Whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens from Law Enforcement to Mental Health professionals to parents and educators in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. Will this time be different . The sandy hook massacre finally ignites a National Conversation on gun control. New york city mayor Michael Bloomberg has been leading the way. Words alone cannot heal our nation. Only action can do that. Gun violence is a National Epidemic and a National Tragedy that demands more than words. This hour senator Dianne Feinstein about her push to reinstate the assault weapons ban. Its a first day bill im going to introduce in the senate and the same bill will be introduced in the house. A bill to ban assault weapons. It will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession. Not retroactively, but perspectively, and it will ban the same for big clips, drums, or strips of more than ten bullets. As the nation mourns 20 children and six women who tried t
make, we did obtain the divorce records today of the lanza family. no indication it was a contested divorce. it was no contest. she did have a very generous settlement from her husband, paul lanza, who was the is the ge executive. $250,000, quarter million dollars a year, escalating to about $298,000 this year. michael isokoff and ann thompson, thanks so much on a rainy, gloomy day that the weather matches obviously the mood up there in connecticut. thank you both. up next, we ll talk about school security with randy winegarden, president of the american federation of teachers on a day when teachers have been real heroes.
0 it s a first day bill i m going to introduce in the senate and the same bill will be introduced in the house. a bill to ban assault weapons. it will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession. not retroactively, but perspectively, and it will ban the same for big clips, drums, or strips of more than ten bullets. as the nation mourns 20 children and six women who tried to save them, some of the teachers who survived talk to matt lauer. it just kept going, so the noises that i started to hear were pops and, of course, i then at that point said, you know, we ve got to do this lockdown. immediately the leaders in our building did what they needed to do, and they ran out of the door knowing that that gunfire was showering the hallways and the classrooms. i just kept reassuring them that they would be okay, that they were loved, that their mommies and daddies would be there soon and that we had them, we had them. we would hold them tight. and they did continue