Reporter anderson, still a number, at least probably 20 or 30 ambulances parked down the street here. Weve been seeing them go in one by one. Some withdrawn, were not sure if they have anybody, taking anybody away. Weve also seen a number of victims walking away with metallized blankets around them that the Fire Department officials have given them. Walking away from the scene. The people that i guess were not injuried at all. But there is still a lot of activity going on here. There is a meeting taking police with emergency workers and we saw Something Else we talked about, the idea that perhaps somebody got away. There may have been some that got away. We saw a dog unit that was brought in and perhaps to sniff the trail of some of the attackers. Im not sure exactly what the purpose of that was. There was a dog unit here as well. Just a little bit of information from the Paris City Hall speaks to how seriously this is taken across the country. The president saying that the borders of
We have cleared the building and it is with Great Sadness we have not 20 but 50 casualties. In addition to the shooter, there are another 53 hospitalized. Because of the scale of the crime, ive asked the governor to declare a state of emergency. Were also issuing a state of emergency for the city of orlando so that we can bring Additional Resources to bear to deal with the aftermath. The focus is on identifying the victims and the families. We are a united community. A what we saw last night does not reflect what we feel in our heart and our souls here in orange county. When evil like this comes to our community, we respond in force. I guarantee you we will do that again. Again, to reiterate, the sobering numbers you just heard from the orlando mayor. Least 50 dead and 53 injured. The shooter has been identified as omar mateen of port st. Lucie, florida. He is married, has a 3yearold son. He was killed early this morning in a shootout with s. W. A. T. Police. We have the latest from th