you know to get to your child and to be there to protect them. the president will make remarks about the shooting today. we ll take a listen. this afternoon, i spoke with governor maloy and fbi director mueller. i offered our condolences on behalf of the nation and made it clear he will have every single resource he needs to investigate the heinous crime and care for the victims and counsel their families. there were fatalities. 18 children pronounced dead at the school. two transported to area helps and pronounced dead at area hospitals and six adults pronounced dead at the scene of the school. this happened over six hours ago there is it a lot of evidence being processed and the crime scene is active and other scenes are now being investigated including
you know to get to your child and to be there to protect them. the president will make remarks about the shooting today. we ll take a listen. this afternoon, i spoke with governor maloy and fbi director mueller. i offered our condolences on behalf of the nation and made it clear he will have every single resource he needs to investigate the heinous crime and care for the victims and counsel their families. there were fatalities. 18 children pronounced dead at the school. two transported to area helps and pronounced dead at area hospitals and six adults pronounced dead at the scene of the school. this happened over six hours ago there is it a lot of evidence being processed and the crime scene is active and other scenes are now being investigated including
who were shot today. they are holding a prayer vigil to comfort the families who were told that they had lost their loved ones in this town. it is a small new england town in area, and very rural area in the central part of connecticut here. the school certainly k-4 as we mentioned, we don t have identifycations tor age of th schoolchildren or the names being released, but we are told that the investigators are processing the scene now and trying to deal with the identification of the children and as governor maloy says back le turn them back to their families to grieve their loss at this time. this community certainly just now getting out of the sadness and shock part of this grief heavily starting to set in. what we don t know about the shooter at this time is his exact identification, and they are trying to process that information as well. there are numerous reports that
trying to do what they can to get everybody back online. but conditions like this, just one more look, that are making things extremely difficult here. again, no sort of indication as to when this water is going to be out of the area or when town officials with try to help move that process along. we re live in fairfield this morning. i m liz dahlem. i want to remind people at 8:30 this morning, governor maloy will have an update there in connecticut. we ll get even more information. let s go back now to nbc meteorologist bill karins who has been tracking this. the amazing thing is the amount of devastation that we re seeing. this is a category 1 hurricane. if you told me that a category-1 hurricane hit this summer, i would tell you, that s a rare event. i m sure it was bad. i wouldn t say it s historically bad. one of the worst storms environmenter to hit the region or new england or one of the worst storm surges, worse than donna or the great hurricanes we had in the early 1930s
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