I want to start first by thinking everyone for being here. We are all here to discuss a moment in Howard University history, and a lot of you were here in the our zoom tonight, were direct participants in that moment so we invite you to use the chat in the q a to share reflections as we engage in dialogue. After our dialogue well take questions from now. And then finally this is being simulcast via youtube so share the link and those who may not be able to join us here can also view the program. April r. Silver commented that there are two howards. But she left it there. Almost as if to signify that what is known aint got to be reminded me of the famous score activist and former dean, kelly millers statement in the 1916 Howard University yearbook, quote, those who feel it know. Theres a howard hidden from view that nevertheless comes to the surface often and forcefully because it represents an alternative black political culture to use the word odd cedrick robinson. The culture that xi
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And the acts of bravery and self sacrifice in that school that saved untold lives. This special edition of nightline, Deadly School rampage, will be right back. Hey hun. Look at all this extra room i have on this king size ikea bed. Are you wearing a. Duvet cover . Why yes. Yes i am. Wheres mom . We finally redid our bedroom and shes prettttttttttty into it. Whats your dream . At ikea, we help you live it. Make the dream yours. There are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. Hey hun. Look at all this extra room i have on this king size ikea bed. Are you wearing a. Duvet cover . Why yes. Yes i am. Wheres mom . We finally redid our bedroom and shes prettttttttttty into it. Whats your dream . At ikea, we help you live it. Make the dream yours. Good evening. New diagram tick details emerging from inside the Florida High School shooting that shattered so many lives. The students who were trapped in the nightmar
And the warning signs from neighbors. The names and the faces of 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 they told their parents they th
Weapon and then blending in with students to escape. He then stopped for a drink at a subway and went to a mcdonalds before he was arrested by an officer who saw him walking on a road a mile and a half from school. More now from phil keating in parkland. He. Reporter he faced a florida magistrate this afternoon 24 hours after allegedly shooting and killing 17 boys, girls and faculty at the high school that expelled him last year. Cruz is charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and will remain held in Broward County custody. Unlike other mass shooters who took their own lives, investigators say he tried to escape putting down his Assault Rifle and blending in with fleeing students from Marjory Stoneman douglas high school. S. W. A. T. Teams, police and deputies cleared out each classroom one by one rescues terrified students and teachers who barricaded themselves and hid in a closet. Today is not easy. Ought victims families have been notified. Reporter the fbi confirmed it was al