Connecticut elementary school SHOOTING

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We have endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years, and each time I learn the news, I react not as a president, but as anybody else would, as a parent. And that was especially true today.

CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: President Obama speaking last Friday about a shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. We`re going to be focusing exclusively on that story today. 

There are a lot of questions about what happened on Friday. Right now, there aren`t very many answers. As people struggle to understand this tragedy, they are mourning the victims who lost their lives and looking for ways to honor those victims and support their families. 

President Obama ordered the flag at the U.S. Capitol building and at all U.S. Government buildings to be lowered to half-staff on Friday. Governors across the country asked for flags in their states to be lowered as well. Messages of sympathy for the shooting victims came in from all over the world. A lot of people shared similar thoughts on social media. 

In the community of Newtown where this happened, services and candle-light vigils like this one had been going on since Friday night. There has been an emotional reaction to the shooting, as you might expect, and you could see some of that emotion from President Obama when he talked about it on Friday.