From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! We're not statisticians or anything, but the amount of violence in or near schools has risen over the past few years. Today didn't do much to help break the disturbing trend.
Some stories talked about on tonight's show were:
1. An 18-year-old student was stabbed outside a high school in the Bronx Thursday afternoon. It happened around 1 p.m. at the Roberto Clemente School on 164th Street in the Melrose section of the Bronx. Authorities say the victim had just left the building when he was surrounded by a group of teens who apparently tried to rob him of his cell phone.
2. An employee at a Rite Aid warehouse opened fire at work today, killing three people before taking her own life. Several other people were wounded.
3. A human rights group says it plans to bail out more than 500 women and teenagers currently imprisoned at New York City's Rikers Island.
