there's no doubt in my mind that guy who said let detroit go bankrupt would let detroit burn to the ground. there's a lot more coming up in the next half hour of "the ed show." stay tuned. we're right back. >>> voter id, which is going to allow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania. done. >> a pennsylvania lawmaker says voter id laws are going to deliver his state to mitt romney. the big panel weighs in. >>> latinos are a force that can and will help decide this election. >> and singer marc anthony has something to say about the president's immigration policy. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." we have some unlikely news tonight. a republican is actually telling the truth about voter id laws. since 2011, 20 states have inacted or attempts to enact voter suppression laws. half of them passed voter id laws including the swing state of pennsylvania. on saturday, a pennsylvania republican let the cat out of the bag on his state's voter i dirksz law. he gave them the play book republicans are using around the country to take back the white house. >> we are focused on making sure that

detroit and renaissance together. unemployment remains high at 10.5% and the blight is still here but something else is here too optimism. >> i think we can compete with boston, new york, chicago. >> reporter: that is billionaire dan gilbert. the chairman of quicken loans is talking about competing for great workers not to build cars but rather to build tech companies. they have moved workers into downtown detroit. >> lease rates were very low. so we could create our own vision down here. >> sit hard to find an apartment here downtown because people my age group basically are taking up everything. >> reporter: gilbert has started a firm to provide seed money to technology start-ups. >> technology can create value and wealth quicker than 1.0 economy manufacturing. >> reporter: because with tech all you need is a little space and big ideas. >> the tech sector here is important to detroit because it help change people's perspective of our city. >> reporter: greg schwartz moved back from new york to found up to. a mobil a

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there was a 27-romance in detroit, michigan, who was -- 27-year-old man in detroit, michigan, who was the spark of a movement and helping to build alliances and coalitions along racial and ethnic lines with other victims of bias-related hate crimes. i am talking about the killing of vincent chen 30 years ago, 1982. i was a young college student at uc-davis. i wanted to ask if our community leaders can come up so they can give some remarks after we have made our remarks. we have a reverent, the executive director of the chinatown community development center. if i could ask him to come up, and we also have mike from a group organizing an event on the 23rd. if he can come up as well? mike and the reverend? please come to the podium. great shirt. i wanted to say that i am introducing a resolution on the imperative agenda that will recognize june 23, this saturday, 2012, as justice for vincent chen day. it recognizes the 30th anniversary of a movement to call for justice in the baseball bat beating death of vincent in the city and county of san francisco. in 1982, ronald reagan was the pr

a game that right now is led by detroit, 3-2, bases loaded. top of the ninth, 2 out... and a 3-0 count on teixeira. >> very valverde, it's 11:00, do you know where your strikes are? 13 pitches out of the strike zone, only 5 in it. >> so far for valverde. >> he has hit 2, walked 1, still has the leads. he has to throw a strike here. teixeira -- takes 1. 3-1. >> this is the definition of a white-knuckle save for valverde and the tigers, in particular jim leyland. sweating it out in the dugout. a late swing and a foul, a full count. this hab pushed as far as it can be pushed. the runners will go on a 3-2 from valverde. jam shot, foul. right in on his hand. >> valverde will try to get him to chase, but the pitches have been so far out of the strike zone, they are not tempting. >> yeah, they are not chasable. runners will go -- and that ties the gait game. a bases-loaded walk. it's 3-3, here in the ninth inning. 2 hit batsmen, two walks... 3 stolen bases in the inning. not a hit. but a tie game. >> you can understand jim leyland's thinking that he will need valverde long tim

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when you went into detroit, it was like a ghost town in downtown detroit. to know the rich history of the city, it was depressing. we did a job fair at every stop. we also did a town hall meeting. there is not a town hall meeting before or after. >> this is in august of 2011. >> that is right. i literally asked of the moderator if we should shut down the meeting and take the members out of there. i was scared. i thought it would be a good idea to have them escorted out by the police. they told me not to do that. i was afraid for them. it was a scary situation. it was about having a conversation. it it was a necessary conversation. african-american unemployment was horribly high. it was even worse in detroit. it was a 50% in some cities. when you have a conversation about whether or not people can keep the lights on, that is a very emotionally taxing conversation. i think the congressman was trying to say this is a conversation that we had. it is a difficult conversation. if you want to attack us because we're trying to speak up, it will not benefit you. tha

where a whole lot of people have just about given up in detroit michigan we've seen a place once a very successful completely switch gears and then a new title as one of the worst cities in america with an unemployment rate of about eleven percent it's not surprising that many people have left detroit for the suburbs and beyond it left behind about ninety thousand vacant buildings and homes it's a saudi a daily reminder for locals that detroit is suffering every day. closures continue flight to the suburbs which takes the tax base away from the city and there's more and more of that the decline in the school system. making people leave the city and so there's no money here really in that there are no jobs here. so there has been much good news out of the motor city recently but yesterday officials announced a plan that could help breathe life back into this former symbol of middle class strength michigan state university will be teaming up with the city to work on an urban farming initiative called the metro food plus innovation cluster its goals are to spark innovation in inner city ag

maybe my job is now in detroit. they didn't even know where detroit was. they didn't speak much of the language. when they got to detroit, as katya says, everything changed. >> after a grueling 15-hour bus ride to detroit, the men brought them to a hotel and asked them for their passports and money. then they gave the girls the true and terrible terms of their employment. >> just that you guys, because we brought you here, you should give us $12,000 each for everything. and for paperwork you've got to give us $25,000, which for me was incredible money, and they said, you guys are going to work for us and give us money for three months. they brought us clothes. it was strip clothes and shoes, and they say you guys are going to work at the club named cheetah, and you guys are going to work monday through saturday, double shift 2:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. >> for katya, a year of terror and abuse was about to begin. >> would go to work, work 12 hours a day there, and at the end of the shift, 2:00 in the morning there was waiting for us outside of the club in the ca

now the city of detroit could go broke.s according to mayor dave bing and the city's chief financial officer. they say the city will run out of money friday. state officials are refusing to hand over $80 million owed to the city unless detroit drops a lawsuit that would block the state from seizing control of the city's finances. the detroit cut services including street lights to stay afloat. tomorrow morning the mayor and city counsel will meet to try to overt the crisis. high school kids face a lot of pressure into getting into college, but it turns out increasing number of students are abusing prescription drugs adderall and ritalin to help them face their tests. some call them study drugs. new york times reporting on this. students take these drug before their exams. they say the drug drugs give students boost of energy and increase their attention span. the dea adderall and ritalin class two controlled sub sans the same class as cocaine and heroin. using the drugs could long-term neurolodge effects. >> if your looking

the help detroit get the aid it needs.un out of money it's as simple as that you will be out of business ... she is doing what she has to do by law, and we need from a leadership standpoint to do what we need to do to turn detroit around of more than 200-million dollars... and could go bankrupt by friday. a woman who is six months pregnant with twins is being called a hero today... for saving a toddler from drowning. the woman is hospitalized today in stable condition... and doctors are closely monitoring her unborn babies. witnesses say the woman's daughter was playing with a friend when that child fell into a pond near their village in china. without thinking the woman... who can't even swim herself... dove in to save the drowning child. other villagers quickly arrived to help... which was good... because the woman was too exhausted to climb the steep bank. the days top business stories next. plus a major private health insurer says it will keep some health law provisions... regardless of an upcoming ruling by the suprem

about detroit -- detroit was the city in the 1950's. it was the booming city of america. there are a lot of factors. coleman young is therefore20 years -- was there for 20 years and just destroyed the city. we have growth all over in texas. office space occupancy is high. small businesses do well in texas, too. we have the world's largest medical center. host: do you own or rent? caller: i own. host: how much did you pay for your house? caller: $420,000. host: he talked a lot about quality of life. guest: he has made a choice about where he can find a good job any reasonable cost of living. i guess he likes humidity. houston is driving -- t hriving. interesting comment about detroit. a law that has to do with the level of education and diversity in the economic base. to try was a town dominated by the auto industry -- detroit was a town dominated by the auto industry. new york city has built itself based on knowledge-based industry -- publishing, technology. two very different strategies. guest: downtown is a great example of a city -- almost every city had a boom point i

" and it shows the firefighters in detroit. and in this scene, you hear a man asking for his dog. >> is that my dog? you do see the firefighters bring a very limp dog. >> oh. >> he drops him on the floor, and they bring out the second dog, and he too shows signs of life, but -- >> think about it. humans suffer from smoke inhalation in the exact same situation in this house. they're going to be affected a lot more from smoke than we would. >> but the firefighter quickly takes off his mask and starts giving the second dog oxygen. and then they move the mask over to the smaller dog. amazingly, saving both of them. >> they both survived? >> they both survived. a few seconds later, look. >> dog is already wagging his tail. >> gave him some water, and next thing you know, they're both just walking around. >> oh, wow. >> this is a great video. because look at the firefighters. they're bravely saving the home, and at the same time, they're so kindly rescuing these dogs. >> i was amazed and surprised that that's all it took to bring the

mika talking about detroit.midwest you're probably going to go romney probably would have let gm go bankrupt, obama's the guy. but what's the decision the rest of america makes as they go into that voting booth? because you can make the logical argument, but for obama, your atm machines would have stopped working, gm would have gone bankrupt, but for obama, you can go down the list. but -- >> hard case to make. >> but when people go into the voting booth aren't they asking themselves am i better off now than four years ago? >> when you talk to the folks on the obama campaign, they are really focused on making this a choice not a referendum. the romney -- if mitt romney could, he wouldn't even do campaign events. he would just walk around with a sign with the unemployment rate. he wouldn't say anything. he barely talks about his time -- he was the governor of a state, barely talks about it. doesn't want to talk that much about mitt romney. he wants to talk about unemployment is high, the economy in bad shape an t

some highways in the upper midwest from the twin cities to detroit. dampen roads in the pacific northwest and the northern rockies. >> if you're flying, airport delays are possible in minneapolis, detroit and denver. >>> and back to the news this morning. new details, today, about the death of rodney king. a neighbor says she heard someone, quote, really crying. and then, a few minutes later, a splash. >> king was found dead in his pool. autopsy results are expected today or tomorrow. and with more on his life, here's abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: he was the battered face at the center of the first viral video ever. the man who issued that famous plea in the middle of one of the worst riots in american history. >> can we all get along? >> reporter: in a southern california suburb, rodney king's lifeless body was found in his swimming pool by his fiancee, one of his jurors that awarded him $4 million in a civil suit after his beating. >> she got up to go outside to talk with him, which she found him in the bottom of the pool. >> reporter: his death

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. >> the detroit mayor says his city could go broke on friday. detroit made a deal with the state back in april to get the city out of financial straits. but the deal violates the city's charter so a lawsuit was filed to keep it from going through. the mayor says it will keep detroit from getting the money it needs to pay 10,000 employees. >>> the salon that the new jersey tanning mom made notorious is facing a $5200 fine. the health department says the city tropic salon allowed customers to be overexposed. the woman is accused of taking her six-year-old daughter into the tanning beds, which she denies. >>> remembrance at the "washington post" about watergate. the post hosted a panel of key players to talk about the scandal that forever changed politics and journalism in washington and throughout the nation. the panel included carl woodward and bob bernstein. sunday is 40 years to the day of that break in that led to the down fall and resignation of president richard nixon. >> hard to believe it has been 40 years. where did the time go? >> i know

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now the city of detroit could actually go broke. that's according to mayor dave bing and the chief financial officer. they say the city will run out of money friday. state officials are refusing to hand over $80 million owed to the city, unless detroit drops a lawsuit that would block the state from seizing control of the city's finances. detroit has already cut services, including street lights in order to stay afloat. tomorrow morning the mayor and city council will meet to try to avert the crisis. >>> unemployment benefits are ending this month for tens of thousands of people who have been out of work long-term. here are the numbers. the latest labor report shows 12.7 million americans unemployed. of those, more than 5 million have been out of work for at least six months. the average is actually around 40 weeks. >>> after the housing bust a few years ago, vacant and boarded-up properties are a common sight. baltimore is among the worst. athena jones has the story. >> reporter: joseph mccard grew up in baltimore, but later moved

meanwhile, in detroit, detroit, michigan, police are looking for answers after a 7-year-old boy there from his bunk bed. the boy's mother broke through a locked door and found the body. police fell the affiliate in detroit that that boy was also being bullied. for young people between the ages of 15 and 24, suicide is the third leading cause of death in this country. but these two cases involve the really young. a 12-year-old boy and a 7-year-old boy. we wanted to find out how uncommon these suicides are. we did some digging and discovered they were exceptionally rare. the national institute of mental health says for every 100,000 children between 10 and 14, less than one commits suicide. for adolescents, it's just under seven. both case, albeit rare, highlight something we need to continue to talk about in this country. the sometimes deadly effects of constant bullying. >> >> it's really so sad. we talk about this in a meeting. we talk about the coverage. does that foster a dialogue. does it create ideas for people. one thing we support is the trevor project. if there are parents or

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bryce hoffman covers the auto industry for the detroit news. his book american icon explains how ford motor company overhaul its operations and made itself the only one of the big three auto makers that didn't need a government bailout. he spoke about the book earlier this year in michigan. mich >> thank you very much. thank you all for coming. for watching to the viewers at home. i just want to start out by talking a little bit about howi this book came about. talking about how this book came about. i've been covering ford motor company for the detroit news since 2005. and from the beginning when i started covering for it, i knew that i was really witnessing an incredible story. i didn't know how it's going to win, but i knew was happening in dearborn was either the death of an american icon or its resurrection. embolus privately rooting for the latter is going to write the story either way. so as i followed the two-day event of a turnaround for the detroit news, i also in the back of my mind was writing this book. and in 2010 when it became c

after that it's all detroit. delmon young hits a couple rbis, tigers win this one 7-3. >>> after hitting three home runs on wednesday, carlo gonzalez back at it again yesterday, a three-run bomb to left, he has hit a homer in four straight at-bats the new team record. rockies beat the astros 11-5. >>> a tough french open for the americans. andy roddick, venus and serena williams have all been eliminated. now john isner is done. paul-henri mathieu pushed him to the limit in a 5 hour, 41 minute marathon. you may recall, john isner was in the longest tennis match at wimbledon and won. he wasn't as fortunate yesterday. >> that's your look at sports on "early today," i'm mario solis. >>> "early today" sports is brought to you by ice blue aqua velva, men get it. >>> who is favored this weekend at the box office and anger over a celebrity son's college scholarship. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> these kids put us to shame. coming up, the national spelling bee winner, you're watching "

look at this. 234is is in detroit, michigan. we got this from wdiz. you see a man sitting on the steps. that's jay waiting for his cousin. along come these two boys. they're probably 16 or 17 and watch what happens. pulls out a gun and they begin robbing this guy. >> next thing you know, one dude's like -- pulled out the gun. give me all you got. >> these guy, saying, give me everything you got. want guy has his gun out. the other guy is going through this guy jay's book bag. as they're going through the book bag they notice jay is a tattoo artist and here's what they say to him. >> oh, you a tattoo artist. that's cool. my bad for everything. >> what? >> they say, "my bad." slap the guy's hand. look. turned around and leave. >> they really like tattoo artists? >> i don't know. i don't know what to say. >> shows you how decent these guys are to violence. desensitized. they didn't see what they had just done was intimidating, scary, it was just part of a day? >> this whole thing was dacaugh on surveillance videos. the reason we're showing their faces is

on and on, do they do the same thing. >> detroit, 48, 49% of people in detroit are illiterate. they're illiterate. i'm being serious here. are you talking about pouring more money down there, continuing to raise taxes and a handful of truly productive people and most of them have fled detroit. you want to kick the rest out as well. and it's ridiculous, this might be the only way to break these contracts and maybe break the notion na somehow if we built it they will come. obviously it's something we're told on a national level, let's just spend a whole lot of taxpayer money. >> neil: be careful with what you wish for, i agree with what you're saying on principle, but let's say they get their act together, who is ever going to invest in stockton say, in the future, if you have a record for having gone belly up and not honored your commitments? argentina dealt with this, brazil dealt with this took many years to get over. it did get over it. >> yeah, sometimes-- a week ago imf got money from a whole bunch of countries that they used to lend money to. russias and brazils, we'll chi