hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. it s happened again. we are waking up to the tragic realities of gun violence in this country. eight people are dead, seven injured over a mass shooting at an outlet mall in allen, texas. some of the scenes we saw captured on video, we warn you they are hard to watch. . you can hear the rapid fire there and see shoppers and employees scrambling into storage areas, they hid when they heard the gunshots. witnesses say some people sheltered in place for up to two hours as law enforcement cleared the sprawling area. my mom and i were in johnson and murphy s shopping and heard about ten pops go off. i look at the customer next to me. i was like, was that gunshots? and he was like, no, it s probably just construction or something and heard 10, 15 more shots go off. so i ran to the front of the store. we are like, no, that s shooting. we see the guy. he is dressed in all blac
But first, polling. Chief National Correspondent john king here to break it down by the numbers. Two polls showing donald trump very strong in general election. How significant is this . On the one hand, john, you can make the case, not that important, this is over. And we see evidence the Republican Party is unifying, not completely, but significant unification of the Republican Party, while the democratic race goes on. Bernie sanders being increasingly tough on Hillary Clinton. She hasnt had the consolidation he has had. You could say not that significant, see what happens when the democratic race is over. You could say it is a national poll, it is in may, we elect in november, state by state. But theres some significance to this, john. Donald trumps position improved dramatically from a few weeks ago. The Washington Post poll up a little, statistical tie, the wall street journal, statistical tie. Unmistakable, dont read too much into this, but if youre mr. Trump, you like this. You
Stories, their experiences, and there is breaking information on the killer and who sources say that he was texting actual ly i the massacre, and our justice correspondent pamela brown joins with us the investigation, and what about this communication . Well, we are learning that he was texting with his wife while he was barricaded in the bathroom, anderson. And then we are told that around 4 00 a. M. , he texted her, and said, well sh, the response that i love you, and he responded that i love you and she claims that she didnt know of anything specific that he was going to do, but that when he left the house that night to go see a friend that he and yet did nothing about it. She did not call police. And thats the lingering question, why. And he updated facebook before and during. And even during. Imagine this, he is calling, calls 911 three times, calls a friend, calls a tv producer, texts his wife, is posting on facebook. First off searching the terms pulse orlando shooting, wants to
No, youre not gonna watch it we cant let you download on the goooooo youll just have to miss it yeah, youll just have to miss it we cant let you download. Uh, no thanks. I have x1 from xfinity so. Dont fall for directv. Xfinity lets you download your shows from anywhere. I used to like that song. If youre alive, raise your hand. Thats what police shouted as they entered pulse nightclub. They entered down the block from where i am standing 5 00 in the morning, three hours after a gunman started shooting. What happened in the three hours, the way it unfolded is a puzzle, each seems more tragic than the next. Survivors under bodies, in coming calls from people desperate to called loved ones, calls that would never be picked up. In the end, the carnage was unimaginable. 49 killed, at least 53 injured. The shooter dead. Were not showing his name and picture, it has been all over far too much. We are learning details about his past. There are reports this wasnt his first time at the nightclu
Thanks very much for joining us in the live hour from orlando. Today, president obama was here bringing with him condolences of an entire nation to grieving family members who lost loved ones in the deadliest mass shooting in american history. We will hear from some of the family members and their loved ones, not just how they died, but how they lived and what made them special. In a moment, an exclusive interview from one of the heroes. A Police Officer that saved multiple lives that terrible night almost as soon as he got there, ended up rushing in with other officers. Today he was reunited with one of the men he saved. We begin with the latest in the investigation. Learning more about the shooters actions during the massacre from Text Messages he sent his wife while it was going on in the midst of killing. Cnn National Correspondent jim sciutto joins us. Reporter in addition to phone calls made from 911 to the television station, in addition to facebook postings making more threats