Times to talk about the lives and the identities and the legacies of the people who have lost their lives to gun violence and the families that are there to remember them, and, you know, i remember so profoundly the massacre at newtown. Senator murphy brought photographs of all of the victims, their families, told their stories at length on this senate floor. As weeks and months persisted here in the United States senate, and no action was taken to do commonsense things to make access to these weapons more difficult, the senator from connecticut started coming to the floor and talking about some of the people that we dont read about because the media doesnt rush to the scene when somebody dies in a driveby shooting or in a place that doesnt garner the attention, the spotlight like the massacre and tragedy in orlando has garnered by the national media. So i i thank the gentleman from connecticut for his perseverance, and i am just so proud to join him this afternoon in this insistence f
As funerals begin for victims in the orlando terror attack, we are learning that omar mateen may have had more help than originally thought in planning and carrying out his attack. This as 23 victims are still in the hospital. Funerals beginning for those whom he killed. Steve harrigan live from orlando, where the fbi is still investigating. Reporter leland, part of that investigation is of Surveillance Video from inside the club dours of that attack. They are going through it minute by minute. It is reportedly extremely graphic video. You can see the gunman reloading several times. In it, hes described by one Law Enforcement official as coldblooded during that video footage. Also, his finances are being examined. Apparently he sold his share in a partial ownership of a house to his brotherinlaw several months before the attack. He also made sure to place his thenwife, now his widow, on his insurance and also on his bank accounts. Really both signs pointing to the fact this may have be
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.
They ranged in age from 18 to 50. They were dancers and students, a singer and a bouncer, an accountant and an aspiring firefighter mothers, fathers, teenagers, couples and best friends.
They ranged in age from 18 to 50. They were dancers and students, a singer and a bouncer, an accountant and an aspiring firefighter mothers, fathers, teenagers, couples and best friends.