CBS Evening News - 2012-12-17
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[0:01] Tonight, saying goodbye.
[0:04] Jack Pinto and Noah Posner, 6 years old,
[0:07] are the first of 20 first graders from
[0:09] Sandy Hook School to be laid to rest.
[0:12] Jim Axelrod is in Newtown, Connecticut.
[0:15] Bob Orr and Seth Doane have new
[0:17] developments in the investigation.
[0:20] We'll hear from an eyewitness who
[0:21] survived.
[0:22] >> I could see his his feet and his legs
[0:25] from the knees down.
[0:27] And his feet were facing in my
[0:29] direction.
[0:31] And I just froze with fear.
[0:33] >> And America's first father remembers the
[0:36] children we lost.
[0:38] >> God has called them all home.
[0:45] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Scott
[0:47] Pelley.
[0:49] Good evening.
[0:51] The funerals began today. Two of the
[0:53] children killed in Newtown, Connecticut
[0:56] on Friday have been laid to rest.
[0:58] Mourners leaving the service for
[1:00] 6-year-old Noah Posner were told to keep
[1:03] his memory in their hearts.
[1:05] But hearts are strained to breaking by
[1:08] the senseless loss.
[1:10] At makeshift memorials, parents held
[1:12] their children and tried to comprehend
[1:15] 20 first graders murdered at Sandy Hook
[1:19] Elementary School along with the six
[1:21] staff members who tried to save them.
[1:24] Tonight, we know more about how it
[1:26] happened. And we have a team of
[1:28] correspondents on this tragedy. First,
[1:31] we'll go to Jim Axelrod.
[1:33] >> At 1:00 this afternoon, the first two
[1:35] funerals began. One in Newtown, the
[1:38] other 25 miles away. Audrey Petchek
[1:41] spoke for many.
[1:42] >> You shouldn't be at a 6-year-old's
[1:44] funeral.
[1:46] I mean, this
[1:47] this is a devastating event and it
[1:49] it's heartbreaking as it is, it just
[1:51] keeps getting more heartbreaking.
[1:52] >> 6-year-old Noah Posner