the prestigious detroit institute of art asked detroiters to get creative. the institute, which has had its distributed 750 cameras to people all over the city, and told them to shoot what they wanted and tell the city's story and their own. 12,000 photos later, the city library is displaying what detroiters see about themselves. >> people are making art. they're talking about art, they're listening to art. art is really on the cutting edge of all the things that are happening in detroit. i do know that detroiters don't quit. i think you see that in every single one of these pictures and i think you see it out on the streets. >> reporter: you certainly see it on heidelberg street, where artist tyree guyton has turned two blocks of the city into an outdoor museum of found objects and abandoned houses. he says the heidelberg project, which he began in 1986, makes you laugh, it makes you happy. it's a very accessible monument to detroit's decay and abandonment, and to its hope of resurrection. more than 200,000 people visit each year. across town another group

he says he was opposed of the bailout but wanted to say detroit. if you go back to 2008, 2009, there really was not any private money to come out and put into the automotive industry. the money would have had to come from the banks and private equity people, and nobody was coming forward to put up the money. tavis: when you say president obama say to detroit with his plan, how is it, as we speak? >> it is doing pretty well. sales are good. profit is good. all the companies are still around. you have general motors, ford, and chrysler. what they did is they closed factories they did not need and changed some of the work rules in the factories, and that was a big deal. and used to be that you could only change a light bulb, for example, if your job classification was electrician, so even if you're qualified to change in light of, you had to wait for a guy from the other side of the factory to come and do that sort of thing, and that sort ofhing is pretty much gone now. i do not think that detroit is going to blow the japanese or korean car companies

, yours, irreparable harm to detroit? >> i am not sure there was irreparable harm done to unions from the bailout of the automotive industry. the united autoworkers union only has about one-third of the membership it had back in 1970, tavis. what i think has happened here really is there has been more responsible behavior by management and union alike, to really forge a more sensible working relationship in the last few years, ever since the bankruptcies of general motors and chrysler. just one example. 1.5 years or so ago, several workers at a chrysler factory went outside during lunch hour and it came back in and started making cars, and they were fired. the union decided not to battle that. that is a big change from the past. tavis: is the worst behind us? i asked that because there are, as you know, some economists who are concerned that the economy may be in danger of a double-dip recession. if the economy goes into a double-dip recession, that would impact on detroit. is the worst behind at the moment? >> it may hav

tavis: we will see what happens in detroit in the coming days. i hope there is a renaissance as the automotive industry is starting to rebound. inside "engines of change," i referenced earlier that the toyota prius made your list. let us know what you're trying to make us understand about these 15 cards. >> i was trying to dig the automobile as a lens through which to view the ebb and flow of american culture, if you will, tavis. american culture is sort of a longstanding tug-of-war between the practical, the pretentious, the ordinary, and the ostentatious. and all of these swings, our national psyche is reflectedd in these 15 cards. for example, the first two and the book, the model t, it was a very practical car. henry ford. it was the first people's car. henry ford's a favorite joke was about the farmer who wanted to be buried in his model t ford because the car had gotten him out of every hole he had ever been in, and that says a lot. the model t could go anywhere, but it was not stylish. it had 20 years. by the early 1920's, you could buy it

we think of detroit and michigan.motown, but there is a rock and roll sound that comes out of that area. >> bobby seeger is my mentor. your he was one of the first guys who had -- he was one of the first guys who had a local hit, and i was managed by his manager. my band was managed by his manager. >> the mushroom? >> that was one of the better names. it is all of the psychedelic nuance, but bob seger took a liking to me when he saw my band. he took me to the recording studio. he introduced me to niki stevenson. marvin gaye, and it takes to do, and bob was the first song writer i ever met. we were in a club watching another detroit band, and bob says, they are never going to make it like this. i said what the mean, and he said, they do not write their own songs. he said if you want to be successful in the music business, you have got to write your own songs, and i looked at him and said, what if they are bad? he said, they are going to be, but just keep writing, and eventually you will write a good one. >> when, where

you might recall the detroit windsor tunnel connects detroit windsor canada. threat that is taking place right now. take a look at the google map, and locate where it is. approximately 27,000 to 29,000 vehicles actually pass through this tunnel on a daily basis. so this is a big deal here. handles almost 9 million cars throughout the year. we are talking about mostly overwhelmingly cars, but trucks as well. it is one of two major thoroughfares between detroit and windsor and it is right now closed because of a bomb threat. we're going to try to get more information, but we're just taking a look at these live pictures. you can see some of the vehicles that have gathered there. those are, looks like police vehicles. right now, it is closed to traffic, and a tremendous amount of traffic that goes through that tunnel. but it is now at a standstill. that is because of a bomb threat. as soon as we have more information, we're going to go back to that picture and back to the ground. >>> we also want to show you a little bit of our favorite video of the day. a south c

in detroit regard to the divisions. these problems associated with the division of sudan are historic problems they go back to the era of british colonialism the way in which the british carried out the colonization of sudan was specifically designed to divide and rule and that legacy is still very much a part of so don it's not just some don there's other countries for example nigeria they're still living with the legacy of british colonialism and it's resulted in civil wars in nigeria it's also resulted in civil wars and sue done but no question about it the west definitely wanted to have sudan partition they want to get back in there they want to take control of the oil resources and in regard to the current problems with the cell no question about it the hague leggo all feels were attacked by the s.p.l. a several months ago they were the aggressors and that particular conflict and shut down all production out of the south into the north and right now in south sudan is not operating economically or politically there'

dubai we go to mohamed osman he is the associate editor of the online newspaper sudan tribune and in detroit we have a bio on me. he's the editor of the pan-african newswire right gentlemen this is cross tightenings you can jump in anytime you want if i go to you first in washington we see a protest movement growing in sudan is this the arab spring finally arriving there . well it is the sudan summer if you will because the dissident is have done this before in history in october of nineteen sixty four and in april of one nine hundred eighty five well before anybody in the world heard about the arab spring and what it means so it is the sudanese going back to doing what they do best protesting against the ship and trying to reclaim their country this is not they are whispering finally reaching sudan this is the sudanese. home grown opposition to this government that has been percolating for the last twenty three years finally it's reaching its peak yes maybe there'll be a spring is in this because they see people revolting around them but this is not something that was imported to sudan it i

is enough and those people are now trying to say that we got insurance or belongs to us we go to detroit about only do you agree with that characterization here. no i think the problems right now facing the republic of sudan. stem from a number of factors one of course is the sharp decline in oil revenue since the partition of the country in two thousand and eleven the majority of the oil resources of the country have been cut off largely as a result of the ongoing conflict and disagreement between the republic of south sudan as well as the republic of sudan seventy five percent of their earnings have been cut off as a result of these disagreements also you have ongoing citations on the part of the united states and other western powers who have never looked at the current government in sudan favorably this of course is combined with the overall economic crisis that is sweeping the world so what you see now is people protesting against the imposition of austerity inside of the republic of sudan the same type of austerity that we see being implemented in many european countries even in th

detroit >> detroit has long had more troubles than dollars to fix them.ix months, detroit's public buses, annual big-time money losers have started an unlikely turn-around. >> this past month, they ran the first surplus in years. 1.6 million in the black. >> mark ashley, the team of consultant hired by the city to straighten out the bus system. the approach has been to adopt a business model. sticking to a new reduced budget. gathering data and running buses where most riders are. >> buy as a service, again to accommodate demand after studying where the ridership is. the time of day that the ridership comes in to play. >> it is progress. but at a price. >> the detroit department of transportation cut 250 jobs. bus service between the hours of 1:00 to 4:0:00 a.m. is eliminated. fewer buses on the road so passengers sometimes wait longer for one. >> you make it difficult for the working man then you hurt the economy already. because he can't get to and from where he needs to get to, to provide for his family. >> then there is the union bus drivers who alrea

bridge links detroit to ontario, canada. detroit police say someone called with a bomb threat but they did not find any explosives. >>> federal authorities are working with local police to try to figure out what caused a deadly plane crash in montgomery county. the small plane went down just before 7:30 last night in laytonsville, maryland right near davis airport. one person was killed in the crash. another one was seriously hurt. >>> there will be another round of talks today on whether to hold a special session on expanding gambling in maryland. >> governor martin o'malley is still trying to rally support. as tom first gerald reports -- fitzgerald reports, it is far from a sure bet. >> reporter: ike leggett and rushern baker arrived ready to talk. >> this is millions of dollars for the state of maryland fork prince george's county and baltimore city. >> reporter: baker wants governor o'malley to call a special session of the legislature in order to expand the number of gaming sites in maryland from five for six and put th

>> yeah. >> this is detroit.t matter. trust me. >> you're very naive. the bottom line is, it's dangerous. it's dangerous. >> you know it is. >> yeah, i have to make money somehow. >> what we're trying to tell you is, there's got to be something better. you're 18. you know, you're out there essentially by yourself. you're a child, in our eyes because we're much older than you, and we're concerned about you. and we're just trying to encourage you to do something else. find something else where you're not going to be in jeopardy. >> keep going down that hallway. we're going to go out the back door here on the left. >> i'm finding more and more the youth this day and age is very much what we just saw with her. they think this is their only option, and a lot of kids these days are looking for the most money, the shortest route, the least effort. >> frustrated, the officers suspect they've made little progress with this headstrong teen today. but they know it's only her first arrest for prostitution, and they hope that

it is over with for the most part in detroit.outh of town towards trenton, down 75, where the strongest storm is. there is probably a couple, 10,000 people at least without power from the line of storms that has moved through the state of michigan. a break from the heat today. albany to boston to hartford. from new york city, southward, the heat wave continues. washington, d.c., just like yesterday, right near 100 degrees. pittsburgh, pretty humid at 95. the worst of the heat centered over the top of missouri, illinois, indiana. we are talking about 100 to 105. even chicago could be near 103 degrees. pretty rare for chicago to get all that hot. it is not like it has been cool in dallas or san antonio through the southeast. you are a little more accustomed to temperatures in the mid to upper 90s. relief in sight. the cooler air is beginning to arrive in canada, southern portions of canada, through the northern u.s. we will experience this cold, cooler air. minneapolis, 100 today to tomorrow right around 90 degrees. that's a little

i know that the detroit bbp is taking care of that. as far as the coast guard's role in it, right now the coast guard has boats on the water that are deferring marine traffic to and from the areas of the tunnel for safety. >> okay. so we know police, they're handling. we also talked to someone who on the detroit end, they're sending in bomb-sniffing dogs to try to figure out if, in fact, this is a bomb. the voracity of this threat. so you're telling me, as far as the river goes, because this is under the detroit river, you're making sure that there are no boats that are in and around this area, if, in case this threat is real, yes? >> yes, ma'am. the coast guard has went ahead and set up a safety zone on the north and south sides of the tunnel, just to make sure everything's safe. >> lauren laughlin with the coast guard, we appreciate you and we will keep making calls and find out what exactly is happening, the progress as these teams are entering this particular tunnel, the detroit windsor tunnel. >>> ptecting reputation, above all el

detroit tried all the big things. they didn't work.nally -- and detroit still has a long -- a long, long way to go, but they finally said by giving people access to affordable space, by letting young people start their own businesses, by no longer trying to big thick solutions and now fortunately trying to get their budget under control which is still taking awhile, that's the kind of thing that leads to urban rejuvenation. saw it in new york, in the bay area. i saw it when i lived in pittsburgh. hopefully we'll start to see it in places like detroit. >> richard florida, thank you for joining us. >> it's a pleasure to be with you guys. congratulations, by the way. >> thank you. >> appreciate that. up next, the price of democracy. why more than a million americans may be forced to pay for their turn at the polls just ahead in the cycle. man: there's a cattle guard, take a right. do you have any idea where you're going ? wherever the wind takes me. this is so off course. nature can surprise you sometimes... next time, you drive. next tim

and even detroit. not quite as strong of a line. but definitely pulse of storms moving through the detroit area. you'll hear thunder over the next half hour or so and this is gone by the morning commute. light rain behind it that you may have to deal with. the other spot had a stormy morning, all of the state of alabama, down from birmingham to montgomery, one cluster over the top, headed for montgomery, and a one-two punch, flash flooding threat through many areas of central alabama. let's talk about the headlight. day after day, and yesterday another head shaker. 111 degrees in little rock, arkansas, yesterday. oklahoma city, 107. many areas from texas to arkansas, southern missouri and kansas, we'll do it all over again. some areas shot once again of hitting 110 degrees. and oklahoma city's forecast, look at this, lynn, 108 through thursday and we cool it off to 100 on saturday. >> that's like an arizona forecast. >> easily. hot arizona forecast. >> all right, bill. thanks so much. >>> stocks finish flat, hsbc takes another hit a

he is able to make the move against detroit. the establish evacwaited detroit without a fight and retreated into on ontario. harrison and the army set off after them. the british were lead by a general named proctor, not a god one. fighting with one and abide with them was the famous chief who was the one of the great men in american history. at the battle, harrison caught up with the british and indians. as it turned out the british ran like rabbits for the most part. the warriors stayed and fought and he died fighting killed to onability of future vice president of the united states richard johnson. this destroyed british power in upon or it owe. it -- ontario it cooperated communications between the east and the west. at this point, the effect in illinois was substantial. the pot -- pot wot me had enough. they fought alongside the british. they had been unempressed what they had seen. they returned to illinois, and some of the hostile chiefs made peace. so in at least northern central illinois, measure of peace did return whe

one goes detroit and sees the socialiological department and thinks it is the best thing since sliced bresmed it is to help poor people and get them used to the united states. there is, of course, a paternal, even big brother quality to all of this, that i think rubs people the wrong way as things went further along. and by the early 1920's, workers themselves, and a lot of observers are explaining that this is intrusive, sticking your nose into the private lives of workers and you don't have any business doing that. with regard to the goons in the 1930's, sort of labor thugs of the ford company, that is also a complicated situation. the river rouge is up and firing on all sill endars, it was a massive facility. by the 1930's as well, is having physical profpbles he has had a series of strokes and will have more of the family, and the family covered most of them up. by the early 1940's he was in bad shape mentally. they kept this away from the american public. as a result, ford lost control of his company and to put it crudely, he turned it over essentially to an ex-prize fighter name

you just gave a team like detroit an extra chance. >> dick: second and third.santiago 1 for 3, was hit by a pitch the last time up, trying to go the other way with it. it's out of play. 2-1. the tigers lead it 6-2. would not be a save punt for valverde. >> tim: i don't think it would be pushing things either to say the biggest at-ba in this game was the hit batsman when santiago was hit before the home run by jackson. >> dick: the batter who's up right now. >> tim: yeah, right. >> dick: the pitch is inside. it's now three balls and a strike. you're absolutely right, because boesch was on at second. and this -- instead of facing the number nine hitter, getting out of the inning, not having to face the top of the order, you hit him. then jackson and -- you know, the rays then come back with a couple of home runs. >> tim: yeah. >> dick: there's a grounder hit to conrad. this will do it, but not before the tigers strike again. get two runs. five of their six runs in the last two innings. the rays come up in the bottom of the ninth, last chance, trailing by four. >>

going to be a very hot day around detroit. possibility of getting up to 103. 100 from wichita to kansas city to st. louis. today should hopefully be the peak. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look outside your window. not to mention the other areas. could be near 100 today in washington, d.c. we may even get to 100 degrees in boston, massachusetts, of all places. so eight wille taste of the heat for some areas that haven't had a lot. cold front coming down, lynn. cools almost everyone down by thursday. >> we use that cold front loosely. bill, thanks so much. >>> well, wall street eyes stimulus, yahoo! gets their woman, and the 9-year-old master who's already made a million. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, all for show? reports say the "idol" judges didn't agonize over their exits. they were fired. >>> coming up, a rough night for a pair of all-stars, the dream team gets a scare, and no one is safe from the kiss campaigning, not even the president. you're watching "early

the giants' matt cain starts for the n.l., and detroit's justin verlander will take the mound for the a.l. >>> back to the derby, and the catch tonight came off a mark trumbo home run. watch closely in the middle of the screen. one of kansas city's finest made the juggling grab. sign that guy up. the long arm of the law, that's some pretty good hands. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> well, the latest attempt to pump life into "american idol's" ratings, your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, if you're happy getting a couple hundred thousand miles out of your new car, just wait until you hear about this record breaker. you're watching "early today." >>> and welcome back to "early today." >>> warm temperatures, 80 up to portland, 100 in boise. a chance for some showers mainly with thunderstorms from the mountains of montana extending back into billings. 101 in boise, 113 in vegas, still a chance of a few isolated thunderstorms in the four corners. if you're watching on the bay area news, in oakland, see real space g

. >>> police in detroit are investigating a bomb threat at a major league baseball game. someone called 911 last night and said there was a bomb at the ballpark where the detroit tigers were playing the los angeles angels. they made no announcement and did not call for an evacuation while they searched the stadium. nothing was found president threat follows two similar hoaxes on monday and last week that shut down a bridge and tunnel connecting detroit and canada. >>> it was a close call on a road in a mountain winery. how a driver escaped this mess without a sickle scratch on their car. >> a crucial day in the ethics case against suspended sheriff ross mirkarimi. the close relative that is expected to take the witness stand today. >>> we are live at city hall where the misconduct trial against san francisco sheriff resumes today. we'll tell you who is expected to take the stand. >> a massive fallen tree creates a close call for this car. >> we'll tell you how uc students are planning to protest the proposed fee increase. >> well after yesterday's very, very cool july day

don't know if this in competition from the zombie banks now we're going to zombie theme parks in detroit we have this kind of to cause a dichotomy of a zombie institutions the support of the problem happens when you introduce a malignant strain of competition. so detroit used to be a manufacturing hub that wall street took over with these complex financial products but all this broad message board says we can't compete without a business we're going to be is we're going to go we're going to one up these are the parents we're going to our city something people are going to actually turn detroit into a zombie. unless harkless just post some big bang hahaha something about her in the zombie apocalypse i mean i think this is a brilliant move on its rights part and i applaud their mayor they will know it's not their mayor they different did they wear it down the banks have been propped up by the federal reserve the us government at this time i believe was trying to fund it through crowd funding so by way different ways of upgrading solving institutions but you know what to me it's getting a l

we have heat warnings in detroit and philadelphia. heat advisories many areas of the ohio valley. here's how hot it's going to get today. 100 forecast high d.c., chicago, st. louis, des moines and detroit could be one of the hottest spots in all of the united states today. forecast high expected 102 in detroit. >> brutal. >> keep going. >> we got nothing to say. >> keep going. >> coming up, wall street ayes stimulus. yahoo gets the woman. the 9-year-old master who already made a million. the first look at this morning's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> coming up, rough night for a pair of allstars. the dream team gets a scare and no one is safe from the kiss cam. not even the president. you're watching first look on msnbc. i've discovered gold. [ female announcer ] new roc® retinol correxion max. the power of roc® retinol is intensified with a serum. it's proven to be 4x better at smoothing lines and deep wrinkles than professional treatments. roc® max for maximum results. >>> welcome back to first look. i'm lynn berry. here are some of the top stories making news. a u.s.

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the video now being used as evidence against him by detroit police. -- you actually found this video online, made some phone calls, and then it was reported to police. >> it was a total team effort. you know, news gathering is a team effort, but we found the video and read it on the front page of the internet. as news gathers, we search all sorts of kinds of websites. we alerted the authorities and they didn't know about it until we had spotted it. >> so what's happened since? >> there's been a raid. the fbi followed up and i believe we have aerials of that raid that happened yesterday at his home there. we still don't know how many dogs there were confiscated, but that exactly were confiscated. but that video led to this. he still hasn't been charged, brooke. we spoke to the director of the humane society of the united states. he said that's common procedure. they had probable cause of that video to raid his compound. but now they're still analyzing evidence. we don't know what kind of charges if at all from police. >> we are confident we have shut d

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but look what happened in detroit yesterday. it was 102 in detroit, michigan. even more impressive than that, syracuse, new york, one of the snowiest spots and snowiest cities in the entire country, was 101 degrees. so this heat just, it's widespread and it keeps bouncing back and forth. it got very hot yesterday in d.c., too. and this morning we're holding onto the heat. the heat index, it feels like 86 degrees this morning in new york city when you start your day. the only spots that are hotter than that, louisville ties that and st. louis feels like 89 this morning. that's just gross. when you're that hot to start it's going to be a hot finish, too. we do have some thunderstorms cooling a few people off here, especially up in wisconsin. anywhere from green bay down to central michigan. but the hot weather is what's going to dominate the map once again today. you'll be lucky if you get these thunderstorms this morning from grand rapids to flint, maybe detroit. that will cool you off. the other thing we've got to watch today, lynn, chance of severe thunderstor