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>> jeff: too many families here in newtown are preparing this evening to bury their loved ones. for other families with students at sandy hook elementary, what happened friday morning is a story of survival and sacrifice. peter van sant of 48 hours has that. >> like any other day, we got them on the bus, they went to school, and about quarter to 10 we received a phone call from the superintendents office that there had been an unconfirmed school shooting. >> diane and robert licatta will two chi...

A community in mourning tonight. youre looking at an image of sandy hook, connecticut, the firefighters here hanging black bunting from their fire trucks today. the town in shock after yesterdays elementary school maasacre. we welcome you back now to this special edition of "world news." this evening as this community comes to grip with an unfathomable tragedy were learning more about the heroes. in the line of fire. in the heat of violence saved so many of those children. heres abcs amy robac...

He was wearing. inside the school, he zeroed in on two classrooms, killing the 20 children and six adults. one of them was the schools principal, who sources say tried to stop the shooting by lunging at the gunman. the spree ended when lanza shot himself with one of the handguns. police have yet to find any journal or detailed notes lanza may have left behind explaining his horrific actions. but lieutenant paul vance said clues to the possible motive have been recovered in multiple searches. >> ...

After the original report. the fires calls came in around 2 p.m. callers from all over the south bay saw the mass up plumes of black smoke. this is cnh enterprises a precision manufacturing fabricating and welding company. because this building uses chemicals in its work, fire authorities issued a "shelter in place" order for nearby businesses and homes due to the potential danger from the smoke. that order has since been lifted. that of course is good news. employees of the company say about 90...

But then i received a text from the a.p. that stated there was a shooting at the school. thats where my daughter giz and i dropped her off. she is in the third grade. i drove my car and saw people i knew and they were hysterical. i said what happened? >> were there police there? >> yes. the fire house is by the school and you have to pass it. the fireman was there. newtown police. organized. bringing the parents and the children in to the firehouse. all i heard was a neighbor who t and she was d...

>> myself and a sheriffs deputy determined the only way we were going to get him out of the water was to pull him back up stream away from the bridge to get him out. because i was not working trying to pull him straight up. >> on bunker pants they have suspenders that go up and i was able to feel down the suspenders and be able to grab as much as i could of the bunker pants and pull. >> with all his might, major albers yanks the fireman back up stream, but the water-logged man is so heavy, hes p...

Quijanoz,. >> reid: officials in springfield, massachusetts say more than 40 buildings were damaged by a natural gas explosion last night. the explosion destroyed a downtown strip club and damaged more than 100 residential units, 18 people suffered injury, none of them life threatening. >> detroit has lost a quarter of its population over the last decade, creating a landscape lit erred by abandoned homes and vacant last as elaine quijano tells us, one local businessman has an unconventional plan...

The problem, there are too many republican leaders in congress. if you say the word latino and play a word association game with them, they would come back with illegal immigrant, not silver star winner, not doctor, not lawyer, not policeman, not fireman. this is an important part of our communityship. an important part of the future of the republican party and the republican party needs to get it together on its outreach to late team knows and its good hear that lindsey graham and chuck shumer ...

First responders, firemen and cops, live. they want to be seen as a symbol of a can-do spirit of america, that they are going to get back on their feet and do it themselves. but they are worried that what sandy exposed is a fragile response system from the u.s. government. but they are the people doing it themselves. one anecdotes we heard today, the report of a fireman who when the floods came in, the 7-foot waves started to collapse his home, he rescued his three children by tying them to his ...

Republican leaders in congress. if you say the word latino and play a word association game with them, they would come back with illegal immigrant, not silver star winner, not doctor, not lawyer, not policeman, not fireman. this is an important part of our communityship. an important part of the future of the republican party and the republican party needs to get it together on its outreach to late team knows and its good hear that lindsey graham and chuck shumer are going to start advancing com...