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the victims revealed tonight. the hero teachers and the football coach. sacrificing their lives to shield their students from the gunfire. and our interview tonight with the survivors. the children, the students here seeing the gunman in the hallway, hiding in silence in closets. and president trump tonight, addressing the nation. what he says about mental health and the question he did not answer about guns. good evening on this thursday night. and we are here in florida, where a dark and troubling portrait has now emerged about the horror that played out here a little more than 24 hours ago. you can see the massive presence here behind me, authorities are still here on the scene of this school, the buildings from that large campus, right behind those trucks here behind us, where children piled into closets, hiding in silence, texting their parents. so many of the students telling me today that they told their parents they thought they were going to die. tonight he ....
where we need to step back and count our blessings. we are children. you guys are the adults. you can say thoughts and prayers. what we need more than that is action. what is unfathomable is jamie took a bullet and is dead. i don t know what to do next. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is new day . silt friday, february 16th. john berman is in new york. chris is off. i m here in florida. thousands of people gathered last night by candlelight vigil to remember the 17 students and teachers who were killed on wednesday behind me at the structure that you can see there in the darkness. that s marjory stoneman douglas high school. we know their identities and so much more about them. we will give you a glimpse into their lives and those lost. among those killed, 14-year-old alaina petty. she volunteered to clean up after the hurricane. she was part of helping hands at her church. nicholas dworet would have attended the uni ....
indicted 13 russians in connection with the attack on the 2016 election, president trump has been tweeting. tweeting about himself, tweeting about nascar, about oprah winfrey, tweeting about everything but the actual threat of russian meddling itself and what to do about it. he s also tweeted a whole lot of lies. tweeted about how the indictment clears him and his campaign, it doesn t. he s tweeted how it says russian meddling did not affect the election s outcome, the indictment says nothing about that. he says about the muddling, when he s even admitting there was any, that it wasn t really about getting him elected. the intelligence community says it mostly was. and the mueller indictment dos too. the president has suggested if it were not for the fbi investigating russia, last week s school shooting might have been prevented. four funerals were held today. having suggested at times there wasn t any russian meddling, the president has blamed former president obama fo ....
you know, the president said something today that hit me. you might have missed it in the remarks. the remarks where he didn t mention the word gun once and said he wanted a plan that works. what a great idea. what is the plan? anyway, what he said was this. and so always, but especially today, let us hold our loved ones close. let us pray for healing and for peace. and let us come together as one nation to wipe away the tears and strive for a much better tomorrow. i want everyone in this country to hold their loved ones close. and tonight on this show our job is to hold our president and lawmakers accountable. because that s really where the difference is going to be made. let s start with the president. he has done nothing in his presidency to stop gun violence. he talks about mental health as he did today. we are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure our schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental health. that would be much ....
we re going to begin here tonight with a live picture of a vigil that is under way tonight for the victims of the shooting yesterday at marjory stoneman douglas high school. you can see how large this vigil is already. earlier today, the suspect was taken to court. he was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder, one for each of the people killed in the valentine s day attack. today, we learned who those people were, and who they hoped to be. senior nick dworet was a swimmer planning to compete for the university of indianapolis. before his death, facebook friends wrote, we can t wait to see what you can achieve. alyssa alhadeff was a talented soccer player. her mother said, all she had to offer the world was love. friends called jaime guttenberg charismatic and lovely. her dad said, we lost our baby girl. alaina petty helped victims of hurricane irma rebuild. her family says she brought peace and joy to those that had lost everything. gina montalto volunteer ....