Bnsf. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a gunman at a school, mass casualties, and emergency crews the scene was eerily familiar and, once again, horrifying. This time, tragedy struck at a grade school in a small connecticut town. 20 of the 27 dead are children. We begin our coverage with president obamas emotional address to the nation this afternoon. Weve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. And each time i learn the news, i react not as a president but as anybody else would, as a parent. And that was especially true today. I know theres not a paren
Its really not, because it closer to that. And its a little bit of a spot. The referee said its touching that pole, but its really not. You tell em. Love her. Thank you, everyone, for joining us. Im fresh out of time, but stay tuned for Newsroom International with suzanne malveaux. Welcome to cnn newsroom. Heres whats going on right now. History is made on the floor of the u. S. House and senate. The 113th congress is convening for the first time. The gavels came down moments ago, all reelected and newly elected officers take the oath of office. There were 97 freshman, 84 in the house, 13 in the senate. While republicans still control the house, democrats gained seats in both chambered, two more in the senate, eight more in the house. A bit of added drama as well on the house side. Speaker john boehner hoping to hold john to his leadership position. He has lost some support from some republicans that were outraged he delayed a vote on Hurricane Sandy relief. Boehner and nancy pelosi ar
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions earlier today a number of our citizens, beautiful children, had their life taken way from them. Woodruff a horrific shooting at a grade school in connecticut today left at least 27 people dead, most of them young children. Good evening. Im judy woodruff. Warner and im margaret warner. On the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the massacre, one of the worst mass killings in world history. Woodruff today brings back memories of past shootings, and revives the conversation about School Safety and how to talk to children about violence, subjects we address once again tonight. Warner then, ray suarez profiles three young immigrants the u. S. Illegally and seeking a reprieve from deportation. My values and customs are now american. So, you know, the idea of getting kicked out to korea and never come back to the u. S. , i just cant even imagine this woodruff mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Warner and we examine the
We are live at the National Press club in washington. The National Governors association will lay out issues of priority to them. We will hear from the chairman and the vice chair, the better jack markell of delaware, governor jack markell of delaware, and mary fallin of oklahoma. It is the time of the year for state of the state addresses, and we have several to date. The governor of connecticut will talk about Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, and the recent shooting in newtown, andrew cuomo of new york is expected to oppose a weapons ban, and then talk about hurricane sunday Hurricane Sandy relief. Tonight, bob mcdonnell, who yesterday announced a tax for transportation funding over five years. Well have all of those live today beginning at noon with the governor of connecticut. Back to the issue of guns and gun violence, again, into is likely to propose an assault weapons ban, and Vice President joe biden will begin meetings, hearing with victims groups in gun safety organizations. H
For as you mentioned 6,000 people or so, Long Island Sound took on brutal winds and that caused a lot of the Power Outages here in rhode island. About 185,000 customers of National Grid without power. So about almost 40 of their customer base. Thats a lot of folks, unfortunately. And its going to be a long time, perhaps, before a lot of them get their power back on because of all this snow out here. Now, this is stuff piled up by snow crews, as plows coming through trying to keep portions of downtown open here. Fortunately, theres not a lot of traffic. Thats a good thing. They got to keep the roads open because these are arteries to trauma centers. Hopefully, we wont have muched me for that today. But obviously, theyre trying to get everything out of the way for power crews to assess the situation. One thing we can talk about, the fact that this snow will stop falling, hopefully, within the next hour or so so the crews can start working in earnest today to get the power restored. Massa