Gave First Respond ears standing ovation. President obama is there to help this Community Deal with the tragedy. People have been stopping at town memorials all day. While others attended sunday services focused on the tragedy that shattered this tightknit community. Residents leaned on one another as they remembered the 20 first graders and six adults gunned down at sandy hook elementary school. We just all basically hugged each other and said it was going to be all right, well get past it. Reporter but one mass was cut short after someone called in a threat. I wasnt scared. I looked up, and i said, you know, if anything has to happen, protect the kids. Enough of them. Reporter as people here in newtown grieve investigators say they have the best of the best working to gather evidence so they can determine a motive for fridays shooting. We have to have the whole picture before we can say hopefully how and why this occurred. Thats not going to come very quickly. Reporter police say the
Visit there last night. While we learn more today about these victims and sadly more information about the gunman, his possible plans and schemes and this awful thing he carried out. And so to start off our reporting on a monday night after such a sad weekend in this country, we go back to the town that remains the saddest spot in our country, nbcs Anne Thompson is in newtown for us tonight. Good evening. Reporter good evening, brian. Im actually in the center of the borough of sandy hook. Every day brings new details about what happened inside that school. And today we learn that not one, but two people were injured in the attack. Welcome news about survivors on a day when the funerals began. Old enough to know, too young to understand. The heartbreaking sight of children mourning other children began in newtown today. 6yearold jack pinto, a loving, vie vashs boy, idolized victor cruz. Cruz wrote jacks name on his shoes sunday. Now it was the teams turn to pay tribute. They were comfo
On this special edition of early start, a community and a nation in mourning. Newtown, you are not alone. The president , offering words of comfort and inspiration, to those trying to make sense of a senseless tragedy. The face of indescribable violence. In the face of unconscionable evil. Youve looked out of each other. And you cared for one another. And youve loved one another. Were remembering the victims, 20 children and 6 adults. Some who gave their lives to save others. She was truly selfless. She would not hesitate to save anyone else before herself, especially children. As more details emerge, people in the Small Community search for strength to face the difficult days ahead. We will move on. We will never forget. We will, in many ways, be made stronger for what has transpired. And we will get better. Good morning. And welcome to this special edition of early start. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. Were coming to you live from newtown, connecticut, this morning. It is a raw and ra
And make our country worthy of their memory. A tough thing this morning. Happening now in the news room, amid one mans unspeakable cruelty, tales of courage are emerging from newtown, connecticut. As shots drew nearer, teacher victoria soto threw herself between the gunman and her students. Her family tells us how she should be remembered. President obama comforting the families of those killed and how he remembers the love and prayers of a nation. Well share his speech from last nights vigil. Part of the speech, a call to action. President obama vowing to prevent another massacre. Today gun control seems to have a tone of determination. A special edition of newsroom begins right now. Good morning to you. Im Carol Costello here in atlanta. Joining me shortly, don lemon. Hees in newtown, connecticut. Lets begin here, shall we . Well begin with the latest at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Today the first of the funerals get under way. 6yearold jack pinto and noah pozner will be the first
At this hour and around this country tonight, outside philadelphia, a vigil for the victims. In washington, d. C. , remembering them with song, holding candles against the night. At a church in detroit, keeping the children, the teachers, in their prayers. And on television today, nfl players, like the teams in the new Orleans Superdome offering a moment of silence. And this evening a new image of the gunman, adam lanza in a sixth grade yearbook picture years before he would take the lives of 12 little girls, eight little boys and the six women who taught and guided them. Our ern tire entire Abc News Team is on the grounds tonight and we begin with the portraits of the lives lost. This is an abc news special report. Tragedy at sandy hook. Good evening to all of you, im diane sawyer, here with George Stephanopoulos at abc htd quarters in new york and we sboin you on the air this sunday night because the people of newtown, connecticut are holding a vigil and president obama is about to s