i want to thank chris macdonald, who lost his beautiful daughter, grace, and the other parents who i had the chance to speak to for their suggestions, and for their courage of all of you to be here today. " i admire the grace and resolve you all are showing. and i must say, i've been deeply affected by your faith as well. the president and i will do everything we can to try to match the result you have demonstrated. -- of the result you have demonstrated. -- the resolve you have demonstrated. no one can know for certain if this senseless act could have been prevented. but we all know we have a moral obligation to everything in our power to diminish the prospect that something like this could happen again. as the president knows, i have worked a long time in the u.s. senate having chaired a committee that overlooked these issues of guns and crime, and having drafted the first gun violence legislation -- the last gun violence legislation, i should say. i have no illusions about what we are against or how hard the task is in front of us. but i have also never seen the nation's conscienc

right in that >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> good morning,:55 on a thursday. i'm frank mallicoat. >>> 49ers head coach chrisif they did the players should leave. culliver since apologized saying those feelings are truly not in his heart. >>> everything 9ers right mao is going like hotcakes including pricy club seats at the brand-new stadium in santa clara. an $80,000 apiece club seat at the 50-yard line, well, they are nearly all gone. the team says the season's super bowl run did a lot to help increase the sales. i bet it did. >>> actor ashton kutcher will be at macworld in san francisco today. kutcher plays the title role in the upcoming film about steve jobs. macworld kicks off today and runs through february 2 over at the moscone center. >>> if you want a beautiful day, lawrence is going to tell you all about it. >> we are serving up a nice one today. lots of sunshine all the way to the coastline this afternoon. the temperatures will be running well above average. overlooking san jose right now, a little hazy in the atmosphere but otherwise looking good. chilly in spots inland, still into the 30s, 40s e

you'll hear from andrew cuomo, bob macdonald, ban malloy of connecticut, and governor chris kriski ofew jersey. next, a look at the impact of the so-called fiscal cliff legislation on the remainder of the 2013 defense department budget. from the center for strategic and budget torrey assessments, this is just over one hour. >> good morning, everyone. i am todd harrison. thank you for coming out this morning. the background we are releasing this morning is, what the fiscal clift deal means for defense. at what i will cover today is pretty dense material. i will acknowledge that first. i will step through just a section of it that deals with the sequestration and talk about what specifically changed. i will walk through the numbers and show how the numbers changed. we will talk about what this means for defense going forward in the next few months in the long term as well. i will start here. the section of the law that deals with sequestration is one page long. this is one text. it is one page. it is very dense and does a lot of tricky things. there are three things this lot changed abo

grace macdonald's parents came to the white house last week and they gave a painting by their daughter who loves the color pink. i know my friends and senators, richard blumenthal and chrismurphy, join me in this unbelievably sad parade of funerals for six and 7-year-olds. eight of the girls were in girl scout troops. by the boys were in the same boy scout troops. imagine every graduation, every eagle scout ceremony, those families and all their friends will be grieving. the pain is not over. what i've heard again and again when i have met with families and members of the community, and what i have heard in letters and phone calls and e-mails and around america that we must take meaningful action to save lives. what happened on december 14, 2012 was an unspeakable tragedy. but what happens now, that is up to us or you newtown, connecticut, must be a call to action for congress and for all americans who believe and know that we can respect the rights of law-abiding gun owners and we can save lives at the same time. because newtown is paying the price of inaction. because communities across this country are you going members of congress have lived this in their district. t