students and protect the students while this catastrophic event was going on, and i m pretty sure everybody s been reunited in terms of children and families. jenna: i m getting some more breaking news into our newsroom from your local newspaper, the hartford current, that says that the shooting took place inside the kindergarten classroom. can you confirm that for us? i cannot. jenna: okay. mr. mayor, what do you think s important for you as we take a look at this community, again, a k-4 school, nearly 700 students. have you ever had something like this happen before in the community? you know, this is a very quiet, peaceful area of the country. no, we haven t. but i will say that there s a reason why we have all these emergency management plans and they work, and this is the reason why we even drill with kindergarten students about how to evacuate the building appropriately. this is why. so with the right planning, we avoided what could have been an even worse, catastrophic event
scene inside the school through what we re learning from reports. the principal s office, a kindergarten classroom, possibly multiple firearms. we know the atf is picking those up now. children among those injured, according to abc news, children among those killed today. a terrible situation. a code reddish shoed throughout the town. i knew that earlier from the emergency management agency there on the ground in newtown, connecticut. jenna, jon? jenna: harris, thank you very much. want to be very clear with our viewers, we have two major items confirmed right now when it comes to this school shooting, and that s about it. we know that there s a school shooting, and we know that the good gunman is dead. as far as the fatalities and injuries, we have zero details on that confirmed. we hope to hear directly from the state and local police in, hopefully, around ten minutes, so we want to get those news items confirmed to you, but we do not want to rush anything at
she what she saw was just police everywhere with police with guns and every corner. all right. back live here. let s listen to our nbc affiliate here, wnbc with some new information regarding the relationship between the gunman and that school. let s listen in. opening fire with at least two handguns and there s questions about whether it s some sort of rifle or other weapon and that one law enforcement official saying his mom worked as a teacher in that school. jonathan, did your source know whether there were any survivors from that kindergarten classroom? don t know. don t know but the source said that that s where most of the victims were. in that bun classroom. i m going to triple clarify here. we know that there s a body at a location in hoboken. we believe there is. you believe there s body. in other words, the information we are hearing and i think pete williams was reporting this with the associated press that his parents are dead. right. and so that, y
injuries sustained likely by students. to the extent we don t know yet, we do know from the mayor in the local area that at least three people have been rushed to the local hospital. he also made reference that he couldn t get names or conditions until the next of kin were located. when we hear terminology like that, that makes us think the very worst, but, again, we ll hold off until we know for sure. thank you, clint. our own chris jansing is standing by with some new information. chris, could you give us an update? what we do know from pete williams, and you reported this earlier, that there were some reports, and he got this from a federal official that, some children had been shot, but we are getting descriptions from people on the scene that are as horrifying as you could possibly imagine of doors being, you know, kicked down and federal officials as well as local officials going in with their guns drawn. obviously, trying to secure the situation. there were also reports that
memorial services for 7:00 tonight. in the meantime, chris, we are waiting for governor malloy and police officials that have the grim task that they say may take days of identifying the victims in the schools. chris? 26 really young kids, kindergarten through fourth grade are dead now. the teacher, the mother of shooter is dead. and i guess the question which is going to linger for days and years is would this guy have stopped if he hadn t chosen to shoot himself? what kept him from just keep on doing it? this could have gone on all through that school, apparently. there was no one there to stop him. wed do know police have reported that this was in one area of the school that took place in two different rooms. one of them was this kindergarten classroom. we also learned in the last hour or so, it was mutually reported