Our surae chinn has an exclusive interview with the infants family. Surae . Reporter well, bruce, the grandparents of this little baby boy say had the ambulance been at the home in time, this baby may still be alive. They also blame the landlord for not having an air conditioning unit inside that apartment, but they know that nothing now will bring this little boy back. He woke up, you know, throwing up trying to catch his breath because it was so hot in there. Reporter little 5month old trequon suffered from asthma and had trouble breathing in the sweltering apartment last thursday. The family called 911. Help was on the way, but it would be a fire truck and not an ambulance that responded to the 4600 block of hillside road southeast. A fire truck with a kid, what are they going where are they going to sit the kid at . It makes no sense that babies have to die because the ambulance could not get to it in time. Reporter d. C. Fire and ambulance ems are not able to respond to this ongoi
Mcconnell in a bad position because theyre going to have to fracture their confidence. This is what happens in washington. Its finding something that ewan fies your side and defies the other. The House Republicans felt good about this plan. Building stronger communities through schools. Thats a hard panel to follow from the first one i have to say. That was an amazing panel and we heard great information. And we will do the same here. By name is robert and im the president and ceo of the Freeman Foundation for educational choice. Were honored to be here with senator scott. Im excited about the panel for three reasons today. One, it features representatives from every sector of k 12 education. Public, private and charter. Two, its going to focus on the transformtive power of Educational Options at the Community Level for individuals and the community. And three, frankly, its a panel full of gift eded people who have been there and done that. People who worked in communities and made rea
25,000 for my sons to go to one school. A school, snow school, that theyve never set foot in for any reason at all. If they were vouchered theyd only be paid once. If it was a scholarship, wed only be paid once. The reason why were in the situation that were in is were trying to keep the other school open so that the grown people can keep their jobs. But what even they neglect to understand is that the number of students doesnt change, its static, meaning if there are thousands of students that need teachers there are thousands of students that need teachers no matter where they are. So if you can halfway teach or at least convince someone for 45 minutes that you can halfway teach, then youre going to have a job as a teacher. We need to make it plain to our community that theyre being played by the system so that the people who dont utilize these urban schools, who send their kids to suburban charter or Catholic Schools, which is always funny, they send their own children to Catholic S
Cold front pushes through overnight, showers lingering into saturday morning. Well tell you if they get out of here in time for the terps game and how chilly it will be for game two at nats park. But first tonight ebola concerns are hitting close to home with two hospital with similar symptoms and it is now confirmed that one of those patients has malaria and not ebola. Good evening. Im lesli foster. Im derek mcginty. We want to stress at this point there are no confirmed ebola cases in our area. Within the hour weve heard from Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in rockville. Their patient in isolation has malaria they say. Officials were concerned the patient had ebola because the symptoms and travel history seemed to match up. However, after further tests and monitoring the medical team determined the patient has malaria. Now a case of malaria is no joke. According to the cdc every year there are between 1,500 to 2,000 cases of malaria in this country. In 2012 627,000 people died of mala
Frankly, it is a panel filled with people who have been there done that. People who have done real change. One of these people is fitted is to my right. Sister john berry fleming. They go to person when it comes to Catholic Education and understanding Catholic Schools in america. Not surprising since she has been an educator. We also join by dr. Steve perry. Dr. Steve perry is the founder and ceo of one of the top Public Schools in the Country Capital repertory Magnet School in hartford, connecticut. Capital prep which is for mostly low income families, mostly children of color, graduates 100 of its children and has done so every year since 2006. Sending them to fouryear colleges. That alone is worth applause. [applause] dr. Parry is a regular education contributor for msnbc. Upa bestselling author. As soon as you hear him talk you will see him be one of the most passionate voices for education reform. Next to him is nina rees. The president and ceo of the National Alliance for public