12/14/17: Red and Blue

White House responds to questions about preventing mass shootings; Sandy Hook families recall gun violence.

• Dec 14, 2017
• 24:24

Sandy Hook follow up

In the five years since 20 students and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Connecticut State Police have been unable to complete a report that law enforcement across the country can look for when preparing for future incidents of extreme violence.

• Dec 14, 2017
• 01:23

Fighting to prevent gun violence

Greg Gibson lost his 18-year-old son Galen Gibson in a school shooting at Simon’s Rock College in Massachusetts on Dec. 14, 1992. Twenty years later, the horror at Sandy Hook became the deadliest school shooting in U.S history. Mark Barden’s son Daniel was murdered that day. For 20 years, Gibson had lived the hell Barden was just entering. They soon realized that’s not all they had in common. Jim Axelrod reports.

• Dec 14, 2017
• 03:06

Sandy Hook victim

Newtown, Connecticut, the 6-year-old was most likely spending her time lining up her stuffed animals, playing with her 13-year-old yellow Lab and running around her backyard attempting to catch (and release) butterflies.

• Dec 14, 2017
• 01:37

W.H. on mass shootings

On the 5th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Massacre, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that she's "not aware" of any measures that would have helped prevent the mass shooting, and others like it, when asked by CBS News White House and senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan.

• Dec 14, 2017
• 03:26

Common ground on guns?

On the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh joins CBSN to discuss the need for nationwide gun reform and why it's so difficult to bridge the divide on this issue.

• Dec 14, 2017
• 05:06

Gun poll analysis

A new CBS News/YouGov poll shows the debate over guns in America remains deeply polarized. CBS News elections and surveys director Anthony Salvanto has a closer look at what the numbers mean.

• Dec 14, 2017
• 05:05

Sandy Hook anniversary

In an interview with CBSN, Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy reflects on how gun control has evolved in the years since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

• Dec 13, 2017
• 01:46

12/13/17: Red and Blue

Why Republicans are celebrating their loss in Alabama's senate race; On the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting, we ask what has changed nationally for gun control.

• Dec 13, 2017
• 24:09

School shooting drills

Five years after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, there is still a question of whether school shooting drills instill fear in students or if they help. Dr. Jamie Howard, a clinical psychologist at the Child Mind Institute, joins CBSN to discuss.

• Dec 13, 2017
• 07:26

Schools after Sandy Hook

Five years after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, shook the country, CBSN spoke to two parents about how things have changed.

• Dec 13, 2017
• 02:20

Searching for common ground on guns

Five years after the mass shooting that shook Newtown, Connecticut, and the country at large, CBSN correspondent Christina Ruffini spoke to residents of Colorado Springs about where they stand on guns.

• Dec 12, 2017
• 01:44

Gun control debate

December 14, 2017 will mark five years since a gunman killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. In the years since, there have been several other mass shootings in the U.S., but Americans remain divided on how to reduce gun violence. Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, joins CBSN to discuss her group's views on gun legislation.

• Dec 12, 2017
• 04:47

How active-shooter training has changed in schools since Sandy Hook

The learning curve got steeper and intensified after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 young children and six faculty members lost their lives when a 20-year-old outsider shot his way into the school. The end result: 20 states now have specific laws requiring "lockdown" drills in all public schools, and 30 states have broad emergency plans that may encompass lockdowns.

• Dec 12, 2017
• 01:21

Gun violence research

For more than two decades, Congress has restricted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding public health research into gun violence. Dr. Fred Rivara, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a former recipient of CDC funding to study gun violence, argues that the U.S. needs to go back to looking at the issue from a public health perspective.

• Dec 12, 2017
• 07:54

12/11/17: Red and Blue

Alabama closing arguments; Public health issue?

• Dec 11, 2017
• 23:52

Sandy Hook Promise's powerful PSA seeks to prevent "Tomorrow's Shooting"

A video depicting a local news broadcast about a school shooting that has yet to occur is the latest public service announcement created by Sandy Hook Promise to help bring awareness to the warning signs often displayed by people who are at risk of hurting themselves or others.

• Dec 11, 2017
• 01:00

11/14/17: CBSN Evening News

Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies on Capital Hill; Tian Tian the National Zoo panda undergoes surgery

• Nov 14, 2017
• 47:08

Targeting the gunmaker

Families of those who were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting asked Connecticut's highest court on Tuesday to reinstate their lawsuit against the maker of the gun that killed their loved ones. Don Dahler has more.

• Nov 14, 2017
• 02:25

Sandy Hook lawsuit

Families of the victims in the Sandy Hook school shooting will take their fight against gunmakers to the Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday. They want to reinstate a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the automatic weapon that was used in the 2012 attack. The families claim the company markets its weapons to young people who could be prone to violence. Don Dahler reports.

• Nov 14, 2017
• 02:42

555 mass shootings

On Sunday, 38 Americans were killed in shootings -- and that's not counting the 26 who were murdered in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Since the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando 17 months ago, there have been 555 mass shootings, according to the FBI's definition. Jim Axelrod reports.

• Nov 6, 2017
• 02:04

10/24/17: CBSN Evening News

Two GOP senators speak out against president Trump; conjoined twins receive a successful life-changing operation.

• Oct 24, 2017
• 49:19

New info on Sandy Hook shooting

The FBI released 1,500 pages Tuesday from its investigation into the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. As Anna Werner reports, they shed new light on the troubled young man who murdered 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

• Oct 24, 2017
• 02:21

Gun debate

CBSN political contributor and Boston Herald columnist Michael Graham joins CBSN along with Sean Sullivan of The Washington Post, to discuss calls for tighter gun regulation in the wake of a deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas that left dozens dead.

• Oct 2, 2017
• 08:36

Alex Jones defense

"Infowars" host Alex Jones has claimed that 9/11 was an "inside job" and that the Newtown massacre was "fake." Now, his lawyer is saying not to take him at his word. As part of a child custody case defense, Jones' attorney said he's "playing a character" on his show. Anna Werner reports.

• Apr 18, 2017
• 02:15

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