wild life park at grand saline. >> reporter: there are signs like this all around the farm warning people to use common sense but also to watch out for their children. experts say these animals have the unique combination of power and strength. there's an alligator here.

he's about five foot longs. he may look calm now but they can reach speeds of 20 miles an hour in water and on land. >> in the wild, alligators eat once every three to five days. here we feed them twice a day every day. >> reporter: charley harris takes care of alligators at his gator ranch. all these gators were caught living too close to humans. some alligators are migrating from the country. american alligators live in waters all along the gulf coast from texas to florida, even in oklahomaaged arkansas and as far north as north carolina. last month police captured this alligator lurking near

middle school. this alligator was found in the middle of the road. >> it rolled me around under the water. >> reporter: rachel lillian knows the terror. she lost her arm in an alligator attack last year while swimming in a river 20 miles north of orlando. she was rescued by two people in a nearby kayak. >> i realized i have only one arm and that was -- that was devastating. >> they are more active at night. they do most of their feeding at night. >> reporter: harris said alligators are dangerous because of the way they hide and hunt. how well do they hide in water? >> they can disappear like ghosts. they are opportunist eaters. they can wait for hours and hours until something comes along close enough that they can snatch it

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>> it was another day on the witness stand for led zeppelin 's gi starrist jimmy page. it's a copyright case that he stole the openings riff for "stairway to heaven." >> reporter: jimmy page testified that when he recorded the song here he'd never heard of the song he's now accused of stealing. stairway has generated more than $550 million over the years. at stake, a piece of the pie and perhaps a rock 'n' roll legacy. ♪ >> reporter: the opening notes of led zeppelin 's stairway to heaven are among rock music's most

but some say they recognize the similarity to this song. ♪ >> reporter: that's torez by the band spirit. the guitarist known as randy california who died in 1997 claimed led zeppelin ripped off his now iconic riff but he never sued. now 45 years after stairway's release, led zeppelin 's rocket plant and jimmy page are facing a lawsuit filed by the late guitarist's estate. >> this trial is a big one because it takes on one of the most iconic songs in rock history "stairway to heaven. >> reporter: stairway came out in 1971 but a surviving member of spirit testified they played their song at a concert where led zeppelin was the openac

page said something like that would stick in my mind. it was todayly alien to me. >> he had not heard that song until two years ago. are you saying he's lying? >> that's for the jury to decide. i think there's something called conveniently misremembering facts. perhaps he doesn't remember this but i think the jury might conclude differently. ♪ blurred lines seminoles. >> reporter: ever since the multi-million dollar judgment against robin thicke and ferrell williams accused of ripping off marvin gaye's "got to give it up." ♪ >> reporter: still moving that stairway to heaven was stolen might be an uphill climb. >> that's the overnight fuse for this

from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jareka duncan. the president consoles orlando. i held and hugged family members and grieving parents. d they asked why does this keep happening. >> and heighting from the killer. >> shock in britain after an assassination on the street. and death at disney. it wasn't the first time visitors had a close encounter with an altoligar. >> i looked past my son's head and i saw something that looked like a submarine rapidly coming on.

>> pelley: grief beyond stripgs. those were the words of president obama after meeting with families of the fallen from the orlando nightclub massacre. mr. obama and vice president joe biden laid 49 white roses, one for each of the debt at a memorial. the president said that the grieving asked him why does this keep happening? >> and they pleaded that we do more to stop the carnage. they don't care about the politics. neither do i. neither does joe. and neither should any parent out here. thinking about their kids being not in the wrong place, but in places where kids are supposed to be. >> pelley: the 49, ages 18 to 50 were killed at pulse the gay ni

wounded, 12 are still in the hospital, six of them in critical condition. homeland security correspondent jeff pegues has the latest on the situation. >> reporter: gun story owner robert abbele said weeks before the shooting, omar mateen tried to buy body armor. he was told the store didn't sell body armor. >> at this time he pulled away and got on the cell phone. when he was on the cell phone he had a conversation in a foreign language. that was more concern. he came back and was requesting ammo. >> reporter: abbele said they were so concerned they called the fbi. authorities say say the gun store was not able to provide them with a name. mateen was active on social media before and during the rampage.

the shooting mateen posted on facebook alliance to isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. then, after the shooting began, mateen paused and sources say he searched for pulse orlando and shooting. perhaps to see if the massacre was trending on line. he also made calls to 911 and to a television station about the ongoing shooting. investigators are focussing on what role mateen's wife might have played in the attack. she has been cooperating, but officials believe she had some knowledge of an attack and will likely face some charges. school records show that omar mateen was a troubled child and a disciplinary problem. he was suspended for 48 total days while in high school. most for fighting and other rule violations. in an application for a criminal justice program he wrote that he wanted a career in law enforcement as far back as 2004. he wrote that in ninth grady got -- ninth grade, i got into a fight in class. i was expelled. he admitted he was arrested and was su

investigation but did not elaborate. he admitted to using marijuana and steroids. in 2007, mateen was dismissed from a job at the florida department of corrections. it is unclear why. law enforcement sources confirm that the couple, mateen and his wife, were texting during the shooting rampage. scott, the fbi is talking to other family members, including mateen's father, a former boss tells cbs news that mateen told her he could do nothing right in his father's eyes. >> pelley: jeff pegues. thank you. cbs has obtained video from inside the nightclub. as people hid from the gunman. here's jamie yuccas. >> reporter: this grainy cell phone video captures the horror from inside the women's bathroom as omar mateen went on a shooting rampage nearby. it was recorded while more than a dozen people squeezed into one

shot, sharing a glass of water, trying to keep each other calm and quiet so they would not be heard by the gunman. miguel leiva filmed this video. >> we had to be quiet. everybody whose phone was ringing, any phone he heard, he was shooting people and killing them. >> reporter: they huddled for three hours, refusing mateen's orders to step out. >> it was really hot in there, the smell of blood and just dead bodies everywhere. >> reporter: outside the building, swat commander captain mark canty planned a rescue. >> officers were rescuing people, the entire time we were doing things to get people out. we got a lot of people out before that last breach. >> reporter: those trapped in the bathroom had no escape route. as they desperately texted their families and police, the hostage became the police's main focus.

make it. i thought i was going to die. i felt somebody has to know what really happened. >> they were in the bathroom. we knew there were other people in the bathroom. there were some in the bathroom across the hall. we were getting information that there were people in other rooms inside the club. >> reporter: finally, canty's team moved in, breaching the wall with a front-end loader. there was a shootout. mateen was shot dead. those who were still alive were dragged to safety. angel colon has been shot six times and was one of the last to get out. i'm one of the ones who helped you. >> reporter: today he met his hero, officer omar delgado. >> i saw him, his glasses, just someone help me, please. when he was dragging me out i looked up and said, please hurry, hurry. >> reporter: this public memorial has become so important for orlando that people are

still showing up four days after the tragedy. scott, grief counsellors are talking to anyone who may need help in the community. >> pelley: jamie yuccas, thank you. today senator john mccain said that president obama is "directly responsible for the orlando massacre" because of the rise of isis happened on the presidents's watch. mccain, who lost to mr. obama in 2008 told reporters when he, the president, pulled everybody out of iraq, al qaeda went to syria, became isis, and isis is what is today thanks to barack obama's failures, utter failures. later, mccain said he misspoke and did not mean to imply that the president was personally responsible for orlando. cbs overnight news will be right back.

>> pelley: america's two-year war against isis has not reduced it's terrorism capability or its global reach. that was the conclusion today of the head of the cia. john brennan told the senate intelligence committee, the orlando attack was inspired by isis's online propaganda, but the cia has found no direct links between the group and gunman omar

today in britain, a pleb of parliament was shot and stabbed to death. 41-year-old jo cox was an outspoken campaigner for britain to remain in the european union. that has been a heated debate that goes to a vote next week. a suspect is in custody but the motive is unclear. jonathan vigliotti is following this. >> reporter: police tackled the gunman. cox's purse and shoes were left lying in the street. british media quoted witnesses that claimed that the mayor shouting "britain first." others say cox got caught between mayer and the other man. >> i saw him pull the gun out. fired one shot. >> reporter: police would only say cox was shot and stabbed as she was wrapping up a meeting with stitch went. she leaves behind a husband and

her murder comes on the homestretch of a bitter campaign on whether britain should remain in the european union. both sides suspended their campaigns today. elected to parliament last year, the former aid worker was an outspoken advocate of immigration. >> i would ask whether he thinks he has led public opinion or followed it. >> reporter: her husband brandon believes she was targeted for her politics. we all must fight against the hatred that killed her, he wrote. police aren't saying anything about a possible motive. mayer's brother said he did have a history of mental illness. the flags here fly at half-staff. >> pelley: jonathan vigliotti in london tonight.

that donald trump entered the presidential race. now, just over a month before the republican convention opens, there is a growing resist between the supporters of the standard bearer and the rest of the party. here's nancy cordes. >> look. we're going to agree to disagree on some things. >> reporter: the latest disagreement is over trump's decision to add the washington post to the latest media who are banned from attending his briefings. >> i don't know a lot about it. i hope and assume this will get worked out. >> has it so far? >> who's with the post? is debonis here? >> reporter: he was there. >> don't talk, please. be quiet. just be quiet. either stick together or let me just do it by myself. i'm going to do well. i'm going to do very well. ok? >> you can't make this up sometimes. >> reporter: the family crisis is deepening, maryland's republican governor says he

richard armitage said he's vote for clinton. and veteran michigan congressman fred upton told a radio station he won't endorse the nominee. >> it seems to us that the train is off the track. >> reporter: trump spent part of his one-year anniversary at a dc law firm being deposed in a $10 million suit against a chef who backed out of their partnership over trump's comments about mexicans. protesters were waiting outside. trump does not discriminate when it comes to news outlets. he has blackballed the right leaning national review and the left leaning "mother jones"trump argues that the paper is "phony and dishonest." >> pelley: nancy cordes up on capitol hill for us.

today an autopsy confirmed that 2-year-old lane graves of elk horn, nebraska, died of traumatic injuries and drowning after an alligator snatched him from his parents at a disney row sort in orlando tuesday night. mark strassman was there. >> reporter: the alligator attack that killed lane graves is hardly the first time park visitors have ebb countered alligators ers. san diego lawyer david hiden took his family to disneyworld. his son waded calf deep into a lagoon behind their hotel. >> i looked and i said, oh, my got, that's an alligator. >> reporter: hi >> reporter: he grabbed so

to safety and spotted another alligator nearby. cornado springs resort. a year earlier hiden said he warned a hotel manager, even showing her a photo he took of one of the gators. >> her response, i couldn't leave it. it was those will resident pets and they're harmless. they're not going to attack anybody. >> reporter: this is the seven seas lagoon where the little boy died. there were no warning signs about alligators, but disney says it's reviewing the fact that there were no warning signs. disney said the review will be swift and thorough and include the number, placement and wording of our signage. lane graves was the first alligator fatality in disneyworld's 45-year history. david hiden still remembers what he told his disney hotel managers after his son's close call. >> i said i hope i'm wrong, but at some point, i bet i'm going to read about you guys or one of your resident pets killed somebody and i hope to god that never happens because it's going to be on your shoulders.

>> reporter: wild life officials still don't know if they've caught the alligator that killed lane graves. in a statement, his family said words cannot express the grief our family is experiencing. any parent can relate, scott. it's so unbelievable. >> pelley: mark strassman, thanks. hundreds of people have been forced from their homes in santa barbara, california. firefighters are unagainst high winds and dry brush. a fire in eastern arizona started yesterday near the town of sholough. coming up next, how quickly can you guy an assault rifle? and after a tragic loss, the navy's dare devils have returned to the sky.

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>> pelley: none of the killers in mass shootings of recent years had any trouble obtaining their weapons. in most states buying guns is quick and easy, as kris van cleave shows us. >> reporter: the orlando nightclub shootings have restarted the debate on guns, particularly the assault rifles. in virginia, the law to buy one is pretty straightforward. i have to pass an often very quick background check and pay for your purchase. in virginia where the shootings killed 32 people, there is no waiting period for a fire arm. even a so-called assault rifle similar to those used in orlando and san bernardino. we sent a cbs news producer into a gun store in alexandra, just outside washington, d.c.

>> reporter: per virginia law she provided two documents. she filled out these federal and state forms requiring her name, date of birth, social security number and a few basic questions about any past criminal activity or current restraining orders and she passed a brief electronics background check. it took 28 minutes. >> did it go through? >> yes. >> reporter: all told, it took $1,030 to walk out with the gun. >> you can go into a gun store and buy an ar-15 in most places. >> reporter: four states and washington, d.c. impose a waiting period on all firearms ranging from 10 days in california and d.c. so 24 hours

minnesota requires a week-long wait for hand guns and assault weapons. >> generally hand guns are subject to more extensive commercial sale restrictions. hand guns are used far more often to commits crimes. a patch work quilt of gun laws is destined to be ineffective. >> miguel angel anarato. >> gun control supporters recalled their -- murdering 49 people. >> what would be more productive than waiting periods, background checks would be to get rid of the gun-free zones where this dirt bag operated in orlando. >> reporter: larry pratt from gun owners of america wants new -- fewer laws restrictiun

>> we want it to the good guys can react immediately. to have to call the police and wait five minutes, ten minutes is is to wait to die. >> reporter: as for the rifle we legally purchased, it was trvrd to a federally licensed fire arm dealer and weapons instructor in virginia following the state law virginia following state law within hours of us purchasing the weapon. >> pel kley:ris van cleave for us. 6

>> pelley: today philadelphia became the first major city in t united states with a soda tax. one and a half cents an ounce on sugary drinks, including do it -- diet soda. the idea is to steer people away from fat thing in drinks. today's searchers record the cockpit voice recorder from egyptair flight 804. the airbus a-320 spiraled into the mediterranean last month in route from paris to cairo. 66 were killed. the recorder should have taped the conversation of the pilots, a flight data recorder that captures aircraft performance has not been found. today the blue angels soars once again through the blue skies of pensacola florida. it was their first training run

since marine captain jeff cuss was killed in a crash in tennessee two weeks ago. their next show is a week from saturday in vero beach, florida. we'll be right back. >> pelley: we were reminded today of how many times in

of america's pastor. to lead the nation in prayer for victims of a deadly attack. bill clinton, after oklahoma city, george w. bush after september 11, and the massacre at virginia tech. but president obama has done it most of all. 14 times, including fort hood, texas. newtown, connecticut, charleston, south carolina, and now orlando, florida where 49 died. in his player today, mr. obama asked god to comfort the families, heal the wounded, bring solace to those whose hearts have been broken and give us resolve to do what's necessary to reduce hatred in the world. that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for the morning news and for "cbs this morning." from broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.

in a scene that's become all too familiar, president obama tried again to console those mourning a mass shooting, the worst one in u.s. history. the president made a low-key visit to orlando where 49 people were gunned down in cold blood at a nightclub. he and vice president joe biden laid white roses at a memorial to the victims and sat for hours with survivors and families of those killed. mr. obama spoke with bliss and ambulance cruise and the hospital workers who helped save the lives of the 53 people wounded that night. >> after the worst of

roaring back. if we're honest with ourselves, if, in fact, we want to show the best of our humanity, we're all going to have to work together at every level of government, across political lines to do more to stop killers who want to terrorize us. we will continue to be relentless against terrorist groups like isil and al qaeda. we are going to destroy them. we are going to disrupt their networks and their financing and the flow of fighters in and out of war theaters. we're going to disrupt their propaganda that poisons so many minds nd

we're going to do all that. our resolve is clear. but gichbl the fact that the last two attacks were on our soil, orlando and san bernardino, were homegrown, carried out, it appears, not by external plotters, not by vast networks or sophisticated cells but by deranged individuals warped by the hateful propaganda that they had seen over the internet, then we're going to have to do more to prevent these kinds of events from occurring. it's going to take more than just our military. it's going to require more than just our intelligence teams. as good as they are, as dedicate ed as they are, as focused as they

attacks like this hatched in the minds of a disturbed person, then we're going to have to take different kinds of steps in order to prevent something like this from happening. those who were killed and injured here were gunned down by a single killer with a powerful assault weapon. the motives of this killer may have been different than the mass shooters in aurora or newtown, but the instruments of death were so similar. and now another 49 innocent people are dead. another 53 are injured.

their lives. some will have wounds that will last a lifetime. we can't anticipate or catch every single deranged person that may wish to do harm to his neighbors or friends or co-workers or strangers. but we can do something about the amount of damage that they do. unfortunately, our politics have conspired to make it as easy as possible for a terrorist or just a disturbed individual like those in aurora and newtown to buy extraordinarily powerful

so today, once again, as has been true too many times before, i held and hugged grieving family members and parents and they asked "why does this keep happening?" and they pleaded that we do more to stop the carnage. they don't care about the politics. neither do i. neither does joe. and neither should any parent out here. who's thinking about their kids being not in the wrong place, but in places where kids are supposed to be.

this debate needs to change. it's outgrown the old political stalemates. the notion that the swer to this tragedy would be to make sure that more people in a nightclub are similarly armed to the killer defies common sense. those who defend the easy accessibility of assault weapons should meet these families and explain why that makes sense. they should meet with the newtown families, some of whom joe saw yesterday, whose children would now be finishing fifth grade on why it is we think our liberties requires these repeated tragedies. that's not the meaning of liberty.

i'm pleased to hear that the senate will hold votes on preventing individuals with possible terrorist ties from buying guns, including assault weapons. i truly hope that senators rise to the moment and do the right thing. i hope that senators who voted no on background checks after newtown have a change of heart. then i hope the house does the right thing and helps end the playing of violence that these weapons of war inflict on so many young lives. i've said this before. we will not be able to stop every tragedy. we can't wipe away hatred and evil from every heart in this world, but we can stop some tragedies. we can save some lives. we can reduce the impact of a

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>> reporter: aboard the good ship may flower, not a single gun was known to survive. but they were probably there, accompanying the pilgrims to preliminary of the rock. guns are so we haven into our history. on the fourth floor of the smithsonian's national museum of american history, they have their very own vault. >> i'm sure there's people that would give anything to come in here and see these things, right? >> yes, lots of visitors who are astounded and don't want to leave. >> reporter: david miller is curator here. he's got guns of all sizes, shapes and cal bers. >> that one's probably from russia. >> reporter: and every one has a reason to be here. >> this would have been the type that would have been at lexington of concord.

the plus ket is in every history book, coming to symbolize freedom. even in the musical "hamilton." guns are just part of our every day language. going off half cocked, flash in the pan, bite the bullet. they're you'll rooted in firearms lore. but were we born a gun loving country? she says not necessarily. >> how many sentences begin with something like americans have always loved guns, they've always had guns. these things are much more complicated than that. the meanings of guns have changed. >> reporter: she says most settlers viewed the gun as a tool that's necessary and yet as ordinary as a plow or an ax. >> we think we have a gun culture because of the special status of guns. really, commercially, the gun was unexceptional. it was treated like any other commodity.

we have loose air war we didn't have enough guns. today, however, it's estimated we have more guns than people. how did we get from there to here? and here. >> the gun industry is not the only reason that we got here. however, it is the reason it never gets talked about. >> reporter: it's not just a matter of salesmanship but gun industrialists like oliver winchester and samuel colt did their level best to create a market for their wares. out of their connecticut factories, they'd produce guns with the same speed and efficiency as henry ford would later do with the automobile. best known, the winchester 73 and the colt single action army rover, two of the guns that won the west. but as the frontier disappeared so did the desire of many americans to own a gun. >> these guns weren'

they weren't flying off the shelf. >> reporter: so by the 20th century, gun makers began to marked their wares not just as a tool but a feeling. there was a strong appeal to the young, too. and the notion of a gun as a riot of passage. >> one of the advertisements said, you know your boy wants a gun. he can't tell you it's beyond words. >> reporter: there were catalogs full of them. immortalized in the christmas classic. >> the red rider, two shot range rider air rifle. >> reporter: it imitated the iconic rifles of the west. from real life legends from wild bill

hollywood stars like john wayne gud jimmy stewart. ns came to represent the rugged individualists of the untamed west. as the good guys and the bad guys changed, so did the guns. >> say hello to my new friend! >> reporter: some became as famous as the stars who fired them. >> go ahead. make my day. >> reporter: we do take our guns seriously. owning them is a constitutional right. but we've also tried to legislate how to control them. >> americans have always had mixed feelings about guns. so for as much as the gun slingers are part of our heritage, so, too, is disquiet and discomfort with guns. >> reporter: even in the supposed wild west, towns like tombstone and dodge city, prohibited people from carrying guns in public. fdr signed the first federal gun control legislation in 1934, hoping to reduce the number of boot legging gangsters with tommy guns and the like.

then the next three decades. >> president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. >> reporter: john f kennedy along with robert kennedy an martin luther king jr. led president lyndon johnson to push through legislation. >> we have been through much isanguh. >> reporter: too much anguish for back then but what about now? today there seems to be an alarming sameness to our gun violence. from a colorado high school to a tuscon parking lot to a movie theater in aurora and a grade school in newtown. these incidents don't decrease gun sales. instead, gun sales tend to go up. u.s. gun makers produced nearly 11 million firearms in the year after sandy hook. not far from there in hartford,

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>> there was a memorial service in elkhorn, nebraska, for two-year-old lane graves, the boy who was dragged off and killed by an alligator in walt disney world. dozens of friends and family members turned out to pay their respects. an autopsy showed the boy drown from -- died from drowning and traumatic injuries. mark strassman has the latest. >> reporter: 16 hours into their search dive teams found the body of the little boy on wednesday in murky water in the area of where he was snatched by the alligator. >> no doubt in my mind that the alligator drown him. >> reporter: lane graves had been wading in about a foot of what are you the aat

>> of course the family was distraught but also i believe somewhat released that we were able to find their son with his body intact. >> reporter: disney closed all the park's beaches while search teams scoured the lagoon. it's man made and sprawling, covering about 200 acres. parts of the lagoon are 14 feet deep and feed into a series of canals that wind through the disney property. >> a lot of canals and ponds and a lot of lakes that interconnect all the way through the disney property. it wouldn't be unusual at all for alligators to be moving from one body of water to the next. this is one of the most aggressive times of the year, from now until august. >> reporter: we found some signs inside the park warning visitors against feeding the alligators, but at the lagoon where lane graves was killed there are no swimming signs but no warnings about alligators, despite the fact that disney has had to remove gators from the property in the past. in a statement disney said "we are

heart broken by this tragic accident and are doing what we can to help the family during this difficult time." wild life officials are examining the bite marks of five alligators they've captured and euthanized to see if they've caught the one responsible for killing the little boy. >> we're going to be certain that we have the alligator that killed the little boy and that we move it from the lake. >> about 15 people have been killed by alligators in florida in the past 20 years. omar villafranca has a closer look at these animals and what might prompt them to kill a person in the first place. he spoke with experts at the east texas gator and wild life park at grand saline. >> reporter: there are signs like this all around the farm warning people to use common sense but also to watch out for their children. experts say these animals have the unique combination of power and strength. there's an alligator here. he's about five feet long.

he may look calm now but they can reach speeds of 20 miles an hour in water and on land. that powerful tail can thrust almost their entire body out of the water. >> in the wild, alligators eat once every three to five days. here we feed them twice a day every day. >> reporter: charley harris takes care of 41 alligators at his east texas gator ranch. all these gators were caught living too close to humans. including this 13-foot giant. some alligators are migrating from the country. american alligators live in waters all along the gulf coast from texas to florida, even in oak and arkansas and as far north as north carolina. last month police captured this alligator lurking near a dallas middle school.

in spurn houston, cops has to lasso this yearly six-foot alligator found in the middle of the road. >> it rolled me around under the water. >> reporter: rachel lillian knows the terror. she lost her arm in an alligator attack last year while swimming in a river 20 miles north of orlando. she was rescued by two people in a nearby kayak. >> i realized i have only one arm and that was -- that was devastating. >> they are more active at night. they do most of their feeding at night. >> reporter: harris said alligators are dangerous because of the way they hide and hunt. how well do they hide in water? >> they can disappear like ghosts. they are opportunist eaters. they can wait for hours and hours until something comes along close enough that they can snatch it up. >> reporter: in florida since

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p?p?o?gv captioning funded by cbs it's friday, june 17th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." five days after the orlando terror attack, investigators are getting a look at new video from inside the pulse nightclub, and they're getting closer to the gunman's wife who may have been in contact with the killer during the massacre. and more than 50 u.s. diplomats come out against president obama's strategy in syria, accusing president obama of ignoring assad's attacks and blasting what they called five years of failed policies. bernie sanders addresses supporters saying