Back to school for most in Newtown

NEWTOWN, Conn. (WTNH) -- Most students returned to classes today in Newtown, except those from Sandy Hook Elementary, where 26 students and staff were killed last week.

It started a little late. Newtown schools had a 2 hour delay, but then the buses and cars started lining up outside the high school.

First, they rolled past a display of balloons, flowers and flags by the school sign. Next they saw the police.

Officers from all over the state have come here to help protect the students, keep the peace and shoo away the reporters and photographers.

Once the students got inside, there were plans for a special assembly and grief counselors for them to talk to, all to help students try and make sense of a senseless act.

Sandy Hook Elementary, the site of Friday's violence, is the one school not open today. No one knows when or even if students will ever go back to that building.

At the Hawley Elementary School on the other side of town, they were just getting ready for kids to arrive when everything stopped and the first of the day's funeral processions drove by, escorted by officers from 10 different towns while an officer from Easton guarded the school and stood at attention the whole time.

As for Sandy Hook Elementary, there is a vacant school in nearby Monroe that crews are renovating right now with the hope that Sandy Hook students will soon have their classes there.