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LIVE FROM THE CITY'S -- CBS
BROADCAST CENTER, THIS IS CBS2
NEWS AT 11:00.
FINDING LIGHT THROUGH
DARKNESS.
A CROSS AMERICA AND HERE IN NEW
YORK, CROWDS REMEMBER 49
INNOCENT LIVES TAKEN IN THE
ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB MASSACRE.
AS THE PAIN OF WHAT HAPPENED
SINKS IN FOR SURVIVORS.
A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE
DEAD.
[ CRYING ] IT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE
THAT ARE DEAD.
GOOD EVENING TO YOU.
I'M KRISTINE JOHNSON.
MAURICE IS OFF TONIGHT.
WE SAW TEARS YET ALSO AN
INCREDIBLE SHOW OF STRENGTH IN
THE WAKE OF THE MASSACRE IN
ORLANDO.
TEAM COVERAGE TONIGHT FROM
GREENWICH VILLAGE TO THE CRIME
SCENE.
LET'S START WITH CBS2'S LOU
YOUNG LIVE IN FLORIDA.
LOU?
Reporter: KRISTINE, WHAT WAS
REMARKABLE HERE IN ORLANDO
TONIGHT WAS THE COMPLETE,
APPARENT UTTER LACK OF ANGER
AND VENOM.
THE PEOPLE WHO GATHERED IN
DOWNTOWN ORLANDO HAD A DEMEANOR
AND A MESSAGE THAT WOULD HAVE
PROBABLY TAKEN THE KILLER BY
SURPRISE.
LIKE THE RALLIES ACROSS THE
GLOBE, THOSE WHO GATHERED IN
DOWNTOWN ORLANDO HAD THE
MESSAGE, BUT THESE PEOPLE ALSO
CARRIED A PAIN, SPECIFIC TO
THIS EVENT.
INTIMATE AND VERY REAL.
NICO ROMAN CAME TO STAND WITH
THE CITY HOURS AFTER LEARNING
THE SECOND OF TWO FRIENDS HAD
DIED AT THE PULSE CLUB SUNDAY
MORNING.
WE DIDN'T GET THE FINAL WORD
THAT HE HAD PASSED UNTIL
EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON.
Reporter: HALEY CHRISTIE
KNOWS ONE FRIEND IS GONE.
AND HOLDS OUT SLIM HOPE FOR A
SECOND.
ONE IS STILL MISSING.
THE OTHER WAS IN SURGERY AND
DIED.
Reporter: ALL TYPES OF
PEOPLE ATTENDED.
MUSLIMS WERE CONSPICUOUS BY
THEIR VISIBLE PRESENCE.
THE CROWD EVEN SHEARED A MUSLIM
CLERIC WHO CONDEMNED THE KILLER
AND HIS EXPRESSED IDEOLOGY.
WE CONDEMN THE IDEOLOGY OF
HATE AND DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
AND WE CALL FOR ALL MUSLIM
LEADERS AND COMMUNITIES ACROSS
THIS NATION AND ACROSS THE WORLD
TO STAND UP AND TO DEAL WITH
THIS CANCER AND TO REMOVE IT
ONCE AND FOR ALL.
Reporter: IN THIS CROWD,
THERE WAS NO VISIBLE APPETITE
FOR RAILING AGAINST RADICAL
ISLAM.
I DON'T THINK IT HAD TO DO
ANYTHING WITH RELIGION TO BEGIN
WITH.
IT'S JUST HATE.
Reporter: AMID THE MISERY IN
ORLANDO, A STORY OF HER WAS.
A 24-YEAR-OLD BOUNCER AT THE
CLUB, U.S. VETERAN WHO SERVED
IN AFGHANISTAN WHO RISKED HIS
OWN LIFE TO RUN FROM COVER,
OPEN AND EXIT DOOR UNDER FIRE,
AND LEAD PEOPLE TO SAFETY, YOU
SAID IS CREDITED WITH SAVING
MANY LIVES BUT IS CONFRONTATION
HAUNTED BY THOSE HE COULDN'T
HELP.
I WISH I COULD HAVE SAVED
MORE TO BE HONEST.
[ CRYING ] THERE'S A LOT OF
PEOPLE THAT ARE DEAD.
A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE DEAD.
Reporter: THIS CITY
REMEMBERS.
LATER TODAY, THE WHITE HOUSE
ANNOUNCED PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL
BE COMING HERE TO ORLANDO ON
THURSDAY TO OFFER
WHAT COMFORT HE CAN.