, one of those three people is also linked to the jihadist recruitment network abballa ind larossi jail himself and 2013. we know the ages of those people -- 27, 29, and 44. that is about it. social mediathat is being scoured for updates. the killer himself on monday night posted a video of some of the attack, with the couple who were murdered with their three-year-old son online on facebook live. that has been quickly taken down. french authorities are cooperating to see if there is any more light that can be shown on that. a hit list was left by the killer at the scene. police reportedly found a hitless with other potential targets and the ip's, including journalists and sports stars on that list. is being ramped up as the investigation continues. belle: thank you for that. catherine norris-trent in the center of paris. in theevelopment investigation into last weekend's attack on a gay nightclub in orlando, florida. the wife of gunman omar mateen could soon be charged in connection with the shooting. salman knewoor about her husband's plan. 49 people were killed. it is the deadli

larossi abballa had pledged allegiance to the so-called islamic state. leave campaign in britain's eu recommended -- eu referendum has been growing in polls. it has also been given a boost by the country's biggest selling newspaper. "the sun" today announced its support for the brexit. that creates fears for u.k. citizens who live outside the u.k. we spoke to residents in berlin about what brexit might mean for them. >> arthur taylor vince the image of an ideal european. born in england, he owns a business in germany and his partner is from finland. his british passport is a problem. if the brexit referendum passes, he would no longer be an eu citizen. he would need to apply to both work and residency permits, even knowing of their business with over 30 staff. >> it is frightening to know that my fate and the fate of the people that work here depends on people who aren't in -- aren't even aware of what we're doing, necessarily. >> that is why arthur is trying to figure out how to get a german passport. he only has is, it is important for his son, chester

police officer and his partner worst stabbed to death in front of their three-year-old son by larossi abballa. we will give you the latest. a new development in the investigation into orlando's mass shooting.

homeland france's dealing with their a devastating attack >> steve:images from the chilling moment larossi abballa broadcast live on facebook - just after he had stabbed to death a police >> pam: 20 as the lad from the suit see the massacre and of the fbi is questioning the suspect's wife with the we know about her possible involvement in any of this. >> reporter: right now what i can tell you she admits could become violent but she had tried to convince him otherwise source of telas snapping up at a co- conspirator but they're trying to determine that she actually knew he was going to plan the attack and carry out the attack and and tell anybody. if this was the case and didn't tell anyone they could charge her. really a a sort of a strange thing you see these on looking at the terrorism angle. a story from la ex-wife father. several people had interactions with them and contacted them on line. what authorities are 10 to determine is was he casing people searching for things trying to figure out where his targets were going to be our if maybe i was a lifestyle that he had. >> pam: is there any ne

larry c abballa was killed in the -- larossi abballa was killed in the shootout with police. he was known to authorities and under surveillance at the time of the attack. mark thompson has this report. mark a face known to french authorities. was releasedlla from prison last year after serving three have in your sentence for conspiracy to can -- commit acts of terrorism. he was also the subject of another similar investigation in january. a quantity monday evening, he arrived at the home of the chief of police in the outskirts of paris and stabbed the opposite and his wife to death and took their three-year-old son hostage. the young child survived the attack. abballa told authorities he was loyal to the islamic state group. >> he said he was responding to a communiquÉ from the islamic state group leader that demanded the killing of nonbelievers where they lived with family. the attacker was killed by security services during the midnight raid. the officer has been identified. the french interior minister in expressed his condolences. anyones proof that doubting the risks fac

a senior french police source told nbc news the killer was larossi abballa, who was 25 and known to french intelligence as a radical. he served six months in jail for membership of a jihadi network. french president francois hollande said this is without question an act of terrorism. with a threat very high. the paris prosecutor said the man had pledged allegiance to isis three weeks ago. and at his home, police found knives, a list of target including police, journalists, and rappers. he struck just a day after the massacre in orlando. investigators will try to establish if he was inspired by that attack, and if he was a lone wolf or directed from overseas. the prosecutor says the killer posted a 12-minute video on facebook and heeded the isis call to kill unbelievers at home with their families. this appears to be the work of just one man, just like orlando. so difficult to predict, so difficult to prevent in the future. back to you. >> nbc's bill neely, thank you. >>> today, oscar pistorius arrived at the high court in pretoria, south africa, for the second day of his sentencing hearing

>> reporter: well, he is a 25-year-old french moroccan by the name of larossi abballa.cruited fighters to go fight jihad in pakistan. and his phone had been bugged by the security service. and today the french president francois hollande spoke about this terrorism. >> translator: the fight against terrorism doesn't concern only one country or a specific territory. the fight against terrorism must imply a determined international action. >> reporter: so hollande talking about the determined international action. it remains to be seen what that means. but we are hearing in the transcript that this attacker left online, he referred to another possible attack warning there may be another surprise coming, which will attack the euro 2016 soccer tournament going on at the moment. that's why 90,000 extra police are on the streets of france at the moment. very worrying just hearing about this now, another threat, possibly another attack may be in the pipeline. we are waiting to hear what connection to isis if indeed there's something else being planned. we'll keep you updated, b

a senior french police source told nbc news the killer was larossi abballa, who was 25 and known to french intelligence as a radical. he'd served six months in jail for membership of a jihadedi network. president hollande says it's an act of terrorism. with the threat very high. the paris prosecutor says the man had pledged allegiance to isis three weeks ago and at his home police found knives and a list of targets including police, journalists and rappers. he struck just a day after the massacre in orlando. investigators will try to establish if he was inspired by that attack and if he was a lone wolf or directed from overseas. the killer posted a 12 minute video on facebook and heeded the isis call to kill unbelievers at home with their families. this appears to be the work of just one man, just like orlando. so difficult to predict. so difficult to prevent in the future. back to you. >>> still ahead, a potentially life saving reminder. >> a new feature being rolled out by general motors to prevent hot car tragedy. ==kris//take vo== >>> and temperatures are comfortable now, but we have a

the killer, larossi abballa, claimed allegiance to the islamic state. he was shot dead by police after a three-hour stand-off. a prosecutor said abballa had a list of other targets, including public officials and journalists. >> woodruff: french police also detained 43 russian soccer fans, suspected of attacking english supporters, at the euro 2016 soccer tournament. reinforcements deployed across northern france, ahead of upcoming matches. and, the european soccer federation warned russia faces expulsion, if there's more violence. >> we have reaffirmed our desire to work directly with the security forces, with the police forces here in france to make sure the security and safety of all participants is of the utmost priority. >> woodruff: adding to the trouble: labor protests in paris once again turned violent as demonstrators battled police. 20 officers and six protesters were injured. >> ifill: back in this country, the senate defied a presidential veto threat and overwhelmingly passed a defense policy bill. it authorizes $602 billion in military spen

he was called larossi abballa. his phone had recently been tapped by security services.he attacker pledged his allegiance to the isis leader baghdadi, encouraged more attacks, and said he was answering the call to, quote, kill infidels. inside, authorities found a list of other potential targets. authorities have been showing -- for all those killed in orlando. not least among them how is a man whose phone was being bugged a -- allowed to commit such a crime. will this euro soccer tournament be okay. showing solidarity with all those who died in orlando. back to you. >> let me pick up on this. live streaming the attack on facebook, surelyly aly new leve depravity. former fbi assistant director on whether it is a whole new level of depravity, is it not, steve? >> it is. it is really an extension of what we've seen from terrorists for decades. there's an element of terrorism that's theater. if you go back 20, 30 years, you remember blowing up of airplanes in the desert after they hijacked them. this is just using technology to extend that element. it's depraved, terrible,

police say larossi abballa was an isis supporter. he was sent to prison in 2013 for his involvement in a jihad recruiting network and released after six months. aballa stabbed these law enforcement officials, a couple at their home near paris. their 3-year-old son was there. abballa was killed in a police raid. french officials are calling it an act of terror. back to you. >> thank you. >>> we just learned about a developing story, a shooting in northwest washington just a few blocks from the busy metro station. d.c. police believe a man was shot in an apartment building on 14th street northwest. that's near the columbia heights metro station. the man was seriously hurt but is still alive. police say they sent homicide detectives to the scene. we'll let you know if we learn any updates here on the air and the nbc washington app. >>> right now voters in d.c. are weighing in on decision 2016, perhaps the race to watch former d.c. mayor vincent gray is alexander for the council seat. the former mayor was first elected to the council in

the attacker, identified as larossi abballa, then held the commander's partner and the couple's three-year-old son hostage, eventually killing the partner, who worked as an administrative police official. police stormed the house and killed the attacker. french president francois hollande called the killing "incontestably a terrorist act." in southeastern turkey, a syrian journalist has been shot, but survived, marking the second attempt on his life in three months. an isis news agency said the militant group carried out the shooting against abd al-qader, founder of the exiled syrian news outlet eye on the homeland. in yemen, a u.s. drone strike has killed three people identified by yemeni officials as alleged al-qaeda fighters, the victims were driving in a vehicle around the town of habban. sunday's strike came after another u.s. drone attack killed two other people alleged to be al-qaeda members in yemen's marib province on saturday. a small rodent from australia has become the first known mammal to go extinct due to human-caused climate change. in a new report, scientists said they searche

abballa,r was larossi a french citizen with links to jihadist groups. our correspondent has more. >> for the french president, francois hollande, it is not just a murder but an act of terror. france is not the only country concerned by this threat. hollande: we have seen in the past days in the united states in orlando, but we also saw it in europe and other countries of the world. france is facing a terror threat on a large scale. everybody remembers what happened in 2015. november, the level of threat is very high. it is very high everywhere. >> the attacker who stabbed a police commander and then killed his wife had already been convicted for terrorist offenses. speaking after an emergency meeting convened by the president, the french interior minister stressed police forces have been on high alert, especially since the november terrorist attacks in paris. >> we have arrested more than 100 people representing a threat to public security since the beginning of 2016. >> the french interior minister also pledged to identify and arrest all other potentia

a source told nbc news the killer was larossi abballa who was 25 and known as a radical. he served six months in jail for membership of a jihadi network. french president francois hollande said this is without question an act of terrorism. prosecutors say the man pledged allegiance to isis three weeks ago. and at his home, police found knives and a list of targets, including police, journalists and rappers. he struck just a day after the massacre in orlando. investigators will try to establish if he was inspired by that attack and if he was a lone wolf or directed from overseas. his attack came as france showed solidarity with orlando's dead at vigils and on its most famous symbol, lit up in the colors of the rainbow and of the stars and stripes. the prosecutor says the killer posted a 12-minute video on facebook and heeded the isis call to kill unbelievers at home with their families. it appears to be the work, like orlando, of just one man. so difficult to predict. so difficult to prevent in the future. matt, savannah? >> bill neily, thank you. >>> now to the political

police have named the president as larossi abballa who was 25 years old and known as a radical.th jail sen is tense. he was sentenced to the three years for being part of a jihad network. there's no question this is terrorism. the threat everywhere is very high. an isis news agency said that this man was one of their fighters. there are reports that he posted a 13 minute video on facebook during the attacks in which he said that he had answered i sis's call. this is an attack and the investigators want to know was this linked to or inspired by the massacre in orlando that's horrified everybody here. >> bill, thank you very much. earlier we heard from the latest in the orlando shooting investigati investigating. shawn, did they miss some signs here? >> i don't think that they did. everything that i have seen with the investigation and i have talked to folks with the fbi and the investigation going back to a couple of years ago and comments from two coworkers and the fbi conducted a thorough investigation. they used a source that they ran up against him and used monitoring to moni

the attacker is dead, larossi abballa, his phone had recently been tapped by security forces.lot of issues happening at the moment, france is on edge, it's hosting the soccer tournament and hundreds of jihadists have been arrested to prevent this. questions about how a man whose phone was tapped was able to get away with this. >> the president of the united states here is focused on the weapons used in the attack, not the isis links using terms like home grown. what about in france? are they reluctant to say isis? are they quick to talk about the weapons? >> hi, brian. i mean, there's no such reluctance really in europe to address this as it is. europe has quite a history of, you know, radical islam and of course the multiculture nature of france have pointed to that. no, not such a distinction here. clearly labelling as it was and a pledge to the isis and the roots over here. >> benjamin hall, thank you. i appreciate it. >> let's hand it over to heath we are some headlines for us this morning. >>> new details about the terror attack in atlanta. he laughed as he was shooting,

but this is obviously very disconcerting, especially when you consider that the attacker larossi abballaice late last night when they stormed the house was known to police as being somebody involved in terror networks. he was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison in 2013 for trying to recruit people into terror organizations associated with pakistan. so very concerning that they weren't able to prevent this attack, even though he was on their police radar, chris. >> all right, atika. thank you for bringing these details. a horrible story. as there are more developments let us know. we'll come back to you. >>> as it is in all of these incidents, the people who commit these murders in the name of madness, known as isis, start the situation, but they don't finish it, and they're not the focus. back here in orlando, so many innocent lives in the gay, latino community, from this community, taken far too soon. coming up, we have a friend of someone who's lost someone very close to them. memories about who is gone. stay with us. ♪ you wish your dog could fight off fleas and ticks. but

at tacker, larossi abballa, 25 years old, gradually radicalized.son, he was watched. he had to report to a parole officer. he did all the things he was supposed to do, and so the police kind of ignored him. and then early this year, they began tapping his phone, suspecting that he had become more and more radical. but, again, there was nothing in his phone conversations according to the prosecutor yesterday that indicated that he was getting as radical as he was getting. his ex-girlfriend was on government radio this morning, and she was saying she saw none of the signs of real radicalization. she said that he was getting more and more religious, but she didn't believe it was to the point where he was radicalized. and then about three days before the crime, he asked to get back in contact with her. she refused and then tried to reach him the day -- just a day ahead of the crime. and she was unable to get him on his cell phone. so at that point he was probably already moving into action and killed the two police officers in their home, in front of a

claimed he was eyeing more targets. 25-year-old larossi abbala went into the home, taking the officer's partner hostage before killing her as well. abballa who had pledged allegiance to isis, posted a video to facebook and that was made during his standoff with the police in the couple's home. he calls on allies to target police officers, journalists and rappers. he also warned of surprises for the euro 2016 soccer tournament taking place in france. three people have been taken into custody for questioning following the attack. abballa had been sentenced to prison in 2013 for being involved in recruiting work network, but was released after six months. >>> now to politics and the democratic primary season ends with a lopsided win for clinton. she wins in washington, d.c., 79 to 21. nbc news is awarding her 46 of 46 delegates and she leads bernie sanders by nearly a thousand delegates. last night, bernie sanders and the presumptive nominee met at the capitol hilton. they were joined by podesta and jane sanders and jeff weaver. they talked for more than an hour and a half and afterwards issued nearly identical statements touting their posi