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braxton afternoon. -- good afternoon. just to speak in favor of of with the results of this hearing. the very first big issue that our city worked on was the chain's store ordinance. and the follow-up. it is crucial. i want to highlight something that was touched on in the presentations and make it bigger. every one of those green check boxes you saw of a big box or a chain store that has its headquarters outside of the city, 40% or more of that money goes out of the city and is not combat. 40% is huge. it is penny wise and pound foolish to open a store to get tax revenue and hire workers that are at low wages. at the same time you are throwing at 40% of revenues of those businesses that would stay here in the city if they were local businesses instead. finally i would like to point out that -- you have seen me on any -- many occasions fight a big box or a chain store. there are a lot more of them that i would have helped fight. some of which got through. had i been able to i would have gotten involved in. what that point

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i was on my last day before maternity leave having braxton-hicks contractions. >> i was here. >> i was subbing for katie on the show. bryant got ill that morning shortly before the show and i had to do the show. there i am. i look terrified because my blood pressure had gone through the roof. i had not prepared for his segments. i was by myself, just about to have a baby and i swear al roker never left my side. >> he was going to deliver the baby for you. >> lots of people have been pregnant on "today" but we thought i was going to be the one to deliver on the show. >> you carried the show that morning. i remember jeff saying, are you okay? are you all right? you were just quietly, graciously calm and you did it. >> you didn't have the baby on air. >> no. i made it. >> speaking of carrying the show, john, when everybody else was traveling, going to fabulous locations, somebody had to stay back, hold down the fort. >> i always stayed home. >> once the satellite shot went down and the network depended on you. >> i did a song and dance, read a lot of news. >> for 20 minutes. >> yeah. it w

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braxton. mr. braxton works at the shipyard, ms. braxton was a stay-at-home mom. and they always had food on the table, you know, at the right times during the day, there was always a parent home. they took me on family trips. you know, i would go to their house as a respite because it felt warm, and it felt fuzzy. and it was, i had bright spots like that, you know, that kept me going. and i happened to be a kid, and i think, you know, what we're also leaving out here is emotional intelligence. regardless of how smart you are, how well you can read, you know, or how little you can read if you are, if your emotional intelligence quotient is very high, you can, you know, the likelihood that you're going to make it out of this thing alive and somewhat functional is actually higher despite all your challenges. and though i think we had a genetic predisposition for this kind of thing particularly considering where my father came from, and my mother had a completely tragic story, um, i happened to be someone who was born as a kid, as a 5-year-old i knew i was born for a

. >> reporter: christopher braxton had the same reaction. >> it kind of blew me away. put that in the homework of any source. >> reporter: both fathers contacted the principal, then called us. they wanted to know how these questions ended up on a child's homework. i brought that question to the gwinnett school district officials. >> the teachers were trying to do a cross-curricular activity. >> reporter: sloan roach said the teachers were trying to cross curriculums, adding social study questions into the math problems. the problems with these questions, there's no historical context. >> we understand there are concerns about these questions, and we agree that these questions were not appropriate. >> whoever put together this paperwork and everything else, the schools and everything, shouldn't teach it this way. >> the school acknowledged its mistake and shredded th

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