Holding a listening session with high school students, parents and teachers affected by mass shootings. The Parkland High School shooting as well as groups representing survivors of the tragedy at is sandy hook and columbi columbine. Our team is covering all angles. And our panel is with me. But i want to begin with kaylee hartung. Set the scene for us out there. Reporter jake, more than 5,000 people have already confirmed they will be coming right here to the bb t Center Tonight to bear witness to this conversation. Were just about 15 miles from the high school where this community has the opportunity to come facetoface with their lawmakers. The spotlight will undoubtedly be on republican senator marco rubio who said in the past week that the Gun Legislation proposed wouldnt have prevented this massacre. Students have not been shy over the past weekend calling him out for his long standing relationship with the nra. Also on stage tonight, floridas democratic senator bill nelson, he sp
Also to our families here in the district of columbia that experience gun violence outside of you re schools th s thour sc impact our schools because they are our students. thank you fp. hello, i go to the friendship technology preparatory academy in the heart of southeast d.c. my condolences to every family here that experienced the shooting and all the students that experienced that. and i m here on behalf of my school and all of the friendship schools in d.c. to be able to prevent those kind of things happening in our school because in southeast d.c., we do encounter a lot of violence. and things most of the time at night, but a lot of times it is in the daytime, too. so our schools, we do take