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Give a little perspective to exactly what happened here today. and for all of us to take a moment to think about what it must have been like to be here early this morning. you described a scene where little children are told to close their eyes and hold hands and leave a school where they have scene their friends, maybe their teachers get shot. and they were brought here to this volunteer fire department behind me in this bucolic town in new england. it's a place where tonight they were expecting to sell christmas trees. and you could not but help be struck when you drove into town that all th...

Upper left of that label is that firehouse, and that is where robert has been going live, reporting live for us this morning, and then you see the long driveway, the white building -- the firehouse -- the long driveway leading into that school, and that's where police are swarming. >> reporter: police are efforting to have a news conference, 1:00. we understand they're going about two miles away, and they realize that the public is certainly wanting to know as much as possible, especially parents. a reverse 911 call has already gone out to the residents of newtown informing them of this school...

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But in terms of the reverse 911 call, do you have any details on how that happened, that we know that the first 911 call was made at about 9:40, 9:41. the school then seemed to alert students who might still be home or were not yet at school or their parents about what was happening. do we have any more details on that? >> no. you know, that's been a very -- that's been a very good system for the schools, for colleges to be able for parents to subscribe to that service to let everyone know. in america we have about 285 million guns, so the gun problem that's not going away, but today in china ...

That we need to independently confirm before we report to you. so there are a lot of rumors out there about what's going on here. so the reason we put lieutenant vance on the line is to get a true view of what's going on there at that school right now. we have learned that a reverse 911 call went out from the newtown public schools, to at least the parents of sandy hook elementary school, if not the entire district, went out to parents apprising them of what's going on at this moment. but because it's so new and so fresh, we want to make sure that police give us the proper information, we don'...