watch. we re talking about 5 to 10-year-olds describing a shooting. it s about 600 students that had to go through this this morning, according to what we have been watching. 39 teachers. we re talking about kindergarten through fourth grade. this incident now about two and a half hours old. very difficult and emotional. if you have children in your family, if you have nieces, if you have nephews, you cannot help when you see these pictures to understand the ram fiction, the depth of what we re seeing here happening in newtown, connecticut. stay with msnbc. we are going to continue to cover this breaking story coming out of newtown, connecticut, and sandy hook elementary school. don t know what i d do i d have nothing to prove i d have nothing to lose [ male announcer ] zales is the diamond store. take up to an extra 15 percent off storewide, now through sunday.
injured. two of them evidently bloody, and this was obviously a very dill situation for their kids, being shaken up. it s an absolute nightmare for parents who are in this area. i want to tell you that we are still seeing lots and lots of children coming out to the fire department here. we also heard reports that kids were being taken to area homes when this story first broke, just making sure they were taken to safe places. but again, you can see parents hugging their kids, making sure everyone is okay. lots to uncover here, we re going to continue talking to parents and student who is witnessed this all firsthand. we re watching a live reporter there coming out of wvit in newtown, connecticut. chris jansing is still with us and clint van zandt is still with us. we re reporting the principal being involved in this shooting, occurring during morning meetings, the children were
that two handguns have been reported. and just the timing here to the both of you, i mean sandy hook elementary, we were getting some sense of timing earlier that they were hearing shots around 9:00, and 9:05 is when the kindergarten starts and when they gather. so that s consistent with what we were reporting earlier. again, grades 1 through 4, this is a town about 60 miles from new york city. it covers, newtown about 60 square miles, it s the fifth larger town in the state. back to chris and clint, we know what s happening inside according to reports, but also outside, they have requested that parents come and gather their kids. the question to you, clint, might be, is now the right time for that and what does that tell you, the fact that they re asking parents to actually come to the site? is there the children are going to be scared, frightened, they don t know what took place, unfortunately, even though our
we are two hours go an dins end that we have been watching here on msnbc coming out of newtown, connecticut. sandy hook elementary school, a school that has 5 to 10-year-olds, a shoot agent that low case. apparent shooter dead. police on the ground still going room to room in this school that had about 39 teachers. we have a camera in the sky. cameras on the ground. clint van zandt has been watching this with us. clint, earlier on, we saw on this chopper cam view, a space that was both yellow and red or orange. what was that space? well, in a situation like this, richard, they set up individually both a triage area, where they can first deal with any injured, wournd nded people well as emergency response needs
assisting newtown pd in anything they need in terms of crime scene investigation and other things that are going on. a tough time, we want to reach the parents of this school districts are on top of this, we have all been communicating and everybody s monitoring this closely to make sure their children are safe. we have learned that three people have been rushed to danbury hospital, can you tell us anything about the victims and nature of their injuries? right now, i can t confirm that there are multiple victims and they re being treated at danbury hospital. i can t confirm who those folks are, obviously next of kin needs to be notified, those kinds of things and i cannot confirm in terms of what relationship they had within the building, whether they were student, whether they were an administrator or somewhere in between. we are now getting our first live pictures from above the scene. this is chopper pictures from our sister station in new york, above the scene here in newtown