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Their hands and taught to use them appropriately. whether their mental health condition has been allowed to go on. if we can start in the lower grade schools with counselors, young peer counselors, who are working with children and say, don't pay any attention to television where you see conflict being resolved violently. we can talk about it, we can work with you. if we can bring children along like that, ed, we're not going to be catching them when they come out oh the other end of the tube like this young man. and lord knows how many he could have killed, had he not been stopped. and, again...

Police are responding to reports of a suspicious person at central connecticut university. the school's campus remains on lockdown for a campus emergency. let's take a live look right now. this is a scene after students reportedly saw a masked man with an unidentified weapon roaming the campus. police and canine units responding. so far, there are no reports of shots fired. no reports of any injuries, more than 12,000 kids attend school there. police telling them stay inside. other local grade schools, the younger kids are on some sort of modified lockdown right now. we'll keep you up to speed...

Legislation would require insurance to pay for sex-change operations, that constituents are worried and they have actually expressed this concern that their children will be taught by men in dresses in their grade schools. historically how much of a problem do you think misinformation has been for issues like this? >> i think campaigns of misinformation kept don't ask, don't tell in place for many more years beyond where it should have been. that kind of misinformation kept us locked in policies that did no good service to us as a community. but i'll tell you what is happening out there. in my...

Passion and commitment for education. we need to have an education revolution and the real core here is to deal with precollegiate schooling because for too long minorities in urban areas are shortchanged. >> you improve the economic process before these applicants become applicants and therefore improve their resumes when they try to get into schools. i want to ask you this -- >> we need to go into grade schools and meddiddle schools because public schools are quitting on those kids. >> that's going to take a long time. in the meantime, you have black applicants who are suffering. i understan...

Getting an education. >> those are world war ii vets over there. >> we are doing a little of the maintenance contract. >> talked to me every day and put me back to work and helped to set up where i want to go. today i have a husband and father, and i have my own company now. >> we don't call this a charity, we really look at it as an investment. these were at one time children who grew up on our baseball fields and went to our grade schools and then left our community to serve us. eventually they come back. it's a full circle of service. mom, dad told me that cheerios is good for your heart,