Gave First Respond ears standing ovation. President obama is there to help this Community Deal with the tragedy. People have been stopping at town memorials all day. While others attended sunday services focused on the tragedy that shattered this tightknit community. Residents leaned on one another as they remembered the 20 first graders and six adults gunned down at sandy hook elementary school. We just all basically hugged each other and said it was going to be all right, well get past it. Reporter but one mass was cut short after someone called in a threat. I wasnt scared. I looked up, and i said, you know, if anything has to happen, protect the kids. Enough of them. Reporter as people here in newtown grieve investigators say they have the best of the best working to gather evidence so they can determine a motive for fridays shooting. We have to have the whole picture before we can say hopefully how and why this occurred. Thats not going to come very quickly. Reporter police say the
Morning to you. Today is going to be another tough day for this heartbroken community. Funerals will begin today and tomorrow. For some of the victims. And last nights prayer vigil, visited by president obama, is something that this community and the country will not soon forget. Olivia. Josephine. Reporter the more than 900 mourners who packed Newtown High School heard an emotional president obama admit the country has failed them. Since i have been president this is the fourth time we have come together to comfort a grieving community torn apart by mass shootings. Reporter he said hell use the power of the presidency to stop tragedies like the massacre of 26 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. These tragedies must end. To end them, we must change. Reporter outside the vigil where president obama spoke, an emotional reaction from a shattered community to the president s visit. It was very touching and to it did mean a lot. We have to protect the kids. Like he said, th
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