Investigation and the victims. And there are also some other major stories that were following on this sunday afternoon. Deb ferrick is live in atlanta and will bring you the developments later in the program. As we arrived here where our cameras are, its hard not to be moved by what you see in this town. Theres one place where you literally see 20 angels in wood. Everywhere, there are balloons and flowers and teddy bears and things in honor of victims that it is impossible to imagine. The age and innocence of these victims. Today were learning some new details about the horrendous crime and about these innocent victims deaths. Heres what we know. Police say crime scene investigators are wrapping up work in the parking lot of the sandy hook elementary. Work continues inside the school, the crime scene. Heres what we know about the guns. Three of them were found next to the body of the suspected gunman. His name of course is adam lanza, 20 years old. Officials say one was the primary weapon used and it was a semiautomatic rifle. We have also learned that the 20 children who were killed inside the school were shot multiple times. Every single one of them was either six or seven years old. President obama is going to arrive here in newtown this afternoon to try to comfort the victims families. Hes scheduled to arrive here in about an hour and a half. He is going to be meeting with the families and also with the first responders. And after that hes going to be speaking at an interfaith vigil. Were going to be taking that vigil here on cnn live in its entirety. It begins at 7 00 eastern time. We do know the names of the victims today. But we are still learning about who they were, what their lives were like. So short, but no doubt given their age, providing so much joy for those around them. Nick valencia is in the cnn news room in atlanta. I know the families are starting post pictures of their familich and issue statements. Some of the families have been very private about their loss. But some really want people to know about their loved ones. The family of jesse arecos Jessica Rekos said this jessica loved horses, she spent most of her time devoted to them, watching horse movies, drawing them, reading and writing about them. This christmas she asked santa for new cow girl boots and a cow girl hat. She loved playing, as most little kids do. She loved playing with her little brother travis and her little brother shane. As the first born of the family, her family says she was the rock. And its difficult to imagine a life without her. Its hard for them, especially devastating for that family. And in a statement they said, erin, we are mourning her loss. Sharing our beautiful memories we have of her and trying to help her little brother travis understand why he cant play with his best friend any more. Jessica rekos was just six years old. Erin . All right. Thanks very much to you, nick. We want to let you know that we do have a live picture right now of marin oe one, the president getting ready to leave the white house and come here to newtown. To visit individually with the family and first responders. And then he will be speaking at a 90minute vigil. Now to the investigation and the latest that we know. Police say they are confident that every question involving the crime will be answered. In particular, the why. We are finding out more details about how the alleged gunman got into the school. Alison kosik joins us with that information. Whats the latest that youve learned. What were learning is the push for more information is going on. As far as the atf goes, theyre done with tracing the weapons, as far as who owns the weapons. Federal agents are chasing the leads, 30 gun ranges, 400 gun dealers. Theyre trying to figure out what the gunman was doing in the days leading up to this massacre. Now i am in the neighborhood where, where, where the gunman used to live with his mother nancy. Were not yet able to confirm whether or not theyve closed. Whether or not authorities have closed this area as a crime scene. There hasnt been any activity here since early afternoon. What were learning from 9 governor of connecticut, dan malloy, were learning how lanza got into the school. Knowing there were security measures in place at the school. That you had to be buzzed in as of 9 30, buzzed into the building. In fact there were security cameras you could look at the security camera, as to who is looking to come into the school. What the governor is saying that basically this gunman blasted his way in. He, you know, he basically shot an entrance into the builden. Erin . All right. Allison, as you were talking, we saw the president getting on to air force one. We know hes in progress as he waved as he got on. So hes going to be en route to newtown where you and i are. I understand, allison, that you spoke to a man whose children used to go to sandy hook elementary and hes trying to take action to mobilize his neighbors. What did he tell you hes doing. His kids went to sandy hook years ago. He feels like a lot of people feel in this town. How do you make sense of this . He says some people grieve, what he wants to do is take action. So hes in the process of mobilizing people. He held a meeting today with people try og figure out what to do. As far as emailing their representatives and sending phone calls, trying to get some sort of action all the way up to capitol hill. The hope is to sort of try to find some sort of semblance of a remedy to whats happened here on friday. All right, alison kosik, thank you very much. Allison reporting for us, as she gets more information shell be back with us. We learned some new information on the timeline. 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The hartford current newspaper has released a chilling account of the shooting with some very hard to read details, the article has the headline, a methodical massacre, heart and heroics, it goes into great detail about what happened on friday morning. I want to bring in david owen now, hes been reporting at the current for 18 years. David i want to go through this with you when i was reading this. One of the things that stood out to me the most was after he blasted his way into the school. He could have gone left and he could have gone right and he made a choice. He chose to go left. Towards the classrooms. And we wish we could understand why. We dont know. And there were on the right, there were kids also, classrooms. Yes. Auditorium. That was the choice. That was the choice he made, towards the first graders. Tell me about how he got into the school. I know that we know he had shot his way in you know some details about how. There were conflicting reports. But our understanding now is that he, he fired his weapon and made a hole in the glass basically and climbed into the school. Was not allowed in, forced his way into the school. He forced his way in. Tell me about the first classroom that he reached. That was kaitlyn roigs classroom. We now know about her heroism. The kids are all hiding, which is such a tribute to these teachers. For some reason he kept going and he went to the second classroom, where lauren was. Lauren rousseau, and her 14 kids. Thats where he opened fire. And i know she tried to save the children. She tried to hide them. And some of them fled out of fear and thats when he saw them. I believe thats the next classroom. It was yes, these teachers all were, the evidence shows just heroic in terms of trying to protect those kids. In the search of his mothers home, police have found a lot of information. We dont yet know much about it. But you do know how they found his mother, where they found his mother. What can you tell me . We know that his mother was stim in bed. She had been shot twice in the head. That police secured the house. Before that they searched it with a robot out of concern that there may have been booby traps or some other device to trap police. So they used a robot to search the building and the house, and thats become relatively common practice for police, to insure their own safety when going into a place after this event. Had two bedrooms where he lived. Computers in one and a bed in another. A hard drive had been removed from a computer and smashed. We believe they found other relevant evidence as well. Whats your understanding about their ability to access the information on the hard drive. Theyre working with computer experts to recover the data thats on that hard drive. There was another story i wanted to give you a chance to talk about when i read your article that stood out. And that was in the classroom where one of the teachers had tried to put the children in a closet and have the children be as quiet as they could. Some of them were and some of them were children that fled. Tell me about what you understand about what happened in that room. The teacher tried to protect the kids again. And had them in a closet. Told them to be quiet. The some of the kids fled. And lanza came in and he, he killed the teacher. He killed those kids. But the other kids stayed quiet and they stayed in the closet. And after the police had, after this ended and the police were in there, searching for the building, throughing through this horrible situation. They opened the closet and there were the kids who had survived. You wrote that they opened the closet and there were seven pairs of eyes staring. Yes, my colleagues reported the bulk of the story. They did a great job. Thank you very much. We appreciate you taking the time to explain it to us and to everyone watching. Theres so much happening here in newtown. But we want to go back to our headquarters in atlanta and to deb ferrick, she has the news on what were watching on this sunday. A deal could be closer to avoid the socalled fiscal cliff. A source tells cnn that House Speaker john boehner is offering to include higher tax rates on people making more than 1 million. The white house is Still Holding to its 250,000 threshold. Unless a deal is reached by january 1st, practically everyone will be hit with a tax increase. And it appears that president obama has tapped massachusetts senator, john kerry as his next secretary of state. A source says the president may make the announcement this week. The 69yearold senator narrowly lost the presidency in 2004 to president george w. Bush. Hes charge of the Senate ForeignRelations Committee and a decorated veteran of the vietnam war. And egypts Muslim Brotherhood declare as narrow victory in the first round of hotly contested constitutional referendums. This soenl the first weekend of voting. The rest of the country will be voting next weekend. Some claims of voter intimidation and early poll closings. Thats what weve got from here. Erin, lets go back to you in newtown. Thank you very much, deb. Many newtown residents are seeking comfort in faith. And joining me now is the reverend mark moore, he leads a small congregation in newtowns town center. Normally your church has about 20 worshippers. Were a tiny little parish, one of two parishes directly in the village of sandy hook. What was it like today . We had a service yesterday at 12 00 to address this issue. It was packed with people. And even reporters from all over the world were there. Australia, russia, italy, france. England, germany. All over the world. Following this story. All the Major Networks were there. You know, cnn was there, of course. And so this is an international event. And so the churches have a particular role when Something Like this happens. That is to help people make some kind of sense of it. When it first happened, everyone, including me was in a state of complete shock. I heard, im the same as anyone else, a sense of sickening sense of how could this possibly happen. And you try to wrap your mind around it. And comprehend that you cant, its just impossible. Even the ways that we typically try to understand events like this through psychology and they say the man was disturbed and things like that. He certainly was. But in a war, you can understand the cultural and political tensions like this, for a Natural Disaster this goes way beyond that. Even a very sick mentally ill individual, could never just because of that, commit a crime so horrendous. So youre thrown back, on religious concepts, thats the only way to understand it. Our faith teaches us there are forces of good and forces of evil at work in a world. And this was a time when the forces of evil were manifest in a very dramatic way. How are you helping your parishioners . How do you comfort them . Its one of those situations where you want to tell people its going to be all right. But of course it isnt going to be all right. Of course it isnt going to be all right. Its a disservice to say everything is going to be all right. I think the one thing we do is we draw people together so theres a sense of community and caring. And thats the first stage and any kind of healing. Because theres a tremendous amount of fear and anxiety that can accompany this. So fact that were all together in a loving community. Is very comforting. But beyond that, people ask, you know, trying to make sense of it. How can this possibly happen. So we tried to at the time. Remind them of the teachings of the faith. That there is good and evil in the world. But god is completely good, god opposes evil and in the end, god is stronger than the forces of evil. And the forces of evil would be purged from the world. And that is our hope. So we look to god for his, for gods strength, healing, guidance, knowing that god is allgood and allloving. And thats a very powerful thing. If we dont have that, then its just senseless mayhem. And there could be no healing from that. Just the opposite is more alienation and fear and senselessness. And thats something that its very hard to live with that kind of belief. Thank you very much, reverend moore. There can be great holes in moments like this when we dont have faith. As the reverend was saying, trying to understand how this could happen is a question for people around the world. We want to look at how a person could carry out such an extreme and unthinkable act of violence. Its hard for anyone to fathom. As memorials are being held around the nation, our next guest will help us make sense out of what could lead a person, a human being, to carry out such an act of gross violence against children. How theyll live tomorrow. 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What could possibly trigger a human being to do what this man did. The suspected shooter was young, he was white, he was male. To help us with some answers, we want to bring in jim clemente. Hes a writer for the program, criminal minds. We appreciate you taking time. We were talking to the reporter from hartford current whose article was entitled methodical when he was describing this crime. Methodical is a very hard and awful word to use when talking about Something Like this. When it was preplanned and premeditated. What can cause a person to do this. Well. Well i think in this case it could be anything from psychosis, Mental Illness to a slow burn. You know and a justice collector. Someone who is has built up these angers and rage over years. But in this case, the mix of that Mental Illness or psychosis, plus the suicidal homicidal ie aal ideat access to semiautomatic weapons was a recipe for disaster. Adam lanza was no doubt troubled. I was at a pizza parlor with people who new adam and ryan and their mother nancy and talked about him and some of the troubles that he had that she talked about. He was lig with miss mother, his father was remarried. His brother was in new jersey. They didnt have a lot of contact with him. Do you think is it fair to say he was perhaps incredibly isolated . Do we have enough information to know that . Just in terms of interactions with other people at all . It seems like from the reports he was fairly isolated. Even in public he was very socially inept and didnt interact much with other people. That isolation can help make insular decisions and insular understandings of what theyre going through. This kind of thing is a complicate mix of bio, psychoand social. The genetics loads the gun. The psychology and personality aims the gun and the events in their life pull the trigger. Because of all of those things coming together, its sorts of a perfect storm in this case. Now, i was talking to some friends of the families were saying this young man had been so intelligent he had graduated high school two years early. This is what they told me and theres been speculation that he had aspergers syndrome which comes with incredibly high intelligence, foms of autism. Now several studies of criminal behavior. Show that people who are autistic are no lore likely to be criminals than anyone else. Are we as people start to talk about the impacts of this disorder, are we offbase . I think first of all, in my experience, ive been involved with criminal justice for 28 years, in my experience, autism and aspergers syndrome have only entered freight a few times in that entire period of time. I dont think it is a major contributing factor. Other than the fact that it may have been something that helped to isolate him. He may have had psychological undiagnosed psychological problems, Mental Illnesses. In fact, schizophrenia most of the time shows up in late adolescence, early 20s