Of the United States and we can report for you that police have now identified a School Shooter as adam lanza. A shooter who killed 26 people today at the Sandy Hook Elementary School here in this small connecticut town. 20 children were killed. 18 of them were pronounced dead right at the scene of the school. Two of them were rushed to the hospital, hoping that they could save them. Those children died at the hospital. Six adults at the school were also shot dead. And they died at the scene as well. Nancy lanza, a teacher at the school and a mother of the suspected shooter, was also killed. But she was found dead in her sons home in newtown. Adam lanza, the 24yearold brother ryan lanza, was taken into Police Custody. Ryan lanza taken into Police Custody for questioning in hoboken, new jersey, earlier today. Officials had not labeled him a suspect. But he was taken away in handcuffs. His brother adam died at the scene. But police are not saying at this point if he killed himself. Polic
Called secure and safe by Law Enforcement authorities right now, they are they still have a lot of investigating to do. They have not officially released the name of the shooter or the other person being questioned or the names of any of the victims at this time. Its just an awful scene, and parents found out about this, wolf, when they received a lot of them text messages, alerts from the school that had them rushing over to the school as a 911 call came in. Police arrived on the scene, they tried to secure the scene and make sure that it was safe so that all the children were immediately evacuated from the school and brought to a safe location nearby where they could be reunited with their parents. We know this one thing from the shooter. We understand that at least three weapons were found at the scene. One of them a glock, one of them a sig sauer and one of them a 223 bushmaster. We dont know exactly what kind of models but we have that as well. And heres more about how it all came
Police say a gunman killed 20 Young Children from 5 to 10 years old. The shootings took place in two rooms in one section of the school and he killed at least six adults before can killing himself. Police found the body of the suspects mothers home earlier in the day. A prayer vigil took place. Hundreds in attendance. At the white house another vigil was held. People holding candles but the call was for more gun control. Many say the tragedy demands tougher legislation. A visibly shaken president obama offered these words about the mass killing. The majority of those who died today were children. Beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. They had their entire lives ahead of them. Birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. Among the fallen were also teachers. Men and women who devoted their lives to helping our children fulfill their dreams. Highly emotional president obama reflecting how most of the nation would have been feeling and tonight police have id
Around the world today as outrage seems to be building over the tragic death of a nurse in britain who was duped by a prank phone call from two australian deejays. Both posing as Queen Elizabeth and prince charles. As youve probably heard by now, they said they were calling to check on the condition of prince williams pregnant wife, the duchess of cambridge, who was being treated at the hospital for acute morning sickness. We now have a photo of the nurse who committed suicide. Its being released by the london police. She was the one who took the call and passed that on to catherines ward and another nurse released confidential information on catherines condition. The station aired the recording of the call on tuesday and on friday, this nurse was found dead after apparently a suicide. The deejays are you off the air. They are speaking out saying they are devastated with this death. There is nothing that can make me feel worse than what i feel right now and for what i feel for the fami
Workers are part of a union. They belong. And if you do the math with the population, that works out to nearly 18 of the states workforce. Much higher than the National Percentage as well. Our alison kosik has been story all morning long and the noise level as well as the number of people seems to be growing. Reporter thats right. You know, as the day has progressed, you know, theres well over, i would say, 2,000 people out here. That is short, though, of the 1,000 that was expected. Inside the capitol, though, theres a lot going on. For one, the vote. The first vote of two expected to happen in the next ten minutes. At least the process expected to happen. And if you look at whats going on inside, 400 to 500 protesters are inside, some watching the action on the house floor. Others standing around the rotunda, chanting, pounding their fists against this right to work bill. Once again, outside, as you can see, theyre holding signs, asking rick schneider, the governor of michigan, to be