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And got applause. >> what may not get applause is the turn around. the department of education is offering $3.5 billion to the state to identify the bottom 5% of their schools and to fix them in one of four ways. one of the ways is called turn around. that requires replacing a school's teaching staff with no more than 50% to be rehired. this is exactly what is occurring at fremont high school located in south central los angeles. >> when i first came to the district two years ago, i identified 35 of the lowest performing schools. i put those schools on notice and i said that i expect improveme...

And got applause. >> what may not get applause is the turn around. the department of education is offering $3.5 billion to the state to identify the bottom 5% of their schools and to fix them in one of four ways. one of the ways is called turn around. that requires replacing a school's teaching staff with no more than 50% to be rehired. this is exactly what is occurring at fremont high school located in south central los angeles. >> when i first came to the district two years ago, i identified 35 of the lowest performing schools. i put those schools on notice and i said that i expect improveme...

Charity. the man you saw who goes by iron, he is still living in the tunnel. homeless people will be counted by census workers coming up march 29th. the last census, they noted limitations to counting homeless people. they actually believe that the count last time around, ten years ago, was inaccurate. >> that's not much of a surprise, right, josh. i would imagine it is really, really tough to count the homeless. do we have any sense of how many homeless there are in america? >> the department of housing and urban development says there was one night in 2007 when 670,000 homeless people were c...

Right now, the information that we're getting is very preliminary. we have assembled a team of editors and producers here at cnn who are watching all of that information, trying to assess the information. and so we'll be reporting that information to you as soon as we get it. but again, the latest information we have is that local media in chile is reporting that 47 people have died, but very preliminary information and another major concern is the tsunami that was generated as a result of this earthquake, betty and rob. >> yes, there are watches and warnings that are out right now. as we look...

Breaking news out of chile this morning. a very large earthquake, 8.8 in magnitude, struck overnight, around 3:30 in the morning, really the worst possible time when it comes to people being inside buildings. we've learned many of those buildings have received damage, some have even collapsed. but at this hour, there are 82 people dead. this is the most powerful earthquake to hit it in nearly 50 years. a tsunami warning is in effect for the entire pacific basin, and that spans all the way to japan, australia, even hawaii has received a warning and evacuations are set to start fairly soon. a ts...