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Anderson Cooper 360

10 years later: The Sandy Hook Survivors

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

It’s been ten years since a gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and murdered 26 students and staff. Four survivors are now young adults trying to lead lives forever scarred by the tragedy. Audrey Nichols, Saahil Ray and Cyrena Arokium were in second grade and Jordan Gomes was in fourth grade. They tell Anderson Cooper about what they remember about that day and how they’re trying to take action against gun violence. Plus, at least three people are dead and several are injured after a tornado ripped through the New Orleans area. Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser joins AC360 to give an update on what he’s hearing from officials across the state. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening. We start tonight with breaking news. Confirmed tornado, touchdown in

0:04.2

New Orleans, another in nearly St. Bernard Parish leaving behind a trail of

0:07.6

destruction of about two miles according to local officials. At least one

0:11.4

person has reported dead in St. Charles Parish by 20 miles up River from

0:15.0

New Orleans. They'll... they'll... they'll sing some of the damage now as we are

0:18.5

seeing it. The mayor of Greten, Louisiana, across the River from New Orleans calls

0:22.0

the severe weather worse than Hurricane Ida, which hit the area last year. She says

0:26.2

homes or collapse, cars are turned over and they're live wires everywhere. I talked

0:30.6

to her in a moment where the 40 tornadoes have been reported in the past two

0:34.0

days across Texas at Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi. I'll go to Jennifer Gray

0:38.4

live at the scene end weather center. So Jennifer, talk a little bit about the

0:41.2

timing of these tornadoes tonight and what we should expect. Well this has been

0:45.3

unreal Anderson. This is something we started to see unfold yesterday morning

0:49.5

across the Dallas-Fort Worth area, went through Northwest Louisiana last night

0:54.3

and now finally making it to Southeast Louisiana. This has been a very slow

0:58.1

moving system. As you mentioned, we have seen numerous tornado reports. We've

1:02.6

had over 40 since yesterday and a handful of those right around the New

1:06.6

Orleans area. I think it'll be tomorrow morning when the sun comes up where we

1:10.8

finally see the scope of the devastation. They're luckily tonight though.

1:14.8

They are finally in the clear. The storm is obviously ongoing. What's the biggest

1:18.0

threat right now? The biggest threat right now is basically

1:21.3

Southern Mississippi on into Alabama. You can see these hot pink boxes. Those are

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