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
As americans, we are united in grief and outrage. You will not break us. We are better people than this. Good evening from orlando. Im lester holt and this is a special edition of dateline. At least 50 dead, 53 wounded, many of them in critical condition. The biggest mass shooting in american history, and says president obama. An act of terror. The gunman omar mateen, stormed a gay nightclub, armed with an assault style military nightclub, opened fire and left the dance floor covered in blood. His motive, pure rate. Reporter it was supposed to be a night of fun, letting your hair down, saturday night had become early sunday morning, the music loud and funky. This video posted on the internet from inside club pulse around 1 00 a. M. Last call, last dance, latin theme night was wrapping up. A crowd of about 300 packed into orlandos popular gay nightclub. Approximately 2 00 a. M. , everything changed, the gunman holding an Assault Rifle encountered an offduty Police Officer and exchanged
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The wind is coming and out of the west and southwest. It s 66 in orlando. It 65 in longwood. There will be some rain on the way overnight tonight. We will talk more about the timing of that in just a few minutes. Let s get a check of the roads. Jazmin morning. It does not look like any construction is going to slow you down. It s going to take you about nine minutes. Also up to speed on the turnpike side. We have a deadly crash in windermere. This is just west of wire. You will want to use windermere as your alternate to get around this crash. Michelle we are following of passengers is making its way. Jason this is video sent to us by a passenger. It was slammed by rough waters overnight. We are working the latest. What we know right now is a lot of people are to eating out about the damage on the ship. We are seen it firsthand. People are giving us permission to use these video shots of the ship along with photos. One passenger describes choppy water. It was much like a hurricane. We
Look at the line of storms knocking on your doorstep. We are going to be continuing to monitor this all morning long. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect for Brevard County until 5 45. The Tornado Warning has been allowed to expire. Announcer local, live, latebreaking. This is wesh 2 news sunrise in high definition. Jason it is 5 00 a. M. Our weather team has been on air covering Tornado Warnings for several of our local counties. Michelle busy morning. Jason thanks for joining us. Michelle severe thunderstorms moving across southern Brevard County. We want to get right back to amy and eric. Amy tornado watch in effect until 8 00 this morning. The lightning is intense, the rain is intense and we have had some twisting with the winds in Central Florida. A Tornado Warning was in effect until 5 00 a. M. Brevard and osceola still remain under a tornado watch, which is still possible. The strongest threat has come to an end. Some counties have been dropped from the tornado watch. That w