needs to hear from our commander in chief. whether it will match up with his remarks tonight. we ll put politics aside and talk with our panel. heather: the connecticut school tragedy renewing calls for stronger security measures at schools. as parents all across the country prepare to take their children back to school tomorrow morning. what more can be done to make sure our schools are safe. dominic has more on this. the measures to keep schools safe have been long established. security experts say what is needed is greater implementation by schools and better coordination with authorities. they say that is really not very hard to do. we don t need to be teaching kindergarteners to throw book bags and pencils at armed intruders or metal detector at each door. we need to focus on fundamentals
native germany. armed intruders broke into her home new year s eve, sarah mckinley, mother after newborn baby, put down her little boy and picked up the phone and a shotgun. i have two guns in minute hand. is it okay to shoot if he comes in this door? well, you have to do whatever you can do to protest yourself. i can t tell you that you can do that. but do you what you have to do to protect your baby. mckinley killed one of the intrudesers. police say it was justified. tragically she was alone at home with her baby because her husband had died of cancer on christmas day. army corporal jessie could be in trouble with the brass important speaking at a ron paul rally in iowa while in uniform. officials are investigating whether itville eighted military polil it violated military policy. dan choi asked was if service members are briefed of what they can and can t do in uniform.
good morning. welcome. i m soledad o brien. welcome to starting point. we are coming to you from manchester, new hampshire. we are coming to you live from the airport diner. five day ways from primary day here. our starting point this morning is something that you are bogey to hear on the combine trail today which is the future of the american military. just about four hours president obama will reveal his plan for a slimmed-down force that will no longer be fighting two full-blown ground wars. digging into the details and talking a lot about it this morning. also, mitt romney, does he have a tea party problem? they didn t go away in iowa but could new hampshire be different? we are going to ask the tea party favorite and romney supporter christine o donnell this morning. and despite the sparring back in 2008 in this very state, senator john mccain is now backing mitt romney. he is going to join thus morning to tell us why. then oops, we deported your teenage daughter. a fa
firearm. he is now suing walgreens for wrongful termination over an incident where he fired the weapon three times forcing two armed intruders, ie armed, still at large to flea the pharmacy. let s watch as his lawyer lab berates. the reason this lawsuit is being brought is does an employee have a right of self-defense when faced with the situation where an armed gunman is aiming a weapon at you, pulling the trigger. do you as an employee have a right to attempt to defend yourself? or do you have to make a decision to will basically dash tosh to basically submit to the situation risking your life could i sit and listen to him for hours. quote, store employees receive training on how to react and respond to a potential robbery situation.
ted claims the monaco police and fire department and their slow response for letting that small trash can fire grow into a deadly inferno. a government report says firefighters were hampered by the very thins edmond safra had installed to make his home secure. the steel shutters and bulletproof glass. and says their slow response was partly due to ted s fake story about armed intruders. but today ted insists he was attacked that night and says the notion that he d stab himself to look like a hero is utterly ridiculous. i don t think so. why would you do it? exactly. doesn t make sense. there s no motive there at all. unless you re unstable. unless you re unstable. are you mentally unstable? i don t think i was unstable, absolutely not. ted s reversal reopens the questions about those mysterious intruders. if they existed, who were they? and how did they penetrate the safra apartment undetected?