this 16-year-old student, marian sanchez was stabbed and killed by another 16-year-old student. the boy stabbed her after she refused to go to the junior prom with him scheduled for tonight. lauren victory is in connecticut with the story tonight, lauren? >> reporter: megyn, tonight was supposed to be the victim's junior prom, a night filled with fun, dancing and music but instead, we're just back from a very solum, somber vigil where hundreds of students and community members gathered to remember marian sanchez killed in the hallways behind me. it started around 7:15 this morning. police say that's when a 16-year-old student approached her in a hallway or stair way and stabbed her repeatedly. she had wounds, police say, to her face, neck, and chest, and she was pronounced dead less than a half hour later after she was attacked. now, staff members detained the 16-year-old boy, they say that did that attacking. he was charged tonight with murder as a juvenile. we did hear that students were sent home shortly after this attack while police processed the scene. they didn't clear it

this was supposed to be one to have the happiest nights of marian sanchez's young life. like so many other teenagers, this time of year, she was looking forward to going to her prom tonight. with that oldest of high school traditions childed head on with a new and all-too-familiar school reality-- violence. maren was stabbed to death today, allegedly by a classmate, in a high school in milford, connecticut. vinita nair is there. >> reporter: the attack happened just after 7:00 a.m. as students were headed to first period class. the victim was in the hallway near a stairwell at jonathan law high school in milford, connecticut, when she was allegedly attacked with a kitchen knife. milford police chief keith mello: >> a member of the school staff witnessed a portion of the assault, and she along with other members of the school staff, discovered the victim to have life-threatening injuries. >> reporter: 16-year-old maren sanchez died from those injuries which included a stab to the neck. she was an honor student, class president, and member of the tennis team. she also love

there's new video of the victim, 16-year-old marian sanchez. on friday she was stabbed to death inside her high school, just twelve hours before the junior prom she had helped plan. police believe the suspect targeted sanchez after she declined to be his date. >> he asked her to prom and she said no because she had a new boyfriend. he just got really mad about it. >> very shocked. unreal still. >> the prom was postponed and instead students dressed up and went to a memorial service. they released balloons in her favorite color, purple. >>> investigators in illinois say a natural gas leak maybe what ignited friday night and destroyed one home and damaged dozens of others in long grove, about 35 miles from chicago. officials state homeowner manage to escape just in time. no one was seriously injured. officials say it could be months before they know the cause of that accident. but a gas leak was reportedly being investigated at the time of the explosion. >>> this morning a man is recovering after having his hand severed by an airplane while he wa

. >>> tonight, there is a memorial to remember marian sanchez, and he is not going to be there, becausendergoing psychiatric attention. >>> and we have video showing the exact moment that the captain fled on to tto a boat i sweater and underwear on to a life raft. there are still 144 still missing. ey >>> sarah palin has endorsed more than a dozen candidates and this weekend, she went into the iowa senate race, and gloves in, and gloves off, she endorsed joni ernst in a crowded field to replace tom harkin. >> are you ready to send your reinforcement? and that is joni ernst for the united states senate. and she grew up castrating hogs and she will know just how to make the big spending piggies there squeal. she is not one who will be told to sit down, and shut up, and sit in the corner and let the good old boys do what they have been doing in the recent years. >> let's go to casey who was there in the haul when this endorsement happened. and so go behind the scenes and tell us how the crowd reacted to the former vice presidential candidate. >> well sh, i have spent time w palin and seen