COOPER: Tonight, we remember the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. We remember the 20 young lives cut short in their classrooms, and we remember the six school staffers, including teachers and the principal who were also killed, 26 lives taken in all, five years ago today, in one school in Newtown Connecticut. Five years on, the heart break continues, the loss still profound. It always will be. But tonight on this anniversary we want to take a moment to remember and honor those lives that had been lost, most of the victims were just six and seven years old, dancers, painters, budding readers, little sisters and big brothers. They should have celebrated their 11th or 12th birthdays this year. They should have been in sixth grade. You may recall a month after the shooting country music star Kenny Chesney performed "Amazing Grace" on this program, in tribute to all those lives taken at Sandy Hook School. Here's that performance and once again we remember.</s>KENNY CHESNEY, COUNTRY MUSIC STAR: Amazing grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me, I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see, It was grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved, how precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed, amazing grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me, I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see, I was blind but now I see.</s>COOPER: Our thoughts and prayers are with amazing grace McDonald and all the others who lost their lives at Sandy Hook and their families tonight. Thanks for watching. Time to hand things over to Don Lemon, "CNN Tonight" starts right now.
Remembering The Sandy Hook Shooting Victims.