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First week, two months and months after it happened was basically false and a lot of false narratives. and you basically searched for a sort of satisfying motive that we could all understand and you couldn't really find one. i wonder based of your experience if there are lessons to keep in mind piecing together what happened here in newtown in the weeks ahead. >> sure. there are a whole lot of lessons. one thing is that the media is pretty good in getting the facts right and there's always confusion in the beginning, especially the first hours and awful things like how many people have been ki...

Students, faculty and staff and remove them to a safe area outside of the school. they did search every nook an cranny, every room and every portion of that school and accomplished that task. they took refuge to a staging area to reunite them with family members. as has been reported there were fatalities. there were 18 children pronounced dead at the school. there were two that were trance portded and pronounced dead at area hospitals and six adults pronounced dead at the school at the scene. as the governor reported, the shooter is deceased, deceased in the school. there's a great deal of wo...

And that it is at this point a fairly complex story. three scenes, one in hoboken, one here at the elementary school and getting a picture above in newtown and the other not so far away, we found out from justice correspondent pete williams about 15 or 20 minutes ago a family member of ryan lanza, the 24-year-old, the gunman, according to authorities, walked in to his mother's classroom and opened fire around 9:30 this morning. but we're told that nearby, near the school, another family member of lanza's was found dead before this. so at this point, law enforcement trying to connect the dots b...

School, were there still shots being fired at that time? >> that i don't know. i don't know the time sequence. that will be something we'll provide you. what i'd like to do -- no, we did not. what i would like to do is tell you that this is a briefing. we'll be back in 60 minutes. myself and lieutenant from newtown back and see if there's anymore detail. i have some of the questions that i have poised and see if i can get you more answers to provide you with information and just about 25, quarter to 5:00. >> was the shooter -- >> 20 children. 6 adults in the facility. plus the shooter. that's ...

Police, major crime units of western district and central district have responded and are working with several agencies to process this scene. it is not a simplistic scene as you can certainly understand. we need to establish identity, document the entire scene and simply stated, answer every single question surrounding exactly how and why this incident occurred. as the governor said, we will be here through the night and the weekend and we're not putting a time stamp on this as to when we'll complete this project. we'll work with the medical examiner's office, establish positive identificatio...