Shattered and an entire country in mourning today, monday, june 13th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today, terror in orlando. With matt lauer live from orlando and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a. Good morning. A very somber monday morning. Im matt lauer here in orlando. Savannah, as you can see, is back in studio 1a. Were awaiting a News Conference from city and Law Enforcement officials here in orlando. Well bring you that live when it begins. Savannah, the scene behind me, the pulse nightclub, just a cub hundred yards down the street on the right. That is where the worst mass shooting took place on the very Early Morning hours on sunday morning. And it must be a community that is just in shock, matt. Its almost too much to bear. 50 people killed. 53 injured. It breaks your heart. You almost want to take that number and leave it up on the screen for the entire show of 50. It really lets you understand the magnitude of this. The death toll stands at 5
Presence can live on forever. For the parents, every post, every text message, every voice mail, its all precious, especially after thew cold february night, one year ago, a night they still struggle to process. I just heard gunshots. I dont know what building it came from, but i heard kids screaming. Im not staying here. Im going to go in there and see whats going on, sir. That night. That night, i dont know what to call it. Its a horrible night. It changed my life. Squeezing me. The wedding just weeks before their deaths marked a happy union in the families. Now its grief that reinforces i had three children who were murdered. They were murdered by islamaphobia. Reporter the families believe craig hicks murdered their children over fear of muslims. But the police say its over parking spaces. Dias car in his wifes spot. Three spots away, his wifes car in free parking. The two spaces in front of hicks apartment, empty. This was very insulting for all of us. We know our children better.
Powerball lottery drawing worth more than half a billion dollars. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning ner this is the cbs morning news for thursday, february 12th, 2015. Good morning. Im Lauren Lyster in for annemarie green. Veteran cbs news correspondent bob simon is being remembered this morning as a reporters reporter. A gifted writer who reported from the most dangerous places on earth. Simon was killed last night in a car accident here in new york city. He was a passenger in a cab that hit another car that had stopped at a traffic light. Cbs news anchor scott pelley announced simons death in a special report. His body of work earned bob too many journalistic medals to count here tonight. His daughter tania is a producer and tonight our thoughts are with tania and bobs family and his many, many friends. During his 47 years here at cbs news, simon reported on everything from domestic riots to movies, but it was as a Foreign Correspondent that simon made his name. Kris v
On top of the world. Cbs news remembers legendary correspondent bob simon. A gifted writer from the most dangerous places on erts. During coverage of the war bob and others were captured. I thank god that the four of us are alive. Republicans and democrats do not see eye to eye. Isil is on the defensive, and isil is going to lose. A deal has been reached according to president putin to put an end to the fighting in eastern ukraine. Three Winning Tickets in powerball. The lucky winners will collect 564 million. Chasing dallas and when the driver plowed into two vehicles people dragged the suspect out of the car. Seeing my mom take down the guy. The Fatal Shooting of three muslim stew dentss in chapel hill, north carolina. Places that are buried could see another half foot of snow. All that. Tiger woods. You need to do some soul searching. And all that matters. I heard the guy takes it over hands it over to his guy, deflates it, and then he says hey, look at this ball. We its got no air
A better idea of whats been lost. There was a car wreck in manhattan last night nothing remarkable, except the one person killed was bob simon. Simon was in his 19th season on 60 minutes, and before that hed spent nearly 30 years on this program. He was among the most courageous and gifted reporters of our time, and he reminded us how Good Journalism can be. Reporter im from bronx. And in fact it took a long time before cbs would put me on the air because i had such a thick bronx accent. Were going to pick up an american. American. Pelley the voice would become unmistakable, the perspective indispensable. Reporter they dont know how many communists theyre up against. They do know the enemy bunkers are less than 30 feet away. Pelley bob simon hurryied to Southeast Asia in 1971 because as he put it, history was being made. Reporter civilian casualties were not announced bus it was another case of destroying a village in order to save it. Pelley once youve covered a war, he said, theres n