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
And weve been assured that the region will be ready for tomorrow morning. Stephen tschida picks up the Stormwatch Team coverage live tonight gauging the snow fatigue out there. How does it look . What are you hearing out there . Stephen we expect about three inches here tomorrow. Even more further west but right now, it feels like spring and the idea of more Winter Weather on the way has a lot of people here worn out. Life goes on as usual in leesburg even though another winlter storm looms on the horizon. Im a little tired of it. Yeah. Stephen a layer of brine went down in Silver Spring today and across the region as well. While recently replenished mountain salt are about to take another hit. Maintenance crews that thought they finally finished the snow removal are preparing to battle another blast. I was hoping to get my equipment ready for grass mowing. Stephen while plows wait to hit the roads, winter weary people express frustration. As far as im concerned winter should end on ja
Alert this morning. Their car windows had been smashed and their vehicle tags personal possessions and even their tires stolen. All while they were dropping their children off. John gonzalez talked to parents today. Imagine heading into work or dropping your child off at daycare and minutes after parking your car, this happens. Well, thats exactly whats been happening to employees of this Community Building on Martin Luther king jr. Avenue in southeast d. C. Stole my tire and my lug nuts, got into my trunk. The wheel and tire taken off ivan lanys car and while parents drop off their children at the daycare downstairs a process that takes what two or three minutes, their cars are broken into and ransacked. It seems individuals know the people that work here and they Work Schedules and their timing and theyre casing cars. This mother has watched the apparent thieves in action. One morning, i parked right there and they were standing right here and trying to open the door. At the time whe
Weather words here in the next few days is drip drip drip. That refers to the melting snow, the rain thats coming and possibly your chief meteorologist is a drip. You never know. Thats the story. Rain is not on the horizon yet. Melting is. Look at the potomac. Right before your eyes, the ice is melting. There will be a whole lot more of that around the area. Temperatures like this. 62 degrees at Reagan National now. 59 at washington dulles. 54 in frederick and nighttime temperatures will stay well above freezing. In fact were going to run probably a good five Straight Days and nights at least if not longer with temperatures above freezing. So everything is gone and melt off. In fact, coming up at 4 20 steve rudin will join me to talk more about the melting and if the rain might cause some problems here. This is the area of rain developing, low pressure pulling moisture right out of the gulf of mexico moving along the Conveyor Belt and its headed here and we will have rain and that is d
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