Complex sentence: The President emotionally addresses the nation about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and orders flags to be flown at half-staff at the White House and other U.S. federal government facilities worldwide in respect for the victims.
Split into simpler sentences: The President emotionally addresses the nation about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. He orders flags to be flown at half-staff at the White House and other U.S. federal government facilities worldwide in respect for the victims.