Fun. This is exactly what the kids need after such a terrible tragedy. Reporter crews are renovating an old school in a nearby town for students who sur vierved the shooting. Its expected the survived the shooting. Its expected the school will be ready for classes later this week. Sandy hook elementary remains a crime scene and its not known if it will ever reopen. Police refuse to reveal details. One spokesperson saying theyre too awful to discuss. In newtown, im randall pinkon. Back you to. Thank you for that report. Were learning the mother of a Georgetown University student here in washington was one of the newtown shooting victims. Katie sherlach was the school psychologist, one of the heroes. The Newtown School shooting has spark add new push for gun control. New york mayor Michael Bloomberg joined with dozens of families affected by gun violence today. They announced a campaign to press lawmakers to come up with a plan to reduce the number of guns on the streets. They are callin
Six adults killed. Tuesday families said their final goodbyes to two more 6 yearolds. Jessica rekos and james mattioli. They are releasing new information today of the suspected shooter and his mother. He also said that the mother was found shoot in the head four times. While she was sleeping. In newtown, connecticut. Im tory dunnan reporting. Today virginias governor said its time to start discussing if School Officials should be armed. Bob mcdonnell said similar conversations took place in the month after the september 11th attacks and he thinks now main to time to extend that talk the school to schools. If people were armed not just a Police Officer but other School Officials, that were trained and chose to have a weapon, certain simply there have been an opportunity to certainly there have been an opportunity to stop aggressors coming into the school. Right now theres a complete ban on all the firearms within 1,000 feet of virginia schools. If exception is Law Enforcement officers.
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening, more parents than usual walked with their kids as the schools of newtown reopened today. When a family met the steppedup security there wasnt a sense of fear but a sense of moving forward together. And this was our favorite image. We were going to write something about it but then we realized it speaks well enough for itself. Sandy hook elementary was the one school that did not reopen. As you know well, 20 first graders were killed there on friday along with six staff members. The gunman also killed his mother and himself jim axelrod is in newtown where, for some, this was a new day. Reporter many here hoped to find comfort in the backtoschool rue teen. Mike morshuk planned to meet his 16yearold daughter. Ill be waiting outside the car and hopefully a few friends will come over, give them a big hug and a kiss. Reporter sandy hook elementary is still a crime scene today trucks moved the des
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