Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Mornings Weekend Edition 20160612

Enforcement has used robots it to examine the body of the shooter and his car. There have been concerns that both may have been booby trapped with improvised explosives. That now does not appear to be the case. They are shooting back and forth. Look at this. You can hear the witnesses who watched it unfold. It began shortly after 2 am florida time when the suspect entered the pulse orlando nightclub and opened fire. Witnesses say there were as many as 320 people inside at the time and the suspect began shooting the victims with a handgun and assault weapons an offduty officer began exchanging gunfire with the suspect almost immediately. The suspect made it back inside the club and barricaded himself Holding Dozens of people hostage. The suspect may have been in contact with Law Enforcement during the standoff and may have given officers his name. Law enforcement is not releasing that name. After three hours the decision was made by police swat to storm the club and take up a suspect. This morning the decision was made to rescue hostages that were in there. Our swat Officers Exchange gunfire with the suspect in the suspect is dead. He appeared to be carrying a rifle and a handgun. He had some type of device on him. The device has now been determined to not be a threat. As to a possible motive, the nightclub is a popular gay nightclub and the fbi special agent in charge said he may have leanings towards radical islam. They are looking at any possible ties with jihadist terrorist ties. He was well prepared and organized is organized. The club may have been chosen because it is a soft target. We do not have an update on the dozens of people taken to area hospitals and at one point there were so many victims involved that police were transporting people to orlando regional in the beds of pickup trucks. We are waiting for a News Conference to start at any moment and we keep checking on that to see if that has started. We were bringing will bring you information. That nightclub shooting follows another violent incident in orlando. The shooting death of singer christina grimmie. We are learning more about the gunmen. [ music ]. She was signing autographs for fans after a performance friday night in orlando when a man walked up to her and shot her. Police have identified him as kevin global ministries foundation. He didnt appear to know him grimmie and he may have been a deranged fan. Police say the gunmen shot and killed himself. The suspect is not from orlando. The suspect traveled to orlando apparently to commit this crime. Had plans to travel back to where he came from. Ruble had loaded guns in a hunting knife. Time now is 7 04 am. Local news and lets look at how the day is shaping up. Rosemary orozco is back. Good to be back. It was a long day yesterday. We will begin a cool down today. For inland communities we are beginning to see the changes. The low clouds are back in fog out there. The onshore breeze is pretty strong in areas through fairfield. A sweeping view across the city, San Francisco they are in the backdrop. Temperatures starting out warmer because of the warm day yesterday and by the second half of the day we expect to drop. 56 now in San Francisco. 59 oakland. Low 60s concorde in livermore. We are 60 degrees in areas around san jose. Half moon bay 55 with partly to mostly cloudy skies. Still up in most spots, napa, concorde, livermore, five to seven degrees warmer than yesterday. We are cooler in areas around santa rosa. The bay area starting out a little bit warmer. The onshore breeze working its way back into the day. Look at fairfield, gusting to 25 Miles Per Hour. That will make an impact. Here is a comparison. Santa rosa yesterday 88 and 81 today. San francisco 68 yesterday and 85 today. Everybody expected to drop off some in this is the beginning of the cooling trend. A look at the afternoon highs in a bigger view as well as what to expect coming up. This is commencement day at stanford university. The school is expecting protests. Activists are promising to demonstrate in solidarity with the survivor against the judge who sentenced former stanford swimmer 20yearold brock turner. He was found guilty. Press accused prosecutors asked for six years in prison. 1 Million People have signed an online petition drive to have judge persky removed from the bench. This decision is an outrage. It makes every woman at college in the state of california and risk. We need judges to understand the consequences of Sexual Violence and who want to get census that will deter it. 16 state lawmakers have sent letters to the state asking to have persky investigated. While the senses light they do not believe the judge should be recall. People who think you should be recalled are making their feelings known. Ultraviolet at the secret has putting up been putting up billboards. There will be a full page ad in standley newspaper. A plane it telling a banner will be flying over the school. The graduation ceremonies begin at 9 30 am. 19yearold man behind bars facing seconddegree murder in drunk driving charges in a deadly crash in south San Francisco. 19yearold Joshua Maldonado on the left. He was driving 90 Miles Per Hour when he crashed his honda civic on Airport Boulevard friday night. He was not injured but his brother and his brothers girlfriend were both ejected and died at the scene. I am in shock it happened. I am in shock it happened to her. They were too young. She had so much going for her. Maldon auto had a blood alcohol level of. 08. He was treated at the hospital and booked into jail where he is being held without bail. The california Highway Patrol investigating a Chain Reaction crash on an open freeway saturday morning northbound 880 near the high street exit. It began when one driver crashed and a second car stopped to help. A third car crashed into both vehicles causing at least one serious injury. Big night tonight. The sharks hosting game six of the stanley cup final and this one is Home Sweet Home at the tank. Sharks practiced yesterday in san jose and they picked up momentum after thursdays victory. Martin jones has had a great run. He may have surprised you with his 44 saves on sunday. They like their chances tonight. We like our chances going into the playoffs all post season and we can play a little bit better and give them more support. Coming home for game six, we will take that any day of the week. That we are playing for the stanley cup final. As much as we have come this far we are not done. The sharks pressure is on. Only one team, detroit red wings, lost the stanley cup final after being ahead 51. They could have a win tonight and they want to head back to pittsburgh for a win or take all game seven on wednesday. Caltrain is Running Service for shark fans tonight and it will operate on a sunday schedule with Hourly Service in both directions for the final home game at the tank it tonight. Lasted train leaves at 9 00 tonight but it will be held for 15 minutes at the game if it runs long. Some 2000 athletes are taking part in the 2016 and escape from alcatraz triathlon. They are competing in San Francisco bay in the streets of San Francisco in an event that is getting more popular every year. It begins on alcatraz. They brought up that vote and then they say jump. Into the bay in this went to San Francisco marina green beach and they have to run a halfmile to get on the bicycles. Then they will get on the bikes and ride 18 miles. Then they return to the marina for the 8 mile run. Kenneth whitner is among the athletes taking part. He is the nephew of john and plans england whose breakout from the rock in 1962 inspired the movie escape from alcatraz. He is our guest on friday morning. He said the elaborate escape involved a boat. I am asked that question all the time, did they make it. I can tell you with certainty that they did. We can prove it. In the show that we got through doing with the History Channel we proved it. The escape involving the england brothers involved another inmate. They contend all three drowned in the bay. Will be ever know. There could be a snag as the warriors had to game five on monday. Coming up, scuffle between green and lebron james that could make green questionable for tomorrows matchup. President ial candidates throwing accusations at each other. Latest accusation from Hillary Clinton on donald trump. P. When consultant josh atkins books at laquinta. Com. He gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. So he knows exactly when he can settle in and think big. And when josh thinks big you know what he gives . Ill give you everything ive got and then some. 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That has been released publicly. Well, it is more likely than not it was in idealistically motivated attack. We have no information that he was associated with a group but it seems like it is no coincidence that it took place where did. I think it is likely the case. We will no more if there is any indication of that through his personal papers and involvement in social media. To learn more about that over time. It would not surprise me. Why do you feel that club could of been a target . Because it is a gay club. It may be a commission of any hate crime. Our sadness and the fact that we understand that it couldve happened to anybody. It is in the nature of terrorism that all of the steel there but for the grace of god so that is the very function of it. 20 people are debt and 40 people injured. Thousands upon thousands of people feel some degree of fear. All of these people, everyone, that died or were injured is innocent. It couldve happened to any of us. That is the nature of terrorism. He is in his late 20s and he is from port st. Lucie. He is a us citizen and that is not true of his Family Members. Omar mateen. Police will release information when theyre ready. Yes, what i have been doing at share of demings request is to make sure the hospital is free to let injured relatives provide assistance without privacy laws. Hippo laws. We are doing our part to make sure that there are no bureaucratic impediments to letting them comfort the injured. I dont know. Every one. Well you are listening to a press conference this morning. A gunman went into a gay nightclub in 20 people were killed and 40 people have been injured. The name of the shooter is omar mateen in his late 20s from port st. Lucie. They believe it is an ideological attack. They are diving into his social media to get more information. They are calling it a hate crime on a gay nightclub. Much more coming up as we get more information. Turning to the race for the white house and the representative for the republicans on the trail. Donald Trump Campaign in florida and pennsylvania on saturday despite protests outside the Tampa Convention center. Thousands gathered inside where he was confident about winning the battleground state of florida. Winning florida is absolutely imperative. They say it is over if you dont. I will win a lot of states no one ever thought about because we are getting incredible numbers. Hillary clinton released a new ad an infomercial making fun of the billionaire and his trump university. She is under scrutiny herself after emails and she chose a businessman to the departments intelligence Advisory Board in 2011. She was a top donor to the clinton foundation. She is taking the weekend off from the campaign trail, but tomorrow clinton will be in ohio. On tuesday the democratic primary season wraps up with a washington dc primary. As for bernie sanders, he issued a statement. Ahead of that primary he is promising to continue his campaign intel next month convention. We will change gears a little bit and talk about the weather. A lot of folks are planning advance today. A lot going on out there. We had the beach festival in the escape from alcatraz. We had the giants playing today. Not as warm as yesterday and there is a live look at San Francisco. The clouds were rolling in and the onshore breeze coming back. Temperatures will be falling off into the second part of the day. This morning because of yesterday we are waking up warmer. A look at Storm Tracker 2 where we have a system over Southern California. Showers and thunderstorms two areas of this era. For us it will be about the cooler weather. Onshore breeze right there at the local level. 57 now in San Francisco. Oakland, 59. Livermore, 59. Santa rosa 50. South bay, 60 degrees. Afternoon highs, anywhere from four to eight degrees over yesterday. 80 for novato. 70 sausalito. 74 berkeley. Upper 80s inland, 85 livermore. South bay, 79 san jose. Santa cruz cloudy and 71. 71 San Bernardino and upper 60s for the city of San Francisco. Extended forecast, temperatures continuing to fall off. Tuesday and wednesday, in addition to the cloud cover, temperatures in the mid60s at the coast and low 70s around the bay and inland communities and that is the cooler day as temperatures rebound. Not bad at all for june. We will take a break. Friends and families are morning today after 11 Elementary School teachers were killed in a crash on friday night. It happened southeast of bangkok. A tire burst causing eight a driver to lose control. Most passengers trapped inside. Four people escape before the ban caught fire. The battle to retake falluja from isis. A special forces command retake the western edge of the city but 90,000 civilians are still trapped inside the city. Reports say isis is using citizens as human shields. Booby trapping homes in a last ditch of resistance. Falluja is one of the last Islamic State strongholds. Isis is claiming responsibility for suicide bombings that killed 20 people in syria. The attacks happen yesterday in damascus near the holiest shiite muslim shrine. Isis says three of its militants carried out the attacks and one with a car bomb. 55 people were hurt including children. We have an update before we go to break on the shooting in orlando. F250 now, 40 injured but apparently some of those have passed. They had trouble getting inside that nightclub because they believe the shooter may have been boobytrapped. Awful news out of orlando. The numbers have gone up significantly. The latest on that in an epidemic of car breakins in San Francisco coming up. How they have led to the blame game between police and prosecutors. Ecutors. Hi. Is the internet still out . Yes i have nothing. Come on work together. Work together. Work together. Do you got anything . I dont have anything. No i dont have anything. Please come back internet. I love you. I love you so much. Just come back. Please. Please. Hes streaming a cat video. family laughs and the whole party is looking. Can i take a look . Mitch come on get high Speed Internet from at t with 99. 9 reliability for just 30 a month. Keep calm, your internets on. Welcome back to mornings on 2. I am frank mallicoat. Breaking news out of orlando. Information coming in. There was a press conference with the mayor said there have been 50 People Killed in the shooting. 53 others hospitalized. This is a mass shooting at a nightclub. Originally we said there were 20 but a number of people were shot and they had 40 other injured and that number is astronomical and so awful, up to 50 people. The name of the shooter, omar mateen. Christien kafton is following the story. Just a devastating story, and it keeps getting more shocking. Reporter i am monitoring as we are preparing to give a latest update. The new estimate just coming out. 50 people now shot and killed inside the club. Investigators havent had a chance to go through holes orlando and said 50 people found inside the club and another 53 at least in area hospitals. We had that suspects name. They are looking for ties to radical islam saying it does appear to be an act of domestic terror. The affair began after 3 am 2 am rather florida time. The suspect is omar the team omar mateen. Witnesses inside that club save there were as many as 320 people inside the club at closing time. The suspect began shooting his victims with a handgun with an assault style weapon. An offduty officer working security at the club began exchanging gunfire with mateen. He made it back inside the club Holding Dozens of people hostages for hours. The suspect may have been in contact with Law Enforcement and may have given officers his name and that may be how they learned how they dashew they were dealing with. After three hours, swat storm the club and got the suspect. Leaders are calling for state and federal resources to help handle an attack of this magnitude. Experts now say this is an lgbt club and may have been chosen because it is a soft target. We dont have an update on the conditions of the dozens of people taken to hospitals. A lot more news coming out of this. News conference ongoing right now. We heard from fbi and sheriff officials who are investigating. They are looking at possible ties. Whether the individual may have self radicalized. They are looking to go through now that they have a name to use, go through all of his social media and his contacts in his home to find out what they can. An awful day in awful morning in orlando. 50 dead. 53 in area hospitals. Our other top story this morning, it is Graduation Day on the stanford campus in the ceremonies could be overshadowed because people are angry over the sentence given to former stanford swimmer 20 yearold brock turner and they are promising to speak out today. They are demanding judge Santa Clara County superior court judge aaron persky be recalled and will ask alumni to show support for women who are sexually assaulted. A man behind bars facing seconddegree murder in drunk driving charges in a deadly crash in south San Francisco. Joshua maldonado was driving 90 Miles Per Hour when he crashed his green honda civic friday night killing his brother and his brothers girlfriend. Maldonado was not seriously injured. Time is 7 34 am. Lets go to Rosemary Orozco for a check of the day. It was toasty yesterday. Not as tasty today. We will have a cooling trend. Still warm inland. We are just getting started. Temperatures will fall off into the business week. Lets talk about sunday. A look here outside over the east bay. Mostly sunny skies here and we have low clouds moving back into the bay working along the coastline as i speak. Giving you a view as the temperature starting out in the low 50s. Santa rosa 50 right now, 60 napa. Livermore in concord mid50s. San jose 58. Redwood city San Francisco checking in at 58 degrees. Concord up by seven degrees. Fairfield in livermore up by 7. These types of numbers, you will feel the difference but we have changes coming. Low clouds on the way back and fairfield recording a breeze at 29 Miles Per Hour. We will see a cool down. Percent cisco today if you are going to north beach for the festival, 60 x 10 a. M. And 65 at noon. 68 at 4 00. Another Beautiful Day here and around the bay here. 86 antioch, 86 livermore. The giants play . We expect the breeze to pick up. Into the south bay, 79 in areas around san jose. North bay 81. Temperatures will continue to fall into the business week. The coolest day will be wednesday and i will have a look at the extended forecast coming up. Tonight big doings in san jose. The sharks and a lot riding on this game. The sharks are ready to host game six of the stanley cup final. They become the champions of the nhl with a victory. It would force the series back to pittsburgh in game seven with the winner claiming the stanley cup. The sharks havent said if their winger thomas hurdle will be back in action after a lower body injury. The bay areas other defender Golden State Warriors play tomorrow night. A victory would give them back toback championships. That could be more difficult if green is suspended. The nba is reviewing the play from friday night. There it is. That was the fourth quarter. Green tangled with lebron james. Green lost hardwood and james stepped over him. The nba decides that is a flagrant flout fouled by green and he could be suspended for two games. The players agreed they are tough competitors who want to do everything they can on the court. Tried to man up. I enjoy that. It is always fun to me. As a competitor i love this and i am all about leaving it on the floor. When you get a little bit more than what you should that is what caused me to have words with them. The league should take a look at it. The locker room has seen an nbc what they say. Ring must find a 25,000 for his foul. Stephen adams was fouled by him in the western conference finals. Giants wrapping up a series against the dodgers tonight. The place at t park. Buster posey had a walkoff single last night with picture bogee janssen. Longtime rivals out of Southern California. Coach bert was there and so was quite. The representative john shimkus the giants leave the dodgers. Yesterday the reds had a second straight victory over the oakland as after jade crews posted a win. Fire crews put out a fire at a high rise in downtown oakland at 4 30 am in the area of 14th and webster street. Flames were coming from the seller of a building but they acted fast and extinguish the fire in an hour. Nobody injured and they are looking into a cause. Police investigating a deadly shooting after 10 00 friday night on illinois street and bay road. It is not clear what led up to the shooting. The victim was dead at the scene. Police have not released a name that he was 30 years old and no arrests have been made. New crime figures indicate San Francisco is dealing with an epidemic with auto burglaries. Police responded to 26,000 reports of vehicular breakins last year alone and prosecutors blame each other for this surge. Police point to a new state law that San Franciscos District Attorney helped write and it reduces the criminal peloponnese penalties. Police have only solved about percent of the reported cases. Retired petaluma fire chief is missing. He is presumably drowned in petaluma lake. Mike ferber ski was sailing on tuesday night when his boat overturned. A man saw another man in the water without a life vest. If he has died he will be the third person to lose his life at clear lake. Lake tahoe authorities suspended search for a football player. Attorney mark moore of honolulu went missing. He and five other student athletes were spotted 2 miles from shore. The staff at a boating company thought they were in trouble and when out to help. They were able to rescue four of the six students. We were over here thinking that they are all there and when we got back we needed to call the coast guard and it was really sad. If you student was also rescue. Authorities found his paddleboard in life vest in the water. Searchers are the looking for his body. We are continuing to follow breaking news out of orlando. There is a press conference underway now. Investigators have updated a number of People Killed 250 in this nightclub shooting. This happened at the polls nightclub in orlando at 2 am their time. 300 people inside the club at the time we have the latest when we come back. No work today. A live look over the oakland skyline where we have clear skies. A nice one around the bay area. Temperatures are cooling off and we have a cooling trend underway today. Current conditions, extended forecast, coming up. Labased startup that is similar to uber but geared towards kids has expanded in the bay area. Hop, skip, drive is Offering Service in the east bay in san jose. Children between 6 and 17 can use the service. Drivers must have five years of childCare Experience and have to go through background checks. The company says its mission is to help busy families manage their Transportation Needs. It is picking up where the shuttle left off. Shuttle lost it in San Francisco in 2014. The service offered on demand rights for unaccompanied children. Shuttle drivers were almost exclusively women in many of them teachers or childcare providers. The company failed to raise enough ground funding to keep it alive. A couple with their life while vacationing in hawaii to save a teenager after a Helicopter Crash in pearl harbor. A teenager did not survive but as pamela young reports, the couple is back in hawaii to get closure. Reporter the scene was caught on a bystanders cell phone. The video going viral. But you dont see is the aftermath and the emotions survivors and witnesses still find difficult to release. When Tragedy Strikes it is not just the immediate family affected. The impact ripples to everyone who witnessed or participated in the incident. For them there is just a match of a need for closure. They have brought their sons back to pearl harbor to try to find peace. Their vacation in february came to an end when the helicopter hit the water with a pilot in a family on board. A navy scuba diver, he dove into the water to locate riley dawson still trapped. It was frightening but nevertheless my adrenaline was going and i had to help. They cut the boy loose. Unsure valerios wife administered cpr. They regain color but later died at the hospital. We have our own to voice here. So it hit a nerve with us. Pearl harbor tour operations at shutdown and they returned to california without seeing the memorial. Com one valerio was contacted by veteran groups pooled resources to get the family back to pearl harbor so the boys could get the lesson their parents had intended. We wanted to make sure they understood the importance of the area and how many women and men lost their lives here. How important it is for our freedom. Consider the message received. The boys learned their folks are heroes. Very proud. I am very happy for my parents. They have showed us what could be possible. He feels he is able to motivate and answer nagging questions. You relive the scene as you stare at the water and you can smell the whole experience and you cant help but that we live. We know we did what we could. Be returned to california and closure attained. Pamela young. The Worlds Largest and most powerful rocket launch into orbit yesterday. Left off. 2,000,000 pounds, the rocket, 22,000 miles into the sky. Delta for heavy rocket delivering a Spy Satellite into orbit to interstate intercept community. All systems go apparently. No other concerns here if you like sunshine and i have to tell you i love it. We had a nice breeze yesterday. The breeze will be with us for the next few days. It will coalesce. Yesterday was the warmest of the next several. Temperatures will cool. Back into the low 70s for inland cities and not today though. Lets look over san jose. We have mostly sunny skies and air quality good to moderate and we will have cool pacific air pushing through giving you a view at Storm Tracker 2 where we are watching showers and storm activity. If you are going to tahoe today it may be in the forecast for the morning and then we will pushed east into the afternoon. It has to do with the system over Southern California. This has started in the southern neighborhoods. You can see monterey now with cloudy skies and into the afternoon it will continue to fill in. Partly cloudy of the coast and mostly sunny away from the coast. It is increasing the onshore breeze. The arrow is pointing from the west and that is not going to change. 15 Miles Per Hour expected here at 5 00 in the afternoon. For San Francisco, 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour. 53 degrees right now in concord, 60 napa, 58 redwood city. We managed to start out this morning warmer. By the afternoon we will be into see that turnaround. Upper 70s to low 80s today in north bay. 81 degrees in santa rosa. 70 degrees sausalito, 70 berkeley, mid80s for brentwood, 74 san leandro. South bay, a warm day. San jose into the 80s yesterday so you will notice the difference today. Peninsula looking good, 78 redwood city, 78 san mateo. 78 San Francisco 66 this afternoon at game time. Breeze at 20 Miles Per Hour. A little bit cool, dress in layers. It will be sunny so bring the sunblock and the ball. Extended forecast, temperatures cooling down on monday, tuesday, and wednesday. Wednesday is the coolest day with mid60s. Temperatures began to rebound on thursday and friday are out, temperatures will warm. For the next few days, cooler weather. Not bad. Virgin airlines got quite a surprise. The reason why this brought a smile to branson space. The last day of the north beach festival in San Francisco. Arts and crafts. It is familyfriendly and it runs until 6 00 today. Hey guys lunch is here its on me fellas. 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Witnesses inside the club say there were 300 people looking on the facebook page. It was apparently latin night at the club, a popular evening. The suspect began shooting victims with a handgun he had and an assault weapon. There was an offduty Security Officer there, Police Officer, and they exchanged gunfire. The team the suspect got back inside the club Holding People hostage. After about three hours, the decision was made by the police in swat to storm the club and they did take out the suspect, 50 dead at 53 hospitalized. Riots have been breaking out between rival european soccer fans in france forcing police to use tear gas. This was the scene at marseille this morning after england and russia fans along with locals clashed in the streets. Police had to use tear gas and water cannons. Atmosphere was calmer after the final score yesterday of the euro 2016 game buddy picked up again in the evening. They dealt with days of mayhem surrounding the match before. United kingdom celebrating the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth ii. The queen and Prince Philip road to the seats streets of london thrilling the crowds. Her birthday is april 21 but the official celebration is in june when the weather is nicer. This was the first public appearance of princes charlotte. Prince george was also on hand. Queen elizabeth became great britains longest serving monarch last year surpassing queen victoria. Her mother lived to be 102. Most of us sneaking in a nap at work. And australian boy got caught by owner richard branson. Busted by the boss. Branson said he posted this picture on his urban blog site after a visit to the sydney airport. He found his employee napping away in one of the offices. The worker went right back to sleep after he surprised him. He admits the employee was on standby getting needed rest but a very good picture. We will be right back. Because of the scale of the crime i have asked the governor to declare a state of emergency. We are also issuing a state of emergency for the city of orlando so we can bring Additional Resources to deal with the aftermath. Our focus is going to be on identifying the victims. We have breaking news out of orlando florida, 50 people have been shot to death at a nightclub overnight. The mayor of orlando says there are dozens more that have been hospitalized at area hospitals. That attack happened early this morning. It is sunday, june 12. I am claudine wong. Federal, state and local officials in orlando looking for more victims in helping the victims families and also searching for a motive in the senseless tragedy. The suspect identified as Omar Siddiqui mateen. This is a live look out of orlando. It is an active scene there. This is progressed. It has been they needed to get back into that club because there were so many people in that club at the time of the shooting. The shooter barricaded himself inside. It took them a while to get inside and tended to the victims. Christien kafton joins us live in the newsroom. Reporter good morning. You eluded to how much difficulty there was to get inside tunnels orlando. They have gone to the club and 50 people are shot and killed inside that club. More than 53 injured. We had that suspect named, omar mateen. He is from poor lucy florida in an american citizen usborn to afghanistan immigrants. He was on the radar of Law Enforcement but he was not the target of a specific investigation. This attack began after 2 00 florida time when mateen and the nightclub and opened fire. Witnesses say there were as many as 320 people inside the club at that time. Police say mateen began shooting his victims with a handgun and an Assault Rifle. An offduty officer was working security and began exchanging gunfire. He made it back inside the club and barricaded himself Holding Dozens of people hostage for up to three hours. Police say it is unknown how many of those 50 victims were shot in that initial attack and how many were shot during the hostage situation. After three hours a decision was made to storm the club and take out mateen. Law enforcement leaders are saying the shooting, the deadliest mass shooting attack on us soil. Definitely a tragedy not only for the city but for the entire nation. We believe this is a tragedy that can happen anywhere. And what we need to do is continue to be vigilant and call if you see something. Call anyone, call 911, if you see something out of place you see someone acting strange. As a possible motive, the pulse nightclub is a gay and lesbian destination. The fbi special agent in charge said mateen may have leanings towards radical islam. Whether he was part of a larger group, still unanswered. It appears he was acting alone. There looking to see where he may have gotten his inspiration. Investigators are looking into ties with jihadist tours terrorists overseas. He was well prepared and organized. Another News Conference is set to take place in an hour and a half or so and we will get more details about it at that time. We will continue to monitor developments and bring them to you as soon as we can. When you are looking at the social media posts and tweets they talked about the scene from the victims saying they got out. You have those three hours where he was inside with the victims and you have to wonder the decision to storm the club. I know you have reported he may have given his name but whatever he was saying did not lead them to believe that the long standoff was going to either save lives or resolve the situation differently. It seems that way. They were in contact with that standoff back and forth by mobile phone. The accounts of people who were trapped inside the club people were trapped in various rooms. They were texting and calling 911 and texting Family Members and authorities trying to give them intelligence. Trying to tell them what was going on in trying to get rescuers inside. A lot of terrified victims inside that club. Initially the investigators could not go in because they believed midteens body may have been boobytrapped and they had this band at the scene. There was concerned there could have been an improvised explosive device around his body. Investigators looking into his body and the fan and checking social media to get as much intelligence and background about this as possible and figure out what the origin of the attack may have been. They have to tread lightly because a number of victims in there were probably shot during the three hours so they had to wait. Busy have hostages in there. The chief of police addressed it and said it is unknown how many victims were shot in that initial shooting and then the three hours that followed. All the loved ones trying to get a hold of their families. I have seen posts on twitter giving hotlines to try to reconnect. Over 100 people. Major call for donor blood. There are a lot of injuries going on in the area. Their calling out for anybody who has a universal plug and try to help the survivors of this horrific attack. We were talking about hospitals. Over 50 victims presumably from gunshot wounds in the back of pickups going into area hospitals. Our hearts go out, and awful morning. We will continue to monitor developments in the newsroom. I will be back in about 23 minutes with another update. We will bring the press conference to the folks at home when it happens. All of this nightclub shooting follows another violent incident in orlando. The shooting death of singer christina grimmie. This morning we are learning more about the gunmen. [ music ]. The 22yearold singer was signing autographs for fans after a performance friday night when a man walked up and shot her. Police have identified him as kevin lavaud. He didnt appear to know grimmie and he may have been a deranged fan. His brother saw the shooting take place in tackle the gunmen in the gunmen shot and killed himself. The suspect is not from orlando. The suspect traveled to orlando to commit this crime and then had plans to travel back to where he came from. Loibl had loaded guns and ammunition and a hunting knife at the time. It is 8 08 am. If you have plans outside today we want to check in with rosemary to give you a better idea of what to expect. There is a breeze yesterday that maybe heat easier to take. I think today is even better for those wanting a cool down. Entre breeze is returning in the clouds are returning a pattern is settling into the bay. It will begin later this afternoon. I am arty seeing the change although for most of us it is a warmer start. This is the oakland and see where he. And she where he. Up along the coastline for sunday. Here is a few over clear lake, always sending as beautiful photos. A warm day but like the rest of us we expected to cool. 63 inland. We start out the morning with 67 concorde, 65 oakland, 58 redwood city. A couple start in santa rosa at 50 but now 57. Fairfield, 64 right now. That is relatively mild but a bit cooler than yesterday. It has to do with the onshore breeze. 59 lafayette. 67 to start your morning in antioch. Concorde in livermore by six degrees it is down. We have been watching the onshore breeze pickup and starting out a little bit warmer but by the end we will see the onshore breeze, napa has 13 and fairfield 22. Fairfield is right now than yesterday at this time. Here is a view of what to expect. It helps to put it in perspective. Yes to yesterday santa rosa hit 82 today. Livermore for degrees cooler today. 85 the forecast of high for you. 70 the afternoon high in antioch. When i come back i will have a better look around at the afternoon highs and how long the cooling trend will last. Happening today, stanford commencement and it is expecting protests during the graduation. Activists have promised to demonstrate in solidarity with the survivor and against the judge who sentenced 20yearold brock turner to six months in county jail. Turner was found guilty on three counts of sexual assault. Prosecutors asked the judge to sentence turner to six years in prison and 1 Million People have signed a petition drive to have judge persky removed from the bench. A law professor has launched a recall petition. This is making every woman at college in the state of california laissez. In particular women at stanford less safe. We need judges who understand the consequences of Sexual Violence and who want to give tough sentences. 16 state lawmakers have sent letters asking to have persky investigated. Said to clear it da said they do not believe the judge should be recalled. People who think you should be recalled are making their feelings known. A womans Advocacy Group has printed up these billboards demanding a judge be removed from office it office. There will be a full page ad in todays stanford daily newspaper asking alumni to sign a letter in support. There will be a plain plane flying a banner over the ceremony. Tonight is a big night for the sharks. Their hosting game six of the stanley cup finals. They were practicing yesterday in san jose. It looks like they picked up momentum after thursdays victory in pittsburgh. Martin jones has surprised people. He had 44 saves on thursday but his teammates say they have watched him turn in those types of performances throughout the playoffs and they like their chances tonight. We like our chances. The way he has been playing post season. We can play better in front of him and give him more support. You would think being new in the stanley cup final and coming home for game six we will take it any day of the week. Now were playing for the stanley cup final. As much as we have come this far we are not satisfied. We will keep on trucking. The admission admit the pressure is on tonight. Detroit red wings have lost the final after being ahead three games to one. They think they can put penguins in that same category. With a win tonight they will head to pittsburgh for the winner take all. Game seven on wednesday. Nothing like game seven in the nhl. Caltrain Running Service for shark fans tonight and it will operate on a sunday schedule. Hourly service tonight. The last train leaving at 9 00 tonight that it will be held for 15 minutes extra if the game runs longer. The last train will leave the station at 9 15 pm. A little bonus for shark fans in pittsburgh. No one will get confused with the pittsburgh at a pennsylvania. Restaurant diner is offering menu items for fans. The burns breakfast burrito and the shark plastic powerplay. Anyone who comes in wearing shark scare will get 50 off their bill. It is on railroad avenue in pittsburgh. Happening today, check out the map because it will be busy with 2000 athletes taking part in the 2016 skp alcatraz triathlon. They will compete in the San Francisco bay in the streets of San Francisco at an event that is getting more popular every year. The race began near Alcatraz Island and they are telling everyone to swim for the shore. They will swim to marina green beach and then run half a mile to get bicycles. Then they ride for 18 miles to kristi field. Then the legion of honor museum. Then they go back to the marina and brown 8 miles. Are you tired . Good luck to them. Warriors head into game five tomorrow night. Coming up, the scuffle between green and lebron james could bring questionable for the matchup tomorrow. A busy news sunday. And a little cool down. Rosemary is right there. It is going to be breezy and it will cool down from yesterday. We get a color version today. Temperatures will drop off some. Let me explain what is going on. We have a switch in the weather pattern and inland communities will range in the low 70s eventually. Today we will fall off 50 degrees from 4 to 6. Giving you a sweeping view, blue sky out there and air quality good to moderate and will be improving as the cool pacificare moves through the bay area. Here is a view of the elements responsible for the change in the weather pattern. A system over Southern California bringing storms through the sierra. It is working close to lake tahoe. Partly cloudy skies at tahoe and a slight possibility of showers for the morning and it will push to the east. For the rest of us it will equal a cool down and clouds are working back through monterey and beginning to shift up. For today on the coast, partly cloudy skies and temperatures again beginning to cool. Inland cities and that they will get a bit of a cool down but it will be more into the week. A little bit of fog and temperatures continuing and warmer this morning because of yesterdays highs. The second part of the day, the cooling trend kicks in. Temperatures coming down today. We will bottom out on wednesday coming up. If you are thinking about getting out for a run or some breakfast or walk the dog, 62 napa, though 50s i mean upper 60s in redwood city. Inland communities, low to upper 60s. Some of us if you degrees degrees warmer than yesterday. For the afternoon not so bad. 80 degrees novato, 83 concord, 85 livermore. South bay 78 sunnydale, 68 San Francisco. We have the north beach festival in the Haight Asbury festival and the giants playing today. A lot going on today. The cooling trend continues with low 70s in the forecast. Coming up next, reaction to tragedy in orlando. Coming up what witnesses and leaders are saying about the worst massive shooting in us history that has left at least 50 people dead. If you are planning to ride your bike in east bay you may run into a group of bicyclists who are writing for a good cause. Local police and firefighters and politicians participate in the by two bridges event, then a fishing benefiting special olympics. This is Sean Mapleton of the El Dorado Police department. It is a popular event in for a great cause. This is the seventh year for by two bridges for special olympics. It was started by Law Enforcement for hercules and martinez police. We have been joined by a multitude of agencies from richmond and the Sheriffs Department and martinez pd. It has grown into something special. Over 650 riders this year and so far we have raised 87,000 to benefit 19,000 special olympic athletes in northern california. Tell us about this. The writers writers are going over the bridgers. We have four right options in the routes include crossing the car canis bridge in the martinez bridge. A beautiful bike ride. You couldnt have picked a better day. It is good you have something for whatever level of writer writer. I dont know if you can even sign up. There is still ways for people to pretend that they want to help. If people want to donate go to the bridge ride. Com. They can enjoy microbrews today on tap for this afternoon to enjoy. We also have a catered barbecue available. I have been there before. It is a lot of fun and a Great Community gathering on the waterfront. Thank you very much. We appreciate you checking in. Thank you for your support. I remembering remember covering that when i first started. It is a perfect day to do it at a great opportunity to do it all and help special olympics. If you want more info, ktvu. Com. We have all the information or head to the waterfront. A deadly crash and the bay area. Where it happened and what police are looking into. After the break, we will talk about breaking news out of orlando where a gunman has killed at least 50 people and over 50 hospitalized. The latest with details coming up. Todays the day oh look creepy gloves for my feet. When i was a kid there was a handle. And a face. This is nice. Does it come in a california king . Getting roid rage. Hemorrhoid. These are the worst, right . Im gonna buy them. Boom. Ill take them. Impulse buy. Ommmmmmmmmmm. Presenting the American Express blue cash everyday card with cash back on purchases. Its all happening. And no annual fee. Here we go cash back on purchases. Backed by the service and security of American Express. And good morning. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Im frank somerville. And im claudine wong. We follow to this breaking news out of orlando. 50 people dead after a nightclub shooting. 50 more also injured. In the last hour, police say they have found most of the victims. What a chaotic scene inside the nightclub. Kristin captain is fly our news room and learning is in our news room and learning what may have an a motive what may have been a motive. 50 people have been shot. 50 more in the u. S. Hospital. Making this is the deadliest shooting in american history. Sources are now saying that omar mateen was on the radar of Law Enforcement but was not the target of a specific investigation. The incident attack happened when he especially entered the pulse nightclub and opened fire. Witnesses inside the club say there were as many as 320 people inside the club at the time. Police say mateen started shooting the victims with a handgun and assault style weapon. An off duty officer was working security and started firing at mateen. Mateen went back inside and barricaded himself and held people hostage for three hours. Its unknown how many 50 victims were shot in the initial attack and how many were shot during the standoff. After three hours, the decision was made by Orlando Police s. W. A. T. Members to storm the club and take out mateen. About 30 hostages were able to make it out once s. W. A. T. Members killed mateen and cleared the club. This is a popular gay and lesbian destination in orlando. The special agent charge in charge say he may have leanings towards radical islam. They are looking for possible terror ties. I think its more likely than not that it was attack. He doesnt have to have any association with a group but theres no coincidence that the attack place where and when it did. Theyre looking into ties with jihad terror groups. He was well organized and well prepared said police. We are waiting for another briefing in half an hour. This takes place as pride is taking place in the bay area. We learned that there will be a individual till tonight in San Francisco at the harvey milk plaza. We will continue what is going on there and bring you the latest developments. We are expecting more information in about an hour, hopefully more information about the possible motivation behind the suspect. Did we hear, are all of the victims out of the nightclub . They have been able to go in. The decedents are still there. All of those who needed to be transported have been transported to orlando Regional Medical center. Frank, you mentioned this earlier, the video coming out of orlando, astonishing. So many casualties that police were forced to use pickup trucks and literally load victims into the back of pickup trucks to try to get them medical attention as quickly as possible. The ambulances overwhelmed. There were so many victims at the time. We can only imagine the situation is the local hospitals. Christian, are you sensing it feels like were shifting a little bit. In the first hours when this was happening, they were trying to get a handle on the situation as we were trying to get more information about the shooter and what they learned in the threehour standoff with him and the hostages. At that point they needed to get in the club and attend to the people in there and kind of organize the scene. It feels like now that they have been able to get in there and get us numbers, now the investigation part, we can take a step back a little bit and figure out what went on here. Claudine, i think youre exactly right. I think this has switched from an emergency situation now to an investigation as to motivation, a look as to what may have been behind this attack. Find out where this gunman, if in fact he was radicalized, if it was overseas or domestically or selfradicalized. Try to find out if anybody else was involved. Authorities say it doesnt appear to have been anybody else involved inside the club. But were looking for anyone who might have known about this, trying to find out about the suspect. You have to feel for families who are calling their loved ones, calling the hospital to find out if they made it out okay. And of course the First Responders that went into that nightclub, i can only imagine. Thats right. Authorities have set up a series of hotlines for Family Members to get in contact down there. You can imagine its a logistical nightmare. They have set up a hotline essentially so Family Members can call in to try to find out who was injured, who was killed. At this time, it is a logistical nightmare trying to figure out how to get information out quickly and efficiently to those affected. The Ongoing Investigation into mateen to find out what his motivations may have been, where he may have been. All of that is still ongoing. I think what is raising all of the questions, why did he pick that nightclub . Why did he target it . They talked about it as being a soft target, not having as much security because theyre not expecting obviously Something Like this. I dont know who would. Right. But that pulse nightclub, 300 some odd people. It was latin night at the club. We know that. But the city where he is from is saint pt. Lucie. Its a good dissance at that way a good distance away from the nightclub. Yeah. What led him there. Hopefully were going to get more information. Certainly all of that under investigation. Why did he pick that particular location. Now that they have a name to associate with the suspect, they can really start investigate that and look into mateens background, look at his social media to see if he posted anything, if he left a manifesto behind or anything like that. All of that under investigation now that they have a name to attach to all of this. And talk to his family and figure out what was leading up to this. Thank you, christian. Well, it is a tragic event. It happened overnight. 50plus dead, 50plus are in the hospital as they try to put together why and how this all happened. Its a helpless feeling. This vigil tonight, you talk about it on social media, the prayers going out and let the Community Know that our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by this. Christian, thank you very much. Well, lets change gears a little bit. Lets talk about the weather, shall we some rosemary joins us on what looks like a nice sunday. Tough news today. But the weather looks good. Here at home we have good weather if you are out and about. We had a cooling trend that starts today and goes into the workweek. Here is a look outside. A little bit of fog returning. The low clouds up against the coastline for today with partly cloudy skies there. The rest of us will have sunshine. The on shore breeze is slowly coming back as well. Gusts at 31 Miles Per Hour. It has been blowing pretty strong like areas through fairfield through most of the morning. Concord at 13 and napa. As we get into the afternoon, it will continue with the westerly breeze expected today. Because of it, fairfield, one of the spots that is starting out cooler this morning. The rest of us up 4 to 6 around the bay. Santa rosa had a cool start to the day. Low 60s in napa. 65 in oakland. 64 in san jose. Now, with that on shore breeze and the low clouds coming back by the afternoon, we are expecting a bit of a cool down. 86 for antioch. Beautiful weather. We have upper 70s in san jose. 68 San Francisco. As you get into the north bay, 81 santa rosa. Yesterday they were in the mid 80s. Definitely going in the downward direction. Temperatures continue to cool. Monday and tuesday and bottoming out on wednesday. We will look at your extended forecast coming up. Thank you, rosemary. A deadly solo car accident happened in antioch and around 1 30 this morning. The driver of a white sedan was racing down the highway, lost control of the car. His car then flipped over and crashed into a freeway sign. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. No word on if alcohol or drugs may have played a role in the crash. 8 39. It is Graduation Day at stanford but it could be overshadowed by protests and people angry about the sentence given to brock turner. Protesters planning to speak out today. Lets take you live to the stadium. There we have some signs on the floor as they are getting ready. Stand together. I am with you. These protesters are asking a couple of things. They are asking people to stand in support with the victim in that case and they are also demanding that judge aaron persky be resolved. Theres been a lot of reaction coming out of this. People starting to gather. The District Attorney says why he believes the sentence is light, he doesnt believe that the sentence should be recalled. There is a lot going on out there. They have the signs out there and they have a flyover of a plane and taken out an ad in the newspaper. Hope. Ly making their presence known at commencement. A lot going on in san jose, not too far from there. San jose sharks, theres a lot riding on the game. The sharks are ready to host game 6 of the stanley cup final. If the penguins win tonight, its over. A victory by the sharks tonight would force an allimportant game 7 in the series with the winner claiming lord stanleys cup. The sharks havent said if the winger will be back in action after a lower body injury during game 2. We hope he can come back. Go sharks. Go sharks. Lets talk about the other championship contender preparing for game 5. The Golden State Warriors. There is video of them yesterday morning. They will host cleveland tomorrow night. The victory would give the warriors back to back championships. We should mention, somebody tweeted this yesterday, if you are going to oracle, if you are one of the lucky ones, keep in mind that the as are playing too. Give yourself time. Youre not going to want to miss a minute it was. Yeah. It will be a good 30,000, 40,000 people there. The rangers are in first place. Yes. Big monday night in oakland. Mom doesnt have to feel like a taxi driver anymore. Coming up, the new Ride Share Service developers and parents hopeful. Thats coming up. An epic discovery. We are going to live to tahoe where a new summer escape is opening up. They are promising fun for the whole family. We continue to follow breaking news out of orlando, florida this morning where police say 50 people are dead, including the gunman and 53 others have been injured. The gunman has been identified as 29yearold omar mateen. He is a u. S. Citizen and his parents are from afghanistan. He had an assaulttype rifle and a handgun when he opened fire inside a crowded nightclub in orlando overnight. The shooter was killed in a gun fight with a s. W. A. T. Team. We continue to follow this story out of orlando throughout the morning. When you talk about the chaos that erupted out of this, there were heartbreaking tweets. These two people that she knows were out safe. They just crawled out of the ac unit. Keep praying for them. One person tweeted out god is good. I made it out safe. Thank you for your prayers. You can feel the terror in the tweeter. The nightclub itself was tweeting run and keep running. Just get out. Can you imagine at 2 00 in the morning probably dark lights and music pumping and somebody starts shooting, you dont realize what is going on until its too late. Over 300 people were inside the nightclub. A third of them were either wounded or killed. You have to talk about the terror that they must have felt for the people who were stuck inside. You have the people who initially got out. Then there was a standoff with police for three hours where omar mateen was communicating with police. We hear thats how they got his name. It was released as quickly as it was this morning. But then whatever transpired in those three hours convinced them that they needed to just go in and end this. We do have a lot of people reacting. Of course we talked about the vigils tonight in San Francisco. You have Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi also reacting. We are horrified and heart broken to see such hate directed at people just wanting to spend a night out dancing. That is nancy pelosi out of San Francisco. President ial candidates have also been reacting this morning. So horrible. It makes you wonder, we are talking about gay pride week coming up in San Francisco. It will have a whole different tone, i would imagine. They have to be careful because of Something Like this. There is a lot of standing in solidarity. The governor tweeted out this morning. Everybody saying lets stand together against this hate and violence this morning. Very tragic. And we are expecting more information coming in. We are expecting another News Conference. Christian captain is in the news room and all of our News Team Keeping an eye on things as the information comes in. We talked about it was an emergency type feel earlier. Now it has turned to the investigation. Lets figure out how this worst mass shooting in our countrys history happened and why. He was born in the u. S. His parents are from afghanistan. Port st. Lucie to orlando is an our and a half to two hour trip. Its odd that he targeted a nightclub so far away. He hit a third of the people inside the nightclub. Devastating. We will continue of course to follow that for you throughout the morning and keep you updated. Lets get you over to weather now with rosemary on a sunday morning. Somber news day for sure. Hopefully a good day for you. It will be pleasant. We have the weather turning as well. We will cool down for sunday. Temperatures in the mid80s for some of our warmest locations. It will be cooler by the coast where the low clouds and the fog working back as i speak. Giving you a live look from San Francisco across the bay. A little tough to see. A little bit of drizzle. It looks like damp mist on the lens. Or its just dirty. Im not sure. In any event, we have the fog back with us this morning. And we are cooling it down as we get into your sunday, monday, tuesday and wednesday. The fog working from the south. So areas like monterey seeing it. It will continue to the north as we get into your afternoon today. The onshore breeze is coming back as well. It has to do with the system over Southern California that will be moving through, even bringing the possibility of thunderstorms to places like lake at that home of not a huge like lake at that home. Not a huge chance but it is a possibility. You will see the cloud coverage in that direction. We will have the temperatures cool down today. Monday, they continue to fall. Eventually were talking about low 70s for inland cities. It looks like by tuesday and wednesday. 71 already in walnut creek. 67 in concord. 63 in livermore. For most of us, its a warmer start to the day. 64 in hayward. 60 degrees San Francisco. Not feeling the cooldown yet. But as we get into the afternoon, we will see the turn around. Going over to north beach for the festival today. 60 degrees at 10 00 a. M. Mid 60s at noon time. And San Francisco topping out at 68 degrees today. We have the giants playing later. Expect the onshore breeze. It could be cool and brisk. 77 in vallejo. 76 in richmond. These numbers falling off 6, 8 degrees depending where you are. 73 in oakland. Low 70s to mid70s for the shoreline. Mid80s expected inland. South bay, a nice day. 79 in san jose. Yesterday san jose in the mid 80s. You will have your temperatures fall off anywhere from 4 to 6 degrees. 73 in san mateo for the afternoon. Theres your extended forecast. A cooling trend continuing monday. Tuesday and wednesday look to be the coolest days. Wednesday actually with the temperatures in the low 70s around the bay and inland. Then we begin a modest rebound on thursday. Next weekend looks warmer. For the short term, we have nice cool weather. Turn the acs off and enjoy it. Thank you, rosemary. You got it. Summer vacation has started. People looking for exciting things to do in beautiful places that can include some of our local ski resorts even though the lifts are closed. Joining us via skype is the lively spokesperson from the resort. He is here to tell us about the epic experience at lake tahoe. What is happening, coop. Reporter its a great start to the day. Somber news for you guys. Feel guilty being right here. A beautiful start up in lake tahoe. It was great on the lake this morning. We are launching a fun activity up here in lake tahoe. Thats epic discovery here at heavenly. During the wintertime we provide experiences of a lifetime. In the summertime, we take it to the next level where you can access the mountain via this gondola you learn about the ecosystem and how fragile it is and we have zip lines and a big mountain coaster. Its a really fun thing to do. We will launch ours on the 23rd. Nice. Coop, ive been up there. Ive actually done some of the activities. Activities. The rope course which is a lot of fun. On a serious note, we had this fantastic winter that we were hoping for, we didnt know if we would get. Weve had much more difficult winters. Theres a push to use the mountain all year round because sometimes winter isnt always what we hope it will be. Thats what were trying to do here. Make it a 365. So you can do activities up on the mountain 365 days a year. We also try to take these elements as well and run them during the wintertime. This year we still have a lot of snow at 9,000 feet by the way. Its not gone by any means. But its a way to have an activity on the mountain 365 days. Its just fun too. Especially for the kids. We have epic day discovery camps up there. Your kids can learn about the ecosystem and the animals. Really fun time. You have to come up and enjoy it for sure. And the view is not bad either, right . Reporter not at all. Its blue sky terrace. Mid station deck right there. You get yourself breakfast. We have to go. But quickly, i guess if youre a season pass holder youre in good shape to get on top of the mountain. It works even during the summer. Yes. For the activities, theres two passes. We have the adventure pass which is the ultimate adventure pass and the junior pass. So you can go up there and enjoy all of the great rides. Sounds great, coop. Thanks for joining us. Do you have a summer happy dance . You have a winter happy dance. Its the standup paddle. We will take it. He is ahead of all of us. He lives in tahoe. Thanks, coop. An l. A. Based startup similar to uber but geared towards kids has expanded here in the bay area. Its called hop, skip drive. And it is Offering Service in San Francisco, the east bay in San Francisco. Kids between 6 and 17 can use the service. The drivers must have five years of child Care Experience and go through extensive background checks. The mission is to manage Transportation Needs for families. A lot of moms and dads saying hello. A good idea. 8 55. Caught sleeping on the job. The surprising way that Virgin Airlines owner branson reacted after finding an employee taking a cat nap. Well, the u. S. Mens soccer team has punched their ticket to the next round. This is all they needed. There it goes. In the 27th minute. Clint connects with that cross, sliding that ball right on in there. Making it 1nil, usa. The semi quarter game is this thursday and they will take on brazil or peru. Most of us have imagined sneaking in a nap while at work but one employee probably never managed he would get caught by the owner richard branson. Look at this. This is great. Branson posted this on his blog site after a visit to the city airport. Branson said the worker went right back to sleep after a surprising wakeup call but admits that the employee was on standby getting much needed rest. Now he is all over social media. On a very serious note this morning at 8 58 it is now the worst mass shooting in u. S. History. Domestic terrorism is suspected in this attack on the nightclub in orlando, florida. We know at this point that 50 people have died. Dozens others are hurt. And the latest on the shooting and why officials believe the club was targeted. That is coming up in two minutes. Stay with us. Tonight our community experienced a very horrific crime. Many lives were lost and many more individuals were impacted by witnessing the crime. Many were saved however by the heroic efforts of the men and women of opd. And we begin with that breaking news out of orlando, florida this morning where 50 people have been shot to death at a nightclub overnight. The mayor of orlando says there are dozens more people hospitalized after this Early Morning attack. Just a frightening and devastating situation out in florida. Welcome to morning on 2. It is sunday, june 12th. Im claudine wong. And im frank somerville. Its been called the deadliest domestic attack on u. S. Soil. And investigators are looking for a motive. Christian captain has been getting details all morning long and joins us live in the news room with the latest. Christian. A News Conference with bill nelson just wrapped up and said there could be an isis connection to the shooting. The suspect had pledged his allegiance to isis. Again that suspects name is omar mateen. Sources say he was on the radar of Law Enforcement, but that he was not the target of a specific investigation. Investigators have now had a chance to go through the club where 50 people were shot and killed. Investigators also say that more than 50 other people are in area hospitals, making this the deadliest shooting in u. S. History. It started shortly after 4 00 florida time when he began opening fire in the nightclub. Inside the club there was as many as 320 people. The suspect started shooting his victims with a handgun and assault style weapon. An off duty officer was working security and exchanged gunfire with the suspect. The suspect then went back inside and held dozens of people hostage for hours. Its unknown how many people were shot in the initial attack and how many were shot during the standoff. After about three hours, a decision made by Orlando Police s. W. A. T. Members to storm the club and take out mateen. Police say now about 30 hostages were able to make it out of the club once s. W. A. T. Members killed mateen and cleared that club. As to a possible motive, the pulse nightclub is a popular gay and lesbian destination in orlando. The fbi special agent in charge says that mateen may have ties to terrorist groups. Investigators say that mateen was organized and well prepared for this shooting. Now, we are expecting more information and a briefing on this in about an hour. Again, investigators saying that the shooting happened after that the officers made the decision to go in and storm that club after about three hours of a standoff. They were dealing with a hostage situation. So, you know, in that in that time, we need to set up, reevaluate, reassess what is happening, and make sure that all of the pieces are in place. We have enough staffing to take care of any situation. We have our vehicles that come to the scene. And those were crucial in the rescue of those hostages. Now, again, we just learned that the president is expected to speak at about 10 30 this morning. We are also expecting a News Conference from governor rick scott about this. With anyone with information about the suspect to come forward with what they know. They are looking for any information to determine what the motivation may be and find out if anybody else may possibly have been involved in this horrible, horrible incident. Its just terrible, christian. Its hard to wrap your mind around really all the different aspects of this investigation as theyre trying to work their way in and as we wait for more information from authorities. Theres nothing that they said that indicates why they decided to end it when they did. The new number saying 30 people made it out, we dont know how many people. Again, thats the big question. That would be a motivating factor. If they knew there were 30 hostages still inside. We know that hostages were inside. They were texting and calling out to investigators, to Police Officers, calling out to Family Members, texting Family Members, letting them know they were still inside the club. Certainly that would be a strong motivating factor for orlando plus to go in and take out the suspect, rather than wait for a different outcome or try to negotiate with him. Crucial three hours there too. Because the number of victims, some dead, some not dead inside that club. They needed to get them out. Thats one of the questions that has been raised. Why wait three hours. Why did it wait three hours to go in and storm the club . And florida orlandos police chief says it takes that long to rally the equipment necessary. They needed to get s. W. A. T. Teams in place. They needed to get material in place, special vehicles in place. They needed to bring robots in so they could try to breach as safely as possible. The threehour window under scrutiny. Questions why they waited three hours. The police chief saying it take thats long or it takes some amount of time to organize the massive effort to try to get in there and get him out. We talked about there are chilling accounts on social media when people talk about getting out by airconditioning units. Theres one from a woman who says she was outside trying to contact her 30yearold son inside and he was texting her said he is coming. And then next text said he has us and he is in here with us. And so it sounds you know, if you take that, it sounds like he may have been rounding people within the nightclub which is just terrifying for those inside. We have heard reports of dozens of victims trying to make it out through one door. Again, we need to get a better idea of what exactly the layout of the club was. One of the exits may have been the size of a cupboard. Dozens of people trying to fit through there as quickly as possible, trying to get out of pulse in orlando. Christian, we understand hospitals are asking for Blood Donations as they must be overwhelmed, like a triage situation. And floridians really rallying. There are lines outside. We have been monitoring the video from florida and we can see long lines of people standing outside Blood Donation centers. They are looking for type o, the universal blood type. They can taking whatever they can. You can imagine the trauma sustained by the victims is tremendous. They need as much blood in florida as possible. We talk about how people here can help. Thats what people feel i think when Something Like this happens across the country. We feel this sense of helplessness because we want to do what we can to make a difference. You talk about the vigil being held tonight at 8 00. We have pride, you know, in two weeks. That is something to keep in mind, a possible motivating factor. This is pride month. As pride related events in florida getting underway. Pride related events in the bay area. A sense of community here. Thats one of the reasons why were going to see that vigil set for tonight at harry milk harvey milk plaza in an fran. Port st. Lucie is an hour and a half, two hours from orlando. Why did he pick that place . The length that he went to to target that nightclub. Were hoping to get a better idea of that. The next News Conference is set to take place in just about 22 minutes or so. So were hoping to get more clarification on perhaps why he chose to come to orlando, why he picked that particular location. All of this a very fluid investigation at this time. So information is coming out. And, again, we have to be very careful about which information we choose to air. Information coming out in the course of the investigation may later prove to be false, not through any not through any fault of Law Enforcement. Certainly. Its developing so quickly. Were trying to get that information out to people as quickly as possible. But certainly a lot of questions. Hoping to get more answers in about 20, 21 minutes. So we have another update coming up with Law Enforcement down there, you said . Right. Another another Law Enforcement News Conference will happen in about 20 minutes. Keep in mind, these have been delayed as the situation develops. This is a very fluid time. So it takes time for them to figure out. And they want to make sure that they can get the latest information out as quickly as possible. Youre talking about different agencies. Youve got the local police, youve got the sheriff, youve got the fbi. I think, christian, now were going to go to a live picture from the scene with an update from the fox network on what is happening down in orlando. Lets listen in. It is remarkable to think that one person could kill so many people in such a short period of time of time. Yeah. Anita, of course this morning lots of suggestions about radical islamic terrorism as a motive. A hate crime being a motive. A tragic sad nexus of both of those coming together with him targeting the gay nightclub, maybe a hatred of homosexuals. Do we know anything else about what drove him to commit this horrific, offensive act . Eric, were still waiting to get confirmation on that. This morning officials alluded to some type of radical islam and they walked that statement back a little bit. Then just a little while ago we heard from florida senator bill nelson who said he had spoken to members of congress on the intelligence staff and that perhaps there was some connection to radical islam. So were hearing a lot about that this morning. Not too many details about exactly what that tie might be. Of course we did also hear from mateens father this morning. He spoke to other members of the media. And he told them, as you mentioned earlier, that his son was bothered or angered by seeing two men kissing in florida. That bothered him and that perhaps that set him off into this known gay nightclub last night. That perhaps that could be the motive. Of course, eric, were collecting facts this morning. Were working on it. Whenever we have something new, we will bring it to you. We will probably learn more as the days unfold over the reports that mateen was part of some type of terrorist investigation by the fbi. Two different ones. One in 2013 and one more recently that were apparently closed. That information clearly likely to come out in the coming days. Orlando Police Say Nine s. W. A. T. Team members stormed the nightclub after a tense three hour standoff killing the gunman in a fierce gun fight and one of the officers was injured when a bullet struck his helmet. For more on the investigation, lets bring in michael solomon. He is a former Intelligence Officer with the u. S. State department. Mr. Solomon, lets start about what the investigators on the ground there are looking for in terms of collecting physical evidence, you know, gun shells, et cetera. What are they looking for right now . Good morning. First of all, my prayers and my heart goes out to the families and the victims. Its an amazing horrific act. What they are doing right now is gathering any evidence that they can. Its inconceivable that one person with one ar15 can do this but it can happen. Theyre going around and looking for everything. Theyre going to try to trace anything that they can to indicate it. Most probably this morning theyre looking for all of the ammunition and the shell casings lying around to see possibly what his path of action was when he came into the premise. Thats probably what is happening right off. But first and foremost thing that the Police Department does is they want to take care of the victims and get them secure and get them out of there and to medical help the first thing. Thats the first thing that has to be done. We have to look at what the cause of all of this violence is down the road. Until we identify it, until we call it what it is, whether its radical terrorism or home grown, its terrorism in the sense. Many networks dont want to say terrorism. They use t. Its terrorism. Lets call it what it is. And senator bill nelson had contact with the congressional intelligence staff saying omar mateen had terrorist connections. Knowing that mateen was on the fbis radar not once but twice, many people are asking how and why. How does a guy who is trained trained Security Officer with a statewide firearms license category g which gives him far more leeway with that gun in terms of carrying it and where he can carry it, how does this man slip into a nightclub at 2 00 in the morning and snuff out 50 lives in. Political correctness triumphs once again. There are questions that you cant ask of potential employees. You cant ask questions about peoples medical records, whether they are in a psychotic ward or not or mentally unstable. Thats the problem today. We have to get back and stop being politically correct. We have to learn to treat people as what they are. If theyre radicalized and on a watch list you know, in the 50s, we picked up communists because they said they were communists. We were picking up nazis under the fdr administration. We have to get back to it. All of this political correct stuff didnt occur until after 9 11. Theyre demanding politically correct prayer rooms in airports. We have to learn to start looking at things differently. Sure. Sir, your point is well taken, very well understood. I do want to find out before i let you go if you could give us an idea of how this investigation is going to move forward. We do know it has been reported that there are some ties to terror rale cad islamic terrorism. What happens now . We know he was born in new york. He is a u. S. Citizen. His parents are from afghanistan. He has a wife. He is 29 years old. Omar mateen. He is born in 1986. This year he will turn 30. How do investigators find out going about if there are connections. Perhaps in another country to this mateen person. They are going to have to investigate everything from his social media accounts all the way through. They can go back and look at the internet and they can go back and find the ip addresses and see where they have originated from, any messages he might have sent out or received coming from and try to interpret those and try to find if there are ties there. Its no different than taking a dna sample at a murder scene and finding somebody. We can do it electronically today. Social media has been the vehicle they have been using all these years. And its amazing. And now we want to give the now congress has a bill in front of it to turn over the internet to the control of the united nations. What is that going to do to it down the flood what kind of investigative rules are we going to have when we cant get certain information. Michael solomon. Go ahead and finish your thoughts. I just want to say that we have to realize what is going down here. This is realize were at war. It main be a war with an army and a uniform. But we are at war. War has been declared on the United States and anyone not a muslim. That is coming right out of the quran. That is from michael solomon. Former Intelligence Officer. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Have a great day. And we will continue our coverage of this horrendous crime that is another attack against our country, our way of life, the massacre in paris. 89 dead. Overnight in our country, 50. 50 folks are out on a saturday night just having a good time in downtown, orlando. Now, 53 are wounded. Many of them in Critical Condition fighting for their lives at this moment in what is being investigated as a domestic terror attack. Coming up, we will hear more gripping and heart felt witness accounts of what they saw when this happened. You turn around and the person next to you is screaming. Theres blood splattering. Welcome back, everybody. We continue to follow breaking news in florida. The massacre at the orlando nightclub that claimed 50 lives is the worst mass shooting in u. S. History. At least 50 people were killed. And then you have another 50 or so injured. The gunman has been identified as 29yearold omar mateen. Were still getting some information about him. We know that he actually lived about an hour and a half north of where this shooting actually happened. Officials say he is a u. S. Citizen. His parents are from afghanistan. They are looking into possible ties to jihaddist terror groups. They say he was organized and we will prepared. And Officials Say he is a u. S. Citizen. His parents are from afghanistan and live here in the states. Police say he had an assault type rifle and a handgun when he opened fire inside a crowded nightclub. I saw one report that said all the victims were shot with that Assault Rifle. President obama is expected to make a statement on the tragedy in orlando in about one hour. And we will bring that live to you here at ktvu. In the meantime, you know, we talk about the social media. They talked about all of the people who texted and reacted from inside. Here is a chilling tweet from someone. I cant explain what happened. I was there with a nurse for her birthday. She got hit in the shoulder. We ran out back. We know now that of course the people who did get out safely very lucky. This is a tweet that we statement we just got from San Francisco mayor ed lee. Yeah. And it states n is a stark reminder of the violence that still threatens our lgbt community. Senseless acts of violence against innocence fueled by hate and deadly access to firearms has become too frequent. Gay pride starts in a couple of weeks. Yeah. In San Francisco. Were going to follow this. And we will have more when we come back. Local Law Enforcement will be swift in their justice. We have great Law Enforcement in our state. Theyre always going to do the right thing. We i declared a state of emergency for orange county. Were going to provide all of the resources that anyone needs. But i can tell you that everybody is going to work together. And thats one thing great about our state, orlando, orange county. I want to thank all of the federal agencies for their support. Our hearts and prayers go out to everyone impacted. I cant imagine a Family Member waiting to find out what happened to their loved one. It has to be heart wrenching. I know the state attorney wants to stay something. Thank you. I just wanted to thank the governor for coming down to join us. This is a terrible, terrible evil act. As a father of seven, i called and checked on some of my kids this morning to make sure they were okay. Were doing everything that we can. Law enforcement is working well together. Our victim advocates are helping out to help with families. I encourage everyone as i did my staff to please donate blood. Were going to need a lot of it. I want to thank the local Law Enforcement officers for the amazing job they have been doing. We will be glad to take questions. Excuse me for just a second. Law enforcement has already said the mayors have said when they will have another press conference. There are a lot of unanswered questions. At that time, they will be able to answer some questions. Was the suspect someone on your radar . I know theres a later press conference. Law enforcement will answer all of those questions. This is clearly an act of terror. This is you just cant imagine this would happen to our community, our state, or anywhere in our country. For somebody to go in there and be an active shooter and take those that number of lives any life, but that number of lives and injure that many people, it clearly is an act of terror. Right now we are this is the time to find out exactly what happened, the time to pray for those who have been that have lost the families that have lost lives. Pray for the victims. There will be plenty to deal with how the Society Comes together. I can tell you, the orlando area, orange county, the state of florida, were very resilient. We will come together and do everything that we can to help everybody impacted but also bring the Community Back together again. I have not talked to him yet. What does that mean for the families of the victims. We declared a state of emergency to make sure that all of the resources necessary for the city and the county would be necessary anything that is needed from the state is available immediately. The head of Law Enforcement is the coordinating officer. We with you worked with the mayors and the sheriffs and the Police Chiefs to make sure that they have all of the resources they need. Law enforcement will answer all of those questions. They are having another press conference at 1 30. Do you know how many families have been contacted at this point this. I know this at this point . I know they are working hard to reach every Family Member and also they have victim the state attorney said they are taking care of all of these families. You cant even imagine. I have daughters, i have grandchildren. I cant imagine this happening to my family. Its devastating. You know, you dont want this to happen anywhere in the world. Okay. But i can tell you Law Enforcement, our elected officials, the mayors, the at the state level, we hope this never happens. Its devastating when you see you know, when you see how many people lost their life and the impact it will have on their families. I mean, ive got kids and grand kids. You cant imagine. We will meet with the families at the appropriate time. Look what theyre going through right now. [unintelligible question] i think i understand that has been resolved. Is there anything that you can do to stop Something Like this . Look, were deal withing a tragedy right now. Our prayers go out to everybody impacted. Law enforcement is doing their job. There will be plenty of time to think about how do we make you know, continue to improve our society. We will continue to work on how to do that. Were a resilient state. Ill answer you one hipaa question. The ceo of the hospital came to me and said they had an issue related to the families who had come to the ergency room because of hipaa regulations. They could not give them any information. I reached out to the white house to see if we could get the hipaa regulations waived. The white house responded through appropriate channels to waive those so that the hospital could communicate with the families that were there. I dont know. I think the majority of them have been. We have not identified the victims that are still in the nightclub. But i believe that the ones who have been transported to the hospital and are deceased have been identified. Thank you. I have spoken with the president , the governor. The everybody has lent their support to this. The president offered any resources that the federal government could possibly provide. The fbi has just been tremendous. The fdle has been tremendous. We have no complaints about our state partners and federal partners and their help. Thank you. Well, the waiving of the hipaa laws so that the doctors and Health Care Personnel can communicate with Family Members was probably the most important. But weve got on the ground what we need from the federal government right now which is the fbi and all of their resources and the coordination with fdle and opd. Theres not much more that i can ask of them. They were here immediately in response. They have done a lot of research into the shooter. They will be prepared, i think, to update you on at the next press conference, probably around 2 00. Thank you. Thank you. I am state senator jeraldine thompson. And pulse nightclub is in the Senate District that i represent. I just had an opportunity to speak to the governor about the state of emergency that he has declared and to thank him for making sure that the resources that are needed come into this community. And we know that there are people donating blood. While they are making that sacrifice, were calling on the community to support them by providing water, providing food. And the governor and i are going to have a serious discussion about reform. Because the families not only lost members of their family to this tragedy, but they lost a feeling of safety. And so when we talk about safety, we have to talk about how guns come into the hands of violent and unstable people. How is it that assault weapons that are used in military operations get into the hands of a single individual . And how is it that magazines of weapons and bullets that are usually used in military combat come into our communities . So we cant feel safe until we address those issues. Those are some of the things that i will be talking to the governor about. Every time we have one of those mass shootings, we talk about reform. But nothing is done. This has brought it home to our doorstep. As i said, im going to be talking with the governor about what we can do with regard to some of our laws. We have people who guy guns at gun shows and they are not required to have background checks. They can buy guns from private individuals and theyre not required to have background checks. So these are some of the kinds of things that can be put in place. And i am heart broken for the victims. Im heart broken for their families. I want their families to know that we are working to address this problem. So hopefully we wont see this as something that is routine that happens in our communities time and time again. And you have been listening there that was Florida State senator jeraldine expressing deep concern for the families and appearing exhausted that another mass shooting has taken place on our soil here in the United States of america. And before that, we had orlando mayor buddy dyer at the mic. And also before that, governor rick scott was addressing the crowd there, the reporters there. The main thing that buddy dyer said, they have waived the hipaa laws so doctors and families can communicate freely. And it struck me that governor rick scott, he made it quite personal, eric. I felt he came there first of all to let everybody there know that their leader is there with them. You are not alone through this. We will cooperate with all of the levels of authority necessary. And he made sure that there is he declared a state of emergency so that everyone can get all necessary tools to complete this investigation, to find why this happened, how this happened. But mostly it struck me that he made a very personal made it personal to himself. And just to let everybody know that he was there with them. That is what struck me when he got to the podium, almost breaking down at one point, governor rick scott. Think about the families. Thinking about showing up at the hospital when you havent heard from your daughter or son all night and the hospital officials cant tell you anything about it because of the hipaa laws, the privacy law. This has been a situation with parents and cole he cans for years. Theres been legislation to try to change that. Those being attend today by the physicians at the hospital can share the information with them now. At the same time were learning the stark and horrendous site of the pulse nightclub right now. Some Family Members clearly not having heard from their loved ones, from their sons, daughters, brothers, sisters at this hour. So many hours after this happened. Because of those questions, i think its very crucial that the hipaa laws have been waived so the doctors can communicate with the families freely. This is of course an Ongoing Investigation. We are going to continue this coverage here on fox news channel. Were going to bring you the very latest up to the minute. Stay right here. As we have been reporting, this is now the worst mass shooting in our history. This time an alleged radical islamic terrorism from the gunman, identified as 29year old omar mateen. He is from port st. Lucie, florida. He was investigated by the fbi twice in 2013 and 2014. But those investigations apparently closed. We will likely hear more about those when federal authorities address the media later this afternoon. He struck at the pulse nightclub, which is a popular gay nightclub in downtown orlando. And our next best has been following this since this morning. Joe kelly is a morning news host of orlandos morning news on wbbo, the main news station in orlando on the road. Joe, first, our condolences and prayers are with you and with your city all over the city right now. The dimensions of what happened overnight, can you start in what we know in terms of the timeline. At 2 02, orlando, you have off Duty Police Officers who work security at these events. There was an offduty Police Officer who started to Exchange Gunfire with the suspect. Yeah. It happened the first call came in at 2 02 a. M. And maybe by coincidence, maybe not. But we have just wrapped up the annual gay days celebration in orlando. And its often, you know, something that is witnessed and seen and talked a lot about at the theme parks. But it also happens in the communities and in some of the nightclubs. And pulse is a gay nightclub. And on top of that, its a puerto rican cultural weekend. It was a latinothemed party last night. A very international crowd. And the man comes into the club with what is the Police Describe as a long rifle, something along the lines of an ar15 and a handgun. And he is seen by an Orlando Police officer. Whether that was onduty or off duty officer, were not entirely clear on that. Either way, the officer engages in gunfire with the gunman. That was at 2 02. Eric, it wasnt until 5 00 a. M. That the orlando s. W. A. T. Teams entered the building and put an end to what ended up being a hostage situation. So for about three hours, the gunman was holding about 30 people hostage inside that building. Obviously theres a lot of confusion. Like in paris, when you hear shots, you dont know what is going on. It could be part of the show. Not clear what it is. A mother says that her son was tweeting and texting her mother saying he is coming. He went into the bathroom and they were in the bathroom and he texted his mother, quote, he has us. He is in here with us. Sadly we dont know at this moment, at this hour what happened with eddie and those who were in the bathroom. So, joe, apparently he goes into the bathroom where he is holding hostages. What did police do then and why did this continue for three hours . They were having discussions and some communication with police. What can you tell us about regarding that. The next briefing will be after the president makes his statement at the white house. Were hoping to find out what went on during the threehour standoff. We were told early on let me rephrase that. We werent told early on that there were any deaths. So we dont know if all of those 50 people who were killed were killed before the 2 00 a. M. Call or if they were killed during the hostage standoff. So there obviously will be a lot of questions that have to be answered. And the police themselves may not know the answers to these questions just yet. This is going to take a long time. Not only for the investigation, the suspect and the motives and any potential ties to terrorist activities and groups, but clearly how this went down last night. Weve all been to orlando. Walt disney world, universal, you know, the whole downtown area is pulseiating and live pulsati pulsating and lively. This is not the community that i know, this shooting incident. The community that i know is what is happening right now. That is there are literally hundreds of people lining up at dozens of Blood Donation centers. So much so that have been lining up to donate blood for those who have been wounded and are in the hospital right now that a secondary has now gone out for people to help those who are standing in line to donate blood. So theres a call out now for water and for chairs and for umbrellas. Its hot today. Its sunny. Its 90 degrees. Theres a call out for additional food to be brought in for those donating blood. Its really a spectacular uprising and people gathering together and getting to the. And its not exclusive to any one community. Yes, it happened at a gay nightclub. But gay and straight and christian and muslim and jewish, i mean, everybody is getting together and banding together as a community to help out in the aftermath of this dreadful criminal act. And finally, joe, omar mateen apparently had to drive 125 miles from the coast from port st. Lucie. Why do you think he picked this nightclub . Is it widely known . Most widely known as a gay nightclub. One of the owners i understand has been very active in the movement, in this sort of thing. Is it, you know, the center in orlando . A beacon . Is that why, do you think . Well, just like i would suppose with straight nightclubs, there are some gay nightclubs in really nice upscale communities and there are seedy gay nightclubs in disreputable communities. Of the two, the pulse was in a nice community. It has nice houses and businesses and nice restaurants. I cannot imagine what in a million years would have brought him specifically to this club at this time to commit this criminal act, other than maybe he was drawn here by gay days, which is, again, its highly publicized that the gay days is in orlando, florida. Not only to people from around the state but people around the world come here to celebrate in orlando. His father said that he was angered at seeing two men kissing in miami a few weeks ago. His father claiming this does not have anything to do with religion. Joe kelly, we thank you for joining us. Again, our heart felt condolences. I know thoughts and prayers from every american around the country. This is an attack not just those in the nightclub last night, against orlando or florida but against our values, freedoms and what we mean as americans. This is another attack against us. Joe, thank you. Thank you, eric. Thank you, joe. And as Law Enforcement sifts through the aftermath of the mass shooting in orlando, hospitals are in high gear. Theyre treating 53 people who were wounded in this horrible attack. Hundreds of people are lining up to donate blood. You have heard the plea to donate blood. That would be very helpful because there they are in the Trauma Center. I think i want to start there with you, doctor. You are a surgeon. What is happening in those surgical those surgery rooms there . What is happening is you are getting a lot of triage calls from what is going on on the ground. And the paramedics have a Critical Role to find out and tell us what kind of injuries were looking for. Obviously this is in a nightclub. Youre talking about gunshot wounds that is done in a short space of the nightclub. Youre looking at high velocity, penetrating injuries so you could have a lot of vascular injuries. So we are waiting in the hospital, the entire trauma booth. And the backup team is always there. The difference between level one trauma hospital and regular hospitals is you have inhouse 24hour surgeons available. The scope of this is beyond any other hospital that can take care of this. Vascular surgeons are on the way. And everybody basically get them, triage them. Blood products is vital because one case one of these cases if they have gotten any of the vessels, you may go through 30, 40 units of blood. Any major vessels of lower extremities. Sometimes we go through the cases and you go through many products. Frozen plasma, blood. If people can donate, thats the most critical thing to do. Dr. Segal, you were an er doctor for years. You saw this firsthand. Tell us what happens. You make sure that its clean blood. Walk us through what happens. First of all there is something called the golden hour. Continues always an hour but its the amount of time that you have from when you get hit by a bullet and get stablized in an emergency room. We call it an hour. If its an Assault Rifle, much worse with Assault Rifles. People usually dont survive that because the bullet fragments. Velocity is the key issue. Once it fragments, you have to follow all of the paths. The liver can be damaged and the spleen can explode. As david was saying, the number one thing that you have to do is think about severe blood loss. In the field once you stablize the airway, you get them to the emergency room and you try to get fluid and blood into them. Sometimes you have to drill down to the bone to get fluid in. You try to get blood as fast as we can. We have five litters of blood in our bod i if you lose more than two and that can happen rapidly in a situation like this, you go into what is called shock. You go into shock. And then it becomes hard to bring you back. On the scene you apply tourniquets. You dont always take the bullet out. You try to stop the bleeding. I think the key is the time. Time is of the essence. What happens is there are 10 to 12 people, whether respiratory, emergency room doctors, trauma surgeons, we are at the booth waiting for it. We are getting calls from the paramedics, saying we have someone not with great vital signs, we are bleeding. So we are calling for blood. Somebody else may have a fracture because they have been running so they can go to a different room. The entire process of the hospital shuts down. There will be no elective surgeries. The cat scan machines which usually is two or three of them have to be freed up. As far as the xray team and the cleaning people. Because when you get the patient out of the trauma, that room has to turn over within a minute or two because another patient has to go in. What is interesting about this kind of trauma, the entire team works like an orchestra. Meaning that everybody has to, would. Usually they rip all of the clothes off to look at the entry of the bullet wound. They look at the exit. If somebody is not stable, you get the control of the airway, which is important to intubate a patient. The operating room is ready, the surgery goes, and the next patient comes in. He is talking about triaging. Somebody gets shot in the leg. You can stablize them. But get to the people who are shot in the chest. Get the lung back up. If theyre shot in the abdomen, those are the people who need emergency surgeries. So hospitals are expert at that triaging. The other factor is psychological. You referred to that before we came on. Theyre waiving hipaa laws. People are coming forward with information. There is a mass gathering of people. You have to be calm in these settings and with any victim of a gunshot wound. I think what really happens is all of the hospitals this is very interesting. A lot of times the hospitals work a little different. This is a time that theres a central communication going on between the police, with the firemen, with the triage and all of the hospitals. And once one hospital is maxed out and you cant take care of it, the overflow goes to the secondary. This is when not only spiritually but the strength of american doctors and surgeons and hospitals come together to save. This is a lot of casualties. 50 deaths. And the numbers will escalate over the next two hours, this is a lot of work. It doesnt matter if youre a urologist or a vascular surgeon, you have to be involved to push the patients and everybody will come together. Thats really, really the key in a given crisis like this. One more point, this is orlando Regional Medical center. Number one, the front lines of this, the only number one Trauma Center in the Central Florida region. That has been said by you and the reporters. That is hugely important. Because there is nothing that theyre not equip today handle in terms of a gunshot wound. That is good news to hear. Thank you, doctors, for your expertise. Thank you. And a fox news alert for you as we continue to cover this massacre there in orlando. Police confirming 50 people were killed. 53 others wounded. And were also learning the gunman was armed with an Assault Rifle and a handgun. He was killed in a shootout with the police. And now investigators are focusing on his possible ties to terrorism. Steve harrigan is following this story in orlando. Steve, what is the latest on the ground . From where im standing 234 front of this Trauma Center where most victims have been brought. It started with a shootout between one shooter and one Police Officer at the pulse nightclub. It was latin night at the pulse nightclub. About 320 people inside of that gay nightclub. Those shots shots were exchanged and three hours later, a s. W. A. T. Team breached the door of that nightclub and rescued at least 30 hostages. As far as the shooter goes, he is a 29yearold man. U. S. Citizen. Parents from afghanistan. His name is omar mateen. 50 People Killed. 53 wounded. Many severely wounded. They have been brought to the Trauma Center behind me. Many of the relatives who were gathered at one hotel for news are in the agonizing position now not knowing if their relatives are dead or alive and they are searching and waiting for some kind of news. We just spoke to a man who is still looking for his brother. Here is what he had to say. He said he was in the club with three of his friends and he made it out okay and they lost him. They dont know where hes at. Im trying get information from the hospital or somewhere. He told us hes been calling his brothers cell phone since the Early Morning hours. Its been ringing and ringing. Suddenly that cell phone no longer ringing. A lot of people in a real position of agonizing, uncertainty here. Surgeries behind me have been going on all morning. They brought in six trauma surgeons here. The blood line is now blocks the blood line is blocks long. People trying to do what they can to help. Of course people will come together as a community, steve. Speaking of that, we got that same sense of community in paris. You were there at the paris terror attacks, covering that. Does this feel similar to you now that youre hearing orlando covering another horrific mass gun shooting . Reporter a couple of similarities poke right out. Its a soft target. In paris it was the theater. People listening to a band. Here, its a soft target. A nightclub. Young people inside. The second thing that stands out is just the brutality. In paris, it was innocent people out for a night. Simply gunned down with automatic rifle fire slaughtered. Here it is the same thing. The hard brutality of slaughtering young people. This time not in paris, in orlando. Very sobering. Thank you. Authorities now investigating the influence and possibility of radical islamic terrorism. As weve been reporting, omar mateen was part of an investigation back in 2013 and 2014 according to the daily beast. There was a terrorism investigation. Those cases are now closed. This happened before in paris, brussels, kenya. Can it be stopped . President of the American Islamic forum for democracy, author of the battle for the soul of islam. Thank you so much for joining us today. Americans all over the country right now are asking how does your religion, how can you stop this perversion, the ideology of terrorism that has struck this country since 1990. Eric, my prayers and especially in this month of ramadan are with the victims, with the family, with orlando and with our country. Words cant express every time this happens we keep telling ourselves at what point are we muslims going to look in the mirror and declare war on what has been declared war in america. This is not extremism. It is not lone wolf. I beg you to stop using that term. This is political islam. It has its different shapes. It attacks free speech. It attacks free secular countries. We saw it with Charlie Hebdo and now we need to stop the denial. Muslims need to be part of it. We cant get past it without real reform to get out of the 13th century and we need to have they said this individual declared allegiance to isis as he was being shot by the Police Officers. That allegiance is the enemy. We need to fight if were going to win this. We havent heard that confirmed yet. But that will come up with the investigations. You have a good point. A few hours ago in florida, they brought in a local eman with good intentions. He said that no one could have predicted this. It should not be sensationalized. Its happened in paris and San Bernardino. This is just the latest attack. I know he called on muslims to help police, et cetera. But they almost talk about this as if theyre bystanders and they have no idea how this would happen. In chattanooga, the killer, the terrorist declared that he wanted to establish islam days before the attack. San bernardino, they were part of the jihaddist school. We should realize that we need to be countering the ideology before they become extreme. And im sorry im not seeing enough anger from the Muslim Community about the ideology. In this month of atonement, we should be looking in the mirror to say what is it about the idea thats we harbor with us in the countries we live in. This radical clearly divided the world into the land of islam and the land of war and he believed gay bars, et cetera, are not part of iran or saudi arabia where muslims are supreme. He wanted to establish that here. We need to declare war on that intolerance and hate. The extremists have declared war on us and our values and our freedoms and what we represent. And they have been doing that for a generation now. And sadly it will continue. Thank you so much for your analysis and insight today. Thank you. Eric, were awaiting remarks from president obama on the shooting. Were expecting the president at 1 30 eastern time. Do we have any idea exactly what the president might say, kristin . President obama should be speaking at this podium in the White House Briefing room in about 30 minutes. This is where he spoke after sandy hook. This is where he spoke after the Charleston Church shootings. And this is where he will speak today after what is now the worst mass shooting in u. S. History. Now, the president was briefed this morning about what happened in orlando. He was briefed by his assistant. The white house released its first statement. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and the victims. The president asked to receive updates as they gather more information and directed that the government provide any assistance necessary to pursue the investigation and support the community. Now, Vice President joe biden has also been briefed. He was actually scheduled already scheduled to be traveling tonight to florida for a private fundraiser with debbie wasserman, the chair women of the national committee. The Vice President has canceled that event. He will be staying in washington and so will Homeland Security secretary. He was supposed to be traveling to china for talks about Cyber Security issues. It has just been announced that he too will be staying in washington. Thank you, kristin fisher. Again, we are waiting for president obama to address the nation at 1 30 eastern time as we cover this horrific story here coming out of orlando, florida. The pulse gay nightclub there. 50 People Killed. 53 people wounded. The deadliest shooting on u. S. Soil in modern history. So many questions continuing right now. Whether it was was indeed radical islamic terrorism that motivated him l it was hatred of gays or a combination thereof. All of this part of the investigation. Sadly the latest mass shooting with the leanings of islamic terrorism at its heart