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Schools? they're the ones who should be kicked out. and that's the angle. joining me now is democrat new york assembly member jamie williams also a parent of a student at james madison high school. assembly woman thank you for joining us. i know you went to the school last night. you're a parent yourself. and your reaction to what happened and the response from the officials? >> thank you, laura for having me. definitely concerning as a parent for a representative for the area. very disruptive to our student. it's not fair to our parents. i was also there this morning and the community is just...

After the cdc endorsed the recommendation of its advisory panel. joining us to discuss, dr. ashish jha, the dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, thanks for joining us. the problem is only 27% of parents want to vaccinate their children right away while 33% want to wait and see what happens. as a doctor and as a parent yourself, doctor jha, what do you say to parents who want to wait before getting their kids vaccinated? >> so good afternoon. thanks for having me. i do want to get my 9-year-old vaccinated right away. and i'm excited to do that because i think it's the ...

Population, what groups of people got the shots. what did they see in terms of side effects. i expect that at some point there will be recommendations for at least some part of the population to have boosters, but it's premature to say who that is and what the timing would be. >> there is recommendations for the immunocompromised and the very elderly to get those right away. children between the ages of 5 and 11 might be able to get a coronavirus shot by halloween, at the end of october. you're a pediatrician, a parent yourself. once this vaccine is approved for younger children, would you lik...

Tech at a building next to where it happened and it just goes through my mind all of the time, what if it had had been him? like, my life would be completely different. and i think that whole experience changed my perspective on life completely. so i felt like i had to be here to support anyone else who has gone through such terrible, terrible things like this. and it has to stop. i'm sick of it. >> reporter: absolutely. and you know, another person -- a lot of people we have been seeing out here are a lot of parents, and you're a parent yourself. you got that phone call. you understood there ...

Say to children. most parents these days know their kids do drills in schools to teach them what to do and how to move in the event of a shooter. joining me now is julia who has been an assistant secretary for homeland security and is now at harvard. i know you spent a lot of time thinking about this. you're a parent yourself. how do you explain to kids? how to answer the question of why? why did this happen? >> you don't do the impossible. some things are inexplicable. when this happens, whatever crisis we learned over the years sort of three major things. one is don't infantalize your kids. ...