With scott pelley. Pelley good evening. We learned something new today about one of the most heinous crimes in American History the Fatal Shooting of 20 first graders and six adults at sandy hook elementary school. Newtown, connecticut, released audio recordings of some of the 911 calls and what struck us as we heard them is that while the gunman was doing what no one could have imagined, Police Dispatchers and others were doing all anyone could have hoped for to try to save lives. Heres jim axelrod with the story that the tapes tell. Reporter from the moment the shooter fired his way through the front door the courage and professionalism of those on both ends of the emergency calls are unmistakable. School secretary barbara hallstead made the first call at 9 35 39. 9 35 reporter 34 seconds later, a custodian named rick thorne made the second call to 911. Custodian ed rick made all to reporter thorne would stay on the phone for nearly ten minutes even with gunshots going off in the bac
the lanes were just cleared. kraig debro will be joining us shortly. but we can go to sal castanedo right now for an update on the situation on 880. is there still a backup? the backup is dissipating. but the problems were very serious. i want to mention traffic has recovered here and what they are doing here on 880 i might be able to move a map to it. they are fixing the high street bridge. they are doing a retrofit project between oakland and hayward a $180 million project. i believe we might have kraig yes, we do. hello, kraig. how are you? reporter: hey, good morning, sal. if you look behind me, you can see what you were just talking about, the high street bridge. there s a problem earlier. it appears that traffic is moving through here rather smoothly at this time. that s kind of odd because typically there is a residual effect that lasts all morning. especially if you take 880, you know that. the roads did not get opened up in time for the commute. there was t