Jodi Blanco News Today

>> until you talk to your son or daughter you dont know whats happened. >> reporter: witnesses say the gunman targeted a group of classmates in the school cafeteria. a bullet grazed nate muellers ear. >> you see glasses of your friends laying all over the place, theres people screaming, everybodys running in different directions and youre just trying to get out. >> reporter: his friend was killed. the junior was waiting in the cafeteria for a bus to take him to a nearby voshgs school w...

>> pelley: good evening. we start tonight with a story that sent a chill through parents today-- parents who send their kids to school trusting and hoping that they will be safe. but in one of those schools, a high school in ohio today, the worst happened. the police say a student opened fire on classmates leaving one dead and four others wounded-- two of them in critical condition. it happened at chardon high school, 30 miles south of cleveland. it will alleged shooter is a teenaged b...

Me." jodi, your action to when you hear one of johns friends say, you know, i did pick on him, and im sorry. >> well, my reaction is that this is the problem. ive traveled the nations schools speaking inside schools, and my message is that its not just joking around. you are damaging each other for life. and until schools communicate that message effectively to kids, we are going to continue to see this problem. and when this bully said, you know, i never really hated him, thats the sad part. wh...

And youve got to get a group of friends for this child. contact the park district and the library, the nearest next town over that does not feed into your childs school. get a list of organized activities for kids, have your child pick the one he or she would like to participate in and enroll them, but its got to be a district where the kids dont go because the purpose is a new social life and brand new faces. jane: a whole new group. >> this is vital because every night, every night that a bull...

Carmichael, hanged himself over the weekend. apparently, his family says he had been bullied and teased by his classmates because he was so much smaller than the other kids. one of those classmates who says he was johns friend but did pick on him is now talking. take a listen. >> i did bully him, you know? but it was just both of us just messing around. you know, i never did it because i hated him. jane: this all comes just after another high-profile bullying case out of boston, youve probably h...

[laughter] >> and follow that toad wherever it goes. bill: have a great thursday, everybody. >> "happening now" starts right now. jane: hi, everybody. top of the honor, im jane skinner. trace: im trace gallagher in for jon scott. jane: so many concerns at this hour as the water in new england is smashing through walls of sandbags and smashing flood records. the rain has stopped, but the danger remains. hundreds of homes and businesses still threatened. trace: in the middle box, sentenc...