. Welcome to cbs this morning. Norah odonnell is on assignment. At bea ma is awarning people will lose their jobs and services will be slashed with budget cuts. We are nine days away from the deep automatic spending cuts. Bill plante is at the white house. Bill, good morning. Reporter good morning and good morning out west. Well, republican congressional leaders say that if the cuts happen theyll be the president s fault even though some of their members want the cuts. The president says that he doesnt want the cuts either. In the next few hours hell be talking to local tv reporters to as one official here put it continue to turn up the pressure on republicans to compromise. This is not an abstraction. People will lose their jobs. Reporter with just over a week until the cuts take effect the president s placing the blame for the sequester squarely at the doorstep of republicans in congress. Last thing our families can afford right now is pain imposed unnecessarily by partisan recklessn
Week. We afterlook ski week. We will talk about more rain chances coming up in about 10 minutes in the extended forecast. Thankings paul. Santa cruz police have a man suspected of raping and beating student yesterday. Kpixs 5 Elissa Harrington has more on the attack there happened in broad daylight. Reporter it was along this path to science hill that a 21 yearold was raped yesterday while visiting the school. Thats really scary because i pass that street every other day and see people walking along by themselves the awe talk happened around 12 00 of in the afternoon. The woman said she was 12 30 in the afternoon. Jim burns, Spokesman Says random attacks are rare here shocking. Its not to suggest that crime doesnt occur on our campus. Its just that this is not the norm. This is the Second Attack linked to uc santa cruz in a week. A student was shot in the head while waiting for a bus off campus. Often i am biomass. I might reconsider by myself. I definitely might reconsider. I definite
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Those poor people are terribly disfigured. I cant look at them. People have been saying that to these people their whole lives. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The one remaining mystery in the tragedy in newtown, connecticut, is the question of why. Why did adam lanza, the 20yearold gunman, shoot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and murder 20 first graders and six members of the school staff . Well, tonight, multiple sources in Law Enforcement tell us that one motivation was an obsession with a mass murder committed the year before. Bob orr is breaking this story for us tonight. Reporter Law Enforcement sources say adam lanza saw himself as being in direct competition with anders breivik, a norwegian man who killed 77 people in july, 2011. Breivik killed eight with a bombing in downtown oslo, he then moved to a nearby island where he hunted down and fatally shot 69 people, mostly teenagers attending a summer camp
To the kids as best we could that there was a threat but we had to be strong. We had to put up the front that everything is good. Youre protected here. Reporter what was it like at home . I didnt sleep that night. We had two officers posted in our backyard. Every 20, 25 minutes i just get up and look out my window. There they were standing tall with their gun in hand and their helmet on. And they never slept. Reporter dorners rampage began with the murder of monica kwan and her financee in a parked car. Kwans father is a retired l. A. P. D. Captain who represented dorner at the departmental hearing. It didnt take much training to be able to walk up to two unsuspecting people and kill them there. Reporter do you ever wonder or think of what if he had had the opportunity right then would the story not have been about kwan . Would it have been about the tingirides. We thought about that. I looked at my daughter walking out to the car like, you know miss kwan and just the thought of even t