completely ignore the story. the story is censored on chinese media and even right now as we speak, cnn s life signal goes to color bars every time we talk about peng shuai. unreal. will ripley in hong kong, thank you for that, will. in our national lead, an instructor at a washington, d.c., school is on leave for allegedly making third graders re-enact events from the holocaust, including mass shootings. cnn s jean casarez joins us with more on this very bizarre and disturbing incident. so tell us what happened. here s what we know at this point. first of all, d.c. schools is telling cnn this was never a lesson plan. it was never something that was authorized by the school. it would not be. they are saying that it did involve third graders and it s watkins elementary school. now the washington post is saying that this actually was the library class where it occurred. and that the instructor casted