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History - 50 people are dead after a gunman opened fire in a gay

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We must spare no effort to find out what if any connection this killer

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had with terrorist groups. What is clear is he is a person filled with

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hatred. The gunman has been identified

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as a US citizen, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, who was known

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to the FBI - reports say he swore allegiance to the Islamic State

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group just before the shooting. We as a D community, gay, lesbian,

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transgender Dan bisexual community, we are a community that love and if

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you think you can stab at this community by doing violent acts, you

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cannot. Good evening and

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welcome to BBC News. At least 50 people have been killed,

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and dozens injured, in a gun attack It's the deadliest mass

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shooting in US history. A man, armed with an assault rifle,

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opened fire at the club in Orlando and took hostages,

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before being shot dead. He's been named as Omar Mateen -

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who's thought to be a US citizen. He reportedly pledged allegiance

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to so-called Islamic State President Obama called the shooting

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"an act of terror Let's go live to Washington

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and our presenter there, Katty Kay. As you said President Obama has

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addressed the American people in the last couple of hours. He said it was

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an act of terror but there was no definitive judgment on the motives

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of the shooter. Investigation is still ongoing and it is in the hands

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of the FBI who are dying deer in Florida trying to find out what

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happened in the days and weeks leading up to this event. What is he

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acting by himself, was at the critical issues or did he have

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connections to other people. Islamic State on the official website have

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said this was a fighter for Islamic State, that does not tell us

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necessarily very much because we still do not know if there was any

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direct connection between the shooter who has been named down in

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Florida and Islamic State itself. Let's get the latest note on this

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attack from Laura Becker. The shocking sound of gunfire echoed

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through the streets recorded by witnesses who feared the worst.

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Dozens managed to flee the popular gay nightclub but still worried

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about those they left behind. Hearing the bullets just go

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constantly all you can think about right now is yourself and then help

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others. That's what I had to do. When I knew I was safe and the guns

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were still going and the police were say go, go, go, I had no choice but

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to turn and help. One mother got a text from her son inside. He was

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interviewed he would die, others are still desperate for news. I don't

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know where my son is, if you had been shot, if he is dead, no one

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fatalities. As police responded the fatalities. As police responded the

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attacker held hostages for three hours. Police say he had an assault

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rifle, a handgun and some sort of explosive device. SWAT teams rescued

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30 people but inside find a team of utter devastation. Just to look into

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the eyes of our officers told the whole story. We could tell they were

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shaken by this incident by what they saw inside the club. The dead and

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unbelievable job, courageous efforts in rescuing many, many hostages.

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This is now being investigated as an act of terror. The suspect has been

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identified as Omar Mateen, the AFP I is trying to establish if he had

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links to Islamic groups. Although it is still early in the investigation

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we know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate. As

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Americans we are united in grief, in resolve to defend our people. This

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is the deadliest mass shooting in American history at a place young

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people came to party. A state of emergency has now been declared in

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Orlando and as the investigation continues the police are urging calm

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until being no more and are clear about the motive. A reminder of

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course that this investigation is still in its early stages. You had

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the president described it as an act of terror and an act of hate. Let's

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hear more of what President Obama had to tell the American public. We

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are still learning all the facts. This is an open investigation. We

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have reached no definitive judgment on the precise motivations of the

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killer. The FBI is appropriately investigating this as an act of

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terror. As Americans, we are united

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in grief, in outrage and in resolve I've just finished a meeting

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with the FBI director and my The FBI is on the scene and leading

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the investigation in partnership The full resources of the federal

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government will be made available We have reached no definitive

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judgment on the precise The FBI is appropriately

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investigating this as an act of terrorism and I've directed

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that we must spare no effort This massacre is therefore a further

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reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands

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on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house

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of worship or a movie We have to decide if that is

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the kind of country we want to be, the press. We will update the names

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of the deceased after the next of kin have been notified. You heard

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the president and the governor is here. We have all the resources of

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the federal government, state government and local government

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partners, albeit have to offer, other community will be grieving

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today. The next few days, the next few weeks and the next few months.

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We need to support each other. We need to love each other. And we will

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not be defined by a hateful shooter. We will be defined by how we support

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and love each other. Clearly this is an act of terrorism. You cannot

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imagine this happening in any community. You cannot imagine it

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happening in your state if you are a governor of a state and you cannot

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imagine it happening in your country. Firstly my heart goes out

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to every family member who has been impacted. I know law enforcement is

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doing everything they can to notify next of kin. I get as much

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information as they can. The working diligently together, state, local

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and federal. I want to thank all of our law enforcement for everything

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they do, everything they have done in this case, each and every day. I

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have asked for officers of the United States to have a moment of

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silence at XP M Eastern time tonight to mourn the loss of life and still

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pray for those who are still fighting for dear life. Pray for all

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the loved ones. I want to thank law enforcement, especially those who

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walked into that shooting scene and rest their lives to save so many

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people. This state will be refined as a state of generosity, a state of

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love, we are a resilient state, we love people in our state and we are

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going to continue to do that. Anybody who is thinking about doing

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something like this in our state our Justices Swift, our penalties are

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severe, we have a great law enforcement team and we will

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continue to do the right wing. The federal government will do the right

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thing and provide all the services people need. I will turn over now to

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the Attorney General. Today is a tragic day and we are making it

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clear anyone who attacked our LGBT community, anybody who attacked

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anyone in our state will be gone after do the full extent of the law.

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Today my office has been working on bringing in advocates from

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throughout the state of our land. If you are missing a loved one or

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family member we are here to help you. You are dealing on a horrible,

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tragic and violently the word love and that is what we need to continue

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to do. We need to look out for each other, take care of each other and

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be available. At the community and state we have received calls from

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around the country of people offering support in this horrible,

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horrible time. The mayor has done a great job. They are remarkable back

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in the command centre watching federal state and local law

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enforcement and prosecutors all work together, second to none in our

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state and we should be very proud of the law enforcement, the men and

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women in uniform who are all working together at the team. And you very

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much. Now the F EI, sorry, our police chief. Just to clarify, we

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had 11 Orlando police officers that exchanged gunfire with the suspect

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and killed him. They have all been relieved of duty as this band

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practice. We will release their names over the next couple of days.

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We want the citizens and residents and visitors of our landlord to know

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we are omitted to their safety. Our officers put themselves in harms way

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and rest the lives for the and patriots at Pals and we are

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committed to do so again. We will continue with the investigation and

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assist the FBI and our focus is on identifying and the next of kin and

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setting up a system as well. I also want to take this opportunity to

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thank the open boring of support not only from law enforcement, we have

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multiple sheriffs from different counties respond, different least

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have reached out to us but I want to have reached out to us but I want to

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find the businesses in this area, they have all stepped forward to

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assist the law enforcement with food, water, we really do appreciate

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that. Thank you. I'm just going to provide a brief update as well. This

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has certainly been a trying day. You has certainly been a trying day. You

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can see as the day has grown the level of support an our humility has

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grown as well and Ison Cearley appreciate the raw support that we

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are receiving. We still have a lot of work to do yet in this

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investigation. At just after noon today there was a national phone

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tell of conference spearheaded by the Department of Homeland Security

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in which law enforcement crossed the entire country came together to talk

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about what we must do to ensure the safety of our homeland. What has

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happened here was not purely an attack on the residents of Florida

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or the residents of Orange County or Orlando Sa via but this was indeed a

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attack on our nation. We appreciate attack on our nation. We appreciate

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the support coming from across the country in this effort. In terms of

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the Orange County Sheriff 's office we had three deputy sheriffs

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actively engaged in the rescue efforts that also fired their

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weapons. They, too, have been relieved of the law enforcement

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authority pending an investigation. What we typically do here in Orlando

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is call upon the Florida Department of Law enforcement to do an

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independent investigation of any law enforcement officer involved in

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shootings and that have been done in this case. They will be doing the

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investigation concurrently with that of the FBI. Thank you again. Thank

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you, Sheriff. Just to reiterate, the FBI has taken the lead in this

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investigation but I want to thank every investigation standing behind

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me and those you may or may not see currently who are working with a

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shoulder to shoulder, hand-in-hand, to get to the bottom of this

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senseless act of violence. I have some talking points to make sure I

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address the questions those earlier. I am gathering a lot of information

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right now so we want to share as much as we possibly can. The

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individual believed to be responsible for the terror attack at

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the club Sunday morning has been identified as Omar Mateen aged 29,

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an American citizen born in New York. He died of earning range of

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gunfire with police officers early this morning. The FBI first became

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aware of him in 2013 when he made inflammatory comments to co-workers

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suggesting terrorist ties. A guy investigated the matter including

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interviewing witnesses, during the course of the investigation he was

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interviewed twice. We were unable to verify the substance of his comments

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2014 he again came to the attention 2014 he again came to the attention

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of the FBI because of what the book ties to an American suicide bomber.

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The F EI are conducted an investigation including an interview

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with him. We find contact was minimal and did not constitute a

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relationship or threat at that time. It has been aborted heat made

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Coulter-Nile 1's money which he stated his allegiance to the Islamic

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State. We connections. We want to be as transparent and accurate as

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possible. Given the ongoing nature of the investigation will continue

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to provide updates and information becomes available. Thank you. We do

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see the 911 report is inaccurate? There were 911 calls in which there

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was conversation between the subject and law enforcement representatives

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and 911 dispatchers, that has become federal evidence. It is my

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understanding, I have not personally listen to them, but it was general

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to the Islamic State. ... Under heavy guard, can you confirm that? I

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am hearing there's people in hospital under heavy guard by law

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enforcement. Is that true? Could there be a second suspect? At this

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point we did not have a second suspect that we are actively looking

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for. We do not north any credible or singular threats that are facing the

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Orlando area or nationally. We are providing physical presence for the

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hospitals and the victim assistance centres to make sure everyone

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remains safe and secure. Special agent, with their victims found on

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the second floor? Should move around? All I can tell you is the

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crime scene are still being processed and I cannot comment on

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anything. He was interviewed twice by the FA by the FBI in 2013 and

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again in 2014 for connections to and on -- two a known terrorist, how

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could this guy get a state-wide gun permits? As I mentioned, those

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interviews turned out to be inconclusive. You have had the

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echoes of terror and he got a gun permits? Again come investigation

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was closed. Have there been more victims than a past Saint -- that

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have passed since our last update? Do we have someone from medical? I'm

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not personally aware of any other victims that have passed since the

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last press conference. Have family members be notified of the bodies

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that are inside but you are able to identify? We are trying to be as

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respectful as possible of the deceased people that still remain

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inside the facility. As we identify people, we are making notifications

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and then the police department and the city are preparing a website to

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list those that have been made contact with. Any idea how many have

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been contacted at this point? From the hospital plus that perspective

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at least most have been notified that their loved ones are there.

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Your ages and the FBI are invested in committee still a danger? No, the

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scene is clear but like special agent Hopper said, a lot of victims

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inside, trying to be respectful of that as well. It will take time and

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we asked people have patience. Right now yesterday? The subject I

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mentioned earlier was not under current investigation and the time

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of this incident was not under surveillance. Can you tell us what

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is family, can tell us about their interviews? Colligan says multiple

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interviews are being conducted as we speak, I have no details as to how

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far that has gone. Can you tell us what you're doing at his home?

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Interviews and investigation. Two more questions. Any word on the

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weapons? Our partners from ATF asking to speak -- are here to speak

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to that. And this Zadran Special Agent in of ATF. I want to say buy

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up our condolences goes out to the families of those impacted. ATF has

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traced those firearms, we know this individual did purchase or lease to

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firearms, he's not a privileged persons who can legally walk into a

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gun dealership and purchase firearms, he did so within the last

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week or so and thus far we are following up on that. I will not get

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into the DTI is to be specific location of the purchase, but he

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purchased to firearms, handgun and a long gun in the last few days. What

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was the suspect wearing? That is all the information we can release at

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this time, more updates as they become available. How long will

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these notifications take was that were doing it as quickly as

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possible. That press conference from a range of investigators and

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officials down in Florida, a lot of new information that we got from

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that press conference from the FBI. And we can recapture that, just that

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the shooter was known to the FBI, happy on his radar in 2013,

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investigated back then and investigated again in 2014. But

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joined Michael Hanlon. You have heard what the FBI are saying. This

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is someone on their radar who was investigated twice. One of the

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questions was how does somebody who had been investigated by the FBI

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with possible links to terrorism get hold of the kind of weapons he used

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last night? I'm sure a lot of people in Britain are shaking their heads

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at the laxity of gun laws, and let me assure you, a lot of us in the US

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do the same thing. The notion you could ever be allowed under any

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circumstances to buy in the US do the same thing. The notion you could

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ever be allowed under any circumstances to buy and a 15

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boggles the mind of some of us, even for a completely law-abiding

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citizen. For someone who has been investigated by the FBI for previous

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heat beat and yet is able to go off and by subtle weapon, I cannot

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defend that kind of law, I don't know why it would make sense. It

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reflects the paralysis in gun debate that even if there are individuals

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who believe that restriction should be minimal, just how this sort of an

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allowance could be on the books and available to buy for an individual

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like this killer boggles the mind. It is almost shocking in many ways

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as the new town massacre, which was shocking for their victims as well

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as the horrific nature of the violence and the sheer number of

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victims. In this case use cracked your head and wonder how we could

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have a system whereby someone who was investigated by the FBI a couple

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of years ago could get an 15. I don't know how to explain that.

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Michael, the weaponry aside, Ayew concerned by the fact this is

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somebody who was investigated back in 2013 for the things he said to

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his co-workers and came back onto the radar of the FBI in 2014 because

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of some kind of contacts he had made with the Mohamed Salah, an American

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suicide bomber. Does that worry you? I think once touring this kind of

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situation you don't want to pretend or imagine that you know exactly why

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the FBI closed this case. I don't want to be unfair to the

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investigators. Obviously we do not want to condemn as guilty anybody

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who makes one ill-advised hateful comment at some point in their life.

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On the other hand come up back and wonder if perhaps there were obvious

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clues that were missed that should have had this individual constantly

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on the radar screen of the FBI. Frankly, it feels like the latter,

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he probably had done enough that it is hard to see how he could have

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been given a clear bill of health. On that kind of issue I think I need

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to learn more, like many others, before I can condemn the FBI to

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quickly because one of their responsibilities is not punish

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someone without due cause. They have to be careful not to take a small

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infraction and turn it into a condemnation. I tend to think of was

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made, but it is necessary to learn more first. Michael, European

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security officials have said, listen, there is no way we could

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possibly track everybody full-time who comes on to our radar, we don't

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have those were sources. Resources in the US are limited as well. We

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have to learn more about that. You're someone who follows this kind

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of national security issue very closely. What are you looking at in

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this investigation? Strikes you? I agree that we cannot expect more

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enforcement to keep hot trail of each and every suspect. At all

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times. One would probably have to violate a lot of individual privacy

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and constitutional rights to do so even if you had the resources.

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Having said that, I am confused about why this individual could have

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bought weapons. That seems to me the most blatant matter on which we have

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failed in our general lawn forced into intelligence work that it would

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be nice to think that the FBI could have had in my watchlist and given

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more resources to him but as your question implies, even if they had

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done so it's not clear they could have prevented this tactical action

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at this particular time. They should have been able to and what we as a

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country practice should have been able to do is to prevent the gun

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sale. And that is where my specific interests are most acute at this

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moment that thank you. President Obama did allude to this issue that

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the fact this indicates how easy it is for people being weapons in the

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US and carry out this kind of attack. We got a lot of new

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information over the course of those different statements and security

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officials. This go to Orlando. You were listening to that particularly

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interesting from the FBI. What more did we learn from the official? What

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will surprise some people, certainly the reporters listening to that

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statement was that Omar Mateen was on the radar of the authorities as

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far back as 2013 and in fact in 2014 he was questioned, but of course,

:26:07.:26:11.

that did not stop what happened last night from happening. People will be

:26:12.:26:17.

asking what happened, was he being tracked? Was it after that

:26:18.:26:21.

interaction in 2014 that there were no signs are indications that he was

:26:22.:26:25.

going to be plotting and planning an attack like the one that happened

:26:26.:26:28.

here. The other thing we were told by the police is he bought two

:26:29.:26:32.

firearms, handgun and a long gone in the last week and bought both of

:26:33.:26:39.

those legally. The FBI was also questioned about whether they were

:26:40.:26:42.

looking for any other suspects at the moment. They said they don't

:26:43.:26:46.

have a second suspect in mind but there is security at hospitals. What

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more can you tell us? We are outside one of the hospitals where the

:26:54.:26:57.

majority if not all of the seriously injured and critical people who were

:26:58.:27:02.

at the nightclub are being treated. We have had an update from the

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hospital here in Orlando since we last spoke, they said they've had 43

:27:06.:27:12.

admissions and that surgeons here conducted 26 operations this

:27:13.:27:17.

morning. We have all so heard, we spoke before about how hundreds of

:27:18.:27:22.

people have been queueing up to donate blood. There has been some

:27:23.:27:25.

confusion because local radio and media outlets were reporting that a

:27:26.:27:30.

ban on gay people donating blood had been lifted in the wake of this

:27:31.:27:35.

tragedy. That has been clarified by the blood bank who say that is not

:27:36.:27:38.

the case and the Government restrictions on donations remain in

:27:39.:27:43.

place. They actually say that people who want to donate blood today

:27:44.:27:47.

should not come today, not because they don't want that, but they have

:27:48.:27:51.

reached full capacity today. The asking if anyone wants to help out

:27:52.:27:54.

they turn up tomorrow and they welcome their help. Thank you.

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Outside hospital and Orlando where people are still being treated and

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is worth pointing out this is still a medical emergency, people are

:28:06.:28:07.

having surgery at the moment you were in the nightclub. There have

:28:08.:28:11.

been appeals for blood, more doctors have been rushed to the hospital

:28:12.:28:15.

declined to injured. We have more details from the press conference,

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11 Orlando police officers were involved in the firefight with the

:28:20.:28:23.

gunman. There will be a moment of silence from the governor of Florida

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have called for a moment of silence throughout the US at 6pm local time.

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That is in about two and a half hours. I'm checking our clocks.

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There will be a's silence in the US and as you heard, the FBI telling us

:28:38.:28:46.

the shooter had been on their radar, 2013 he was investigated and

:28:47.:28:48.

questioned by the FBI for comments that he made two co-workers that

:28:49.:28:54.

alarmed them and in 2014 he was investigated again because he came

:28:55.:28:57.

to the attention of the agency because had some kind of contact

:28:58.:29:02.

with an American suicide bomber. That contact was deemed to be minor

:29:03.:29:07.

and the investigation was closed. The FBI at that press conference

:29:08.:29:11.

being questioned about this issue of how could somebody who had been on

:29:12.:29:15.

the FBI's radar under investigation with possible links or sympathies to

:29:16.:29:21.

Islamic radicalism and Islamic terrorism be able to get the kind of

:29:22.:29:25.

weapons he did. He bought those guns in the last couple of days we

:29:26.:29:29.

understand. What we do know is this investigation unfolds is that 50

:29:30.:29:35.

people altogether were killed, more are still in hospital, some 50 still

:29:36.:29:39.

in hospital. Some of those in critical condition. The president

:29:40.:29:43.

has addressed the American people and says this moment it was too

:29:44.:29:47.

early, when he was speaking to have a definitive judgment on the

:29:48.:29:53.

motives. He reached out to the LGBT community here in America, saying an

:29:54.:29:58.

attack on one American is an attack on all Americans. From Washington,

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that is it. More for you later. Thank you.

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We will be speaking more shortly. More details emerging in the last

:30:09.:30:18.

hour or so of Omar Mateen the man thought to have carried out this

:30:19.:30:24.

attack. You are watching BBC News. President Obama has said this is the

:30:25.:30:29.

deadliest shooting in US history and went on to say these killings where

:30:30.:30:35.

the reminder of how easy it is to acquire a deadly weapon in the

:30:36.:30:40.

United States these days. It is emerged Omar Mateen, the 29-year-old

:30:41.:30:44.

suspect of African-American origin had bought an assault rifle in the

:30:45.:30:52.

last week or so. The FBI said Omar Mateen was known to them, he first

:30:53.:30:57.

came to the attention in 2013 and again in 2014, he was investigated

:30:58.:31:02.

but not thought to be a threat but in the early hours of Saturday night

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into Sunday morning he made a 911 call and urged allegiance to the

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leader of Islamic State. At the moment it is not clear exactly what

:31:14.:31:17.

terror group. That will, of course, terror group. That will, of course,

:31:18.:31:23.

be part of the focus of the terror investigation that is unfolding

:31:24.:31:28.

right now. Well, in the past half-hour the Florida senator has

:31:29.:31:32.

been speaking. EZ Islamic terrorists need to know that they will not win.

:31:33.:31:37.

We know that the this heat in the world and some of it is inspired by

:31:38.:31:42.

a warped ideology. We have been in conflict with it for a very long

:31:43.:31:46.

time and the seat to intimidate us and terrorise us. I hope they see

:31:47.:31:51.

today he will not terrorise America, they will not terrorise Floridians.

:31:52.:31:57.

We stand for and with all Americans, irrespective of their sexual

:31:58.:32:00.

orientation, the party ideology, where they live, we are all

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Americans. You are seeing the response today and this will

:32:05.:32:08.

continue, we will not win. The Islamic terrorists need to know that

:32:09.:32:12.

they will not win. America will stand strong and together and

:32:13.:32:16.

whatever differences we may have on whatever issue we are all Americans

:32:17.:32:20.

and we stand here together united confronting this debt that has been

:32:21.:32:27.

a scourge to the world. That was the Florida senator Marco Rubio. And

:32:28.:32:32.

this statement was Clifford on behalf of the LGBT community in the

:32:33.:32:39.

people who love and if you think you people who love and if you think you

:32:40.:32:43.

are going to stab at the heart of us by doing this horrible violent act

:32:44.:32:48.

you are not the cause we love. We are a resilient people and we are

:32:49.:32:51.

going to show you in the face of this we will have people lined out

:32:52.:32:55.

behind those like banks. We will show what the good heart of humanity

:32:56.:32:59.

is not the bad horrible part of it and you cannot get your message

:33:00.:33:04.

across by cooling people. You are nothing but thugs and murderers and

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we will show you be in a better community and better America than

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this. So, what do we know about the man believed to have carried out the

:33:15.:33:18.

land a shootings? US authorities have identified him as Omar Mateen

:33:19.:33:25.

29 euros resident of Florida are United States citizen of Afghan

:33:26.:33:28.

descent. His father has apologised to victims. The porters of IES have

:33:29.:33:34.

praised the attack on social media. He used an assault rifle to

:33:35.:33:39.

carry-out the shootings. People who used to know him said they were

:33:40.:33:41.

surprised by today's news. He was a surprised by today's news. He was a

:33:42.:33:48.

regular young kid. He was a little younger than me so it is crazy. When

:33:49.:33:53.

did you first meet him? If few usable. I have not seen him in a few

:33:54.:33:59.

years but this is crazy to hear. Was there any talk, did you ever hear he

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did not like the people or felt it was something that offended him? The

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list of that. Not at all. He used to hang about with devils. He was a

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cool, calm, collected person. I never saw him in a fist fight in my

:34:16.:34:21.

life. He liked to party with kids. He was a normal teenage person who

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left a normal life. When was the last time you saw him? Five years

:34:27.:34:32.

ago, seven years ago. Just some of the thoughts of people who knew Omar

:34:33.:34:36.

Mateen. Let's turn our attention now to California where police in the

:34:37.:34:39.

south of the state have arrested a south of the state have arrested a

:34:40.:34:43.

man after finding explosives, weapons and eight camouflage jacket

:34:44.:34:51.

in his car. He told police he was heading for the Los Angeles tried

:34:52.:34:52.

Festival. Let's speak with our Los Angeles

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correspondent, Peter Bowes. A man arrested in Santa Monica just

:34:58.:35:07.

outside Los Angeles was arrested after the local people who live

:35:08.:35:11.

there cold the police to say someone was loitering in the area. When the

:35:12.:35:16.

police arrived his vehicle was searched and this is when the

:35:17.:35:21.

authorities say they discovered weapons and dangerous material. Some

:35:22.:35:24.

media outlets have gone further than that Wai Phyo an assault rifle and

:35:25.:35:29.

ingredients that could have been used to make a pipe bomb where

:35:30.:35:35.

found. Police have not confirmed those specific details. The

:35:36.:35:39.

investigation still continues. The man said he was heading to the gay

:35:40.:35:43.

pride festival which is underway right now, to meet a friend. Those

:35:44.:35:49.

claims are also being investigated. The authorities have also indicated

:35:50.:35:53.

that they do not believe that this stage there is any connection with

:35:54.:35:56.

what is happening here today in Los Angeles and the rest of this man

:35:57.:36:01.

with what has happened in Florida. No, absolutely but it is a pride

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festival is taking place then assuming that many, many people have

:36:08.:36:12.

poured into the city to take heart? Yes. It is an annual event.

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Thousands and thousands of able on the streets mostly in West

:36:20.:36:22.

Hollywood. And annual celebration of the quality of the pride and the

:36:23.:36:29.

festival that surrounds it. It was, I understand, some discussion and

:36:30.:36:32.

consideration earlier today as to whether to boot off the festival for

:36:33.:36:37.

this year or counsellor but that decision was not taken. It is going

:36:38.:36:42.

ahead at the authorities, the sheriffs Department says that out of

:36:43.:36:46.

an abundance of caution we have enhanced our security measures for

:36:47.:36:49.

the event and have tactical units at the ready to respond to

:36:50.:36:52.

circumstances. Thank you Peter Bowes circumstances. Thank you Peter Bowes

:36:53.:36:59.

in Los Angeles. Let's return now to the situation in Orlando where we

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note that at least 50 people have died as a result of that shooting in

:37:04.:37:08.

the Gulf nightclub in the city overnight and 53 people were injured

:37:09.:37:16.

.- pulse nightclub. It might surprise people to hear that the

:37:17.:37:19.

authorities in the United States were quite quick to say this was an

:37:20.:37:26.

act of terror. Colloquially in the use of the term and clearly there

:37:27.:37:31.

was a lot of emotion. Clearly very early on there were suggestions of

:37:32.:37:36.

some kind of link, even ten years, to so-called Islamic state. I think

:37:37.:37:41.

the sheer horror and scale of this, the timing and so on and the nature

:37:42.:37:44.

of the target all led to that conclusion. At the end of the day

:37:45.:37:49.

President Obama himself was very quick to come out and described this

:37:50.:37:54.

as both a terrorist act that also with elements of a hate crime

:37:55.:38:00.

against the gay community as well. When somebody claims allegiance to

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the Islamic State it raises many questions as it solves because that

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can mean a variety of things. It can mean many things. The implication is

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there was this call from Omar Mateen at some point the attack progressed

:38:14.:38:19.

to 911, the emergency number like 909 in Britain where he claimed

:38:20.:38:22.

State. Islamic State through its State. Islamic State through its

:38:23.:38:28.

semi-official agency that has been very quick to claim some sort of

:38:29.:38:34.

responsibility for this. I think what is much more likely and what

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seems to be emerging is this idea of Omar Mateen as very much a lone

:38:40.:38:41.

wolf. An individual who is wolf. An individual who is

:38:42.:38:45.

radicalised on his own through his own interactions with people,

:38:46.:38:48.

through the Internet, through watching videos, chat rooms media

:38:49.:38:53.

and so on and then decide to take action at the time of their own

:38:54.:38:56.

choosing. Obviously highly charged at the moment. The holy period of

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Ramadan and of course also we have heard from his father that he had a

:39:03.:39:08.

articular antipathy towards the people. He is said to have been

:39:09.:39:13.

enraged recently when he saw a gay couple embracing in downtown Miami.

:39:14.:39:17.

That might suggest a link to the timing out as I say of this points

:39:18.:39:23.

to the idea of the Lone Wolf and a lone wolf is the hardest of

:39:24.:39:28.

individuals to thwart. You do not necessarily have the connections,

:39:29.:39:33.

the e-mails, the chat back and forth with other co-conspirators and that

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is the real worry here. All of those avenues will have to be investigated

:39:39.:39:42.

of course but if it is decided it is an act in terror in addition to

:39:43.:39:46.

being an act of hate, what does this tell us about the nature of the

:39:47.:39:51.

investigation that will unfold? It is going to be very difficult

:39:52.:39:54.

because if there are not any actual connections that such, you are

:39:55.:39:59.

looking for the mentality of the individual, the motivations. We

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heard from an FBI spokesman earlier that in 2013 he had been

:40:05.:40:07.

investigated, Omar Mateen, for inflammatory comments made to work

:40:08.:40:12.

colleagues, remember he was a security guard with G4S, worked for

:40:13.:40:18.

about nine years, a company which has contracts, we are told, with

:40:19.:40:22.

federal buildings in Florida, that federal buildings in Florida, that

:40:23.:40:27.

is interesting. But clearly nothing was sufficient to flag him up in any

:40:28.:40:32.

serious way to put him on any kind of terror watch list or anything

:40:33.:40:35.

like that. Clearly as you heard earlier as well if you combine that

:40:36.:40:39.

with the ease with which he could obtain automatic or semiautomatic

:40:40.:40:44.

weapons in the United States and they are 15, which many now as the

:40:45.:40:52.

M-16 here it is for a long time the standard weapon of the US military,

:40:53.:40:57.

an assault rifle, one of the things that is going to promote of this and

:40:58.:41:02.

President Obama himself dwelt on the question of gun control. It may well

:41:03.:41:05.

one way or another make one control a very live issue in the forthcoming

:41:06.:41:11.

presidential campaign. He has said many times when there have been

:41:12.:41:16.

other mass shootings that he has wanted to address this issue but has

:41:17.:41:20.

been thwarted in Congress. This is a huge issue for President Obama.

:41:21.:41:27.

People in the United States, it is a huge issue for more liberal

:41:28.:41:31.

Americans who see their societies lives and treated all too regularly

:41:32.:41:37.

by appalling shootings of one kind or another whether they be arranged

:41:38.:41:42.

teenagers, whether they be examples of hate crime on whether they be

:41:43.:41:46.

actual acts of terrorism more broadly. The difficulty as we all

:41:47.:41:51.

know is there are many people in the United States who just as

:41:52.:41:54.

passionately defend the so-called right to be arms which they insist

:41:55.:42:00.

is enshrined in those terms in the very founding documents of the

:42:01.:42:04.

country. It is a very, very difficult debate. It seems very

:42:05.:42:08.

unusual to talk about things in this way when you come from Europe where

:42:09.:42:13.

weaponry and particularly in Britain weaponry, certainly high-performance

:42:14.:42:18.

weaponry, is very hard to come by. But this is a feature of American

:42:19.:42:23.

society and it has been a feature of American society as long as it has

:42:24.:42:27.

been the and this is the dilemma is posed starkly when you have these

:42:28.:42:33.

terrible individuals using these weapons to carry out mass carnage.

:42:34.:42:38.

Thank you very much, Jonathan Carney, our defence correspondence.

:42:39.:42:45.

Now let's rejoin my colleague in Washington. We are starting to get a

:42:46.:42:52.

picture of what happened overnight the people who try to help those

:42:53.:42:56.

victims, one of them was Christopher Hanson who was near the nightclub

:42:57.:43:00.

and he described how he tried to offer help to people who had been

:43:01.:43:05.

shot. There was a guy laying there who had been hit on the back. I

:43:06.:43:12.

lifted him. I to my bandanna off and tied it over the Walsall blood would

:43:13.:43:15.

not gush out because I did not want him to read everywhere. It was

:43:16.:43:19.

another girl who had been hit on the arm and I wrapped it. But still you

:43:20.:43:27.

food here the boom, boom. It had to be more than one person or two

:43:28.:43:32.

because it was too continuous. It was like when you are likely gun

:43:33.:43:37.

range and all you hear is room, bang, bang. I can't even describe

:43:38.:43:43.

it. I mean, I am but it was really difficult to see in real life a

:43:44.:43:49.

horrible situation. Did people realise what was going on? Now, I

:43:50.:43:54.

don't think people really knew what was going on until these people

:43:55.:43:56.

the ground and heard people the ground and heard people

:43:57.:43:58.

screaming and heard the commotion because they did not know. When

:43:59.:44:03.

you're in a bar like that you really think it is music because there are

:44:04.:44:05.

three different places were they are playing music. Sounds on the patio,

:44:06.:44:10.

inside were the main areas and there was another area where they

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dancing, the go-go 's. There were dancing, the go-go 's. There were

:44:13.:44:16.

three different types of music laying at the same time so how would

:44:17.:44:20.

you really know what is what? Christopher Hanson dear who was

:44:21.:44:23.

inside the nightclub and we assume people would know immediately that

:44:24.:44:28.

there was a gunman inside the nightclub and call for the police

:44:29.:44:29.

but when there is a lot of music but when there is a lot of music

:44:30.:44:33.

going on, different sides and it is very loud, dumpling like this can

:44:34.:44:37.

start happening before people even realise what is going on and dealers

:44:38.:44:40.

danger in their midst and just dancing happening. The president has

:44:41.:44:46.

addressed the nation. He said there was known on at the time he was

:44:47.:44:50.

talking about the fact we cannot judge exactly what the motive was

:44:51.:44:55.

all Americans, what unfolded in all Americans, what unfolded in

:44:56.:44:59.

Orlando last night. Let's hear from the resident.

:45:00.:45:15.

We pray for the families. We stand with the people of Orlando have and

:45:16.:45:23.

you would and terrible attack on the city. It is still early in the

:45:24.:45:25.

destination. As Americans, we are united

:45:26.:45:28.

in grief, in outrage and in resolve I've just finished a meeting

:45:29.:45:32.

with the FBI director and my The FBI is on the scene and leading

:45:33.:45:38.

the investigation in partnership The full resources of the federal

:45:39.:45:44.

government will be made available We have reached no definitive

:45:45.:45:50.

judgment on the precise The FBI is appropriately

:45:51.:46:01.

investigating this as an act of terrorism and I've directed

:46:02.:46:09.

that we must spare no effort to determine what, if any,

:46:10.:46:15.

inspiration or association this killer might have had

:46:16.:46:17.

with terrorist groups. What is clear is that he was

:46:18.:46:20.

a person filled with hatred. Over the coming days we will uncover

:46:21.:46:24.

why and how this happened and we will go wherever

:46:25.:46:28.

the facts lead us. This morning I spoke

:46:29.:46:32.

with my good friend, the Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer,

:46:33.:46:35.

and I conveyed to him the deepest This could have been any one

:46:36.:46:38.

of our communities so I told him that whatever help

:46:39.:46:46.

he and the people of Orlando need, As a country, we will be

:46:47.:46:49.

there for the people of Orlando today, tomorrow and for

:46:50.:46:56.

all the days to come. We also express our profound

:46:57.:47:00.

gratitude to all the police and first responders

:47:01.:47:04.

who rushed into harm's way. Their courage and professionalism

:47:05.:47:09.

saved lives and kept the carnage It is the kind of sacrifice

:47:10.:47:13.

that our law enforcement professionals make every single day

:47:14.:47:22.

for all of us and we can This is an especially heartbreaking

:47:23.:47:25.

day for all of our friends, our fellow Americans,

:47:26.:47:29.

who are lesbian, gay, The shooter targeted

:47:30.:47:31.

a nightclub where people came together to be with friends,

:47:32.:47:38.

to dance and sing and to live. The place they were attacked

:47:39.:47:43.

is more than a nightclub, it is a place of solidarity

:47:44.:47:46.

and empowerment where people have come together to raise awareness,

:47:47.:47:53.

to speak their minds and to advocate This is a sobering reminder that

:47:54.:47:56.

attacks on any American, regardless of race, ethnicity,

:47:57.:48:00.

religion or sexual orientation, is an attack on all of us,

:48:01.:48:07.

and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define

:48:08.:48:10.

us as a country. No act of hate or terror

:48:11.:48:15.

will ever change the values He went on to say that this massacre

:48:16.:48:34.

further reminds us how easy it is the people to get their hands on the

:48:35.:48:39.

web and should add a school, cinema or a nightclub. He asked, is this

:48:40.:48:45.

the country we want to be? President Obama is not the only politician

:48:46.:48:47.

come this attack comes in the midst of a heated political campaign, the

:48:48.:48:51.

one for the White House come here in America. The candidates running for

:48:52.:48:55.

the presidency have been weighing in on the shooting. The presumptive

:48:56.:48:58.

Republican nominee Donald Trump has tweeted:

:48:59.:49:06.

Hilary Clinton has added: Woke up to hear the devastating

:49:07.:49:09.

She said this was an act of terror and the lack of hate, she said

:49:10.:49:23.

please note that you have millions of eyes across our country, you are

:49:24.:49:26.

one of that I am one of them, we're fighting for your right to live

:49:27.:49:30.

freely, openly and without fear. Hate has no place.

:49:31.:49:32.

It's horrific, it's unthinkable and our hopes go out to all those

:49:33.:49:37.

who were shot that they can recover, and 25 years ago I believed in this

:49:38.:49:40.

country we should not be selling automatic weapons designed to kill

:49:41.:49:44.

people, and we have to do everything we can to make sure guns do not fall

:49:45.:49:50.

into the hands of people who should not have them, criminals,

:49:51.:49:55.

people who are mentally ill, so that struggle continues.

:49:56.:50:06.

This is a complete investigation, the FBI is looking at links to

:50:07.:50:12.

so-called Islamic State after the shooter allegedly called in and said

:50:13.:50:15.

he had affiliations and supported them. But the shooter's father has

:50:16.:50:21.

also said he had a hatred of the LGBT community and he got very angry

:50:22.:50:26.

when he saw two gay men testing Zebre testing in a restaurant. Mike

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thingy relic is the editor at large for the having to post's voices

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website. What is the reaction this morning from the LGBT community?

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People are horrified and really outraged, angrily about what they

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are seeing and really coming together forcefully to show

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solidarity. There are vigils that are planned all across the country

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in New York and Los Angeles and there is prize going on there, so

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those will turn individuals as well. -- Pride. All across the South as

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well. The factory shooter's father Kim Medard said he has seen two gay

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men kissing, and the old full implications of what then happened

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come so that got angry and took it out on the gay community in a

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handle. Ayew, guess the question isn't is everyone as a and stunned,

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do you pick up undercurrents of hatred in America still that would

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make you think this could happen? Absolutely. You know, there has been

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a sort of I call it a victory blindness where people, because

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we've had some big wins and a marriage equality, they think that

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the hatred has gone away and at the animosity has gone away and huge

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portions of the country are still very much opposed to LGBT quality,

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we see a backlash in North Carolina and other states, laws passed

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against a quality God alone -- religious liberties laws. We seen

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this backlash and nightclubs under attack before we seen lesbian clubs

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attacked in Atlanta in the 90s, we've just seen last fall in Dallas

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gay bars under attack. It is a site, space where we seen attackers go and

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I am a little bit concerned that there is so much focus on this on

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international terrorism and the connection to it which we've not

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seen yet in anything, there is still much that has not been found out and

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we should also be focused on how this man was filled with hatred,

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obviously seeing these two gay men kissing and that drove him to

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something. Doing something in the name of Isis or some other group can

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give someone a sense of higher purpose are doing something hateful,

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but it does not mean that it is connected to that. We need to focus

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on the homophobia and rage that still persists in so many people.

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This man has shown anger against his wife, we have seen some reports, he

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has been someone who certainly was filled with that kind of hate

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against people. Thank you. This will be part of its investigation. The

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FBI now will be trawling through everything surrounding this man,

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they will look at his electronic communications and cell phone calls,

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who he had contact with and whether he had any associates or anyone knew

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about this. Of course they will look at what his father said about his

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reaction when he saw two gay men kissing in a restaurant in Florida.

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More on this investigation as it in full -- and four from Washington.

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Bacteria. Thank you. A great deal of detail still to emerge from the

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various strands of this investigation. Earlier, Orlando

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police chief John Mina spoke more about the police response to the

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shooting. We had 11 Orlando police officers that exchanged gunfire with

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the suspect and killed him. They have all been relieved of duty as is

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standard practice. Before Department of Law enforcement will investigate

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the officer involved, the shooting portion of that and we will release

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their names over the next couple of days. We want the citizens and

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residents and visitors to know we are committed to their safety and

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our officers put themselves in harm 's way and risk their lives for the

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people and patrons at Pulse and we are committed to do so again. This

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time we will continue with the investigation and assist the FBI and

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focuses on helping the identification and next of kin and

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were setting up a system for that as well. John Mina from the local

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police department. There have been many tributes pouring into those who

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died and condolences expressed to the relatives and friends of the

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victims of the shooting last night. At least 50 people died, more than

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53 have been wounded. The Pope expressed his horror over what he

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called the homicidal folly of the Florida nightclub massacre. The

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French president said he expresses the full support of France and the

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French people with America's authorities and it people in this

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difficult time. The British Prime Minister said I am horrified by

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reports of the overnight shooting in Orlando, my thoughts are with the

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victims and their families. And Hillary Clinton has issued a

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statement saying this was an act of terror and also an act of hate. She

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said to the LGBT community across America, please know that you have

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millions of allies across our country. The Florida governor has

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asked for all of the US to have a moment of silence at 6pm Eastern

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time. This is BBC News. Good evening, it has been a messy

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