disney has full-time staff that works with fwc and so i'm going to ask the executive director from fwckind of fill you in on how they work with disney in that regard. >> disney has been very proactive with regard to dealing with alligators and as the sheriff said, full-time staff, observing these waters, they have essentially an open system permit where anytime they see an alligator, a complaint is called in and can be taken out and these are not relocated. they have to be euthanized because when they become a problem, if you move them, you just move a problem. disney does everything by the book and they have an amazing program for keeping track of and monitoring and then addressing any concerns that arise. >> when was the last time that happened? >> they've taken out routinely taken out alligators in the lakes in the property at large, but i don't know. i haven't heard any taken out recently but they have taken alligators out. >> been chased by an alligator a few weeks ago. can you tell us anymore about that? >> i'm not aware of that report. >> there was no report made to the orange c

we're going to be here throughout, but we also in turn are doing this investigation along with fwc. their executive director has traveled here from tallahassee , mr. nick while i is here, he will be speaking to you momentarily. i have received phonecalls from the governor of the state of florida rick scott about this effort, the mayor of our county, and we've also spoken with various disney executives. i would tell you that disney is doing everything that they can to make the family comfortable during this ordeal. as we have been dealing with this tragedy, for the last few hours, i would tell you that it is somewhat of a complicated operation that we have going because this is a man-made body of water. it is a sizeable body of water. and it has certain systems built in the waterway. my divers have been in the water today, and at appropriate time they may be back in the water. we have our marine unit out on the lake, they're using sonar equipment to see if they can locate the body, as well. in addition to that, i'm going to ask again executive director for fwc to come up and share wi

we are going to be here throughout but we are also concurrently doing this investigation along with fwc, their executive director has traveled here from tallahassee, mister nick wiley is here. he will be speaking to you momentarily. i have received phone calls from the governor of the state of florida, rick scott about this effort. the mayor of our county and we have also spoken with various disney executives. i will tell you that disney is doing everything they can to make the family comfortable during this ordeal. as we have been dealing with this tragedy for the last few hours, i will tell you that it is somewhat of a complicated operation that we have going because this is a man-made body of water. it is a sizable body of water and it has certain systems built in to the waterway. my divers have been in the water today and at an appropriate time, they may be back in the water. we have our marine units out on the lake. they are using sonar equipment to see if they can locate the body as well. in addition to that, i'm going to ask again executive director for the fwc two, and share wit

i'm going to turn it over at this time to the executive director for fwc who will share with you more details about their efforts. director. >> thank you sheriff demings. well first again we just want to say that our thoughts and prayers are with this family on behalf of our entire agency and we are heartbroken at this outcome. i want to thank sheriff demings and the sheriff's department throughout this entire tragedy. they have been great to work with. i would also like to thank disney. they have been totally cooperative as we worked through this and how we handle this tragedy. so although we have some sort of closure to this, our investigation is still ongoing and we're going to continue to evaluate the evidence we have and we're going to try to continue searching. we're going to make certain we have the alligator involved and that we remove it from the lake. so we're going to either verify we have already captured that alligator through forensics work or continue to look for an alligator until we find the right one and we'll continue to work with disney as they worked to continue t

because if you move it you're moving a problem as fwc was saying today.ney, you know, they don't have tragedies like this that they are routinely dealing with. their heart broken as well. speaspeaking with spokesperson today, and they're just looking at their own system. what do they needed to now to put in place so this doesn't happen again? >> all right. fox's kate burgess life for us in orlando. kate, thank you. elsewhere in orlando investigators are still trying to link together the chain of events that let up to this past weekend's terror attack. 49 people were killed when omar mateen opened fire inside a gay nightclub. fbi is now trying to figure out how much mateen's wife knew about the planned attack. authorities are also asking for the public to call in with any information they may have about the shooter. meantime the fbi says it's recovered mateen's phone and will use it to try to determine if he had indeed visited the club before the massacre. >>> our coverage of both of these developing stories in orlando continues on fox29.com. we will conti

i'm going to turn it over at this time to the executive director for fwc, who will share with you moreails about their efforts. director? >> yes, sir, thank you sheriff demings. first again, we just want to say that our thoughts and prayers are with this family. on behalf of our entire agency, we are terribly heart broken at this outcome. i want to thank sheriff demings and the orange county sheriff's department throughout this entire tragedy. they've been great to work with and they're a true benefit to this community. i'd also like to thank disney, they've been totally cooperative in how we handle this tragedy. though we have some sort of closure to this, our investigation is still ongoing, and we're going to continue to evaluate the evidence we have and we're going to try to continue searching. we're going to make certain that we have the alligator that was involved, and that we remove it, we remove it from the lake. we're going to either verify that we've captured that alligator through forensics work or continue to look for an alligator until we find the right one. we'll continue

i'm going to turn it over at this time to the executive director for fwc who will share with you more details about their efforts. director? >> yes, sir. thank you, sheriff demings. well, first, again, we just want to say that our thoughts and prayers are with this family on behalf of our entire agency and we are terribly heartbroken at this outcome. i want to thank sheriff demings and the orange county sheriff department throughout this entire tragedy. they have been great to work with and they are a true benefit to this community. i want to thank disney. they have been totally cooperative. although we have some sort of closure to this, our investigation is still ongoing and we're going to continue to evaluate the evidence that we have and we're going to try to continue searching. we're going to make certain that we have the alligator that was involved and that we remove it from the lake. so we're going to either verify that we've already captured that alligator through forensic work or continue to look for an alligator until we find the right one. we'll also continue to work with di

>> again, there were several alligators located and i'm gonna let the fwc director kind of speak to you about the process that they use to try to confirm whether or not one of the alligators that have been located is the right one or not. [ all speak at once ] >> just really quickly, we're going to look at the five alligators we've already taken. and we're gonna compare things like bite marks and such as that. we don't know really what we have yet. it's still early in the investigation. there's a good chance we already have the alligator, because we focused our efforts in that proximity of where this incident occurred. so there's a good chance. but we'll go through the process and forensics and make certain. if we can't confirm it, we'll go out and continue to look for alligators to make sure we've done the due diligence to take the alligator out. >> i believe the question is, where did we find the child. he was within the immediate area where he was last seen. took some time to go through and make sure in the waters, kind of murky, but our divers were able to locate the body. we used s

management here at disney will go forward, i'm going to turn it over at this time the executive director for fwc will share with you more details about their efforts. >> thank you sheriff. well, first again we just want to say that our thoughts and prayers are with this family. >> you are listening to a grim update. they have recovered the 2-year-old body of lane grays, from orlando, florida, he was dragged into the lagoon in orlando. >>> back at 4:30 now we are following breaking news out of south philadelphia. there has been and explosion at an energy plant there. officials tell residents to stay inside now, the hazmat situation is not yet under control. with you know that one person was hit by flying glass and she decided not to go to the hospital. minor injuries it would appear. they are launching a full investigation to figure out what happened and what caused the explosion. >>> meantime viewer jennifer sent us these photos after the blast. she was just getting on the schuylkill westbound when she saw the billowing smoke. she and other people pulled over and sent us these photos. join the a

and they said the state fwc, the florida water commission, wildlife commission, was doubling the amountting out this year, because there's such an abundance of them. >> how will you hunt them? >> well, you go out on an airboat, you'll shine a light and find them and then you locate them and you go ahead and harpoon them and bring them to the surface and then you'll use something they call a bang stick. >> are you motivated to do that -- if it's your first time, congressman, are you motivated to do it because of this tragedy? or were you already planning to do this? >> no, i was already planning to do it. i want a pair of boots. >> so you intend to -- the gator you will harvest will be one that you turn into a pair of boots? >> yeah, that's our goal. >> but it's hard to express any sympathy for a gator during the course of a week where a 2-year-old lost his life at disney world, but you know, they're just doing their thing, right? >> well, they are, and you know, they found that gator, i think it was a week or two ago, that had a body in it. and then about three months ago, in florida, t