jones now has to pay the parents of a sandy hook school shooting victim more than $4 million for the cruel and widespread and relentless lies that added to their heartache over a ten-year period. now, of course, this does fall way short of $150 million they did ask for in compensatory damages sought by little jessie lewis parents, a number their attorney said came from the number of people who believed the false claims of the hoax spewed by jones and the baseless arguments that the newtown s grieving parents were actors. the number also factored in the emotional and mental anguish those parents suffered and continue to suffer today for years of harassment by jones and his followers. he finally acknowledged what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words after what ten years, 100% real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom, not in texas, because jones legal battles are actually far from
continues in the region. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the usjustice department will investigate the police response to the school shooting in texas which killed 19 children and two teachers. the announcement comes as president biden has made a visit to uvalde to meet the survivors and the families devastated by the attack. our correspondentjane o brien is in uvalde. he has deliberately taken a long time. he is not rushing off any time soon, is he? time. he is not rushing off any time soon. is he? soon, is he? no, he s spending all da here soon, is he? no, he s spending all day here and soon, is he? no, he s spending all day here and this soon, is he? no, he s spending all day here and this is soon, is he? no, he s spending all day here and this is an soon, is he? no, he s spending all day here and this is an unusually l day here and this is an unusually long visit but it shows just how deeply this tragedy has rocked america as w
be an artist. and this was 10-year-old jayce identified this evening. and another 10-year-old, makenna lee elrod. her family confirmed she too died in the attack. for them and for all the victims, we now must ask some very tough questions after what we heard today. i know i m an anchor. but i m also angered in the fact that i m a mother of a second grader, of a third grader, an 8-year-old and a 9-year-old, who sends my children, just like you, to school every single day. and i want to know, did the texas school gunman effectively have total freedom to walk in and start killing those 19 children and two teachers? and despite the massive law enforcement response, when you hear me say words tonight like, or you hear the words said like, police say, over the course of this hour, i want you to keep those words in mind more than you might otherwise. because the official version of what happened is changing. and we re going to now examine all the new questions that are coming in as
case and some directly contradict the story that authorities first told, this is the time line of the attack as we understand it now. authorities now say at 11:28 a.m. tuesday, the gunman crashed his truck and fired his rifle at two people across the street. at 11:40, 12 minutes later, the gun than fired toward the school building and then walked in through an unlocked door. he was not confronted by a school resource officer which is directly contradictory to what officials had been telling us. not accurate. he walked in unobstructed initially. so from the grandmother s house to the wreck into the school, he was not confronted by anybody. to clear the record on that. reporter: at 11:44 a.m. officers arrived at the school, the shooter fired at them, they took cover and called for more backup. authorities say officers did evacuate students and teachers from other parts of the school and at some point began negotiations with the gunman. meantime as the minutes tick by, famil
we re going to get our first public glimpse of princess catherine since christmas. what the palace said today about her cancer battle and her plans to try and resume some of her royalty duties. but leading this hour yesterday, today and for the next two weeks, the us supreme court will dominate the political conversation in this country. today, it s a major guns decision. the justices ruling six to three to strike down a federal ban on bump stocks. the ban was initially approved by donald trump 2018 after the massacre at a las vegas music festival, you might remember a gunman killed 58 people at the outdoor concert when he set up perch on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hotel and open fire for at least ten minutes by the time police breached the room, they say the shooter was dead, but they found 23 weapons in the room 12 with firearms, with bump stocks attached. that attack, by the way, is the deadliest mass shooting in modern american history. so i know some of you are p