our guests dee layler co-owner of snapology teaching computer coding. willie flowers executive director of community health alliance. and glanise, project pay, and the smart steps learning center children's center. welcome all of to you "viewpoint." mr. flowers, let's start with you. there's been much talk about baltimore's poverty rate 25%, unemployment 8.4% nearly doubled the national average. among african-american youth an unemployment rate over 16%. how do things get to this point? how to they get to be so bad in baltimore? >> it's very complex. it's hard to explain in details. the reality is there's break down in health and barriers, whether transportation unemployment education, we work very hard with food access and food security it's all just very challenging. how it got there is anyone's explanation but reality is that what we try to do is just search for solutions. we've kind of done that over the years, what we do with our programming. >> dee, how would you answer that question? >> i'm not really from ball i'm someone new to the aemplt theto