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Detectors in big city schools. >> but lately the face of school security is changing. now small towns and suburban areas are rethinking school security. abcs alex perez has the story. >> reporter: the security measures at middleton elementary school in suburban chicago begin the moment you set foot on campus with the ringing of this doorbell. once in, you can only get as far as the entryway. the front desk then takes my i.d., scans it and performs an instant criminal background check using a sec...

Said she was considered even moving in the upcoming years if he found a college that was right for him. apparently had taken some community college courses. but if he found the degree hed like to pursue that she would uproot and move to a place where he would be able to do that. john. >> john: molly. thank you. several schools not far from the scene of fridays massacre went on lockdown this morning t. happened after reports of a man carrying a rifle near a school in ridgefield, connecticut, 20 m...

Where he had the inability to touch and feel and empathize with anything. another neighbor and classmate said adam lanza had been a weird kid since we were 5 years old. as horrible as this was, i cant say im surprised. why didnt anybody reach out? so many of these kids that are loners and we know theyre possibly going through a tough situation, people need to reach out to them. and befriend them. >> hopefully the gun control/mental health debate this country is about to have will answer some of ...

Touch and feel and empathize with anything. another neighbor and classmate said adam lanza had been a weird kid since we were 5 years old. as horrible as this was, i cant say im surprised. why didnt anybody reach out? so many of these kids that are loners and we know theyre possibly going through a tough situation, people need to reach out to them. and befriend them. >> hopefully the gun control/ mental health debate this country is about to have will answer some of those questions. older stud...

Federal agents tell the associated press today that the shooter and his mother each fired guns at shooting ranges over the past few years. they also visited ranges together. the chief medical examiner says that the shooters mother died from multiple gunshot wounds to her head. also among the dead is sandy hook principal dawn hochsprung. according to the associated press the principal was killed while lunging at the gunman as she tried to overtake him. a board of education chairwoman says adminis...

They will be putting forth arguementeds saying if teachers are better armed, if people in the schools are better armed, then well be able to take care of our own. studies have been done. we neglect our own academic scholar ly insight. weve got to put that on the table and fight the nra. but i think weve galvanized enough unified voices here to say to the nra you will not cower us. we will not be intimidated by you. and i think that poll tixzs finally have gotten that message as well. >> well, th...

Her head. also among the dead is sandy hook principal dawn hochsprung. according to the associated press the principal was killed while lunging at the gunman as she tried to overtake him. a board of education chairwoman says administrators were coming out of a meeting when the gunman forced his way into the school and ran toward him. joining me now brendan rick either and anna maloney, both former students of sandy hook principal dawn hochsprung. anna, how long ago was she your teacher? >> about...

Was a place to be long. >> did he need that? >> yes, he definitely needed that desperately. >> why do you say that? >> well, it goes back to saying that he was withdrawn most of the time, he was very quiet. in his freshman year he was very small in size and he had a lot of fear coming into the high school and interacting with other students. >> but did he have a reason to be fearful of the other students? was he picked on? >> not really, no. no. not really. newtown system itself is a very, very ...

Shooting. newtown is a place that loves children above all. families move to newtown because we are a caring and loving community. we are also a place that has great pride in our schools, pride that propels the students in those schools with their outstanding teachers and administrators through high achievement and great personal worth. the horror that was visited upon our sandy hook school was not deserved. it is the angry and desperate act of a confused young man. there is no blame to be laid ...

>> describe a lock down. >> you do with your emergency action plan. it is basically locking down the school which they tried to do. they locked all of the doors. >> but the shooter is in the school. right, exactly. the shooter got into the school. if they had some kind of bars on that door maybe the shooter could not have gotten to the school. >> so lets accouple that there is this as you call safety or emergency action plan. that means that we have to train the teachers and efshl else. is this ...