home and tock her car and guns and school where she worked and began the rampage. nthis is unthinkable. the idea of walking in the class rom and just shooting children . little kids. five or six year old kids defenseless and innocent and it makes no sense at all. and a principal and other adults. apparently there were morning announcements going on when the shootings began and they heard screams over the pa system in order to hearing the gun fire ringing through the hallways and they were fired in an area where the morning announcements were being mad. children, 20 of them murder where they should be safe. ray, your thoughts tonight. you are talkug to me, and i
instituted a new security system. you had to be buzzed in, and the new york times is reporting that it was actually the principal who buzzed in adam lanza. she obviously recognized him as the son of one of the employees. when he went inside, he first went we are told into the administration office, they were going through morning announcements. now, people in other classrooms all throughout the school, heard those shots fired, and the associated press reports that someone had the presence of mind to leave open that intercom system and the fact that other people in the building were able to hear what was going on may, indeed, have saved lives, they were able to do what they are trained to do in an emergency situation like this. to get children to the safest possible place and lock the doors. so there was in a sense, a warning system there, alex. yeah, and you re right. it saved lives, but the tragedy
questioned. no word if he is a suspect or a person of interest. on top of that, as he said, there is no home reportedly being searched in newtown. that home being searched, authorities say is connected to this shooting. again, we talked about a purple van being surrounded earlier by authorities. we have not heard anything else about that. we are getting more information about the chain of events. apparently what happened is the shooter went into the principal s office first. when the shooting happened, the morning announcements were underway, and apparently the rest of the school could hear the violence in the shooting over the school intercom. as you said as far as class size, we have confirmed that there are two kindergarten classes at sandy hook elementary school. both of those classes have 17 students each in there. we know that children have been killed.
reporter: that s the information we have. there was a body found inside the home belong together mother in newtown, connecticut and she worked for the school. and the report went on to say the belief was that he targeted the mother first, then went and was targeting the students at the school. remember if you look at the chain of events. he was let through the door sometime between 9:30 and 9:40. went to the ad min stray tough office and opened fire during the morning announcements and attacked the principal and vice principal and psychologist. the nurse was in there. while the morning announcements were being made the rest of the school could hear the violence and gunfire over the school intercom. at that point apparently went to a classroom. we know a kindergarten class is unaccounted for. we don t know what classroom he went to. but he apparently went to a classroom and shot and killed 18 kid. the information we are getting is he apparently was going to the school to target the ki
upper left of that label is that firehouse, and that is where robert has been going live, reporting live for us this morning, and then you see the long driveway, the white building the firehouse the long driveway leading into that school, and that s where police are swarming. reporter: police are efforting to have a news conference, 1:00. we understand they re going about two miles away, and they realize that the public is certainly wanting to know as much as possible, especially parents. a reverse 911 call has already gone out to the residents of newtown informing them of this school shooting at sandy hook elementary. danbury times is reporting that students started to hear the gunshots during the morning announcements. reporter: i m sorry to interrupt you, cbs is now reporting that at least one child at the school has died as a result of this shooting at an elementary school, sandy hook elementary school, at least one child at that school has died in this shooting. so, obviou