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That is not hard to do. >> we dont need to teach kindergarteners throw things but we need to focus on training your staff, having lock down drills, working cooperatively with police that take more time than they do money. >> reporter: there have been another cuts in school budgets in federal and local levels but experts we just heard from we may need more money for radios or police officers or extra counselor, many dont require money and they require time. good example in many schools only admin...

Memorials dotting that usual quiet place, this one a collection of 27 handmade angels lining a hill side. and motorists over taken by the side to slow down and take a longer look today and others getting out of their cars to take pictures and each of the angels the work of 20-year-old eric muller, a private school art teacher and he says he didnt know any of the victims that died, but felt compelled to do something and the same grief really felt in every corner. united states and thousands of mi...

The question is, what more can a school do? >> its a tremendous challenge for school officials because school campuses are not designed to be fortresses to be defended. they are places of learning. so, the expectation for schools is that they would take reasonable steps and when we look at the compassion and care and sacrifice of the administrators and teachers, thats probably one of the most significant factors but buns again if you have an armed getting on to the campus they will use use whate...

This is the number one fear, what happened yesterday, for every educator in the country, having an active shooter in the building, making sure your children, the staff, everybody is drilled. the drills done in this building worked. it could have been a lot worse had it not been for the her rowrow heroic efforts of the staff. there may be kids that say i cant go back in that building, thats understandable. >> obviously this is hitting so close to home. are you hearing from residents, are your edu...

About severe mental illness. to kill the most innocent parts of our society. bad enough the teachers, administrators, but to kill innocent children, this is a rage that i believe was fuelled by delusion. psychosis. he is at that age for onset, possibly, we doennt foe know f psychosis, schizophrenia. he knew he was not going to come out of this thing alive. and that was his major statement about hate towards his parents, towards his mother, but especially towards the world. >> is it premeditated?...

No sane person would do what was done here yesterday. >> you do have these big picture issues, the whole idea of gun control and mental health will be discussed, debated, maybe some changes, maybe not. but then you have immediate concerns. we are already hearing about survivors who are saying they dont want to go back to school. you can imagine a teacher who would say they dont want to go back to school. it does seem that so many of these have happened in schools, how do you make students, teach...

By going in and just shooting your mother, even if it were in a school, that doesnt get the attention that this gets because we have so many school children, innocent victims, who have been killed, and i think that that makes him maybe feel like hes special. >> lets go back. i dont want to get beyond the facts, but here is a guy, 28 people dead right now, another scene, we dont know what thats about. his father is still alive. his mother is teaching kids kindergarten, k to 4 as we say. he goes i...

The moment. here is what we know right now. the breaking news is out of newtown, the entire public school district is in lockdown at this hour. because of a police investigation and emergency response both state and local police to sandy hook elementary school. lieutenant paul vance of the connecticut state police confirms that police have entered the school and have begun to evacuation students and administrators at sandy hook elementary. >> theres no concrete information yet about any injuries...

With their kids and they really dont know whats going on, i have a pit in my stomach right now and im 50 miles away from the scene. so the parents there if theyre not getting as much information as they need. the information you need is to see your child find to groob them and give them a hug. what we have been told by lieutenant vance, and i dont know if youre seeing any evidence of this, he told us that the troopers when they arrived onscene around 9:45, immediately entered sandy hook elementa...

Or individuals whos prone to commit violence inside a school would want to do. we live in tough times. and in tough times, we just have to be a little bit more vigilant in how we protect our young people in schools. >> should the administrators be armed? should they have access to a weapon if they need one in a situation like this? should they have access to one in some vault or closet or whatever. >> no, im going to say no. absolutely not. school administrators are there to teach. to guide our ...