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.
viewers joining us here in united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom. and i m rosemary church. just ahead, students demand action on guns in the wake of the michigan state university shooting. we ll discuss what needs to be done to prevent the tragedies we re seeing all too often in america schools. former south carolina governor nikki haley throws her hat in the 2024 presidential reign. but she will likely face some stiff competition in the republican primary. and as the death toll in the turkey syria quake continues to rise, images of rescue teams find a survivors under the rubble offer a glimmer of hope. we begin this hour in east lansing michigan. the community is mourning three college students killed in a mass shooting and praying for five others still in the hospital. we have new video showing students at michigan state university hiding from the gunman in the classroom. it s stupid. they already evacuated the other room. [screaming] get
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
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
caution it s. ron klain having work to the judiciary committee with joe biden when he was chairman and the business of confirming those judges. ron klein told me about is last week of working for the white house that he s their underway fulfilling every vacancy in the federal courts. they might get to a point this year where they re sitting there with no vacancies. wow! that s just an astonishing accomplishment. at a time when it is abundantly clear how very important the judiciary is to be functioning democracy. exactly. we are joined tonight by harvard law officer professor laurence tribe to consider of among other things mike pence s novel to put it kindly, novel notion about why he should testify before a grand jury. novel is one way putting it or, it s account wait to see. it thanks. alex thank you. well the breaking news of the night is that special prosecutor jeff jack smith has invoked the crime fraud exception in a motion to force one of donald trump