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But we depend on our dividends to help pay our bills. we worked hard to save. well, the president and congress have got to work together to stop this dividend tax hike. before it's too late. at this hour funerals are now being held in two of the youngest victims. ann thompson and nbc's national investigative correspondent michael isokoff have been in newtown since the very beginning joining me now from connecticut. ann, first to you. talk about the families and how they've been coping and your interactions with the survivors. >> andrea, i think today i've seen one of the saddest things i've ...

There are police officers at every school today. is that more of the presence of mind for parents or students and educators alike, and how long do you think that that presence might be necessary? >> we have officers in every building across the city for the rest of the week. part of that is to give a better sense of security and safety for educators, for parents, for children, to sort of raise the flag to say that we're thinking about you, we're watching, but i have to tell you, as a matter of course throughout the year, we're always particularly when school's in session cognizant of where our...

Victim's families in the community has now been set up by the united way of western connecticut, and you can get with the sandy hook school support fund by going to the website that you see there on the screen. thanks for your time today. that's going to wrap things up for me. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. now with alex wagner comes your way with more as we cover this national tragedy. alex. >> hey, thomas. we are following developments surrounding the tragedy in newtown. we will check in with our correspondents for the latest from the community and discuss the na...

Are safe sanctuaries? i think that there's a tipping point here about sensible gun laws. i think there's a tipping point here about thinking about access and destigmaization of mental health, but, first, frankly, and i was up there yesterday, up in newtown, yesterday, there are 20 some odd funerals, 26 funerals this week, and we need to actually mourn and create a collective mourning for what has happened to that community and next then we have to actually act to keep schools safe, make sure that there's reasonable gun safety, and also do something in terms of mental health. >> let's talk for ...

>> sir, as people talk about the preplanning, what's going on in our nation's schools, what's going on in connecticut schools, a lot of people say that certainly gun advocates say that maybe this situation would be different if there was a principal like dawn or someone else that was armed in that school. do you think that some type of federal marshaling system is necessary for the elementary schools in america at this point given the rate of the types of events that we have been covering, especially given what we've now witnessed in newtown? >> i think that it really is not a way we want to l...