Thanks very much and good evening. There is only one story tonight. You know what it is. We have new details to tell but and we wont pretend we understand it any better than after it happened. It is a horror beyond words. Kids as young as 5 years old. Sadly to the names columbine and jonesboro, we have to add newtown, connecticut to Virginia Tech add sandy hook elementary, the second Deadliest School shooting ever. 20 little kids and seven adults and the shooter who took his own life. All in a closeknit Quiet Community 90 minutes from new york. We will give you the latest information, but what we will not do is repeat the shooters name over and over again. We dont want history to remember this murderer. We want history to remember the victims, the teachers and the children, those whose lives have been unfairly taken. We have a teamworking on the tragedy and we have Soledad Obrien on the scene. There vigils tonight. We will be checking in with her shortly. Vigils to tell you about as th
investigation here from day one. i want to bring them in right now, lieutenant paul vance from the connecticut police department and lieutenant george sinko from the newtown police department. good morning to both of you. good morning. bill: in our line of work we see a let of this. nothing that compares to what happened 100 yards down dickinson lane here. you jent men have been outstanding since day one. i know how incredibly difficult this must be for both of you. thank you for your time. thank you. bill: what information can you provide on threats of various churches colling in. as we allude to, under no circumstances anything funny about this. or can be treated funny. threats or statements of harm or anything like that is going to be fully investigated, fully responded to. if any violations of state law have occurred or federal law have occurred they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
i m bill hemmer live in this special edition of america s newsroom. . martha: good morning bill in connecticut. i m martha maccallum in the new york studio. we watched last night an emotional memorial service. hundreds of people packed into the auditorium at newtown high school. president obama meeting first and separately with the families of those who were lost. it must have have been a very difficult meeting for all involved in that room last night. we saw representatives from ail faiths, many faiths taking the stage with a message of hope and reance. i know that newtown will prevail it is a defining moment for our town but it will not define us. i assure you at beginning of winter i see the beginning of a snowfall. i will think of those 27 souls lost just a few days ago. each time the day gets a little longer i will think and dream of the lives that might have been and the lives that were so full of grace. bill: president obama then took the stage +++zq% allison. g
the massacre in this small town. as the community grieves the deaths of youngest and most innocent. first of 27 funerals. 6-year-old noah posner and 6-year-old jack pinto. to be laid to rest 1:00 eastern time. it will be aifficult day. i m bill hemmer live in this special edition of america s newsroom. . martha: good morning bill in connecticut. i m martha maccallum in the new york studio. we watched last night an emotional memorial service. hundreds of people packed into the auditorium at newtown high school. president obama meeting first and separately with the families of those who were lost. it must have have been a very difficult meeting for all involved in that room last night. we saw representatives from ail faiths, many faiths taking the stage with a message of hope and reance. i know that newtown will prevail it is a defining moment for our town but it will not define us. i assure you at beginning of winter i see the beginning of a snowfall. i will think of thos
spot, in fact, i was joined here by two police lieutenants who have been on the scene here all day. from the connecticut state police, the man we have been watching on television all day. lieutenant paul vance. and from the local police department here in newtown, lieutenant george sinko. first of all from the state police perspective, how much can we all know? how much are we allowed to know tonight about what you have seen on this scene. well, this is truly a horrific situation, that we encountered here in newtown. it started at 9:30 this morning, when the emergency call came into newtown police, and emergency responders immediately were called for help. and the rescue process began. and many children and staff were rescued. but as you well know, 20 children didn t make it and six adults didn t make it out of that school. reporter: lieutenant sinko, this is your jurisdiction, your town, when a call comes in,