i'll just say his name is robbie jones, his live now from beirut science. i just bring us up to date them with the latest on these overnight strikes on a route the as i and can you hear me? i told just bring us up to date with the strikes of an item, 11 east capitol or last friday at around 4 am local time, tgm t just about 4 hour, 4 or 5 hours ago we saw a powerful series of strikes on the bus, the neighborhood here in central bare room, now this is not far from an area that is a home to hotels, restaurants, popular hotspots, and witnesses describes seeing at least 4. maybe 5 strikes carried out on one particular building. it destroyed this one multi story building caused a large amount of damage to the blocks of flats surrounding it. this is a very population dense area and marching least the 4th is really the strictest. we could be carried out in central be route, not to mention the ongoing campaign. the air campaign to begin in september in many ways begin over a year ago when the war in gaza began and has full analysis support for how much that air cam

jones called the massacre at sandy hook elementary a hoax and the grieving families actors, mocking them. >> doing classic acting training, laughing and joking and say, hey, we're live -- oh -- >> reporter: robbie parker's daughter emily was among 20 first graders killed that day. at the defamation trial, parker described a decade of death threats and harassment by jones' followers. >> he had so much venom and hatred in him for who he thought that i was. >> reporter: emily's mom so scared she hid in a closet the day of her daughter's funeral. >> every little thing we did i was paranoid. >> reporter: for robbie parker, taking infowars from alex jones is justice. >> taking his business away is a big deal. he's made tens of millions of dollars off these lies, and he's having to face the consequences because of what we did. >> reporter: the terms of the sale were not disclosed. the onion plans to turn infowars into a parody, mocking the kind of disinformation that jones amplified. the families know they cannot silence him, but they say the sale takes away his megaphone. david? >> david: aaron, thank you. >>> when we come back here, in new york city, the high rise fire. smoke pouring from an apartme

daughter's funeral. >> every little thing we did, i was paranoid. >> reporter: for robbie parker, taking infowars from alex jones is justice. >> taking his business away is a big deal. he's made tens of millions of dollars off these lies, and he's having to face the consequences because of what we did. >> reporter: the terms of the sale were not disclosed. "the onion" plans to turn infowars into a parody, mocking the kind of disinformation that alex jones amplified. the families know they cannot silence him, but they say the sale takes away his megaphone. david? >> david: aaron katersky, our investigative correspondent. aaron, thank you. >>> when we come back here, in new york city, the highrise fire. smoke pouring from an apartment building in manhattan's hudson yards for a time. you'll see the images in a moment. >>> also, the dramatic rescue of a couple from their burning home. >>> and the alarming numbers tonight involving measles right here in the u.s. ♪ ♪ i got the power of 3. i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. in studies, the majority of people reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. i'm u

well let's go to is in buzz, robbie, who joins us now from the lebanese capital jones on the phone. it says i'm wondering what the position is now for his blog. what next or? well, we've just left the center of the road. we've left downtown and we've come to the southern suburb to, to hear a heavily controlled and populated by his bullet over. but still, it's very popular in this area, and it has been one of the locations that have seen one of the heaviest parts of the air campaign, one of the heaviest periods of bombardment in the war so far. we've driven in the, there's an enormous amount of destruction, enormous amount of devastation. there's areas where buildings have come down and it doesn't seem as though there's been any clearing work because the pace of use rarely attract. so consistent. it's simply surviving and moving on was the name of the game. and now we see a lot of clearing crews coming in. there's a lot of digging work being done. at the same time. a lot of people are returning with their beds, mattresses, furniture is belonging. a large amount of traffic moving back

joining us now is robby parker, father of 6-year-old sandy hook victim, emily parker, and author of a beautiful new book "a father's fight: taking on alex jonese. i'm so glad you're here. we'll get to your book in a minute. first, can you tell us how the onion, you, all of the sandy hook families decided to bid on infowars? we understand the onion did not have the money to buy it outright but many of you chose to forego any money won in the lawsuit against alex jones, put it towards this purchase. so, what happened? >> no, exactly. we from the very beginning, this was always our goal. we wanted to make it as hard as possible for alex jones to spread the harm and the lies that he has done and what he's inflicted on people, not just me or sandy hook families, but millions of people. and so it was never about the money. we proved that with this. we were willing to give up everything we needed to give up to ensure that jones and his allies weren't able to enable jones to continue doing what he does. >> so there's this hearing this week that will determine if the bid will be accepted by the judge overseeing the sale. so, if it goes through, what d

jones' assets including the media company had to be sold. >> his historic messaging and attacks and stuff started immediately after the shooting. >> reporter: robbie parker's 6-year-old daughter emily was among the 26 victims killed during the sandy hook massacre in 2012. the day after the shooting, an emotional parker spoke it the -- spoke to the media. jones used that moment it label him a crisis actor and the shooting a hoax. >> i'm so blessed to be her dad. >> reporter: what do you hope will this from this? >> i'm not going to be able to shut alex joins up, that wasn't the goal. we want to make it as hard as possible for him to do the type of harm that he does. >> reporter: the ceo explained the company won the bidding war because those connecticut families agreed to waive part of the amount that jones owed them. do you hope it will be profitable? >> we're going to make it bigger and better. we want people to be like, "infowars," that funny website. instead of that horrible place of fun house mirror horrors. >> reporter: he says the goal is to fight fear with funny, but it might not happen as soon as they wish since a judge in texas ordered a

jones' assets, including the media company, had to be sold. >> his horrific messaging and attacks and stuff started immediately after the shooting. >> reporter: robbie6-year-old daughter emilie was among the 26 victims killed during the sandy hook massacre in 2012. the day after the shooting, an emotional parker spoke to the media. jones used that moment to label him a crisis actor and the shooting a hoax. >> and i'm so blessed to be her dad. >> reporter: what do you hope will come from this? >> i'm not going to be able to shut alex jones up, and i'm not going to be able to silence him. that was not necessarily the goal, but we want to make it as hard as possible for him to do the type of harm that he does. >> reporter: "the onion" ceo ben collins explained the company won the bidding war because those connecticut families agreed to waive part of the amount that jones owed them. do you hope that it will be profitable? >> we are going to make it into a bigger and better thing. we want people to be like, oh, infowars, that funny website, instead of that place, funhouse mirror of horrors. >> reporter: he says the goal is to fight fear with funny, but m

jones's assets, including the media company, had to be sold. >> his horrific messaging and attacks and stuff started immediately after the shooting. >> robbie parkerd daughter, emily, was among the 26 victims killed during the sandy hook massacre in 2012. >> the day after the shooting, an emotional parker spoke to the media. jones used that moment to label him a crisis actor in the shooting a hoax. >> i'm so blessed to be your dad. >> whatdo you hope will come from this? >> i'm not going to be able to shut alex jones up, and i'm not going to be able to silence him. that wasn't necessarily the goal, but we want to make it as hard as possible for him to to do the type of harm that he does reporter the onion ceo ben collins explained that the company won the bidding war because those connecticut families agreed to waive part of the amount that jones owed them. >> do you hope that it will be profitable? >> we're going to make it into a bigger and better thing. we want a couple years for people to be like oh, infowars that funny website instead of like that horrible place of, you know, funhouse mirror horrors. >> he says the goal is to fight fear with

robby parker. his book, a father's fight, is coming out next week. thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. you were part of that group of families who won is suit against jones and advocated for the bid while you were his largest creditor. talk to us a bit about what this means for you. having the onion buy info wars. >> i mean, it's a huge win, right? i mean, i wasn't aware until recently about the onion being involved in it, but we were willing to take less money to ensure that somebody that was not affiliated with jones was able to win this auction. and so the fact the onion got it was a big win for us. >> do you know what they plan to do with the site? if not, what do you hope they do? >> i have no idea. i'm a big fan of the onion so i'm just as curious as anybody else. i know they're really smart people and i'm sure they have big plans and i can't wait to see what comes out of it. >> i think one of the things that's been so hard to watch about alex jones is just his persistence when it comes to telling lies. we've seen some of pain he's put families through. do you worry he's going to take that somewhere else? >> of course. he was even live streaming th

robbie reporting. alright, let's take this on now with this, i mean either who's the director of the band institute for strategic affairs, which is a policy think tank jones is now from pay route. so some a joe biden says this is designed to be a permanent succession. will it be kind of maybe that it's unfortunate to not because what we are witnessing or what we are living this morning as a kind of a discovery is a scenario, but it's similar to that of 2006 and the f i stating board that the end, the, to on the basis offer an agreement upon which they are building the column to hold a bit of the cotton ceasefire agreement. this was in 2006 and this association of prostate. it these proved to be temporarily and it lost a like a 8 to 10 years and then we started to see glasses and it's, and it was the this $4.00 to $1.00 of the 231 as well. i've decided to launch this war of soft board to, to a guy so, so this a ceasefire agreement actually is, is a very put a job. why? because of the same, the reasons for that complex are, are still um, i mean uh there is no final settlement between aluminum and the it should i did the land boatloads have not been did on t