Orlando for a special edition of americas newsroom. Hi, heather. Heather im heather childers, and were getting new details on the orlando killers past and what exactly brought him to the nightclub where you are, bill, that tragic night. Bill we certainly are. A lot of reporting today. I just want to take our viewers through it. This is what we are picking up today. Several witnesses at the pulse nightclub say that this killer had been there before. Sometimes, they say, he went there and drank alone. On the night of the massacre, one witness telling the l. A. Times that he was drinking by himself at 1 00 in the morning. Which would have been exactly one hour prior to him going out to the parking lot, retrieving the weapons of terror that he brought back with him inside. Also reports that he may have visited disney park locations. About 15 miles from here, back in the month of april. Thats something the fbi mentioned yesterday, thats something theyre still looking at today. Did he have m
Bren, tell us about the mood and how big is the crowd . Well, there are several hundreds packed inside of the st. Lukes cathedral, and we are seeing a number of members from different faiths and leaderers from different faiths now going in there and other leaders having sashes of rainbows as they head into the service, and we have a program, and it includes hymns and prayer as well. And the mood, jim, well, i talk talked to some people who are headed into the church earlier, and one gentleman stuck out, and it was him and his husband who said this is the fourth vigil they have been to this week, and he said that he knows how close this can community has gotten. And he said that the second thing that he has taken away from this week is that before he and his partner would look around to the each other, to make sure that nobody was looking at them when they had some sort of display of affection, and now, jim, he said that i just dont care anymore. And that is the feeling here in orlando.
Families, survivors and mourners gathered at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts to remember the 49 killed at Pulse nightclub eight years ago. The day of remembrance events also included the ringing of the church bells at First United Methodist Church of Orlando.