my name is mark barden. >> mark and jackie barden came to washington to work for tighter gun control return home with a determination that change will happen. maybe not today, but it will happen. it will happen soon. >> mark and jackie didn't get what they came for, but they promised to return along with other sandy hook families pushing for gun control. >> all of them, including mark, said, okay. this is just the beginning. we're coming back. should we come back next week? what's the plan? >> the plan is to keep fighting. in the meantime -- >> i'm the director of advocacy with sandy hook promise. >> mark is now a paid employee of sandy hook promise, working on gun control, mental health issues and community engagement. >> it's probably the proudest title i've ever had outside of being a father. and i do that to honor my three children and to make the world that they're going to live in a better place. >> jackie and her extended family are now honoring daniel with something called "what would daniel do?" >> we post different stories about daniel, different kind of inspirational quote

my name is mark barden. >> mark and jackie barden came to washington to work for tighter gun controlar-old son daniel. >> we return home with a determination that change will happen. maybe not today, but it will happen. it will happen soon. >> mark and jackie didn't get what they came for, but they promised to return along with other sandy hook families pushing for gun control. >> all of them, including mark, said, okay. this is just the beginning. we're coming back. should we come back next week? what's the plan? >> the plan is to keep fighting. in the meantime -- >> i'm the director of advocacy with sandy hook promise. >> mark is now a paid employee of sandy hook promise, working on gun control, mental health issues and community engagement. >> it's probably the proudest title i've ever had outside of being a father. and i do that to honor my three children and to make the world that they're going to live in a better place. >> jackie and her extended family are now honoring daniel with something called "what would daniel do?" >> we post different stories about daniel, different kin

i haven't read a book out loud since. >> reporter: the bardens channelled their grief into advocacy,rompted in part by daniel's siblings. >> james and natalie had questions. how could this happen? why did this happen? we didn't have answers. james just said, i hope this never happens to any other family ever again. >> reporter: many newtown families felt the same way. they traveled to washington and state houses around the country. nicole hockley shows lawmakers a photo of her son dylan. >> this is not a mass number of people. this is about my child, dylan. it is about your wife, your friend. it affects all of us. >> reporter: last spring they lobbied for an expansion of background checks on gun buyers. when that failed, they stood with president obama in the rose garden. >> we return home with determination that change will happen. maybe not today, but it will happen. >> reporter: in january, jackie will go back to work part time at the school where she used to teach where she'll have to read aloud again. and mark? he just recently started playing music again. ♪ >> reporter: his ful

the bardens lost their youngest son, daniel, at sandy hook elementary.omment from their oldest son set them on their course. >> it was our 13 year old son, james. he said, "i would like to see no other family ever have to go through this again." and we thought, if we had the opportunity to have some influence in that, then we sure would. with sandy hook promise, we want to be known as the town where tragedy turned into transformation. we'd like this to be the place where positive change, positive meaningful, lasting change started. >> sreenivasan: since young james' early comment, the couple has included their children, even taking them to the white house for spring break. all your kids seem very close. >> they were very close. they used to sleep in the same bed if they could. you want to connect through photos, but sometimes it's just too hard. it's too much. ( sobbing ) >> some days, it's better than others you can see all of his freckles. >> it makes me think of when i used to check his little teeth to see if he brushed, and there was that minty smell

parents of the san i didn't hook kids that were killed and one of those personalities what we mark barden and his son 7 years old was killed on december 14th. and mark barring done like my parents is devastated but mark barring done told us and standing with me in this conversation was the fourtd of twitter who ed lee referred to but guess you can't what the founder of with twooerlt is standing right here jack >> so jack dorsey is the person who intended twitter and he wanted to come and meet the san i didn't hook parents. jack and i had this fascinating discussion i wish my kid wasn't killed bus he wouldn't let anyone on the playground be alone interest so here's a child who instinctively understood his role and at 7-year-old multiple instances where he would go up to one of his school mates who was good evening go forward or isolated and bring them into the group. so mark was broken hearted because he lost someone who was stopping isolation. everyone in this room and the one campaign can help stop isolation. and if you talk about karma a week after jack doris i didn't and i had this dis

joining me now is eric barden whose son was killed at sandy hook elementary. >> good morning. >> youhave spoken over the last year. you pledged your son will not have died in vain. i know how hard you've been fighting with other family members for change to this country's laws. but so little has happened. obviously this has been a year of great loss for you, but also great frustration, mark? >> no. actually, i can't say frustration, chris. and i don't even think -- i don't like to think i'm fighting. i think we're trying -- i'd like to think i'm engaged in an effort and i'm approaching this with an open heart and mind to find real solutions and to work together with folks. >> where are those solutions, do you think? i mean, we had such high hopes last april. a background check bill supported by the president then failed. i know you must have seen this new poll. 49% of americans now support stricter laws. down from april and obviously from january just after the shooting. what do you think has happened? >> well, it's important to note, chris, that the umbrella figure of stricter laws

. >> five days later, the bardens were buries their son.le covering the story shows the family was already thinking about how they could make a difference on behalf of daniel. >> if you could read it because i can't. >> okay. >> the letter was written by daniel's 11-year-old sister. it says my name is natalie barden and i wanted to tell the president that only police officers and the military should get guns. how did that focus on guns so quickly come about? >> james and natalie had some good, honest questions like how did this happen? how does somebody go into a school with a gun and kill children? >> it really came from your other kids. >> yeah. >> we were not political. we were not engaged in any issues. >> that was about to change. >> anderson cooper's special report honoring the children, newtown, one year later, will air later tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern, on cnn. hd " tdd# 1-800-345-2 >>> a fishing trip that turned into a real adventure, and you can see why. jeff at a marine station in camp pendleton caught a great white on this calif

and this is from mark barden. his son was killed during the shooting spree.lies in newtown today. >> paul, reportedly only land line calls from inside the school will be released. what kind of restrictions are there on other types of calls like calls from cell phones? >> i think eventually the cell phone records will be released as well. the reason for the disteengs is that the lawsuit was directed at local police. most of the cell phone calls were diverted to the state police. that's a separate state agency and would be subject to a separate lawsuit to get the tapes. under most freedom of information act laws, as long as there's not an ongoing criminal investigation that will be compromised, the law requires release. >> as a jern lift, just to be transparent here, i like transparency. i think it's important that we hear them. it will tell us at least about police response time. and maybe these tapes can help us. is that a valid argument? >> it is. and it's the reason these freedom of information laws exist. we want our government to be transparent and want p

daniel barden was just a genetically compassionate little kid. he was that kid that always sat with the kid in school who didn't have anybody sitting next to them on the bus or in the classroom. when his parents would take him to the supermarket, they'd be all the way to their car with their groceries, they'd look back and daniel was still at the door holding open the grocery store door for people that were leaving. his parents started up a facebook page that just challenged people to engage in little, small acts of kindness in daniel's memory. it had about 40,000 likes at the last time that i had checked, and the stories are endless on there. a woman who bought coffee and doughnuts for a firehouse in new york state. a missouri woman who helped restock a food pantry in daniel's honor. a woman in illinois who paid for a stranger's meal and just wrote "love from daniel barden" on the bill. jack pinto was a really active 6-year-old boy. he enjoyed playing sports of all kinds. he was buried in his new york giants jersey. his parents, dean and tricia

. >> like mark and jackie barden, who lost their son, daniel. >> all kids love playgrounds, but danielt in, didn't know the kids, and start playing with them and get a game going. >> the pink is for the flamingoes she loved. >> carlos lost his 27-year-old daughter, victoria. a teacher. >> and every playground we build, she's looking down where her students, saying this is a beautiful thing. >> in the end, that is what this is all about. wrestling against events of unspeakable ugliness to find beauty. happiness, and hope once again. tom foreman, cnn. >>> secretary of state john kerry has gone back to the waterways of vietnam. 44 years ago, he was patrolling them as a young naval officer. this time he's there to deliver a message about the growing threat of climate change. water levels along the delta are dropping, threatening people in downstream cambodia and vietnam. secretary kerry is also talking with government officials in hanoi about releasing political prisoners. >>> that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'll be back, 5:00 p.m. eastern, in "the situation room." i'm wol

>> i just got off the phone with the father of daniel barden.e case and deserves unique treatment. s's unfortunate they weren't able to see that. and he said he'll work hard to do everything he can to protect his kids from having to listen to that. and he also says he believes the potential harm of having the children listen to this outweighs any defineable good that could come out of this. >> it get s tricky when the matters in question are no longer in dispute, so the calls don't shed light on what you're still trying to figure out. anything in there about what they hope for from the media, any pleas from the families to the media about this? >> bottom line is i think that they're just going take the necessary steps to avoid the media and protect themselves and do everything they can. when you look at the other side of this, the freedom of information commission in connecticut and the judge both ruled that these recordings should be released. >> the law is pretty clear and the judge made an interesting point. he said when you don't release thi

mark and jackie barden lost their son daniel. >> every day that passes, it's further away from our lifea year since i've held him, it's no time at all. >> reporter: nicole hockley keeps her son dylan's ashes in an urn on her dresser. she talks to him every day. >> what do you say? >> i kiss his urn. i say hello to him every day and say good-bye to him every night. >> reporter: erica lafferty's mom dawn hofstra was the principal who stood up to the gunman that day, who loved chocolate and signed every note with a smiley face that's now tattooed on her hand. >> you called your mom every day. >> every day. >> do you still pick up the phone? >> i do. i had to cancel the phone because i called all the time. >> reporter: in the months followed the shooting, they prompted questions their other two children were asking. >> how could this happen? why did this happen? we didn't have any answers. and james said i just hope this never happens to any other family ever again. we had the option to do nothing or to do something, and then when you think of it like that, we didn't have any options. >> re