congress yesterday. the courage that was demonstrated by those teachers, we don t expect the same amount of counseling from our lkd officials but lord sake, we do expect them to have the courage to up. will this turn into something concrete? it looking harder than anybody thought, the momentum is fading. gun people are very down. they think that the president didn t act fast enough. we will have live coverage of the president s remarks. but first we re getting new and intriguing details about the school shooting that started it all. a massive amount of documents in the newtown shooting were unsealed in just the last two hours. among the revelations, adam lanza fired 154 bullets from his assault rifle the day he killed 20 kids and six adults at sandy hook elementary. one of the books in his home was an nra guide to the basics of pistol shooting and an article about another school shooting seized from his home as well as. michael sisikoff is in connecticut. walk us thro
0 house speaker john boehner said, quote, today the president advanced an argument republicans have been make for a year his sequester is the wrong way to cut spending. mitch mcconelle insisted, more than three months after the november election, president obama still prefers campaign events to common sense bipartisan action. meanwhile the co-chairs of the president s 2010 budget reduction panel. are offering another plan, we re talking about simpson and bowles. their first attempt was ignored by the administration and congressional members. this latest proposal would save $600 billion in changes in health care programs and tax reform. on top of that $1.2 trillion would come on cutting down discretionary spending. allen simpson said that it represents a badly needed reality check for our nation. before you begin drool at the mouth, read the report. use your bean instead of listening to crap from the left and right. he will have a failed presidency unless he deals with the social se
0 and luckily reporter: there s a siren now. let s see what happens. it will only fire. the system calculates which rockets will hit an inhabited areas, like here, but it misses 2 out of 10, making life scary. children in bomb shelters for the sixth straight day. i m afraid of the sirens, this 7-year-old says. another siren just as we left, not sure how many rockets have been fired right now, but the iron dome one, two, three, four iron dome rockets are exploding. we ll see what damage it did. five rockets fired from gaza, four intercepted, one got through and fell in a garden. there s some drama right now. nobody knows if there s casualties. terrifying some neighbors. others defiant. we will survive. we will survive. nbc s martin fletcher reporting. israel s iron dome comes with a hefty price tag. the u.s. has reportedly spent some $200 million out of the $500 million price tag and each of those countermeasure rockets cost as much as $500,000 each. to a breaking story in
the torch is here. the olympic fever is contagious. we will take you on a tour of this area. in our next half hour, who will be the next michael phelps? we will look at the break outstars. of course, english is the official language here, but you need to know what people are talking about. we will explain that coming up. jenna. back here. new hope for the girls missing for more than a week. they are cousins who vanished. the police say there is an indication that they may be alive. and michael jackson s mother may be missing. paris jackson sent a tweet saying she doesn t know where she is and jermaine says she is just fine. we will have more on that. jenna. first jlo and now maraih? we will talk about the possible new idols in the buzz. america and the british alike here are following the tragic events in colorado. that is right, lester. president obama is heading to colorado to comfort the distraught families of the victims. this comes as federal law enforcement of
captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, everyone. welcome to a special edition of today on this sunday morning. i m lester holt in london. my colleague is holding down the for the fort in new york. good to see you. we ll get to the latest on aurora, colorado in a bit. with the london olympics five days away, i have to imagine, lester, people there are getting super excited about the games. they re really getting excited about the sunshine. it stopped raining. it is a gorgeous day. people picnicking along the thames behind me. london is buzzing about the olympics. the torch is here. the olympic fever is contagious. we ll take you on a tour of this area. in the next half hour, who will be the next michael phelps? we ll look at the potential great lak breakout star for the summer games. english is the official language here. you may need help to figure out what some folks are talking about.coming up in a bit. back here, new hope for two little g