we just heard from family members of nancy lanza. what are you learning about nancy? because she is also a victim in this crime? >> reporter: yes, she is absolutely a victim, we're about two and a half miles away from the quiet area where nancy lived with her son. beyond the police car, you can't see around the area. the lanzas moved into this area in 1997 or 8, they purchased house in 1998. they lived in the house together until nancy and her husband, peter, separated several years ago and divorced in 2009. and that left ryan, the son who now lives in hoboken, new jersey, and it left nancy and adam living in the house. nancy worked in finance in boston, and here in connecticut. she recently stopped working, which is interesting. we don't know whether she was retiring from working or spending time at home. but she did seem to confide with friends that she wanted to take care of adam. so they lived in this house until friday morning. and we spoke to residents around here. it is a very quiet neighborhood. all the lights are from cameras. big houses, we spoke to one neig

she's a wonderful addition to our panel so thank you nancy. [applause] next to nancy is tony smith who i loved his biobest of all and started he's an oakland resident and parent of students in oakland public schools. he was -- became the superintendent in 2009. he's a local boy including university of california berkeley background where he was captain of the football team and he did not include this in the biobut i know it and he wrote his under

nancy was a friend of mine. why would he go to an elementary school do thisment she had a hard time because he wouldn't let her hug or touch. >> he was sensitive to touch. my son goes the other way. and he likes deep back rubs and likes to be hugged. and nancy's son didn't want to be touch and it upset nancy because she couldn't hug her son. >> was he responsive to her? >> i know with the guns, she took him to the gun range as a way a single mom could try to bond with her son he enjoyed it and why she did it for thank thank, -- thanksgiving they went to washington d.c.. >> it is such a broadspectrum. and was he the kind of child functioning. hey, i am going to the store or i love you. or was he cold and defatched and unable to commune much. >> from my conversations with nancy. i love you and thratype of emotion was not what he would do. like you said. he was more detached . robber >> if is certainly tragic. andy was trying to rich, tharching you. >> and as a gunman burst in the school. one nurse hidurped her des

nancy, did that make you more or less optimistic about a deal today? >> reporter: it seems like they are both sort of accepting at this point are even though they don't want to preempt the pressure they don't want to say right now it looks like it's not working out, but they both seemed pretty resigned to the fact that the most likely scenario is democrats are going to bring up their own package as early as tonight, more likely tomorrow, and then we're just going to have to see what happens. i think there was a good-faith effort on the part of the leaders to try to get this done. it wasn't all for show. but they did need to prove that they were trying to do something. and at the end of the day, it's just too difficult for republicans, most republicans to have their fingerprint on a plan that eliminates tax cuts for some people. this is just an easier way for them. >> o'donnell: what happened, major? the president did signal he was willing to go up to 400,000, possibly, as a threshold on friday then in the briefing room, he said 250,000 again, and he su

welcome to sewing with nancy, ken. thanks for having me, nancy.as intrigued when i first saw your beautiful fiber yarns but then more intrigued when i learned the story behind it. right, it's an interesting story. it all starts here. it does. it starts with silk sari remnants and selvage from the factory floors of india that are donated to a women's co-op. they turn them into beautiful hanks of fiber. yes, exactly. what they do... is they sew them together end to end all the waste and selvage and they make a beautiful silk yarn out of silk waste. you had this great photo of a gal sewing these together and just making nothing into something. exactly, something useful and beautiful out of nothing. giving the women some income, a purpose. and a sense of self-reliance. basically, they're subsistence farmers. it's a cluster of villages and the women work only during the harvest which is about two months a year. so we thought it would be nice to give them something to do all year round. we get the benefits of scraps that would be thrown away turned into

[applause] >> so please check that score for me again nancy. our next speaker was once our mayor -- will always be our mayor, one that has served so well in the senate and now while she has a higher calling she still finds time to remind me "make sure i pay attention to the streets of san francisco" but she has also been a great supporter of not only transportation, but this year she's also said we're going to make sure we protect the cleanest water system this country has, our hetch hetchy. please welcome to the stage senator dianne feinstein. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much mayor lee, leader pelosi, jackie spear, david chiu. most importantly i think the finest secretary of transportation we have had, and nancy said what he has done for san francisco. i can tell you this is a secretary for california as well. [applause] whether it's riverside county, whether it's los angeles, whether it's the central valley, whether it's the san francisco bay area secretary lahood has been responsible.

lanza's mother nancy was found dead in their home.. investigators continue to comb both crime scenes for answers. >> we are using every single resource and our goal is to paint a complete picture. so that we all know and so the public knows exactly what happened. but this small new england town will never be the same. connecticut's governor shared more detailed information about what he learned from investigators on how the gunman entered the school on friday. and what they believe led up to the gunman's final moments. hama >> "he shot his way into the school. the school was locked. he used a weapon to walked in. stephanopoulos: 'he blasted right through it?' with several rounds.a number of rounds. he discharged to make an opening and then went through it. went to the first classroom, as you know, went to the second classroom. we surmise that it was during the second classroom episode that he heard responders coming and apparently at that decided to take his own life." >>reporter: officials say adam lanza killed himself with a single b

nancy cordes is there as well. nancy, good evening. nancy, goor: jeff, this would : sentially be a last-ditch effort to avert the fiscal ially be sources tell us that aides to the president have been in talks preliminary talks, with aides to senate majority leader harry elf who himself was here in hawaii this weekend for the funeral of senator daniel inouye. eid is now working, we're told, on a smaller package than the comprehensive deal than the president was working on with speaker boehner. than tmall package would prevent tax rates from rising for middle-class, perhaps cut some spending and tie up a few other loose ends. so far, though, senator reid has so fbeen in touch with republicans over this plan. blicans ovent and the first lady as you mentioned, are here in hawaii. th atte also attended senator inouye's funeral this weekend. this is the president's first real vacation, jeff, in about a year. real nut he's cutting it short, heading home later this week to bu heading hothe fiscal cliff as well. lor:lor: nancy, the white house

with his mother nancy, telling them she was losing control of her 20-year-old son. >> it was gettingarder for her as time went on. >> reporter: nancy lanza was a regular at newtown bar and restaurant, my place where the owners say she told them about her struggles with adam's emotional and behavior problems for years. >> she was helping him all the time. she home schooled him and everything. so she, you know, i knew he was on medication but that's all i know. >> reporter: since her divorce from peter three years ago, her friends say nancy was left to deal with adam by herself. >> we knew he had a problem. but she took care of it the best she could. she was a single mom. >> reporter: since elementary school at sandy hook, through high school, adam was known as strange, severely shy. >> he hated at lookling at your eyes for more than a couple seconds. it made him feel uncomfortable and he made you feel uncomfortable as well. >> reporter: a former babysitter said he was told never to leave him alone. >> nancy told me to never turn your back on him at any time. >> reporter: the former sc

the nancy cordes is at the capitol for us tonight. nancy? >> reporter: scott, this is speaker boehner acknowledging that they are running out of time. so he's calling a vote on a plan later this week that he know it is white house won't like in the hopes they'll make big concessions in talks now to avoid it. >> our plan "b" would protect american taxpayers. >> reporter: speaker boehner said he'll take his plan directly to the house floor with a bill to extend the low bush-era tax rates for all americans making less than one million dollars a year. that's far higher than the $400 income cutoff the president is currently proposing. higher still than president obama's campaign promise-- to let taxes rise on households making $250,000 or more. boehner said he has to bypass talks with the white house and hold a vote on his plan now because the president's latest fiscal cliff proposal still isn't balanced between taxes and cuts. what is your definition of a balanced deal? does it have to be dollar for dollar spending cuts? >> most people would agr

but as for adam -- >> nancy always asked me to always be with him in the room. no matter what. don't go to the bathroom, don't ever leave him without supervision. >> craft says adam had a contentious relationship with his mother, nancy. she had split from the boy's father, pete elanza, who is tax director and president of gees ifs but kraft says nancy lanza was an engaged mother, setting up play dates with her sons and taking part in neighborhood activities. neighbors say nancy lanza enjoyed gardening and had taken time off from her job in finance. >> decorate the house, the house was always pristine and, i mean she was just like any other housewife. >> but like her son, there are gaps in nancy lanza's story that still need to be filled in. she owned the weapons that adam lanza used in the killings, including a semi automatic rival and it's not clear why she purchased them. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> well, there is other news as well in washington, house speaker john boehner has agreed to raise taxes on the rich to avert the fiscal cliff. a source tells cnn that boehner h

you get nancy pelosi in. and you shake it up. you give the republicans something so that they can save face pup make them raise taxes. at the end of the day, nobody's happy. but stability occurs. and the thing goes forward. i am continually surprised by president obama that he lets it become these dreadful enervating dramas. >> could i just say that when ronald reagan was president and everything peggy just said is absolutely true-- >> i'm so glad. ( laughter ). >> when ronald reagan was president, grover norquist was in diapers and rush limbaugh was a disk jockey, i think, in st. louis. you have had a hermetically sealed culture grow up on the right in this country that as we saw during the last election, is removed from reality and is extreme in the most egregious way. >> and you don't have to go all the way-- >> it's much further than that. when bill clinton passed that budget deal, he didn't get a single republican vote. and there hasn't been a republican vote for tax increases in 20 years, and if the deal falls apart today--

speaker nancy pelosi helped create the oce as a solution. in just four years they have done more than 100 investigations of lawmakers raising serious questions about possible congressional misdeeds. in 37 of those investigations, the oce referred them on to the actual house ethics committee for further review, meaning that in those 37 cases, the oce found reason to believe that house ethics and sometimes federal laws were likely violated. so why exactly does congress want to kill it? well, actually, that's hard to say. folks like these who have in the past voted to cut the oce budget or limit its powers refused to talk to us. for those who would talk, opinions were mixed. >> i think it's important there be some way for the public, for someone outside of congress to raise issues about the conduct of members of congress. one of the things that -- is it oce, oce has sent to the ethics committee was actually pretty flimsy. >> i supported it the first time, i'll support it again. >> i don't think it's working well. >> is there anything oce has do

that left adam and nancy back here. nancy lanza worked in finance in boston and here in connecticut for some years. but recently she has left work. we don't know whether she was retiring or whether she was taking a break. she did tell acquaintances she wanted to take care of adam. now, we did speak to one neighbor, gene j mcdade, who said she didn't find anything unusual about this particular family. >> she was a stay-at-home mom who loved her kids. there is no explanation. there was no funny business going on as far as i know. >> they were quiet. seemingly friendly people. i don't think people in this neighborhood really knew them too well. >> were they -- did they struggle, were they more simple? >> i think they were well off, but i can only speculate. i don't know. it's not really my business. >> that was gina mcdade's son, jp. i'll tell you, the one question that keeps coming up here, this is an upscale, afluent family. what's the connection to the guns? some police sources are saying adam may have had access to six

nancy snyderman to join us again to talk about this. it is the other component in all those cases we know about because of the name of the place. >> it is. and just think of it, brian, columbine, virginia tech, you start to see a pattern. and what is that pattern? anger, loneliness, social awkwardness, and, of course, access to guns. and the number that brian referenced, 1 out of 17, underscoring that, only one-third of those people get any kind of mental health problem. so here's the real concern. less than 10% of our health care dollars are spent on mental healthcare. and that means that the very wealthy can pay out of pocket. the very poor, there's a little bit of a safety net with medicaid. and everyone in between basically falls through that safety net. and that's what really has a lot of people concerned today. one person who we spoke with, a father who has battled the privacy issues that sometimes bar parents wefrom getting acce to their kids' records said tonight, and i'm going to quote him. he said, "it's easier to get an assau

. >> reporter: nancy and lottie are marriage therapists who are convinced these gentle animals can helpding couples by breaking down emotional defenses and helping heal past traumas. >> because horses are so sensitive, they can help us determine what a couple is actually really feeling. >> walk, walk. go! >> he's telling me that you don't really mean it. >> reporter: so, we came to colorado to follow this couple's last ditch effort to save a scrumabling relationship, using horse therapy. >> we have piled problem on top of problem on top of problem for years, who knows what's at the bottom of that. all by yourself. >> reporter: though never married, justin and lyz are raising two sons. lately, the bickering and fighting got so bad, he reluctantly moved out. but now, he'll try just about anything to make his family whole again. >> first thing we're going to do today is just actually go meet the herd. >> reporter: justin is drawn to the most aggressive horse on the ranch, danny, who came here after surviving a grizzly bear attack. danny isn't fitting in, which hits home for justin, who fee

what are you learning about target shooting, nancy lanza, and adam? >> that's one of the things investigators have to look at. what were both of them doing in the months leading up to this? in particular, her son, the suspected shooter in the case? they're finding out more about that. they're learning in fact both mother and son had been to target practice, did go to gun ranges several times over the past several years. they don't know exactly how often yet, but most recently for adam, anyway, in the last six years and over the course of several years. the reason they don't know the big picture, the full picture is atf is still canvassing all of the gun ranges in the area, and there are a ton of them, to get more information about this. they're still following a lot of leads, and they're also looking at computers, computer said they have discovered in the home. a couple of them, we learned from our law enforcement officials, is that they were smashed. smashed to smith arenes. >> he tried to destroy the evidence? >> that appears to be the case, the app

we have two reports on the stalemate, beginning with nancy cordes on capitol hill. nancy. >> reporter: jeff, democratic aides tell cbs news that senate majority leader harry reid is ready to introduce legislation that would avert the fiscal cliff, but only if he gets assurances from republican leaders that they won't try to block it. that standoff is creating some tension on capitol hill that spilled on to the senate floor today. >> the senate will come to order. >> reporter: in the normally genteel senate, leader reid unleashed a tirade today about house speaker john boehner, accusing him of running a dictatorship in the house. >> speaker boehner is not willing to negotiate. we have not heard a word from leader mcconnell. nothing is happening. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell, the top republican in the senate, said it's reid who hasn't reached out for weeks. >> the phone never rang. and so now here we are, five days from the new year, and we might finally start talking. >> reporter: but talking about what? so far, reid has not introduced the scaled-down bill he was rep

i agree with what nancy pelosi said. history improves itself. >> so based on history, this is about math and not ideology. the sense i get on the hill today, if you don't get the rate increase, you can forget everything else. >> we have seen in this country a decline in infrastructure in the last 30 years. that means everything from investment in community colleges, health care, highways and bridges, all of that. and we need these revenues particularly from upper income people. if the president would back down here or if we would lose this fight, it would say we're never going to increase taxes on the wealthy. >> if it's about the rates, that means john boehner's proposal is doa. >> his proposal is doa for a couple reasons. the math doesn't add up. >> he says he won't raise rates. he's getting heat on the hill today from people in his caucus about why did you put too much on the table? this tea party wing of the republican party over there in his caucus is telling him we'll give him the rates. >> it leaves us that john b

who was nancy lanza? >>>. >> now investigators want to know how one of hour boys turned into a killer. >>> a i'm julie carey in virginia where the governor is urging lawmakers to find a >>> tonight we're learning more about nancy lanza, the mother of the gunman in friday's tragic shooting. >> michael isikoff spoke to those who knew her, while investigators try to come up with motives for the attack. >> the weapons recovered didn't belong to -- they were owned by his first victim, his own mother nancy lanza. >> her cause of death is multiple gunshot wounds, and the death has been ruled a homicide. >> reporter: she was divorced in 2009 and go ownership of the 3100-square-foot home in an affluent neighborhood. she frequented a local bar, where the two owners called her a stylish, personable and caring woman. >> very humble, kind. >> she was also a gun enthusiast, who enjoyed shooting, sometimes with her sons. among the guns she owned was a grob and sig sauer, and bushmaster semiautomatic, all used in the att

i just saw some money fly out of nancy.is kearns goodwin still with us and john meacham also joining the table from the flash cam. >> you know, nancy -- >> set it up for people who haven't read it. so cool. >> this is a great book. i tweeted a few weeks back that this is like crack for people who love presidential history. and i've had a lot of people follow up with it. there are so many stories. and stories that i had not heard before. been reading presidential biographies since i was 6 or 7. and the interaction's amazing. but there seems to be a formula and we saw it here, too. president obama and george w. bush would not have been that relaxed two years ago even though president bush did his best to make the new president relax. but there is a learning curve. every president seems to walk in saying i'm the first who did this. i cracked the code. i'm smarter than everybody else. you guys just go home. then they find themselves two years later going i can't call my friends. they don't get it. i can't call my campaign peopl

how should nancy lanza be remembered? the question for you this morning, how should nancy lanza be remembered? the memorials, the makeshift vigils are always the same, 26 victims. >> we gather here in memory of 20 beautiful children and six remarkable adults. >> 26 christmas trees, 26 candles for the 26 innocents who died needlessly, but never in the same breath do we mention adam lanza's first victim, his mother, nancy lanza. she was shot four times in the head while sleeping. by most accounts she was a caring woman. >> she's a great friend, very since sincere, very, very giving person, give you the shirt off of her back if you needed it. >> i've seen a lot of things in the media about her being this survivalist whacko and that was not her at all. she taught the boys how to use the guns responsibly. safety was paramount always. >> we don't know how nancy lanza dealt with her troubled son. what if she was frightened by what he might do? he was an adult, she had no legal power over him. there are people who sympathize like

era tambiÉn seguidora de un movimiento muy particular. >>> los cercanos de la familia describo en a nancy>>> siempre estaba tratan de siso tiro y de buscarle ayuda sicolÓgica hizo o que pudo como madre dice un amigo. >>> nancy tenÍa en su casa una colecciÓn de armas las autoridades vieron que tenÍa cinco erecciÓn entradas legalmente, tres de estas fueron usadas por su hijo para la matanza. >>> y algunos informo de indican que esta madre de 52 aÑos tambiÉn era del llamado movimiento pre pasiÓn israel taun agrupaciÓn que exige a seguidores capital raro vÍveres y recibir entrenamiento con armas para estar listos ante una situaciÓn de caos social. >>> una cuÑada dice que habÍa convertido su casa en una fortaleza, nancy se dedicÓ a continuar en los Últimos aÑos la educaciÓn de adams en su casa luego que el joven tuvo problemas con el sistema escolar. >>> mientras algunos vecinos contraban a madre e hijo poco sociales otros la describen a ella como un ser amigable que hablaba sobre jardinerÍa, bÉisbol, y era aficionado al tiro al blanco. >>> los que la conocÍan dicen que introdujo a su hijo en

. >> nancy. >> in some school districts and teachers when i brought up this issue i get back "you're not going to change kids being kids. some kids will pick on other kids and in the dynamic girls will be friends today and the queen bee will turn away from some girl and the enemy today and tomorrow it's somebody else, and again i agree with george and so much of this is the responsibilities falls on those adults who actually have a bird's eye ore worm's eye view of what is going on in the schools and the kids' lives and when kids don't show up for school and do more inquiry we find there is an issue around sexual harassment in the school and another form of bullying and girls assaulted or harassed in an aggressive way, or and it just goes higher and higher. our teachers need to be not only recognize what they're seeing but willing to look at what they're seeing and one of the unfortunate things we have seen with some teachers and i am not criticizing the teachers in general because i think this is a learning process for adults also to move from kids will be kids and we had someone wh

friends say nancy lanza had not been working in recent years. adam lanza had, quote, no connections to the school where the massacre occurred. >>> students are returning to school this morning for the first time since the shooting massacre. meanwhile, more families will hold funerals. nbc's danielle leigh joins us. >> reporter: good morning. over my shoulder, you may be able to make out a christmas tree that's marking the memorial that is marking the focal point of this little town. it's just incredible to walk by that memorial to see the letters, stuffed animals, all the mementos that mourners brought here to the victims. today, students will go past that memorial has they return to school after the shooting. it will be a reminder that things will not be the same. we saw yesterday the two funerals of jack pinto and noah pozner. one of the viewings will be for that teacher vicki soto who died trying to shield her students from the gunfire. sandy hook, their schools are definitely locked down as part of that investigation that investigators say a

it is called my place and i asked them about who was nancy lanza?ears ago, 12, 15 years ago, met her here in the bar. she would come in and take out food and we got to know each other and with mark and we would talk in the bar and just like clicked. that was it. we started talking and we became good friends. >> got to know her? >> yeah. she was like i said started coming into the takeout area and picking up food and got to know the family pretty well and very friendly and out going and funny and we took to her, so, yeah, she just became fast friends with us. she did a lot in town and was always on the go. >> how often did she come in? sounds like you know her well. >> two or three times a week. >> two or three times a week. >> for good especially. the bar, not so often, you know. >> tickets for a ball game and boston games and stuff. >> season tickets to the red sox and would invite us or give us her tickets. >> when was the last time she came in. >> i saw her last week or two weeks ago to tops and she came in and i was talking to her for a little b

they were saying, nancy, nancy, look, there's the capitol. i kept looking for a capitol a, a capital b -- i just don't see it. right in front of you. one thing and another eventually i realized that this beautiful domed building that they were pointing at was not capital letter but the capitol with an "o." of the united states. beautiful luminescent, i don't ever see it to this day without just being in awe of what it stands for. >> you're the first daughter elected of a former member and you did it -- i know you said in the book about your father was so proud of you because he did it without his name from, a whole different area of the country. what would your dad say if he could see you today? >> he'd cry, i think. he was so in awe of -- he served in congress he served with these giants in the congress. he was a new deal congressman then became mayor of ball mother when i was in first grade. when i went away to college he was still the mayor of baltimore. speaker of the house that was really very important to him. he'd be wondering. how thi

officials say lanza shot his mother nancy multiple times, killing her in her bed. lanza then took four guns-- legally registered to his mother-- and drove this black honda to sandy hook elementary school about five miles away. students there had finished reciting the pledge of allegiance and the building's doors had been locked. then, around 9:30 friday morning staffers in the front office heard popping noises. police say those were likely sounds of lanza shooting out the glass of one of the school doors. lanza entered the building carrying a bush master a.r.-15 assault rival with two sum automatic handguns inside the pockets of his military style cargo pants. police say he was also carrying hundreds of rounds of ammunition in multiple magazines. there were more popping sounds. someone in the front office keyed the mike phone on the school's public address system in a frantic attempt to sound the warning. as the gunfire continued, 911 calls were made. and just before 9:36, a police dispatcher radioed the first alert. >> reporter: the precise sequence of what happen