yes we're on a skating team from my home in brooklyn not from the peter cooper so we left at noon today so for your demands met. we actually we talked about it a lot and it was being honest we were escorted by our d. in some of the administration and most of our full time faculty in the art school and we came to a realisation given the current state of the administration and the makeup of the board that we have students are in a better position to realize an actual eyes are demands than they are so the part of the speech that i delivered today addressed the three demands that we had stated and you know we're going to make sure that board meetings are streamed that are they're made public that there is student and faculty representation and that's that's something that we can promise closing your demands yeah we had three and then one of them did include as well. john should prove our current presidents up and down we're going to start dialogues about that soon the students on the ground as well as the students are occupying the peter cooper suite are have already begun setting up larger

the guy who gave cooper union the name, peter cooper, an industrialist and inventor and onetime presidentialandidate himself believed that the best education should be ax ses i believe to anyone that qualified to get in. anyone including women and people of color. the question of whether a student can pay for tuition, he thought that should be irrelevant. for more than a century now every student has received a full tuition scholarship at one of the best colleges of the country. that's the mission and history of the cooper union. in its more recent history, school administrators announced to chip away at the policy. they will begin charging tuition for gradual students starting this school year. undergrads are safe for now but maybe later they will have admissions too. they searched for a way out of what it described as a deepening financial hole. despite the recent financial crisis, thousand, the cooper union has maintained $600 million endowment. it owns the land beneath the chrysler building, but the school says it's operating at a loss and the shortfall has to come from somewhere, includ

peter's basilica today. the pontiff touched on political themes as well, calling for peace in syria and appealing to italians to embrace the spirit of cooperation in upcoming elections. >> tens of thousands of people showed up in st. peter's square to hear benedict's message, and millions to and in worldwide. >> tens of thousands of people turned out to hear the pope's christmas message. the square erupted in applause as the pontiff stepped out to address the crowd. he revisited one of the themes of his christmas eve message -- the wish for peace in the middle east. turning and i to syria, he called for an end to the conflict -- turning an eye to syria. the pope appealed to those responsible to stop the bloodshed and slaughter of innocent people. he called for dialogue in order to find a political solution to the conflict. the pope then delivered a christmas message in 65 languages. >> remind the world that true happiness lies in their hearts with hope and joy, for the savior has been born for us. >> for many in the audience, hearing the message in their own language was an obvious highlight. then came the blessing -- to the city and to the wor

peter all over r t. well john laughlin for the institute of democracy and cooperation and of you says the should not have received the award has its policies don't promote peace there has not been peace in europe for the last sixty years as the president of the european council said everybody knows that there was a war against yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred ninety in which european states e.u. member states participated very fully they attacked you. so one cannot say that there has been peace of europe since them in any case if we look further afield with syria the european union's policy the actual policy of the european union as an organization that would mind its member states has been in my view to fan the flames of the conflict in syria and not to act as a peace broker so there is literally no way in which we can say that the european union has fostered peace. so also an unstable situation in the european markets too is at least technocrat leader says his time in office will soon be up. to go reaction to that we look at what's in store for the ailing euros and with seemingly no way out of t

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that's where peter lanza lived he lived with his mother -- father in stanza. mother has been cooperating with police and has mentioned his brother adam possibly did have a personality disorder and mild autism. >>> we thank you very much. not too long ago the principal at sandy hook school sent a letter to parents saying we are installing a new security system. going forward what you have to do is buzz the doorbell at the front of the only access point in the school, the front door. all of the other doors awere going to be locked. according to a report in the new york times apparently this shooter add bam lanza went up to the -- adam lanza the principal says this is nancy lanza's son. i recognize him. it was a couple minutes later she confronted him in the hall and he shot her dead. >> here's why there's a little problem with the story. she was supposedly in a conference with the school psychologist and a parent. at that time is the principal the one who has to hit a button and queue somebody in. nancy the mom wasn't working there. i heard a report she had stopped working in order to deal

peter all of the r t. we've got some sort of john laughlin for the institute of democracy and cooperation he told us the e.u. should not have received that award because its policies are less than peaceful there has not been peace in europe for the last sixty years as the president of the european council said everybody knows that there was a war against yugoslavia invented ninety nine in which european states e.u. member states participated very fully they attempt to. reach europe so one cannot say that there has been peace in europe since them in any case if we look further afield with syria the european union's policy get to a policy of the european union as an organization nevermind its member states as being in my view to fan the flames of the conflict in syria and not to act as a peace broker so there is literally no way in which we can say that the european union as foster peace. result sort of stable situation on the european markets too is italy's technocrat leader today says his time in office will soon be up later than we look at what's in store for the ailing euro zone was simply no way out of t

these people put their lives on the line and should not be forced to cooperate with a hollywood movie. >> congressman peter for your time. >> thanks a lot. >>> still ahead on "starting point" we knew it all along kinda sorta. this video which is a terrifying shot of what is that an eagle grabbing a toddler, a little baby, and then dropping the baby. well it's all fake. we'll tell you how they pulled it off, straight ahead. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. i just finished a bowl of your new light chicken pot pie soup and it's so rich and creamy... is it really 100 calories? let me put you on webcan... ...lean roasted chicken... and a creamy broth mmm i can still see you. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >>> check this out at nasa, replaces the bulkier ones they wear thousand. it can enhance astronauts mobility during spacewalks. if the suits seem familiar to buzz lightyear it's a coincidence. can you imagine nasa being inspired by buzz light year. >> i love it. >>> there say new miss universe this morning and for the first time in 15 years she's an american. >> miss universe 2012 is

peter lanza, is expressing condolences to the victim's families. released a statement saying quote, we're in a state of disbelief. trying to find whatever answers we can. we, too, are asking why. we've cooperated fully with law enforcement and will continue to do so we're saddened, but struggling to make sense of what has transpired. we're going to go to don lemon in newtown. so much going on. so difficult, even for the father to have to put in context that allegedly his son is the one who caused so much grief and so much pain for all of these families, targeting an elementary school. >> yeah, it's unbelievable. it's really unbearable to think about, deb, a son getting guns from his own home and going on a killing rampage. our brian todd who went out and spoke with some people who know the shooting suspect. >> his motive for this unspeakable act is still not clear. law enforcement officials say. and in digging for details about shooter adam lanza and his family. accounts emerge that are still confusing, sometimes conflicting. a neighbor who knew him in recent years describes lanza as troubled. but listen to this account from a young man who knew him. >> he was just a kid. >> just a kid. >> jus

peter lanza was questioned by investigators searching for a motive. he said in a statement over the weekend that he had cooperated fully with law enforcement and will continue to do so. mary snow, cnn, new york. >> we are all asking why after those deaths in newtown. the search for answers. there's one fact that we can't ignore. these kinds of mass shootings happen in the united states more than anything else in the industrialized world. we'll go next to japan. that is where gun violence is almost nonexistent, but first -- ♪ three cheers for the green and white ♪ ♪ the sandy hook school >> these are students from new york ps 22 chorus singing their song to honor the victims there in newtown. their goal, of course, to bring hope and inspiration to families who have been impacted by the shooting. these are fifth graders from staten island. ♪ we'll go ♪ we'll do our best our very best to learn and grow ♪ it's lots of things. all waking up. connecting to the global phenomenon we call the internet of everything. ♪ it's going to be amazing. and exciting. and maybe, most remarkably, not that far away. we're going to wak

peter lanza was questioned by investigators as they searched for a motive. he said that he cooperatedement and will continue to do so. wolf? >> mary, thank you. this devastating tragedy has defined the debate over whether teachers in school should actually be armed. let's bring in lisa sylvester. she's been working this story for us, a very sensitive story. some very different points of view. >> wolf, there is a bill being introduced in south carolina. another bill is being proposed in tennessee. virginia's governor has brought it up, allowing school personnel to be armed. even the talk of arming teachers is creating a tremendous backlash. he is the owner of the blue ridge gun store. since the newtown shootings, gun owners got a bad rap. >> whether you cut it down to five, one, it still does the same damage, which is bad, okay. what we need to be doing is teaching gun safety and education. also take care of mental health issues. >> reporter: new calls in washington to bring back the assault weapons ban and other gun control measures. that's having an impact here. >> this rack used to