♪ >> this is "nightline" >> tonight border crisis. just moments ago a seismic shift in immigration policy as a pandemic era rule allowing the quick expulsion of mill grants of migrants ends. plus anxious nation. millions of kids living with anxiety, especially girls. >> i didn't know what was going on, but i knew that it wasn't something normal and that there was an issue. >> an intimate look inside their lives. >> their desperate parents searching for answers. >> anxiety doesn't discriminate right? it impacts all of us. it's not a 1-size-fits-all problem and not a 1-size-fits-all solution. >> the measures some are taking

to heal. and school shooting shocker the story of a six year old boy that shot his teacher with his gun. >> so no indication that there was going to be a problem take day. >> no. >> breaking their silence in an exclusive interview with abc news. >> do you feel in any way responsible for the shooting? >> yes, of course. that is my son. >> questions about a troubled child with an alleged pattern of disturbing behavior as his mother is charged. >> how did your son access the gun? >> plus soap opera legends. >> who are you tortung you or me. >> remembering jack lin nurse bobby on general hospital for 45 years ♪ "nightline" will be right back. ♪ neutrogena ultra sheer. a lightweight blend that protects 6 layers deep with a smooth dry-touch finish. this round is on me. neutrogena ultra sheer.

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>> good evening, we begin tonight with a landmark change in immigration policy as the clock struck midnight title 42 ending. a policy that allowed the rapid expulsion of migrants over covid concerns. officials on both sides of the border now bracing for a surge and abc is in el paso tonight. and maria there are some late breaking develops. >> reporter: hey juju after three years in place title 42 comes to an end tonight but not without a little bit have controversy, a federal judge out of florida actually issuing a temporary restraining order in place for two weeks that

requires every migrant released to have proper court documents and that could increase processing times. a u.s. border patrol chief tells me they have over 26,000 people in custody right now and 57 out of their 9 processing facilities are already over capacity. with title 42 gone title 48 will now heavily be relied on and if the rules aren't followed migrants face deportation and aren't allowed to enter the u.s. for five years. ds secretary alejandro mayorkas says there are border patrol agents at the southwest border saying this should make it very clear that our borders are not open. juju. >> thank you for thatup date. and of course you can stay with abc news for continuous coverage of the border crisis but we turn now to the crisis gripping kids across the nation. a new film taking an unflinching look at children dealing with anxiety in a new documentary. one of its producers even

turning the camera on her own family this coming during mental health awareness month. here's abc's matt gutman with our first installment of our limited series, state of mind, kids in crisis. >> reporter: 14 year old savvy has lived with crippling anxiety since she was a young child. >> i didn't know what was going on but i knew it wasn't something normal and there was an issue. >> reporter: did you recognize it laura. >> around the time she was three years old i knew that something wasn't right but it took me seven years for a doctor to tell me she has anxiety. >> reporter: her mother laura has been on the front lines of sevvy's battle in the truarch's with her. >> it's become almost a daily thing for sevvy to have a colossal meltdown. i don't know exactly what to do because i don't know what it feels like for her. >> reporter: in her new documentary anxious nation laura is bravely sharing her family's

story pulling back the curtain on the often taboo topic of children's mental health. >> anxiety doesn't discriminate, right? it impacts all of us. it's not a 1-size-fits all problem and it's not a 1-size-fits-all solution. >> reporter: she is not alone millions of children struggle with anxiety and as the film shows seemingly small things can leave them completely inconsolable. >> if you need to take a nap that's fine but we need to read the book. >> i can't take a nap. >> reporter: others flying into a fit of rage, and some just suffering quietly. >> i would sit there and say i can't stop, i think i'm going to die. >> reporter: if you see that your child is struggling that they have symptoms that are i will logical that you are seeing that they're not behaving as easily and having a smooth a time as you think they should, go find out what the diagnosis is. >> according to the cdc

5.8 million kids were diagnosed with anxiety between 2016 and 2019 and this is just one of the issues plaguing kids in the ten years leading up to the pandemic there was a 40% increase in young people feeling sad and hopeless. and teen girls are affected the most. a disturbing 57% saying they felt sad or hopeless in 2021, double that of teen boys. the film highlighting kids of all ages and backgrounds. >> today i was very antsy. i couldn't stay still. >> reporter: the directors giving them cameras to record themselves behind closed doors capturing moments that are raw and emotional. >> when i was around 14, i felt like i was being bullied. i couldn't really understand why not everyone would like me. i just remember having days where i would just be home crying. >> i had sent 14 cameras out

into the field. >> reporter: wow. >> and i asked my kids if they would be comfortable filming themselves. i thought we would get better material asking them to self-record than if i came in and did what you are doing. >> everything that i love is on my phone. >> how many hours did i spend on my -- oh, my god, yesterday it was 10? to be able to post on tik tok or instagram is important to me and the amount of followers is important to me. why am i losing followers? do i not look good in this picture? do i need to change something. >> reporter: do you have a first memory of a panic or anxiety attack. >> i used to go to a sleep away summer camp for seven weeks but i couldn't get through it the first day there automatically crying and begging to go home, purposely like making myself sick. i just completely broke down and i saw everybody else trying -- they were having such a good time and i could not understand why i couldn't enjoy it.

>> i couldn't really understand what was happening or really process how she was feeling. i thought she was having a temper tantrum. i thought that she was being manipulative. i thought that she was, you know, just didn't want to go to school. >> reporter: laura approached oscar winning director vanessa roth with the idea before the covid lockdown. but roth initially passed on the project. >> and then she came back to me in 2021. my kids and their friends and everybody had just, i felt like, you know, just fallen into just this hole of anxiety. >> reporter: what do you want kids to come away with? >> i want kids to come away with feeling heard, seen and heard and that it's not the adults and the parents telling the rest of the world this is what's happening for our kids but kids expressing it themselves. >> reporter: these days kids are surrounded by screens with constant access to the latest trends and upsetting news headlines. >> i think the news definitely

impacts kids' anxiety levels particularly because it's instantaneously available and there's a lot of scary things where you have school shootings, climate change. parents have to talk about it because kids' imaginations are much worse than reality. >> reporter: nyia was also an anxious teen. >> i grew up in south florida predominately white areas so i was literally not exaggerating one of three or four black kids in the schoolment i don't think i was my best self then because i was so anxious all the time. >> reporter: at home she said it was her parents marriage that troubled her. >> this is my parents' wedding photo. i keep this in my scrap book. they're divorced now. i think it made me grow up very quickly. i felt like i was taking care of my sister making sure she was okay. >> reporter: it was in these chords where she found her peace. ♪ ♪

♪ run, run, run, run away ♪ >> i've learned to channel all that anxious energy that i have into music, basically repurposing that in a way to create something beautiful. >> reporter: music is just one type of coping mechanism for people like nyia. >> i'm going into medicine and am really passionate about psychiatry which there aren't a lot of black people in psychiatry especially black women. >> reporter: as for sevey morton she's heading to acting camp this summer. she still struggles but has made a lot of progress. >> give me a good coping mechanism that has worked for you. >> i push journalling all the time. it's so difficult to talk to people especially in a moment. so writing down your feelings, it's privacy but your feelings get out. the anxiety doesn't go away but you can definitely make changes. and i hope that i'm a role model to younger people with anxiety. >> so much love.

>> so much love. >> our thanks to matt. >> coming up school shooting shocker an exclusive interview with the family of the six year old boy who shot his teacher. ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ ♪ control is everything to me. ♪ feel significant symptom relief with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements at 4 weeks. skyrizi is the first and only il-23 inhibitor for crohn's that can deliver both clinical remission and endoscopic improvement. the majority of people on skyrizi achieved long lasting remission at 1 year. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine or plan to. liver problems may occur in crohn's disease. ask your gastroenterologist how you can take control

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♪ >> juju: for the first time we're hearing from the mother and great grandfather of that six year old boy who shot his first grade teacher revealing details about why he had already been suspended in an exclusive interview with abc news. they're joined with the family's attorney as the boy's mother is charged. here's abc's lindsey davis. >> he was actually excited burst through the door of my room and

said mom, look. he showed me his outfit. >> reporter: so no indication there was going to be a problem that day. >> no. >> female victim has been shot in the abdomen as well as a threw and threw into the hand. >> reporter: in a time where school shootings are sadly no longer a rare occurrence. >> this was an accidental shooting. >> reporter: what happened was shocking. officials in virginia piecing together how a six year old got his hands on a gun and opened fire. >> officer swarmed in trying to calm terrified students and bewildered parents. >> reporter: a shooter just six years old a first grader. police say the boy brought his mother's school opening fire on his teacher abigail who despite being shot got all her students to safety that day. the boy's mother and grade grandfather are now breaking their silence. does he talk about the incident? >> no. >> reporter: has he processed the magnitude of what happened? >> well, in my opinion, he processes the events leading up to it.

he talks a lot more about the day before, or the two days before than he does about january 6th. >> reporter: shortly after the shooting the family released a statement saying our son suffers from acute disability and was under a care plan at the school that included his mother or father accompanying him to class every day. the week of the shooting was the first week when we were not in class with him. >> what kind of behavior led them to decide that a family member needed to be in class with your son. >> he has a very short attention span and she was unable to i guess pay attention to him and the rest of the class. >> reporter: what can you tell us specifically about your sop's disability. >> he has adhd. some are able to have it at a very mild rate but he's off the wall. doesn't sit still ever. >> reporter: why did the school decide it was no longer necessary for the family to be in class. >> he had started medication and

he was meeting his goals academically. >> reporter: the gun used in the shooting was legally purchased by his mother. she says it was locked away. how did your son access the gun. >> nobody knows. >> reporter: no one knows. >> you have to ask him. >> reporter: have you asked him. >> no, not yet. certainly something that will probably be brought out during litigation. >> reporter: no one has asked about it or you're just not ready to reveal how he got it. >> we're not ready to discuss it at that point. yes people have talked to him at that point and i don't know if any adult knows exactly how he got the gun. >> reporter: still recovering from her wounds when she spoke to abc in march. >> the words he gave me while he pointed the gun directly at me is something i will never forget. it's changed me, it's changed my life. >> reporter: has your son ever spoken about hurting the teacher or was there anything, any angst that he had against her? >> no, he actually really liked

her. i will say that week, he did come home and he was talking, you know, a lot about how he felt like he was being ignored. so he would come home, mom, i don't think that she was listening to me, i don't like that. and actually he ended up getting suspended the next day because he was in class, he was trying to tell her something, and she asked him to go sit back down. he threw his arms up, he said fine and when he threw his arms up he knocked her phone out of her hand on accident and he got suspended for that. >> reporter: she did not respond to abc's news request for comment but in a lawsuit filed against the newport news school board and school administrators she says the student grabbed the cell phone and slammed it on the ground so hard it shattered and the student had a history of random violence and attacked students and teachers alike both in and out of school. >> reporter: is that description accurate. >> whether it is or isn't the

school enrolled him in september knowing all of the past behaviors, and they also knew that he attended only about two months of kindergarten and about two months of pre k. >> reporter: and you say that to say that they then own the responsibility? >> absolutely. >> reporter: do you all have any knowledge about the validity of accusations that he would run around and chase kids with a belt or say curse words to the teachers? any inappropriate touching with a girl who had fallen on a playground? >> no. now that, no. i have seen the records for what they said about the belt, but not any inappropriate touching. >> the school, they knew that he had adhd and possibly another disability limitation as well. an assessment should have been done. >> reporter: deja said she tried to work with the school to get

her son an individualized education plan. >> which they did not do. i wanted to put him in a smaller class or just a smaller school period, but they didn't provide and they didn't offer like smaller classes. >> reporter: the school district told abc news in a statement that it cannot address any claims made about the boy's learning situation because they, quote, cannot release information about a student's educational record. deja's son is no longer attending rich neck elementary currently in a new environment in treatment at an undisclosed location. >> just getting back to the bright cheery little six year old, we draw, play, uno draw pictures. >> he's counting more, he's doing things that he wasn't doing before, he enjoys school. >> ms. werner is seeking $40 million in her lawsuit against the newport news school district and officials claiming they ignored multiple warnings about the student's behavior and concerns he had a gun. last month they dismissed the

suit arguing it falls under worker's compensation. in april deja was charged with felony count of child neglect and recklessly leaving a firearm with a child. the trial is in august. >> do you feel in any way responsible for the shooting? >> yes, of course. that is my son so i as a parent am willing to take responsible for him because he can't take responsibility for himself. >> reporter: you could face up to six years in prison. do you think that would be a fair penalty? >> of course i don't believe that that is fair, but anything for my baby. >> reporter: anything that either of you would like to say to abigail. >> i'm glad you're doing better. i'm sorry that you got hurt. just like i'm sorry that the kids in that classroom had to witness such a terrible incident. but on the same token i'm really sorry my great grandson had to go through this ordeal. >> i would like to truly

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♪ >> juju: finally tonight, jacklyn zeman, known to generations of fans as general hospital's nurse bobbie being remembered tonight as a bright light and true professional. >> bobbie. >> i need to check the iv.

>> reporter: she joined general hospital in 1977 as a feisty nursing student with a troubled past quickly becoming a fan favorite. >> don't walk away from me. >> reporter: zeman appeared in nearly 900 episodes of the drama. she died after a brief battle with cancer. former cast mates paying tribute john stamos remembering her warm personality and infectious energy. jacklyn zeman was 70. and that's "nightline" for tonight. you can watch all our full episodes on hulu. see you r