Emotional Reunion after Terror Attack.
CAMEROTA: In these days after the Orlando terror attack, one of the survivors has been reunited with the police officer who helped save his life. Our Anderson Cooper tells us how one of Orlando's finest went beyond the call of duty.</s>OFFICER OMAR DELGADO, EATONVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT: I need a big hug from you, man.</s>ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): It was an emotional reunion for survivor Angel Colon and Officer Omar Delgado.</s>DELGADO: I'm so glad you're alive, man.</s>COOPER: The first time the two have seen each other since their encounter last weekend at Pulse Nightclub, what we now know was the worst mass shooting on U.S. soil.</s>DELGADO: When I arrived, just all the chaos, the people running, screaming, crying, yelling.</s>COOPER: Officer Delgado entered the club, along with the other officers, shortly after he arrived on scene. Inside, the gunman was hold up elsewhere in the club.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my God.</s>COOPER: Gunshots were ringing out and Officer Delgado's instinct to protect kicked in.</s>DELGADO: Seconds later that we hear more gunshots.</s>COOPER (on camera): You could actually hear them from outside?</s>DELGADO: From outside, yes. And we didn't know what happened, but we - I followed them. It was three of us. We just jetted right inside.</s>COOPER (voice-over): Officer Delgado was able to help remove some of the wounded amidst the darkness and disco lights.</s>DELGADO: There were a lot of bodies all over on the floor. Somebody yelled out, this person is moving. Another person I saw was moving, so I went and another officer grabbed him. And I just don't recall if that was Angel or not, because we pulled like, you know, three or four people out.</s>ANGEL COLON, SURVIVOR: When he was dragging me out, I could just look up and tell him, please hurry, please hurry.</s>COOPER: The gunman had shot a woman next to Angel, then he shot Angel in the hand and hip. Angel pretended to be dead as the gunman kept firing.</s>COLON: When I first saw him I was, you know, I was face down, laying down on the floor. I could only move my arms and my head up. So I just saw him, his size, his glasses. So I'm like, just help me, please.</s>COOPER: A nine year veteran of the Eatonville Police Department, nothing could have prepared him for what he saw that night, 49 innocent people dead, dozens of others injured. But knowing he saved some lives brings some comfort in the midst of tragedy.</s>COOPER (on camera): What was it like to actually see him today?</s>DELGADO: It was a feeling that you just can't describe, you can't put into words, knowing that you helped save someone.</s>COOPER (voice-over): Anderson Cooper, CNN, Orlando.</s>CAMEROTA: Oh, my gosh, the bravery that went there that night, the police and of the survivors. It - it's been an intense week.</s>GREGORY: Yes. Being down there had to be so powerful seeing this first-hand.</s>CAMEROTA: It was. And, you know, the message that we kept hearing and we heard it again today on the show is that they just believe that love is the answer. Reach out to people, anyone in pain, you know? We - don't react in anger. Reach out and love people. They think that that - that's the answer. And the idea that so soon after a tragedy that that's what the people of Orlando feel, I think it means that the rest of us should feel way as well.</s>GREGORY: I think as much hate as there is in events like this, and as much despair as there is, there is the sense of perseverance and resiliency. That's what I think is so sustaining. And so when we - we think about the victims and we think of how much has been lost, we think about that, about kindness, about love and about what they stood for.</s>CAMEROTA: We try. It's been great to have you here today.</s>GREGORY: Thank you.</s>CAMEROTA: I know it's been an intense day, but you've done a great job.</s>GREGORY: Thank you.</s>CAMEROTA: It's been great to be with you.</s>GREGORY: Nice to be with you, as always. Thank you.</s>CAMEROTA: You too, David. All right, that does it for NEW DAY. NEWSROOM begins right now.