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DeVos' visit drew criticism from some students and teachers at the school, including shooting survivor Carly Novell. "I thought she would at least give us her 'thoughts and prayers,' but she refused to even meet/speak with students. I don't understand the point of her being here," Novell wrote on Twitter.

Carly Novell, editor of the school's newspaper, said DeVos had little interaction with students and teachers during her hourlong visit. "Most people were either angry that she was here or annoyed," Novell said. Wade arrived during lunchtime and went straight to the cafeteria, where Novell said the 12-time ...

Carly Novell woke up early Wednesday in a panic, gasping for air in her Parkland, Fla. bedroom as her mind flashed back to the life-altering day a gunman stormed her high school and killed 17 people. The 17-year-old student journalist had pangs of fear and anxiety as she prepared to walk back into ...

Jordan Klepper's The Opposition provided perhaps the most fascinating discussion of the evening as the comedian sat with two Parkland survivors, Carly Novell and Delaney Tarr. The interview directly followed Klepper's monologue on the shooting, which focused on the students' efforts as well as the ...

Two of those students who are now part of the #NeverAgain movement, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas seniors Carly Novell and Delaney Tarr stopped by The Opposition with Jordan Klepper on Tuesday evening, to add their well-reasoned remarks to the conversation. “I think we made it very clear that we've ...

Here's a clip from last night's Opposition, where Jordan Klepper talks with Carly Novell and Delaney Tarr, two seniors and shooting survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who are using their platform to call for the government to pass common-sense gun control laws. At one point during the ...

Carly Novell and Delaney Tarr told The Opposition host they're hoping for legislation that's a “step in the right direction, something small” to advocate for safe schools without gun violence. “We are fighting for common sense gun laws,” Tarr said. “We want people to stop getting shot, we want children to stop ...

This 2003 photo provided by Merri Novell shows her father Charles Cohen, center, sitting with his grandchildren Carly Novell, right, and Alex Novell, left, at Merri Novell's home in Parkland, Fla. Carly Novell, a student who survived the Florida high school shooting on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, tweeted ...

As Carly Novell concealed herself inside her school newspaper's closet at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, it was not just terrifying — it was also hauntingly familiar. A mass shooter was roaming the hallways, and panicked students were stuffing themselves into tiny spaces to evade ...

When the shots rang out at her Florida high school, Carly Novell hid in a closet for safety — just like her grandfather did to escape a 1949 shooting rampage in New Jersey. The Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School student recounted her harrowing two-hour ordeal in a tweet posted in the aftermath of a ...

"I just needed to say something," Novell said to CNN anchor Don Lemon on Thursday. "I think it's different when you hear it from someone who was there." During the shooting, Novell, who was hiding in a closet, said she discussed the subject of gun control with her peers. "While we were in there, we were ...

Student Carly Novell sent the tweet at 8 a.m. on Thursday, roughly 18 hours after 17 people were killed in the Parkland, Florida high school. "I was hiding in a closet for 2 hours," Novell wrote ."It was about guns. You weren't there, you don't know how it felt. Guns give these disgusting people the ability to kill ...

(CNN) Carly Novell survived the shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida by hiding in a closet -- and her grandfather also escaped a lone ... In an interview with CNN's Don Lemon on "CNN Tonight," Novell's mother, Merri Novell, said she was always wary of school shootings.