i'm brian thomas. >> and look at what is coming up in the next half hour. president obama says the tragedy must ends. collins for tighter gun control. >> . international study put in germany at the bottom of the table or pay equality among men and women and female executives remained a rarity. >> dortmund dealing another blow as the season reaches the halfway point. >> president obama has set himself and the nation a political challenge following the mass killing of schoolchildren in new 10, conn., calling for an end to the tragedies indicating he is ready to push for tighter gun control. >> congressional democrats have also indicated they are preparing an aggressive agenda for tighter control on the ownership of weapons. the youths who killed 27 people, most of them children, was heavily armed. >> 27 enderle figures, each of them representing and a victim. >> their release the names of the victims. >> we are requesting you expect -- respect their privacy of the go through this difficult time. >> president obama struggling to find words of comfort. >> can w

. >> i'm will thomas in for brian. the people of newtown are continuing the agonizing task of laying to rest the victims. >> we're learning more about what happened in the moments following the attack. jennifer davis is in newtown with the latest. >> reporter: it does not feel like christmas is days away in newtown where the community buried two more 6-year-olds today and a man that lived near the school shared his memories helping students. christmas stockings carefully hung bearing the name of each child. these women decking out a tree, a simple reminder of the season marred by funerals. james mattioli and jessica rekos. he didn't know why they were there but took them into his home hearing about the attack firsthand. >> this boy said we can't go back. we can't go back to the school. we can't go back. we don't have a teacher. >> reporter: rosen said some time later that day his joy of hosting these four girls and two boys turned to pain when a mother came looking for her child. >> she said is my son here? she said i

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brian ross all on them. thank you. >>> as you heard there, the shooter used a high-powered assault rifle to kill so many. abc's pierre thomas to tell us how powerful these weapons are. and just how easy they are to get in this country. >> reporter: extremely powerful. the assault rifle used in this type of shooting typically carries about 30 rounds or so. but it could carry up to 100 rounds or more. it can fire a barrage of bullets in seconds. that's why those children were killed so quickly. they're easy to buy. you can go to a local gun store and buy these guns within minutes after a background check. >> i know you're going to stay on the scene and report in the coming days. pierre thomas with us here tonight, thank you. >>> tonight this evening, another child's eye view, we hear from the children inside that school, and this evening it's 9-year-old ethan and 9-year-old ben, twins brothers, who were in different parts of the school when the shots rang out. >> everyone thought that it was an animal. when we heard gunshots, we all huddled into my teacher's office. everybody was quiet. when the policeman came in to get us, h

brian ross reporting. a previously scheduled gun buy gabbing -- buy back program has gotten a boost. hundreds of guns were turned over yesterday and bought by oakland and san francisco police. abc7 news reporter thomasoman has the story. >> i decided to give up on guns. i don't need it. >> michelle who didn't want to give her last name was one of more than 200 people willing to sell their guns to san francisco police. many who stood and waited in this long line at the san francisco omega boys club were brought here by the same tragedy. it was the mass murder of 20 children in connecticut. >> it hit me pretty strong. >> is that why you brought the gun? >> absolutely. i never thought about getting rid of them before. >> he is a vietnam vet and he and his wife sobbed while watching the news. jan was turning in her gun so it could never be used to take a life. >> i feel if this is something that might hurt somebody some day, then i would feel terrible. >> the gun buy back was funded by a group in oakland. they contacted the omega boys club in san francisco. the director doctor joseph michael says the turnout shows both communities care about gun violence. >> when the community says enough is enough you

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