. >> reporter: 49 victims dead. 53 injured at a gay nightclub in orlan orlando. tonight a nation in mourning over lives lost. >> reporter: when you saw your friend's name on your phone, what went through your mind? >> i thought that could have been me. that should have been me. but i'm here today for a reason. >> reporter: tonight we're learning more about the innocent victims in sunday's horrific attack. this photo of jeff rodriguez taken 30 minutes before. when the terror began, he texted his brother. >> he states here i've been shot at a club. i'm dying. i love you. dead bodies on top of me. tell everyone i love them. >> reporter: in fact, he was shot three times when the gunman stormed into a bathroom where he and so many were hiding. one of his last text messages was this image from inside the bathroom. tonight we've blurred the faces of the other victims. >> some of them were actually hiding underneath the dead bodies. >> reporter: but his brother survived. tonight this new image of jeff now lying in a hospital bed alive, thanks to a friend who held pressur

. >> reporter: 49 victims dead. 53 injured at a gay nightclub in orlan orlando. tonight a nation in mourning over lives lost. >> reporter: when you saw your friend's name on your phone, what went through your mind? >> i thought that could have been me. that should have been me. but i'm here today for a reason. >> reporter: tonight we're learning more about the innocent victims in sunday's horrific attack. this photo of jeff rodriguez taken 30 minutes before. when the terror began, he texted his brother. >> he states here i've been shot at a club. i'm dying. i love you. dead bodies on top of me. tell everyone i love them. >> reporter: in fact, he was shot three times when the gunman stormed into a bathroom where he and so many were hiding. one of his last text messages was this image from inside the bathroom. tonight we've blurred the faces of the other victims. >> some of them were actually hiding underneath the dead bodies. >> reporter: but his brother survived. tonight this new image of jeff now lying in a hospital bed alive, thanks to a friend who held pressur

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meantime the president and vice-president placed flowers at a make shift memorial in orlan orlando.resident obama says lawmakers have to work together to prevent home grown terror. >> 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 extraordinarilily powerful weapons and they can do so legally. >> the white house has continued to reiterate support for legislation that would ban assault weapons. >> memorials and tributes the youngest victim akyra murray continue. the 18-year-old west catholic prep graduate was in orlando to celebrate when authorities say mateen shot and killed her at that club sunday morning. well today philadelphia city council woman janie blackwell summit add resolution honoring murray. murray had just signed a national letter of intent to attend mercy hertz college and play basketball on a full athletic psychology scholarship. >> governor christie at state buildings lowered to half staff tomorrow in honor of the shooting victims in orlando. now in statem

the terrorist who died in the commission of killing all those people inside the dance club in orlan orlandohe was interviewed in boulder, colorado, her new home, and clearly, clearly, upset by all of it. we're going to go to fort pierce, florida. we've been reporting from there on and off. keri, i understand the fbi insertion team that's going to go in and check the apartment has arrived. the question is you've been talking about the danger of booby traps. it would hardly be the first apartment to be booby trapped. how do you find out what is the contents of a room before entering? >> reporter: well, they have a lot of equipment. some which can see through walls. at the end of the day they have to go in with a full body gear or a robot to push open the door. it's why since 8:30 this morning this condominium has been empty. they got almost everybody out. here we are 14 hours later and the fbi arrived. you can see some of the teams in the video arriving, coming in. they really haven't moved too much of their gear into place. we know they've taken some of their small items over dl there, but a

and so four patrons would are regulars at that club told the orlan "orlando sentinel" that he visited this club multiple times prior to the attack. and so that is a line of inquiry that investigators are pursuing. they want to figure out why that was. was it for personal reasons? was it all part of the planning prior to this attack so he could do the preoperational surveillance? they haven't figured out why he had gone multiple times. it is certainly something of interest. >> what about the reports about gay hookup or dating sites like grinder or jacked? >> that is something else that investigators are looking at. they're putting this picture together. we heard from the patrons. ween to the to the nightclub multiple times and now we're learning he was using these gay apps. the question is, that investigators are trying to ans, was he doing it for his own personal reasons? was he trying to learn more about the gay community or partst blaning? that sun clear. it is certainly of interest. >> again, as the patrons are saying, they've seen him. there are people saying on these apps, right

americans are not the only ones mourning the atrocity in orlan orlando.ittersweet look at the sign of sympathy and shrill car are the flooding in from around the world. a local police department is trying out body cameras. this is just a test. the trial period that has to be finished before every cop in the department suits up. >> 76ers getting for the inform ba draft had work out for one of the two players that will go first in the draft. that's simple enough. but the p.m. brian colangelo sounded like there could be a problem witness other player. hear from two of the parties coming up in sports. ♪ >>> we're learning more about the man who opened fire inside orlando florida gay nightclub. 29-year-old omar mateen was heavily armed when he shot and killed 49 people inside the pulse nightclub. more than 50 other people are hurt. the fbi says mateen appears to be a home grown extremist who supported islamic radical groups. fbi director james comey adds however it does not appear the gunman was part of any kind of network appears he was radicalized via. inter

we saw it earlier this month in orlan orlando. the reactions we have seen from hillary clinton and donald trump have been pretty the same. for hillary clinton it is we need to be cautious and have cool heads and work with our allies. very similar to what you hear from president obama. of course, donald trump is taking a very different tact in all of this. from hillary clinton her response has been very consistent with what we have seen after other terrorist attacks. >> in his tweet you mentioned donald trump he says yet another terrorist attack, this time in turkey. will the world ever realize what is going on? here is what he said at a rally last night in ohio. let's play that, please. >> we have to be so strong. we have to fight so viciously and violently because we are dealing with violent people, vicious. and you know they eat dinner like us. can you imagine them sitting around the table or wherever they are eating their dinner talking about the americans don't do waterboarding and yet we chop off heads? they probably think we

. >> kayleigh, before you respond, donald trump reacted to president obama's statements in orlan orlandot's listen. >> i just watched president obama, and -- [ booing ] and he does it a lot, and he does it a lot, because we have one after another, and tragedy after tragedy and it is a tough situation, but he is lajly to a large extent he is blaming guns and -- and i'm going to save your second amendment, folks. i am going to save your second amendment. totally. and hillary wants to abolish the second amendment, and remember th that. >> before i ask a question, and in every single fact check it says that he is false on, that and hillary clinton has never said or even intimated that she wants to take away the second amendment. how much do you think that the tragedy in orlando is going to be changing the gun discussion on the campaign trail? >> well, you know, i do think that she has intimated that, because she was asked if she agrees with the supreme court ruling that basically say that the second amendment entails a right to hold the weapon and it is called the heller case, and she said i

morning using our realtimeing oe news tracker.er >> troubling words from theordsm ex-wife of the orlando orlan nightclub gunman. gunman. she says mateen used to beatoea her during her short marriage.ai in an interview wh theit washington post she says theays pair married in 2009 and20nd describes him as "unstable."le she also says he was religious but not devout. however friends say he became morell liches after theirs af divorce in 2011. >> texas lieutenant governorantv dan patrick apologizing for an f ill timed tweet following yesterday's shooting.er the tweet read, do not be b deceased.ceed god cannot be mocked. mocke a man reaps what he sows. >>> a sign of hope amidmi tragedy.tragedy. hundreds lining up to donateat blood following the shooting. hospitals made an urgent plea for type o negative positiveive and ab plasma. the blood bank has now met its needs.needs. however many pointed out thed e restrictions in place againstga the gay men from donating donatn blood only allowing them to dood so if they've been celibateeen a for the past year. yr. many now calling for the fda to loosen those

fox's dana jay has the very v latest this morning from orlan orlando. >> reporter: crews searched cwss long and just about a sun rides we got word that theyt still had not found that little boy. boy. dozens of deputes from the fro orange county sheriffs officesff here in the orlando area florido fish and wildlife commissionssio officers, marine units, divets,e teams with sonar equipment theye are stopping at nothing to try t and find that little boy ande by they're going to put fresh eyes on the waterways here thiserehi morning. now, we're talking about a two-year-old boy vacationingat with his family from nebraska.ek the family of five we're tolde't they were relaxing on the beacha at the grand floridian hotel here at walt disney world. that's adjacent to the seven s seas lagoon manmade lake here.me the boy waded in just about a ao foot or so into that water and the gator just swam up andp snatched him. him now the dad he wasn't able to grab him fromo the jaws of that alligator andoa the alligator swam away.y what we're told by in order fisf and wildlife commission thathat they did tr

in the past or what kint of thoughts have you had abouts that in light of what haphapenep in orlando? orlan> in light of what happened ini orlando, i don't think that the lgbt community should be.d >> reporter: more scared.care >> more concerned for theircoere safety. we as a police department do ato very good job with our night nit life operations, placingng officerofficers into the club se the reimbursable details where officers are outside of the t bars. bars. we have a lot of police presencc in these areas.. that keep everyone safe.on safe. >> reporter: act as ar: act a deterrent at least.east >> at least. >> reporter: sergeant matt ma mahl thank you very much ahead y of of the police uounit here ini washington, guys.gt, gu obviously, topic people will beb talking about and strategizingeg for for some time just in case c as always. >> definitely an interestingelys argument everybody wants to know they ara protected in some way. d.c. police make an he have toa do just that. 7:35 right now.htow want to get a check on the ohe forecast today as we mentioneded 70 degrees. d very nice, very c

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right t fbi heard a tf. , u attorneys office, county sheriff, the police chief ande the mayor of orlando and orlanovernor of florida.rnor of f not a lot of new information ino surfacing there but you can seen the collaborative spirit of lamo as they are working together tot try to get as many answers tonss many questions that are outns te there. >> we'll further this herether e locally when we come back we'llw speak with an active shooterctis expert and try to make sense ofs how something like this couldlis happen. we'll be right back. >> 7:47. welcome back. pretty comfortable out there. after very hot weekend we saw cold frtrootnt come through com yesterday. a lot less humid feels prettyrey nice and looks like a nice dayiy on tam. 65 in washington.ngto 61 west minster.inster. 57 in frederick and 60 in 6 i martinsburg.mart down right cool in some spots. wind speeds right now still a s bit breezy we're looking aboutna 10 to 15 miles an hour acrosscr the area northern virginia up up into northern maryland and latea this afternoon i think it willtw feel a little breezy at times. t we can have gusts o

orlando can occur. in our meeting today, director comey united pdated us on orlan the secretary measures we take on behalfand security. secretary carter reviewed the military campaign against isil and i want to thank secretary lou and his team here at treasury for hosting us and for their tireless efforts to cut off the money that isil relies on to fund its terror network. at the outset, i want to reiterate our objective in this fight. our mission is to destroy isil. since i will update the american people on this campaign two months ago, we see this is a difficult fight but we are making significant process. over the past two months, i've offered additional u.s. personnel including special forces in syria, to assist local forces battling isil there and iraqi security forces and assets including attack helicopters. and additional support for local forces in northern iraq. our aircraft continue to launch from the uss harry truman, now in the mediterranean, our b-52 bombers are hitting with precision strikes and targets are hit even more quickly. so far, 13,000 air strikes. this campaign at this stage is fi

orlan. gabe, good morning. >> reporter: good rampage.morning. later today the fbi is gabe gutierrez is in orlando.abe, good morning. expec >> reporter: good morning.ted to release par later today the fbi is expected >> translator: -- to release partial. transcriptf the calls he made. all this as the community bounces back, honoring the victims in the largest gathering >> translator: -- transcripts of yet. late sunday a massive >> a massive vigil in orlando orlando joined t joined tens of thousands to focus not on the killer but the the vi victims.ctims. >> i think it's brought us together in ways unlike anything >> i think it's brought us before. >> there is a together in ways unlike anything before. that puts >> there is a lot more that pute us together than what divides us. i think you us. see i think you see that. >> i never imagined. that. >> i i can't describe that. never im. i can't >> reporter: oscar was just 26,. >> reporter: oscar was a mentor to his younger brother. his dad held his funeral on n a. his dad father's day. held his funeral >> i prefer to die first. father's day. i prefer to