Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. It has become a familiar ritual of a Current National tragedy. The president traveling to comfort famili families. President obama and Vice President biden placed bouquets after privately consoling those most deeply impacted. By sundays nightclub terror attack. This as we learned of the messages the killer sent during the deadly siege including some to his wife. From orlando heres nbcsmy gal almaguer with details. Reporter they brought 49 roses. One for each of the victims. President obama and Vice President joe biden meeting with survivors and families who lost loved ones. Seeing the heartbreak here first hand. Today once again as has been true too many times before, i held and hugged grieving family members and parents. And they asked why does this keep happening. Reporter the president s private meetings including First Responders who risked their own lives to
The san bernadine oh shooters were following i lack i. We saw this with the boston bombers and now we see it yetit again in this particular case. Members of congress are learning more about what happened in orlando. Tom gist feld is life on capita with the latest. Reporter this was a classified briefing. However, we haveisrt spoken witk people who were inside thisnsid session and there were three key pieces of information members of congress were just told that the fbi and the department of t Homeland Security are focusing on. We touched on them h just now. E the main one right out of thisis meeting is this. Apparently the fbi now have full access to omar ma teens phone. E it is an android samsung phone. You can remember this was anas issue back during the san bernadine oh shooting withhoot difficulties in accessing the shooter in that cases this apparently is not a problem this time. The fbi having full access now to omar mar teens samsungsams android phone. As you heard just a moment
Force pierce people that prayed are horrified. This board member last saw mateen at prayer friday night and no indication that 29year old was about to carry out a deadly attack. Mateen was on the f. B. I. s radar. He went to saudi arabia in 2012 to attend the hodge. F. B. I. Says he was interviewed at least twice and once in 2013 after coworkers said he made inflammatory remarks about terrorist ties and in 2014 after contact he had with abdul, the first suicide bomber in syria. He was cleared. We are going through the killers life and his electronics to understand about his path and whether there was anyone else involved in directing him or in assisting him. Most of the 49 people gunned down have been identified, several are still hospitalized in grave condition. Police say it was an awful bodies and lots of blood. Reporter as of yet not a commune gathering for people in the orlando area to remember the friends and the victims of loved ones that they lost but here outside of the hospit
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End of the road for jeb bush. Thanks for waking up with abc. I am lindsay logue. I hope you got out and enjoy the day yesterday. Perfect day. Bill logan, another one . Another one and more of the same. We do have our needs met. It will be sunny today and you may see clouds early but it will be a nicelooking day as we start off with a nice look outside of the rivergate tower cam. We will get color out there as it lights up. We get more work. Nothing showing on radar. A few clouds but that is it. Central florida and west and east coast, things are clear. Tappan tampa right now calm winds. 61 st. Petersburg. There is more roadracing in tampa today. Coming up right about now theyre getting underway with the Half Marathon starting at clayton sure. The ak 8k will start off that firm. We will be in the mid50s for that Half Marathon but by the time we get to 8 30 am temperatures will be up another dozen degrees. It is going to be a warm one and we will top out in the mid70s. More details are m