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kaya henderson saying low enrollment and underachievement are the reasons for the closures.way, these can be overturned. if the d.c. council wants to overturn these, they can do it, as well as the mayor. two public hearings have been set, one for this thursday, and it's also been extended to monday. they expect a large turnout as well as about 50 people to testify. we're going to continue to stay on this story. we'll have the latest on "news 4 midday" as well as nbcwashington.com. that's the latest. eun and aaron, back to you. >> thank you, tony. >>> new this morning, violence in northeast washington has left four people in the hospital. they are victims of a triple stabbing and shooting just three miles apart. the stabbing happened in the 300 block of 51st street just after 1:00 this morning. when police arrived, they found two women and one child with stab wounds. all are expected to be okay. no word yet on the suspect. just minutes later, police received calls of shots fired on the 2000 block of "c" street. that's where they found a man in his 50s shot in the chest. he is

public school system due to low enrollment and underachievement.bout 10:00 this morning we expect to hear from chancellor kaya henderson, and she'll tell us what closures to expect. november 15th and 19th are two public hearings for d.c. residents to make their voiced heard about the closures, and by december we expect to hear the finalization of those closures. 10:00 a.m. this morning, we expect to hear from chancellor kaya henderson on the latest closures. that is the latest from northeast. aaron and eun, back to you guys. >> thank you, tony. >>> 5:45. a new proposal could soon mean emergency care is determined not by your injury but by the time on the clock. d.c. fire chief kenneth ellerbe says 1,000 new people move into the district each month. the district simply does not have enough resources to adequately take care of everyone. so he's calling for a change that would shift paramedics and ambulances depending on whether it is peak or off-peak time. >> we know that we don't have the capacity to meet the service demand as it's increasing. our p

some of his kol legs, republicans and democrats in the illinois delegation, was always seen as an underachievers that are likely to replace him? could a republican take that seat? >> you'd have to have another cup of coffee, as you suggested -- >> i need one of those, i tell. >> you it would reach from here to scarsdale, new york. there will be a ton of african-americans first and foremost, thinking this over. but it's going to be interesting with the makeup of the district 46% nonafrican-american, if there is a strong white candidate -- and there pa may well be in the form of a former democratic congressman named deb halverson who tried again this time and lost, she undoubtedly will run. in a democratic primary, reality is, if you have one too many african-americans running and one strong white candidate, that could be very interesting. there are two chicago city council members, both who will probably be the leading black candidate, as i suspect. >> let's get coffee together the next time you're in new york. >> a pleasure. have a great rest of the day. >> thanks so much. same to you. >>> behi

have had enough of being forced to live through the never-ending bad dream of our children's underachievementleased about this, exactly, leaked it to a newspaper and that's why we have it publicly. >> the letter goes on. the dad says i want to hear no more from any of until if you feel inclined you have a success or an achievement or a realistic plan for the support and happiness of your children to tell me about so he's like cutting them off. >> the good thing is he waited until christmas so that's nice. >> well. >> how do you feel about it? i do think there's something to tough love. i do think you have to not always coddle your children. these are adults, know that they haven't perhaps had all the success in life. they already know that they failed in things. >> they,didn't come out of nowhere. one of the doubters is still talking to the father and she's like this is awful, can't believe he did this, it's all true. it's totally true, totally true, but i can't believe he did it, but it's true. >> and it's not like he didn't post this on facebook, wrote it privately to the kids and they went

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