. >> the way this unfolded the fbi, you know, they have local offices throughout the country, the local fbi office was notified about the shooting, they sent personnel to the scene, then that information made its way to the fbi director. the fbi director than informed the president of the scale of the event and how horrific it was and that's how we understand this went down. we're also getting some additional information about the shooter in this case. we are being told that he's an identified as a 24-year-old. we'll be gathering more information to give to our viewers as we get more detail. >> pierre, i have been handed some information that's been sent out for our viewers, we have an internal e-mail system that we brief each other and our unit is telling us that this was a 24-year-old man who obviously federal authorities are trying to investigate, to determine whether or not he was related to some way to someone in that school. >> i have multiple sources telling me that same information. 24-year-old has emerged as the leading scht as the person they believe did the shooting. he's tho

no idea what was going on. >> trying to keep the kidnapping quiet, so as not to tip off the local media, the fbip. so a frantic call was made to the jacksonville beach police instructing officers to bring the suspects in. detective howard cole of the sheriff's office rushed to the scene. >> immediately everybody, rightfully so says these guys are involved. we need to interview these guys and we need to find out what the connection is. >> one man told the detective he was german. >> what's your address in germany? >> hamburg, germany. >> even though they were from germany, could they have had some connection with theal gainian men quinn mentioned in her first call to reid? >> we saw the blue bag. one of the guys was joking and said i'm sure there's money inside. that's a lot of money. what are we going to do with it? >> but in an unbelievable stroke of bad luck it turned out these men were not the kidnappers. >> and it becomes pretty clear pretty quick that these guys were in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> the men were actually college exchange students. two of them played on the same tenn

w nbc is reporting that an fbi spokesman in connecticut says fbi agents are on the scene offering assistance and support to state and local authorities. the fbi is defefring all comments about the incident and investigation to local authorities. we are also getting word of two news conferences within the hour. one from the danbury hospital and one center state police. we will have more information after the break. even ragu users chose prego. prego?! but i've bought ragu for years. [ thinking ] wonder what other questionable choices i've made? i choose date number 2! whooo! [ sigh of relief ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego. [ male announcer ] jill and her mouth have lived a great life. but she has some dental issues she's not happy about. so i introduced jill to crest pro-health for life. selected for people over 50. pro-health for life is a toothpaste that defends against tender, inflamed gums, sensitivity and weak enamel. conditions people over 50 experience. crest pro-health for life. so jill can keep living the good life. crest. life opens up when you do. >> we are back with more developments. sandy hoo

the state has the lead, but the fbi supports local law enforcement and local responders who came to the incident. the local police department has about 46 or 47 officers. this is a small community about an hour and a half outside of new york city. >> as david said, hard to explain to our kids. hard to explain to ourselves. what in the world has happened here? all these kids killed by a lone gunman in an elementary school just before christmas? i mean, it's just impossible to understand. >> here are some of the initial police transmission tapes when the calls came in. >> indicated she thinks there's someone shooting in the building. >> the individual that i have on the phone is continuing to hear what he believes to be gunfire. responding at this time. the shooting appears to have stopped. the school is in lockdown. >> roger. >> there are reports that two shooters were seen running past the gym, which would be the rear -- shooting. >> you are requested to stage at methodist church. i will need two ambulances at this time. >> now, this is the newtown police, the police chief and commander

although the documents provide no clear evidence of government infiltration, they do suggest the fbi used information from local law-enforcement agencies gathered by someone observing occupy activists on the ground. >> the heavily redacted fbi records were obtained of the partnership for civil justice fund through a freedom of information act request. we invited the fbi to join us on the program and discuss the latest revelations, but they declined. instead, spokesperson paul bresson issued a written statement saying -- for more we're joined by mara verheyden-hilliard, executive director of the partnership for civil justice fund, which obtain the documents showing how the fbi monitored occupy wall street. joining us from washington, d.c., welcome to "democracy now!" tell us what you found. tell us what you found in these documents. >> the documents, as you stated, show the fbi, the american intelligence agencies, or monitoring and reporting on occupy wall street's before the first tent went up in zuccotti park. the documents show the fbi community -- committee can with the stock exchange in august 2011 about th

the atf, fbi aid, local police are working with us and searching everything we can possibly on cover. as anyone had any contact with the suspect in any range or location, we want to talk to them if we have now reached them yet. >> you are trying to ascertain emprise and from the computer >> i can say that our computers crimes unit is working with a bunch of at the laboratory nonstop and sending any evidence that was seized at any location. how i'm not going to name anything that was seized but i'm just naming electronic devices. >> >> i can discuss the evidence, i'm sorry i cannot do that. >> out there are reports that there were two survivors? >> yes there were. two of those that were injured in the school had gunshot wounds and are recovering. they were adults. >> >> i don't have any information about what he was carrying on his person. i have no information about anything he was carrying. >> >> outside don't have that information, i'm not aware. >> (inaudile) >> again we are holding that school as a crime scene in definitely. i can't even tell you what that means. i do not know how

the dead. bill daley is back with me. the fbi is now assisting the local on enforcement with this for the white house. what did you pick up on a? >> as much as we'd all like to get more information with details, i think the way they approach this is not to be too much ahead of the curve. to notify the next of kin, understand what is happening before they say anything. from our standpoint, we are wondering what else is going on. it is quite inspiring that within a few hours, but they move very quickly on a number of different fronts. they're probably getting subpoenas. the fbi is insisting that local law enforcement goes across state lines. in an effort to get more information about this individual, or another individual that they are questioning. the lieutenant who was speaking, it may not mean that it is certainly -- you know, a fact -- but he did not say that they confronted the gunman when going into school. so suggesting that the gunman was already deceased when he went into the school. as he went through his walk-through of what they did room by room

the local police newtown the state police, fbi is here. they're all investigating.s going to be going on for a very long time. this investigation. even though that individual mr. lanza is now deceased, apparently by his own hand. he killed everybody here. the 26 people and then himself. and now apparently he also it's known that he also killed his mother at the house where she lived apparently and he lived also. and she of course was a teacher at that school as well. so this has been just an absolutely devastating, devastating time. certainly for this town, this very idealic quiet town where everybody says nothing ever happens of any real magnitude. much less something like this. no doubt you know this kind of thing is so rare in the united states any way. this being the second worse school shooting in history only behind the vago -- the virginia tech shooting. of course as you know in the bay area it's been devastating there and across the nation and the rest of the world has been watching as well. my understanding is that the identities of the children all the sla

from around the area are assisting, the atf, the fbi, and also the local police agencies.e thank them for their assistance and we will rely on them for the future. the family members that were witnesses that we want to contact5036558211 if you saw something? we would like to hear from you. there is a lot of speculation going on on what happened what the circumstances were. and the act it shooter situation and the intense situation like this can get perceive to many different ways it tend to go saw the same incident and the rookie 10 different versions. wheat, as law investment officers are trying to make a piece of an idea of what actually occurred. not based on speculation. we have it tentatively identified the shooter at this time courthousthe is an adult male. e were not going to release the name and to 100% confirm the identity. the investigation will go on throughout the night with a command post. if you feel capable of coming back to the light rail platform to be interviewed and if you've not been interviewed yet? you can be interviewed there. if you do not feel up t

the local police newtown the state police, fbi is here. they're all investigating.going to be going on for a very long time. this investigation. even though that individual mr. lanza is now deceased, apparently by his own hand. he killed everybody here. the 26 people and then himself. and now apparently he also it's known that he also killed his mother at the house where she lived apparently and he lived also. and she of course was a teacher at that school as well. so this has been just an absolutely devastating, devastating time. certainly for this town, this very idealic quiet town where everybody says nothing ever happens of any real magnitude. much less something like this. no doubt you know this kind of thing is so rare in the united states any way. this being the second worse school shooting in history only behind the vago -- the virginia tech shooting. of course as you know in the bay area it's been devastating there and across the nation and the rest of the world has been watching as well. my understanding is that the identities of the children all the slain

the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in guatemala city. she was kidnapped last week and held captive for two-days. kidnapers demeaning ransom. the fbi and localolice rescuing her and another person we are told. her family's grief now turning to joy. >> don't really know what to doe. my ded was crying my mom was crying. didn't think i was going to be able to see her again. >> wow she is alive. it's for christmas. >> she was kept in a house blindfolded with her hands tied. she wasn't harmed and tried to teach her captors religious lessons. she is planning to stay in guatemala for the remainder of her mission which raps up in may. there are big changes in immigration and cuts in deportation policy. the agency saying they will no longer support illegal immigrants who do not have serious criminal histories even if they have been stopped for small crimes for traffic violations. dominic is live at the bureau. >> these changes come friday before the christmas holiday. >> they are trying to make it out of the news radar. but immigration forces now being told not to chase after any unlawful immigrant. only the serious ones with charges of center lines.

the officers there. we understand the fbi, atf, and local police all now converging in this -- onto this one little townunty, connecticut. >> initially there was some concerns or questions if there was more than one person involved primarily because people were running from the school and they had to question whether some of the people running were involved and the chaos of the moment. they are pursuing every lead to confirm whether it was one person or more. at this point we know of the one person, but they're not going to end their investigation with that. they're going to continuebeen s activity all along surrounding that. to answer many questions, they set up a space near the school where the governor and other law enforcement officials are expected to brief reporters when they have enough information i guess that they can really give us something to go on. as we stated all morning and afternoon long, the information comes in and it gets updated and changes as thmore clarity comeso what occurred in this hour fiing situation. >> we should tell you that president obama has been briefed not only by hom

if you have a local militia that says, and we've had some, as the fbi has had many cases of this. a local militia that's decided to take on the united states government. wouldn't even be able to take on a small contingent of navy s.e.a.l.s, much less the rest of the government with nuclear weapons and stealth fighters and bombers and cruise missiles, the array of weaponry that this government possesses and most developed governments possess, there's to way any group of citizens can put together enough of their bushmasters and glocks and sig sauers to take on a government any more. >> tom fuentes, thank you very much. >> thank you, don. >>> in times of tragedy, remembering moments of goodness. as a nation grieves, we're going to look at stories of inspiration. hey sis, it's so great to see you. you, too! oh, cloudy glasses. you didn't have to come over! actually, honey, i think i did... oh? you did? whoa, ladies, easy. hi. cascade kitchen counselor. we can help avoid this with cascade complete pacs. see, over time, cascade complete pacs fight film buildup two times better than finis

the church of jesus christ, latter day saints in guatemala city. she was held captive and her kidnappers demanding ransom and the fbi and local police rescuing her and family's grief now turning to joy. >> really didn't know what to do. my dad was crying and my mom was crying and i wasn't-- >> it was just like, wow, she's alive and it took her perspective. >> sarah was reportedly kept in a house blind folded with her hands tied and she says she went harmed and that she tried to teach her captors religious lessons and she's planning to stay in guatemala for the remained of her mission, wraps up in may. growing controversy over big changes to immigration and customs importation and customs policy. the agency saying they've no longer deport those with criminal histories even if they've been stopped for small crimes and traffic violations. dominic, the changes on the friday before the christmas holiday. >> oh, yeah, and trying to sort of sneak it under the news radar, really, harris, but immigration enforcement now being told not to case after just any unlawful immigrant and these are serious criminal charges, of violence against them and anti-immigrati

the fbi is taking notice. the fremont-based sisters of the holy family have been working for years to stop human trafficking. they support a number of local agencies that reach out to exploited women and children. they also partner with the fbi to find help and resources for those victims. >> i need the fbi, because of the work that i'm doing. the fbi needs us because we're that link to the community. >> today the fbi honored the sisters with a prestigious community leadership award. and the pope is now tweeting. he sent seven messages so far. the first one said, dear friends, i am pleased to get in touch with you through twitter. i bless all of you from the bottom of my heart. the 85-year-old pope has almost two million twitter followers. >>> one vacaville man was charged more than two grand for long distance calls even though he has a free plan. the simple mistake that wound up costing him big-time. >> reporter: charges $2200 for his long distance. he had a plan with free international calls. but in april, he put his service on hold for three weeks while he moved. >> it was on the understanding that on the 15th of may my services would

the atf is assisting us. the fbi is assisting us. all local police agencies. we thank them for their assistance now.e're going to be relying on them in the near future as well. the family members for witnesses who want to contact us, please call us. if you saw something or know something about this, we want to hear from you. there is a lot of speculation going on about what happened and what circumstances were. the active shooter situation, intense situations like this get perceived many ways. you get 10 people who saw the incident going to give you 10 versions of it. we as law enforcement officers our job is to collect the information and make it into a cohe'sive idea of what actually occurred, not report based on speculation. we have tentatively identified the shooter at this time. we'll not release his name or any other information other than he is an adult mail until we've confirm that had identity 100%. the investigation will go on throughout the night well. have a command post set up over there. if you're a witness and feel capable of coming back to the light rail platform to be interviewed an

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the atf is assisting us. the fbi is assisting us, all of our local police agencies.thank them for their assistance now and we will be relying on them in the near future, as well. the family members or witnesses who want to contact us call 503-655-8211. if you saw something or know something about this incident, firsthand, we want to hear from you. there's a lot of speculation going on about what happened, what the circumstances were, and the active shooter situations intense situations like this get perceived many ways. you get ten people who saw the same incident and they will give you ten versions of it. we, as law enforcement officers, our job is to collect all of the information and make it in to a cohesive idea of what actually occurred, not report based on the speculation. we have tentatively identified the shooter at this time. we will not release his name or any other information other than he's an adult male until we have 100% confirmed that identity. the investigation will go on throughout the night. we have a command post set up over there. if you are a wi

the law, he says yes. >> i'm done doing that man's dirty work. >> reporter: following our investigation, the fbi along with various state and local authorities launched their own investigation. parsons has filed bankruptcy listing companies operating under 17 different names. court documents show he could owe as much as $500 million. although it is unlikely that those victims will be repaid. >> thank you. >>> coming up in our next half hour, the potential roadblock for some families hoping to adopt. orphans in one country will be off limits for adoption in the u.s. how critics say those children are victimized to make a political point. >> it is the busiest week of the season in the sierra but after two deadly avalanches this week, what's being done to keep steers safe. >> a tour of a piece of bay area property you could own if you have at least $25 million. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> now at 6:30, adoptions of some children abroad could come to a halt. the upper chamber of russia's parliament has voted in favor of a measure that bans u.s. citizens from adopting russian children. cbs 5 political reporter

the house. and all these d.a., fbi and locals all came in in a single-file line with their automatic weapons pointingfreeze, get on the ground, get on the ground. >> he had been caught in a drug sting, spearheaded by that hard-nosed federal prosecutor, larry beaumont. >> we scooped him up in an operation that i ran. we called it operation snowplow. >> and in court, beaumont showed keane no mercy. >> he was coming at you on all fours, wasn't he? >> oh, god. he was a bulldog. >> jimmy was convicted and slapped with a ten-year sentence. >> it was a pretty stiff sentence, and i knew he didn't expect to get ten years in that case. >> your father was in the courtroom. >> i knew i had let him down in probably one of the biggest ways you could let somebody down. >> keane's future was bleak. he faced ten years away from his glamorous life, the fast women, the fancy cars, the big bucks. but in 1998, just when all hope seemed lost, his old nemesis, beaumont, came to him with a chance for freedom. in return, keane would have to agree to risk everything and become an undercover informant in one of the roughest pr

they do not believe they were involved in the shooting. fbi and local police and a lom squad have been here for most of the afternoon. fbi agents went back into the building. it's a five-story building and has two halves to it. three bedrooms inside. it's a rental and i talked to several residents here who live in the building and nearby. none of them know the shooter, alleged shooter or his brother who may have lived here. they have seen pictures in news reports. the pictures do not look familiar to them. you may know that hoboken is a waterfront community that looks across from new york city. it's a growing community for young professionals and hit hard by hurricane sandy. we wait and there has been no movement other than the police here that you see in the picture standing guard. fbi edagents are coming back an forth. >> the whole area is cordoned off? we are looking at live pictures and police officers and we see the tape posted. give us a description of what you are seeing. >> at least two blocks in east direction is blocked off. a huge media prese

the most popular weapons. law enforcement, local police, fbi, people who like to be around guns, they're easily available and most of the weapons have at least a 15-round magazine and one in the chamber so realize that the individual with two handguns had at at least a 30-round capability and we have heard reports of 50, 60 rounds or more that were fired that would suggest this man may well and likely would have had to have reloaded perhaps multiple times as he continued to shoot the innocent life that ran before him and then it's overwhelming to think that someone could have that capability. number one, to shoot anybody. but number two, to harm a child, this 24-year-old, we can only imagine how twisted, how turned and how dark his mind must have been to allow him to do what he did today. >> clint, do stand by for us. i want to come back to you and recap for the viewers just joining us. a short time ago we learned the gunman's name. ryan lanza, 24 years old, we're told. law enforcement confirming a short time ago the gunman's mother is a teacher at sandy hook elementary school. that is the school where it went do

. >> the atf is here, the fbi is here, the connecticut state police, obviously the local police as welldo you have any idea about additional manpower that may be headed this way? >> there's all kinds of agencies. i believe the marshals are here. the u.s. attorney's office is providing support. it's primarily going to be a state police case with high-trained major crime squads that will do the forensic investigation in the school and the detectives, working with the newtown detectives, figuring out what happened here and why. >> of course, there is this secondary crime scene. the residents. >> yes. >> where the mother was discovered in the residence of her son. we're not clear as to whether the money and the son, than contract lanza, the mother, adam lanza, whether they lived together. do you know anything else about this family, the lanza family? >> i don't. my understanding is she was a teacher. but i don't have a lot of detail. my colleagues back in hartford are working on that kind of information. >> and then there was this -- a divorce, a father who lived in a different part of the

> suarez: the 9-1-1 call from the school came shortly after 9:30 this morning, and law enforcement officers, including local and state police, as well as agents from the fbi and the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, were quickly on the scene. at an afternoon news conference, connecticut state police lieutenant paul vance detailed how officials proceeded once they arrived. >> on and off duty police officers responded to the school, with newtown police immediately upon arrival entered the school and began a complete active shooter search of the building. that included checking every door, every crack, every crevice, every portion of that school. >> suarez: vance also confirmed that there were multiple people dead inside the school, including the suspected gunman. >> there were several fatalities at the scene, both students and staff. there is no information relative to that being released at this time until we've made complete and proper notification. the shooter is deceased inside the building. there is a great deal of work that is undertaken immediately upon locating the shooter. >> suarez: a law enforcement officer told the associated press the al

interviews over the last three or four weeks with members of the counterterrorism task forces, fbi, homeland secret, secret service, state and local police agencies, and so on, fighting terrorism, and what they tell me is that they have pretty well figured out al-qaeda domestically in terms of violence and unlikely, with the exception of small bombings, that anything large will happen, but, they say, that the problems they don't have a handle on is the infiltration going on by al-qaeda into domestic intelligence, agencies, defense department, and so on, and what they tell me is that al-qaeda has pretty well figured out, and the other islamist terrorists, that they can't beat the west by blowing us up, but they have to use tactics that the soviets use against us in the 1930s and 40s, and, in fact, if you go on the internet, and i challenge you to do that, google what the left says about challenges to the infiltration of islam terrorists into american institutions, that what you find is ridiculed. you'll real when several members of congress raised the issue of hillary clinton's top aide having islamic brotherhood connections, that

the local economy is on life support. but the business of sex for sale is alive and well. >> we're going to the other side here. >> in 2010, the fbi human trafficking task force estimated that roughly 20%, one in five, arrested for prostitution were juveniles. >> i think that domestic trafficking in the state of michigan is a huge problem. >> attorney bridgette carr runs the university of michigan's human trafficking clinic, which is compiling a database for all human trafficking cases in the country. >> we've seen cases involving 12- and 13-year-olds in small towns. we've seen cases involving young girls in the big cities here. >> so in your mind these girls, boys, they are the equivalent of modern-day sex slaves. >> they are modern-day slaves, on the streets all around us. >> i can remember the first day it actually happened, like it was yesterday. >> for tina, like a majority of the young women and girls sold for sex, the road to a lifetime of exploitation was paved with violence. >> they're going to beat you, kill you, or overdose you. one of the three, you're going to leave here in a very tragic way. >> tina's childhood night

the village of wounded knee for 71 days. during that time, some 64 local native americans were murdered, most of them had ties to aim. their deaths went un investigated by the fbionard peltier has long maintained his innocence. amnesty international considers him a political prisoner was not granted a fair trial. on friday, singers harry belafonte and pete seeger hosted the "ring leonard peltier home in 2012 concert" at the beacon theater in new york city to raise awareness of his 37-year- old ordeal and plea for executive clemency from president obama. among those who spoke with academy award winning filmmaker, michael moore. >> [inaudible] the idea of how we incarcerate people in this country -- leonard is there for a crime he did not commit. he has served 37 years enslaved in a pen. what will history write about us and how to lock up some of our best people? there for the grace of god go you or i. i woke up today and i was inspired by his poetry, so i decided to write a poem for him. i will read it to you first and somehow i will get him on the phone and read it to him read. here goes. dear mr. president, please let leonard come home let him be home for chri

the gunman. >> and we just heard from our abbey gibb that the fbi has now arrived at the scene, in addition to this huge show of force from our local sheriff's offices and also our police department. sergeant pete simpson, who is with portland police is now on the phone with us, and sergeant simpson, how many of your people are out there today? >> we have a number of officers from the patrol branch out there assisting with traffic control and crowd management. our cert team is also activated to assist the sheriff's office in clearing the mall. it's obviously a massive effort. there is a lot of things that need to be searched and cleared to make safe. so we're providing as much assistance as the sheriff's office needs. >> sergeant, do you guys train for something like this? >> unfortunately, we do. active shooter training has been a staple of law enforcement training going back to when the columbine incident happened in colorado. and our cert team is probably as best trained as anybody in the area. they work with the clackamas coun county sheriff's office and s.w.a.t. team. and most offices are trained in active shooter skills as fa

the freight rails and passenger rail local law enforcement. just as importantly with the national trend terrorism task force centers around the country of the fbi. we know they understand the operating characteristics necessary to have a freight and passenger work together. we have had a 40 year partnership with them to read we are concerned about what the current contracts are, the current labor agreements out there. how would all of that be handled if the amtrak inner-city network were parceled out to other operators brest mark i am inferring from your question that you will be perhaps -- operators. i am inferring from your question that you would -- >> that is very good. >> that would be a major problem. not only for our current employees but retirees. the repast real retirement can years ago, the system is already upside-down 6 to 1. 6 retirees per 1 employee. if the work force were not part of the railroad retirement system, the system would perhaps not be enough to maintain the necessary payments to retirees. but under the law passed 10 years ago, there is an automatic increase in taxes on current employees up to 2.49% of the payroll and

the time this thing really got rolling, we probably had the fbi on the property also because there's always that concern of potential terrorism. other agencies, bomb squads, possibly atf. >> 3:29 localime this afternoon is when the calls started to come in or when the shooting, we believe began, 6:27 local time. we talked to an affiliate who said she witnessed the shooter who she described as jogging through the macy's. she believed he may have entered through a back way at macy's and jogged past her with what seemed to be a semiautomatic rifle, ar-15, then opened fire. once he left macy's in the food court area where many stores enter into. a lot of people were, sadly, in a position to see and hear this nightmare unfold. we're starting to get more and more eyewitnesses here. i want to bring in christina fisher, she spoke with local affiliate koin. let's listen. >> i was walking on the lower level heading from the west end toward the east end of the mall under the food court. all of a sudden i heard something similar to a .22 poppinging probably eight times. and people dropping everywhere, people screaming. then people just turned and started running in terror. people were dropping

the victims. instead, they work with local organizations that reach out to women who are forced into prostitution, providing those agencies with money and donating gifts to the victims. they also partner with the fbi to find help and resources for those victims, though the sisters admit they were reluctant to do so at first. >> i need the fbi because of the work that i'm doing. fbi needs us because we're that link to the community. >> reporter: and because of their work, the fbi today honored the sisters with the prestigious directors community leadership award. the sisters say the award is a recognition for all the organizations that fight human trafficking. >> it couldn't have been awarded to a more deserving organization. >> reporter: nola runs a nonprofit in oakland known as messy which empowers girls exploited by the sex trade industry. she says the sisters are one of the reasons why they can continue to help victims in the east bay. >> we stand on their shoulders. we would not be here doing the work that we do if it wasn't for their support. >> reporter: the sisters say it's a long battle and this award only reaffirms that they are making a difference. >> every small act combined with other

trying to check the ownership and when they were purchased and how they were maintained that kind of thing. of course, the fbi has been involved with evidence assistance. so while it is a locall. >> bob or in our washington bureau. thank you, bob. >> thank you, bob. we're going to take one last look at your local weather. here's the weather for your weekend. >>> up next, 13 years ago, another deadly school shooting shocked the world. now one family devastated by columbine is speaking out on the newtown killings. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." this cold season, nasal congestion won't slow me down. i made the clear choice. i'm getting claritin clear with claritin-d. nasal congestion keep me away ? not since i made the clear choice. non-drowsy claritin-d. decongestant products on the shelf can take hours to start working. claritin-d starts to work in just 30 minutes. i can't wait hours for a nasal decongestant. that's why i made the clear choice and got claritin-d. it has the best decongestant for colds. this cold season, get claritin-d at the pharmacy counter. live claritin clear. [ female announcer ] if you care for s

the incident. if we get more information and as we get that, we will provide it to you. i do not have anything to confirm for you at this point. the fbi is reporting -- supporting local authorities as they began to investigate and respond to this incident. they will receive regular updates as the day goes on. >> one follow-up. can relay the president's reaction, his thoughts following the tragedy and the fact that children were involved? >> i would rather not really reaction that this point, because i do not have any confirmation to give to you about what exactly has happened there or potential victims. at this point, i would rather just inform you that the president has been informed about the shooting and he has information as it becomes available. >> will we be hearing from him today? >> we will keep you updated as more information becomes available. >> two other topics. the president's was asked about the legalization of marijuana. he essentially said that it's not a high priority for him, intending to go after recreational users. obviously this is a serious issue, states' rights versus federal rights. i'm wondering if there's any concern about the president's, i

. >> we've contacted everybody in the states we could think of, and--you know, from elected officials to fbi to our localverybody says, "yeah, obviously there's something wrong here. it was a scam, but to prove it is gonna be very difficult." >> safer: galbraith declined our request for an interview. canadian police now say he was running a ponzi scheme. do you blame yourselves at all? >> to a point. we just didn't find the--the red flags popping up. so we tried it, and then we lost. a lot. >> might as well went to vegas and put it all on red. >> (laughs) we would have a lot more fun. >> safer: at least in vegas, you know the odds always favor the house. elsewhere, even the most sophisticated among us can be had. for instance, our gullibility expert, stephen greenspan, who, after writing a book on the subject, discovered he'd lost $400,000 dollars of his retirement money to who else? bernie madoff. was it embarrassing for you? >> two days after i had the first book copy in my hand, i found that out. well, it was painful, obviously. >> safer: and the fact was, greenspan had never even heard of madoff. the

helicopters flying overhead, fbi, atf and local and state officials are all on scene as is the media here, as families walk out. many people tried to speak with them, but many are just inconsolable. you see people walking out, parents clutching their children, tears in their eyes, speaking on cell phones and just trying to convey the gravity of the situation here. and i had an opportunity to speak with a local teacher, not a teacher at the elementary school where the shooting took place, but in the nearby school system and she said the people move here, often for the schools, so you have people coming from in and around the state, for the quality of the education that students get in this area. and so it became such a shock when you see something like this transpire. it is -- it leaves you at a loss for words, both what she said and in my own reporting here, just not something that you're accustomed to, to be reporting on, on this many fatalities of children at that age at an elementary school. wolf? >> we're getting this horrific information from a source close to the investigation,

the fbi. $2 million for a roof at the smithsonian. do they think we're stupid? >> i was working in the senate to during katrina. it is a wasteful process. we gave the localities a blank check. that is proposed here. but so much of the $60 billion is not spending on individual family is but on another government program. there is literally billions for vehicle replacement for government officials. the agency should do the assessment of their fleet and said it just ask for money. >> we just cut about -- talk about cutting defense then we have 40 million appropriated to the military defense. it makes no sense but they don't get to blow the money. >> i agree. tucci and all rahm emanuel they is a crisis that was a payback to their constituency. there using but cover of a hurricane relief for various parts of government. by contrast of katrina the money was everywhere not just the gulf of mexico. this request is so full we will never help individual families that impacted it is incredible they use the crisis as an excuse to expand government. neil: it is typical. thank you for being here. [laughter] is a fact gain confidence ever wear small business confidence plun

"the times" reporting local police and government officials are reluctant to arrest islamist extremists who are suspected to belong to powerful militias there. despite the fact that the fbi identified several suspects none has been arrested in the country and even some have fled benghazi. jenna: a big day for michigan, one of the most pro-labor states historically in this nation about to become a right-to-work state. the uns are not going down without a fight. they are staging massive protests. i'm jenna lee. rick: i'm rick folbaum in for jon scott. as massive amounts of demonstrators state troopers with tear gas and batons stand at the ready. governor rick snyder vowing to sign the right to work legislation as soon at it hits his desk. the measure means employees will decide for themselves whether they want to join and financially support a union the governor says that could create more jobs, others are worried that the legislation could weaken the union's power and lead to lower wages for everyone. >> it is a big deal because what they want us to do, they want to reduce workers down to working for less. it is not about, more jobs. the jobs are going to be there. about

the federal level. we think that border control and the fbi and administration justice department. again, most crime-fighting is that the state and local level, not the federal level. however, i don't think there's that much room. like anything else or server consolidation, overhead removal. if i were to cut this year the budget to be focusing on things like reducing the workforce, consolidating programs to put it is. gao has done justice. i look at low performing programs. there's a number of evaluations of programs that say are they actually achieving results are intended to do to achieve in many studies have been done showing that programs don't do anything in terms of delivering public service. so i think those are the areas i focus the attention on. this antique has achieved. >> host: senator coburn had to report the papers last week's about homeland security grants that the land since the 9/11 attacks. you're looking at cities that have made a plausible scenarios for terrorist attacks. brenda cut? >> guest: i'm not an expert in the homeland security area, but i'm agree that when the government gives out grants like this, there's

on collapse over of a security that we are being provided with, whether the marines, navy, coast guard, fbi, cia, and s.a., a local police enforcement, code enforcement, sheriff, highway patrol, national guard, airport and transportation security, board patrol, fire marshal -- i mean, is an over abundance. we have become a police state and it has destroyed the fabric of our society. i do not see how we will get out-of-pocket -- out of it puritans -- and i do not see how we will get out of it. i do not see how home and security is going to save us. guest: there is a veritable alphabet soup of all these to organizations that are designed to address a wide to -- wide variety of security issues at the federal level and local level as well as overseas. and congress, just on the street from the studios we are in today, are talking about the fiscal cliff and how much money the government should spend on security matters. that is an important part of the conversation. host: david maurer is part of the hollen security office. let's -- homeland security office. let's look at a couple of the key areas in the grant program. o