Everybody, death was caused by everyone we have completed so far was caused by gunshot wounds. And obviously, the manner of death on all of these cases has been classified as homicide. A long time medical examiner calls it probably the worst thing he has ever seen in more than 30 years in this field. Most everybody hit more than once. Each with a semiautomatic rifle, and this. When i saw those teachers and i locked eyes with each of them separately, when i found the two children if i could go back i would i would embrace them. Because i had no idea what they had gone through. The parents of children who survived the shooting struggle to come to terms with what their children and the teachers had to endure as we learn the names of all 26 people killed. Not one of those 20 children who died over the age of seven years old. They were six and seven years old, all first graders. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, reporting here from newtown, connecticut. Lets bring in our national correspondent, susan candiotti. She is joining us with more information, the very latest on the investigation, what are you learning, susan . Reporter hi, wolf, were not going to dwell on the shooters name, but he is twentyyearold adam lanza, and were learning today more on how vicious the attacks were. This information coming to us from the chief medical examiner. All the wounds that i know of at this point were caused by the weapon. I only did seven of the autopsies. The victims i had ranged from three to eleven, and i only saw two of them with close range shooting. This is a sample, i really dont have more information. The bullets are designed in such a fashion that the energy this is very clinical, i shouldnt be saying this. But the energy deposited in the tissue, so the bullet stays in. Reporter now the long weapon that the chief medical examiner referred to is one of the three guns that our sources tell us were found next to the shooter in the classroom. Youll remember those three, two of them handguns, and the third a longgun, that we have come to know as a semiautomatic called a bushwhacker, now im sorry i understand there may be a technical problem. Susan im going to interrupt you for a moment. Because the brother of nancy lanza, the mother of the shooter, the brother, James Champion is speaking now in new hampshire. He is a Police Officer. Is involved in, is going to go through the counnnecticut ste police, and the local police. So you wont have any information coming from any department in this county about what theyre doing on behalf of connecticut. I can think i can say that Law Enforcement here is responding to any requests that connecticut could make. And we will do anything that is asked of us to assist on that. The Rockingham County sheriff, mike downing is here with me. He has a statement from the champion family he would like to read. And we after that, i guess we can try and answer questions, although were not going to be answering questions about the investigation in general. So ill turn it over to sheriff downing. Thank you, good evening. My name James Champion, by the way, is the brother of nancy lanza, he was going to make a statement. But he decided he couldnt because it is too emotional. Were hearing now from his colleagues. He is a Police Officer. The family of nancy lanza share the grief of a community and nation as we struggle to comprehend the tremendous loss that we all share. Our hearts and prayers are with those who share in this loss. The family, teachers, staff and the students of Sandy Hook Elementary School, the First Responders and to all of us touched by this tragedy. On behalf of nancys mother and siblings we reach out to the community of newtown and express our heartfelt sorrow for the loss of innocence that has affected so many. The family requests that you respect their privacy during their time of anguish and loss. Thank you very much. Are there any questions like i said, there is not an awful lot we can answer. Who called the fbi and other authorities the only thing i can tell you is that Law Enforcement, generally, has obviously volunteered any assistance to connecticut. And are responding to any requests that come out of connecticut. The requests that theyre making of us and our response back to them will go through the connecticut state police, and we wont have any comments about that. Other than well do anything we can to help. Can you maybe talk a little bit about her, what she is like this is chief Donald Briggs hen here. Very, very kind, considerate, loving young lady. She lived here a good part of her life. She was very involved in the community. Very well respected. Chief, can you talk about the champions in general, well known in town . I can tell you, small town, that mrs. Champion, dottie, worked as a school nurse at the school for a number of years. A wonderful person, very good with children. Jim champion worked for me for a number of years as the captain of the police department. And he currently works for me as a parttime officer as well as for sheriff downing as a deputy. Have you spoken much to him since he has heard this news . Can you tell us anything about how he is doing . The whole family is trau traumatized by this event, very sad, very sad. Do you know if he was in contact, has he expressed anything anything im sorry i didnt hear. I have not. Can you tell us about he has not. What does he say about this day. I have not had a conversation with him. Do you know how close he was to nancy and her sons . Very close. When is the last time they were back here i actually saw her last november when jim champion retired. I saw her at the retirement party. I havent seen the children for since they left here in 1998. You said my understanding it was 1998, that was my understanding. Any other questions . Okay, thanks a lot. All right, so let me just put in perspective what we have just heard, and sanjay gupta is still with us, as well. James champion, sanjay is a Police Officer in kingston, new hampshire. He was going to be making a statement right now. His sister was killed yesterday. Nancy lanza, the mother of adam lanza, the man who went in, the twentyyearold, and killed all of these people here in newtown where we are. He is too emotional. His sister is dead. He is the uncle of this young man. But other Police Officers and the District Attorney came out and spoke on his behalf. Wanting to sayhat they will obviously cooperate fully with this investigation. You think of the enormity, though, here he is a Police Officer in new hampshire. His sister is dead, his nephew is dead, kills himself after killing all of these young people, and six adults. I can only man what he can be going through. And it seemed like he wanted to come out and talk about it. Certainly all this information. That was what the press conference was about. And at the last moment, he was too overcome to do it. Which is not surprising, given the loss. We talked about the people who died in the school, but the lanza family, the champion family, which is lanzas brother in the case, theyre obviously trying to come to terms with this, as well. Incomprenhensible is the way they described it. There will be answers, but im just not sure, we still have not heard from them, it is incomprehensible, the big question remains, we may never fully get the answer why. Reporter but people are asking that question, wolf. You just heard that question from the statement on behalf of the lanza family. And all day we have been gathering more and more information about the suspect and his family, ali, you have been digging into this. We just heard from family members of nancy lanza. What are you learning about nancy . Because she is also a victim in this crime . Reporter yes, she is absolutely a victim, were about two and a half miles away from the quiet area where nancy lived with her son. Beyond the police car, you cant see around the area. The lanzas moved into this area in 1997 or 8, they purchased house in 1998. They lived in the house together until nancy and her husband, peter, separated several years ago and divorced in 2009. And that left ryan, the son who now lives in hoboken, new jersey, and it left nancy and adam living in the house. Nancy worked in finance in boston, and here in connecticut. She recently stopped working, which is interesting. We dont know whether she was retiring from working or spending time at home. But she did seem to confide with friends that she wanted to take care of adam. So they lived in this house until friday morning. And we spoke to residents around here. It is a very quiet neighborhood. All the lights are from cameras. Big houses, we spoke to one neighbor who said they seemed quite normal, listen. They were a quiet, seemingly friendly people, i dont think people in this neighborhood really knew them too well. Reporter we also spoke that is a young man whose mother we also spoke to said look, nancy was into gardening. She had you know, they were not all that social with their neighbors, but they didnt know if they had a Social Circle outside of here. And that is the story, not a lot of information. This area, they asked residents to leave, some had come back. It is an active crime scene, police say theyre finding a great deal of information from the shooting scene at the house. But a lot of neighbors are not really talking about what is going on. There is some confusion. This is a story where there are a lot of conflicting details all over the place. One area is the guns, where they came from, what they were used for. Nancy lanza apparently told a decorator, who had done the Christmas Decorations on their house, that nancy said she apparently showed him a gun, a rifle that she had recently bought and said she liked to take her kids for target shooting. The atf looked at ranges in the area, and said they dont have evidence that the family went to local shooting ranges to shoot. But that is the latest information. Reporter it was surprising to some, ali, that the information came out that the guns, while the number of guns and how many guns were on adam lanza at the time of the shooting at the school, it was surprising to many that the guns were legally purchased by nancy lanza. Reporter you do have to do certain things, including take a course with the gun laws. Of the six guns we heard were in the house, three of them were standard rifles. And the three he took with him were semiautomatics, in which case you can pull with trigger pulls. They make the most sense of assault weapons. Theyre not called assault weapons, that is a different category of guns. But it does seem he had access to guns that were not registered to him. They were registered to nancy, that is partly because connecticut keeps such good gun laws that we were able to find that out quickly. All right, thank you, great reporting, wolf im going to go back to you. Many questions remain. As you said so many times, the question why . It doesnt look like it is ever going to be answered. Yeah, at least not completely to be sure. Kate, thank you. Were beginning also to put names and faces with some of those who lost their lives in this truly unspeakable tragedy. All six of the adults who died at the Sandy Hook Elementary School were women. Here are some of their stories. Victoria sotos family said she had her students hidden behind her trying to protect them when she was shot and killed at the Elementary School. Her cousin says the hardest part was waiting to hear whether she had survived or not. And at that point, it was the hardest for the whole family, just a waiting game to receive word on what happened to vickys class. Also killed, lauren russo, hired just last month as a substitute teacher. Her family says she always wanted to be a teacher since before she even went to kindergarten. She has two daughters in their twenties, married 31 years and goes to a lake house with her husband, in upstate, new york. And the principal, serious about teaching. She is an exciting, joyful, just an incredible educator, and then to lose somebody like that in our district, it is sad. She was a personal friend and wonderful leader. Reporter she had recently overseen the installation of a new security system, requiring every visitor after 9 30 to get buzzed in and show id. She truly did believe in creating an environment where children felt safe. I really feel that is the tragic irony. She was also a parent herself, raising two daughters and three stepdaughters. Residents say hochsprung was well loved. God bless her, she was just a very special person. And all the parents knew that. Reporter two other women also died at the school, rachel davino, only twentynine years old. And anne marie murphy, fiftytwo years old. If you would like to help in this really horrific tragedy, you can donate to the services, the Mental Health clinic will be open all weekend from 9 00 a. M. Until 4 00 p. M. For grief counseling. You can find all the information on cnn impact. Parents of children who survived this children, it is a horrific shooting. They are struggling right now to come to terms with what they experienced. Youre going to see one of those wrenching accounts, that is just ahead. I cant look at my childrens faces now without seeing the faces of every one of their soul mates and all of their friends. And everything were doing right now, saying, talking about christmas. And just thinking your friends should all be here. It is so heavy so heavy on your heart. Were back here in newtown, connecticut. Our special the situation room coverage of this horrific mass shooting continues. 26 people gunned down yesterday, six adults, all women. Six and sevenyearolds, all first graders. Here tom foreman is joining us to break down the newest information coming in on how this shooting happened, tom . You know, wolf, if theyre going to figure out the why in this case, why it happened, investigators hope they can do it by retracing the steps. Really spanning three states. They looked at the brothers apartment here down in hoboken, new jersey, by the way, just across from new york city. And up here, they go to the mothers house, where they found her body. And this is where they believe it all started with her murder. Of course, their big focus is on the school itself. Lets move over there and take a look. Because authorities believe that after killing his mother, whether immediately, or after a period of time, we dont know, that the gunman went over to the school and there, he had these weapons in his car or some version of these weapons. And he began to move in on the school itself. We had a better picture, a close are timeline looking at radio reports and other eyewitness accounts. 9 30 in the morning is when we believed he would have actually approached the school itself, leaving, we think, this car over here. They put a lot of focus on it. And even if it were this car, he would have come this way, up to these front doors. And earlier it was mentioned this new security system, that prevented the first barrier to him. Because it was locked at a time. And there was a report late on from authorities that said the glass had been broken, whether he kicked it out, or shot it out. Whatever happened. And he went in the school, this is important to note. The first report we have of actual gunfire occurring in the school is what was reported at 9 36 in the morning, that is when you hear the First Police Report saying we have gunfire occurring in the school. We know from what witnesses said that everybody within the school knew the gunfire had started, in part because some could actually hear the gunfire. Others heard it over a p. A. System in the office, and then others called and said is that gunfire . The Authorities Say all the shooting occurred in a very small area up here near the front. Two rooms. It did not spread through the entire school, even though there were 600 students in the school. Another important time to consider here, 9 38. I mentioned 9 38, because by that time, in a two and a half minute span, this is the time where the Authorities Say theyre hearing that all the shooting is over. An incredibly short period of time. Now i will say there was a report of shots, it is not clear if somebody told them there were shots or if there was simply a delayed report of the shots. But the bulk of the shots seemed to have occurred in this very short window of time. Then you move to 9 40 in the morning, where you get the call, at 9 43, for the first emergency medical services. Two ambulances were called initially on police radio. And a short while later, just a minute or two later, they said no, we have more victims. Then there was sort of an indefinite call for as many ambulances and ems people as they could get to the school. Because they knew they had a huge, huge problem on their hands, and this is the amazing part of it, we pieced together yesterday. We have more details, 9 40, we just put plus, plus, plus here, because it has been a little loose within the time. But we can say by some certainty that by 9 53, the reports were that this was basically over with. There was an awful lot more to do. But the simple truth, by 9 53, the report was they said they had a suspect down. Officers said they had cleared the building. It is not entirely clear to us at this point, meaning they cleared the building of possible shooters or they had cleared the building of possible students. This picture, by the way, from the newtown bee. It is not clear if they cleared everybody out or just the suspect they were searching the roof of the building, as well. But just as we reported yesterday, wolf, the simple truth is all this happened in about a 27minute time span. All of it happening in a very close area here. With much more information and much more detail that is where theyre hoping to figure out some kind of why. What was the thing that made this person come to this school and do this horrible, horrible attack. Wolf . The investigation obviously continues. So many questions have to be answered, tom, thank you very much. Lets bring in brian todd right now. He has got a closer look at the shooter. The twentyyearold, adam lanza, youre getting new information, brian, what are you learning . Reporter well, police say they have picked up evidence about lanza, and his mother, picking up evidence at the house. Theyre not letting on what the evidence is. But were getting new details about the s