the farm yard belongs to mark covington, he has living in the neighborhood all of his life, abandonedt homes, vacant lots, illegal dumping, his once thriving community became one filled with decay. in 2008, covington decided to take on the flight himself. >> i said from the beginning that i wanted to shine the most positive light on my neighborhood as possible. >> reporter: first he started mowing the grass. then he bought this abandon building and built a farm yard and community garden. so what do you have here? >> right now we have broccoli, kale, collard, buzzal sprouts and lettuce planted. >> reporter: it's known as the georgia street community collectcollective. >> it's no the items to pick whatever they want to pick and have whatever they want to have and get help if they need it. >> reporter: in a bankrupt city with an estimated 80,000 abandoned structures, covington is considered an innovator but the fight isn't his alone, the city's emergency manager has proposed spending more than a half billion dollars over the next five years to eliminate blight. wayne state university urb

the farm yard belongs to mark covington. he has lived in the neighborhood all of his life. abeed and rotted out homes. vacant lots, illegal dumping. his once thriving community became one of decay. he decided to take on the blight himself. >> i said from the beginning i wanted to shine the most positive light on my neighborhood as possible. first he started mowing the grass. then he bought this abandon building and built a farm yard and community guard. >> what do you have here? >> right now we have broccoli, kale, collard. >> reporter: it's now known as the georgia street community collective. >> ideas for the neighbors to come and pick whatever they want to pick, and have whatever they want to have, and get help if they need it. >> reporter: in a bankrupt city with an 80,000 abandoned structures covington is considered a an innovator. the city will spend $5 million over the next five years to eliminate plight. it's a step in the right direction, but there are more hurdles ahead. >> the city's biggest challenge after eliminating blight is to begin to assemble the land for

mark covington watched his once thriving community filled with decay. and in 2008, he wanted to do something about it. >> i said from the beginning, i wanted to shine a positive light on my neighborhood. >> first he mowed the grass, and then he bought this abandoned building and built a farm yard and commuter garden. >> right now, we have broccoli, kale, and brussel sprouts and lettuce. >> it's a small enclave known as the georgia street community collective. >> it's the idea for the neighbors to come and pick whatever you want to pick, and have whatever you want to have, and get help whenever they need it. >> in a bankrupt city with so many abandoned structures, covington is considered an innovator. but the fight isn't his alone. wayne state university professor, john, says that the city's plan is a step in the right direction, but there are more hurdles ahead. >> the city's biggest challenge, is to begin to reassemble it. >> but that will have to wait. in a city pushing for a comeback, demolition and rehabilitation have to come first. aljazeera, detro

. >> mark covington watched his community fill with decay. he decided to do something about it. >> i said i wanted to shine the most positive light on my neighbourhood. >> he started to mow the grass. he built ab abandoned building and built a farm yard and community garden. >> what do you have. >> broccoli, kale, brussel sprouts and let us. >> it's a small enclave known as the georgia street community collective. >> idea is for the neighbour to take what you want to take, and have whatever they want to have, and get help if they need it. >> in a bankrupt city with many abandoned structures, covington is an innovator. wayne state university urban developer says the plan is a step in the right direction, but there are more hurdles ahead. >> the biggest challenge after eliminating blight is to begin to assemble the land for reuse. >> that will have to wait. in a city pushing for a comeback, demolition and rehabilitation have to come first. >> in colorado, authorities are responding the search for three men missing after the mud slide. foot sear

i had the opportunity to talk to a man, mark covington.e is taking on the issue of blight on his own. not only is he transforming his neighborhood, easy also touching lives. >> we'll look forward to that. thank you. >> pope francis says he has zero tolerance for anyone in the catholic church abusing children, making those comments after his visit to the holy land. he says there are bishops, three under investigation for abuse, calling such actions horrific. >> the priest who does this betrays the body of the lord. a priest needs to lead children to sanctity, unsteady abuses them. this is like a say tannic mass. >> he is expected to have his first meetings with victims of sex abuse next week at the vatican. >> elliot roger was able to purchase guns and ammunition used in a deary rampage in santa barbara despite his mental illness. we have more on the missed red flags. >> with the benefit of hindsight, the clues appeared to be everywhere, elliot roger posted disturbing videos on you tube. >> you denied me a happy life. >> concerning enough t

than a sort of get em at all costs mentality which is which is more typical of your prosecutor so covington and burling is a program with clout to elicit ministration. well absolutely yes i mean eric holder comes when called coming to burling and let lanny breuer sir for a while you had the top two law enforcement official officials in the world i mean in the united states coming from the same firm that doesn't necessarily make them wrong on all these things but but covington and burling represented almost every one of these too big to fail companies. so one has to wonder you know exactly how much zeal are they bringing to their investigation or not investigation of these firms at the very least it's a question that gets raised in the public's mind and that's that's unfortunate very important book the book is the still ahead this maps and the obama administration's we should deferential to release drug offenders from pleas and this is a step in the right direction don't go away. join me. for that impartial and financial commentary and contribute and much much. only on been passed and. your.

i also would like to acknowledge my mother-in-law, shirley covington, who is also a retired public school teacher as well as principal. she could not make the trip to d.c. today, but supports me from her home in columbus. finally, i would like to much my colleague and my exceptional staff at the state court. they're keeping things running through the while i am in washington. thank you. i welcome your questions. >> thank you very much to all of you for your opening statements and most important for your records of public service. i want to say again how important these hearings and this process is. i want to welcome chief justice thompson, chief judge -- you honor us by your presence today. we are sorry you had difficulty getting here, but you weren't mentioned in absentia by senators isakson and chambliss. like you, these individuals have performed a great deal of public service over the course of your careers are ready. the decisions we make here really will be to put you in a place where for many people seeking justice you will be the last person making a decision, even though there ma

i also would like to acknowledge my mother-in-law, shirley covington, who is also a retired public school teacher as well as principal. she could not make the trip to d.c. today, but supports me from her home in columbus. finally, i would like to much my colleague and my exceptional staff at the state court. they're keeping things running through the while i am in washington. thank you. i welcome your questions. >> thank you very much to all of you for your opening statements and most important for your records of public service. i want to say again how important these hearings and this process is. i want to welcome chief justice thompson, chief judge -- you honor us by your presence today. we are sorry you had difficulty getting here, but you weren't mentioned in absentia by senators isakson and chambliss. like you, these individuals have performed a great deal of public service over the course of your careers are ready. the decisions we make here really will be to put you in a place where for many people seeking justice you will be the last person making a decision, even though there ma

joe, inmove to covington, georgia.ler: the democrats want to control all of the information -- that is go out going to come out, since they have lost the media. not look these people regulating anything i do. theseill put all of progresses back in it. host: we have a tweet -- guest: i think advocates for stronger net neutrality would argue that it is a bit of a false premise. axistil about 2000, the did operate under commentary regulations. when they started to reclassify these companies, they operated as dial-up access them and rod access,ess -- broadband this all started a little bit with cable companies arguing over whether or not it was a telecom service or a cable service. they were arguing it was a telecom service because the dispute originated with local amenities you wanted to treat it as a cable service and get the kind of fees that cable companies have to pay to local communities. , it operated under common carriage, and then over the past 15 years there have been these attempts of the fcc werepose principles

my question is, the president was at the 75 bridge that goes from covington, kentucky, to cincinnati, ohio. the bridge has been deficient for years. but the problem is, in the states primary kentucky, because kentucky will not let go of any money to fix the bridge. they'll wait until the bridge falls, and then everybody will tell everybody how sorry they are that the bridge has fallen. we need to do something about the state governments, because state people, and i know this will probably be unpopular, but it's because there's a biracial man in the white house. they will not do anything. it doesn't matter if we the people need it, and we do. they're going to always say no because they're afraid that they'll be tea partied when the next election comes up. host: eugene, can you talk a little bit about the balance between state and federal funding for some of these projects? guest: yeah, because the state officials have said that they haven't seen a lot of action from the federal level, big government, many of them, have been very aggressive passing legislation, raising their local gas t

calling in from covington, georgia, is sweetie. sweetie, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you so much for taking my call. host: what a great name. caller: thank you. i just want to say that congress is at an all-time low. i hope that harry reid, who i believe is the majority leader, really gets his act together. i don't know what's going on in congress. but these issues are the name change is something that is already incorporated in the world today. there are avenues to get that name changed without the congress using this as another ploy so they are not doing their job. it is really getting embarrassing. i worked for 30 years. thank god my family and i have a little bit to live on. but i'm telling you, this congress is missing the big vision of what is going on in the world today. i watch c-span. i'm glad you have it here. but the people in our country that are beginning to suffer and the other countries that are taking note of what we are doing, they better take heed because in other countries like china, they are now starting to rebel. this is ignorant. and the c

former head of the criminal division who both worked at the same white shoe corporate defense firm covingtonand burling. they are now coming to office occupying these positions and they have more of a deal maker mentality than a sort of get him at all costs mentality which is which is more typical of your prosecutor coving didn't birling is a firm with clout elicit ministration. well absolutely yes i mean eric holder comes in called coming to them burrowing and let lanny breuer so for a while you had the top two law enforcement official officials in the world i mean in the united states coming from the same firm that doesn't necessarily make them wrong at all these things but but coming to burling represented almost every one of these too big to fail companies and so one has to wonder you know exactly how much zeal are they bringing to their investigation or not investigation of these firms at the very least it's a question that gets raised in the public's mind and that's that's unfortunate very important books the book is the divide still ahead this map that the obama administration's we sh