you want to see america, you come to its heartland. and what is the capital of that heartland? chicago. >> everybody. >> they call it a blue collar town because you work hard, you play hard and you show up the next day. >> chicagoans do not put up with the bull -- >> there's no city like chicago. then you start coming out into the neighborhoods and it's a little different. >> come on, hurry up. >> my world is all about living in people's worst nightmares. >> this is just like a third world country. >> i look at myself as a parent of hundreds of kids. >> get out of the street! >> why are you crying?

>> there are no other options. >> what are you trying to achieve? >> right now i'm trying to save chicago. >> any particular part of chicago? >> all of it. >> people know chicago is rising to the top. we don't get enough credit. >> today we sent a message to the world! >> show them who we are. cancer >> springtime in chicago is a celebration that doesn't last very long. the warm weather that pushes tulips from their beds and invites kids back outside to play brings with it a warning. watch out, things are about to heat up. >> one-term mayor! one-term mayor! one-term mayor! one-term mayor!

one-term mayor! >> when's the first day? >> when is the first day? >> yeah. i'm going to be in town, right? >> chicago's famous for power politics. for generations, the mayor was better known as "boss" and his political operation was called the machine. >> ari? it's rahm. >> the daley family ran chicago for decades. now for the first time in more than 20 years, there's a new boss in town. rahm emanuel. >> because of the people of chicago, this is the warmest place in america. >> emanuel has come home to chicago with an impressive resume. senior aide to president clinton, spent six years in congress, and later served as chief of staff for president obama. emanuel got things done.

tough. unrelenting. his enemies called him rahmbo. >> you're known as a volatile guy, a bit of a roman candle with a temper. what is the angriest you've gotten in the first 100 days? >> that i had to do this interview right in the middle of everything else i need to do. i swam this morning a mile. yesterday i swam a mile, biked four, weights, and then a yoga class. neurotic is actually a fair word about it. obsessive. obsessive about it. >> obsessive. that about sums up all things rahm emanuel, especially his commitment to shake up chicago's failing public schools. >> there's 400,000 kids that go to our schools. we have the capacity for 500,000. certain schools that were 200 kids when they were able to handle 600. >> chicago's public school system faces a $1 billion budget gap. the mayor's hand-picked school board is proposing to close underutilized schools, mostly in african american and latino neighborhoods where the population has dropped. >> very difficult decision.

nobody likes to do it, which is why people haven't done it in the past. i am not an education reformer. i believe in educational excellence and i will adopt any reform that gets me there. >> shame on the mayor! no school closings! >> with 54 public schools on the chopping block, it's the largest school consolidation in u.s. history. >> don't let these people take your schools. >> for mayor emanuel, the guy who helped president obama save the auto industry, bail out the banks and reform health care, chicago's public school crisis is right in his wheel house. >> you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. what i mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. >> the mayor is taking a risk with his bold school plan. while it might make sense because of the budget crisis and declining enrollment, many parents fear it puts their kids at risk, because they'll have to walk across dangerous gang lines

to attend new schools. >> rahm emanuel thinks he can just come into our schools and move all our kids all over gang lines and just say, we can build a building right here. let's just take a school out. we don't care about these kids. but it's kids in there. they need safety. >> asean is speaking out for the 30,000 kids affected by the closings. >> you should be investing in these schools, not closing them. you should be supporting these schools, not closing them. we are not toys. we are not going down without a fight! >> this has to be done in a very thoughtful way. we have to make the changes that are necessary, so our children don't continue to go to schools that are not achieving the goals they need to achieve academically. so the implementation is going forward as we talk right now. >> how would you respond to neighborhood residents who say

if one kid gets hurt, the mayor has blood on his hands? >> my responsibility starts when doors to the future of a child are closed. 56% of african-american male adolescents are dropping out. and i am accountable as every parent, every teacher, every principal is to turning that number around. >> mayor, can i ask one question? >> we won't let you close our schools! >> there's going to be a lot of death on his hands if these schools close. >> the truth is, going to school in certain parts of chicago is risky enough. and in roseland, a tough neighborhood on the far south side where president obama was a community organizer, warring gang factions remain a constant threat to student safety. >> how is it going, commander? what time in the morning was this? at the school? who are the students? and the boys don't know what it's related to? okay. i have good relationships with all those kids.

all of them. i'm going to talk to them as soon as i get back. somebody was shooting at the kids on the way to school this morning. >> fenger high school principal liz dozier is on a mission, to give her kids a shot at a better future. >> this is exactly why i hate the warm weather. it just begins to slowly heat up. but there's a larger ongoing gang complex within the community, and like the school, we sit like in the middle of this. >> an important part of the principal's job is to keep tabs on gang conflicts and make sure her students are safe at school. >> i am looking for shelton. does anybody have a 20 on shelton woolridge? you don't know what happened? >> no. >> how many shots were fired? >> like three. >> and you don't know what direction they were shooting in? >> no. >> have you heard of any conflicts in the neighborhood? >> no. i'm not from around here. i don't know what be going on. >> he was like no, i don't know what's going on. >> amnesia.

>> right. >> were they from a car or just walking by? >> just people just like walking i believe. >> and started shooting? >> yeah. one person. >> crazy. >> it's hell. >> it's times like this when the fear is all too real for principal dozier. in 2009, the brutal murder of one of her students was caught on video and broadcast worldwide on the internet. >> simply sickening is about the only way to describe it. pictures taken on a cell phone of a kid pounding another kid with a wooden board. that teenager who just got hit is 16-year-old derrion albert, and he's dead now. >> just weeks into the new school year, fenger student derrion albert got caught up into a brawl and was beaten to death. on his walk home from school. >> someone said he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. no he wasn't. he was in the right place. he was coming from school! >> fear that the walk to school might be deadly for some chicago kids isn't crazy paranoia, it's real.

derrion albert will always be a reminder. >> the climate in the school is just absolutely abysmal. like massive gang fights in the hallways. 300 arrests that first year. we had to have literally two districts worth of police in the building for us to be able to change classes one day. it was a scary time in terms of, like, what's happened to our children. >> four years later, significant progress has been made. >> we'll check you right in. hey, how is it going? >> going good. >> hey, sweetheart, how are you? >> i don't have biological children, but i'm assuming it must be what a parent feels like when they have to send their kid out in the world. it would be like my kids have a greater chance of something happening to them. i just worry about them. >> gentlemen, gentlemen, not going to happen, not today. not today. keep it moving! get out of the street. i'm not going say it again.

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two years into his first term as mayor, rahm emanuel has unveiled his boldest plan yet, the proposed closing of 54 public schools. the midterm brings a flurry of speculation from citizens and pundits alike. >> two-year anniversary of rahm.

>> when you consider the year he had kind of getting waxed by the teachers union in that strike, and the number of murders shooting up the way they did, he had a pretty rough year. right now there's nobody on the horizon who is going to run against him. there never will be. that's the daley way. you coopt people or you destroy them. rahm emanuel is richard daley with a circumcision. to put it like that, but he's a continuation of that kind of politician. >> i will say, though, this school closing coming up, they have 54 on the dock. people are predicting some real chaos, real disturbance. >> this is our schools, our children, and our babies that you're hurting. rahm emanuel, take your ass off our school! >> just seven weeks before the final vote to close schools, there's one thing on everyone's mind, how to keep kids safe as

their walk to school takes them through hostile gang territory. >> is there constant fights out there? the whole running alongside them? >> it's going to be route specific. >> but there will be a presence? >> yes. alongside. >> all right, good. thank you, everybody. >> most of chicago's neighborhoods are safe. but parts of the city are plagued by gun violence. emanuel promised to take on chicago's shooting problem, and when it came time to pick a top cop, he chose an outsider, gary mccarthy from the bronx. in new york city, he helped develop comparative statistics to combat crime. in newark, new jersey, where he was police director, mccarthy's strategy led to a drop in the murder rate. >> the cook county board of commissioners commending gary mccarthy for keeping the peace during last month's nato summit. >> a little more than a year after his appointment, the local press hailed mccarthy a hero. but by the end of 2012, the number of homicides in chicago had skyrocketed to more than 500

and some aldermen were calling for mccarthy's job. >> i mean, my biggest issue in chicago is dealing with gangs, guns, and the press. it's not cultural change in the department. it's not acceptance of an outsider. none of those things really. they all pale in comparison to those challenges right there. and the media, they keep talking about the rising toll of gun violence in chicago, while the numbers are going in the other direction. >> while the press continues to focus on chicago's violence, there's actually been a decline. in 2012, there were 161 murders in the first quarter. in 2013, there were 93. that's more than a 40% reduction. >> we're taking a more wholistic approach to crime reduction here in chicago than i think has been done in most places in the country. >> what are you trying to achieve? >> i'm trying to save the world. can't you tell? right now i'm trying to save chicago. >> you're trying to save chicago.

any particular part of chicago? >> all of it. >> chicago has one of the worst, most difficult, most intractable gang violence problems in the country. >> maybe there's something in the water here. al capone's prohibition era outfit put chicago on the map as gangster city. in the '60s, the latin kings ruled. then came larry hoover, the leader of the gangster disciples, and willie lloyd, king of the vice lords. that all fell apart in the '90s when federal indictments sent top gang lieutenants to prison, and most of chicago's notoriously violent public housing high-rises were torn to the ground. >> when they did that, they turned the street into chaos. so now it's every man for himself. >> in the '80s, there were five dominant gangs in chicago. now there are more than 70. and 600 gang factions. in all, 70,000 gang members. >> what the hell is going on? >> we have a gang problem.

>> the gang situation is there, man. it's about cliques. >> every two to three blocks is a difficult faction of a gang. >> two or three blocks away from each other. >> i don't matter what gang you is. >> this community against that community. >> people get mad over the littlest -- like looking at your girl, step on your shoe, you want to kill them. >> i done lost too many [ bleep ] i don't know what to expect. it's iraq, it's real. even shorty's taking, aiming at your neck. >> children start claiming gangs as young as kindergarten. >> by the time a kid gets to high school, his gang affiliation can become his identity, and even a lunchroom fight can turn into a gang war. >> who was the other girl? i need you to go down there and get that. >> but four years after derrion

albert's tragic murder, principal dozier and her team have transformed the culture at fenger high. >> ladies, ladies, it's too loud. it's too loud. >> there are two kids arguing, figure out what the issue is. if we don't get to the root of it, it will continue to bubble up until it will explode. >> all right. well, good afternoon, everyone. >> good afternoon. >> what i'm thankful for is the fact that we can sit in the peace circle and talk about what's going on. and then we can decide from this particular point how do we move forward from it? using zero tolerance is never going to work. i began to bring in the practices of restorative justice, which is justice that heals. >> in the past, the girls would have been suspended. now they take part in the peace circle to settle scores. >> my friend got gunned down over something he said, she said stuff. so if you all through with the situation, just let it go. >> i am cool with each and every one of you guys because i love you. and -- yeah. >> in 2009, fenger was identified as a failing school that needed to be saved.

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♪ come may, chicago's tech startups really start to bloom. the mayor has a lot of responsibilities but makes it a priority to visit chicago's tech hub, 1871. it's part of emanuel's plan to revitalize the economy. >> we have 85 employees and we have an office and revenue. >> 1871 is this interesting sort of experiment. 50,000 square feet, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists have these working sessions to really change the status quo as well as hopefully make money. >> when you come here, you basically feel like you've gotten into harvard business school. >> the trick is, focus on the one and do it really well. i love this. this is great. >> we as the city now have a center of gravity to the digital economy. >> the mayor is energized by the new start-ups at 1871.

and the young scholars back at city hall who hope to become part of the new digital economy. at a city council meeting, he sets aside a moment to honor chicago's gate scholars. >> chicago has 35 gates scholar winners, the most of any other public school in the country. >> there's only three weeks before the board of education votes on which schools to close, and some parents are growing desperate. >> we are putting out greatest of hopes in you. but the test won't be today or the test won't be your graduation. the test won't be when you got that letter. you will get knocked down. >> walk the walk, hands off our schools. >> and knits the valley that your character gets revealed, not at the peak. >> walk the walk, hands off our schools. walk the walk, hand off our schools. >> parents continue to voice their objections to the mayor's plan, but the most vocal critic

is the chicago teachers union. >> he is the murder mayor. look at the murder rate in this city. he's murdering schools, he's murdering good jobs, he's murdering housing. i don't know what else to call him. he's the murder mayor. >> chicago teachers union president karen lewis is mayor emanuel's most outspoken opponent. >> it's the largest teacher strike this country has seen in more than two decades. >> in 2012, she led teachers out on a week-long strike and faced off with rahm emanuel. >> he's a liar. and a bully. >> this is a strike of choice. and it's the wrong choice for our children. >> it was a bitter fight. when it was over, both sides claimed victory. lewis and the teachers walked away with a better contract. and the mayor got his longer school day, and longer school year. >> do you feel you have won this strike? >> absolutely.

>> you had a strike. i don't know, kids got a longer school day. >> hey, guys. how are you? >> hi! >> have you been quiet and patient? >> yes. >> better than the mayor, because i'm not quiet or patient. in that order. this is how the finger happened. you know how any adult always says be careful with sharp objects? i was working somewhere and i was working with a sharp object, and i wasn't careful. i had a cut and i had to go to the doctor and a hospital for a while. so when somebody says, don't play with sharp objects, like doesn't your teacher always say no running with the scissors? they're all saying that to be careful so nothing happens. i was careless and something happened.

all right, guys, see you later. >> bye! >> chicago public school students are mostly african-american and latino. only 9% are white. many fenger students come from poor single parent families who need extra support at school. wh federal money runs out, those kids might suffer the most. >> is he in anger management? i put him in anger management. did he start going to that? >> i don't know. >> right, because remember -- let me talk to him because he and i have a pretty good relationship. okay, now we're going to back that up. >> she said i said some curse words, talking about some -- >> tell me the truth. "f" bombs. >> i never said the "f" bomb. >> hopefully with anger management, you do have to check in with the social worker, you talk about it and the more you talk about it, the more it will help you feel better inside so you don't feel so stressed. >> schools become these dropout factories, and really has to do with issues happening at home that no one is addressing at the

school. this is the last stop for 98% of the kids here. if we don't get them off into something else, like there are no other options. >> thousands of children in the city live in neighborhoods where a funeral for a teenager is considered unfortunate but not unusual. those are the odds that so many young people are facing in the city. >> when first lady michelle obama returns home to chicago to raise money for at-risk kids, she reflects on the recent murder of hadiya pendleton, a 15-year-old band majorette, shot in the back on her way from school just weeks after performing at president obama's second inauguration. hadiya pendleton was me, and i was her. but i got to grow up.

see, at the end of the day, this is the point i want to make, that resources matter. today, too many kids in the city are living just a few l stops from world class museums and universities, yet all of that might as well be in a different state, even in a different continent, because many of them don't even know that the university of chicago exists. let alone dream of attending that university or any university for that matter. because instead of spending their days enjoying the abundance of riches the city has to offer, they are consumed with watching their backs. >> my name is dominique brooks. d-o-m-i-n-i-q-u-e. and i attend manierre elementary school. i have been jumped on by students, and i stayed in the hospital for a long time. i don't feel i'm safe. um --

>> it's okay. [ applause ] >> kids at manierre elementary, one of 54 schools slated to close, will have to walk to jenner academy across division street. that might not sound like a big deal, but it is. >> we can't even walk that way. as soon as we cross the bridge, and it's just crazy. >> no talk or no nothing, jokes to the side, we just get jumped on. >> i think they're still out here. >> they beat up everybody they see. they tried to beat up my little sister and she's only in the first grade. i'm just so scared.

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it's play-off time in chicago, and the mayor courtside at the united center cheers on the scrappy bulls, who refuse to go down without a fight. two weeks before the final vote to close schools, parents and teachers also refuse to go down without a fight. >> it's criminal to take these children out of the safety of this environment and this school.

i know it's numbers. i get it. but we are their families. we are parenting these children. >> emanuel, well, he's been at the center of unpopular decisions like this before. he's never backed down. and nobody expects him to start now. >> i've been fortunate to work for two really, really good presidents. and i've learned a lot from both of them. when i was going through it, being chief of staff, every chief of staff hates it. it is the most difficult job in america. there's a target on your back, nothing you do anybody likes. and you've got to make sure it works for the president. and then when you make your decision, you're not done, because everybody else says you're an idiot. the first nine months to a year, i had this joke with the president. because we would go like from the auto meeting, the next would come in the financial meeting. the next would come in, the economy is collapsing. the next would come in, afghanistan is unraveling. we've got to get out of iraq. and you would go from meeting to

meeting, 45 minutes. and you would have to make all these decisions. and it's like pounding and pounding and pounding. i used to say to him, you know, mr. president, i really don't want to make anymore decisions. so we joked when we got out of the white house, we were going to set up a little t-shirt shack in hawaii that looked right out to the beach. we were going to sell one color, white, one size, medium. we would have to make a decision, because we were done. >> liz dozier knows a thing or two about having a stressful job. >> fenger is always somewhere in my brain rumbling around. i think about like are the kids safe, i think about what are they doing? >> back at fenger, liz and her team work on an anti-violence strategy to take to the streets. >> one of the things that mr.

spicer actually brought to the table about two years ago was a peace walk. i didn't feel we were ready for that as a school. i think this year we're actually ready for it. we can take the whole school out and do a walk. i'm excited. it's good. i met with the police commander a couple weeks ago to talk about helping to kind of secure the route so we would be stationary along the route. the other thing we were thinking about is having it be a silent walk, how powerful that could be, to have the kids walk through the community in absolute silence. >> we're silencing the violence. >> oh, that's it. that's it! >> that's good. >> despite all the neighborhood violence, fenger students continue to push for their peace march. >> it's like people that are gang banging and stuff, so you figure why not let us walk through our neighborhoods. and let us know we're trying to do something different. >> the seniors have been here the four years and been through the turnaround. we done seen how the school has changed and how the community has bettered itself just in our school. >> i have to say it, it's pros and cons, this walk.

>> it wouldn't be a good idea without the police force. still at the same time, there's still violence. >> more deadly violence breaks out on chicago's streets. at least eight people died and at least 46 were hurt from friday afternoon to early this morning. >> male black teen dressed in a gray shirt. >> with the warmer weather, shootings are escalating. even in broad daylight. >> kind of blew up in a couple different areas. let's talk about what is going on. >> eight murders in the 28-day time frame as opposed to three last year. >> it's times like these that superintendent mccarthy holds his district commanders accountable. >> fred, i want a little bit of analysis on this. of course, the way the system is designed is we gave you the cops. we want them in those beats doing police work. if that's not happening, that has got to be addressed. >> as far as overall, it's a matter of us just really -- >> look, i'm the type of person that if i had that beat, i

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♪ as the mayor commutes downtown, the city is buzzing. but for folks who send their kids to 54 schools on the chopping block, doomsday is coming. and it's just a week away. mayor emanuel remains committed to his plan. >> to have somebody from the board president meet with you. >> the mayor meets with barbara byrd-bennett, ceo of the chicago public schools to review the list and move forward with the largest school consolidation in the country. >> rahm emanuel only cares about his kids.

he only care what he needs. he do not care about nobody else but himself. >> people say asean has what it takes to be mayor of chicago some day. his school, marcus garvey, is on the closure list, but the 9-year-old believes there's a chance to keep it open if he can make enough noise. >> i respect the man. i'm not saying that he racist about how he try to close the schools, that's racist. the majority of the schools are in black neighborhoods. >> asean hits the pavement with his mom, a public school clerk and a member of the mighty chicago teachers union. >> okay, you get that house. >> gotcha. okay. >> joey mcdermott is a teacher union field rep, organizing against the mayor's plan to close schools. joey is making a big push to mobilize teachers at manierre elementary school. >> they've got to know that the teachers are very strong and want to save their school. >> and parents, like single mother sharice mcdaniel. >> we have a great school here. our kids have art. they have drama. they have dance.

i mean, those are all the things that rahm emanuel's kids have at his school. why can't we have that? >> this is about balancing the budget on the backs of poor people. and we know they're going to turn around and put the money in charter schools and open up more charter schools so that billionaires that are living now can name schools after themselves. because of what he's doing to our schools, the people of chicago are going to stand up and say to rahm emanuel, hasta la vista. see you later! >> the teachers union teams up with parents and headed to court to fight the school consolidation plan. >> parents have filed two class action lawsuits today. >> one lawsuit seeks to protect special needs students who could be especially vulnerable. >> i don't think that people really understand how much harm is going to be done to these children. >> in roseland, alice knows how

important a neighborhood school is for kids with special needs. her daughter ariana is one of them. two years ago, ariana and her cousin were shot while jumping rope. ariana survived a gunshot wound to the head but still suffers physical and psychological trauma. her cousin didn't make it. >> you got kids that come up and tell her that's why your cousin got shot. that why your cousin dead. just cruel. the school that they're trying to send her to, that's where they from. i can't send her up there. >> if ariana's school is closed, she could come face-to-face with the family who shot her and murdered her cousin. >> got to walk past all this, and go through all that and then go home and study? how many hours am i going to have to study and worry about my house getting shot up? where am i going to study at, on the floor with a flashlight? you know, and i'm 8, 9 years old. you know, it's sad. >> three people got shot last night right up the hill. it's just crazy. the first hot day come, here

comes the shooting. >> even as shooting continues on the street, just blocks away at fenger high, principal dozier moves forward with plans for the peace march. >> the objective is for students to be able to walk away and understand the importance for the peace walk. >> how is it going to go? the kids are all leading this, so they have to have a clear understanding of what they're supposed to do and kind of go. >> there's some serious safety concerns. i know parents have expressed, community members have expressed about the kids coming down this way. there's neighborhood boundaries, whether people think they're real or not, they are real. so there's just tensions that flare from different neighborhoods. [ siren ] >> neighborhood tension erupted unexpectedly for ariana's mother alice and her boyfriend, wild bill. they were approached by a gunman in front of their house. wild bill was shot dead right in front of alice.

>> standing in front of the house talking about the kid's school. what school they was going to go to. and some guys was walking across the street. i said look up. and he pulled the gun out and started shooting. i just fell to the ground and balled up and when i got up, i seen my daughter and father laying there gasping for air. trying to breathe. and i don't know how to deal with it right now. i feel like i'm losing it. >> the superintendent gets regular briefings on murder investigations city wide. >> there was a murder. victim was standing with friends when the offender emerged on

foot south of the building and opened fire. fatally wounding the victim. >> victim's family is cooperative and the witnesses to a certain agree have been cooperative, but they all agree the shooter had his face covered with what looks like a t-shirt. >> this incident occurred in a high threat level conflict area. black souls, new breeds. >> eddie, let's get a plan, all right? >> how is it going, commander? what is going on? >> someone that was killed. somebody -- wild bill, he was really high ranking in one of the gangs. so this has now tripped off all this stuff. and the school, we sit, like, in the middle of this. somebody got killed, somebody named wild bill or something like that. did you hear about this? we should probably talk about if i should even do the peace walk. i can't just set them in harm's way to make a statement. so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 a month? yup. all 5 of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share.

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in roseland, the murder of ariana's stepfather sparks fears of an all-out gang war. tensions are high and principal dozier has a tough decision to make about the peace march. >> first of all, just say thanks again for being willing to come out to our peace walk. we're actually going to have to cancel it, unfortunately. there was some shooting that happened earlier in the week on the corner, just some brewing conflict in the neighborhood and i don't feel safe taking the kids outside.

>> i need everybody to sit in the first two rows, please. right here, first two rows. the peace walk has been postponed. i want you to understand it's not canceled, it's postponed. i don't want you to walk up out of here and think what you did all week is in vain, it's not. we want to make sure everything is safe and we can be productive with this, okay? >> the mayor visits a water filtration plant where he's eager to announce one of the largest infrastructure investments in chicago history. >> charles, do you need a pen, man? there's a whole new meaning to helping a reporter out. working to build a new channel 7. >> with the school closing debate reaching its climax, local reporters want answers. >> should the board members vote not to close some of those 54 schools? >> it's going to be very challenging. so is knowing that kids are going on in years not reading,

not knowing math and eventually dropping out. >> what do you say to parents and the teacher's union that say no one was listening to them. >> you have 56% of african american males are dropping out. i will not accept that when i think i can do something about it to give children a better future and that's the responsibility of not just being a mayor. that's the responsibility of being an adult. >> it's d-day and the board meets to vote. but not before people gather outside to voice their objections, loudly. >> we are the people! we are united! >> i personally feel you're on the wrong side of history. and history will judge you. >> parents and students of manierre still hope their school will be spared. >> we're here now, waiting for the governor's call for a stay of execution. >> mr. president, these items do require a vote. >> these schools will be -- >> shortly before the vote, barbara byrd-bennett makes an

announcement. >> i recommend that the board vote no on the recommendation to close manierre. >> what happened? >> voted to save our school. [ screaming ] >> do not even cry. >> you all right? >> you just stand up for what you believe in, anything is possible. >> they also spared three others, including asean's school, marcus garvey elementary. >> this is bittersweet. because there are still so many other schools that won't have the joy that we have right now. >> then the chicago board of education makes history. they vote to close 50 schools, a decision that will affect 27,000 kids. >> you think about the children that are going to be killed because of the stupid-ass decisions you've made! this is real to us. this is real to us!

>> no justice, no peace! no justice, no peace! >> mayoral control, an unmitigated disaster. >> i was walking out of the house, and my wife amy says, you know, i've never seen you calmer. and i said, i am comfortable with what i am doing to put our children first. >> mayor emanuel's decision to close schools is final. and now chicago's new boss has a whole city wondering one thing -- what's next? >> i happen to think the city of chicago is the most american of american cities. >> there is something about this place that's magical. >> right here in chicago. >> that's not just food. that's not just dinner. that's earth. >> you're expected to give back. it's the price of admission living in chicago. >> welcome to the age of possibilities.

>> every single student counts for $5,000. >> we don't get more kids in this building, we're going to, like, lose position. >> everybody in this room is lucky to be alive right now. >> there's too many guns in our community. unfortunately, we're going to have tragedies. >> we've got some people shot. >> retaliation can go back and forth. murder, murder, murder. >> we see some bad stuff here. >> it's like living in a battle zone. >> man down. man down. >> over a thousand people have been shot. >> the only thing you can't skill is an idea. >> we're all accountable to the children of the city of chicago. >> they found out we were calling the police on them. while we were sleeping they lit our house on fire. >> we're not doing this. let's go. >> i can't wait for this to be over. >> stop, stop, stop!

>> it's 24/7. it absolutely never ends. >> you need to go to that mayor and tell him to just quit his job. >> how do we make change our friend rather than our foe? up next, send in the media and then something will be done. >> but before that can happen, she is murdered. some say by the man she named as her rapist. >> and i start suspecting that something is missed. that this may be all a