The Latest: Fallon thanks students for 'choosing hope'
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on news related to the killing of 17 people at a school in Parkland, Florida (all times local):
8:45 a.m.
"Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon was the surprise commencement speaker at the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people in February.
Fallon joked about his own less-than-stellar high school performance — he said it took having to go to summer school to find his people. And then he told the students they're already proving how setbacks can "change us in ways we don't expect, and make us better, and stronger."
Fallon said he wanted to personally thank the students for taking "something awful and using it to make a change."
Fallon praised the students for "choosing hope over fear.