Reality set in a bit today in newtown, connecticut, a town that laid two 6yearold boys to rest. Funerals were held for jack pinto and noah poznor. They began at 1 00 toted. Svrss are planned for tuesday. You try to feel their pain, but you cant. You try to find some words that you hope will be adequate knowing that theyll be inadequate. We have begun processing the sxefd analyzing the evidence. Sandy hook elementary could be a crime scene for months. Weve seized it under search warrants, and were going to hold those locations until weve completed our work. School districts across the country have been boosting security. Were going to do our best to secure security statewide. Caring for our children. Its our first job. If we dont get that right, we dont get anything right. Thats how as a society we will be judged. Washington today the United States senate observed a moment of silence for the 20 children and six adults who were murdered here in newtown, connecticut, on friday morning. I
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Tomorrow night, the mother of jay cie dugard. 11yearold jaycee was abducted on her way to school and spent 18 years az aprisoner of a convicted sex offender. Now her mother is reaching out to 6yearold ethan, the little boy who was rescued this week after being held hostage in a back yard bunker. Her story and the message she has for ethan and his mom is tomorrow night. Plus get ready. The latest on the blizzard watch for much of the northeast and new england. Some say it could be an historic storm. Thats all for us tonight. Anderson cooper starts now. Tonight on the program, the bunker busters. New details about what happened in that alabama bunker in the split seconds when authorities went in, seconds that spelled life for a little boy who was able to turn 6 today and death for his captor. And later in the program, take a look at this man whos 74 years old. Hes on a pharmaceutical cocktail that makes it possible for him to look like that. The question tonight, has he found a healthy f
Tomorrow night, the mother of jaycee doogd. She spent 18 years as a prisoner of a convicted prisoner. Now her mother is reaching out to 6yearold ethan. The little boy being held hostage. Her story and negligent for ethan and his mom tomorrow night. Plus, get ready. The latest on the blizzard watch for much of the northeast and new england. Some say it could be an historic storm. Thats all for us tonight. Tonight on the program, the bunker busters. New details about what happened in that alabama bunker in the split seconds when authorities went in, seconds that spelled life for a little boy who was able to turn 6 today and death for his captor. And later in the program, take a look at this man whos 74 years old. Hes on a pharmaceutical cocktail that makes it possible for him to look like that. The question tonight, has he found a healthy fountain of youth or prescription for disaster . What you need to know before you try to do what hes doing. We begin though tonight with a program that
Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a sunday night. And we do begin tonight with what will be a tense evening ahead for thousands of families who have been told to be at the ready, that their homes could be next. As that wildfire in the west has now doubled in size. Even the emergency tents set up in idaho sit in the shadow of the thick plumes of smoke tonight. From the sky, helicopters do s dousing the flames, even before the sun came up. On the ground this sunday, more of those elite crews of firefighters arriving. The hotshot teams hiking toward the fires now. And heres what theyre up against tonight. More than 2,300 homes evacuated. Almost 8,000 more told to start packing. 700 firefighters, as the blaze burns across 160 square miles, just 9 contained tonight. And this beaver creek fire is just one of 42 large fires now burning across 11 states. Abcs aditi roy is on the scene, reporting in from idaho tonight. Reporter it is a race against time. Those 700 firefigh