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Fields and into the streets to demand action on gun violence. in new york city governor cuomo took part in a die-in with the teens. to get the attention of national lawmakers, thousands more students skipped school. taking their message directly to washington. >> we once said nothing less than comprehensive gun control. if nothing else we will shame our lawmakers into protecting us. >> reporter: this was borne after the 1999 massacre at columbine. >> i think of my little brother and sister and how it could have been them and how it could be them if they don't change the law. >> reporter: they ...

This is happening now outside the white house in washington, d.c. these are live pictures of students protesting gun violence. they're laying on the ground, i think, for three minutes at a time, again, to protest the government inaction the last several years on the issue of gun violence and the call for action now. let's go to ryan nobles who is standing by at this protest. ryan, what are we seeing right here? >> john, what you're seeing is is a group of high school students from the washington, d.c. area who saw what happened in florida last week and decided to take action. this group, basic...

Out of town last week after passing their massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, dreamers held a die in at mitch mcconnell's office and they chanted in front of democratic senator in new mexico's office. no papers, no fear. senator michael bennett talked to the protesters in his lobby where dreamers pressed the democrat for a firm commitment not to vote for a spending bill without protection for dreamers. they did not get the commitment from senator bennett. >> we want you to publicly come out and say you're willing to withhold your vote for any spending bill that does not include ...

Running out for dreamers. in september the president killed the daca program that shields hundreds of thousands of dreamers from deportation. the deadline for a fix is march 5th. dreamers held a die in at mitch mcconnell's office and democratic senator in new mexico's office. in papers in fear. michael bennett talked to the protesters where dreamers pressed the democrat for a firm commitment not to vote for a spending bill without protection for dreamers. they did not get the commitment from senator bennett. >> we want you to publicly come out and say you're willing to with hold your vote for ...

This is a live look there of this die-in. so far nothing like what we saw yesterday when more than 180 protesters, many of them wheelchair bound were arrested on the hill. we'll be right back. why should over two hundred years of citi history matter to you? well, because it tells us something powerful about progress: that whether times are good or bad, people and their ideas will continue to move the world forward. as long as they have someone to believe in them. citi financed the transatlantic cable that connected continents. and the panama canal, that made our world a smaller place. we backe...