[Curnow:] OK, I wanted to return to Martin Savidge and the breaking news out of Florida. The search for a child dragged away by an alligator at a Disney World resort. Hard to imagine I'm even saying those words. A devastating wrestle between a father and an alligator, and the child still missing.
[Martin Savidge, Cnn Correspondent:] Yes Robyn, this is supposed to be of course the happiest place on earth. That's how often Disney World is described. Tonight is a very different scene that's playing out. It's about a half mile away that the search effort is now being conducted on The Seven Seas Lagoon. This all transpired around five hours ago. A little after nine o'clock in the evening local time. A family of five, they had come from Nebraska and were playing along the waterfront right beside the Grand Floridian Hotel. It's an upscale, beautiful, large hotel, one of a number that are on the properties of Disney World. And while the two year old, according to authorities was playing near the water's edge, the alligator that was said to be anywhere from four to seven feet in length came up and grabbed the child. The father was nearby and immediately dove into the water and wrestled with the alligator and fought to try to retrieve his own child, but he alligator was able to get away and the child went with it. So right now there are at least 50 officers, Sheriff's Department, Fish and Wildlife, as well as we are told an alligator trapper out on the water or on the edge of this lagoon. It is quite a substantial body of water, to try to locate the child. They are up against a number of problems of course: one a wild animal, they are also up against the darkness, and they are also up against the underbrush that is along the shoreline there. All of that making this extremely difficult, and as more time goes by, the Sheriff's authorities will tell you the outcome is not projected to be good here. The family is being cared for, but they know that with every passing moment the odds of finding that child alive are less and less. The Sheriff of 35 years says he has never known or seen anything like it. Alligators are common, but this sort of thing is definitely not, Robyn.
[Curnow:] OK Martin Savage thanks so much. And US president Barack Obama has clearly had it with Donald Trump and his reaction to the Orlando terror attacks. He met with reporters on Tuesday at the White House and not mentioning his name, blasted Trump over his ideas on immigration and terrorism. Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash filed this story.
[Barack Obama, President Of The United States:] We are now seeing how dangerous this kind of mindset and this kind of thinking can be.
[Dana Bash, Cnn Chief Political Correspondent:] A rhetorical explosion, rare for any president, especially one who prides himself on keeping calm.
[Obama:] we now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the United States to bar all Muslims from immigrating to America. In your language this singles out immigrants. And suggests entire religious communities are complacent in violence. Where does this stop?
[Bash:] Tearing into Donald Trump with visible anger and disgust.
[Obama:] That's not the America we want. It doesn't'reflect our democratic ideals. It won't make us more safe; it will make us less safe.
[Bash:] The power of his words amplified by the stage crowd, a Commander-in-Chief coming out of a counter terrorism briefing standing with his top military office, a four-star general.
[Obama:] We've gone through moments in our history before when we acted out of fear, and we came to regret it. We don't have religious tests here. Our founders, our constitution, our Bill of Rights are clear about that. And if we ever abandon those values, we would not only make it a lot easier to radicalize people here and around the world, but we would have betrayed the very things we are trying to protect.
[Bash:] And what really got him going, the GOP refrain that he is weak on terrorism because he refuses to use the term radical Islam.
[Obama:] There has not been a moment in my seven and a half years as President where we have not been able to pursue a strategy because we didn't use the label radical Islam. Not once has an advisor of mine said man, if we really use that phrase, we're going to turn this whole thing around. Not once. So someone seriously thinks that we don't know who we're fighting?
[Bash:] All that as the candidate Obama endorsed delivered a more measured version of the same message.
[Hillary Clinton , Presidential Candidate:] He is fixated on the words radical Islam. Now I must say I find this strange. Is Donald Trump suggesting that there are magic words that once uttered will stop terrorists from coming after us?
[Bash:] Hillary Clinton continues to use Trump's response to the Orlando massacre to define him as too volatile for the White House.
[Clinton:] Yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested that President Obama is on the side of the terrorists. Now just think about that for a second. Even in a time of divided politics, this is way beyond anything that should be said by someone running for President of the United States.
[Bash:] Dana Bash, CNN Washington.
[Curnow:] Donald Trump is firing back at Mr. Obama. He says the president can't effectively deal with Isis and terrorism if he can't even utter the words radical Islam.
[Donald Trump , Presidential Candidate:] And I watched President Obama today, and he was more angry at me than he was at the shooter, and many people said that. One of the folks from television said boy, has Trump gotten under his skin. But he was more angry, and a lot of people have said this, the level of anger, that's the kind of anger he should have for the shooter, and these killers that shouldn't be here.
[Curnow:] Well the Orlando terror attack is putting renewed focus on LGBT rights in Florida. CNN's Anderson Cooper challenged the state's Attorney General, Pam Bondi on Tuesday. Take a listen to this
[Anderson Cooper, Cnn Anchor:] I want to ask you, I saw you the other day saying that anyone who attacks the LGBT community will be gone after with the full extent of the law.
[Pam Bondi, Florida Attorney General:] That's absolutely right.
[Cooper:] I talked to a lot of gay and lesbian people here yesterday who are not fans of yours, and who said that they thought you were being a hypocrite that you for years have fought; you basically have gone after gay people. Said that in court that gay people simply by fighting for marriage equality were trying to do harm to the people in Florida, to induce public harm I believe was the term you used in court. Do you really think you are a champion of the gay community?
[Bondi:] Let me tell you. When I was sworn in as attorney general, I put my hand on a bible and was sworn to uphold the constitution of the state of Florida. That's not a law that was voted into our state constitution by the voters of Florida. That's what I was defending. It had nothing to do; I never said I don't like gay people. That's ridiculous.
[Cooper:] But do you worry about using language accusing gay people of trying to do harm to the people of Florida when doesn't that send a message to some people who might have bad ideas in mind?
[Bondi:] Anderson, I don't believe gay people could do harm to the State of Florida.
[Cooper:] But you argued that in court.
[Bondi:] My lawyer argued a case defending what the Supreme Court allowed the voters to put in our state constitution.
[Cooper:] Right. And you were arguing that if there was gay marriage, if there was same sex marriage, that it would do harm to the people of Florida. That it was constitutional to put that in the constitution Are you saying you did not believe it would do harm to Florida?
[Bondi:] Of course not. Of course not.
[Curnow:] Well the state's attorney general says more than 69% of Florida voters decided that state's constitution should ban same-sex marriage. Still ahead on CNN, Reeva Steenkamp's father delivers an emotional plea to a South African court which is deciding the fate of his daughter's killer. We'll hear why he says Oscar Pistorius has to pay.