Two hours from now. This is what we woke up to last sunday morning news of another mass shooting. It would start with a lower death toll but that would soon rise, 49 dead, more than 50 wounded. It would become the worst mass shooting in modern american history. Five of the victims were laid to rest in florida yesterday. 18 remain hospitalized, four of them in critical condition. Cnns ed lavandera joins us from lake eola where the candlelight vigil takes place but we begin with Brynn Gingras at the cathedral of st. Luke. How many people will they be able to accommodate . Theyre opening their doors to everyone but the capacity at the church is 600 people one of the funerals happened last night and 750 were squeezed inside the church. They want as many people as they can. Theres also a building next to it that will house some people if they want to be in attendance as well. We also know that building is going to house counseling after the service which is expected to be an hour long Couns
And we just learned that one more patient has been released from the hospital while four others still remain in critical condition. Well soon know some of what the shooter omar mateen said to police during the attack. The u. S. Justice department will release limited transcripts from three phone calls he had with negotiators that night. Among them the killers claim of allegiance to isis. Since the shooting there have been questions over whether the fbi missed potential rered flags on mateen during previous background checks. On cnns state of the union, attorney general Loretta Lynch pushed back against arguments that Political Correctness is hindering the way the government investigates potential terror suspects. I can tell you how we handle these investigations now. We handle these investigations by looking into anything, everything and every one. That also includes reaching out to the Muslim Community for information that they may have. Many of the investigations that we do involving
Among those dedicated to keeping intoxicated drivers off Illinois roads, Carol Stream police officer Dan Stafiej was a legend. So it only made sense that a new award for the state s top drug recognition expert was named in the late officer s honor.
The Marketing and Communications Office at College of DuPage, in partnership with COD s Homeland Security Training Institute, recently announced the winners of the inaugural 9/11 Memorial Scholarship.