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Into hell. in the 10 years the last 10 years of and especially the last 2 years. greg is inconsolable yet he tries to console others with his crosses. the boy with a gentle smile was tyree wives he lived to be 16. even young children can fall victim to chicagos violence there to protect them a crossing guards from the safe passage program. these women in bright yellow vests patrol the streets to try to keep kids safe not from cars but from bullets. theyre armed with nothing but walkie talkie to ...

I guess a root going to say you think of my daughter not me i must have a lot more work to do how are you really thought i think this country is quickly going to hell and then the 10 years the last 10 years of it specially the last 2 years. greg hes inconsolable yet he tries to console others with his crosses. the boy with a gentle smile was tyree wives he lived to be 16. even young children can fall victim to chicagos violence there to protect them a crossing guards from the safe passage progra...

Tries to push his own pain away just two months ago one of his daughters died suddenly of an overdose. its difficult for him to talk about it. i guess a root think its a my daughter not me and most of a lot more work to do how are you both so i think this country will just quickly going to hell. in the ten years the last ten years has been especially the last two years. greg is inconsolable yet he tries to console others with his crosses. the boy with a gentle smile was tyree wives he lived to b...

Battlefield. thats what gary mccarthy said and that is what many citizens who live in the neighborhoods are also saying, these guns are illegal and coming into this area from other parts of the country and often purchased illegally or purchased legally and sold on down the line. soon enough they get into the hands of the wrong people in neighborhoods like this and those people are the gangs. you know, the school system here has already got a safe passage program in place to help kids get from sc...

Budget cuts. but to get to their new school, they will have to walk through some of the citys most dangerous neighborhoods. the city solution, the safe passage program. >> days ago five people got shot and one died. normal people. they were saying actually the folks were getting a meal. they were picking up a meal at the time of the shooting. >> reporter: and this is the route your kids will walk to school on? >> this is the route that they claim would be a safe zone for my kids to walk to schoo...

>> thats going to be tough. >> okay. >> one more story before we go to break. students in chicago return to school, mayor rahm emanuel has rolled out a new initiative to keep children safe called the safe passage program and yesterday, 1200 unarmed workers in neon vests were deployed out to the streets along with police to watch over students as they walk to school. even a helicopter circled above the affected areas after closing 47 elementary schools in parts of the city that are rampant with g...

Mitch mcconnell, you say, my party, guess what? something great is happening right now. >> yeah. >> these extremists are being shown to be the extremists and people are starting to stand up and say if you want to destroy your political chances for the next 50 years, if you want to try to get hillary clinton elected by shutting down the government and -- people off go ahead and do it. not in our party. were starting to see the republican party flex its muscles and stand up to people who are no id...

Going to new elementary schools. what are called the welcoming schools in the system. displaced by those 47 closures. and because of the violence in chicago, because of the gun violence on the streets, although the chicago police statistics show, and correctly, that murders are down by about 25% from last year, shootings are down by about 25% from last year. murders are on a pace to be at the lowest level since 1965. but there are still violent incidents on the streets. so to protect those kids ...

Route. chicago public officials point out that none of these shootings happened during safe passage hours. they say the safe passage program is a successful program. no child has been injured or killed since the program started back in 2008. >> george, its amazing. back in the day we had crossing guards to help us get across the street. you have a whole area where you have people who are being paid, contracted out to make sure that these kids can simply just get to school without being harmed. >...