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♪ this is "nightline." >> tonight, tears and frustration. in florida after that deadly high school shooting friends and loved ones remembering lives lost. >> his heart was so big. >> the stunning admission from the fbi today how they failed to act on a tip about the suspect. >> how did this kid get a gun. >> plus "black panther" the new marvel super hero breaking box office records. >> a thirst for something. >> a predominantly black cast and show stealing leading lady, how this film is a hollywood game changer. >> setting precedent i think
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will be difficult to go back on. >> and a break from drake. ♪ >> the mega star rapper giving away almost a million dollars to strangers with his new video god's plan, priceless reactions. but first the "nightline" five. n ♪od's plan, god's plan >> number
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♪ ♪ 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. ♪ ♪ ♪
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good evening, thank you for joining us. the latest development in the florida high school shooting investigation invoking outrage as the fbi admits it failed to act on a tip about the alleged gunman that it received one month ago. tonight president trump visiting that grieving community still coming to grips with the friends and loved ones they lost. >> he didn't make it. i was just in shock. i just couldn't move. >> it was the moment julian found out he lost his best friend, 17-year-old joaquin oliver. >> nobody should have to deal with this, nobody. >> four friends struggling to make sense why this had to happen again. >> it sucks it had to be like
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this. school shootings are a thing that people talk about every day, that it was him, i just, i still can't put my head around it. >> joaquin always loved to listen to music, rap, play sports, write poems and stuff, he was deep, had he a deep mind. that's what i respected about him. >> came to america when he was three years old and just last year became a u.s. citizen. >> victoria gonzalez was his girlfriend. >> he's the most incredible soul ever. his heart was so big. all he did was love everyone he told me all the time what he wanted is to make everyone else love. >> she got his flower had around her neck. >> he gave everyone so much love everyone knows that. he is love. >> he was supposed to come to
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her classroom to pick up his valentine's day gift. but he would never make it. >> it's hard he was very young. i know if he was here he'd want change with our gun laws for sure. we wouldn't have to be here today. >> the thought of going back to that school >> no way i can can walk through those halls there's not happening. >> dillon and joaquin would drive home together. >> going back to school, walking to my car, he's not in there going to devastate me. >> for them it's important to make this appeal. >> lawmakers please do something right for once and make change in america that we actually need. >> tonight president trump making his first trip to parkland to pay his respects.
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>> very sad something like that could happen. the job the doctors did, the nurses, hospital, first responders, law enforcement incredib incredible. >> in the face of terror, aaron vice can died protecting students he was a father and coach. >> great coach and man put a smile on my face every single day. >> his players and head coach thought of him as family. >> one of the greatest guys i know. always there for people. open hearted. always on his golf cart. >> it was his golf cart that coach would use on wednesday racing to help others. >> i understood he push aid girl kind of out of the door and got in front of the shooter and that's when shooter shot him. >> you reck where you were how
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you got the news? >> i didn't want to believe it. didn't want it to be true. i love him, i love him, things going to be real hard and difficult to go back to school and not be able to see my buddy. >> if you could told coach something before he left us what would you have told him. >> thank him for everything he did for us. all the countless times. spilled out my heart and chest. he was always there for me. coach may. >> i'll miss him. miss seeing him every day. >> he really is a hero right. >> he didn't have to get shot to be a hero. he was a hero every day. people looked up to him and respected him. it's not a high-paying job but if you can change somebody's life and make them into a better person that's what it's all about. >> i just wished we had one more minute, one more conversation, i'm just grateful for the man he was and the man he's helped me
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become. >> today a law enforcement source telling abc news that investigation believe the shooter fired 150 bullets. in this video you see the suspect in the back walking away from the scene of the shooting to a mcdonald's and today fbi admitting it failed to act on january 5th tip that came on on nikolas cruz. tipster about his desire to kill people and erratic behavior and disturbing social media posts as well as protocols were not follows and no further investigation was conducted at the time. opening up further questions how this could have been avoided. >> on behalf of myself and over 1,000 employees of the office we truly regret additional pain this has caused. >> this is absolutely outrageous the information was actionable.
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>> attorney general jeff session ordered a full review adding in a statement it's clear warning signs were there and fips were missed and we see the tragic consequences of those failures. >> he goes month many it's our neighbor. i was like oh, my god. you know. you're shocked. total shock. >> shelly and her family live just few doors away from the suspect. >> there came a point you seen him routinely. >> when he was little, but if now he's getting older the trouble is escalating. >> today sheriff confirming. >> we had approximately 20 calls for service over the last few years regarding the killer. >> how did this kid get a gun, any gun, i don't understand how he legally bought a gun. >> at last night's vigil,
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students and community members coming to together in a sea of grief. >> it's our obligation to carry their names forward, and change the world a little bit every day. >> today two children laid to rest. 14-year-old alyssa a talented soccer player and creative writer. and 18-year-old senior who was just accepted to boca raton. tonight high school junior shot three times just got out of her last surgery. for "nightline" in parkland, florida. >> next with this newest movie already breaking records, what who's is the coolest cat in the marvel universe. rvel universe. i thought i was managing my moderate to severe ulcerative colitis. but i realized something was missing... me. the thought of my symptoms returning was keeping me from being there for the people and things i love most.
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♪ marvel's new super hero adventure "black panther" takes us to a fantasticical country in africa with culture and landscape we rarely see combining science fiction and action all so entertaining it's bound to transform the way hollywood looks at black directors and actors. ♪ >> this is wokonda a fictional country where the landscape is lush, its capital a post modern metropolis and everyone is black. ♪ >> this is the first major big
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budget film with a black director predominantly black cast, it's 2018 this is still considered revolutionary. >> yeah it is. >> setting a precedent i think will be difficult to go back on. which is what's exciting. >> we chatted with the cast of the film. boseman who plays the black panther. >> you want to have a good time making a movie if it can change something in the world you want that too. >> what kind of movie is "black panther"? is it a black movie? is it a super hero movie. >> i think maybe some of these terms are limited. the black-movie term. let's crack that open. >> i think the more detailed you are the more universal it is. >> "black panther" the latest heart-pounding movie by marvel. with it's all-star cast and multi-million dollar budget is already breaking records.
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more advanced sales than any other super hero movie ever. >> the movie finished i looked over at ryan said that's the best movie i've ever made. >> movie goers already showing up in traditional african gar b. >> the blanket is from south africa. >> 15 minutes later i was trying to purchase tickets and they're sold out. sold out! >> this video of atlanta students dancing when they were told they were going to see the movie going viral. >> the first answer it's unexplainable. the second answer is there's obviously a thirst. >> what's the thirst? >> people are starved for the images they see. spectacle. against. achievement. >> they see themselves and their
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dreams. >> their dreams. it's aspirational. >> at the helm is director and writer ryan is best known for fruitvale station and as a kid the richmond california kid grew up reading. >> what should you say to your 8-year-old boy. >> you're going deep. coming from continent of africa, got the potential to be all things. >> he's imagined overseeing the last 18 marvel universe films. >> clearly you have an anticipation from avenue audience who has never seen themselves portrayed like this before. >> the movie is a educated warrior who is sends to the throne after his father was killed. >> what they did 50 years ago was bold in the mid 60s to say
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here's a character from this african nation smarter and richer than you and more technologically advanced and we wanted to stay true to that. >> this is bold move in america. >> situations changed drastically since we started this movie four years ago. if was relevant then more relevant now. >> as personal as the film was for the director the actors too felt a connection. >> the idea of wakanda popped up in my travels and readings. >> a role that is a departure for boseman who rose to fame in "jackie robinson and james brown. >> i certainly wouldn't be here if not for those men i portrayed. seeing me play those roles got me this role. >> marvel executives were so
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taken with boseman pulled a move almost never did. >> chadwick didn't have to audition. >> he didn't -- >> forgive me is the brother that good. >> he is. he is that good. >> i ask about that. they're like >> give credit where credit is due. i stand on the shoulders of the men that i played. when i walk through the lab and feeling myself because i'm king and i'm with my sister, there's a little bit of james brown in me. when i'm holding court there's a little bit of thoroughgood marshall. >> it's now or never. >> hey. hey. >> perhaps some of the best scenes are stolen by the films leading ladies. >> in this age of the me too movement, one of the things striking about this movie for me you not only protect yourselves but you protect the men in this
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movie. >> it's a real lesson for the real world the feminist struggle is not a struggle to strip men of their power it's a struggle for equality for us to be able to realize our own. >> was that church just then. >> w arks krakanda forever inde could get that to real life would be an amazing thing. >> for them there was something familiar and unexplored in shooting the film. >> the world sees just one skewed vision of the continent so to get to portray that full gappet and live in that pride was very easy to digest for me. >> "black panther" doesn't shy away from the uncomfortable making several statements on racism, feminism, inclusion. >> you get to decide what kind of king you're going to be. >> "black panther" was like political comedy.
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>> it's tracking to gross more than $150 million in it's opening weekend a trend the team hopes will redefine how studios and consumers view the success that so-called black films can do again. >> will they do it again. the they is now us. >> in some ways it seems intentionally black but by the end seems coincidentally black. was a wonderful story about heroes and strong figures. good versus evil. >> universal story. >> truth is art can do that. as humans we capable of identifying with people not looking like you. we do it all the time in pop culture, no reason won't work the other way around. >> just imagine a future world where heroes are simply human. male and female of every hue. >> they said that marvel movies are made for the eight-year-old boy in all of us.
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>> or girl. >> so if you're talking to an eight-year-old girl or boy give me one word you will say about this movie. >> we gonna be all right. >> and next, drizy making it rain on the streets of miami. watch as strangers lose their mind when rap star drake gives away almost a million dollars for his new video "god's plan". ♪ >> announcer: abc news "nightline" brought to you by -- kelly! we're out of body wash! what are you doing?? i thought you had a cold?? i don't need all this. mucinex fast-max is powerful enough to handle most of my symptoms. name one. how 'bout 9? sore throat, cough, even... yea - i can read, you know. we're done here. ahhh! boogers to betsy!
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♪ finally tonight, for his new video "god's plan," rapper drake walked the streets of miami making strangers' dreams come true giving away almost a million dollars. >> anything you want in the store is free. ♪
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