State at the time of the shooting . We look at autism and killers brains as we focus on Mental Health and tonight, no deal in washington. Lets go aufz. Good evening, everyone. Outfront tonight, desperate for answers. Investigators spent the day at the home of 20yearold adam lan lanza, sweeping the house for evidence of a motive. There are also new details tonight about nancy lanzas where abouts in the days before the shooting. Deborah fayerick is live outside the home tonight. What has happened there tonight and today . Its rather remarkable because the major crime squad has been here all day and as we push into the house, lights are on in the top and bottom floor. Now, they brought back the emotional crime lab and theyre processing this crime scene. Investigators have not retrieved any information from the damaged computer, the one that gunman is alleged to have smashed into pieces. The hard drive so damaged the fbi is having a difficult time getting any data. So what investigators are doing now, about half a dozen of them in the house. Theyre going through all documents, files, medicine c cabine cabinets. Earlier today, we did see them bring out a large box and brought it into the that mobile crime lab. Thats an area they use for processing. They can do instant analysis, so theyre aggressively working inside the home trying to get additional information, erin. And what have you been able to ascertain about what theyve been able to bring out . Do you have any sense of sort of what was in the box, other materials theyve gotten . No, we havent, but whats also so fascinating about this, they pulled the mobile crime lab out. Sort of took it off the premesis over the weekend, so clearly, theyre checking what we are learning is that in days before the has kerr, nancy lanza was not home with her son. In fact, the mom was at a resort in New Hampshire. She left early Tuesday Morning and didnt get back until after dark on thursday, so that means that the gunman would have been this this home by himself or with somebody checking in. Its not clear, but her friend does tell cnn that in fact, the mother was one to do that. She would leave them on occasion, preparing a couple of meals so that he would be taken care of. The next morning, friday morning, that is when Police Believe that the gunman went into her bedroom while she slept in her pajamas and shot four times at her head before going on this terrible, terrible rampage. All right. Deb fayerick, thank you very much and as deb is reporting, pretty Significant Development in terms of the fact that nancy lanza had been waway. It was confirmed she stayed at the hotel in New Hampshire and checked out around 12 noon on thursday. It was a four and a half hour drive, so she would have gotten home when it was dark the evening before she died. I want to bring in paul vance. The lead spokesman. Youve seen him many times speaking. Its been a very difficult job to have to update the world on what he knows. He joins me on the phone now with the latest. I appreciate it, we all do because Everyone Wants to understand what happened here. We have confirmed as you just heard, that nancy lanza was away in the days before the shooting. What can you tell us about her relationship with her son . I think whats important is to make sure that everyone understands that our investigators, our state Police Detectives have to take every piece of information and confirm it. And sure that its totally accurate and totally pristine and without error before we can come out publicly and state it. Therefore, we havent really come out and stated anything too too much relative to the relationship with the shooter, prior to the catastrophe that happened at the school. All right and i understand that. We dont want you to rush it, then have to change what you say, so i do understand that, but you know, there have been reports that a possible motive, im sure youve seen these. Its been written, reported elsewhere, that adam lanza was concerned his mother would have him committed to an institution or swent away to school and thats what prompted this horrific rampage. Weve been gathering a tremendous amount of evidence and our major crime detectives have been at the residents for many days, many hours. Theyre there today. They have the processing van at the residence as we speak and theyre meticulously going through every square inch, Touching Every paper and document and everything contained in that house seeking whats necessary to attempt to establish any information, any motive, any timeline that can support the investigatory efforts of the detectives on this case. So, too early to say whether his fear of being committed or anything like that could have been involved. Youre correct. So, on saturday, you said the investigation, ill quote, you said it did produce some very good evidence on motive. I know now, you obviously have a lot more evidence. So, what is causing the hesitation . Is the motive very complicated . So many people obviously around the world, Everyone Wants to understand that, to try to get some sort of closure here. We understand that and we certainly want to do that. We want to answer every single question surrounding how and why this catastrophic tragedy took place, but we dont traditionally attempt to piecemeal an investigation. We could uncover a piece of evidence that could send us in an entirely different direction, therefore, its prudent for us to examine everything and then come out with a final determination exactly what we know from factual information that we gather. As one thing i want to try to understand and hopefully this is just sort of a factual thing that we could get to the bottom of. A lot has been made of the guns. That nancy lanza had these guns and how adam lanza could have gotten those. Do you know where the guns locked up . Yeah, we do have a great deal of information relative to the guns. Weve actually got a team, were being assisted with that, with the aff and were literally investigating those guns, the day, the minute they left the manufacturer to the day we see them. There were capacities to lock those up, we know that. And certainly, were going to check the place of guns every single time they were touched or handled. Do you know if the lock was broken or removed can you tell us that . Im sorry, i do not know that information. All right. You dont know that information yet. Okay. Yesterday, we also had reports that the computer had been smashed to pieces. Sort of implying adam lanza tried to destroy the evidence, giving the perception he would have known right from wrong. Is there any hope youre going to get anything off those hard drives . Its important to note that electronic evidence, theres no question about electronic evidence our efforts to ensure our people one final question, other members of the family, adams father, his brother . I know that weve had some conversations. I dont know that weve completed those interviews. We have had some conversations with a family with assistance from other agencies outside the state of connecticut. Thank you very much. We appreciate your time. Up next, the controversy of report i reporting the Mental Health of the shooter. What syndrome and autism has to do with the story and in a story with so much horror, were going to introduce you to man who has to go to work each day and relive it over and over again to do something that gives some closure perhaps. A start of closure to the families and breaking today, three state Department Officials resign following the investigation into the attack on the american consulate in benghazi. 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Wayne carver said he was told the shooter has aspergers syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. Now, people who knew the family say he had aspergers, bob and susan wright, grandparent of a child with autism and the fou founders of autism speak say this. Autism did not cause this horror, the profound tragedy of these senseless murdered will be compounded if it against people with autism, but according to a leading medical book, here are some of the behaviors. One, shows a lack of empathy. Two, acts up with intense tantrums and three, shows aggression to others and to self. Well, theres been, there have been a number of studies, very large studies done with autistic children. Dr. Catherine lord spoke with one this morning the New York Times and went through the whole thing thoroughly. The result of it is that there is less likelihood of a child with autism to have an aggression against other people than there is for typical children, so not only is there no evidence that supports the fact that they are violent to other people, but they are actually less violent towards other people than typical people and when you really get into these stories about violence and you see children or young adults, what youre going to see generally is people with alcohol or drug problems or some other situation. Theyre seven to ten times more likely to be violent than typical children and autistic children are less so. Sometimes, they are self injurious, but rarely to other people. These kinds of generalizations are killing us. These parents of children with autism, theyre frightened, angry. People are talking about you know, autism as though theyre acquainted with it. Theyre using it as a generalization and its really very sad. This, theres no evidence so far, we havent seen any evidence of this poor boy was even diagnosed. We havent heard the school records. Havent seen an individual education plan. We havent heard any therapist. Any Health Care Providers coming forward saying i diagnosed this child 20 years ago or 15 years ago. I treated him when he was 10. I helped this boy with therapies. This is really disturb iing to. If this child has had treatment, why havent people surfaced . What about the issue of empathy. When i hear about this, its what i always come back to. That if someone has trouble with empathy, the man in norway who killed all of these people on that island, a psychiatrist said he had autism. And he was sort of striking for his lack of empathy or understanding or connection to what he did and when people hear if youre autistic, you might lack that human connection. It may make them say well, i could see how this could be linked to a horrific act. Do you see that as all or do you think thats the wrong link to make . Its a very long putt given the fact we have so little day the on adam. Children with aspergers, which is a very high functioning child generally, tend to have social communication issues. But none of those issues fall into the categories that were talking about here with the kind of vie leolence and murder and but they may have a narrow social focus or they may be very lonely or appear to be lonely. Some are very talkative and informed and very knowledgeable, so you just cant generalize about that and this empathy issue, the fact they said well, he doesnt feel pain and so forth, i kind of write that off as another gross generalization. I havent met children that dont feel pain and have no ability to deal with pain. Obviously, your grandchild has autism and since hes been born, you founded Autism Speaks and you have dedicated yourself, you and your wife to fight this condition. Is this in a sense whatever happens with adam lanza, perhaps something that can bring some good to this country for children that have autism . We are desperate to have an opportunity to have some real focus on Mental Health. The brain is the largest organ in your body and gets less attention than the spleen does. And in the avalanche of media for guns and the fiscal cliff, i hope we are able to bring forward a real agenda here for Mental Health. Thanks so much, bob, we appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Its lovely to be on. And were going continue to focus on Mental Health as our Program Continues tonight. Next, were going to meet a man with one of the hardest jobs in newtown. And later, xhunlts coming together tonight to say goodbye. From the best players in history to the number 1 club in the world. The potential of Manchester United unlocked. Nyse euronext. Unlocking the worlds potential. You can stay in and like something. 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He runs the only funeral home in newtown. One girl, the funeral we had yesterday, she loved orca whales. 11 of the children murdered are being remembered herement long lines outside, now a painful sight. Tragedy has landed here and its our job to take care of what has to be done. Thats what we do. The calls with the families its very sad. Difficult beyond words. Many of the children had favorite hobbies. One girl loved horses and animals and wanted to be a vet. One boy was the giants fan. Started by his grandfather more than 100 years ago, this funeral home is where he grew up, but he has never seen anything as tragic as this. Ive read that you called this the week from hell. Well, yes, it is the week from hell, but well get through it. Their innocence was taken away from them and that makes it very, very difficult for us to deal with. Pasquale runs the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association and has gathered more than 100 volunteers. Mentally, how do you prepare to talk to these families . You prepare yourself knowing that you have a role to play and that is to assist them in helping say goodbye to their little girl. Its very, very difficult. In the evening when you go home, you deal with it. You talk to your family. You try to collect your thoughts and cry. For honen, the coping will come in the weeks ahead. For now, he try to tune it out. When i go home at night, i dont, when i turn the tv on, ive been watching christmas movies. Its an escape. And you know, i find great comfort in my wife. My wife is my rock. A rock, something everyone in this town needs right now. And poppy is in newtown tonight. You talk about volunteers. Thats been one of the small sort of rays of hope in this, just the generosity of people helping with these funerals, right . Thats exactly light. Its one little bit of help for the families of these 11 children, erin. All the cost for their funerals will be covered because of the donations of time by all those Funeral Directors, volunteers, people who have donated caskets, everything. The cost of the funeral. At least thats being covered and the funeral director told me that he has gotten over 2,000 emails from other Funeral Directors around the country, the world, asking how they can possibly help. Its hard to imagine if any, that anyone else would have ever had to deal with such a horrible thing. So many Young Children coming to a funeral home. Did you talk to him about how hes dealing with that . Emotionally . Someone who deals with death has never dealt with death like this. I did. Youre right. This is his job. This is what he has to do every day. But putting this many kids to rest is something he never imagined hed have to do and i really got a sense from him, he had to sort of put a wall up to deal with it, to cope and he told me thats right, i do. I have to put a wall up of sorts just to get through the day and in the weeks to come, when this is over, hes going to lay the last child to rest on friday. Hell deal. Hell grieve. This is the town where he grew up. Its been in his family for so long and he hopes a tragedy like this never happens, but i could feel it from him and from pasquale. They have to put up their guard just to get through the day. Thank you very much, poppy harlow and next, will adam lanzas brain give any clues as to how a person could have committed this horrible crime . Dr. Drew is next to look at the brain and next, the president steps into the gun control debate, but what he said has our john avlon asking questions. [ male announcer ] its simple physics. A body at rest tends to stay at rest. While a body in motion tends to stay in motion. Staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. But if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. 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