Will go up on incoming above 400,000. The Pacific Northwest slammed by blinding mountain snow drenching rain and some damaging winds, knocked out power to thousands. Kicked around on the ground thats the way this game should end, thats the way the jets season should end. Ugly and a loss. Jim boeheim a winner of 900 basketball games. And all that matters. Well all miss him. Thats a gross understatement. Hes certainly one of the giants of the senate. Richard engel and his crew are safe after they were kidnapped and held inside syria for five days. I hope we can laugh tonight after a horrible weekend. I just want the people in connecticut to know that we do not take what youre going through lightly and we are thinking about you here a lot, all of us. Welcome to cbs this cbs this morning. Students are going back to students are g school today in newtown, connecticut, except for the boyse boys and girls of sandy hook elementary. Elementary. Their new school at a nearby is town is not ready yet. Investigators are still. Trying to figure out what led to this massacre. Acre. Jeff gore is inlor is in newtown, connecticut, where two victims were laid to rest monday morning. Reporter good morning to you and good morning to your viewers in the west. N connecticu one week this week will be full of funerals and wakes. Fridays in connecticut on monday the first two funerals were held for the victims of fridays 6yearold shooting, 6yearold noah pozner 6 and 6yearold jack pinto. The states and lieutenant ed one of th governor each attended one of you try their services. You try to feel their pain but you cant. Some you try to find some words that you hope will be adequate knowing theyll be inadequate see and you see little coffins and your heart has to ache. Reporte reporter that heart ache will continue over the coming day days, as more funerals take place and as the holidays oach. Approach. Iddle in the middle of town here an ev ever growing memorial has become who a site for those who want to pay their respects of because im a dad of four en four beautiful children, four daug daughters and when i found out, it broke my heart and its hard to to sleep its hard to i havewhatsoev no emotion whatsoever. I i just i dont know how to how to feel. Reporter at schools across cr the United States those feelings of sorrow turned into anxiety, in ridgefield connecticut, 20 miles from newtown a suspicious person seen anxiety. At a train station triggered a ockdown o lockdown of all schools. For some teachers including arlington, Chris Mcallister in arlington, selfimp texas, the lockdowns were selfimposed. That door closes its locked. I dont have to second guess. I put a piece of paper on my to window normally i keep it to theook side. Remains reporter sandy hook e R Elementary School remains school closed. Near crews are renovating an old school nearby. Mo it will be ready whenever the ld students are. As a mom i could never send my kids back to that school. Of reporter julie pokrishak was to watch olivia in a play b saturday instead shell be im buried on friday. Im hoping other town also open up their schools and let the kids go there for a little down an while. I would love to see that school burned down and start new. Want reporter you never want anyone to set foot there again. I dont. Reporter several of olivias r classmates also go to st. Rose of lima church the church where that play was scheduled to be hurch wher held this weekend. Olivia has a 3yearold brother,brothe her parents have told him that olivia has gone to be with the angels. Charlie . Charlie, norah . Jeff glor thank you. Capitol on capitol hill yesterday sil the house and senate held moments of silence, and the talks is about new gun laws is getting louder with some members saying fridays massacre is changing the debate. Nancy cordes is covering that part of the story. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. T ofte its not that often on capitol hill we see lawmakers have a complete change of heart on a t major issue but thats exactly what were seeing with some of the the staunchest progun democratsrogun say they might now be open to be open changes in the nations gun laws. Shame on the nra emonstrato reporter as demonstrators marched on nra headquarters red in phone calls pour in to congressional offices. Okay, so youre in support of gun control legislation . Reporter kentucky Democrat John john yarmuth says most of the calls hes received are in favorre of new gun restrictions. As a democrat from a conservative Southern State yarmuth avoided the issue for the past six years, but now he te wants to reinstate the ban on not assault weapons. Nothings going to bring back those 20 children and six very courageous educators, but we cane make sure thats our inspiration, battlecry and i ont be wont be quiet anymore. Reporter neither will manch senator know manchin of West Virginia. Vi like yarmuth he has a record of being pro gun rights. Being he even fired on a piece of legislation once in a campaign ad. After fridays shooting manchin he purch says there must be a way to highc limit the purchase of high bout the capacity magazines. This is not about the second. Amendment or taking guns way. Its about having an intelligentn recent yea conversation. Reporter that conversation has dried up in recent years in ike the face of pressure from powerful groups like the nr National Rifle association. The lobbying budget is 66 times amount the Brady Foundation spends to lobby congress. He in the wake of the shooting 57 stricter of americans now back stricter the high gun laws the highest percentagedecade in a deindicate even though 42 laws think new laws would have helped prevent the tragedy. Manchin manchin has an a rating from the nra, though that could s come change now that hes come out in favor of some form of gun control. Control. Hey were they angry . Angry . Not at all. Al not at all. And im no. And theyre families. Children, they have children they have ink everyone grandchildren. You think everyone in america is hurting . Not hurting, whether youre an or nra member or not, whether youre one of the, working for the nra . These are good people. Reporter so far most aying republicans are staying silent he gun is on the gun issue. Ched out we reached out to more than two dozen of them they declined ourew interview requests. The the nra has also been silent they have not released a statement, norah and charlie, me they took their facebook and twitter pages because of all the you. Messages they were receiving. With us now chicago mayor ayor Rahm Emmanuel, president obamas former white house chief of heart, staff. Good morning. Good morning. Will this lead to meaningful a action, a ban on assault weapons and more . Yes to all of those but to break it down there is no doubt i think right now all of us allll of us are citizens and residents of newtown, connecticut, and so n, thats number one. I think theres a genuine outpouri outpouring in the country for action t action, this type of event, this is the tectonic shift in at futures, thats number one. To have you have to have reauthorization of the assault weapon ban when i worked for president clinton we e fought fought to get passed t passed the house by one vote it was an attempt to pull it out of the and crime bill we got it done it was bipartisan when it passed. Second you have to deal with the clips and third, you also have l with to deal with the straw purchases, how guns flood into urban and other areas because urb the brady bill that does deals at stores and regular kind of st merchants almost 40 to 50 of the guns are done but straw purchases. You must deal with where guns seek into society. Everything that deals in my view charlie and norah with the where you type of gun and criminal access is where you should go in a legisl sense of legislation, that area. To ask i want to ask you what led us to this point. As you pointed out the assault weapons ban expired in 2004. You were president obamas chief of staff and in 2009 according to kill or capture the book you were furious with attorney erence general holder who held a press conference in february 2009 saying the Obama Administration was going to push the assault weapons ban and the chief of staff sent word that holder needed to shut up on the guns. President obama always stood for getting this done number one. Number two i passed the brady bill and assault weapon ban. It is very important we do that. The fact is in 2009 the president and entire government v was very clear as is the ttorney attorney general knows in all getting all the president s n done and legislation done and working work with congress to do that. I want to you explain that. T. Were you worried about the political backlash of taking on and pushing for the assault weapon ban . Didnt oba why didnt obama do that . First of all the president s on record is very clear on this its clear when he was a state senator, clear when he was a u. S. Senator, it was clear also as president , and he was dealing kno as you well know with a myriad and he of issues and pushing hard and so making sure also that we had theto do e funding to do everything we d needed to do in the Justice Department. But the Brady Campaign i mean the first year gave obama campa an f and there is a report in the New York Times on sunday after the Aurora Shooting that the Justice Department went to the white house, i know you educe werent there then with ways to expand background checks and to go there was a decision not to go assign that far. Not to assign blame but politically how hard is it to take on the in ra. To p having passed the brady bill assa and the assault ban, the last rea time we really had gun control it is very hard. Thats why what you have to access focus on is criminal access and s the type of guns and make it a Law Enforcement issue. When i worked for president clinton we had all the police pol chiefs in d. C. And thats why also i think now is the proximity to the vote is is ery, very very, very important and i thinkhink it its essential to have a vote of conscience, put it up. People know what happened here number one. Er two number two is it has to be aboutpeople peoples, the type of criminal access to the type of gun which showed is why you showed earlier the n because type of gun because i think when people see that its clear that gun is not for the streets, its not for sports. Eally a its really a gun of war. Erstand w i dont understand why peoplee who did not have the political will to go forward dont acknowledge it and say ive come around and some have including id not the president. No, the president did not do all he could and you know it and i is suspect he knows it but the nor important thing is it now time to stand up to the nra and to ma say to them as mayor bloomberg has said you are full of we have the courage to take you on now. E to first of all full of myth is what he said. At i understand that there is no doubt you have an event thats changed everybodys attitude. You saw that there. Y conservative democrats, too . I t i think youre going to have a lot of people say okay what ld we should we do because you cant th take an event like this and say the status quo stays in place. Thats number one. Done . Number two is what should be s and t done. Focus on criminal access and the type of weapons is where you have the best prospect and public making it a Public Safety criminal activity. Thats where youll get going to progress. The last time it was passed in 93, the brady bill 94 the assault weapons ban, you haventon ban. Had anything since and the ou closer you stay to that area whic which is the best process ma without making this about Law Enforcement. One is Mental Health and the climate other is a climate of violence is. And those two things are important in the gun debate. There is no doubt but powerful charles, there are other earl hy emts of societyelements of society weapo where you have to make the typesort and the of weapons and the people with this is access. This is not a coalition that stays wi stays with the persuaded. It has to be built with the ich is unpersuaded which is what youre also also showing on the tv as people start to change their attitude they wil about what they will accept. Ight. Mayor Rahm Emmanuel good to for b see you. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Now we look at the fiscal cliff and there are new signs both sides are closer to a deal ays with 14 days left to the deadline a new cbs news poll shows 51 of Republican Voters s f support higher taxes on families earning more than 250,000 a year, 60 of democratic voters are not ready to go along with cutting g cutting government programs. On monday the Obama Administration made a counter ffer t offer to Republican Leaders and Major Garrett is at the white house and major good morning. Reporter good morning. We knew the president and the speaker had this hourlong meeting. What came out of it . What cam reporter well many things it . Norah. Ter we lets do this in sequence, talk th about the timing. Ld be the this could be the week and therefficials are officials i talked to who would not be surprised if some a deal announcement of a deal could s happen as early as tomorrow. T what are some of the concessions presiden president obama made. He made two big ones. Historically he wanted to raise income tax rates on incomes at on inc 250,000 or higher. ,000 hes willing to raise that ise threshold to 400,000 and told 4 republicans for the first time he would accept some reduction ction in in annual cost of living benefits for federal benefits among among those, Social Security. Now there are still some difference differences. John boehner the House Speaker has said no, lets have the tax rates, 39. 6 by the way up from 35 on incomes over 1 million gap so theres still a gap there ander w the speaker wants a oneyear d increase in the debt ceiling, the president would like two years but the two sides are clos getting closer the talks are very productive and this week could be the week. You expect then that now the you republicans will come back and pond or respond or the president will step up and talk about entitlement cuts in addition to coming together on an understanding about how much thee deal will be about the rates . Those conversations are essentially charlie and norah hour by hour and one thing i t think is important to point out the president is not going to concede a couple things republicans would like him to give up give up. Incre he will not increase the eligibility age for medicare and wants republicans to agree eyear another oneyear extension in ness jobless benefits and wants more Infrastructure Spending at least 50 billion next year re in maybe more in the out years. Republicans havent agreed to all that so there are still the differences and hard lines the drawin president s drawing but these ons at conversations at the highest ontinue, levels continue and there is ope genuinely hope here at the white house and on capitol hill that this week could be the week to wrap it up. Major, you think we could have a deal as soon as tomorrow t so that they could vote by saturday. Reporter we could have a h deal thats announced in broad parame parameters as early as tomorrow. Im not predicting that. People the people ive talked to dont rule it out. Many things have to come together but the atmosphere, i i will tell you norah and charlie,this. Atmosphere of connecticut and the country, the president know a deal and resolution would do the c the country a world of good not just for its fiscal future but for a sense this town can get something good while the rest of the country is grieving. Television reporter Richard Engel is free after five days of captivity in syria. He and members of his crew were seized at the syria turkey border by a syrian group loyal to the government. They were freed unharmed. And one of his colleagues says hawaii senator Daniel America inouye has been someone hes been always grateful for. He was the first japaneseamerican to be elected to congress and served in the senate for 50 years. Erved he was a world war ii hero who lost his right arm fighting the german germans. 55 yea 55 years later he was awarded the meda the medal of honor and became wellknown for investigating the water gate and irancontra scandal, Daniel Inouye a great man, 88 years old. Time to show you headlines headlin from around the world, Charleston South Carolina post says tim scott has been scott appointed to take the senate nted seat to replace jim demint. He will face an election in 2014. Nasa deliberately crashed two space probes into the moon. The programs called ebb and flow were designed to wrap the discovere gravitational field. Than the moons crust is much thinner the than thought. S says the l. A. Times says traffic more deaths across the country are down except in california. Umber that is the lowest number in ars. More than 60 years but traffic eased mo deaths in california increased 2. 5 . More than 2. 5 . Nielsen and twitter are o teaming up to provide social tv ext fa ratings starting next fall. And the wall street surgeon eads looks at why too little sleep weight g leads to overeating and weight hat lac gain. Lack of sleep affects different hormones in men and women. Men men on short sleep felt more fel hungry but women felt less full. We dont know anything about good morning. Were off to a very clear cool start bundle up. It is cold outside. Temperatures are actually pretty close to freezing in some spots. Look at napa, 34 degrees. 34 as well in fairfield, concord and about 45 degrees right now in San Francisco. By this afternoon, we are going to see some areas of sunshine, and temperatures mainly in the mid to low50s. It looks like cool start again tomorrow and then thursday, a chance of rain. Day after day in newtown the clergy and women are there helping the survivors and giving families a chance to grieve. This morning well ask a minister what theyre telling him a