home, but it is clear the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization embracing a perverted form of islam that calls for war against america and the west. the president then moved to gun control. he said while it may be hard to stop all mass shootings something needs to be done. encies no matter i know there are some who reject any gun safety measures, but the fact is that our intelligence and law enforcement agencies no matter how effective they are cannot identify every would be mass shooter whether that individual is motivated by isil or some other hateful ideology. what we can do and must do is make it harder for them to kill. the president wants laws changed to prevent people on the no fly list from being able to buy guns. he also demanded tougher screening for those who enter the country without a visa and he reaffirmed the current strategy in fighting isis and pledged to keep america out of a groundwater. we will have much more analysis on the presi
it is time for congress to demonstrate the people are united and committed to fight this fight. the president is calling for tougher gun laws. we are learning more about the massacre. good evening. cbs reporter danielle knottingham shows us as the community comes together to heal the father of one of the suspects is speaking out abouts his son. reporter: a message of peace and tolerance resinated on sunday as family and friends remembered the victims of the san bernardino shooting. we have to remember that even muslim people are our brothers and sisters. reporter: one of the 14 killed was a member of this tight knit church here. it was a stab in the heart. reporter: while the community here in san bernardino tries to heal from the loss the investigators are piecing together more information about the two shooters. the officials say the federal investigators are trying to figure out if malik radicalized her american husband, farook. his father said my son said
live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. they re thugs and killers, part of a cult of death. president obama lays out his terror plan in primetime promising to destroy isis and demanding proper gun control. good evening. i m brian hackney. i m juliette goodrich. in a rare address in the oval office the president forcefully declared the san bernardino shooting a terrorist attack and called on americans not to give into fear. cbs reporter craig boswell on the president s plan to tackle a new phase of terrorism. good evening. reporter: president obama addressed the nation sunday night from the old office, the first time he s done so in five years oval office, the first time he s done so in five years. he condemned the shootings in san bernardino. this was an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people. reporter: the commander in chief reenforced his strategy to defeat isis and confront the growing terror threat here at home. the president call
i know we see our kids in the faces of the young people killed in paris. reporter: the president called on congress to ban people on the no-fly list from buying guns, restrict sales of assault rifles like the ones used in san bernardino and enact stronger screening for those entering the u.s. without a visa. president obama wants congress to give him authorization to use force against isis. the president vowed not to get into another decade long war on foreign soil and said the battle is not with any religion. we cannot turn against one another by letting this fight be defined as a war between america and islam. that is what groups like isil wants. freedom is more powerful than fear. reporter: the president said there s no evidence that the san bernardino attackers were directed by a terror group overseas. mark albert, cbs news, washington. republican speaker paul ryan called the president s speech disappointing saying it defended a failing policy. and we re getting a
clear they went down the dark path of radicalization.embracing a perverted version of islam that calls for war against america and the west. reporter: while the president promised continued airstrikes against isis in the middle east the president called for congress to act on three measures he says will make us safer here at home: 1. prohibiting people on the no fly list from legally purchasing guns. 2. making it more difficult to buy assault weapons. 3. stronger screening of the 30 million travelors who come to visa republican presidential frontrunner donald trump has seen his support increase since the terrorist attacks in paris. he criticized the president this morning on c-b-s s face the nationcalling for greater scrutiny of american muslim communities. : you have people who have to be tracked. if their muslims, they re muslims. we have to be vigilant. if we re not, we re foolish. : our success won t depend on tough talk or abandoning our values. or giving in to