i am alison camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. 338,000 children. that is how many american kids have been exposed to gun violence at school since the columbine tragedy. now, imagine this. you survived a school shooting in high school or two rival college and be the victim of another one. that is what happens with these three students and michigan state university, last night. i ll talk to the father of one girl during that nightmare tonight. also, parking survivor, they ve been hawn, will be here with his thoughts on the five year anniversary of that school shooting. plus, nikki haley, then perhaps in the ring for 2024 against donald trump. how will she now deal with their head spinning contradictions and positions. on trump. and ohio s governor says he will not drink the water in one part of the state. so one of the people of east palestine supposed to do? 11 days after that toxic train derailment. started spewing hazardous chemicals. erin brockovich is here tonight with us.
what a tragedy this is for everyone. being as deep in this subject matter as you are and knowing the campus as well as you do, having gone there, is there anything that could have stopped what happened last night? i think we don t really have the answer to that yet, right, because the fbi and michigan state police will do the background on this individual who did the shooting to see maybe if there were tells and science, and there were people who saw something and did not say something, which is kind of my biggest fear, of course. but i think overall, i think we have to use when we push together what everybody wants, which is the answer to the motivation for why this guy did this, looking for the motivation is really helping us to find the next shooter, before the strike, and that s why we want to continue to look for the information about why this guy did what he did, not because we can make him not do it but because we can make the next kind not do it. we don t seem to
good evening, this was already a sad and difficult day for survivors at marjory stoneman douglas high school. , 17 young people murdered five years ago today in parkland, florida. today, parkland is back the news but not as an example of how far we ve come in making such massacres a thing of the past. instead, it s a reminder that the sister and brotherhood of mass shooting victims and survivors is always growing. today s, loved ones of three michigan state university students join that number, after a gunman opened fire last night shooting eight students country them. it is near the first nor the 61st shooting this year. it. according to the gun violence archive it was a 67th mass shootings with four more people shot or killed. in fact, number 68 happened today, with four wounded outside a high school in pittsburgh. before we talk about the larger school though, here s what we know about who was killed in michigan. alexandra verner was in a junior year, and came from the s
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facing the union. we got to a different room. i was in there with five other guys and we pushed a bed in front of the door and turned the lights off and turned the police scanner on down low and waited out for the night. you re a sophomore in college. yeah. you had to do that on your campus. yeah. another deadly school shooting, this time in michigan, as we mark five years since a gunman took the lives of 14 high school students and three staff members in parkland, florida. plus, former south carolina governor nikki haley steps into the ring to challenge trump as mike pence says he plans to fight the special counsel s subpoena. and twitter, twitter whistleblower joins me to tell us what she learned at house republicans hearing on alleged liberal bias on social media. we begin tonight on this february 14th, valentine s day, to those love birds celebrating, it s also frederick douglass birthday. and sadly, it s also five years to the day since the marjorie tayl