charlie leduff is a writer, journalist, television reporter. e: but there used to be two million people. that was rubber. that guy was steel. that guy was a doctor. this was what made america. the road started here. the automobile. frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> anthony: what was this like just before this or 20 years before. >> charlie: it was insane. and this is when it was like twice as many people here. this is the consequence because all the whites went. they took their money. they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for a while, and then it got too rough for them. so there's little pockets of feral hippies and older black folks, a couple white folks, some arabs, but this is 140 square miles. so you're going to get tall grass because it's back to the wild. >> anthony: it is one of the most beautiful cities in america. it speaks of those industrial age dreams of an endlessly glorious future, you know, people who built these structures, they were thinking big. >> charlie: they were. >> an

kennedy: that sweet charlie leduff recently visited hell.1-year-old john cologne is asking $3 million for his theme park. he suspects no one in his right mind would be willing to pay a million dollars for a putt-putt golf course. it allows him to honor the veterans of vietnam. most his platoon died there, and you might say he died there, too, and was resurrected. kennedy: what did you find in hell, charlie? >> america. a beautiful man. with all the creaming going on, what he did with hell is he fallen soldier with 101st airborne in vietnam. he takes care of their graves. what he's trying to do is get all 58,000 gravesite adopted. he has a car dealership, he sent other people's children to college. he's on the community theater board and the chamber of commerce. he's been married 50 years. he's a beautiful, lovely man. kennedy: he's selling the town. does that mean it's not profitable? >> i'm not going to divulge it. kennedy: big tease. >> you can go to u tube and see it. his wife want him to sell it. no it doesn't make money, and the reason

. >>> and charlie leduff heads to florida to find out what voters are thinking the last few days before the primary? that's coming up in just a bit. hi, brian. brian: tracking storms to the west of us. . brian: hey, guys, going to get to weather in just a minute. but a big night on "idol" tonight. kayla and i have to talk a little bit about "american idol." what happened? kayla: we do, another double elimination night, fighting to move onto the next round, and the judges, i called it. brian thought they would keep avalon, i called sonica. brian: i thought because she was different. awesome people, i thought they would keep her because she is different. kayla: put the x over avalon and lee's face. seems like it was the beatle's night, several people singing beatles' songs, my favorite moment was laporsha singing the beatles. let's take a look right now. one thing i can tell you is come together right now, over me >> she has a phenomenal voice, a phenomenal stage presence. calling it now saying america should pick her as the next and final idol. brian: i think that's an easy call, standin

charlie leduff takes a trip through swing country. >> the morning after they daytona 500 people have gone, the turkey buzzard set, and >> it's not an easy job. >> you do whatever year? what do they pay wax minimum wage. >> minimum-wage? economic refugees circling toward the drain feeling there is no one to vote for. if the anniversary of the killing of trayvon martin. teenagers in his favor to do with the adults will not, talk about it. so, you are about trayvon martin's age, right? do you feel threatened? >> possibly that's why don't stay out too late. >> you are afraid? >> it's mainly about color. you don't get -- see white people getting beat up or shot or harass. but i don't see a difference. fastest-growing most diverse swaps in america. here it's all about jobs. >> this country is not a country anymore any more. it's a business and everybody is on the chopping block. >> i think a lot of those are operating out of fear in this election cycle trended figure out who's not going to make worse decisions for us, right? disney created the town of celebration from scratch and a real es

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. >>> and charlie leduff heads to florida to find out what voters are thinking the last few days before the primary? that's coming up in just a bit. hi, brian. brian: tracking storms to the west of us. the break. . brian: hey, guys, going to get to weather in just a minute. but a big night on "idol" tonight. kayla and i have to talk a little bit about "american idol." what happened? kayla: we do, another double elimination night, fighting to the judges, i called it. brian thought they would keep avalon, i called sonica. brian: i thought because she was different. awesome people, i thought they would keep her because she is different. kayla: put the x over avalon and lee's face. seems like it was the beatle's night, several people singing beatles' songs, my favorite moment was laporsha singing the beatles. let's take a look right now. one thing i can tell you is you've got to be free come together right now, over me >> she has a phenomenal voice, a phenomenal stage presence. i would feel comfortable calling it now saying america should pick her as the next and final idol. brian: i think

kennedy: let me welcome charlie leduff. welcome back, charlie.est to see what some of these presidential hopefuls will say about michigan and blight and bad water. what are you expecting? >> i don't know. i'm not quite sure what they have ever said about the economy, quite frankly. trump at least resonates that the trade deals are awful. we'll ask trump. if you think big corporations are out of control, they still owe the american public $11 billion. are you going after that? i don't know where cruz is on trade. i don't know what riewb yoams idea is to bring good jobs back. i don't even know what jobe ever had. he's talk about when his dad worked. kennedy: he talks about that all the time. i could talk about how my mom is a fantastic abstract painter. i can't pick up a paint brush. >> in michigan they want to know do you know which side of a shovel to use? do you understand? this cycle is a giant family wedding. we are all having a brawl and it's about time we get and talk about the things that are pissing us off when the beltway goes away and th

here is charlie leduff. let's talk about some of the people you met.his presidential elect is going to change their fortunes in florida? >> that's a great question. i'm going to be honest. i don't think people believe that. i think they believe it' on auto pilot. when you are looking at the donald and the bern-acorn, what they are peddling is probably a fairytale and they are worried more about their kids than themselves. kennedy: when you talk about people's personal misfortunes and being in survival mode going on 8 years and supporting a family. 8 years with raising kids through that, it's downright depressing. how different is florida compared to some of the places you visited and talked about on this show. you have been through the rust belt. you are from detroit. how is florida different? >> from l.a. to new york, the i.-5 corridor, the north is republican, the south is democratic. that swath of six counties decide florida. when you drive that thing it looks like america. all smushed together, you have puerto ricans. rich retirees. people that fly

we have charlie leduff spending time in florida and michigan previewing the battles the don't miss money. 5:30 p.m. and sunday at 11:30 at night. >> thank you. >>> congress is going to the dogs. literally. the senate homeland security committee talked about the dogs of dhs and as we report, they're looking at ways that the programs can help homeland security the tsa and other does their jobs better. >> they're called the dogs of dhs and they're in the spotlight on captiol hill, the senate homeland security committee holding a hearing, dogs included, on the use of canine officers. a number of high-ranking officials testifying on behalf of their four-legged friends. describing how they protect americans every day. >> the government accountability office dhs and other tester haves proven the teams to be one of the profit effective of detecting explosives. >> boarder security. they are wowing the senators out mock explosives and ug drugs leak they do at border crossings. >> it can be acreditted with training the best teams that work at any of our border crossings. >> i have been impressed by

charlie leduff takes a look. >> reporter: when you get down to it, government is supposed to do basic things. water. roads. schools. in michigan, the government can't seem to manage any of it. and the people are angry. consider, politicians, both democrat and republican, new water system. politicians got paid, and the people of flint got poisoned water. rick snyder is peddling the unbelievable. he didn't know. the cleanup will cost millions of dollars we don't have. detroit public schools will run out of money next month thanks to cratering enrollment and grass. the politicians aren't talking about revamping standards and curriculum, talking about clawing the taxpayers for half billion dollar bailout they can't afford. in meantime, those same politicians, both democrat and republican, voted to spend millions of public dollars to build a pro hockey arena that could have been used for the michigan public schools. employment has rebounded in michigan but mostly low-paying stuff like wiping old people's bottoms. the car companies are doing better and autoworkers got to pay raises in excha

charlie leduff with a swing trip through swing country. ♪ >> reporter: morning after the spectacularople have gone, the turkey buzzard have come and danny and becky clean the toilets. >> it's not an easy job. >> reporter: you do it every year? >> what do they pay? >> minimum wage. >> minimum wage? >> $9. no. >> economic refugees circling toward the drain. wanting to vote feeling like there's no one to vote for. ♪ >> it's the anniversary the killing of trayvon martin. teenagers in this neighborhood do what the adults will not. talk about it. so you're about trayvon martin's age, right? >> yeah, man. >> you feel like that could happen to you? >> that's why i don't stay out too late. >> because you're afraid. >> not really. my mom told me to. >> what do you think? >> well, mainly about color. you don't really see white people getting beat up or shot or like harassed. so i don't see a difference. >> i4 corridor one of the fastest growing most diverse swaths in america. here it's all about jobs. this country is not a country any more. it's a business. and everybody is on the chopping bloc

charlie leduff are in ohio with k-6 last stand. >> i will not take the low road to the highest office in america. i will not do it. >> highroad, low road it doesn't matter which road ohio governor john kasich takes because at this point there's not much pavement left. front-runner donald trump. if he loses here tuesday k-6 run is done. >> is closer than it should be because in his time in congress kasich supported nafta and other trade deals that led to tens of thousands of lost jobs in ohio and when he left congress you went to work for wall street. he said that jobs are the whole deal. how do you square that with your support for every major trade deal in jobs going overseas to ohio? >> first of all we are up over 40,000 jobs and we have a lot of foreign investment in ohio. we have to do what we have to do. we are free traders but we are not going going to be saps any more. >> with that mean? >> those new jobs are low-paying and doesn't sit well with ohio's working-class whose vote is the white house. >> when was the last time he drove down cleveland? casey guarantees he will winnow

and what fox's charlie leduff found was a mandi voted to country, community and family, a man who hasell on earth -- ♪ ♪ >> hell on earth is located quite literally between detroit, michigan and the gentleman's jackson state penetentiary. it was a cold day in haitis the off season but the mayor could still be found sham bling around in loafers in a tweed jacket. deject you had see because his wife had commanded him to sell hell. >> not my where else other than in hell can you buy a square inch of where everybody is going to spend some time. >> i thought the whole town is for sale. >> well, you know, $6.66 a square inch alligate hell of lot more. >> i would like to step back from it but you're to the going to be doing that so i need to do what i want to do. >> right. >> so -- does to mean he doesn't have to sell it. >> no, that means we're going separate ways. (laughter). >> 71-year-old john cologne is asking nearly $1 million for his 3-acre theme park. with the secret hope was to no one in his right mind would be willing to pay seven figures for a put put golf course, novelty shop, we

fox's charlie leduff with a deeper look. ♪ >> reporter: when you get down to it government supposed tos. water, roads, schools. in michigan the government can't seem to manage any of it. the people are angry. consider politicians both democrat and republican decided flint should help build a new water system. contractors got paid, hold positions got contributions and the people of flint got poisoned water republican governor rick schneider is peddling the unbelievable. he didn't know. the clean up will cost millions of dollars. we don't have. the detroit public schools run out of money next month thanks to enrollment and graft. politicians aren't talking about revamping standards and curriculum. they're talking about clawing the tack pairs for half billion dollar bail out they can't afford. in the meantime, those same politicians and the republicans voted to spent million of public dollars to builder a pro hockey arena that could have been used for the detroit public schools. >> michigan's unemployment rate dips again. >> reporter: employment has rebounded in michigan mostly low paying

fox's charlie leduff digs deep deeper. ♪ >> reporter: when you get down to it government supposeed tobasic things. water, roads, schools. when michigan the government can't seem to manage any of it. the people are angry. consider politicians both democrat and republican decided flint should help build a new water system. contractors got paid. politicians physicians got contributions and the people of flint got poisoned water. republican governor rick schneider is pedaling the unbelievable. he didn't know. the cleanup will cost million of dollars we don't have. >>> detroit public schools run out of money next month thanks to cratering end control many and graft. politicians aren't talking about revamping standards and curriculum. they're talking about clawing the taxpayers for half billion dollar bail out they can't afford. in the meantime, those same politicians both democrat and republican voted to spend millions of public dollars to build a pro hockey arena that could have been used for the detroit public schools. >> michigan's unemployment rate dips again. >> reporter: employment h

charlie leduff are in ohio with k-6 last stand. >> i will not take the low road to the highest office in america. i will not do it. >> highroad, low road it doesn't matter which road ohio governor john kasich takes because at this point there's not much pavement left. his home turf with gop front-runner donald trump. is done. >> is closer than it should be because in his time in congress kasich supported nafta and other trade deals that led to tens of thousands of lost jobs in ohio and when he left congress you went to work for wall street. he said that jobs are the whole deal. how do you square that with your support for every major trade deal in jobs going overseas to ohio? >> first of all we are up over 40,000 jobs and we have a lot of foreign investment in ohio. we have to do what we have to do. we are free traders but we are not going going to be saps any more. >> with that mean? >> those new jobs are low-paying and doesn't sit well with ohio's working-class whose vote is the white house. >> when was the last time he drove down cleveland? casey guarantees he will winnow ohio and