CBS Evening News - day after Sandy Hook massacre - 2012-12-15
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[0:00] In New Town, Connecticut tonight, the
[0:02] parents of 20 children prepared to bury
[0:05] them.
[0:05] >> Our goal is to get all of the children
[0:08] out to the family's funeral homes today
[0:10] if we possibly can.
[0:12] >> 20 young children and six adults gunned
[0:14] down at an elementary school.
[0:16] >> It's believed he was not voluntarily led
[0:18] into the school at all. Uh that he
[0:20] forced his way into the school. As one
[0:22] community absorbs unspeakable grief,
[0:26] >> all of our lives have changed in just
[0:29] just a few minutes. One question, who
[0:32] could do this? Is being asked coast to
[0:35] coast.
[0:39] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Jim
[0:42] Axelrod reporting tonight from New Town,
[0:44] Connecticut.
[0:47] >> Good evening. New Town, Connecticut was
[0:50] by many measures one of the safest
[0:52] communities in America. It is now the
[0:54] griefstricken home of the second
[0:56] deadliest school shooting in US history.
[0:58] 28 people are dead, including the
[1:00] shooter. Late today, Connecticut's chief
[1:02] medical examiner, Wayne Carver, reported
[1:05] that the autopsies on all the children
[1:07] are now complete. All 20 of them were
[1:09] shot more than once by 20-year-old Adam
[1:12] Lanza. Police have also released the
[1:14] names of those killed. Eight boys, 12
[1:17] girls between the ages of six and seven.
[1:20] All were first graders. Six adults at
[1:23] the school were also murdered, and
[1:25] investigators say they now have some
[1:26] very good evidence explaining what was
[1:28] behind Lanzo's rampage, though they
[1:31] haven't shared it yet. Investigators are
[1:33] still on the scene collecting evidence
[1:35] both inside and outside the school. We
[1:37] have a team of CBS news