the fieldston school and horace mann will be closed on friday. >>> on our website you will find items you cannot bring to the papal events. a slide show of his journey and a list of his full itinerary. >>> a new jersey doctor accused of sexually assaulting one of his female patients. the doctor is charged in the case. police say the 61 neurologist improperly touched a 37-year-old office in old bridge. the woman alleges it happened at least two times. police say the investigation is ongoing. >>> police want your help in finding the suspect in a string of car break ins. stanford police say thieves hit 20 cars over the past weekend alone. 200 since august. the suspect steals from one car and moves to another. over the weekend they hit cars on grove street in two locations. win suspect has been arrested. police are looking for several others. >>> former nypd officer pleads guilty to randomly firing shots at a car after a night of drinking. he admitted to downing ten alcoholic beverages while off duty and opening fire in the street. he's expected to be sentenced to nine years behind bars.

all of new york city catholic schools as well as fieldston, riverdale, and horace mann in many are wondering how they'll navigate. >> going to be hectic. going to be crazy. >> being that i work for the city, for mta, it's going to be tough to get around. >> reporter: one school actually sent a letter to parents advising them to give their kids extra snacks on the bus in case they get stuck in gridlock for hours. back to you. >> all right. lori, thank you. >>> coming up on 4:50. tonight president obama hosts chinese president xi jinping for a state dinner at the white house. right now xi is in seattle. that's where he met wednesday with several business industry leaders. you saw mark zuckerberg there. he promised to open chinese markets to them. many of them called on china to protect american trade secrets. that issue likely to come up with president obama and president xi meet tomorrow. >>> police now releasing sketches of three people wanted in an alleged hate crime in midtown. they allegedly yelled anti-gay was having dinner with her mother. police say they threw the victim to the ground,

wasof my favorite quotes uttered by horace mann, an educator, who said, be ashamed to die until you havecored some victory for humanity. i want that on my epitaph. i want that on my tombstone. be ashamed to die until you have scored some victory for humanity. neil: that can be on any level. that can be raising kids who are responsible. that is a very broadly defined victory. i'm not the first to say this. at least leave the world a little better off for you having lived in it. why not? .lean up your mess and after you've cleaned up the room that you just lived in, maybe leave a flower behind. leave it a slightly better place. eachwe can all celebrate of our existence in this world and not lament it or regret it. there is so much in the world that regresses civilization. it is sad. i wonder how far we would be were it not for such forces that operate in this world. charlie: thank you for coming. a pleasure having you. ♪ e.o. wilson is here. he's one of the world's most distinguished biologist and naturalist. he has written 30 books and is a professor emeritus at harvard university. his ne

ethical culture fieldston school and horace mann in the bronx will be closed on friday. our coverage of the pope's trip continues on nbcnewyork.com any time. there you'll find items you can't bring to any of the papal events. among them, drones, of course. a slide show of the pope's journey and a list of his full itinerary. fairly extensive. we also know that you have a lot of questions about the pope's visit and how it's going to impact getting around. so later today, lauren is going to host a facebook chat. she's going to answer everything you need to know because she does know. that's at 12:30 today. head to nbcnewyork.com. sorry, head to nbc new york's facebook page and you can chat with lauren coming up at 12:30. >>> it is 5:39. moving to new jersey. some passaic residents demanding an officer be fired after he allegedly made racist remarks that were captured on video. >> i'm going to knock on the door and check your mom and [ bleep ] cousins. i'm going to have immigration pick everybody up so they can border. >> jasmine vidal and her boyfriend say they were sitting

one of my favorite quotes was uttered by horace mann, the educator, who said, "be ashamed to die until you have scored some victory for humanity." and i want that on my epitaph. i want to be purr idea and i want that on my tombstone. >> rose: by ashamed to die unless you have scored some victory for humanity... >> that could be at any level. it could be raising kids that are responsible. that is a very broadly-defined victory. so i think you -- i'm not the first to say this -- at least leave the world a little better off for you having lived in it. why not? just -- it's like, clean up your mess! (laughter) and as you've cleaned up the room you just lived in, maybe leave a flower behind, something where people can come in and say, this is a slightly better place, and then we could all celebrate each of our existence in this world and not lament it or regret it. there is so much in the world that regresses civilization. it's sad. i wonder how far we would be, were it not for such forces that operate in this world. >> rose: thank you for coming. thank you for having me. >> rose: e. o. wil

>> yeah, horace mann who is considered the father of the american public school system. very enlightened man, very intelligent. referred to the pope as the vice chairman of hell. >> right. >> this was part of the lexicon. >> i want to get you back in here, bishop, your excellency. let's talk about the school system. we grew up basically in a catholic ghetto. i went to catholic school for 16 years. all high school, grade school, all the way from first grade to 12th grade was free at our parish. you could go to father judge, any diocesan school was free. there was a quarter million kids. it was in direct parallel to the public school system. >> philadelphia at one point had 90% of catholic school children in this archdiocese were in catholic schools. that's a percentage we're not seeing anywhere else. >> you went to catholic school? >> if you were a catholic you went to catholic school? >> right. that was not true even in a city like boston which you think as a catholic city. only 40% of catholic schools. >> i want to come back and talk about why the quaker city we're in w