Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a Holiday Season that should have been alive with the joy of children is now, instead, a season of mourning their loss in newtown, connecticut. The first of the funerals took place today for the victims of the massacre at an Elementary School. Ray suarez begins our coverage. Suarez flowers streamed into Funeral Homes around newtown as the shock and horror of friday gave way to grim rituals of grief mourners in black waited under gray skies to attend services for jack pinto and noah, 20 of the. Two of the 20 first gr
Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a Holiday Season that should have been alive with the joy of children is now, instead, a season of mourning their loss in newtown, connecticut. The first of the funerals took place today for the victims of the massacre at an Elementary School. Ray suarez begins our coverage. Suarez flowers streamed into Funeral Homes around newtown as the shock and horror of friday gave way to grim rituals of grief mourners in black waited under gray skies to attend services for jack pinto and noah, 20 of the. Two of the 20 first gr
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions ifill the funerals began today in newtown, connecticut, with the burials of two sixyear old boys murdered on friday. Good evening. Im gwen ifill. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. Most of tonights newshour will focus on the shootings and their aftermath. Ray suarez has the latest on the investigation and the reaction in connecticut and beyond. Ifill we talk with california senator Dianne Feinstein, who hopes to revive a law banning assault weapons. They arent hunting weapons. You dont need them for defense. They are militarystyle weapons and they dont belong in the streets of our city. Woodruff we assess the Public Policy questions raised by the shooting about access to guns, Mental Health issues, and more. Ifill Hari Sreenivasan reports from newtown on a community in mourning. Woodruff and as parents around the country nervously dropped their children off at school today, Jeffrey Brown talks to a psychiatrist and a School Psychologist ab
Youll be after other kinds of gun rights . Thats just not true. It wasnt true with the prior bill that was the law for ten years. And i just think candidly that dog doesnt hunt ifill why shouldnt it be true . Why wouldnt you want to go after those other laws . Thats not what ive done in the past. Its not what im doing right now ifill as we have this debate now, how much are we focusing on guns and how much are we focusing or should we be focusing on the things that drive people to use guns in these horrific ways . I think you concentrate on both. You concentrate on Mental Illness and what we can do. You concentrate on safety in schools and those kinds of things. But small children have a basic right to go to a school and feel safe. And these guns, because they kill large numbers of people very quickly, they arent used for hunting, they arent hunting weapons, you dont need them for defense. They are militarystyle weapons. They dont belong in the streets of our cities. Or our towns ifill
Sandip Patel (pictured), then 21, stabbed 39-year-old Marina Koppel more than 140 times in her rented flat in Chiltern Street in London on August 8, 1994.