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Jun 17
2016 |
Obama Visiting With Families, Victims of Orlando Shooting |
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President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are now in Orlando meeting with the families of victims and first responders there, after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and the deadliest attack in the United States since 9/11.
A gunman killed 49 people in Sunday’s early morning massacre, and the president is offering his condolences to the victims’ families. It's his 10th visit to a community victimized by a mass shooting during his presidency.
Despite the political differences between the two, Obama was joined on Air Force One by Sen. Marco Rubio R-Fla., for the trip to the senator’s home state amid their calls for unity and solidarity.
Upon arriving in Orlando, Obama and Biden met with law enforcement officials and first responders to the Pulse nightclub, they then stopped at the Orlando Amway Center in downtown Orlando to meet with survivors and victims' families.
At Wednesday’s White House briefing, Josh Earnest said that “the profound sense of survivor’s guilt that... |
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| Source:http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-visiting-families-victims-orlando/story?id=39885188 |
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