OBAMA TELLS WASHINGTONIANS TO "TOUGHEN UP"

YES YOU HEARD IT CORRECTLY. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA WAS NOT TOO PLEASED WITH THE CALL THAT MANY LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS, INCLUDING SASHA AND MALIA'S SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL, MADE TODAY TO CLOSE SCHOOL.

IN FACT HE SAID, "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO APPLY SOME FLINTY CHICAGO TOUGHNESS TO THIS TOWN." "I'M SAYING THAT WHEN IT COMES TO WEATHER, FOLKS IN WASHINGTON DON'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO HANDLE THINGS," OBAMA SAID.

ACCORDING TO THE NEW EDUCATION SECRETARY, ARNE DUNCAN, CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE TO NEVER BE CANCELLED BECAUSE OF WEATHER WHILE HE WAS IN CHARGE OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. IN FACT, THE LAST TIME CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS CLOSED FOR WEATHER WAS IN 1999.

SO ARE WE WIMPY?

WELL ACCORDING TO CHICAGO EDUCATION OFFICIALS, SCHOOL CLOSINGS ARE REALLY NOT AN OPTION DUE TO THE FACT THAT MOST OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS CHILDREN COME FROM HOUSEHOLDS WHERE THERE IS NO ALTERNATE CHILDCARE.

SO WILL MR. OBAMA AND EDUCATION SECRETARY DUNCAN MAKE SOME NEW SCHOOL RULES? WELL ONLY TIME WILL TELL.

I FOR ONE WAS NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO ICE SKATING TO CLASS TODAY. I DON'T THINK I WOULD WANT MY SEVEN YEAR OLD NIECE TO HAVE TO ICE SKATE EITHER.

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INVESTIGATION OF TEEN AND MOM SHOT TO DEATH CONTINUES

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INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL WORKING ON THE SHOOTING DEATH CASE OF A LOCAL TEEN AND HER MOTHER IN UPPER MARLBORO.

THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WERE FOUND FATALLY WOUNDED IN THEIR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY HOME TUESDAY MORNING. ACCORDING TO POLICE, THE TEEN, WHOSE AGE HAS NOT BEEN MADE PUBLIC PLACED A 911 CALL ABOUT 2:30 A.M. SAYING THAT SHE AND HER MOM HAD BEEN SHOT AND NEEDED ASSISTANCE.

THE HOME, LOCATED ON THE 10800 BLOCK OF SOUTHALL DRIVE IN UPPER MARLBORO, Md., IS FIVE MILES AWAY FROM ANOTHER UPPER MARLBORO HOME IN WHICH TWO PEOPLE WERE FOUND DEAD ON JAN. 14. POLICE ARE SAYING THAT THE SLAYINGS ARE UNRELATED.

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