Another School Shooting: 'It Doesn't Have To Be This Way'
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
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Summary
Georgia police on Wednesday said four people were killed, and nine others were taken to the hospital with injuries after a shooting at Apalachee High School outside of Atlanta. Police identified the alleged shooter as a 14-year-old student at the school. Natalie Fall, the executive director of March For Our Lives, talks about how gun safety advocates are responding to the latest school tragedy.
A new poll from CNN/SSRS shows Vice President Kamala Harris with a lead in the vital swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin and in a statistical tie with former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia. As the nation prepares to potentially make Harris the first Indian American president in U.S. history, WAD host Priyanka Arabindi sat down with members of her own family to do exactly what you're not supposed to do at a big family gathering: talk about politics!
And in headlines: The Biden administration is planning to make it harder to end a restrictive asylum policy that was supposed to be temporary, the Department of Justice said it had disrupted Russian efforts to meddle in the upcoming election, and Montana's Republican Senate nominee Tim Sheehy was caught on tape making racist comments about Native Americans.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, September 5th. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Priyanka Aire Bindi. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Juanita Tolliver, and this is What a Day, |
| 0:06.0 | The show that is debating the meaning of mocking and Ohio. |
| 0:11.0 | Yes, we found this quiz on AP news about Generation Alpha slang. |
| 0:17.0 | Didn't even know there was a Generation Alpha until yesterday. |
| 0:20.0 | We're learning a lot. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, that's not very skibody of you. I'm very Ohio according to this |
| 0:28.0 | quiz. On today's show, the Department of Justice has taken action against Russian meddling in this year's election. |
| 0:36.0 | Plus, the Biden administration is expected to update its border policy. |
| 0:40.0 | But first, the community of Winder, Georgia is mourning after a school shooting at a local high school. |
| 0:46.0 | At least four people, two students and two teachers were killed at Appalachian High School on Wednesday and dozens of others were injured. |
| 0:53.7 | Early Wednesday morning the school received a phone call from an unknown source claiming that |
| 0:58.5 | there would be shootings at five schools and that Appalachian would be the first. |
| 1:03.0 | And as the nation mourns yet another school shooting, Vice President Kamala Harris, President |
| 1:07.5 | Joe Biden, and former President Donald Trump have all commented on the deadly incident. |
| 1:12.6 | Here's Vice President Harris speaking about the shooting |
| 1:14.6 | while campaigning in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. |
| 1:16.8 | It's senseless. |
| 1:17.9 | It is, we've got to stop it. |
| 1:20.6 | And we have to end this epidemic of gun violence in our country once and for all. |
| 1:26.0 | You know, it doesn't have to be this way. |
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