out too many times. >> the governor's asking people across connecticut to pause for a moment of silence friday at the shooting that killed those 20 children and 6 adults at the school. he sent a message to governors around the country asking their states to do the same. we want to update you on new developments in the aftermath of the tragedy in newtown. schools reopen today for the first time since the shooting ram page. more police, extra counselors of course on hand. sandy hook elementary still remains closed. funeral services are being held for another 6-year-old. jessica rekos loved horses and expecting a new pair of cowgirl boods for christmas. family members are trying to help her brother understand why he can't play with his best friend. a former director of security for newtown schools is shedding new light on the gunman. he was assigned to keep track of students having problems, including adam lanza but says he never thought of lanza as a threat. ashleigh, tell us about the emotion that you are seeing. obviously, a lot of people who are -- they are burying their dead. at same time, trying to move on and give their other children a sense of hope in this community. >> one of the things i've been noticing surrounding communities, people from surrounding communities have been coming here to pay their respects, just to be a part of it somehow, show they are with the people of newtown and they support them in their grief. it's almost unbelievable the number of people with tears in their eyes just walking down the street. you can't walk anywhere near i am without encountering someone with a child or two adults walking hand in hand, crying, because they've just dropped off flags or teddy bears or candles or origami or some christmas ornament with the name of a child. we all know it's okay to be walking done street crying. everyone seems to understand. that's what this is all. and i just want to let you know also, there's a cafe i've been frequenting and working in, and i went up to buy a companyl)r o coffee and the woman selling it said it's free of charge. someone called this morning and said, they want to pay for everyone who comes in to the cafe today as a gesture of love. that happened a second time. a second caller anonymously offered to pay for everyone's coffee coming in. that's the kind of thing happening here. everybody feels like they're in the same boat and it's a terrible both to be in. at the same team there's an investigation and formal and serious and massive. the investigation into why and how adam lanza did what he did on friday and changed this community and country forever. deborah feyerick is following that part of the investigation. she's live as well. what's the new information that you are getting? specifically from the medical examiner? >> reporter: >> reporter: just a couple of minutes ago, another investigator drove up the long driveway to get back into the thousand search for more evidence. but the medical examiner, h. cosby, toxicology tests were done on adam lanza. they're trying to determine the kind of medications that he may have been on and the effects of those medications also for the first time, officially, the medical examiner saying that adam lanza did have as berger's but that's what he's being told but taking it one step further to find out if that was the correct diagnosis, whether or not there was more going on inside this young man. the bodies of the mom and the alleged gunman, adam lanza, both of them, have undergone autopsies. they have not been released. nobody has claimed bodies yet. nobody will be notified when they are until after the burials. that is at the request of the family. a couple more gruesome details coming out about what happened inside this home on friday morning. the medical examiner saying, according to the autopsy report, nancy lanza was shot in the head four times as she slept in her pajamas in her bed. the death of the alleged gun man, he died by a single shot, also to the head. now, the divorce document, this sort of taking it to the next stage, look at divorce document, you're trying to see was it just some kind of diagnosis of aspergers or something else going on. according to the divorce document, nancy lanza was responsible for paying all unreimbursed psychiatric and psychological expenses, also she was responsible for picking up the cost of prescription medications. so when it came to her son's mental health it appears she really was in charge of making sure that he was getting the right kind of help and medications. that's according to the divorce documenh5h hard to mainstream her son even though he didn't fit in, though as a freshman here in newtown, you know, he was given a school psychologist and school safety officers watched him carefully because he was so awkward, so gawky, out of place, and anti-social they were afraid that he would become the victim of some sort of crime, like bullying. in fact, that didn't happen. we can't get away from the fact, ashley, that this is a kid who just fell off the grid. about three years ago, no records of what he's been doing since 2009 when the last record shows that he was taking classes at a local university, classes like computer science and macro economics and american history. he's described as a genius. but whatever happened in the last three years, boy, something went terribly wrong, ashleigh. >> deb, it's haunting to see that photograph that shows adam lanza at his most recent state in life before this happened. deb feyerick reporting for us outside the lanza home. we are all trying to make sense of how this happened, all trying to make sense of those eyes, of this story, this tragedy. how this could happen anywhere, let alone the tiny town. investigators trying to figure out what was going through his mind. one of the people who maybe able to offer some insight is allen diaz, former classmate of adam lanza who spoke exclusively to cnn's national correspondent, susan candiotti. >> reporter: among the steady stream of people drawn to the memorial honoring victims, a former schoolmate of the alleged killer. >> what do you think of this? does your mind go to your friend? >> obviously, it does because you know, he's a very big part in this event. i'm not really sure what to think of it. >> reporter: sadly, he's the reason for it? >> yeah. >> reporter: allen diaz may have been as close as anyone who could come to being a friend of adam lanza when he was a sophomore at newton school, and diaz was a freshman in 2008. >> very intelligent person. he really was. it's like the way he acted around other people was just rewithdrawn and really quiet. >> reporter: a little different? >> yeah. >> reporter: they were in the high school tech club together, spent a lot of time on computers. adam had his own style of dressing. >> kind of had like the steefr stereotypical nerd look, khaki pants, belt, tucked-in shirt. even computer m) briefcase, instead of like a backpack like everyone else. he even had a pocket protector that he had pens in. >> reporter: he doesn't know whether lanza was bullied. he kept to himself. >> we all kind of knew that like he had problems socially and we kind of had a feeling that there might have been something wrong with him but obviously we never asked, thought it was our place to do so. >> reporter: back then his schoolmate's mom once invited all of his friends to the house to play video games. one was starcraft, a war games in space. another was war craft 3 whereas the ad says, survival is a matter of strategy. >> the burning shadow comes to consume us all. >> war craft 3 was fun. he was real fly games and he picked up on star craft quickly. >> when lanza left high school and home schooled, diaz lost touch but ran into lanza's mother nancy about two years ago. >> i remember her like mentioning that he started going to the shooting range with her. my initial response to that was, i never imagined adam one to ever even hold a gun. >> reporter: why do you say that? >> i don't know, maybe because in my mind i don't imagine shy, quiet people going to a shooting range. i never really can make that association. >> reporter: investigators have r. tracking how often lanza had been to gun ranges. they don't know how many so far. they've proven he's been to target practice six months ago, and for several years. mother and son went at least once together. allen's older sister went to school with the shooter's older brother. and she was friends with their mother who went to her bridal shower last year. >> why her? she was just -- i can't. it was a shock. she always a happy, happy person. >> reporter: do you now think of him as an evil person? because of what he did? >> one point he was a good kid. the event that will he did that day may have been evil but before then, he -- he was just another kid. >> reporter: until something made him snap. susan candiotti, cnn, newtown, connecticut. >> a lot of opinions, op-eds written in the aftermath of the tragedy. man support more gun control as well as mental health services. others think there should be more guns as a means of protect themselves. david gergen who has written a op-ed in cnn.com. someone who has advised four presidents, you say clearly we need a change in our culture, the culture of guns and gun policy. and you say that in order to honor the dead, you've got to have some kind of action. what is the most important thing right now for the president to do? >> seize the moment. the opinion in the country now jf gun safety. we have had majorities and two polls, cbs, "the washington post"/abc saying we need stricter laws, stricter earn forcement, and that's -- that's pretty big shift. as you know, opinion had been shifting away toward more people having guns and the whole idea of a way to solve this problem, if everybody has a gun you can stop the shooter. of course that doubles down on the problem and we have a culture in which guns are more available to young people and that approach. >> the president can't do it alone. he needs cooperation of congress. three basic principles should guide our gun policies. first you have to -- must have a license to own a gun. the license should not be easy to get. so how difficult should it be what would be your parameters? >> i think the permit system now is full of holes. it's determined at the state level. we have very uneven laws. as you know, suzanne, you can -- the permit system as a background check, a waiting peer, that's all very helpful. it done get into whether you know how to use a gun. the kinds of things we do to license people to drive. cars are dangerous but we let people drive after they get a license, once they prove to us they know how to handle it. the same thing should be true of guns. we should have a strict licensure approach so we know who has the gun and you can make adjustments. with modern technology you could put in effect a password on a gun so someone -- if someone picks up your ipad, they don't know your password they can't get into your ipad the same is true of guns. if you put a password on a gun, someone like adam didn't have the password he wouldn't have been able to use it. you -- if you license the mother and then made sure that he didn't have access, we might not have had all of these dead kids. >> second, if you're a civilian cow can't buy an assault gun. folks say i'm a hunter, i want to protect my home and i want a weapon here. people teoday furious, dick's sporting goods not selling these across the countrier. tweets coming out. this make me not want to shop at dicks. others saying i called dicks to cancel my rewards zone membership. told the guy on the phone if i receive another piece of literature in the mail from them i will sue them. how do you respond to those people with that anger who feel they should be permitted to have those weapons? >> you and i have been around enough on the internet to know if jesus christ appeared and gave another sermon on the mount some people would attack. and express fury about some aspect of it. you know, you're going to have that. there's going to be noise in the system. the question for political figures, the nation, what's the morally right anything to do? if we don't act now, given what we know about the deaths of these children, we enable the next person to come along, the next loner mentally der ranged to come along, shoot a bunch of kids we'll have blood on our own hands. we'll have moral responsibility. we'll be enablers if we don't ability. i think the moment's here. i understand the politics of it. i know the politics are rough. democrats fell when they passed an assault ban in 1994 when. clinton was president, they felt they lost the house of representatives in large part because of that and they've been nervous about it ever since. it's about seizing the moment when it's there and moving as to a different way to live. i think you find -- my argument on cnn.com was, you have to find meaning in terrible horrors like this. and what we learned from lincoln, when he went on the gettysburg address he didn't talk about the people in the battlefield. words are too little. we have to give new meaning to national life. that's the leadership we need. >> we'll see if they've got the political courage to do that in this administration. thank you. >> courage as a right word. thanks, suzanne. >> ashleigh? >> it's so interesting to hear you and david gergen having that conversation over the gun control debate. there's another big conversation reigniting now and the debate over violent video games and whether they lead to actual violence. if you're a parent and this plagues you, you are concerned about, we've got advice coming up in a moment. >> media violence is a risk factor, is a causal risk factor for increased aggressive behavior. 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