assistant secretary for homeland security and now a at harvard. i know yo spent a lot of time thinking about this. and you re a parent yourself. how do you explain the unexplicable to kids? answering the question of why it happened. don t do the impossible. some things are unexplainable. whatever crisis we learned over the years sort of three major things. one is don t your kids. they know what s going on. instead of talking to they will, listen. ask not directed questions like are your friend talking about this? did the teachers talk about that? elicit their response rather than giving them yours. and the sektd thing that s key is we have learned in crisis that resilient kids come from resilient parents. you want to show moving forward that your you re prepared for what s happening. and you have a grip on the situation. yelling at the tv is not a good
everybody let s slow down, let s get an understanding on this of about everybody thinks they re just going to cash in. hickenlooper opposed the legalization, here s what he told you. let s watch the interview, the governor and you. reporter: as a parent yourself, i d just be curious, if a state comes along and says it s legal, what do you think the message is to minors? oh, no. it s terrible. lots of kids. and we ve got surveys now that demonstrate this, pot s legal, how bad can it be? seen tests are very concerned. you take this high potency, intense thc and give it to a kid whose brain is still growing, that rate of growth affects things like long-term memory. that s very disconcerting. you don t have to smoke to get marijuana now. apparently it s all candy. a lot are eating it like tootsie rolls. 40% of sales now are edibles
types of situations, being able to have them happen absolutely anywhere. so certainly unexpected in this type of an area, to say the very least. anna cabrera on her way to the site of the shooting in arapahoe high school. we will check back with you in a bit. let s dip in right now to local coverage with cnn affiliate kcnc. just wanting to reunite with their child and you can understand exactly why, being a parent yourself. it s karen in the newsroom with you right now. looking at all the families out there and seeing how difficult this is, it s great to see these families now getting together with their students and they get to see them and hold them and touch them and know that their students are okay, and we are definitely going to stay on top of the one student that we know was taken to the hospital with critical injuries. we are going to hear more on that coming up. let s bring in our guests right now. cnn s own tom foreman and also,
door, it doesn t make fear it doesn t create fear. are they expensive? no. schools around america could have these relatively cheaply? i think so, yeah. how do you feel? are you a parent yourself? i have two kids in school. how do you feel about my concern about the the milli tarrizing of the educational process. i think kids should be able to go to school in an environment that is not full of fear. i also think kids need adults to protect them. with the white board idea, if the kid has to hold it um, that s traumatic enough as it is. we make all kinds of bullet resistant products for banks, government, everywhere. we ve spent the last six months fielding calls from schools ever since sandy hook. they ve been saying, what can we do. they gave us a problem. we did a lot of research and we
subtract those 30. obviously i m going to continue to get more information from the folks out here. this is all preliminary. lance, we appreciate your efforts, a parent yourself. and for those of us parents watching, it is difficult to watch, but nothing compared to those families. let s go back to adam. linda, we re at orr family farm. some people were able to make it to a basement in one of the houses here. but a lot of people had to ride out this storm inside of these horse stalls. one of those people that did this, lando, describe for me the moments that this tornado came through here and what was going on. it was all windy before the tornado came. i had no idea it was coming. just figured it was just like