taken their own lives after being relentlessly bullied. you may remember carl joseph walker-hoover. he s there on the left. he was in the sixth grade. students taunted him, saying he acted gay. he hanged himself. he was just 11 years old. jaheem herrera, also age 11, same kind of taunts. he also hanged himself. so did ryan halligan, bullied, taunted by the girls, called a loser. eric mohat bullied again and again until one day he took a gun from his father s dresser drawer and turned it on himself. all too often as we have seen parents of kids who ve been bullied find that schools don t take the problem seriously enough. here s what carl s mother said recently on capitol hill. i did everything that a parent is supposed to do. i chose a good school. i joined the pto. i went to every parent-teacher conference. i called the school regularly and i brought the bullying problem to their staff s attention. the school did not act. the teachers did not know how to respond.
jaheem herrera, same kind of taunts. he also hanged himself. so did ryan halligan, taunted by girls, called a loser. eric mohat took a gun from his fath father s dresser drawer and turned it on himself after being bullied again and again. all too often parents of kids who have been bullied find the schools don t take the problem serious enough. here is what carl s mother said on capitol hill. i did everything that a parent is supposed to do. i chose a good school. i joined the pto. i went to every parent-teacher conference. i called the school regularly and i brought the bullying problem to their staff s attention. the school did not act. the teachers did not know how to respond. right now, there s legislation making its way through congress, safe schools improvement act, defining bullying of conduct placing students in reasonable fear of physical harm, based on race, color, national origin,
program about bullying in schools. we covered the deaths of a number of kids who have actually taken their lives after being relentlessly bullied. you remember carl walker-hoover, he was just 11 years old. students taunted him, saying he acted gay. he hanged himself. jaheem herrera, same kind of taunts. he also hanged himself. so did ryan halligan, taunted by girls, called a loser. eric mohat, bullied again and again until one day he took a gun from his father s dresser drawer and turned it on himself. all too often parents of kids who have been bullied find the schools don t take the problem serious enough. here is what carl s mother said on capitol hill. i did everything that a parent is supposed to do. i chose a good school. i joined the pto. i went to every parent-teacher conference. i called the school regularly and i brought the bullying problem to their staff s attention. the school did not act. the teachers did not know how to
same kind of taunts. he also hanged himself. so did ryan halligan, bullied, taunlted by the girls, called a loser. eric mohat bullied again and again until one day he took a gun from his father s dresser drawer and turned it on himself. all too often as we have seen parents of kids who ve been bullied find that schools don t take the problem seriously enough. here s what carl s mother said recently on capitol hill. i did everything that a parent is supposed to do. i chose a good school. i joined the pto. i went to every parent-teacher conference. i called the school regularly and i brought the bullying problem to their staff s attention. the school did not act. the teachers did not know how to respond. right now, there s legislation making its way through congress, safe schools improvement act, defining bullying of conduct placing students in reasonable fear of physical harm, conduct based on race, color, national origin, disability, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
myers in a moment. take a look at this other image we ve gotten of earl from the international space station. you can see the eye there in the center, right now about 500 miles south-southeast off north carolina. there are warnings and watches up and down the east coast of the united states and north carolina, mandatory evacuations have now been ordered in several communities, including hatteras island and the outer banks, popular destination for the upcoming labor day weekend. concerned by local officials is that people will not heed the warnings because they don t think it will be a direct hit. let s bring in chad myers. 199 miles an hour, unbelievable. hurricane hunter aircraft in there called miss piggy. they re kind of all named by the mupets. it flew right through the eye. as it flew through the eye it dropped a weather balloon, but it doesn t go up, it goes down. it has to drop down. they re flying. it found a gust on the way down to 199 miles per hour. that s litera