diego in solidarity with the war in ukraine. i have such a big platform online as an internet activist. so, i really wanted to think global with technology. we have a family a of a photo from kharkiv w, ukraine, who actually connected to hosts using your website and a photo of their daughter hiding in a basement while kharkiv was under attack. this is the difference that is being made. you see the contrast between this family in ukraine and finding safety. right. that photo is incredible. because three days after the family arrived. so that was incredible to see this website is, not only able to help with housing, but in a a way helped save their live said. an incredible story. do you ago how many people
focused on mental health. round table discussions for that begin tomorrow but some of the students i have spoken to on the ground, especially those who survived say they want to see more than the focus on mental health. they are inspired by what they saw in parkland and they hope santa fe, even though it s a small rural community can continue to lead this change we re seeing from young people nationwide. joe and mika? mariana, thank you so much. joe, to say this impacts kids across the country every time it happens is an understatement. i got a text from my daughter last night and she sent me a facebook post by a mother of a child in the school, diedre van ness and she entitles it the longest day of my life. and she talks about her daughter hiding in the closet and calling home as the shooter was basically killing people in the classroom right behind the door she was hiding behind and she came home covered in blood.
to call her and i found out that she was on the second floor initially and made her way up to a movie theater on the third floor and was waiting there and we were uncertain what to do. we were both trying to contact our friend outside who might have information on what was happening. letting them know where we were and finding out anything we could as far as a safe place to go. she was hiding in the movie theater. how was your child doing during all of this? did she have an idea what was going on? she is 2 years old? yes, almost 2. the first moments are kind of a blur when i picked her up and started running. i know she was definitely shocked and there was fear and she was upset, but once we made it inside of that storeroom and settled down and we were there for quite sometime, she really sort of returned to her normal self. how long were you and your daughter hiding in the
sometime, she really sort of returned to her normal self. how long were you and your daughter hiding in the storeroom? . i would say about three hours. in total. it must have been incredibly scary to not have a sense of what s going on and where the terrorists are. if somebody could be right outside the door. i would say the scariest moment was when some people started to leave about an hour 1/2 into the time there and i made it about halfway across the room. all of a sudden a wave of people came running back. at that point i had no idea if we had been discovered and somebody knew where we were. that was definitely the most terrifying moment when we were in that room. do you know why they ran back? i would assume they heard gunshots outside. they thought it was to leave and they heard there was gunshots. after three hours, the police
so he fell initially in the middle of that street, a young child running loose a midst sniper fire. watch again with me. this hero, this man here, grabs this child, swoops him up, whisks him to safety, kind of behind a bit of wall that he can find. then goes back to grab the child s stray shoe. folks, this is life in syria right now. and this is just in to us here at cnn, and you have to watch closely. this video was shot sunday in the capital city of damascus. it appears the bolster planes, they re using civilians as human shields. these men are apparently being forced at gunpoint look at them on both sides to line up behind this tank. watch what happens. they re forced to kneel and then slowly they go from kneeling to ultimately laying on the ground, and it s hard to tell because i m not sure what is happening here, but we can semen carrying arms and one can surmise those are the guys calling the shots. laying down behind a tank, not something one would expect a perso