Thursday, 15 February 2018

Teacher in Florida school shooting pleads for change

Teacher who hid students from Florida shooter: 'We're failing our children'

Melissa Falkowski, a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, hid with 19 students in a closet during the shooting there, and all of them made it out safely. She tells TODAY she put her own feelings aside to try to keep her students calm: "I just did my job." She says that not talking about gun control after mass shootings "hasn't gotten us anywhere" and adds "Congress is failing us, the government is failing us."

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Student wounded in Florida shooting: My friend 'didn't make it'

Samantha Grady, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, was wounded during the shooting rampage there Wednesday. She becomes emotional as she tells TODAY that her friend died in the shooting. She describes hearing two shots and huddling with other students when the shooter fired through the locked classroom door. She says it was "an intense moment" when she reunited with her family.

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President Trump responds to Florida school shooting

On Wednesday President Trump tweeted prayers and condolences to victims of the Florida school shooting, and on Thursday morning he tweeted again, pointing to "so many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed." NBC's Peter Alexander reports for TODAY.

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Skaters Alexa and Chris Knierim dedicate routine to Florida shooting victims

After their performance Thursday, U.S. figure skaters Alexa Scimeca Knierim and Chris Knierim said, "Today was much more than about us."

Mikaela Shiffrin overcome with emotion after winning gold

Megyn Kelly, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila, Matt Iseman and Kerri Walsh-Jennings share their favorite Olympic moments from Day 6 in PyeongChang.

Paris Hilton talks about her engagement, new fragrance, new niece

Businesswoman and reality TV star Paris Hilton visits Kathie Lee Gifford and Jenna Bush Hager to talk about her recent engagement, her new niece, and her latest fragrance. The fragrance is her 23rd, but she says she has no trouble telling them all apart – each one is "very special," she says.

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How real-life 'mermaids' of South Korea earn their living from the ocean

NBC's Keir Simmons takes TODAY viewers to a tiny island on the southernmost tip of South Korea where a group of powerful "women of the sea" sustain themselves exclusively from the ocean, keeping an ancient tradition alive while often braving highly dangerous conditions.

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