hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom, and i m rosemary church. just ahead, america s school shooting epidemic. vigils held for the victims of the michigan state university shooting, as the country marks five years since the massacre at a high school in parkland, florida. we will hear from survivors of both tragedies. a new report says thousands of ukrainian children have been held in russian camps to be reeducated, militarily trained, and even forcibly adopted. and as the death toll in the turkey/syria earthquake continues to rise, images of rescue teams finding survivors under the rubble offer a glimmer of hope. we ll have a live report from istanbul. live from cnn center, this cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. well, investigators say the gunman who killed three students at michigan state university was likely planning more shootings. they found a
problem, yeah. you know, you ll feel much more pressure. you feel the world closing in on you, but we ll be able to finish in time. these kids have been staring at computer screens for 24 hours, and they re starting to develop some interesting projects. did you just come up with this idea here? yeah. seriously? yep. i m blown away, and i just can t believe that at all hours of the day and night, these kids are here working. there s something about the supportive environment and the energy here. i think it s just that a lot of these people haven t built something before, but when you re in a room, and you see a thousand other people building stuff, of course you can do it. twenty-two-year-old dave fontenot is one of the founders of the student hackathon movement. when did this culture sort of evolve? let s see. about 3 1/2 years ago now, i heard about this hackathon in ann arbor. there was about 50 people, and it was really, really awesome, and at the end of that we
facilities or camps whose primary purpose they say is the political re-education of these children, exposing them to patriotic, culture sort of russia-centric dealer, and even identified two cases of a specific military education, even training children on how to use firearms. take a listen to what the state department spokesperson ned price had to say about this. the network of facilities which these children are sent is vast, spanning from russia occupied crimea, across russia itself, from the black sea region to its far east. putin seeks to rob ukraine of its future by taking its children. russia s system of forced row location, education is an element of the kremlin s systematic efforts to deny ow crane s history, identity and culture. the unlawful relocation or transfer or deportation of
today marks one year since syria s uprising began with a day of rage. it is clear the rage has not let up. we re keeping an eye, too, on afghanistan. defense secretary leon panetta just met with president hamid karzai as the u.s. soldier who is a kutsed of slaughtering 16 people is moved from the country. the washington monument is sinking. it s sunk a fraction of an inch since the quake hit last august. today the circus ends and the prison sentence begins. former governor rob blagojevich has left illinois and might not be back for quite some time. he s on his way right now to a federal prison in colorado to start his 14-year sentence. he was convicted last summer of corruption. zoraida zsambolin is with us. my pleasure. zoraida, his going away thing was kind of like he was a rock star rather than a corrupt politician. why is that? as i was watching it this morning, i thought the exact same thing. this guy still does what he does best, right? he has this rock star