[TRANSCRIPT] LIVE BLOG: Connecticut school shooting

Live coverage of the Connecticut school shooting as provided by the New Haven Register in New Haven, Conn.

WNBC: There will be a vigil for the victims at 7 p.m. at a church in Newtown.

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 7:45:50 PM
Less than 10 percent of school shootings in the past 30-plus years were at elementary schools: www.slate.com

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 7:46:39 PM
Interesting to see friend count dropping quickly on shooter's Facebook page. People obviously don't want to be associated & called by media.

by jimbradysp via twitter 12/14/2012 7:47:06 PM
One editor's take on the gun control debate: fromtheeditorchair.wordpress.com

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 7:50:22 PM
An interview with Ryan Lanza from four years ago: www.youtube.com

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 7:53:14 PM
Heading back to the second press conference now. Gov. Malloy's set speak with reporters at 3:30.

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 7:54:42 PM
This is just the most recent of several school shootings this year: www.thenewsherald.com

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 7:55:06 PM
RT @CNN: President Obama will make a statement about the Connecticut school massacre at 3:15 p.m. ET. Watch live on @CNN TV or t. ...

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 7:55:41 PM
The suspect's father lives in Hoboken, NJ, his mother in Newtown. Both are feared dead.

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 7:56:49 PM
Facebook postings from a different Ryan Lanza identified by some media outlets as the shooter (warning: coarse language): twitter.com

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 7:56:58 PM
RT @GHANDI_KUSH: You can't read @Ryan__Lanza tweets and tell me he wasn't going through something.

by cahlipsso via twitter 12/14/2012 7:57:10 PM
RT @piersmorgan: CBS reporting guns were purchased LEGALLY and belonged to the shooter, Ryan Lanza. #GunControlNow

by shawnwallach via twitter 12/14/2012 7:57:18 PM
RT @acarvin: CT has put out a call to other states for more medical examiners. They don't have enough of them to do all the autopsies. #newtown

by stephen_gw via twitter 12/14/2012 7:57:58 PM
RT @BreakingNews: Report: Source tells @AP the younger brother of Connecticut school shooting suspect is being held

by TheIceIsFake via twitter 12/14/2012 8:01:10 PM
WNBC: A statement from President Obama is expected at 3:15 p.m.

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:03:30 PM
RT @WesternPub: Oh great CNN and the rest are showing photos from the Facebook profile of the wrong Ryan Lanza. Nice work, guys.

by Ryan Barker via twitter 12/14/2012 8:04:34 PM
Correction: The tweets posted earlier attributed to Ryan Lanza appear to have been written by a different person with the same name.

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:06:02 PM
WNBC: An additional relative of Ryan Lanza's has been found dead in a home in Newtown, Conn. So that's his father in Hoboken, another relative in Newtown, his mother at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and additionally his brother being held by police.

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:09:18 PM
Ambulances leave Sandy Hook Elementary school earlier today after a massacre. (AP)

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:12:46 PM
RT @GovMalloyOffice: Gov. Malloy has ordered US and #CT flags to half-staff in honor of today's victims in #Newtown

by dchriste0117 via twitter 12/14/2012 8:13:22 PM
President Obama is expected to make a statement about the school shooting in the next few minutes.

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:13:50 PM
RT @NBCLA: Everyone in the kindergarten classroom where Ryan Lanza's mother taught was killed, @PeteWilliamsNBC reports. #CTshooting

by krystle_wheeler via twitter 12/14/2012 8:16:38 PM
President Obama speaking now.

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:17:10 PM
"I made it clear that he will have every resource he needs to investigate this heinous crime, care for the victims, counsel the families."

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:17:42 PM
"I know there's not a parent in America who doesn't feel the same overwhelming grief that I do. The majority of those who died today were children -- beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old."

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:18:14 PM
He has had to pause to compose himself twice.

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:18:34 PM
"Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these little children, and for the families of the adults who were lost."

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:19:02 PM
"As a country we have been through this too many times, whether it's an elementary school in Newton, or a mall in Oregon, or a temple in Wisconsin or a street corner in Chicago."

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:19:38 PM
"In the hard days to come, that community needs us to be at our best as Americans, and I will do everything that I can as president to help. ... All of us can extend a hand to those in need, to remind them that we are there for them, that we are praying for them."

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:20:42 PM
"In the words of scripture, 'heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.' "

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:20:58 PM
President Barack Obama wipes his eye as he speaks about the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Friday, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:29:14 PM
WNBC: Ryan Lanza's girlfriend and another friend are missing in New Jersey.

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:31:30 PM
RT @AP: BREAKING: Official identifies Nancy Lanza, mother of Connecticut shooting suspect Ryan Lanza, as one of those killed.

by Josefa Terrazas via twitter edited by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:32:02 PM
A neighbor told @briankoonz that the shooting suspect Ryan Lanza "struggled to be social."

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 8:32:57 PM
Malloy's here. As is Pat Llodra, Newtown's first selectman. pbs.twimg.com/media/A-GlEi2CYAAEUm-.jpg

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 8:35:52 PM
Malloy:

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 8:36:29 PM
Malloy: "Earlier today, a tragedy of unspeakable terms played itself out."

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 8:37:12 PM
So to update what we've heard so far:

Ryan Lanza killed his brother (not his father, as reported earlier) in Hoboken; his girlfriend and another friend are missing. He drove to Newtown, Conn., where he killed a relative at a home and then went to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he fired shots in the school office, then went to his mother's kindergarten classroom where he killed her and all her students. He then killed himself.

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:37:46 PM
RT @DylanByers: RT @viewofadam: Fox News reporting Ryan Lanza was NOT the shooter, but his brother Adam was and is dead; Ryan taken into custody.

by SPEEDPR1 via twitter 12/14/2012 8:38:38 PM
"Earlier today a number of our beautiful children are dead," Malloy said. pbs.twimg.com/media/A-Gl4_4CAAA1Dx5.jpg

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 8:39:27 PM
Malloy did mention that the shooting suspect and "an individual he lived with" are dead. Vance is about to speak.

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 8:40:00 PM
Lt. Vance now speaking to reporters again.

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:40:06 PM
"There's a lot of things we cannot confirm or discuss as of yet."

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:40:34 PM
Vance: 18 children dead at the school. Two more taken to area hospitals, where they were pronounced dead.

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 8:41:30 PM
"It is not a simplistic scene as you certainly understand. ... we are not even putting a timestamp on this as to when we will complete this project."

by chhopkins 12/14/2012 8:42:42 PM