people outside 12 minutes before he went inside. we also have extremely emotional video of parents gathered outside robb elementary while the shooting was happening. some were screaming as you can hear at police to storm the building and save their children. vigils and memorials are giving families and the community a chance to grieve, but nothing will bring back the 21 people that they have lost. and we re hearing now fror the first time from the mother of the gun man. translator: i have no words. i have no words to say. i don t know what he was thinking. he had his reasons for doing what he did, and please don t judge him. i only want the innocent children who died to forgive me. what do you tell their families? translator: forgive me. forgive my son. i know he had his reasons. what reasons could he have had? translator: to get closer to those children instead of paying attention to the other bad things. i have no words. i don t know. cnn s jason carroll has mor
hour two. welcome. i m brooke baldwin. families are reacting as the man accused of carrying out the massacre officials hears the charges against him. 124 counts including two dozen murder charges. we ll talk about that in just a moment. first, to syria. we have been talking about the commercial hub of this country, that being aleppo. so far they have failed to rest control of the city from the increasing confident rebels. take a look at this video. far from hunkering down and taking a pounding. the anti-government rebels attacked this military base. this is north of aleppo. they drove out the government forces and seized all kinds of weapons including several tanks. iran watson is in syria. he witnessed this battle overnight. here is what he said. reporter: the army base was firing in all different directions with machine guns. it was firing big tanks outside hitting the neighbors villages. they called in artillery all the way from aleppo which was a couple of miles down