what you want to do is give them the sense that everything is under control. we re talking about kindergartners to first graders, we re talking about very young children. investigators did go room by room to evacuate the school to make sure that these kids are out. let s go back now to our liz dahlem, with the school shooting information. what do you have, liz? liz, can you hear me? reporter: it s very much an active scene out here, we have got lots of parents looking for their children, just waiting for worth as to whether or not they re okay. i want to show you what it looks like out here on the scene, you can tell that state police are out here, they have been using their they have their weapons standing by and the choppers also above the school. that s where the school is located, further down dickenson drive. now that chopper s been sitting up there for the past couple of minutes now, we re told the
on msnbc, what is happening in newtown, connecticut, it s about an hour away from hartford, connecticut, the capital of that state. right now what we know, 9:41, a call for police according to what we re hearing from state police, they said they got a call from newtown police and they have sent state police to that scene. 9:57, a reverse 911 call went out. we ll go back to wvit where their reporter liz dahl reporting just moments ago what was happening on the ground. this is a photo just in to our newsroom of students being evacuated in the last hour or so from sandy hook elementary school. looking at that, that s a snapshot in time literally. it looks like it was done in a fairly orderly fashion. and for the sake of the kids, it doesn t look like it was done in a way where there will be a residual emotional effect.