delegation to do the same thing. wooduff: in all, organizers said there were more than 100 events scheduled from coast to coast. the rallies are coordinated with an anti-gun ad campaign launched in 13 states this week by new york city mayor michael bloomberg and others. she just wanted to teach little kids, and she died doing it. wooduff: some of the ads feature family members of the school shooting victims in newtown, connecticut. bloomberg is spending $12 million of his own money on the campaign, to encourage support for stricter background checks on gun buyers. but the national rifle association s wayne lapierre had this message for the mayor on meet the press last sunday. he s going to find out this is a country of the people, by the people, and for the people. and he can t spend enough of his $27 billion to try to impose his will on the american public. they don t want him in their restaurants, they don t want him in their homes. they don t want him telling the
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions wooduff: president obama renewed his call for stricter gun laws today, saying shame on us if we ve forgotten the tragedies at newtown and elsewhere. good evening, i m judy woodruff. suarez: and i m ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we update the lobbying efforts on both sides of the gun issue and talk with reporters in connecticut and arizona about the investigations into shootings there. wooduff: then, we turn to same-sex marriage, after two days in the spotlight at the supreme court. we get perspective from religious leaders. suarez: public media reporter cathy lewis examines the very real impact of across-the-board federal spending cuts on a southeastern virginia community that relies heavily on the military. wooduff: and we close with two stories on child development. how do you prevent bullying? a program in seattle is having success using babies. when i first heard about the program, i thought that s
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions wooduff: president obama renewed his call for stricter gun laws today, saying shame on us if we ve forgotten the tragedies at newtown and elsewhere. good evening, i m judy woodruff. suarez: and i m ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we update the lobbying efforts on both sides of thgun issue an talk with reporters in connecticut and arizona about the investigations into shootings there. wooduff: then, we turn to same-sex marriage, after two days in the spotlight at the supreme court. we get perspective from religious leaders. suarez: public media reporter cathy lewis examines the very real impact of across-the-board federal spending cuts on a southeastern virginia community that relies heavily on the military. wooduff: and we close with two stories on child development. how do you prevent bullying? a program in seattle is having success using babies. when i first heard about the program, i thought that s cr
if i wasn t a controlled person i might finish him off right there. daniel hernandez an intern for gifds described caring for her just seconds after she was shot. she was alert and conscious but she wasn t able to speak so the way she was communicating was by grabbing my hand and just squeezing. reporter: in the new documents more detail from hernandez. her breathing started getting shallower. there was one visible gunshot wound. it was to the head. and the reports depict how loughner s anguished parents had sensed he d become violent and tried to stop him. his mother amy loughner interviewing with police says once at the suggestion of officials at jared s school he had a shotgun that we took away from him. in another account, loughner s father said he even tried to disable jared loughner s car to prevent him from going out. brian todd, cnn, washington. now to the sandy hook elementary school shooting. family members of the 20 children and six adults killed during that massacre i
including felony murder and cruelty to children. elkins faces an additional charge of malice murder for allegedly firing the shot at the baby s face. i found an outfit that my baby was wearing before he was killed and i can t seem to let it go. something else little antonio s mother can t let go, a question, why? we believe that the location and the victim were both random. reporter: the county police chief s department is investigating this as a botched robbery. elkins attorney does not buy it. it seems odd two individuals whoever they are so desperate to rob someone who wouldn t have appeared to have any money and going to the trouble of shooting two people would then leave the object of their attention at the crime scene. reporter: not left at the crime scene, the murder weapon. according to the indictment