>> and this last 24 hours, no doubt, unusual in the scope since columbine. you've never been assigned to something like this and wake up and then there's another shooting, another mass shooting with nine people dead. many of them young people. celebrating a birthday party. i was on air earlier today. i have lost words with all of this in the last 24 hours that we've been through. >> you know, pieces of every story stay with you for sure. i remember so vividly driving into the newtown community after we found out that all those little children had been viciously murdered. their lives taken. and i saw christmas lights on some of the homes and i thought to myself, there will be children whose christmas presents are under the tree but