bret: thank you, molly. as the community struggles to develop, stories of heroickism are starting to emerge, including that of school principal dawn hochsprung, lurching at the shooter. one of the principal s friends is not surprised, because she trained if a situation similar to what unfolded. she knew the health and safety of her children were paramount. she actually saved a great many lives by taking her action. the shooter had the capability of shooting more and the tragedy would have been far worse if not for her hour reactions. we did not think this would
become reality. she is truly a hero today. gregg: we hear that principal hochsprung implemented new security measures at the school including checking the i.d. of visitors not recognized by staff. now our panel who will be with us throughout the evening, senior writer for the weekly standard, steven hayes, and nina and charles krauthammer. these are tough to listen to. charles, we have listened to this a few days and this is the challenge of the president as he is ready for the rare service. any thoughts? reporter: you have a human tragedy and the family tragedies, community tragedy and then a national tragedy because of the way the news is spread.
dawn hochsprung. she was a regular tweeter sending out pictures of her students. officials say she died while lunging at the gunman. mary sherlach was the school psychologist and was with principal hochsprurng. she also ran toward the shooter. nearing retirement her friends said she loved her job. her friends said she was a big miami dolphins fam. lauren was thrilled to get a job teaching as a substitute. they say she wanted to be a teach ber ever she each went to kinder guarden and had been planning to see the hobbit with her boyfriended on friday night. victoria soto, 27 years old, one of the heroes. investigators told relatives she was killed while shielding her first graders from harm. her sister tweeted going to meet mr. obama. wish vickie was here. dressed in all my big sister s
shattering the window. the alarm startles principal hochsprung and mary sherlach. they come running and are immediately killed. he turns left away from the auditorium and toward the kindergarten and first grade classrooms. he heads to the classroom of lauren rousseau. she and 14 kids are shot and killed. he heads to another room. two other teachers rachel devino and anne marie murphy always are killed. the horror is over in ten minutes, they bleerchlt lanza shoots himself in the head as they stormed in. the bush h master was used on the school in its entirety and the handgun was used to take his own life. authorities say that although adam lanza fired his rifle hundreds of times inside the school, he had more ammunition