Today began with heightened tension for parents and students with social media threats throughout the state in the wake of the mass shooting last week in Broward County which left seventeen people dead. A threat caused a flurry of panic at two Collier county schools, caused another school to go on lockdown in Manatee County, and caused panicking parents to leave work, yanking their kids out of class.
Meanwhile, a bus load of students went to Tallahassee to appeal to lawmakers to do something to keep kids safe in school, and here in Southwest Florida, high school students walked out of class in solidarity. We’ll talk with some of the students trying to turn this tragedy into action, and hear from reporters around the state about what they're covering in the wake of the Parkland school shooting.
