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That. >> thank you, chris jansing in newtown. i want to bring in michael isikoff who is nbc's national investigative correspondent, and also in newtown, and what is the latest of the investigation, because we know it is ongoing and still there in the school. anything that we now know about the suspect or the motive or any of those questions? >> well, actually probably the most interesting breakthrough in terms of motive is the response to lester holt's question is any writings or e-mails found from the suspect adam lanza that would explain why he did this, and going into the question of motive...

And everybody is asking, why, why, why, and they can't understand it and they can't fathom it, and sometimes we know, or they take it to the grave. in case, the individual left nothi nothing. we can speculate and we know he is part of hate groups pshg but we have to focus on why didn't we see it more than why didn't he do it? every time this happens, somebody says, that is the person i thought might do this, but they never came forward. that is the culture we are in to know the answers to explain it away, and just from this incidental loan from what i h-- alone, we want answers, but the immedi...

S. >> well, some of the protectors are bellwethers and not panaceas. so if you have metal detectors, you can't ensure that the child is safe on the way to school and after school on the way home, and so these knee-jerk reactions that tend to happen, they put a salve on it, but there is a bigger problem. >> i agree with you, when we look at the whole idea of metal detectors it is like corporal punishment, and child x acts out, we resort to hitting the child instead of looking at the big issue, and instead of throwing the metal detectors at it, it is not the answer, itself. how do you make a chi...

amen. >> amen. >> very moving moment there. a prayer for the eight alleged victims, former defensive coordinator jerry sandusky. out of jail today on $100,000 bail. the scandal leading to penn state's first game without head coach joe paterno in 46 years. the stadium was filled with navy blue today. tears in the eyes of generations students, alumni, and fans. many of them having to reconcile their sadness over the horrific allegations against a loss of paterno from the program he ran for so long. his departure may have seemed sudden but his fate was sealed long ago by how he handled ...

>> an example of broken, self-serving government at its worst. in a state and town that can least afford it. >> i can't fathom it. it's beyond belief. it may be the first in the annals of public salaries anywhere in the country or in our history. so the real question is what were they thinking? >> exactly. what were they thinking? this story is taking on a life of its own. people turn their outrage into action in bell, california. while they struggle to make ends meet, their government leaders were getting rich at their expense. no more. cnn's ted rowlands reports. >> reporter: looking for ans...