shot in november 2010 outside a suburban atlanta preschool. her former boss convicted of the killing in march 2012 but found mentally ill. prosecutors say sneiderman and her boss were having an affair and planned the murder of her husband. >> small college community in oklahoma and family in australia trying to make sense of a senseless act of violence. the police say 22-year-old chris lane, native of australia was killed last friday out for a jog. three teenagers in jail facing murder charges. lane's father talked about it all yesterday from australia. >> the fact that something that shouldn't have happened has happened. it's the fact that somebody we all love so much is not going to come home. >> possibly the most disturbing fact of the case, police claim the young suspects targeted lane because they "wanted to see someone die." the names of the boys in custody have not been released. >> mayor bob filner spotted for

a terrifying scene in suburban atlanta. a reported gunman at an elementary school, children being quickly herded to safety, and dozens of officers swarming. >> why would you run into an elementary school with innocent babies? >> reporter: around lunchtime, police say a 19-year-old man wearing dark clothes walked into the front office at ronald mcnair discovery learning academy with an ak-47 and told the clerk to call a local tv station. as officers approached, police say he stepped outside the school and fired at least six shots. when police fired back, he dropped to the ground and surrendered. no one was injured. >> i'm in shock. i never thought something like this would happen in my neighborhood, period. >> reporter: for linda bell, it was three hours of agony. the wait for her 6-year-old son. >> my husband called and said hey, the baby is -- there's a gunman at his school. i'm, like, what? >> reporter: hundreds of other panicked parents crowded with her in this walmart parking lot. but many here are also asking how a man

new information for you from tuesday's terrifying shootout between a gunman and police in a suburban atlantaementary school. yesterday we told you about the heroism of antoinette tuff. she's the school staffer who remained in the building and talked to 20-year-old michael hill about his problems, eventually convincing him to surrender. now, keep in mind at this point with hill and police there was a shootout so tuff clearly kept her wits about her. we're now hearing the 911 calls from

high school football player in suburban atlanta died friday night during a scrimmage.nesses say he went limp after making a tackle. the medical examiner says he broke his neck. his death is raising all kinds of new questions about the safety of the game that so many people love to watch. jamal anderson is here. he spent eight seasons in the nfl and you're a dad. we will get into both of that here. before we go on the record, you are part of this class action lawsuit with the nfl when it comes to concussions. >> right. >> not only did you play, you were a dad. when you woke up and you read the story, i read it saturday morning, it talks about this 16-year-old neck vertebrae being broken due to blunt force trauma. what was your reaction? >> it broke my heart. i love football. i love the sport of football. football has offered me so many things in my life and not only taught me so many things, i'm a big fan of college football, high school football. my son plays football. both of my boys played football. my older plays hockey. but my younger son plays football now. so it

a terrifying scene in suburban atlanta. a reported gunman and an elementary school, children being quickly herded to safety, and dozens of officers swarming. >> why would you run into an elementary school with innocent babies? >> reporter: around lunchtime, police say a 19-year-old man wearing dark clothes walked into the front office at ronald mcnair discovery learning academy with an ak-47 and told the clerk to call a local tv station. as officers approached, police say he stepped outside the school and fired at least six shots. when police fired back, he dropped to the ground and surrendered. no one was injured. >> i never thought something like this would happen in my neighborhood, period. >> reporter: for linda bell, it was three hours of agony. the wait for her 6-year-old son. >> my husband called and said hey, the baby is -- there's a gunman at his school. i'm, like, what? >> reporter: hundreds of other panicked parents crowded with her in this walmart parking lot. but many here are also asking how a man allegedly wi

. >>> a teenager is in custody after he reportedly exchanged shots with police at a suburban atlanta elementary school. the superintendent of ronald mcnair discovery learning academy in decatur says all students are accounted for. he fired several rounds from an assault rifle and police returned fire. >>> still ahead, the fort hood shooter is about to deliver his own defense. >>> first, news or propaganda, the premier of al jazeera in america and who is behind it. >>> there is a new player in the cable news game, has a familiar name, one that carries considerable baggage. fox news media analyst howard kurtz has a debut of al jazeera america. good evening. >> good evening. they hired more than 800 people to make a run at the big boys. when many americans hear the name al jazeera, they think of the network that once aired osama bin laden videos. today, the organization financed by qatar's royal family is launching out with al jazeera america, and they opened the checkbook to hire established tv anchors like john significant enthat you willer, soledad o'brien, halle val chee. >> we know

. >>> in suburban atlanta haunting questions of what could have been. the chaotic scene outside an elementary school as frantic parents are reunited with their children. a gunman surrendered ending a standoff. armed with an assault rifle and other weapons and opened fire as police closed in. now we've learned hill was arrested this year for making terroristic threats and acts. cnn's david mattingly is in decatur, georgia, with the latest. good morning, david. >> good morning, carol. the students at this school were actually expected to be back at class today, but not at their regular school building. they'll be meeting at a nearby high school. they will be back at their desks at their old school it is expected tomorrow. that is if some parents decide to let them come back here after they got the scare of a lifetime. hundreds of kids, ages 4 to 10 running for safety as gunfire erupts in their school. inside 20-year-old michael brandon hill armed with what police say was an ak-47 and a number of other weapons takes office workers hostage and tells them to

patti ann: sneiderman's husband was shot in november 2010 outside of a suburban atlanta preschool.er former boss was convicted in the killing last year but was later found mentally ill. she could have gotten, dozens, decades. >> the judge could have run all the counts consecutively meaning one five-year count one after the other. the judge decided not to do that. all the accounts are amalgamated together. she will receive five years. crocodile tears worked in this case, patti ann. patti ann: playing the victim, doug, really? >> i know. a lot of judges probably would have been a little upset with that. overarching concept if you accept she wasn't involved in the killing homicide and merely covered it up, i'm not expressing opinion, not expressing my opinion. if the system feels she wasn't involved in the killing and merely just lying then the sentence is appropriate. one prosecutor left the office felt she should have been held accountable for the killing. she was lucky -- >> we were talking about accomplice earlier. which she would be on the rap for a murder charge here. >> exactly

michael brandon hill a convicted felon, opened fire inside mcnair discovery learning academy in suburban atlanta. >> shooting scene, 2162 2nd avenue, at mcnair. >> hostage situation, there are shots being fired. >> reporter: authorities say he was armed with an ak-47 and other weapons and likely entered behind someone else authorized to be there. he terrorized the campus firing from inside the front office. >> he had a look on him that he was willing to kill. matter of fact he said it. >> reporter: bookkeeper antoinette tough was one of the hostages. she told the news that hill demanded she call a local policenews station so they could video police being killed. >> i called him back and kept talking to him to keep him calm to stay inside with when. i knew if he got outside, he was going to start shooting kids. he had already shot a round off in the office with me. >> reporter: tough's credited with persuading hill to end the siege and put down his weapons. shortly after she talked him down, hill surrendered to police. more than 800 students were evacuated. parents waiting at a nearby walmart for

a suburban atlanta 16-year-old died after making a tackle in a preseason scrimmage over the weekend.edical examiner's office said the boy had broke his neck and already received a scholar hp to play football at the university of kentucky. >>> the former army intelligence analyst faces up to 990 ye0 yea prison for leaking documents to wikileaks. in a court document released last week, called reckless. >>> lindsay lohan back in the news sitting down for juone-on-e with oprah. during the interview lohan admitted she was an addict and the 2010 sentence was critical in facing her addictions. >> you know, being in my addiction and everything and having all the chaos around me that i was so comfortable with, i somewhere inside knew and kind of wanted to go to jail. >> winfrey's network o.w.n. is working with the actress on an eight-part documentary that will air next year. >>> might be the most investigated car crash in history, but it's on the radar, again. i'm talking about the crash that killed princess diana and her boyfriend dodi al fayed. a new theory blames a british special commando

he was shot to death outside of their child's suburban atlanta preschool in 2010. the widow's former boss, newman was convicted in rusty's death. andrea has denied any involvement in the murder. also denied accusations that she had an affair with newman. >> i didn't know what happened to rusty until i got to the emergency room. >> we wouldn't even be here if she knew how to tell the truth. if you get asked a direct question by a police officer in america, and you lie, that's a crime. the first response to getting the news that something has happened to her husband is not to call her mama, not to call her daddy. not to call rusty. not to call rusty's daddy. it is to call her sexual a hasser. really? jon: ashley merchant is a criminal defense attorney. fred tecce, a former federal prosecutor. it's an interesting case. basically was charged with lying in this case, with perjury. authorities originally wanted to bring charges against her in the murder case apparently fred, they just didn't have the evidence. >> no, no. jon: the prosecutor there was trying to make the p

. >> a 100-foot awning collapsed at a suburban atlanta mcdonald's restaurant.y big scare. no one was under the awning when it came crashing down. luckily. no injuries have been reported. building inspectors and authorities are trying to deter -- determine what caused the collapse. >> a look at your weather. dry and pleasant across midwest. thunderstorms, and tornados in oklahoma. stormy in new orleans, atlanta. showers over northern new york and new england. >> highs in the 70s from boston to washington, d.c. much of florida, 90 or above. highs mainly in the 80s from montana to northern new mexico. >> we all know there is nothin quite like a mother/child reunion even if between a mother panda and her cub. >> happened yesterday. check it out in taiwan. the mama panda let in the cage. her 1-month-old waiting there. they were separated after the cub's birth. zookeepers feared mom might kill the cub. >> nothing could have been farther from the truth. mom cuddled with the baby and breast-fed her. >> awesome. >> to be safe, the cub was in an incubator. regular reunio

newly released dramatic 911 call shows just how cool, calm and heroic antoinette tuff is, the suburban atlantam and compassionate and convinced the suspect, michael brandon hill, to surrender police. you will hear that call and dramatic moments later on "new day." >>> president obama kicking off a two-day bus tour through new york and pennsylvania today with a focus on education. is he sure to face tough questions about how his administration plans to handle two international hot spots, syria where the assad regime allegedly killed hundreds of his own people and egypt where military rulers have killed hundreds of protesters in a crackdown on the opposition. >>> california's destructive wildfire season just seems to be getting worse. around ten wildfires burning right now. one chased hundreds of people from homes. yosemite national park and forced three summer camps to close. the number of acres that have burned so far in that state this year, double what it was at this time last year and we have to remind you, peak fire season is still ahead. >>> bradley manning about to beginning serving his

. >> reporter: tuesday afternoon in suburban atlanta, police say hill walked into the front office at ronald mcnair discovery learning academy with an ak-47 and at least one other weapon despite the school security system that required visitors to be buzzed in. >> we suspect he came in behind someone authorized to be there. >> reporter: the police chief says the suspect briefly held at least one employee captive and told her to call a local tv station. as officers approached, investigators say he quickly peeked through the front office door firing at least six shots. police returned fire. by the time three sheriff's deputies and a u.s. marshall entered the building through a side door, the suspect had dropped to the ground and surrendered inside the office. no one was injured but it was a frightening ordeal for some students. some evacuated through a hole officials cut through a fence. >> we had to hold hands and they escorted us outside. >> near the school in a walmart parking lot. >> this is devastating. >> reporter: panicked parents waited three hours for their kids. >> i'm so happ