columbine high school is 15 miles south of denver, in the shadow of the rocky mountains.il 1999, its name became infamous around the world when dylan klebold and eric harris calmly drove their cars, packed with explosives, guns and grenades, into the school's parking lot, and set about destroying the school. this wasn't a moment of madness. it was a cold—blooded massacre, one ten months in the planning. the suburban high school turned into a killing field. one by one, they extracted the dead and injured from the school. this teenager was rescued from an upstairs classroom. i have been a swat officer since 1980, and this was clearly the most devastating and traumatic scene that i had ever seen. i hope never to see it again. tell me how that day began. it was still dark, the house was black. and i heard dylan thundering down the stairs in his boots, because his bedroom was upstairs and ours was down. and i was startled, because it was too early for him to be up. and i opened my bedroom door, and i yelled, dyl? and he had run past my room, down the stairs, and he was out the

now on bbc news, 0wl world looks back on the columbine massacre which shocked america —— our world.ng and crying and telling him not to shoot me, and so he shot the girl. he shot her in the head in front of me. screaming. the suspects were not only on a shooting rampage, but they were going to destroy the school, they were going to burn the school. the columbine high school massacre had a seismic impact on america. 13 people died and 2a others were injured before the two killers turned their guns on themselves. i have to take this moment once again to hammer home to all the children of america that violence is wrong. the actions of teenagers eric harrison and dylan klebold made columbine a byword for the phenomenon of school shootings. that terrible day often cited as an inspiration for other attacks. in the aftermath of the tragedy the parents of the two killers came in forfierce criticism. people asked how could they not have known? how could they have missed the signs? now, after 17 years, the mother of one of the two killers has broken her silence. the guilt i feel at even lovin

columbine had already happened like five months before that. there were quite a few similarities between my case and that, like i was wearing a trench coat. >> and behind some murders, a person you thought you could trust. >> i just remember when i woke up, first thing i said was, today is the day. >> more americans are incarcerated today than ever before, and now when we go behind the walls of maximum security prisons, we see a greater cross section of inmates than ever. >> i mean, obviously they're the ones that the moment you meet them, you know they're dangerous and belong in prison, but we're also finding more and more inmates who have committed murder who look like the guy next door, just an average, normal guy, and it's really left us puzzled. i mean, what would lead a guy like this to kill someone? >> at 27 years old, adam drake looks more like a college dorm resident than a maximum security prison inmate. >> you seem awful happy and perky. >> i am always happy and perky. >> but when we met him at the limon correctional facility in colo

>>e watch isis videos of beheading and he watches videos of the columbine shooting and he watches these vi videos to relie stress. his mother says he is bipolar which leaves people wondering how he got a rifle. carole report entertainment world is mourning the death of alan thick. he was portedly playing hockey with his teenaged son when he suffered a heart attack. he was 69 years old. he was widely known for his role on sitcom "growing pains." george: seen sunday. if you have seen him or know where he is, call the sheriff's department. done there are stopped in wisconsin as part of his thank you tour. prominent republicans from the state took the stage as well. trump praised them for helping him win wisconsin, but the reaction was mixed from the audience. >> no, i have come to appreciate he's like a fine wine. he day goes by, i get to appreciate his genius more and more. if he ever goes against me, i won't say that. governor scott walker. where's scott? oh, man. he was tough. he was great. he's a great governor. george: at the ends of the speech ryan presented trump with a prs number 4

i am from colorado and i remember reading in my class and the warning of columbine and i would say one third of my class left in tears because we are watching and they had just graduated. we were freshmen. saying my idea of gun violence in colorado, i don't go to movie theaters and such. these are the things that i think about, so i live in southeast d.c. and when i hear gunshots, i don't think about it the same way because i am clear about the systems that are happening and i know the fbi will talk about what makes a school shooter, what makes -- you know, what are the things we need to look at? and in the community, it is another way of looking at it. to say and then these deaths are used as a way to take that or take the conversation nationally. like in chicago, this many black people were died and murdered and you are not doing anything, this and that. and then when you talk about when hook or even in d.c. we talk about the south capitol massacre, the only time you see it on the news is when there is a council person there and it is disgusting because the fact of the matter that th

on the rise since the 1999 shooting at columbine high school. 43% of public schools now have some form of security personnel. 16,700 have armed of a week. dj is is a friend of the student who was shot. >> i think the police are way out of line for having lethal rounds at school. >> but he had knives. he was threatening kids, potentially. >> 4,000 volts of electricity from a taser gun would have stopped that kid. >> reporter: protecting students in moments like this would have -- >>> now to the presidential transition, another major cabinet pick from president-elect trump is drawing scrutiny tonight. this time his nominee to lead the labor department. meantime, there's no fall-out after the president-elect went after a union boss on social media. nbc's katy tur has all the latest. >> reporter: on high in trump tower, the president-elect is filling out his cabinet. today with an eye on jobs, jobs, jobs. fast-food billionre andrew puzder is trump's pick for labor secretary. and another potentially problematic confirmation. the ceo of carl's jr and hardee's, puzder said raising the federal

this generation, there's -- there significant events included three mass shootings -- orlando plus columbineand sandy hook. and actually, americans from each generation mentioned influential events other generations didn't. generation x had the challenger space shuttle disaster. baby boomers had the civil rights movement. the silent generation, of course, noted world war ii. but ok, back to the overall top 10. number nine is gay marriage, another recent event that makes the list. at number three you had the tech revolution, which, like 9/11, has made a big impact on all generations. finally, the last one is the election of barack obama as president. what is really interesting to note is black americans were the only group to say 9/11 was not the most significant event in a heir lifetime. for them, it was obama's election. but significance does not necessarily translate into popularity. pew also asked americans when they felt the most disappointed in their country. the top two answers -- obama's election and donald trump's election. bbc news, washington. katty: once described as the prehistor

i remember being in my class the morning of columbine and i would say a third of my class left in tearsea of gun violence in colorado, i don't go to movie theaters and such, i mean, big things -- things that are normal, these are the things that i think about. when i'm in d.c., i hear gunshots at night, i still don't think about it the same way, i'm clear about the systems that are happening, and i know that the fbi will sit forever and ever and ever and talks about what makes a school shooter or what makes a -- >> what are the other things they need to be looking at. to say just -- and then these deaths are used as a way to take that conversation nationally. they're not doing anything. and then when you're talking about sandy hook or even here in d.c. when we're talking about the south capital massacre, the only time you see it on the news is when there's a council person there, and it's disgusting. because the fact of the matter is, these are the same people who now want to walk-through over at south capital, they have these walks with the police department, where they want to look at

i remember being in my class the morning of columbine and i would say a third of my class left in tearsdo, i don't go to movie theaters and such, i mean, big things -- things that are normal, these are the things that i think about. when i'm in d.c., i hear gunshots at night, i still don't think about it the same way, i'm clear about the systems that are happening, and i know that the fbi will sit forever and ever and ever and talks about what makes a school shooter or what makes a -- >> what are the other things they need to be looking at. to say just -- and then these deaths are used as a way to take that conversation nationally. they're not doing anything. and then when you're talking about sandy hook or even here in d.c. when we're talking about the south capital massacre, the only time you see it on the news is when there's a council person there, and it's disgusting. because the fact of the matter is, these are the same people who now want to walk-through over at south capital, they have these walks with the police department, where they want to look at where people are hanging ou

. >> seth: our first guest tonight "roger and me," "bowling for columbine," and "fahrenheit 9/11," please welcome back to the show our friend michael moore. [ cheers and applause ] ?? ?? >> seth: always so nice to see you. >> good to see you. >> seth: so here we are. i want to start with last time you were here was august. and you had just written an article titled "five reasons donald trump will win." and it was at a time where he was down in the polls and people thought you were crazy. and is this a case where you are bummed out at how right you were? >> yes, i never wanted to be more wrong. >> seth: yeah. >> and i remember when i actually -- when i said this on the show, the audience like moaned, like no. >> seth: yeah. >> you know, well because it didn't seem possible. >> seth: it didn't seem possible. >> she was ahead in the polls. it was a great convention. >> seth: yeah, and -- >> and he's crazy. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> so all important. >> seth: but yet -- and it wasn't just that you predicted it, you sort of called the reason why it might happen. and you named four states,

. >> in the wake of columbine, there is [inaudible] now, i understand that we're doing something called time and distance where you go in and you stand back initially, can you explain? >> a good example, a few days ago, there was a, there was a patron in a movie and he had a replica gun or a toy gun, but the people in the crowd believed he was armed with a real gun and it was eerily similar to another controversial shooting in san francisco. obviously people fled screaming gun. police arrived on scene but instead of rushing in, they waited, they summoned the suspect out. the replica weapon was recovered and everyone went home. >> instead of having a front page story, we had a small brief inside the paper about annoys accident exactly. >> you're not -- an incident. >> exactly 14. >> you're not going be lucky all the time and that is why the change in the use of force policy. two sticking points have captured the news . one is the policy of whether to shoot or not at a moving car. a number on the commission say we should not move at cars virtually under any circumstance, what's the feelin

i remember seeing this after the columbine attacks, this is from violent video games. shooter in tucson, the accusation that oh, sarah palin's facebook page had a bull's eye on it. it seems whenever there's a terrible shooting like this, there's this eagerness to say yes, the perpetrator is bad but the real problem is this guy over there. i get very nervous when you start extending it to let's start spreading the blame around instead of putting it on the guy who went there with a gun and started shooting. >> steve, what do you make of what both jim and patti seem to agree on, that michael flynn jr., he shouldn't be pushing this at all. michael flynn jr. of course is not the president's national security adviser, he's the son of the president's national security adviser but he's becoming part of the story with the tweet that i read. there's also a tweet from november 2nd that a lot of people are pointing to from general michael flynn himself that said you decide, nypd blows whistle on new hillary e-mails, money laundering, sex crimes with children, et cetera, must read

with misch issue that type attacks, with 16 bullets found in someone's home, they were planning a columbine type attack against a house of worship. when the community centers are attacked, how that makes them feel even if they go to school. maybe their classmates aren't saying something to them. but they are already feeling otherwise. like something is wrong and different. why would my house of worship be attacked. we have to keep in mind the very real environment that has been created. >> can you share some of the strategies that you imbedded in the dear colleague letter, suggestions that you had. >> so the dear colleague letter actually came from the two secretaries, arne duncan. >> i'm sorry. >> oh, the letter we sent? our approach to the letter was to describe the environment for the students, peer-to-peer bullying and where -- there was a teacher in texas that created what you need to know about muslims and included facts that said 38% of muslims think you should be executed if you decide you don't want to be muslim anymore. we talked about these multi-faceted issues and hate crimes as

they were planning a columbine attack in a house op worship. so we have to keep in mind that when their community centers are attacked, how that makes them feel even if they go to school, maybe their classmates aren't saying to them but they're already feeling that something is wrong, something is different. why would my worship service be attacked. why is saturday school canceled? it's canceled because somebody was going to shoot it. we have to keep in mind the real environment created for children. >> brenda, can you share some of the strategies that you embedded in the dear colleague letter, suggestions that you had in. >> so the dear colleague letter actually came from the two secretaries -- >> not the dear -- >> oh, the letter we sent. our approach to the letter was to describe the environment for students. so we highlighted a number of examples, both of peer-to-peer bullying and instances -- there was a teacher in texas who created what do you need to know that said things like 38% of muslims think you should be executed if you decide you

caller: it started to get big with columbine. what was the deal with the psychotropic drugs?ve little boys drugged with adderall and ritalin, a form of speed. look at that aspect. look at the lack of fathers. , fear ofof fear of god euro own father coming home, fear of the police. we all had that. schools use to have rifle teams. this is not about a gun. this is about something we lost in our society. host: tony from columbia, illinois, does not own a gun. you are next. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i heard on the news a couple weeks ago that they were going to slow down the production of these pain medications, oxycontin, vicodin, because of all the overdoses. sounded like a good idea to me. cut the number of pills you are putting out. why cannot the same thing be done with weapons? areguys making these guns putting them out there, putting them out there. they said that there was a million guns that got into the wrong hands. could that be right? i don't know. don't make one million guns next year. just don't make them. , go take the gun test, do whateve

sandy hook, columbine, the orlando shooting, i have done a lot of research on a lot of this .d be totally wrong, and i pray to got -- god that i am wrong. my question is -- is all of this changing with donald trump being in office now? hadcrats are the reason we gun control and the false flags. the reason we had all the propaganda going on all over the country. it is through our own u.s. government. so, my question is -- if donald hopefully our savior to this craft going on now, leading us to global government and global policing, to the point where people are not even in government, but we are slaves to the government. i think this is a road we were going down before donald trump was elected. now that he is elected, he is going to come out -- is it really true these are false flags? if these are false flags, then where are the dead people. where did the money go? there are a lot of questions that need to be answered. no one is asking the questions, because the media has us all dumbed down that this really happened. my request to the american people is to open your eyes. help