Police Release 911 Calls From Orlando Club Attack
CAMEROTA: For the first time, we're hearing the frantic calls for help from inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando after that terrorist opened fire, killing 49 people and injuring dozens of others. Obviously, this is disturbing stuff. If you would like to turn the sound down on your television, now would be the right time. CNN's Martin Savidge is live in Atlanta with more. Martin, what's the latest here?</s>MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Alisyn. Well, we've had transcripts of these 911 calls. In other words, you've been able to read the words of 911 callers. This is the first time you're actually going to be able to hear them. They are by no means all of the calls. But they do give us some very strong insight into the chaos and the confusion and the killing. Take a listen.</s>CALLER: My girlfriend is hiding in the club Pulse.</s>SAVIDGE (voice-over): They are the first 911 calls to be heard from the Pulse nightclub attack.</s>CALLER: He's still in the bathroom and he's bleeding. He got shot. Nobody's going in for him.</s>SAVIDGE: Spanning three hours, beginning minutes after the first shots are fired.</s>DISPATCH: How many shots did you hear?</s>CALLER: More than ten.</s>SAVIDGE: None of these calls are from inside the club during the shooting. One is from a man who's just managed to escape.</s>DISPATCH: And you're not injured?</s>CALLER: No, no, no. I'm fine. We were leaving the club, and then as soon as we left, gunshots were just going like crazy.</s>SAVIDGE: Others from the family members and friends receiving desperate calls or texts from those inside, relaying to authorities a chilling glimpse of the unfolding horror.</s>CALLER: One of our friends sent us a text and said that he's been shot and he's in the bathroom and no one sees him.</s>SAVIDGE: One man overcome with fear and frustration after multiple calls, unloads on the operator, unable to understand why police have not rescued his girlfriend.</s>CALLER: There are now four dead in the bathroom and two shot. They're bleeding out. If somebody doesn't get there soon, they're going to die.</s>DISPATCH: OK, sir.</s>CALLER: And this is like</s>DISPATCH: Sir, we have people there.</s>SAVIDGE: These are the rollover calls, calls that went to the Orange County sheriff's department after the Orlando 911 call center became overloaded. Operators try to get information.</s>DISPATCH: Where is your brother located in the club? Did he say?</s>SAVIDGE: And try to console desperate family members.</s>DISPATCH: We are in the club. We're searching for everyone. We're pulling victims out.</s>SAVIDGE: It will be hours more before the world learns the extent of the mass killing.</s>SAVIDGE: And again, just so people understand, these were released by the orange county sheriff's office. There are hundreds more of these 911 calls that the Orlando Police Department has. Right now, they're still tied up by the investigation and potential litigation. But again, just a sampling and they are deeply, deeply moving -- Chris and Alisyn.</s>CAMEROTA: They are. I mean, they are chilling and to know, because we were down there reporting. The frustration of everyone on the outside saying, why aren't police going in, why aren't they doing more? We're getting cell phone calls from everybody. And, of course, then the police have their side about how they were trying to methodically box in the terrorist, but it's just -- it brings it all back to hear the calls from that night.</s>CUOMO: And, Martin, you did a good job with that. It's always a tough call because you're reliving people's worst moments and people will ask why. Again, it is important to remember what's happened. That gives you the momentum to make sure it doesn't happen again. All right. So, we're going to take a break right now. Donald Trump has a big meeting with Mexico with the president there. What a context after more than a year of heated anti-Mexico rhetoric. Who wins in this situation? What happens on the other side of it? We're going to ask a former Republican official who is supporting Hillary Clinton. Plus, Mike Pence and Vicente Fox coming up at 8:00 a.m. NEW DAY, not a show to miss today.