Hollywood, CA - October 11, 2007 - Dr. Phil McGraw looks into the phenomenon of school-related shootings in the United States, which tragically erupt into the headlines all too frequently, on DR. PHIL NOW, airing Friday, October 12 (Check local listings for time and channel).

This past Sunday, October 7, 20-year-old Tyler Peterson, a full-time Forest County Sheriff's deputy and part-time police officer in Crandon, Wisconsin, killed six students and recent alumni of Crandon High School who were attending a Homecoming party at the house of a friend. He then shot himself.

Three days later, 14-year-old Asa Coon took a gun into Success Tech Academy in downtown Cleveland and opened fire, wounding two teachers and two students before committing suicide at the scene on Wednesday, October 10.

"There has to begin to be a dialogue between parents and their children," said Dr. Phil. "Children need to understand they're not ratting out a friend if they call attention to unusual behavior or to threats."

During the program, Dr. Phil voices his concerns about keeping medical records private. "As a professional psychologist, I know there's not anything in those files that I would be able to look at and reliably determine who is going to wind up a shooter and who isn't," he said. "I worry that if we label those students they could actually start to live up to their label."

Among the show's guests assembled to provide some insight to these dire happenings are Columbine High School massacre survivors Craig Nimmo, whose sister Rachel was the first to be killed in the 1999 carnage; his mother, Beth; and Marjorie Lindholm, who is now a college student but still has recurring nightmares, particularly when incidents such as these make their way into the news.

Among the experts on the show are Dr. David Buss, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas and author of "The Murderer Next Door;" Pat Brown, a criminal profiler; Jerald Newberry, Executive Director of the National Education Association's Health Information Network and Jan Harp Domene, National President of the PTA.

In a poignant moment with Columbine mother Beth Nimmo, Dr. Phil asked the woman what the people in Cleveland and Crandon could expect to be going through emotionally in the near future.

"I believe with all my heart, Dr. Phil, nothing is real to them at this point," Nimmo said. "I know for the first year, our family...it was like you live in a fog or a tunnel and nothing seems real," Nimmo replied.

DR. PHIL NOW is a new platform introduced this season to specifically focus on breaking news analysis and events that capture America's attention.

Executive Producer Carla Pennington has been with DR. PHIL since its first season, as have Supervising Producers Angie Kraus Bell, Kandi Amelon Sawyer, Kathy Giaconia, Lisa Steinke and Director Paul Casey.

The syndicated series, DR. PHIL, was created by Harpo Productions, produced by Peteski Productions in association with CBS Television Distribution. It is broadcast on over 212 stations representing 99.9% of the country. Since its debut in September 2002, the series has been ranked second among all daytime talk shows and consistently ranks among the Top Ten of all syndicated strips (Source: NSS Ranking Report).

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