0 the thoughtful gift and send you their warmest thanks and best wishes. anderson says that she now feels like a princess. aptly so. a family member that s already had one prayer answered. now hoping for another. listen to this story. year and a half ago the little girl s dog managed during a family vacation, and she was devastated. since then she has developed brain cancer and is one very sick little girl. last month her family got a call that their dog was in a shelter in arizona and thanks to a microchip the dog was returned to her in california. the family calls him the best medicine for beating cancer. please let there be one more miracle in this story. it is the top of the hour. welcome to the cnn hughes room. i m martin savidge in for frederica whitfield, and here are the top stories we are following. police believe a teenager was bent on revenge when he opened fire at his colorado school, but they don t know what made him snap. now they re searching for clues in two dif
and i explained to her that there was a fire and that we hadn t decided what we were going to do there. and she basically asked me why i hadn t planted some flowers. i told her that the ground was scorched and that flowers probably wouldn t grow. and she had said to me that i should plant flowers even if they weren t going to last forever. that statement from this little girl had a big impact on annette. even if your beauty is only fleeting, isn t there something to be found in acknowledging the beauty that we have today. so yeah, we planted flowers anyway. avielle s instinct to create beauty in the middle of the ugliest of circumstances was obviously nurtured at home. at the very lowest point in their lives, jeremy richmond and jennifer hensel began to ask what they could do to prevent future acts of violence. after avielle was killed i couldn t sit on a couch. i had to be on the floor. i had to be grounded.
as soon as jeremy richmond and jennifer hensel s large network of friends learned their daughter avielle had been killed at sandy hook elementary school, they began heading to newtown. i was on vacation in barcelona and i just caught the next flight back to the states. within minutes i found a flight and i made arrangements for childcare. that was like, like i have to get up there. with their friends gathered around them, jennifer and jeremy grieved and began to plan. it was over the course of a couple of days where we started talking about how would they want to honor avi s legacy. those discussions quickly led to the creation of the avielle foundation. the goal of the foundation, prevent violence with science and education. to accomplish that, avielle s parents want her organization to fund long term brain research that looks for the biological root of violence. professor adrien rein is an
0 he never did, but i still flinch when he s around. he never did, but i still flinch captions by vitac www.vitac.com probablyth best tomorrow night best-selling author tony robbins. his promise to the newtown families. that s up it for us. ac 360 later starts right now. oh, mr. sun mr. golden sun please shine down on me daniel was drawn to music. he always wanted to be a drummer. i still really can t seem to get my head around that this has happened and how final it is. good job, joey. the bottom just falls out for you. what s left is faith. i have hope i ll see my daughter again. i had to be on the floor because i felt if i stood up the world would spin away. i remember asking why would somebody walk into the school and kill my child. in the wake of unfathomable grief, our hearts are broken, our spirit is not. three different quests for change. that s going to buy time. for their children, for all children. we want to prevent somebody else from sufferi
of silence on the one-week anniversary. we did not stop there. we teamed up with one of our good friends who gathered 3 million signatures on the newtown sympathy card, so now we have a band of americans of over 300 million people who agree that we must stop this violence. we helped to build the sandy hook website that launched one month after the tragedy. and we launched the social media around that website. and now, today, on the 3-month anniversary, we are announcing that we should harass and will harass, innovation to bring solutions to gun safety, mental health, and school safety. let s face it, if the tech community can create awesome companies like google, facebook, and twitter, we can certainly turn our attention to innovating around safety. so we agree that legislative efforts are important, and we are pursuing that. but today is all about innovation and please come to the town hall at noon right behind us here and we are going to have a panel discussion about innova