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The Daily

The Parkland Students, One Year Later

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.3107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a year since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. We went to Florida this week to check in on some of the students we met 12 months ago. Guest: Clare Toeniskoetter, a producer for “The Daily,” spoke with four students who survived the shooting. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the day.

0:10.0

Today, it's been one year since the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

0:18.0

Daily producer Claire Tennisgetter went to Florida this week to check in on some of the students we met last year.

0:27.0

It's Thursday, February 14th.

0:37.0

Last year, a few ex-after the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, my colleague Jack Healy went down to Parkland and interviewed a group of freshman girls who were in the first classroom that the shooter went into.

0:50.0

Classroom 12-16.

0:52.0

When I thought about this about being in a school shooting and the one thing that I've always said that I would do is text my mom and I love you.

0:58.0

And I'm like, thank you for everything. And I was so like mad and everything that I wasn't going to be able to get to do that.

1:05.0

And I was going to die and not let my mom know that I loved her.

1:08.0

And in that classroom, these girls saw eight of their classmates get shot.

1:12.0

And then I just hear like a few shots happen over here and then I see a life. So she's just like standing like this and then she like falls back.

1:19.0

And three of them were killed.

1:31.0

So Jack interviewed the girls, but I was the producer working on the daily episode.

1:35.0

And over the past year, I just haven't stopped thinking about them.

1:38.0

I thought about them each time there's been another mass shooting.

1:41.0

I thought about them on election night.

1:43.0

And I thought about them just pretty much every time I've seen a group of teenagers.

1:48.0

So as we approached the one year anniversary of the shooting, I wanted to check back in with them.

1:53.0

Please take a moment to locate the zone on your boarding pass.

1:56.0

So I flew down to Florida.

2:01.0

Got the group back together at one of their houses.

2:08.0

They grabbed a few snacks.

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