Will go up on incoming above 400,000. The Pacific Northwest slammed by blinding mountain snow drenching rain and some damaging winds, knocked out power to thousands. Kicked around on the ground thats the way this game should end, thats the way the jets season should end. Ugly and a loss. Jim boeheim a winner of 900 basketball games. And all that matters. Well all miss him. Thats a gross understatement. Hes certainly one of the giants of the senate. Richard engel and his crew are safe after they were kidnapped and held inside syria for five days. I hope we can laugh tonight after a horrible weekend. I just want the people in connecticut to know that we do not take what youre going through lightly and we are thinking about you here a lot, all of us. Welcome to cbs this cbs this morning. Students are going back to students are g school today in newtown, connecticut, except for the boyse boys and girls of sandy hook elementary. Elementary. Their new school at a nearby is town is not ready
As it is, it copkeeps getting m heartbreaking. The first of the victims laid to rest. The funerals will continue for days. You drop your kid off and you dont see them again . Honestly, thats really life now . Authorities hope to soon interview two survivors of the massacre. Police are analyzing the evidence, and that includes adam lanzas home computer. What kind of kid was adam lanza . Just quiet. What can be done about people like him . The answer is very little. The massacre has reignited the debate over gun control. Mayor bloomberg stepped up the call for new laws. Why is the murder rate around the country . Im an american, whats the question . President obama made a new fiscal cliff offer. Taxes will go up on those making more than 400,000. Blinding snow, drenching rain, damaging winds knocked out power to thousands. All that kicked around on the ground. Thats the way this game should end. Thats the way the season should end jim boeheim is the winner of 900 basketball games. And al
Students in the halls of sandy hook. Every single facet of the weapons will be analyzed. Every single round of ammunition will be looked at and examined for any kind of physical evidence. I alluded yesterday to the volume of rounds, for example, that were seized or recovered. Each singular round will be examined. President obama last night visited with families who lost loved ones inside that school. Here, he is holding slain principal dawn hochsprungs baby granddaughter. The president sat among the mourners of newtown at the vigil and told them they are not alone in their grief. All across this land of ours, we have wept with you. We pulled our children tight. In this speech, one he penned largely on his own, the president promised the people of that community that their loss would not go unanswered. We cant tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change. The question is, will newtowns tragedy be the Tipping Point in a country that has failed to respo
Whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens from Law Enforcement to Mental Health professionals to parents and educators in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. Will this time be different . The sandy hook massacre finally ignites a National Conversation on gun control. New york city mayor Michael Bloomberg has been leading the way. Words alone cannot heal our nation. Only action can do that. Gun violence is a National Epidemic and a National Tragedy that demands more than words. This hour senator Dianne Feinstein about her push to reinstate the assault weapons ban. Its a first day bill im going to introduce in the senate and the same bill will be introduced in the house. A bill to ban assault weapons. It will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession. Not retroactively, but perspectively, and it will ban the same for big clips, drums, or strips of more than ten bullets. As the nation mourns 20 children and six women who tried t
Nancy pelosi about what can be done to control guns. And, of course, the looming fiscal cliff. Speaker boehner today turns to his plan b. Our plan b would protect american taxpayers who make 1 million or less and have all of their current rates extended. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell live in washington. We here at nbc and msnbc and our entire family are relieved and joyful today that the escape of our friends and colleagues. Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, producer gazi and john questra from kidnappers in syria where they had been held out of communication for five long days and nights. We first heard from richard last night and waited to hear that he and the team had crossed the border into tshgy. They had been blind fold and bound and only broke free after their candidate kidnappers came into contact with a rebel militia leading to a fierce firefight. Heres Richard Engel describing the moments before their kidnapping on the today show this morning. We were driving in syria