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usa! usa! usa! >> stop the steal! >> look at the similarities there, one side the government under attack in the u.s. the other side, the government under attack in brazil. good morning, everyone. it is striking, isn't it? >> it's crazy to see how similar they are and look at the roots of it as well. >> and why. >> it is echos of january 6th as protesters storm the brazilian capital over election lies and conspiracies. we'll take you there live straight ahead. right now two hospitals in new york city bracing for a strike after no agreement was reached between the hospitals and the nurses' unions what the nurses are asking for and the impact on patients, even babies. we'll take you outside one of the hospitals. this is story book! an opening kickoff return for damar hamlin! and this place -- >> that incredible moment last
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night. all this going on as buffalo bill's safety damar hamlin is on the road to recovery this morning as that team clinched the victory in his honor. >> you could not have scripted that. >> that's awesome. >> first we have to get to this. democracy under attack. this time it is brazil. >> so supporters of brazil's former president, storming the seat of government, the capital rioters insisting that bolsonaro was ousted in a rigged election. sound familiar. this morning, at least 400 people are under arrest. comes a week after president lula da silva was inaugurated. he is vowing to punish those responsible for the attacks.
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>> cnn's brazil report zero going to join us -- there he is right now. live from brazil outside a police station where some rioters were first taken. pe pedro, good morning to you, we appreciate you joining us. please tell us what you know at this hour. >> reporter: hello, good morning, everyone. good morning to you. we're now in front of the police complex where most of the rioters were brought yesterday and from here they will be taken the a larger pen ten chair complex outside the city. so as you've described before, hun hundreds of those people were arrested yesterday after storming the three main government buildings in brazil, the congressional palace, the presidential palace and the supreme court. the destruction was huge. so we have rioters leaving
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behind a trail of destruction, including glass windows broken, works of art damaged and stolen, even works of art and looted weapons from the presidential palace. inside the congress building, the floor was flooded due to the sprinkler system being activated after an attempt to put fire to the carpet. at the supreme court, the chairs of the ministers were cracked and broke off the building. so that was the situation at the supreme court. at least ten journalists were beaten or mugged during this demonstration. supreme court also ordered the governor of brasilia to be temporarily removed from office. they understand they did not enough to stop the situation. local authorities knew a lot of this information before, so they knew a lot of protesters were coming to brasilia in a hundred
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buses driving here over the weekend and they did not do enough to stop the situation. lula da silva will spend the day having meetings with supreme court justices and state governors to stop the situation. back to you, don. >> we appreciate your reporting. thank you. the similarities to january 6th don't just stop with the images of what you're seeing today. steve bannon is one of trump's allies, he has acknowledged that he advised bolsonaro as he was pushing the misinformation surrounding this election back in november. >> lock in the streets of brazil. look at the great patriots of brazil that, at a lot of danger to themselves, have come forward. in the streets of brazil this is the people saying no, you didn't follow the constitution. you used the machines, the judiciary to shut us down in the
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media and we're not going to tolerate it. it's going to be interesting to see how it plays out. >> we're seeing how it plays out now. john avlon is here to discuss. it wasn't just steve bannon who's been advicing him. jason miller was part of the conversations. bolsonaro is in florida right now, we should note. what has stood out to you about the takeaways and the similarities between what happened after the election and now what we're seeing play out? >> the echos are unmistakable -- >> it's not even echos, right? >> mark twain said history doesn't repeat but sometimes it rhymes. this is a close rhyme. because people fanning the flames in the u.s. are the trumpest wing of the crew fanning the flames around the stop the steal movement, not just steve bannon as you say. there's been a move to deny the legitimacy of this election from some of trump's former advisers saying do not concede.
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you have a slightly delayed reaction but a direct attack on the capital by a mob and it speaks to the fact that democracy being under assault is not over. and some of the people using social media to encourage these sorts of mob attacks are some of the people who, from these self-styled populist national movement they seek to make national. >> there was a great piece republished this morning in "the new york times" from months ago that just walked through the months and years of lies about election fraud that bolsonaro made and continues to make that led to this, lead to this, the parallels are so striking with the months and years of lies that continue on now. the question beyond what we saw happen in brazil. those lies from those leaders continue. >> that's -- >> so then what? >> i think it's highlights the fact there is a struggle between disinformation and democracy. and disinformation can create
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real world impacts. the role of bot ts in brazil spreading misinformation but also being done here in the united states by some of former president trump's closest adv advisers. that speaks to the fact that the disinformation flow around the world is international. >> do you remember because we lived this -- >> yes. >> -- we all lived this. people would say why do you keep covering january 6th? why are you trying to divide the country? no. there was an attack on the democracy, this is important. this should be the lead story every night on every news broadcast until people realize. and then huh the voices on the conservative side or lack of voices, not calling this out or criticizing the news media for reporting on this. this is what happens when you allow authoritarian type of behavior from leaders. this is what happens when you allow misinformation -- >> proliferate.
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>> look i think that is exactly right. this is a real-world impact two years delayed in another country. it shows this is not academic. until there's accountable and we get better combatting disinformation consistent with our liberal values not only here but abroad, these things will continue to cur. the fact it's the same players spreading the same misinformation and lies, having the same real world effect should be the same wake up call to us all. >> we'll see what republicans say about this. democrats want them to weigh in and condemn what's happening in brazil. also, the u.s. ambassador to brazil is getting sworn in today at 3:45. thank you for laying out what's important here. it has global impacts. >> this has been top of mind for you for years for the last two years. thank you, don. appreciate it.
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this morning the president, president biden is waking up in mexico facing some criticism including from members of his own party after his first visit to the border since taking office. it was a controlled visit to el paso, texas, it included meetings with local pord border patrol agents and local officials, but president biden did not see any migrants there, including visiting an aid center, there were no migrants there at the time, the white house saying it was a coincidence. but our reporting showing there were and are hundreds of migrants on the streets of el paso, including children. rosa flores joins us live from el paso this morning. and that's your reporting, the migrants were there, the president didn't interact with any of them? >> reporter: no, he did not. that's why the president is being criticized by both sides because of what he didn't see. so let me show you. this is one of the migrant camps
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here in downtown el paso. you know, the immigration advocates here in el paso and governor greg abbott usually don't agree on much but they do raise the same question. if president biden came here to el paso to see the reality on the ground about the border and didn't come here, what's considered the epicenter of this crisis, did he leave with a clear understanding? she wants to be a teacher. these sisters have been living in this makeshift migrant camp outside an el paso church for a week. she wants to be repunzal. playing with toys is a luxury they haven't enjoyed since leaving venezuela four months ago, according to their dad. he said he decided to come to the united states because of the economic situation in venezuela because there's no education really for his daughters. they are among the hundreds of
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migrants who call the streets of el paso home. arguably the epicenter of the current border crisis. a scene president joe biden skipped during his first visit to the border. a short 3-hour stop in el paso that prompted criticism by the governor of texas. >> this is nothing but for show. >> reporter: and protests by local immigration and human rights advocates. like fernando garcia. >> you think this is a photo op for the president? >> in three hours what can you do with that? >> reporter: outrage over policies like the trump era pandemic public health rule known as title 42 says garcia. that rule allows border agents to swiftly expel migrants to mexico. biden said this about the policy. i don't like title 42.
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>> reporter: just days ago he expanded to cubans, haitians, venezuelans and nicaraguans. during his visit, biden stopped by a port of entry, a migrant respite center and by the border wall but didn't appear to see or meet any migrants, which garcia says the president was not exposed to the full magnitude of the immigration crisis. >> three hours. >> reporter: is that enough? >> no. obviously not enough. >> reporter: the timing of the president's visit is also raising eyebrows because the situation here as improved. this is what it looked like in mid december when hundreds of migrants were lining up in freezing temperatures waiting to turn themselves in to immigration authorities. at the time border patrol said they were encountering about
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2,500 migrants per day. now look, the lines are gone and the symbol of deterrence is the texas national guard and the fencing they put up, according to dhs, the number of migrant encounters has decreased to 700 per day. the sisters' favorite toy, a tablet to learn numbers and the english alphabet. their dream, learning to speak english. what would you tell the president? >> he says his message to the president is that not all migrants are bad. most of the migrants are like him, he's a father, he's here with his children and they're just here for a better life. >> reporter: now they're sleeping inside the shelter here at the church, they're allowed to. some of the families are now. back to president biden, my colleague mj lee asked the white house about the president not
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interacting or meeting with any migrants and a senior administration official told her there were no migrants at the respite center at the time the president visited, and it was coincidental. but i checked the dash board the city of el paso has. and at the time the president was here, there were really 1,000 migrants in federal detention so if the president wanted to see conditions, i doubt that the president of the united states would have been denied access. >> it's remarkable what we're seeing behind you. those are migrants sleeping on the street of el paso. right? >> reporter: you're absolutely right. we've seen this for weeks. if the president would have stopped by here, he would have seen there are hundreds of people. you see them here behind me. hundreds of people living in the streets of america, i should highlight. this is a city in america, in the united states. and the top executive of this country came here, he did not come to see this. >> we're glad you're there and
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continue to be there to show it to us. thank you for the reporting we'll be joined next hour by the mayor of el paso. i want to turn to the remarkable recover of bills safety damar hamlin. players and teams around the league honored him before sunday's games, wearing t-shirts that said love for damar with his number three front and center. so before the denver broncos and los angeles chargers kicked off, rustle williams and james who share the number met at midfield. jets rookie, sauce gardner, wore hamlin's jersey during pre-game war warmup. and rodney thomas honored the bill's safety after his interception. the bill's quarterback josh al allen wore this sweater shirt
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saying this, if you get a chance to show love today, do it. it won't cost you nothing. then said this to his teammates. >> don't play for the name on the black, play for the name on the front. it's special to get it done. >> the bills took to the field carrying flags with number three as thousands cheered on in s support. if that wasn't enough. the bills scored on the first play. i want to see that. of that game returning the game's kickoff 96 yards for the touchdown as their teammate cheered from his hospital bed. kaitlan. >> such a cool moment to see. a source tells cnn a hamlin is making progress. he is expected to be released from the senate hospital he's been in the coming days. his teammates say they'll feel more relieved once he's actually home. >> it was extremely hard. i don't want to like sugar coat it. it was extremely hard and it
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still is. because our brother is still not physically here. but the fact that he's in high spirits makes him here. until he physically touches his toes down, then it'll be a full, you know. but it's -- it's a crazy balance. >> the cincinnati bengals honored the medical team who treated hamlin on the field ahead of their game on sunday. joining us now to talk about this is dr. jonathan reiner, a cnn medical analyst. you're the perfect person to offer perspective on this. i wonder, doctor, this morning how do you read the update we're getting on damar hamlin? >> he's had the best possible outcome. and i love what the bills did yesterday in honoring the on field staff because the most important factor in damar's survival was the prehospital
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care he got. enormous admiration for my colleagues at the university of cincinnati but none of the care they provided for damar would have been possible without the effort of the onfield staff in cincinnati. so kudos to them. >> i was struck by your note that the survival rate -- we don't know the full diagnosis, maybe know more soon that survival rate is 50%. not only did he survive, he's up, live tweeting the game. what does that tell you about full recovery and maybe playing again in the nfl? >> that's up to him. >> but the ability to i mean, doctor. >> sure, of course. i think he should fully recover. the most critical organ to recover obviously is the brain. the brain is the least forgiving organ for moments of lack of oxygen. and when you see somebody who is completely neurologically intact
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following an out of hospital following an arrest, you know the arrest of their organs and the rest of their physical being will fully recover. he was on a ventilator for two days, he's been in an icu for almost a week. even though he's an incredibly well trained 24-year-old athlete that takes a toll. so he'll need some physical therapy, need time to recover not just physically but emotionally. i would expect from everything we know, she should fully recover. >> would you advice him to go back? obviously it's his decision. what would you advise your patient to do. >> depends on if he has any underlying structural heart disease. it does appear that he arrested seconds after taking that blow to the chest. if this is what this was, this incredibly unusual but well described phenomenon, which can happen in people with normal
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hearts he'll have that decision to make. if you look at the american heart association recommendations for athletes who survive an episode of this, the recommendations do suggest that athletes can go back to competitive sports. but again, this is -- he'll have to, you know, dig down deep and think about what he wants to do going forward. we heard that two nights after his arrest when he started to wake up, when he asked a question, he asked who won. we know who won, damar hamlin won. >> he did. >> a question, though, and a big one to wrestle with with what he'll do next. >> yes. >> doctor, thank you. we're glad to hear the updates, thank you for breaking it down for us. >> my pleasure. look at the impact he's had the last week, his fund-raising, charities. >> i was not that thoughtful at
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24. look at kwhat he's done, raised $8 million for these kids. >> poppy, i can't remember 24. >> i barely can. >> doctor, thank you. coming up, prince harry detailing more on the royal family feud and defending his wife in a new interview. also what he long believed about the death of his mother, princess diana. plus this. it gets s in between teeth to destroy 5x more plaque above the gumline than floss. for a a cleaner, healthier mout. listerine. feel the whoa! hi, susan. honey. yeah. i respect that. but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerful cough relief you need. mind if i root through your trash? robituin. the only brand with real hoyand elderberry. (vo) with verizon, you can now get a private 5g network. so you can do more than connect your business, you can make it even smarter. now ports can know where every piece of cargo is. and where it's going. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) robots can predict breakdowns
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that and the paycheck. in his first interview for american audiences, prince harry opens up to anderson cooper about his memoir "spare" a nod to his position of his succession after his brother, the true heir. he talks about the trauma of losing his mother, to turning to hard drugs and alcohol for relief, to where he stands with his family now. >> william tried to talk to you occasionally about your mom but as a child you couldn't respond? >> for me, it was never a case of i don't want to talk about it with you. i just don't know how to talk
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about it. i never ever thought that maybe talking about it with my brother or anybody else at that point would be therapeutic. >> you didn't believe she was dead? >> for a long time i just refused to accept that she was gone. part of, you know, she would never do this to us but also part of maybe this is all part of a plan. >> you really believe that maybe she had just decided to disappear for a time. >> for a time and she would call us and we'd go join her. i had a lot of anger inside of me that luckily i never expressed to anybody but i resulted to drinking heavily because i wanted to numb the feeling or i wanted to distract myself from whatever i was thinking, and i would resort to drugs as well. and the press was like he's changed she must be a witch. he's changed. as opposed to to, yeah, i did change and i'm glad i changed.
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because rather than getting drunk, falling out of clubs, taking drugs, i had found the love of my life and i have the opportunity to start a family with her. >> do you speak to william now? do you text? >> currently no. but i look forward to -- i look forward to us being able to find peace. >> how long has it been since you spoke? >> a while. >> do you speak to your dad? >> we haven't spoken for quite a while. not recently. >> can you see a day when you would return as a full-time member of the royal family? >> no, i can't see that happening. >> and that i think is the really, really important thing. i don't ever see that happening. let's discuss, trisha godder and zain asher. good morning. good morning. i think that's really --
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>> that's sad. >> that's the crux of it. i don't ever see being a member of the royal family which means can that rift after all that -- >> i don't think he saw himself as a member of the royal family for quite some time, he talked about going to afghanistan and separating himself. and i think one thing this shows it wasn't all about meghan. there was this competition, this tension going all the way back. and it's not unusual to see in a family when you have very early trauma, losing your mother so suddenly at the peak of her life -- >> were you shocked by the revelations? >> not really shocked but not surprised. if he wasn't a royal. it would be the average life of something going through trauma. but i don't think -- i always saw all of this other stuff as a distraction. this is about prince harry's scream into the night about certain sections of the tabloid mead ya and the relationship they have with the royals. that to me is the underline
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major here. >> what we have watched unfold over the past week, not just the interview last night but the past week with the revelations from the book, it's the dy sint gags of a family. this family is in tatters. harry is trying to explain that the tabloids have fed off this family for decades and had's trying to say, there's virtually nothing left. the part that made me sick to my stomach is when he talked about the fact that that night when princess diana died in that tunnel in paris, there were paparazzi there, which we know, and after the car crashed in the tunnel, instead of going to help her, they instead took photographs, which is inhumane if not criminal. >> and also that the last thing she would have seen is the flash of a flashbulb. that to me was visceral. >> and on top of that, there is no trust in this family.
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can you imagine not trusting a single member of your own family to the point where there's no such thing as a private conversation. any conversation you have with your brother or your step mum or your dad, in the back of your mind you're thinking, could this be on the front pages of the tabloids tomorrow? >> you know what it's like? i talked to a woman who does trauma counseling with companies. she said this is a business when he talks about the firm, it's like when you've got somebody who's going to inherit the family business and all the money and the games they play. it's more like succession if you like than an average family because it's more than a family, it's a business, a firm, there's an image to be held. when you've got a part of the tabloid media that's become a gossip rag, basically, it's like, i don't know like tony
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soprano, play the game we'll be nice to you, if you don't we'll take you down. >> that's your tony soprano? >> it is. >> thank you. >> i thought it was quite good. >> but you know, it's that whole thing if you're nice to us we'll be nice to you. if you don't give us everything we'll take you down. if your women come and don't play the game we'll talk about their clothing, how they don't fit in, as one journalist called it as they're uppity. but they're acting like the mob. i'm not anti-tabloid, i'm pro-robust journalism and a lot of what these newspapers are doing has nothing to do with journalism. >> in addition to that i was struck by where he weighed in on his relationship with his brother. i think so many people rely on their siblings and they had the shared experience today. he was talking about how the problems with his brother date back to when he was in school and he was excited to be in school with him and william was
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like we don't know each other. >> we're learning there's a lot more perhaps to prince william than meets the eye. prince william has been portrayed one way the past 20 years, the golden year. i remember when everybody talked about the idea of maybe the monarchy could skip charles and go straight to william. he was beloved. now we're learning williams is a more complex character. i found it interesting when he talked about meghan and what made me sad is meghan markle did not stand a chance in the family. she did not stand a chance. i think for generations people within the british royal family chose to marry people right for the job, members of the nobility, upper class. >> she was an american actress. >> yes. >> when i told friends i married an american, it was like -- there was snobbery. >> this is a conversation that
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trisha and i have been having since the wedding. >> since the wedding! >> i know we have to go, but since you talked about the british tabloids. i could say 400 positive things about meghan and harry. >> out of this interview? >> yes. i will say of course it's their story to tell but let me say this. i think what meghan does on her podcast, she brings to life this, it's important but i'm surprised this. they pick up the surprised part. >> don lemon outraged? >> no. in person i quite like them. i think they're very dynamic. i think they're more interesting than kate and william. >> that's the headline. >> they are more interesting. you know who i want to watch more than kate and william? i want to watch meghan and harry because they are real people. fraud putting it all out there, and if you're a member of the media, you can critique and
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crit criticize, that's what we do. >> on some level the british tabloids believe that we as a society enjoy consuming negative news about meghan and harry more than negative news about kate and william. th they think they're giving us what we want. >> i think it's their story to tell. things i wouldn't sure but that's just me. great to see both of you. coming up, anderson cooper is going to join us, stay with us. tune in tonight for the full interview. it begins tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, ac 360 here on cnn. i can't believe i'm telling you this but this happened. a 6-year-old boy in custody for shooting his first grade teacher after an altercation at school. next we will speak to the parent of a child who was in the building at that school when this all happened.
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richneck elementary school will remain closed today and tomorrow after a 6-year-old boy shot and injured a teacher at the school. police say there had been an altercation between the first grader and the teacher before the student shot a single round at their teacher on friday. no one else was injured. police took that boy into custody. the police chief says, quote, this was not an accidental shooting. according to officials, the teacher who was wounded is in stable condition. her alma mater james madison university identifying her as abby zwerner. new port news' mayor said this last night. >> there's a lot of questions we have to answer as a community. one how a 6-year-old was able to have a gun, know how to use it in such a deliberate manner. but i know right now because it
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remains an investigation it's going to let itself sort of work out before we rush to judgment at this time. i can tell you that the individuals responsible will be held accountable. i can promise that. >> i'm joined by mark anthony garcia, his 8-year-old son was right there, mark junior, attends the elementary school and was there when all this happened. thank you for being with me. and good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. so dad, you know, i didn't know mark junior was going to be here. i'm glad he is. no child, no one, should have to face this, and no child should have to. what did you think as a dad when you found out what had happened in mark's school? >> well, first, before i start off, i just want to say prayers and healing to ms. abby and the
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child, richneck elementary school, the children and our community. the second thing, i wasn't alerted about what happened at the school. half of the parents was not alerted about what happened at the school. we found out on the news. my wife called me and told me there's an active shooter at the school. and when we found out there was an active shooter, i got up, there was police helicopters everywhere outside, traffic was jammed up so the mission to get through what happens impossible till we got there, then there was a 2 mile radius of parked cars and people running trying to get to the scene. once we got to the scene at hope church, that's where the cops met us and they were trying to diffuse the situation because that's when the crowd and the cops were telling us there was a shooter that was a child and a teacher that was shot. that's how we found out. >> no one called you, the school
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didn't send a text message, you found out on the news? >> correct. correct. and the worst part about it is the school usually sends out a text message, as well as the city. i have three text messages from the city they have a code for every city that sends out the messages. there was one that was sent out on -- go ahead -- on the 1st, the 7th and the 8th. >> i just think at the heart of this, and i'm sorry i don't mean to interrupt you. the heart of this is that a 6-year-old child had a gun in your 8-year-old child's school and shot a teacher. how does this happen? >> it happens because this is how i feel and as a prior military veteran i kind of understand this because i have to do this with my soldier.
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it's called grouping. we miss a group, a target, we miss what we supposed to do. number one, the call to the parents we missed that grouping. so half of these parents are confused and when we get there we're riled up because we don't understand. number two, the security measures. they don't have metal detecters in the front of the school. i walk my son to school and pick him up every day. there's one person outside but they have guards and stuff like that to get the kids in school. there are no metal detecters into that school, only one and that's inside the library. we don't have a precise guidelines of clear pbackpacks that could help and security with wands to get each child through properly. in an article yesterday it was released and they said they have a security measures inside of the facility and kids are looked at every day in their backpack spore radically. my child's backpack is looked at
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every morning by his teacher ms. mcarthur every morning, how did we miss this. and we as parents raised these concerns before. we talked to the principal, the guidance counselor, spoke at town hall meetings, zooms, what else are we supposed to do? >> i understand. i cannot imagine. i have a 6-year-old and a 4-year-old and i cannot imagine what you're going through. what all the parents are going through. i want to say we have a statement from the school mark, and they said there are many concerns we need to unpack before we can determine if any additional preventative measures would have impacted the probability of this incident not curing. you think there's a lot they could change. is it all right if i ask your son mark junior a question? >> yes. can you give me a second. i'm not blaming the school, i'm blaming the city for not
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implementing the measures. after three years of school shootings. >> we'll reach out to the city as well. mark junior, how are you doing this morning? >> i'm doing good. >> what was it like for you when this happened? >> so when it happened, the teacher heard it from the first grade and we all went to the -- we all went to the room. and then when we got there, we all stayed quiet. two people were crying. and when the cops game, we were marching to the gym. and they were saying it was safe now. >> how can they make it so you feel safer? i know school is canceled today
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and tomorrow but you're going to go back to school, right? what can everyone do to make you feel safer? >> possibly they should -- >> you know, dad, i know we got to go but i know your boy said something to you right when you picked him up. what did he say to you? >> he just said that he was scared and he glad we got there in time and it was just a scary situation. children were shaken up, parents was even more shaken up. but like i said, richneck elementary school is not to blame here. safety measures are implemented, they got the kids in a safe zone, i'm very glad that happened. i want the state to speak up and get more implements so this doesn't happen again. >> mark junior you're very
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brave. thank you both for being with us this morning. >> thank you. kpexcellent. can you imagine? >> no, i can't. like guns in america, 6 years old? come on. >> yeah. it's been a year to the day since the comedy world lost bob saget. coming up his widow joins us on her late husband's legacy. ♪are you ready for me♪ ♪are you ready♪ ♪are you ready♪
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sharing her journey writing this, i cannot thank you all for almost a full year of all the love, support and kindness. i can only hope snow you how thankful i am and give it back a bit over time. joining me now, an exclusive interview is actress and producer, bob saget's widow kelly rizzo. kelly, so happy to have you on. how are you doing? >> thank you, don. well, thanks for having me, first off. i'm doing okay. every day is a little different. as most people know, this is a journey, and there's really no guidebook or handbook on how to handle it. every day i've been doing my best and most importantly trying to keep his legacy alive in any way i can and keep sharing the love he had for people as much as i can. so that's been part of my new purpose. >> it's interesting you're doing this on social media because you're using it as a positive
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way, an outlet. bob was also very active on social media as well. he also used that social media to work with the scleroderma research foundation torques bring light and voice to that. you taken on his mission. several months ago there was a benefit in his honor raising more than $1.3 million. what is that support from people and from bob's peers mean to you? >> it's everything because that was his life's work. he dedicated his entire life to supporting the scleroderma research foundation. he said, for the rest of my life i will fighting for this cause and doing everything i can to help find a cure because it's the disease that took his sister's life almost 30 years ago. he was just so fiercely dedicated so it. i can't even come close to doing what he did for it because he
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was such a force and he was the face of it for the last 30 years almost. so i'm just using anything i can do to help further the cause. i helped out with the benefit this last september, and i helped bring together some of his best friends, comedians, musicians to really help raise even more money for the cause. the fact that all of his friends just continue to show up for him, the gratitude is just -- i can't even -- i'm speechless with how grateful i am to all of them. >> the bob saget memorial fund will award its first grants this year. what do you think bob would have to say about all this? >> oh, gosh, i'm sure he would have some kind of dark humor joke about a memorial fund in his name. i won't even try to go there. he would be so touched that
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there's this massive now fund that is in his honor and is in his name to be able to fund the research to end this horrible disease. his whole thing was like -- he want to put this entire foundation out of business because that means they found a cure. so he just -- the fact that he continues to have a big impact on finding a cure for scleroderma would mean so much to him. >> before i let you go, i've got to ask you, kelly, if there's anything else you would like to say about bob, how you'll remember him going forward. i personally -- he was one of my favorites. comedians help me get through the sad times, the bad times, the troubled times. he'd have some dark humor joke. the darker the better for me. give me words of wisdom. what do you think he would think about this moment? >> just, i know what made a
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really big impact after last january and after everything that happened was sharing his message of love and laughter and of never letting a moment go by without telling your loved ones how much they mean to you. that was so big with him. he never left anything on the table. if you were in bob's life, you knew how much he loved you. he never missed an opportunity to tell you. that's what i'm so grateful for, even in our last conversations, our last moments was i love you so much, i love you so much. i never doubted for one second his love for me, for his family, for his friends. and i think we think of him as this big comedian and america's dad and all these things. he was really just a sweet, sweet, loving, thoughtful, kind person. and just remembering him for the incredible man that he was at heart is what i know would mean
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so much to me and his family for how he would be remembered by, and just sharing that love. of course, the laughter, remembering his jokes, but also i'm just so grateful that i always have that in my ear, him whispering little jokes to me forever. i'm very grateful for that. >> and funny as hell. go look at the roast of bob saget. he was funny as hell. thank you, kelly. i appreciate it. >> and that, yeah. >> thank you, don. thank you so much. >> i loved that. i loved that. thinking of her today especially. prince harry adding new details about his fractured relationship with the royal family. anderson cooper who did the sit-down interview is here with us ahead. thousands of nurses at two of new york city's biggest hospitals are on strike. what is behind the move? we have a live report just ahead. >> we're really concerned,
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