The rest of the week and next system approaching over the weekend it will get unsettled and forecast details later in the half hour. Romona just one day into the school year. But a strike looms in cleveland. What will happen in the classroom. Today we are getting answers about the contract controversy. Today we hear from both sides, the Teachers Union Denise Zarrella explains they have until september 1 to get this worked out. We are here at Success Tech Academy where the first few days of school are going on as planned, even though teachers, students, grandparent know a strike could be looming any day now. It was the first day of school in cleveland and the usual excitement. And her 8yearold daughter she had a good day. News a teacher strike could be looming quickly spread not long after the last bell rang. The big Sticking Point really is around evaluations and the numbers. There have been a lot of broken promises in something called the cleveland plan in the last contract. We are no
Captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television four days since the tragedy that altered our entire country, the gun lobby has spoken its first words on the subject. 9 National Rifle association, routine teenl referred to as the most powerful lobbying in the country have been silent out of respect for the victims after one man took 28 lives including his own, 20 Little School children in newtown, connecticut. Along with Mental Health the gun control debate has come roar into the american conversation in addition the nra is promising to say more at a News Conference at the end of the week. We begin with tom costello in washington. Reporter the white house today said president obama supports a bill that would outlaw Assault Rifles and high ammo clips. Four days after the newtown massacre, the nra today broke its silence in a statement saying its made up of 4 million moms and dads, sons and daughters, who are shocked, sad and heart broken by the murders in newtown. It says its prepared to of
Captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television 6 captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television good evening. Four days now since the tragedy that altered our entire country. The gun lobby has spoken its first words on the subject. The National Rifle association, the nra, which is routinely referred to as the most powerful grassroots lobbying organization in this country, has been silent. They said today out of respect for the victims. Ever since a troubled young man with four firearms took 28 lives, including his own, 20 of them little children at an Elementary School in newtown, connecticut. Along with mental health, the gun control debate has come roar into the american conversation. And in addition to their statement tonight, the nras promising to say more in a News Conference at the end of the week. Its all where we begin tonight with nbcs tom costello in washington. Tom, good evening. Reporter hi, brian. The white house today said president obama supports senator feinsteins proposed
The latest mass shooting in an American school should provoke action by Congress to ban the purchase of military-style assault weapons by ordinary people. But it probably won’t, and the country will endure yet more such horrors in the future.