late this evening, students looking for action after the massacre have been arriving in tallahassee. rich edson joins us now from florida state capital. good evening. they arrived in their state capital city to the applause of hundreds of students, teachers, and folks here in this community who welcomed them to what is leon high school. this is in tallahassee, florida, about a mile away from the state legislature here and the local students here have welcomed those from parkland, florida, who boarded three buses this afternoon, took the nearly seven hour drive up your and now those students from parkland are meeting with students here in tallahassee. they are talking their legislative strategy for tomorrow. they re having dinner. they want to push their lawmakers here for stronger gun control measures. as one girl got off the bus here from parkland, florida, she was overcome with emotion, said she felt like crying with all of the applause and the greeting she got here from the local
people have showed up pay memorial to 17 victims. about 100 students were absent because they have taken it to the florida state capital. marjory high school heading to the capital. message with never again. representing the past and future. they are the past and we are the future rebellion group hopes to pressure lawmakers stricker gun laws. something that hasn t been done after previous school shootings. our message is that at this point for the politicians if you aren t with us, you are against us. we are trying to save the lives of innocent children. so if you are not for that, then we are going to vote you out. reporter: this as new details about the shooter nikolas cruz continue to emerge. the florida couple took in cruz knew the teen owned several guns
victims are happening today. three of those being laid to rest today were rotccadets. medal of heroism will be awarded to alaina petty, peter wang and martin duque anguiano. while this tragedy ended the lives of 17 students and teachers, it created a new core of activists. bus loads of students who survived the shooting are on their way to the capital of florida to challenge their state lawmakers to take some sort of action on gun safety. diane gallagher is on board one of those buses. so, diane, tell me what these teenagers tell me had an they want specifically. reporter: so, yeah, we re en route right now. we ve been traveling for not so long yet. we re on the florida turnpike, heading into our seven-hour journey to tallahassee, because
haven t felt. demanding changes to the gun laws. more than 100 teens staging a lie-in outside the white house on presidents day. an effort to pressure lawmakers to toughen gun regulation. 100 students will board buses from parkland to the florida state capital to speak to state lawmakers tomorrow. students in florida rallying and promising to take their message to washington. this is simply a matter of are you with us or are you against us? are you for taking steps to save us or are you for taking nra blood money? we are not letting the united states be run by that terrorist organization. my friends and i, my community and i have stared down the barrel of the ar-15 the way you have not. we have seen the weapon of war mow down people we know and love the way you have not. how dare you tell us we don t know what we re talking about. you have no idea what you are
angry. we want to know why. top of the hour. you re watching cnn. i m brooke baldwin. first white house briefing in a week is supposed to start any moment. that was the word, at least, an hour ago. we ll see how this plays out, as officials must now answer for a mountain of issues, outcry for gun reform in this country, not just from democrats or left-wing activists but from the students themselves who survived this terror at douglas last week. down in parkland, florida. they boreded these buses and are en route to tallahassee to talk to lawmakers tomorrow. and first briefing since russians were indicted. since white house security clearance rules came out in the wake of accused spousal abuser rob porter and the first briefing since a second woman reportedly revealed she had an affair with the president before he took office and the first briefing since the president s