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Many of them signing messages of hope. in that crowd i met three teenagers often in tears throughout the evening and who told me how their lives are forever changed. >> having to realize that racism is so alive and strong that people are willing to kill us for it and right from manifestos, hating against us because of our nationality out of all things is terrifying. like it's -- i never had to come to terms with my own mortality for being hispanic. >> manifesto opened your eyes. people really think of us like that. they think of us as monsters, as something that shouldn't even be alive. >> peo...

Love each other, people who are proud to have come here and built a life here. it all came into sharp focus much as it did at so many of the other vigils with teenagers. three girls in high school who i spoke to who talked about the grief and the sheer despair that they were feeling. take a listen. >> are you afraid? >> yes. >> very. >> i'm having to realize that racism is so alive and strong that people are willing to kill us for it and write full manifestos against because of our nationality of all things is terrifying. like i never had to come to terms with my own mortality for being hispan...

To kill us for it. i never had to come to terms with my own mortality for being hispanic. >> just hearing that one of us wasn't safe was shocking and it revealed that the world isn't so nice. >> we're supposed to be one of the meft countries in the world and this is still happening and people are dying, simply because they were born slightly south than them. simply because they're slightly darker than someone else. >> this community trying to wrap its head around the idea that someone would get in a car and drive 650 miles specifically to target them. if there's one story, ali, that i hear rep...

Futures but they're choosing not to so it's up to us and acknowledge the power that we have as young people. thank you. >> being low income, being hispanic, being a woman, all of these identities that are discriminated against, marginalized. climate change affects it all. >> busy 24 hours. potential flooding, rain, and then this. you can see the data showing strong to severe storms. >> standing up for climate change is the only way to create a livable future and it's the only way to fix almost all of the problems that we have here. >> reporter: in february representative ocasio-cortez and ed m...

Trump's hold. that's why people don't trust him on immigration. when you add up his actions on immigration it looks xenophobic. people don't come to this country because they have great opportunities in their own country. what did nancy pelosi and ru rudy -- they're both italian americans. if you said pelosi or guillani, they're italian, right. there will be a day when you say hernandez and rodriguez, what do they have in common? being hispanic will not come first to mind. that's been the history of this country. people come in and they asa assimilate. they said all the things they're saying a...