katie calling sandy the family's guardian angel. >> sonny is the most happy, bubbling, joyous little guy. and i just wanted to just squeeze him. >> reporter: and katie, what are your hopes for sonny and his relationship with sandy? >> i hope that i get to share, you know, sonny's first day of kindergarten with sandy. you know, all the way up through high school graduation, his wedding, all that's possible. >> ll that for the power of kindness inside and out. our thanks to hallie jackson for sharing that story. >>> coming up, we go inside the behind the scenes of a player. >>> thanks for being up very early with me. i'm frances rivera. have a great mday. see on >>> barely

actually, it's sandy- — scream your name? actually, it's sandy- it _ scream your name?was a _ scream your name? actually, it's sandy. it was a huge - it's sandy. it was a huge hollywood hit on screen. now the devil wears prada is making its west end stage debut. now, the devil wears prada is making its west end stage debut. vanessa williams, who famously played cut—throat wilhelmina slater in ugly betty, is taking on the role of another fearsome fashion editor, miranda priestly. charlotte. charlotte! there you are, charlotte. yes, miss williams. how many times do i have to scream your name? i'm so sorry. have a seat. so i've been used to playing strong women with definitely missions to accomplish. and i guess it'sjust, you know, a casting directorsaying, oh, i know who can do this. and that's when i get the call. vanessa has been in showbiz for four decades and, at the age of 61, says hollywood is realising audiences want to see actors their own age. you know, we're not dead yet. we've got plenty of stories to tell, and i think it's reflective on an active and an avid f

. >> no one knew about sandy wills. an enslaved man leaves a plantation, serves during the civil war with lincoln's army, and poof. like it never happened. >> reporter: cheryl wills is sandy's great, great, great granddaughter. she didn't know of him or her family's long military legacy until she started researching her ancestry. >> so what first sparked your interest in genealogy? >> a tragedy. >> reporter: her father, a new york city firefighter and vietnam-era veteran, was killed in a motorcycle accident when she was a teenager. >> when i sat at his funeral, the one thing that was burned into my heart was when the military honored him. and then they handed my mother a folded flag, and at that moment i realized my father was special in the eyes of the greatest army in the world. >> reporter: like millions of black americans, cheryl's family left the south as part of the great migration. her grandparents moved from tennessee to new york city. >> i'm cheryl wills. >> reporter: for the past 35 years cheryl has been telli

katie calling sandy, the family's guardian angel.ad.>> he is the most happy, bubbly, joyous little guy, i just wanted to squeeze him.>> katie, what are your hopes for sonny and his relationships with sandy? >> i hope they get to share his first day of kindergarten all the way up to his high school graduation, his wedding, all of that is possible.>> so many special moments ahead. that is nbc nightly news for this sunday, tonight we have the bengals versus the chargers next, i'm hallie jackson. for all of us here at nbc,

sandy wills' military records.hildren. records show when he died, but cheryl could find no trace of where he was buried. >> and i'm searching and searching and searching. he was nowhere to be found. essentially, m.i.a. >> reporter: her search did lead her to a living relative. ethan west, a distant cousin also researching his family. you did not know you were related until you started doing this research? >> correct. she was going through finding sandy and i have been posting a lot of stuff about my lineage, and our lineages collided. >> he is my hero. he physically went down there. >> reporter: down there is brownsville in haywood county, tennessee. they both had come across records placing some of their ancestors, including sandy wills, on a plantation there owned by the moore family. >> i just wanted to know what this place that we're reading about looked like. i found the coordinates to where the property would have been. >> reporter: in 2013, west went driving around haywood county looking for the plantation a

>> we all know that alex jones visited unspeakable harm to the sandy hook families.from our point of view, if we could give them one ounce of satisfaction, of restitution, this was worth it. some people think that the alliance between every town and the onion is strange bedfellows. we think the opposite. at our fingertips, every town has the facts and the research and the stories and the data. what the onion brings, a creative way using the medium of satire and humor to reach new audiences. that is how you fight misinformation. that is how you fight fair. >> then, you used to cover misinformation at nbc news. you have witnessed firsthand the direct impact of these destructive lies and toxic falsehoods. in addition to the fund media moment, against an obvious bad guy, what is it like for you as somebody who used to fight this information? >> it obviously, it feels good. in general, people need a little hope right now. people need the idea that everything can have him. alex has made , and people like him, the general ecosystem he created, have made it so the families i

. >>> plus, poetic justice for conspiracy theorist alex jones as the platform he used to call the sandy hook massacre a hoax is auctioned off to literally the perfect buyer. the new and very likely new owners of info wars join me live in studio coming up next. the wonderful wizard of oz summons you to the emerald city. come with me. what? to meet the wizard. i couldn't possibly. this is your moment. i'm coming. just follow the road. it's gonna lead you right... oh. to me. i'm not afraid. it's the wizard who should be afraid of me. [ vocalizing ] >>> the system still think it's in charge. i'm going live right now from what probably will be the last transmission from this building. god bless you all for your support and please support our sponsors and infowars is really the detonator for the whole global movement that's happening and you are the reason it's happening and you are the resistance. god bless and good luck. >> that was alex jones earlier today lamenting the sales of his platform as part of the defamation judgment he owes to family members of victims of the sandy hook elementar

we came into really being after sandy hook.their courage is going to make a difference to families all over this country. >> and, and i think in the bigger picture, even setting aside the horror of gun violence, it's that alex jones, his info wars site ends up being a charade just like he's a charade. i think there's real justice in that. i do have to ask in terms of how this idea came about, ben. i think it was you replied to a joke on blue sky, which is an alternative to x saying that you were looking into buying info wars. is that the seed? >> yeah, yeah. i quoted a famous guy there. but we found out it was for sale, and everybody in the room was like wouldn't it be be funny if we bought info wars? and then it was like no, wouldn't it actually be funny? so we have started calling around. we called the families' lawyers. >> why did you think of the families? because they were so already involved? >> yeah, and i knew them from my previous life at this place. so i called them and was like what, what's the deal here? like, what

why sandy hook parents supported the satire publication's purchase. >> we want to make it as hard as possible for him to do the type of harm that he does. >> have you ever taken a day off? >> no, i love it. >> norah: tonight's "eye on america," we go to a hotel giving employees hope. >> we do our job right, someone leaves here inspired. >> norah: the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ good evening. i'm norah o'donnell, and thank you for joining us on this busy thursday. president-elect donald trump promised to shake up washington, and he is doing just that as he staffs up his administration. trump late today announced he intends to nominate robert f. kennedy jr. as secretary of health and human services. this is a sprawling department that touches the lives of every american. take a look at this. hhs is in charge of medicare, and medicaid, the safety of food and medicine, the cdc, and the nih, one of the world's leading medical research centers. kennedy has a long record of criticizing vaccines, spreading often misleading claims about their safety, and just last week, kennedy vowed t

joining us now is robby parker, father of 6-year-old sandy hook victim, emily parker, and author of as and reclaiming the truth about sandy hook." robby, welcome. i'm so glad you're here. we'll get to your book in a minute. first, can you tell us how the onion, you, all of the sandy hook families decided to bid on infowars? we understand the onion did not have the money to buy it outright but many of you chose to forego any money won in the lawsuit against alex jones, put it towards this purchase. so, what happened? >> no, exactly. we from the very beginning, this was always our goal. we wanted to make it as hard as possible for alex jones to spread the harm and the lies that he has done and what he's inflicted on people, not just me or sandy hook families, but millions of people. and so it was never about the money. we proved that with this. we were willing to give up everything we needed to give up to ensure that jones and his allies weren't able to enable jones to continue doing what he does. >> so there's this hearing this week that will determine if the bid will be accepted by th

tonight, alex jones, the conspiracy theorist who for years told his audience that the massacre at sandy hook was a hoax. 20 children died. he called the anguished parents actors. tonight, what's now happened to his infowars platform. who bought it? and their plan for it now. >>> here in new york city tonight, battling that highrise fire. black smoke pouring from the roof of the building in manhattan's hudson yards. >>> the daring rescue. officers breaking into a burning home, battling fire and smoke to save a couple in their 70s. >>> the alarming numbers tonight involving measles in the u.s. authorities say mostly in children who are not vaccinated. >>> and "america strong" tonight. the high school runner in her last race, and what she suddenly did in front of everyone before the finish line. it is unforgettable. >> david: good evening, and it's great to have you with us here on a thursday night. we begin tonight with president-elect donald trump, choosing prominent vaccine skeptic robert f. kennedy jr. as his secretary of health and human services, planning to put rfk jr. in charge of

. >> reporter: lori merrill owns the big sandy mountaineer. in rural big sandy, population 600. senator tester's hometown. no political coverage in the paper even though you're at the heart of this important race. >> that's right. i do not want anyone to use this paper as a tool to divide this community. >> reporter: merrill says montana has changed as thousands moved during the pandemic from states like california in search of wide-open spaces, lower taxes, and more conservative policy. that boom health care spiked the cost of living here, and it's most evident in housing. in bozeman, new construction abounds. and housing prices have skyrocketed. the median home up $200,000 since 2020. property taxes have jumped 20%. >> who doesn't want to move here? it's the great outdoors. >> reporter: muriel kelly is a lifelong montanan. >> on one hand it's amazing that you have more community in the rural area. on the other hand, people don't realize the respect you need for such a pristine place. >> reporter: tester's the last statewide democrat in what's become a solidly red state. >> the

he made the lives of these families of sandy hook victims, absolute by spewing conspiracy theories forh platforms kicked him off because they thought he was too toxic to the environment and so when the judge says that he owes those families $1.5 billion, one thing i should note, they are going to use some of those proceedings that would've gone to them to push the site against him and it gives you a sense of how much the sandy hook families want to make sure that he gets a taste of his own medicine. >> thank you so much, great new reporting on axios. everyone should look at it. john? >>> this weekend, cnn has new back-to-back episodes of the series how it really happened, they follow the deaths of seven people who were poisoned by cyanide laced tylenol in 1982. the investigation that followed changed the way that medications and other goods are packaged. >> after a week of chaos and frenzied investigatory efforts, investigators got an interesting new lead . >> the author of the letters claimed to be the tylenol killer. >> he writes, he doesn't like president reagan's proposed tax laws

please welcome to the stage kora laracuente and sandy howard nuwar. to do one of what we are confident will be an amazing summit. following our opening fireside chat with two light has a top cyber officials, we will introduce in the moment, we will then host a general session focused on the international efforts to combat ransomware. then you will hear from experts about the future of cyber. after that we will have a fireside chat with the u.s. cyber ambassador nathaniel fick followed by a panel about how the government is trying to get ahead of cyber threats. we hope you stay with us as we concluded today at the all attendee reception of the exhibit hall, sponsored by elastic. kora, we have an amazing four days ahead to serve the cybersecurity community. >> we sure do, sandy. the mission is truly an honor to be a part of and we are looking forward to kicking off this event with you in. a moment i am extremely excited to be back up here with you throughout the incredible week ahead. throughout the event, both sandy and i will be here to guide you to t

in rural big sandy, population 600, senator tester's hometown. even though you're at the heart of this race? >> that's right. i do not want anyone to use this paper as a tool to divide this community. >> reporter: merrill says montana has changed as thousands moved during the pandemic from states like california in search of wide open spaces, lower taxes, and more conservative policy. that boom has spiked the cost of living here, and it's most evident in housing. in bozeman, new construction abounds, and housing prices have skyrocketed. the median home is up $200,000 since 2020. property taxes have jumped 20%. >> who doesn't want to move here. it's the great outdoors. >> reporter: muriel kelly is a life-long montanan. >> on one hand, it's amazing that you have more community being in a rural area. but on the other hand, a lot of people don't realize the respect that you need to have for such a pristine place. >> reporter: tester is now the last statewide democrat in what's become a solidly red state. >> the state turning red is a function of the

tonight, alex jones, the conspiracy theorist who for years told his listeners that the massacre at sandy hook in newtown was a host. 20 children, as you know, died in newtown. he called the anguished parents there actors. tonight, what's now happened to his infowars platform. today, we learned the satirical publication "the onion" has bought it, and their plan for it now. here's aaron katersky. >> reporter: tonight, alex jones' media empire infowars sold at auction to help pay his billion dollar debt to the sandy hook families he defamed. >> we were able to stand up to a huge bully. >> reporter: those families backing the satirical website the onion in its takeover over of a platform that peddled lies to millions. >> this is just the beginning of jones' lesson in accountability. >> reporter: for years, jones called the massacre at sandy hook elementary a hoax and the grieving families actors, mocking them. >> doing classic acting training, laughing and joking and say, hey, we're live -- oh -- >> reporter: robbie parker's daughter emily was among 20 first graders killed that day. at the d

fire chief sandi tong edging out police chief bill scott for the win. tara campbell, abc seven news. >> great. >> all for a great cause. all right. checking on our weather for the holiday, which is looking a-okay. >> i think sandy is going to update us on that. sandy. >> yeah, it is looking great for thanksgiving. dan and ama. let's talk about the chill. good evening everyone. it's a winter like chill the next two nights, frosty and cold. so protect your pets and don't forget about your sensitive plants so that they don't get damaged. bring them inside or cover them. look at these temperatures already near freezing in saint helena, 36 degrees 37, santa rosa and livermore. so you know it is going to be a cold night, especially when you compare it to the last 24 hours in comparison. 24 hour change running four degrees cooler in novato, san francisco, livermore down six in san jose and eight degrees cooler in napa. let's talk about thanksgiving. it's going to be clear. cold and frosty tomorrow morning. 30s and 40s, bright and sunny at noontime. a few cloud

the onion's bid was backed by the family of eight victims of the sandy hook school shooting, the very people that jones defamed. and now alex jones is responding on social media. >> the connecticut democrats with the onion newspaper bought us. they outbid. they said, it was competitive. they changed all the bidding rules, i had a bad feeling. and just like they tried to shut us down, they're supposed to have a court order. about to go live out of harriston's american journal studio. i don't know what's going to happen, but i'm going to be here until they come in here and turn the lights off. >> joining us now, cnn chief media analyst, brian steltzer. how did this go down? this is a pretty stunning development. >> this is. it's both hilarious and also very serious. for those who don't know, the onion, this is the print newspaper of "the onion," it's a long time comedy brand, a satire brand, making fun of real news. "the onion" was fake news before that slogan ever erupted in our politics. here's an example from "the onion" paper, jim. trump launches his own brand of voting machines. th

we came into being after sandy hook.ing to make a difference to families all over the country. >> i think in the bigger picture, even setting aside the horror of gun violence. alex jones, his infowars site ends up being a charade, just like he is a charade. i think there is real justice in that. in terms of how this idea came about, then, you replied to a joke on blue sky. an alternative to x. saying you are looking into buying infowars. >>" is -- i quoted a famous guy. we found it like everyone else that it was for sale. we would like, wouldn't it be funny if we bought infowars. everyone was like, would that actually be funny? we had just bought the onion like nine months ago. we kind of knew how to buy stuff at this point. we just started calling around. we called the family's lawyers. >> why did you think of the families? >> i knew them from my previous life at this place. i called them and i was like, what is the deal here? what do you think it might take? a few months later, we were simultaneously building up this r

fire chief sandi tong edging out police chief bill scott for the win.. >> great. >> all for a great cause. all right. checking on our weather for the holiday, which is looking a-okay. >> i think sandy is going to update us on that. sandy. >> yeah, it is looking great for thanksgiving. dan and ama. let's talk about the chill. good evening everyone. it's a winter like chill the next two nights, frosty and cold. so protect your pets and don't forget about your sensitive plants so that they don't get damaged. bring them inside or cover them. look at these temperatures already near freezing in saint helena, 36 degrees 37, santa rosa and livermore. so you know it is going to be a cold night, especially when you compare it to the last 24 hours in comparison. 24 hour change running four degrees cooler in novato, san francisco, livermore down six in san jose and eight degrees cooler in napa. let's talk about thanksgiving. it's going to be clear. cold and frosty tomorrow morning. 30s and 40s, bright and sunny at noontime. a few clouds that are high. clouds passin

larry. >> all right, sandy, see you with the seven day in a few minutes. now to the latest on san mateo county's embattled sheriff and the pressure for her to resign. abc seven news reporter monica madden is following the story and looks at what is next after the board of supervisors unanimously passed a vote of no confidence. >> we felt at the time she was the best candidate. >> jim lawrence and his organization fixing san mateo county was dedicated to getting sheriff cristina corpuz elected in 2022. >> her motto was transparency, openness, work with the community, empathy. >> i bring tenacity, she said. >> some of the same things to. abc seven in an interview after winning the election two years later, lawrence and many others now calling for her resignation. >> diligence, respect. you know, honor, honor with yourself. where did all that go? >> it comes after a months long investigation prompted by internal complaints in corpus's office. the 400 page report found a culture of intimidation and retaliation. other allegations include abuse of power, having

so i left here a little about a year after hurricane sandy because the way sandy hit and the way it kindyou know, shook people out of where they were, you didn't want to put your family through that again. at risk of that, how bad did it get hit out here? this was like something out of a movie. >> hurricane sandy pounded the east coast in 2012, and many communities suffered. but the rockaways were hit with particular ferocity that was the response. >> you know, the response from everyday people was good. like one of the best things about what happened, right afterwards was the way a lot of people came together who lived here, but also how a lot of people kind of came in, pitched in and brought food, brought generators but, you know, officially with like the government, the semi-government al groups, they dropped the ball. >> what was the problem? >> they weren't ready for it. the rockaways, by design has never been a place where there was a lot of good investment or infrastructure anyway, to begin with. >> why? look this is what you would call prime oceanfront property, not far from new

ask your doctor today. 44, with larry and sandy joining us.ifornia exodus appears to be over. a new report by the national association of realtors found that california is the second most popular state for americans to move into. the price of housing of course, still a big concern, but those who moved to the golden state say they want to be closer to friends and family and enjoy california's scenery, culture and climate. so, you know, what was that? reports of our death demise was greatly exaggerated. what do you guys think? >> bill shakespeare? yeah. >> i mean, people were always going to come back, right? we have so many natural advantages going for us, including our beautiful scenery and weather. well, not today, not not. well, yeah, but we are weather. >> kristen is really mild in comparison to other parts of the world, obviously other parts of the country. we have a mild mediterranean climate. so you can see why there's a draw. yeah, yeah. >> but i can also see why we drove people away for a while because it has gotten so expensive. and f

"the onion" along with families -- with the support of families from the 2012 sandy hook elementary schoole, won a bankruptcy action last week to buy in"infowars." jones filed for bankruptcy after he was ordered to pay the nearly $1.5 million in defamation lawsuits to families. jones' attorneys claimed there was fraud and collusion in the bankruptcy auction process. >>> coming up ahead, bargain dream home. you can buy a house in italy for the price of a coffee, but there's a catch. some people just know they could save hundreds on car insurance by checking allstate first. okay, let's get going. can everybody see that? like you know to check your desktop first, before sharing your screen. ahh..that is not. uhh, oh no. no no no. i don't know how that got in there. no. that, uhh. yeah, checking first is smart. okay, uhh. everybody get out. so check allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds. you're in good hands with allstate. psoriatic arthritis symptoms can be unpredictable. one day, your joints hurt. next, it's on your skin. i got cosentyx. feels good to move. feel less joint

sandy hook taking place now nearly a dozen years ago. what message do you hope that the onion pushes forward given now that they've won this platform and have at least some awareness of the audience that infowars has t valted. >> i'm trying to establish a sense of truth. you have the situation where you have jones who's on one side of the truth spectrum. the far right side. so far away from it. and now you have a satirical group on the other side. i'm here in the middle just trying to proclaim what truth is. so, yeah, my daughter was viciously murdered inside of an elementary school and that shouldn't happen and jones uses his rhetoric to create fear in people that people like me were going to use that event to come out and try and take people's guns. and he made me a target and made people hate me. so that is what i've had to endure and what my family's had to endure for 12 years now. so the fact that we've been able to separate jones from the platforms in which he was using to do that is again, a huge win. and the fact there's going to

>> reporter: robbie parker's 6-year-old daughter emily was among the 26 victims killed during the sandy hook massacre in 2012. the day after the shooting, an emotional parker spoke it the -- spoke to the media. jones used that moment it label him a crisis actor and the shooting a hoax. >> i'm so blessed to be her dad. >> reporter: what do you hope will this from this? >> i'm not going to be able to shut alex joins up, that wasn't the goal. we want to make it as hard as possible for him to do the type of harm that he does. >> reporter: the ceo explained the company won the bidding war because those connecticut families agreed to waive part of the amount that jones owed them. do you hope it will be profitable? >> we're going to make it bigger and better. we want people to be like, "infowars," that funny website. instead of that horrible place of fun house mirror horrors. >> reporter: he says the goal is to fight fear with funny, but it might not happen as soon as they wish since a judge in texas ordered a hearing after jones and his legal team challenged the auction in bankruptcy court. l

charles, kristin, britney, terry, cora, meg, rachel, sandy, kim, morgan, clarice and savon are all partbillington team. the global events team managing the registration and the logistical operations today, and the evergreen team which is marketed the event through the year and helped get people signed up and is essential to sharing stories from this week. there are countless other contributors that you will come into contact with this week, but that group i just mentioned is the engine that powers the billington cybersecurity summit so i want to thank a moment -- take a moment to thank them, as well. and a few final announcements before we get to our first session. i want to remind everyone this event is on the record, open to the press, including deceased hand, which is recording the sessions today. we welcome members of the media who are here with us and hope those of you who are so inclined or talking to them in ways you feel comfortable with. a point to add, as i see people standing in the back row, it is kind of like school or church. there are seats down in front so if you get a c

the price of the winning bid wasn't made public, but its ceo says the sandy hook families joined in and back the bit. new at 5, california has secured federal funding to implement security safeguards for organizations targeted hate based attacks. more than 300 nonprofit and face based organizations will share more than 43.7 million dollars in federal funding. this includes synagogues, mosques, black organizations and other institutions representing communities targeted by hate crimes. >> snow is piling up and a just in time for ski season. skiers and snowboarders are soon going to be able to hit the slopes at several resorts, snowmaking machines cheering. there's plenty of fresh powder on the ground and that ski lifts are in good shape. >> north star and heavenly are set to open next friday with kirkwood shortly after that december 6th boreal says if conditions continue like this, they'll be able to open this weekend. kathy trafton is tracking it all. he think. >> hey, can we had? hey, vicky, if you're heading up to tahoe, not a bad idea. it should be a lovely weekend, but you just migh

as sandy mentioned, thanksgiving means turkey and football. larry beil is here with sports. >> karina, you will not believe the ending of the bears packers game. and this is what some people are calling coaching malpractice. run a play on ending that is unbearable. next, in sports, they drop everything and get some magic of your own during the xfinity black friday sale. xfinity internet customers, our best deals of the year are back! switch to xfinity mobile and get your choice of a free 5g phone, plus your next unlimited line free for a year. get amazing savings and connect to wifi speeds up to a gig on the go with xfinity mobile. fly don't walk to get our best deals of the year. connect to the world of wicked this holiday, in theaters now. stand for, not for long. and matt eberflus may be very short on time. after the way the bears packers game ended today. how about the lions fans pumped up their team is about to go 11 and one. former cal bear jared goff threw two touchdown passes back of the end zone. sam laporta 23 seven detroit bears com

sandy is back with level three.ut for flooding hazards on the road and possible power outages. stay ahead of today's storm with the abc seven news app. download it now. >> download that and watch us because we've got it all covered for you. >> we sure do. our entire team, of course, led by meteorologist sandyha patel, tracking the forecast. sandy. >> yeah. dan and ama. let's take a look at live doppler seven. because that atmospheric river is stalled out over the east bay, the peninsula and the south bay. right now we are getting downpours. so we're going to get you into street level radar right around san leandro, heading into castro valley. you will notice 8-80 uh- 92 san mateo bridge into hayward, dublin. this is really a dicey situation. if you can avoid being out on the roads. san francisco to south city, we're seeing some moderate to even heavy rain down the peninsula into san mateo, belmont, san carlos. this is street level radar, old county road in belmont and down towards the south bay and the santa cruz mo

the ceo of the onion saying when he heard about the auction, he reached out to the families of sandyht of them backed the bid. >> we are human beings, we have senses of humor and this is a big cosmic joke to play on alex jones. this is a big cosmic joke to play on that whole world. the onion which is known for making fun of everybody in the world has purchased info wars from him at a storage wars style auction. >> and it is also i mean, hard to imagine something more low life activity than trolling victims of families of victims of the school shooting. >> and yet here we are. >> jones is slamming the sale on social media claiming it is unconstitutional. >> i'm going to be here until they come in here and turn the lights off. they said well it is alex jones' just a minute. that's like toilet paper. a billion-and-a-half fake dollars that doesn't economist? show they bought my company. in a rigged fake auction that didn't even happen. with my money? that doesn't exist. >> all right. >> it's word salad. >> federal judges ordered a hearing on the sale after jones' attorneys raced question

the sandy hook shooting happened back in 2012.a gunman shot and killed 26 people, including 20 children. but alex jones, who owns the website called infowars, claimed it never happened. a judge ordered jones to pay the families of the victims $1.5 billion for defamation. so jones filed for bankruptcy and infowars was put up on a bankruptcy auction. today, the satirical news publication the onion bought infowars. it is unclear what the onion paid for the website, but we know the sandy hook families supported the purchase, and some of the money from the sale will go to them. an insider says the onion plans to relaunch infowars in january as a parody site. as always, i'll post links to the other stories you voted for on my instagram stories. by the way, we are now streaming on pluto 24/7. you can watch nbc bay area news whenever you want. get out your phone, scan this qr code for easy how to stream guide on your favorite streaming platform. you can watch our live newscast, breaking news updates and other original content. that's goin

sandy. >> all right. still ahead.gine getting a surprise zoom call from steve kerr or gary payton. the second we're going to show you the surprise announcement chloe! hey dad. they will grow up. [cheering] silly face, ready? discover who they are. [playing music] what they want from this world. and how they will make it better. and while parenting has changed, how much you care has not. that's why instagram is introducing teen accounts. automatic protections for who can contact them and the content they can see. ♪ tv app. all you have to do is search abc seven bay area and download it. >> well, dozens of bay area nonprofits received a very unexpected but welcome surprise from the golden state warriors. >> my honor to tell you today that the warriors foundation is going to give you a $70,000 grant. >> yeah, i'm over i'm over excited. i can't jump to the to the zoom call. but i love the hug. >> so fun head coach steve kerr and guard gary payton the second were among the coaches and players who surprised 69 organizations

he used the platform to spread dangerous lies, including calling the sandy hook school shooting a hoaxnfowars was up for sale two years ago, jones was found liable for defamation of the sandy hook shooting victims and the sale to the onion had the support of many of those families. here to talk about this, our dear friend and former colleague ben collins, if you are wondering where he was, of course he was a senior reporter, who covered disinformation and extremism online, that is what he does now. he is now the ceo of the onion. congratulations on this amazing achievement. now tell us about this, why did you bid on infowars, how did this come to be? >> of you months ago, we heard it was for sale, that would be about a funny joke that we would buy it, that would be a really funny joke of we did this thing. i do want to say towards the end here, thankfully we have every aside, the group that draws attention to all of these horrors with all of the mass shootings all of the time, and we have the families as well, the families back our bid towards the end and we realized that this week it

that's because the families of the sandy hook victims agreed to forgo a portion of the sales proceedspay jones's other creditors. the sale is the result of a billion dollar defamation judgment against alex jones for spreading misinformation about the sandy hook elementary school massacre. the three daughters of malcolm x are taking the cia, the fbi and new york police department to court. the $100 million lawsuit claims that the agencies were aware and involved in the assassination of the civil rights leader, and failed to stop the killing. malcolm x was killed in 1965, in new york, when he was giving a speech to hundreds of people. three men were convicted in connection to the death, but two of them were exonerated in 2021 after investigators found that authorities held back some information about the case. the fbi and nypd have not commented on this lawsuit. okay, conan is back in a big way. he'll be hosting the oscars next year. o'brien was the host of nbc's late night with conan o'brien and the tonight show for more than a decade. in 2021, though, he left the talk show circuit and

please welcome ceo and founder tom billington. >> thank you, sandy. welcome back to each of you.an viewers watching live, we welcome you as well. thank you very much. it's my honor to introduce our first fireside speak other thursday and moderator, two great friends of ours. general tim hawk serves as commander of u.s. cyber command, director of the national security agency, and chief of central security service. general hawk as all of you in the room know has had a long and distinguished career in the united states air force. much of that time spent thinking about and leading u.s. cyber efforts. moderating is david apell, vice president for u.s. federal at amazon web services. please welcome general hawk and david. thank you. >> good morning, general. thank you for coming to the 15th billington cybersecurity summit and taking time out of your busy day. a few questions to get into it. let's jump right into it. you're nine months into the role of cyber command and director of nsa. what are some lessons learned to date in your new leadership role. >> thanks, david. it is an honor t

joining me as the lead counsel for sandy hook families in their lawsuit against alex's jones.well. >> talk to us about this. a lot of people thought it was funny but it's not really funny. this was a real thing. the families you represent are trying to get the money from the judgment because they are having trouble getting it. talk to me about the connection between the judgment, the families, and info wars >> the families we represent obtained a $1.4 billion verdict against alex jones two years ago prompting him to put himself and his company into bankruptcy. we have been working hard ever since two finally bring him to justice, to enforce the judgment. against all odds we have gotten to the point where a court appointed trustee had taken control of info wars and was going to be selling it off for pieces. the onion bid on those assets and the trustee determined on thursday with our support that it was the winning bid. i want to just correct one thing is set. the sale has not been put on pause. all that will happen is that the judge would hold a hearing as he would in any case

i think it will actually be some kind of karmic justice for the sandy hook families he tormented fornes' lucrative dietary supplements store. the onion says that it will halt the sales of those supplements immediately and joked that it will quote, boil the contents down into a single candy bar size vitamin one executive can eat to increase power or perhaps become immortal, end quote. your comment. >> this is so beautiful to me, there is not a lot of beauty and joy right now but the fact that the onion is able to do this, and i hope that it goes all the way through, it is, it is karmic for alex jones, to watch as his famed site is torched and made a joke of like he is a joke. it will be brilliant. it is the chefs kiss to all of the things he has done. i don't think they should halt the vitamin sales, actually. i don't know, they are big, let all of the proceeds go to the families, i have no idea. my gosh. >> is this an episode of the onion making alex jones crying? >> i kind of like that. >> i love it so much and he cries a lot. speed even more from the cutting of the onion. angelo, t

sounds like one of the onions own headlines, this website buys alex jones's infowars with help from sandy hook victims. and wondering why you are still getting text messages and emails from kamala harris's campaign even though she lost the election, more than a week ago, new reporting on why they are short on cash after raising $1 billion. we have a lot to get to but we start with donald trump, sending multiple strong signs that he plans to take a wrecking ball to the u.s. government, stocking his cabinet with partisans who happen to have an axe to grind with the agencies they have been asked to lead. matt gaetz, tulsi gabbard, evidence that trump is prioritizing retribution against his enemies, as he promised during the campaign, coupled with those vows to demolish the deep state. matt gaetz is also a clear challenge to senate republicans, many reacting with skepticism and shock but none so far at least are a flat out no.>> i don't think it is a serious nomination from the attorney general. >> surely we have a lot of questions and i'm sure all of that stuff will come out, then it is a qu

. >> sandy martin was their middle school teacher. family, friends confirmed all four were piedmont high school graduates who were currently sophomores in college. >> they're smart kids. they're good kids. they were all so kids that were really supportive of all their friends. >> speed uh- was was a was a factor. >> piedmont police chief jeremy bowers says just after 3 a.m, the tesla truck jumped the curb, struck a cement wall, and got wedged between the wall and a tree. he says part of the investigation will be to determine if drugs or alcohol were involved. officials at at this time, there are no indications that the truck had mechanical issues, although they are still trying to determine how the truck caught fire due to the quick nature of being able to suppress the fire, we don't think the main lithium batteries of the car were on fire, but that's going to be determined as part of the investigation. officials have yet to release any information about the four victims, but those who knew them describe them as popular students, good

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after jones lost the defamation lawsuit held by the families of the sandy hook shooting victims.ile he reviews the terms of the sale. the right-wing media system which includes dozens of info wars groups now has an emboldened army of online influencers poised to be a mouth piece for the second administration. joining us, angelo. >> angelo, you watch a lot of trump, a lot of alex jones, right? and when i saw this i felt some sense of relief for the families of whose children were victims of the sandy hook shooting because alex jones has inflicted so much pain with his conspiracy theories on to the families for years! your take on this?>> a couple of things, one, i felt good for the families because they finally have some measurable degree of accountability. they won't get all of the money they deserve but he won't be able to operate under the banner he spent 25 years building and that alone is significant because it feels like a symbolic victory but he acknowledges it disrupts his ability to continue the program. he will have to adapt and change if that would hold is a hit and tha

we are joined to talk about the economic outlook with mike sandy , the chief economist from moody's analytics. mark zandi, welcome. so you said this earlier this fall that the economy right now is "among the best performing economies in my 35 years as an economist" explain that. guest: you can see by my hairline i have been at this for a long time. i am hard-pressed to come up with a time when the economy has been performing better. look at the statistics. we are creating a lot of jobs across a lot of different industries and we have been doing that since the pandemic. unemployment is low just under 4% and it is low across every demographic group from age, ethnicity, educational, you pick it. and coast-to-coast everywhere in the country. inflation, and the rate of growth for prices it does for prices of goods and services but that has moderated. the stock market is at a record high and it seems like it is hitting one almost every day. if you are one of the two thirds of americans who own your own home you are enjoying record high housing values. the economy is a big elephant and i am talking

. >> sandy center. thank you so much. all right.francisco, actually in the south bay, an unhoused man says he transformed an eyesore near a freeway, only to have all of his improvements swept by caltrans. and now that man and his son say they are left with next to nothing. >> abc seven news, south bay reporter zach fuentes has their story. >> this was the nativity scene. miguel maruyama set up for the holidays, and this is what happened to it friday morning, maruyama said. he's lived next to this freeway with his 19 year old special needs son. after losing his job and being evicted for two months already, maruyama said the area in san jose, near seventh and virginia streets was filled with trash when he first got there, so he worked to beautify it. >> me and my son, we cleaned the whole area like we planted a total of 130 like bushes, trees, palm trees, like flowers. >> along with the plants, he also brought in several birds and in october set up this ofrenda for dia de los muertos. it was around then that he first got notice that c

you will recall the families of the 2012 sandy hook school shooting, won nearly $1.5 billion in legaly called the shooting a hoax. nbc's priscilla tamp son is in houston with more. what's the judge considering exactly? >> reporter: yeah, this is evidentiary hearing to better understand how exactly the onion was chosen as the winning bidder. now, to be clear, we don't know how much any of these companies bid for this company that is not something that has been made public. the trustee who oversaw the auction said that the onion was not the highest bidder on its face, but the sandy hook families that were backing this had agreed to forego some of the sale's proceeds in order to pay alex jones' other creditors so by his analysis that was in fact the better deal. but attorneys for that other company that's affiliated with alex jones that placed the competing bid said they should have been given an opportunity to outbid and this this wasn't fair. alex jones calling the process, quote, rigged. the trustee who oversaw it is standing by his analysis saying in a statement, having failed in the

sandy. >> yeah, and dan and kristen, we are going to be in for a wet week ahead after tomorrow. so let me show you live. doppler seven. and you will notice that there are some clouds rolling in. these are just harmless there ahead of the storm. that is coming in. and as you both mentioned, it's an atmospheric river developing in the pacific expected to rapidly intensify over the pacific, known as bombogenesis. and that atmospheric river is going to be aimed at the pacific northwest and northern california. also, parts of our north bay. so get ready. this will be a significant atmospheric river, and it is bringing flood risk. as you will notice, it's increasing for the northern part of our viewing area. even some parts around san rafael, marshall, fairfield, yountville area in that increasing risk category. so it's going to be really going to be focused in the north bay. this is the time to get ready. high clouds are moving in from our golden gate bridge camera. you can see it temperatures in the 50s from san francisco to oakland, san jose 59 and it is 54 and half moon bay. a bea