i'm amy goodman withth nermeen shaikh. een: today marks the one-year anniversary of the devastating massacre at marjory stoneman douglas high school -- the deadly school shooting in parkland, florida, that galvanized the nation to take action against gun violence and turned a generation of young people into activists. on february 14, 2018, a former student armed with a semiautomatic ar-15 entered marjory stoneman douglas high school and opened fire, gunning down 17 students, staff, and teachers in just three minutes. it was one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history. students who survived the massacre quickly came to national prominence as leading activists for gun control. this is parkland shooting survivor emma gonzales speaking soon after the shooting in a beach that riveted the nation. >> mr. president was to come upp to make atomic to my face it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us nothing is going to be done about it, i'm going to have to ask them how much mon

i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. rmeen: we spend the rest of the hourur on the climate crcris fofollowing rereports that the e house is organizing a new committee to examine whether climate change poses a threat to national security. efforts to form the panel -- named the presidential committee on climate security -- are being led by princeton university professor emeritus and trump science advisor william happer, physicist and known climate change denier. observers say his selection indicates the trump administration wants to undermine findings within the national security community that climate change poses a severe threat to human safety. william happer is a national security council senior director who has long claimed increasing the amount of carbon oxide in the e atmosphere w will a actuay bebenefit humansns. in a 2017 interview published in the guardian, happer said -- "there's a whole area of climate so-called science that is really more like a cult. it's like hare krishna or something like that. they're glass

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is produced by mike burke, deena guzder, nermeen shaikh, carla wills, the coast of maine, remote andary, held special meaning for one of america's greatest artists. in a letter to his brother, winslow homer said of his surroundings, "there is certainly some strange power "that has an overlook on me, directing my life. "that i am in the right place, there is no doubt. "i have found something interesting to work at and time to do it."