being voters. they will be voters very soon. some will be voters this year but others within the next couple of years. a lot of politicians were watching. none of them on that stage today. what is your message to the politicians who this demonstration was trying to reach today? sgr we we re going to vote you out. they have been relying on is the younger vote doesn t show up. the newly registered voters are the ones that don t show up in the polls. do you feel a change in that now? 100%. after i seen the amount of young people out there tonight, i think it s going be crazy this year for november. adam, in parkland today, how much of the talk was about registering to vote and voting them out which is a chorus we kept hearing today in washington.
stay there? well, i made a discussion or had a discussion with my advisor. we made the decision that it was best for me to use my skills as a journalist and my passion as an activist and someone that wants to create change to come here where the action was. we had some people stay back and report in parkland because we knew that was also important as well to talk about. i took pictures and stayed at the front. i took interviews of people that came from los angeles. people that came from newtown. i got a lot of people s stories. i walked around in the crowd on the side and met with this woman who had lost her daughter to gun
is it wasn t just the kids from parkland. it was quite a wide geographic dist distribution in recognizing there s a variety of different ways to die from guns. not just assault rifles but handguns. there were kids in chicago talking about the murder in the streets that can occur there randomly and otherwise. this seems to me today to be the event that really pulled all gun violence together and put the focus on where that violence comes from which is guns. you know i think a lot of people when they think of gun violence, they think of the mass shootings that we see so highly broadcast in the news. they think of stephen paddock with his bump stop and adam with his ar-15. they don t realize that the majority of gun deaths in america do come in hand guns and
school in parkland, 234florida. and this morning people already starting to gather. organizers estimate up to a half million, maybe more, will rally in washington today. and cnn s caylee tar hung ka joining from us parkland where many say this is what finally tipped them off, the killing of 17 people there on february 14. we can hear the music behind you. the event is scheduled to start in a few hours. but they are really putting an action behind their protest, aren t they. reporter: and people are continuing to flow in. the program set to start in about an hour and a half. but it is hard to take a few steps in pine trails park without seeing a sign like this one, ask me about voting. six organizations on site today to help people here register to vote. and you are spearheading the
going to listen to our voice, they will listen to our vote. and at the end of the day, she said it matters to them so much because they watched in horror on february 14th what happened in parkland. and as they felt for those students, dhee nthey could not internalize that they could be them as well. so that is prompting so many people to come out nep don t wa. they want to support all the parkland students who have traveled to be here in d.c. and of course we re talking about what is happening here. this is expected to be the largest of these rallies, but there are more than 800 planned around the world. here is the global map. all under the banner of march for our lives. of course this is a movement that started after the shooting on the 14th of february at parkland high school. global support this morning you re seeing dozens of people joined one of the florida shooting survivors for a demonstration as well. here is video of that.