We are here to stay. We will be bigger and better than you can ever imagine. The night clubs employees vowed to reopen the club. The go fund me site to help the victims has reached almost 3 million since it opened on sunday. We continue our Team Coverage of the terror in orlando with leanne gregg in orlando with more on the shooting that left 50 people dead. Reporter good morning. Investigators are continuing to collect evidence, the crime scene is just down the street. They have started an extensive recreation of that crime scene, so that they can better understand what happened. Theyre also learning more about the gunman, omar mateen. Reports that he had sent messages using gay Online Dating sites and that he had been to the bar several times people had seen him in the place. The weapons he used he purchased legally a little over a week before the attack from a ft. Pierce gun store. Mateen was on a federal watch list. While under investigation for making comments about terrorist conn
Several people say they saw him inside the pulse nightclub several times before sundays mass shooting. Customers also say mateen was on dating apps for gay men. All 49 people who died in the mass shooting inside pulse nightclub have been identified now. And we just got an update from the hospital, where many of the survivors are recovering. Nbcs Sarah Rosario has that update and the latest on the investigation from orlando. Sarah . Reporter barbara, it is day three of investigations here outside of pulse nightclub. As you mentioned within the last couple minutes, we got an update from the hospital, learning there are 27 patients still in the hospital, six of them in icu. Meanwhile, the fbi is looking into new claims about the gunman. Club goers saying he frequented this club and was even on gay dating apps. With yellow tape still marking off the scene of sundays deadly mass shooting, thousands came out for an incredible show of support, gathering for the city vigil. I want everybody to
House is outstandingand police want to talk with him. They arent calling him a suspect at this time. Neighbors say a father and his adult son live at the house along with another relative. This case has friends of cynthia Wendy Fernandez worried. They say they just got word that she is the victim in this case. lizeth cuevas looking for Cynthia Wendy Perez her mom called me at five in the morning asking if i knew anything. Ever since then ive been calling and calling and calling trying to figure out where she is at. im praying to god its not here but i just need to make sure its Mauricio Marin when we spoke with cuevas. She was on her way to talk with authorities. Since then she said they have identified the vctim as perez. However at this timethe Coroners Office has not officially released the name of the female victim to us. Mauricio Marin we tried multiple times talking with folks inside the house but they refused. Police say if you have any information about this case call them or c
But elsewhere if you re going westward into the mountains a wonderful start to the day. Clear skies out f loveland and chance for storms mainly in Higher Elevations acroos the eastern slopes of the mountains but should say mostly dry. Downtown denver right now 60. 58 at the airport. A couple degrees cooler than this time yesterday but winds have south, southwest. Throughout the afternoon seeing temperatures rise and winds will calm down. 90 degrees expected in denver. Mix of sun and clouds for ft. Collins in boulder. Mostly sunny skies for greeley and not much chance for Severe Weather today but could reintroduce chant for fire watches monday with warm and dry conditions across the western scope. The forecast coming up in just a few minutes. Hundreds of Police Officers against police brutality. This is in milwaukee. The protest started when a man with a stolen gun shot and killed by an officer last night. It quickly took on an atmosphere like a riot. The socalled protesters lit a build
Getting on the road in livermore you will see traffic is light over to the dublin interchange. Moving to the east bay, i 880 looking good in both directions driving past the coliseum. Driving in san jose, northbound to 80 280 looking good. Following up on the clayton fire in a lake county continuing to burn out of control as they evacuate thousands of people, 3000 acres is burned and only 5 contained. It started saturday night off of Clayton Creek road, the entire community of lower lake is forced to evacuate, and st. Helena hospital has been evacuated, four homes and six businesses including a winery, post office and habitat for Humanity Office have all burned. The man from Hidden Valley heading over to help the firefighters. One building, we cut the holes in, sprayed water in it, left and came back 30 minutes later working on Something Else and he was fully engulfed. It is tragic when you try to say something, and you turn around, and it is burning. Hot weather and dry vegetation is