minutes after hillary presses record, william adams enters her room. >> get over here. >> brandishing a leather belt. >> as soon as the light switched off, i knew that it was going to be bad. >> bend over that bed. >> dad. >> hillary hesitates. >> bend over the bed. bend over the bed. >> stop. stop. >> when i didn't comply to what he was telling me to do, he grabbed my hand and just lashed me anyway, and he would not stop. >> stop. stop. >> bend over the bed. i'm going to keep hitting you on your legs. >> after a minute stopped i had totally forgotten about the camera in the corner. >> bend over the bed. stand up. stand up. >> i sink down on the floor. so he picked me up and threw me back onto the bed. bend over the bed. >> the first few blows were so painful, i didn't know what was what. i was just sitting there, and he would just hit me. >> i keep leaving the room and going down to my bedroom, which is what i usually had done when he disciplined her. this time i would come back because i wanted to see what was going on. i wanted to try to stop him. >> hallie adams takes the belt fro

we had a report from nbc's pete williams reports of an altercation. adamhool, the sandy hook elementary school, the day before the massacre. what in your mind could be triggered by something like that? an altercation that would lead him to do what he did? >> well, i don't know about his history with the school, his relationship with the school. i'd be interested in that. i would imagine that he would have a history in the school and that the altercation would set off this anger, this tantrum. but of course this is a lot of anger that's been building up over a long period of time. but the kind of anger that would make someone go out and murder school children, five-year-olds, six-year-olds? >> my guess is that he had planned to commit suicide, that he had been so damaged by his early life that he felt no -- that there was no sense in continuing. and then once he had decided to commit suicide, he was free of consequences. and then he could deal with this rage that he had from what he perceived as being mistreated by life, probably, and the expression of this

adam lanza did not leave behind any note describing a possible motive for the attack. so far officials have been unable to obtain information from his commuter's damaged hard drive. pete williams has more on the investigation. >> reporter: the police who found nancy lanza, adam lanza's mother shot to death in bed also found his computer. they say its internal hard drive had been removed and severely damaged. attempts to get information from it, law enforcement officials say, have so far not been successful. experts say though it can be difficult, it's not always impossible. >> i seen people try to damage a hard drive with a sledgehammer, screwdriver, throw it in the river, in most of those cases the forensic experts have been able to recover some data. >> reporter: as for the guns used in the shooting, officials say nancy lanza legally bought them in the past few years. atf agents verified she and her son adam visited shooting ranges. her friends say so, too. >> she had done this for adam partly to teach him responsibility and to get him out and interacting with people. he took great pride in the fact that he knew how to be safe with the guns and was very responsible with them

the gunman, 20-year-old adam lanza was armed with hundreds of rounds of ammunition and in his ram page could have been worse had the police not closed in quickly. peter williams has more on the investigation. >> reporter: the horrifying sequence begins friday morning, they don't know what time. when adam lanza takes hundreds of rounds of ammunition and four firearms from his gun enthusiast mother and shooting her while she lay sleeping. before leaving he damages his computers. just before 9:30 he loads the guns and ammunition into his mother's car and drives the roughly five miles to sandy hook elementary school, a place he knows from his childhood, officials say. >> he had a relationship to the school. had attended there, at least that's what i'm led to believe. but, beyond that, we really don't know a whole lot. >> reporter: relatives say his mother once volunteered there, but apparently there's no record of that. he's carrying two handguns and a bush master ar-15-style rifle. the school door is locked state officials say, so adam lanza blasts his way in with a rifle shattering a window. the sound alerts principal dawn hochsprung and school cyclingist mary

williams has those details. >> reporter: the hour fig consequences begin friday morning when adam lanza takes hundreds of rounds of ammunition from his gun enthusiast mother and uses one of them to kill her, nancy lanza, shooting her several times. before leaving, he damages his computer. investigators are trying to retrieve what was stored. before 9:30, he loads the guns and ammunition into his mother's car and drives to sandy hook elementary school. a place he knows from his childhood. >> he had a relationship to the school, had attended there, at least that's what i'm led to believe. but beyond that, we really don't know a whole lot. >> reporter: relatives said that his mother once volunteered there. he's carrying two handguns and a bushmaster ar-15 style rifle. the school's door is locked. so adam lanza blasts his way in with the rifle. the sound of the shots alarms principal dawn hochsprung and school psychologist who come running. immediately killed. he turns toward the first grade classes. he heads to the classroom of substitute teacher lauren rousseau. from there, he heads to victoria society ya's class

adam lanza. those who knew him describe him as bright, but painfully shy. we get the latest from pete williams into why all this happened. >> reporter: what was behind one of the worst mass shootings in u.s. history? authorities say they're just beginning to find the possible seeds of an answer at the home where adam lanza's mother was found shot to death. >> did produce a very good evidence in this investigation. >> our investigators will be able to use that as to how and why this occurred. >> reporter: so far no specifics about what the evidence is, but law enforcement officials say there is no note or letter making it explicit. first reports said his mother nancy was a teacher at sandy hook elementary, but tonight investigators say they found nothing connecting her to the school. as for what adam lanza was like, the 20-year-old said to be responsible for the rampage, neighbors and former classmates say he had few friends. while he was bright, they say he kept to himself. there is no picture of him in the newtown high school yearbook, just his name, and a remark saying he was camera shy. tha

and around adams, 29 in manassas into prince william county. >>> snow developing around chicago. two of the areas of low pressure will be coming together, helping to produce snow about this time tomorrow we'll start to see snowfall. as far as today, 41 to 44 with increasing clouds today. mike, what's going on, on the roads in. >> veronica, we have an accident northbound at lorton. the two left lanes are shut down. a live look at that. you can see the accident in the camera. once you pass it, the volume clears up and you're looking good as you head towards springfield. southbound 355 at cedar avenue, a water main break there still. traffic is getting by to the right. no serious problems on westbound 50 in maryland heading to the beltway. let's take a live look at 301. barely any cars on the road there. things are looking good. seven-minute ride. >> thank you, mike. >>> today could be the decisive day in determining whether the country will go over the so-called fiscal cliff. president obama is meeting with congressional leaders at the white house. today's talks come as house lawma

other information that we're learning also, nbc's pete williams reported earlier that the guns used in this attack were registered to adam lanza's mother and were legally purchased apparently. and we have also learned originally it was believed she is a kindergarten teacher here at the school, it was believed she was killed in her classroom at the school. we also learned that there was a separate crime scene not far from the school, a home where a person was found dead. we have now learned that the person found dead at that home was indeed adam lanza's mother. and then he came here to the school and carried out that attack that killed 20 children under the age of 10 and six adults. those are the latest leads that we're following. >> chris, let me ask you real quick. in other words, the chronology here to the best of what we know is that adam lanza first killed his mother at this newtown house and then went to the school to commit this mass murder? is that what you're saying? >> reporter: yeah, that is the latest indication. and you know from being on these things that that will change five times between now and midnight.

they say they now believe that adam lanza acted on his own. >> reporter: pete williams, thank you soted to bring in the fbi profiler and james fox, the professor at northwestern university. and james, let me start with you, the question everyone has is why. does any information we're learning about the gunman give you any real clues. >> well, it does, this is somebody who planned very well what he was going to do. the weapons, what he was going to bring, what he would wear. not somebody who just snaps and has all of this ammunition in his car. this was an act of revenge, now, that may have been targeted to his mother, but also, by proxy. after all, he allegedly killed his mother, and all of those young children whom she loved. but the location of the crime was not random. >> reporter: clint, you and i were talking earlier. and it is just so hard to even fathom that somebody would go into an elementary school. we're talking about five and six and seven-year-old kids. i mean, what do you make of this? what does this tell you? >> well, and you know, dr. fox has done a lot of these studi

who financed that grex it looks like william cooper, the town clerk was involved. simulacrums station samuel adams was the clerk so he earned a salary as a politician. that was a rare. they put the time into those reports. all averred dickerson wrote about the control and he found in the british government archives with the boston postboy that said you were sending all your money to the boston and chronicle so why don't you support us and give us the stationary contract grex why don't you buy our papers? and we will take your side. it was another arm of the government supporting the newspaper. a magazine called the postern taste the boston sent sensor from a loyalists' point* of view was put together through subsidies for everybody agreed that would allow somebody to show our side of the dispute. i hope that answers your question. >> we think of the newspaper publication today of the network of some tickets and reporters and i have the impression just of printers relying on sources, letters or people who do show up who say i was there. is that correct? >> of first had access to postmasters they ha

adam lanza was armed with hundreds of rounds of ammunition. and his rampage could have been worse had police not closed in quickly. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams more on the investigation now. >> reporter: the horrifying sequence officials say begins friday morning. they don't know what time when adam lanza takes hundreds of rounds of ammunition and four firearms from his gun-enthusiast mother and uses one of them to kill her, nancy lanza. shooting her several times perhaps as she lay sleeping. before leaving, they say he damages his computer. investigators are now trying to retrieve what was stored. just before 9:30, he loads the guns and ammunition into his mother's car and drives the roughly five miles to sandy hook elementary. it's a place he knows, officials say, from his childhood. though why he goes there to kill remains unanswered. >> he had a relationship to the school, had attended there. at least that's what i'm led to believe. but bei don't understayond thatt know. >> reporter: he's carrying two handguns and a bushmaster ar-15-style rifle with several high-capacity magazines, each able to hold 30 rounds. the school door is locked,

william and henry did not. morgan didn't. some of the adams's did and some of them didn't. it was interesting to see which--how it lines up. he and his father hated the idea of the civil war, because it was gonna disrupt business. they were doing cotton trading with england, they were trying to build america with european capital, build america's future and the--war interrupts commerce. it interrupts all sorts of other things. they weren't terribly interested in the issue of slavery and the moral cause of the civil war, they were more interested in keeping business going. c-span: another woman in his life is this one right here. who is that? >> guest: that's his second wife, frances louisa tracy, whom he married about three years later, 1865, just at the end of the civil war, right after lincoln was shot and the war was concluded. that was an ok marriage for maybe 10 or 15 years. they had four children, who were also in the picture you just held up, but very quickly, it became clear that they had very different tastes and very different instinct. he loved new york, he loved

williams with battery. >> bay area shoppers are getting extra protection. christin ayers explains how oakland police will be out in force separating the naughty from the nice. >> reporter: it happens frequently where chelsea adams>> there's a bunch of little teenagers that will come and hang out and hit all the stores. i've not seen an extra police presence. >> across the country you see an increase in crime during the holiday season. >> strings of thefts and muggings have spiked over the last several weeks the latest robbery happened minutes before we got to this location a woman was walking out of the trader joes in rock ridge when two men accosted her taking her groceries and purse. >> holidays are desperate times. and a lot of desperate people. >> desperate people and a diminished police force. oakland police booked fewer than people. >> this isn't always about arresting people. it's about intervention and prevention. >> cruisers, undercover officers and bike cops partnering with private security guards. >> i notice they have guys out in yellow jackets too that make me feel even safer. >> all at a time when the city is pushing a new campaign urging oaklanders to shop local. >> i'm happy about that. i hope i

william hague. for more information on any of these stories visit wjla.com and there you will want to look for our tuesday express tab. adam caskey is out with the lights. >> at the mormon temple in kensington. a very festive location. >> to say the least. over half a million lights, 600,000, at the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints in the kensington. 600,000 lights of every color beautifully popping out of the night sky. open nightly around 5:03 p.m. until runs and 30 p.m. not just the lights here but performances from various denominations and even nondenominational performances. it takes from august up through december to prepare for this, every year. and now as they are all led's they are using about 10% of the power consumption. kensington, a mormon temple make it here. it puts a smile on your face to see all the lights. well into the 50's this afternoon. partly sunny. i slid a sprinkle possible. let's go to jacqui for the extended forecast. >> can't wait to seeing where you will be tomorrow for another holiday display. >> the clouds, fog if you speak -- sprinkled a lease through midmorning and then clearing

williams. pete, where are connecticut state police focusing today as they try to uncover more behind the reasons of adam lanza? >> well, there's a huge wide range of what they're doing, thomas. they're interviewing witnesses still. they haven't even gotten to interviewing the children yet. that's going to be a very difficult process to do, very delicate one is the way they described it. there were two adult survivors. they have the history of the weapons, the history of the ammunition, all of that to look at. now, the hopes were fairly high that they might have a breakthrough with adam lanza's computer that was at his mother's home at the scene where he shot his mother before this all began. but there's some pessimism about that now because he damaged the computer, took the hard drive out of the computer, damaged that further. they knew that when they got it. they thought well, you know, maybe we can get something out of it but i'm told the initial attempts to get information have been unsuccessful. they will obviously try to continue to work at that. but they have yet found no answer to the question th

williams has been following this whole sorry case and every development in the investigation since we were first informed of it friday. he's in our d.c. newsroom tonight with more. pete, good evening. >> brian, investigators say adamanza did not leave behind any note or letter that might reveal what was going through his mind before the shooting. hopes were high that his computer might provide some answers, but so far they say it has not. the police who found nancy lanza, adam lanza's mother, shot to death in bed, also found his computer. they say its internal hard drive, similar to this one, had been removed and severely damaged. attempts to get information from it, law enforcement officials say have so far not been successful. though experts say it can be difficult it's not always impossible. >> i've seen people try to damage a hard drive with a sledgemmer or screwdriver or throw it in the river. and in most of those cases the forensic efforts have been able to recover some data from the hard drive. >> reporter: as for the guns used in the shooting, officials say nancy lanza legally bought them within the last few years. atf agents verified she and her son adam visited various shooting ranges where he practiced

. >> chief justice correspondent pete williams is following the investigation and has new details this morning. good morning. >> good morning to you. adam lanza drove to that school, loaded with fire power. he had four guns in the car and carried three of them into the school along with hundreds of rounds of ammunition. here's how it happened, according to accounts from several officials. friday morning, adam lanza shoots his own mother at home, several times. he drives roughly five miles to sandy hook elementary with guns and ammunition in the car. state officials say it's a place he knows from childhood. why he goes there to kill remains a mystery. >> he had a relationship to the school, had attended there, at least that's what i'm led to believe. but beyond that now, we really don't know a whole lot. >> reporter: he walks up to the school carrying two handguns and a bushmaster ar-15 style rifle. he several high capacity magazines for it, each able to hold 30 rounds. he shoots at a school window and shatters it to get in. at the sound of gunfire, principal dawn hochsprung and school psychologist mary sherlach come running. they are im

williams from d.c. pete, thank you, sir. always appreciate it. >> you bet. >> as we are learning more new details about the suspected gunman. 20-year-old adam lanza. one person that knew him in high school says he was brilliant. but he was also socially awkward. and remote. law enforcement officials say we heard him that he had some sort of personality disorder, perhaps autism. joined now by criminologist james fox who is an msnbc analyst. mr. fox, gals to have you. learning new details here about lanza. based on what you -- based on what you read so far about the gunman, what's your sense of the picture that is starting to shape up? >> well, there's lots of characteristics here very common with mass murderers. particularly the social isolation. they are individuals that don't have lots of close friends nearby to help them put reality check in what they are thinking and what they are feeling. they don't have -- don't have a support system. when they get to the point where they are angry enough to kill and angry enough to take their own life, they just don't have others around to help them get lou the hard times. >> what are the warning signs? i me

information this afternoon on the guns adam lanza used in the attack and when at least one of them was purchased. let's get the latest of nbc news justice correspondent pete williams you tell us about the purchasing records uncovered? >> frankly, tamron, i didn't bring them with me. i didn't have the exact dates at the fingertips. we all have been reporting here that all these firearms were bought within the last two years. and i just

information this afternoon on the guns adam lanza used in the attack and when at least one of them was purchased. let's get the latest of nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. what can you tell us about the purchasing records uncovered? >> frankly, tamron, i didn't bring them with me. i didn't have the exact dates at the fingertips. we all have been reporting here that all these firearms were bought within the last two years. and i just don't remember the precise dates. i apologize. the state police say it's going to be probably months before their investigation report is finished given the number of victims and the complexity of the crime scene. in terms of, you know, the latest on the investigation, i think it's fair to say that it's moving very slowly. they had hopes that they would get quick information from the house and the computer. they haven't given up on trying to get information off the hard drive that was damaged but that hasn't yielded any information so far. so what they're going to have to do is go backwards and try to look at billing records to see what sort of internet service providers used and come at it that way to see if adam lanza usi

adam housley in los angeles. thank you. now that recreational marijuana is legal in two states and medical marijuana is sold in 17 more, law enforcement is looking to set a legal limit. correspondent williamunesse on what is too stoned to drive. >> well, nationally, 33% of those killed in auto accidents have some drug other than alcohol in their system. legalizing pot will make it worse is the fear. pot advocates say it's not true that smokers know when they are too high to drive. washington state taking no chances imposing a strict limit on the amount of pot drivers can have in their system. >> you want to know why i pulled you over? smoking the reefer. >> illegal research shows that more drivers are toking up. studies like this one in europe show too much marijuana affects coordination and judgment. >> one of the first and most important thing inability or reduced ability to divide one's ability. >> it's less debilitating than alcohol. canadian study shows those driving within three hours of smoking pot are twice as likely to cause a crash. >> another affect that we see are those driving under marijuana reduced ability to perceive time and distance. >> how much is too much? >> i feel we

adam sandler, was making it big in stand-up. but apatow's act wasn't working. >> apatow: so the night would be, like, sandler and paul reiser, and then robin williams would popn, and ellen degeneres was there. and by the end of the night, i would just feel like, "i'm not as good as any of these people and i don't see it happening." >> cooper: what did begin to happen, says adam sandler, is that apatow began to make a name for himself as a writer of comedy for other people. >> adam sandler: then this guy started constantly writing, and then he'd get paid, so he was the first guy i saw just write. none of us were doing that yet. >> apatow: i realized that, you know, how i feel about life works better in writing scenes and showing the different point of views that people have with each other. it just worked better than me, you know, giving a speech. >> cooper: judd apatow executive produced a show called "freaks and geeks." in it, he wrote about his experiences as a lonely child of divorce back in syosset, when every day after school, he studied comedians on tv talk shows. >> apatow: there's a moment where bill haverchuck comes home from school, and he lives al

adam lanza, took those young children's lives as well as his mother's. joining me now with the latest in the investigation is nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams.new there? >> reporter: the only thing