The horror as it happened to them this weekend. Nbc reporter orlando. Sao joins ufrom take pkg outcue . Nbc news trt 1 37. I want everybody to know that the Lgbt Community will not be defeated. We will not give into fear. Reporter Police Identified the final victim overnight and today hospital officials gaves an update. No patients have succumbed to their injuries since the initial nine patients who came to us at the time of the shooting. Reporter and were hearing from survivors. Tony guerrero tells nbc the he omar mateen tried blending with the crowd. Like he was a victim, also. Reporter pulse club owner sat down with matt lauer. She started the club after her brother died of aids naming it pulse to go with the rhythm of the heart. Has on to do with your heart. Reporter a heartbeat mateen gave his last. Two of my friends went to the fbi and spoke with them. Reporter the fbi is also looking at the mateen show of support for extremism and possible tears to terror groups. Meanwhile a hea
About the milk cliff with candy crowley. The the situation room with wolf blitzer begins right now. This is a special edition of the situation room. It has now been more than a week since we learned the devastating news of the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in newtown, connecticut. Today, well remember the victims. Well also go in depth on where the investigation stands, and talk with dr. Sanjay gupta and drew pinsky, about what medical science has learned about the mind of a killer. Well also look ahead of where do we go from here . Especially when it comes to the right to bear arms in the United States, and what president obama called the nations epidemic of gun violence. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. We begin our special edition of the situation room by focusing in on the search for answers. Why . Why would a 20yearold man kill his mother, then gun down 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary
The courage that the teachers, the principal in newtown showed on friday. Finally, some real answers about the benghazi attack that killed four americans. We now know more than reason for the grossly inadequate security. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with president obamas call to action against what he calls the National Epidemic of gun violence amid the trauma over the Newtown School massacre, he has put Vice President biden in charge of the agenda that could be submitted to Congress Next month. And a growing number of americans want action from the government. A brand new poll shows that 52 of u. S. Adult dults favor major restrictions on guns, making all guns illegal versus 47 last august. Lets turn to our White House Correspondent brianna keilar. Shes joining us. The president came out and didnt mince very words. Reporter no, wolf. This is the first time that president obama has laid out a time line. He appointed Vice President biden to lead this group of c
So clearly the idea that were going to make ourselves better off by getting rid of guns doesnt work, as a number of callers already pointed out. Criminals dont obey the law. Thats sort of the way criminals are. And they will get guns and the question is, are we going to make it easy or hard for the good guys to be able to defend ourselves . Host and as mr. Pratt mentioned, hes joining us from blue ridge arsenal from chantilly, virginia. And pedro is out there as well. We are joibd again by mark warner. How many stalls do you have here . 20 lanes total. Tell us about the range, whats it made of and how is it assigned to safety . With our rifles, handguns, shotguns. Our backstop is steel. At about 40degree angle. It slows down. So it flashback or ricochets. In this section you can fire handguns, rifles and shotguns. And on the other side . Handguns only. We will start with glock 17. Go ahead and load it up, get ready and hand it off to me and fire it and see what happens. Ok. So as he do
Posing some air Traffic Control towers and smaller cities. Lawmakers have until march 1 until automatic spending cuts spending cuts are expected to take effect. This is a little less than an hour. I remember all of you from roll call. [laughter]you asked me all the3se dumb questions. [laughter] i just want to say that it is my pleasure, and clearly yours, to have with me today the secretary of transportation, ray lahood, who is here to speak with you about the impacts of sequester, if it comes to pass, on the American Travel industry. And as weve talked about a lot, the indiscriminate, deep cuts will affect everyone, really, in america, and industries. And secretary lahood is here to discuss one aspect of that with you and to take some questions. And afterwards, ill be here to take questions on other issues. I just want to remind you that were on a slightly constrained time schedule. We have the president s meeting with National Governors democratic governors, and then also the pool sp