this broadcast with video of the death of this little boy. now some of you will say we should not show this video. i understand that. it is sickening. it is hard to watch. it is horrific. but we believe what is even more horrific is dying in silence. murder that is then covered up by lies. lies from a dictator who says it isn t happening, a dictator who says we re not pulling the trigger on sniper rifles that kill children. we re not shooting on funerals. he says it s not happening and yet every day, in hundreds of homemade videos, we see it happening. you will see it happening tonight. the little boy s only crime, it seems, was being at home in syria in the middle of a war being waged by a brutal dictator against his own people. a dictator who in the face of evidence that grows daily continues to deny everything. we don t feel our people are being killed and no government in the world kill its people unless it s led by a crazy person. i became president because of the publ
death of this little boy. now some of you will say we should not show this video. i understand that. it is sickening. it is hard to watch. it is horrific. but we believe what is even more horrific is dying in silence. murder that is then covered up by lies. lies from a dictator who says it isn t happening, a dictator who says we re not pulling the trigger on sniper rifles that kill children. we re not shooting on funerals. he says it s not happening and yet every day, in hundreds of homemade videos, we see it happening. you will see it happening tonight. the little boy s only crime, it seems, was being at home in syria in the middle of a war being waged by a brutal dictator against his own people. a dictator who in the face of evidence that grows daily continues to deny everything. we don t feel our people are being killed and no government in the world kill its people unless it s led by a crazy person. i became president because of the public support. it s impossible for a
party. we re going to take you live there in just a few moments. also, as though you can take anymore of this. new allegations this morning that the head of the amateur athletic union may have sexually abused two boys decades ago. two men tell espn that robert bobby dodd molested them back in the 19 0s when they were playing on his aau baseball team. there s been no comment from dodd. he s battling colon cancer right now. there was a candlelight vigil last night on the virginia tech campus. they were remembering a police officer that was killed. the officer was killed before the gunman killed himself. he was a part-time student at nearby radford university. they re still searching for a motive. people trying to come together after that. the supreme court has agreed to hear a challenge to texas s congressional redistricting plan. state republicans aren t real happy with the way a federal court redrew the map last month. that court was responding to a lawsuit filed on beh
we need light news today. first, virginia tech s campus plunged into panic when a gunman reopened the wounds from the april, 2007, massacre. we re looking for answers about what triggered this shooting. mark kelly joins us live from the campus in blacksburg with the very latest on this incident. good morning to you, mark. reporter: good morning, rob. we found out here the slain police officer has been identified. derek crousse, a u.s. army veteran, and the second victim the shooter. police believe he turned the gun on himself. [ siren ] reporter: it was chillingly familiar. the virginia tech campus on lockdown as police hunted for a gunman. shortly after noon, a campus police officer pulled over a vehicle in the coliseum parking lot. during that traffic stop the officer was shot and killed. and there were witnesses to that incident. reporter: juliet fielding was one of them. they opened his car door. when they opened it. he just fell out toward the ground. sorry. and
megyn: police in virginia are trying to learn about why a gunman at virginia tech with no apparent connection to the university murdered a police officer on campus yesterday. you saw the story breaking during this broadcast yesterday afternoon. on the campus of the same university that saw the deadliest shooting rampage by a loan gunman ever in u.s. history. we are learning a bit more about the shoot store apparently took his own life and about the murdered police officer. doug mcelway live from the virginia tech campus. doug. reporter: it s really highly unusual how tightlipped authorities are being here about releasing the identity of this presumed gunman. they will only say that he was not a student at virginia tech, and that he may be, may be connected at an armed carjacking at nearby radford university the