Kayla Gaskill, left, is comforted by her mother, and Connie Pegler, right, at a makeshift memorial for the victims of Wednesday's shooting rampage, Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, in San Bernardino, Calif. Gaskill said her friend Daniel Kaufman was killed in the shooting. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — The latest on the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California (all times local):
10:35 a.m.
President Barack Obama says this week's deadly California shootings were "an act of terror" carried out by attackers who were possibly radicalized to commit it.
The president's comments came during his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, a day after the FBI said it was investigating Wednesday's shootings as "an act of terrorism."
Obama says proven radicalization would underscore the threat posed by people who give in to violent extremist ideologies.
FBI Director James Comey (KOH'-mee) said evidence thus far indicates the shooters showed signs of radicalization but were not part of a broader terrorist network.
Several Republican presidential candidates had quickly labeled the shootings an act of terrorism and faulted Obama for not saying so immediately.
On Thursday, as investigators were searching for a motive, Obama said at the White House that the shootings could have been terrorist-related or workplace-related.
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3:02 a.m.
In Pakistan, a relative of female shooter Tashfeen Malik says the woman apparently became a more zealous follower of the Muslim faith about three years ago.
Hifza Batool tells The Associated Press on Saturday other relatives have said that Malik, who was her step-niece, used to wear Western clothes but began wearing the hijab head covering or the all-covering burqa donned by the most conservative Muslim women about three years ago.
"I recently heard it from relatives that she has become a religious person and she often tells people to live according to the teachings of Islam," said Batool, 35, a private school teacher who lives in Karor Lal Esam, about 450 kilometers (280 miles) southwest of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
Batool said she had never met Malik, who mostly grew up in Saudi Arabia with her family. Batool said the two families were not on speaking terms.
"Tashfreen Malik's parents are rich and we are poor and they don't like to meet with their poor relatives," she said.
— Associated Press writer Asim Tanveer in Karor Lal Esam, Pakistan
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2:40 a.m.
The Islamic State group's official radio station has aired a statement saying the mass shooting in California was carried out by two "supporters" of the extremist group.
While praising the attack, the group stopped short of claiming responsibility for it. The Al-Bayan report Saturday echoed a claim carried Friday by the IS-affiliated Aamaq news agency.
The radio report did not refer to Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik as actual members of the Islamic State group. Militants affiliated with IS who carry out attacks are commonly referred to in the group's propaganda as "lions," ''fighters" or "mujahedeen."
Dec. 5, 2015 1:36 PM EST 
— From Associated Press writer Maamoun Youssef in Cairo
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