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.
many won t come home. and now, a big disaster. don t drink the water, don t drink about water. this has been mishandled, it is out of control in the state. and i really believe that, at the federal level, this administration has to get involved. this is a huge train development. a huge disaster. you are transporting hazardous chemical, like vinyl chloride. and nobody seems to know about it. this doesn t spell right, it is very fishy, this community has every right to be up in arms. and not trust what they are being told. vinyl chloride is a known carcinogen. it has been linked to lung cancers i believe, liver cancer. meanwhile, another thing the governor dewine has said at the press conference today was just what we re talking about. that he wasn t told that it was carrying hazardous material. salacious doesn t that moment. the strain, apparently, what
information about what had happened. how severe the contamination was. they were worried it would explode so they set their own fire to release the chemicals. so the situation has started to really escalate. they are still very uncomfortable. they re now reporting that the chickens of died. there is reports that people raising foxes have died. there s reports that the chickens have died. there s many reports of thousands of fish that have died and the creeks, the rivers, the streams. and they are scared to death. and they re still not getting answers. when they were to return home. now, 11 days later, being told don t drink the water. i don t understand, to be honest. exactly with the message from governor dewine s. let me play for you what he said in the press conference today. but i think that i d be drinking a bottle of water.
so since this is the children exposed to gun violence since columbine. in 2018, when the parkland massacre happened. there are 187,000 children who had lived through a school shooting. today, it is almost double. and 2023, there 338,000. that is just such a staggering number. i, mean that is the ripple effect, that you and i ve talked about. it is not just a big thumbs, and their families. it is all of you who carried this memory with you. right. it is a horrifying ripple effect. forgive me for this if i found angry. i have a just so frustrated at the fact that we re still in the same place. it is time for the debate that is brought us. air and it s time to spread the dialogue that will get us out of here. i just have a special message from the republicans and conservative gun owners who don t agree with me in the first place. i can respect people who don t agree with me. but i can t accept that there is nothing we can do to keep the number one thing we all