New school blends safety and nature

The $50 million building replaces the one where 20 schoolchildren and six teachers were killed

When the children of Newtown, Connecticut, report to the new Sandy Hook Elementary School this month, they will enter a building carefully designed to protect them from the unthinkable.

The $50 million structure replaces the building that a deranged man entered on Dec 14, 2012, and mowed down 20 children and six educators with assault weapons in one of the worst mass shootings in US history.