Unanswered questions in the massacre that has shattered a quiet town and stunned the nation. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer reporting live right now from newtown, connecticut. The 20 children gunned down in their own Elementary School were 6 and 7 years old. They were practically babies, as the people here in newtown, connecticut, mourn. We now know the names of the victims of the school massacre. Authorities releasing the list just a little while ago. Were also learning just how brutally they died. The medical examiner says, every one of the 26 victims were shot more than once, apparently with a semiautomatic. The relatives of the shooter are struggling to competent when the loss of life, including nancy, who was gunned down by her son. No word on a motive. Police say they have found very good evidence at the school and at the lanza home. For more right now on the investigation, lets bring in our national correspondent, susan
President obama is back in town barely for a couple of days then he scoots off to Marthas Vineyard for his own vacation. But to the extent there is any news, well tell you about it and give you a chance to comment on it at 186655press. Join us on twitter at bpshow and on facebook at facebook. Com billpressshow. He goes up to Marthas Vineyard for vacation with his family, one person the president will not be playing golf with is Vladimir Putin. In fact, yesterday, the white house announced that the president was canceling his scheduled summit with Vladimir Putin before the g20 meeting in st. Petersburg because the president is pissed that Vladimir Putin gave a oneyear asylum to Edward Snowden. For that, Everything Else goes on the rocks. And rick scott in florida says hes going to try once again to prevent latinos and blacks from voting. Wow on current tv. Tell you all about it. Are you encouraged by what you we have a big, big hour and the iq will go way up. vo current tv gets the conv
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long hot tragic summer for this country. And for ferguson. And especially august. Its been a brutal hot august. You got the protests, youve had the riots, youve had the police overreacting . A lot of cases. And youve had race. Youve also had Police Brutality. The wounds to those things ripped open on the world stage. Y
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Off the road so were having to put several hundred feet of hose in to get up there and cool down the scene, and right now were awaiting the arrival of ntsb investigators. Theres not much more to add. Were still in the very early phase of this. We dont have any information as to who the aircraft belongs to or the victims or even the number of victims at this point. We just know that its multiple fatalities and there were no survivors. Communication from the helicopt helicopter . We checked that skprand righw i dont have any information whether the helicopter radioed a distress. The individual who saw the aircraft said it was coming down at a fairly significant rate of speed and impacted the ground on the hillside behind me here and started approximately a quarter acre brush fire. As i said, the wreckage is still pretty hot up there. Typically there is some magnesium involved in these aircraft incidents, so we have firefighters up there right now trying to make sure that we dont have any