and all of that produced in the south bronx. >> that's right. as we would say in the south bronx, all that and a bag of chips. >> hinojosa: so a lot of people, when they think of the south bronx, 1960s, '70s, when you were growing up... >> right, right, right. >> hinojosa: ...their image is of a place that was entirely desolate, that was, you know, in destruction. >> right, right. >> hinojosa: but for you, it was a totally different reality. >> well, there was that element to it. but i always say that i was very fortunate to have grown up in that time period, because the culture, as far as latino and african american culture, particularly afro puerto rican, afro cuban culture, and obviously african american culture, were in full force in the streets, particularly in the summertime, because we had rumbas in the park all the time. that's when you'd hear people playing drums, conga drums, and playing this beautiful rhythm. >> hinojosa: now, i'm going to stop you right there, because i bet some people are saying, "they had what in the park?" rumbas.

lower-level, quality of life, public order offenses, every time guy to a police community meeting in the south bronx or central harlem or central brooklyn, what hair from the residents -- what i hear from the resident of the neighborhoods they want more policing, not less. and they're not saying arrest the robbers. they're saying, bring public order. they say you kraft the drug deal north carolina back on the corner the next day. kids hanging out in my lobby, smoking weed, and dealing drugs. i'm terrified to go down and pick up my mail. spoke with a cancer amputee in the mt. hope -- >> host: i really have to it -- >> guest: my point is the police are getting these requests from the members of the community themselves. >> host: but the police also bat the the -- which you talk about in the book -- and so those requests were from parents that said, my son can't go to the store and come back home without being stopped by the police. there are actually some media reports of people who lived in buildings being stopped in their pajamas on the way to trash bin and asked for identification. so the notion th

it's like -- unfrozen -- he stepped off the john lindsay walking through the sort of bombed out south bronx set. from, like, the mid-60s talking about the cities and it's almost like the commission, this is such dated talk, and somebody pointed out, donald trump lives in the inner city himself. >> well, manhattan. >> kind of up -- a little higher. >> lives in a city, though! >> but the point being, american cities have been rejuvenated in the last 20 years. there's -- all kinds of gentrification. certainly in new york, and washington, and every city and reflective from a candidate coming from a different era. >> and the candidate's base. i wrote an article how his base is elderly voters. the only age group he ever wins in poll is voter over 65. for a lot of those people they haven't been near an inner city in the last 30, 40 years. they remember the 1950s or the '60s and '70s when the cities were scary. he is speaking as -- the point made many times before about his minority outreach. the people he's really speaking to are the white voters who share those impressions. >> i would say, though

i am a high school math teacher in the south bronx, and my biggest concern with the idea of not makingigher level math mandatory is that there's already an achievement gap is in country, and my students are already having lots of doors shut on them, and i think by saying, okay, only those who can learn mag are going to be the ones to learn it, that achievement gap is going to get larger, and so my question to you is, how -- if we good with this and get rid of the standards, are we going to prevent our student whose are already at a disadvantage from continuing to get doors closed on them? [applause] >> i really glad that question was asked, bus it's a basic american question. back in some detained -- decaying trailer park in rural arkansas, or somewhere south brooklyn -- but anyway, somewhere there is a kid being brought are brought up in a really grungy home. things like that happen. who has the makings of being an astrophysicist. yes there is such a question child. the question is, how do we discover that child in do we do it by making everybody, 100%, including the poets and the dan

those overnight construction bronx in half an hour. route 1, 93 south clear. looks good as you approach the pike. live drive times. 23 minutes on the pike eastbound from 495 to mass avenue. 9 minutes on the expressway. 20 minutes on 93 approach the jake i imbridge. >>> now to the breaking news this morning, a large water main break is causing problems in parts of charlestown. it happened in rutherford in the area washington street. our photographer on the scene said water was flowing right into the tunnel that connects rutherford to 89. boston police shut down some roads while the water is being turned off. a crew on the scene that says roads are back nope that area but crews will have to return we have been reporting on problems around the country for weeks. now clown hysteria is hitting our area. merrimack college is dealing with the aftermath of a scare on campus. catherine parrotta is live in in order andover with more details on the incident, katherine, that sparked a shelter-in-place order. >> reporter: it happened just last night, and the college has pl

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