speakers include lawmakers and arne duncan. >> this is about gone safety, fewer dead americans, feweread children, fewer children living in fear. >> the gun lobby can be stopped, my friends, they can be stopped. >> reporter: a smaller progun rally driving -- drawing less of a crowd on the mall. protestors fear their second amendment rights are in danger and they believe that people with mental health issues, not guns, are the problem. >> the thing is this is not about school shootings. the school shootings can be stopped, but it's not by taking away the right to bear arms from legitimate law abiding citizens. >> reporter: new gun laws are beginning to be introduced and face tough opposition in congress. in new york, anna coyman, fox news. >>> the news edge on d.c. now where police are searching for the gunman who shot five people at a night club overnight and that happened at 2:30 this morning in northwest. the police say four men and one woman were hurt. employees at the club can't believe a violent crime would happen in their neighborhood. >> everyone knows everyone around here and

kathleen sebelius, arne duncan and a few others. >>> jack lew's signature which looks like a series of loops will be featured on american money, that looks like fun. >>> the french wine lobby in the u.s. is upset about part of the menu at the president's inauguration, because it didn't come from the champagne region of france, they complain the bottles of the inaugural wine should not be called sham pine according to american law. >>> beyonce will sing the national anthem at the ceremony. james taylor will be singing "america the beautiful." >>> walmart which else is the most guns in the u.s., wasn't planning on sending anyone to the meeting at the white house. now a company spokesman said, quote, we underestimated the expectation to attend the meeting on thursday in person so we're sending someone to represent. >>> john kerry joked that his cure for jet lag is listening to one of his speeches. that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> now a look at the weather we turn to dylan dreyer. >>> we're in the middle of a january thaw here. temperatures above average. we have a lot

attorney general eric holder's transportation secretary ray lahood and arne duncan will be part of this important meeting. guns and ammunition sales are going up. many gun this is our stocking up on weapons and ammunition, fearing they could be outlawed. the national rifle association has made its position very clear -- no new gun laws. vice president joe biden has also spelled out the intention of the white house abou. >> the president will act with the executive action that can be taken. we haven't decided what that is yet but we're compiling it would help from the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members. as well as legislative action that could be required. >> you get a sense that this is a gun debate is just getting started in washington. on the 19th of this month, gun rights groups will hold done appreciation day. , two days before the inauguration. >> to the colorado movie peter shooting -- a judge is expected to rule by tomorrow whether accused gunman james holmes will stand trial. the three-day hearing just wrapped up yesterday and prosecutors presented a detailed d

guest: we lay out, for example, in the area of education we -- i think the secretary of education, arne duncan, has done a great job laying the foundation, and now it's just a question of how do we accelerate it. and the things where the president, working with the department of education, could, for example, create a data exchange system which allows us to both digitize and personalize education. very similar kind of thing in health care. and so there are all kinds of different things that the president using executive authority as, in fact, they have laid the foundation for already, could act to really accelerate that movement toward the digital platform. >> host: where does congress come in? >> guest: well, congress comes in in a number of places, and we lay out at the end of the book four trades we really think congress should take part in. i'll mention one that's very related to the broadband area. um, there was a high-tech ceo council that suggested that there's a trillion dollars of savings if the government moves all of its goods and services to the digital platform. what we propose is

attorney general eric holder, and ray lahood of transportation, and the head of education, arne duncan will also be part of this important meeting. the gun and ammunition sales are also going up. many gun enthusiasts are stocking up on weapons and ammunition, fearing they could soon be outlawed. the national rifle association has made its position clear. no new gun laws. but the vice president has also spelled out the intentions of the white house. >> the president is going that at or executive action can be taken. we have not decided what that is yet, but we are compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action will be required. >> with this meeting in just a few hours, you get a sense this morning that this debate is just heating up. on the 19th of this month, and rights groups will be holding cow appreciation day. just two days before the inauguration. live at the white house, john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> now to the colorado movie theater shooting. a judge is expected to rule by tomorrow whether accused gunman j

where is education secretary arne duncan?plying he is the solution or a reasonable part of it. we obviously have to take power away from the department of education education, teachers unions and restorer power to local school -- school district to power the parents and students before it is too late. not just for the sake of our children, the next generation, but the sake of the country. >> will know the truth about benghazi? secretary of state says what she knows. marking the 40th anniversary of roe vs. wade and the shift of public sentiment way use of the abortion debate. the psychology of cynicism liberty and gun-control. citizens have the right to bear arms the maniacs do not need guns to kill. doctor keith ablow. next. officemax can help you drive supply costs down... and down. use your maxperks card anf officemax multiuse paper for just 4.99 after maxperks rewards. find thousands of big deals now... at officemax. ♪ many hot dogs are within you. try pepto-bismol to-go, it's the power of pepto, but it fits in your pocket

education secretary arne duncan pastured a wave of execution improvement across the country -- has triggered a wave of authentication improvement across the country. nga will have a role. we are making sure we are of one mind about what exactly it just looks like. we tried to do things by consensus. he felt if we were a single party organization, it would be difficult enough. for a bipartisan group, it is even more difficult. we all share the same goals, that our children will go as far as their potential can take them. so much of vegetation in this country is to of and at the local level. it is a philosophy shared across most -- so much of education in this country is done at the local level. there is clearly something broken. the president and the education secretary have acknowledged that. >> back to the national guard. can you speak on how you will work with the air guard on funding? >> it is hard to overstate how important our national guards are in each of our states, especially in helping us in times of emergency. we want to make it clear how cost-effective national guard is as part o

education secretary arne duncan reminded participants that it's going to take more than prayer. >> we'll do everything in our power to make sure that we pass legislation and to make our families and communities safer. we can't do it ourselves. we need you. if we stay together, nothing can stop us. thank you so much and god bless. thank you. >> reporter: a smokes -- spokesman for the nra didn't have a immediate response. in the past, the group opposed further restrictions on gun sales. john henrehan, fox 5 news. >>> the season might be two months away, but nats fans have something to get excited about. a fifth president. lindsay member offy joins us with the -- murphy joins us with the announcement. >> reporter: the chats players, there it's funny, people came equally to see both, i think. and it was a really, really wonderful e haven't at the convention center. so many kids were there and so many adults excited to get up close and personal. >> there is so much example around the team now. >> there is. >> and the nats players deserve that. >> yeah they do. >> that were happy to see the fa

arne duncan reminded participants it's going to take more than prayer. >> we'll do everything to make sure we pass legislationha makes our children, our families and our communities safer, but we can't do it by ourselves. we need all of you, if we stay together, nothing can stop us. can you so much and god bless. thank you. >> reporter: a spokesman for the nra did not have an immediate response to the rally. in the past, the nra opposed any further restrictions on gun sales. laura. >> thank you. >>> i want to give you a leave look outside. there is -- a live look outside. there is some lingering snow on the ground and a chill in the air for sure. a mid-week warm-up could be on the way. gwen tolbart is tracking the forecast. we looking forward to the warm- up. >> reporter: i think everybody is, laura. >> yeah. >> it's been bitterly cold. let's look at the maps and we'll put this together and show you some of the numbers from today. and where things might be headed. 37 degrees our high at reagan national airport; 33 dulles and 34, bwi thurgood marshal. these temperatures are almost cont

arne duncan wrote, they don't have to do anything that would provide a student with a disability an unfair competitive advantage. but they do need to make reasonable modifications. as for owen, his chance on the court landed him espn fame. >> and he just starts chucking threes. >> reporter: he also received an award from the harlem globetrott globetrotters. most importantly, his success on the court has given him more confidence off the court. >> this is about building the character of wen and the characterthe kids here. >> reporter: it's still not clear if the new guidelines will extend to college and university sports programs. if a school can't accommodate schools with disabilities, they have to offer a parallel program or exclude from federal funding. >> we love owen. it is a terrific story. >>> moving on to what seemed like a match made in political heaven. sarah palin and fox news. this morning, the romance is over, after three years as an on-air political contributor for the cable channel. palin is out. and it's not exactly clear why. abc's gio benitez is on the story. >> reporter:

late yesterday we saw secretary of education arne duncan mention that he and his family saying they would be here today. this has grown up within just the past six weeks after the newtown shooting. these are not people who have a lot of experience organizing marches. they neil is something organ -- they feel this is something organic, very grassroots. they want to see where it will take them. >> thank you for your reporting ther there. >>> for much of the country, this morning it is cold out there. the national weather service warning of bitterly cold temperatures, possibly deadly conditions this weekend for much of the northeast, mid-atlantic, and the midwest. the tennessee valley and the carolinas are also on ice. any reprieve is still days away. frigid air also making life tougher for victims of superstorm sandy. many still don't have even the basic utilities to heat their home since the storm struck. susan candiotti is joining us from staten island. you spoke with a resident there who still can't go home. is that a problem for many? i mean, what is life like for these people now? >> r

on the right that is education secretary arne duncan.h of them are staying in the obama cabinet for the second term we have learned. this is an associated press picture taken at a judiciary committee hearing on immigration that was held back in june of 2011. what is remarkable about this picture is that technically it is the job of this person, janet napolitano, to deport this person, the guy sitting right behind her. that would be jose antonio vargas. he was born in the philippines. here he is with his parents when he was a little tot in manila. when he was a 12-year-old kid, his mother sent him to the united states with someone who he thought was an uncle. actually, it was just a guy who his mom paid thousands of dollars to, to get her son into the united states, so jose could have a better life in the u.s. once he arrived, jose lived in mountain view, california, with his grandparents. he worked very hard to learn english. a couple of years after arriving in the united states, speak nothing english, he graduated from middle school and

education secretary arne duncan says in a struggling economy there's more competition for jobs which means kids feel a high school diploma is even more important. >>> fire officials right now are trying to reassure east bay residents they are still safe following a series of recent firestation closures. contra costa county fire officials holding the latest in a series of community meetings. this one is in walnut creek. officials planning to discuss the closure of firestation 4 and how services will be impacted there. the meeting set to start tonight at 7:00 at the walnut heights elementary school. a total of four stations in walnut creek, clayton and lafayette will be shut down as part of a countywide plan to trim a $17 million budget gap. >>> work is set to start this morning on a section of the bay bridge damaged when it was hit by an oil tanker earlier this month. caltrans now planning to replace fenders on the western tower that was sideswiped back on january 7th. officials say the pier itself is okay because the fenders did exactly what they're supposed to do and absorbed that d

arne duncan told the crowd that today's march was a call to stop action to stop mass killings, not an attack on the second amendment. a small group of gun supporters held a counter demonstration nearby. >>> hillary clinton capped off her tenure as secretary of state with some fireworks. this is some of her fiery testimony at congressional hearings this week on the attack in benghazi, libya. >> the fact is, we had four dead americans, was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some americans? >> what difference at this point does it make? it is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we canning to prevent it from ever happening again, senator. >> now, cnn political editor paul steinhauser is with me. clinton was clearly prepared for the hearings and she has a pretty well regarded secretary of state. what do her approval numbers look like right now. >> take a look at this as we come up on what is probably going to be her last week as secretary of state. here's her favorable numbers from abc/"washington post" co

education secretary arne duncan announced that he will stay at the white house for president obama'second term. he said his mission is to make the u.s. number one in education and won't stop until our students are doing gooder. [ laughter ] he won't stop. [ applause ] the movie news. mgm is coming out with a remake of the classic 1959 film, "ben-hur." [ laughter ] >> steve: what? >> jimmy: you can tell it's a remake, though, because instead of being about a jewish prince who was betrayed by his roman friend, sent into slavery and then seeks revenge, it's just about sexy vampires. [ laughter ] >> steve: wow. >> jimmy: and i think that's -- i want to see it. [ applause ] >> steve: i'd love to see it. >> jimmy: i want to see it, yeah. get this. on sunday, an elderly man in chicago accidentally crashed his car into an apple store. yeah. and not surprisingly, he didn't look any more confused than all the other elderly people inside the apple store. [ laughter and applause ] where are the apples? [ laughter ] this is a macintosh? [ laughter ] did you see this? a week after calling a.j. mcc

. >> that's right, jamie, here at this one, education secretary arne duncan spoke and said the president and vice-president would do all they could to get more gun control legislation passed. as you were saying a couple of seconds ago, this march on washington for gun control grew out of the tragic shooting in newtown, connecticut and one of the main goals of participants here is a ban on assault weapons. >> when those parents lost their children, everyone in america tried for them and that's -- it's time like the sign says here, enough is enough. there's no reason for this to happen. you don't hunt with semi automatic weapons. >> i think we need to all agree on assault weapons. i think that my students have the right to feel safe in schools. i feel that my child has a right to feel safe in his scho school. >> reporter: president obama and senate democrats have been pushing for more gun control laws and the senate judiciary committee will begin hearings on it next week. some senate democrats have not signaled whether they will support the president's efforts. keep an eye on the senate de

parents, students, and organizers told education secretary arne duncan and top aides that school closings are hurting entire communities, disproportionately those made up of low-income residents and people of color. the education department is currently probing complaints that school closings in six cities including d.c., newark, philadelphia, detroit, new york, a chicago, violate the 1964 civil rights act. karen harper royal, a parent and activist from new orleans, said the administration's policies are hurting students and their neighborhoods. >> our communities are more than just data. our children are not datapoint. i think it is time for president obama to reevaluate what is department of education is doing and its affect on our communities. >> at least one person has been killed in a shooting and kidnapping aboard a school bus carrying children in alabama. the gunman fatally shot the driver before seizing a young child. the gunman is said to be holed up in a bunker with the child hostage. in testimony tuesday before lawmakers of the connecticut legislature, a grieving parent who los

>> reporter: taking the stage right now, secretary of education arne duncan. he is talking about why one grol is important to him. he is among the people who walked the many blocks from near the capitol to here to be a part of this today. this was a movement started on facebook and it has turned into this behind me. miguel? >> what's the energy like? i done sense there's a lot of energy that that crowd. how big is it? are they really sort of, you know, getting after this? >> reporter: i think one of the things that people here talk about is the fact that this started with social media. this was the brainchild of two people who said right in the hours after newtown we've got to do something. what can they do. they decided to organize this march. it's only been a few weeks in the making. a lot of p people who are marching feel that this many people have gathered from across the country as a result of social media. they feel that is good. however, they're very realistic knowing that the legislation that they are pushing for and hoping that congress will pass, thi

a beacon of education reform by arne duncan. david coleman, president of the college board. he co-founded student achievement partners. he was recognized as one of 11 education act of this. he was new school change agent of the year. he has set a high bar. always a mistake. john deasy, los angeles unified superintendent of schools, second largest system in the country. he was deputy director of education for the bill and melinda gates foundation. he is remembered as the hard- charging superintendent of the prince george's county schools. we have joanne weiss, chief of duncan. army duncane she ran the race to the top program, getting that off to a widely heralded start. ceo at the new schools venture fund. let's get this started. lost angeles is wrestling with a number of challenges. there are concerns about the reform. of where does it intersects with school improvement? >> i think it makes life much easier in terms of these pieces. >> we can hear you. >> it is on. it makes life much easier. how to create balanced and appropriate accountability systems. how to shape the work

arne duncan has generally been supportive of these kinds of value added assessment. they provide information where none previously existed. after the los angeles data were published, secretary duncan told the times, silence is not an option. the obama administration provided financial incentives for paying and promoting teachers. proponents rightfully point out that they are huge potential improvement over systems of which all teachers are paid according to the uniform summer schedule that gives zero way to any measure of performance in the classroom. on the other hand, many experts have warned of these can teacher assessment data have large margins of error and can deliver misleading results. the union representing new york teacher spent more than $100,000 on a news paper added a campaign built around the headline this is no way to write a teacher. opponents argue that the value added assessments create false precision that would be of use by parents and public officials who do not understand the limitations of this kind of investment. this is a case where everybody

look back over the president's statement on gun violence in the wake of newtown and what secretary arne duncanthey talk about the broader idea of violence. what's on the table right now for vice president biden and the people trying to figure out what to do is a wide range of issues, some of it having to do with gun control. some speaking to gun violence. that's the only way you'll get -- these things come up and then they fade after the shock. >> gwen, i don't think washington can necessarily answer the question for the nation. what i'm trying to point out, that we all have to look at ourselves as well, even that psa that hollywood artists put out for gun control the other day and then side by side some put all the violent movies they're in. i mean, this is a big discussion, a big national narrative we all have to look at ourselves in terms of how our culture has come to accept violence as an answer to problems, as a solution to problems. we see that on tv and movies all over. >> greta is undoubtedly correct but the fact remains that the murder of 20 first graders has touched the nation in wa

we know there will be celebrity speakers, including kathleen turner, secretary of education arne duncan tweeted last night he is looking forward to being here today. how does that translate to people being here? in some ways organizer molly smith says it doesn't matter. it's all about taking action. take a listen. >> it's been a remarkable learning experience, the realization that we're citizens and this san active citizenship and being a citizen isn't just sitting around, gasping about it, talking about it or being an arm chair activist. it's actually moving into it, physically, with your body, embodying citizenship. >> reporter: victor, one of the things they're planning to do today is make their voices heard simply by their presence. they are hoping there will be thousands of people here. one indication they have is that it costs $49 thank you to put on this march in washington. they have raised almost all of that now, if not gone over a bit, just by grassroots donations. largest donation, $1,000. the smallest about $5. they've had people going through social media, saying this is im

we have joanne weiss, chief of staff to arne duncan. she ran the race to the top program, getting that off to a widely heralded start. ceo at the new schools venture fund. let's get this started. lost angeles is wrestling with a number of challenges. there are concerns about the politics of reform. where does it intersect with school improvement? >> i think it makes life much easier in terms of these pieces. >> we can hear you. >> it is on. it makes life much easier. how to create balanced and appropriate accountability systems. how to shape the work of instruction. all the things you mentioned in terms of evaluation. especially in the distribution of resources. it doesn't say there are a number of influent dilemmas facing us on this issue. i suspect we will talk about them in a moment. >> go ahead and flag a few. >> how does the system oriented self from previously very top down, very kind of results- driven to where i think the quality of instruction is going to emerge as the leadership issue in the system as opposed to other leadersh

the education secretary arne duncan is going to meet with parent and teacher groups, but the vice-president is devoting his time to the gun issue and i guess secondarily to the video game and movie issue. now, i mean, is this going to be a gun -- a gun bill, chris? or is this going to be something that really, truly looks at the comprehensive universe of something how newtown happened and try to address it. >> when people in washington hear phrases like committee, report, blue ribbon commission, they know that that usually means this is something that's never going to happen. they know that this usually means he when you talk about big comprehensive things, we're going to answer everything and address everything, that's not how things generally happen. that's generally what politician does when they want to table an issue until public anxiety or public outrage dies down. that's the way it goes. now, the president said this is not so, that he really is going to address all of this, including gun control, which has been something that democrats, liberals have wanted for so long and for, now,

they're going to study it and have kathleen sebelius and arne duncan study it or engage or evaluate ideasrsation and have the c.d.c. take a look into mental health. the focus is clearly on gun control. >> the focus is clearly on gun control because he's rolled out executive orders on gun control and when the c.d.c. is going to study, they're going to look at what sorts of people use assault weapons and why did they discharge them in schools. they're not going to look at the root issue, which is why can't people get mental health care in this nation and why are we ignoring folks who come forward and say i'm at risk for violence, and they don't get the help they need and that happens every day in america. the killers that you use mentioned, they have three things in common, they're mentally ill, they're male, and they happen to use guns. of the three they can only change one. they can change the means by which they cause destruction and to think that they wouldn't change if it became difficult to get assault weapons is folly. of course they would change. explosives were used in 1927 to perp

and jobs, and besides the vice president, other speakers today including the education secretary, arne duncaning here, this is mayor nutter that we had mentioned before out of philadelphia. he is speaking before the conference. >>> and when president obama took office four years ago, of course, what was the mood? well, the inauguration, it was jubilant, but going into a second term he's facing a much harder road. atlanta's mayor is joining us to talk about those challenges. >>> i think the main mission of what we're trying to dos in our lab, drag psychology kicking and screaming into the 21st century. >> a wimped of the virtual world. >> we're sort of like the unique alliance of hollywood, the military and academia. >> also a chief combatant in u.s. military's battle against post-traumatic stress disorder. ptsd. >> it's not unique to combat, but for veterans what it's become one of the signature woods of iraq and afghanistan. >> skip rizzo. he first graped headlines back in 2006 with his virtual reality ptsd therapy for vets. today he's getting in front of the problem with strive. my colleagu

education secretary arne duncan says he has no plans to leave.o public school system, duncan has received generally good marks over the past four years. >>> justice clarence thomas did something at a supreme court argument monday for the first time in nearly seven years. he spoke. what he said, though, is not completely clear, and it was apparently a joke about ivey league lawyers. thomas has not asked a single question in court since february of 2006. >> remarkable. >>> the u.s. is promising to help france as the french military goes after insurgents linked to al qaeda in western africa. french warplanes unleashed an assault on the rebels in mali, who still managed to grab more territory as they try to close in on that country's capital. defense secretary leon panetta says the u.s. will help france with intelligence and airlift support. >>> in beijing, the thick blanket of haze is forcing the chinese government to be unusually candid. the most severe air pollution on record is expected to last another day or longer. millions of people are wearin

launch a national dialogue led by kathleen sibelius and arne duncan on mental-health. 23 items the president signed into action yesterday. last evening, posted at the connecticut coast, the president posted an op-ed in this newspaper about his proposals. this is just a little bit about what the president wrote. this week, the chief of police here in washington, d.c., taped a interview. she was asked about gun control and proposals. here is a little bit about what she had to say. [video clip] >> i have about 100 officers who are assigned -- they do not stand in schools, we have security to does security for the schools. i have 100 officers who do the feeder schools and elementary schools. i will continue to keep a police officer in the schools. i do not believe that police officers should be stationed at the doors in the schools, but i think they play a role. host: susan in washington, please give us your thoughts. caller: first off, we have an officer sitting out in his car in our high school. there is very little violence in our high-school appear in washington state. i am from los angeles.

i think secretary are the donkey -- arne duncan has started a wave in our country and i'm excited about the progress. i am working not as the education committee. we try to do things by consensus. , which even if it were a single-party it would be difficult enough. let's face, democrat or republican, we all face the same goals. we want as much -- so much education is driven at the local level. it is a philosophy shared across most dates. and the decision should be made by the people closest to the kids. there is clearly something broken we look forward to working with them on that. >> back to the national guard, can you speak to international guard funding, how you plan to work on the structure of the air force? >> very closely is the answer. the question is how we will work with the national guard when it relates to funding for the air guard, and part of this is making sure -- we do have this council of governors made up by folks at the pentagon, and it is hard to overstate how important our national guards are in each of our states, certainly from the perspective of helping us in time

i think the president laid out a number of executive actions was secretary arne duncan of the department of education that look at schools and the climate of bullying, school security increasing the number of school resource officers. a number of schools have metal detectors in them. if local schools want to increase their security, there are obviously free to do that. appropriations may be there to increase that. keeping the guns out of the hands of people who would use them for ill is the number one priority as well. i think you also have to take a look at what has happened in schools. a lot of people forget at columbine, they're actually where guards on the campus. they exchanged fire with the perpetrators of the crime. they were outgunned because the military-style assault weapons. it is not just having police and armed folks on school campuses. virginia tech had a police force and is what squad and they still were not able to bring down the shooter. host: the washington times above this --spreading gun hysteria is the way they put it. they ride gun owners should be concerned about t