First Lady Michelle Obama Visits CBS SUNDAY MORNING Today

A group of Chicago school kids in a crime-ridden neighborhood told First Lady Michelle Obama they fear for their lives each day, she tells Lee Cowan in an interview on CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH Charles Osgood to be broadcast today, May 5, 2013 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network.

Obama recalls visiting a group of "wonderful" students at Harper High School in Englewood, where they shared stories "of how every day they wake up and wonder whether they're going to make it out of school alive."

"I mean, every single kid worries about their own death, or the death of someone, every single day," Obama tells Cowan.

She spoke to the children after giving a moving speech on gun violence, in which she recalled attending the funeral for Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl killed in Chicago a week after performing at the President's inauguration.

"We have millions of kids living in these kinds of circumstances who are doing everything right," Obama says. "And we, as a nation, have to embrace these kids and let them know that we hear them, and see them. One kid told me he Felt like he lived in a cage, because he feels like his Community is unseen, unheard and nobody cares about it... What's our obligation to these kids? We do have one."

In a wide-ranging interview at the White House, the First Lady talks about her efforts to get children to eat better, the White House garden and her thoughts on what life will be like after her husband leaves office.

Cowan's interview with Michelle Obama will be broadcast this week on CBS SUNDAY MORNING. Rand Morrison is the executive producer.

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