the other detroit, maybe they see it out the window. the detroit i show, the detroit i love. be your detroit but it's what i saw. >> this is vicky's barbecue. there are no renovated houses or new businesses on this block, just vicky's barbecue. like 700,000 citizens, it too has endured. ♪ >> who lives here? >> some would say it's an abandoned city. this neighborhood, i mean, working class. i actually live like a mile and a half that way but it's completely different environment. >> george, born and raised in southwest detroit. >> it's weird, like in detroit, it's super contrast in like certain senses. if you go down jefferson towards gross pointe, it's like once you hit gross pointe it's beautiful million dollar estate homes but right before that, it's the slums. there's no in the middle, i guess you would say. that's the problem with detroit. there's a general consensus of fear of this city, you know what i mean? >> wait a minute. you have a whole hipster resurgence going on. >> it's great. lot of people talk that it's positive. when you are a city left without options, you

detroit celebrates music. here again is bisi onile-ere. >> long before mo town, this was the sound of the city. >> the detroit symphony orchestra, a symbol of success. a surplus of 20 million, ticket sales bringing in 10,000 donors, and a concert featuring steven spiel berg and john wilson sold out in is a minutes. it's music to everyone's ears, and a surprise considering the institution was silenced forever. >> we went through cuff times, during the financial coppals the orchestra was on the brink. stayed funding dropping. >> ticket sales plunged. audiences down 40-50%, plus a deficit of 6.5 million. with a musician contract, reinforced contracts, the symphony rebounded and is if the black. >> this is a reason for the turn around where every concert is broadcast to the world. it's the only one to streamline for free. the webb casts viewed by hundreds of thousands of people. there are studies that showed people who consume certain content on the internet who are far more likely to consume it live as well. >> g

that's the one thing that detroit offers that it's part of your heritage. >> made in detroit. the large entrepreneurs show that it's not about cars and trucks, it's everything. >> from crime to a troubled public school system, the city of detroit has a share of problems. what is interesting have there's a large number of young professionals moving downtown. it's such a bad situation that the vacancy rate is 98%. downtown report hasn't had a housing problem for some time, until now. >> bisi onile-ere reporting. >> veronica scott is the found are of a nonprofit called the empowerment plan, and her organization helps homeless families in detroit find employment. >> how did you start this? >> it was all a class project with the college for creative studies in detroit. it was a school projects that grew and took on a life of its own. >> this is part of your own personal story. >> it really does. it took a long time for me to recognise that this coat that turns into a sleeping bag that we give out nationally, designed in school really stemmed from how i grew up, and was about the op

why detroit? >> it just really made since.here is so much opportunity here. >> reporter: located in what was previously an abandoned building, it's part of a new wave of innovators setting up shop and companying the landscape. in 2007 the central business district has a vacancy rate of 33%. in 2013 it dropped to 26.5. >> detroit historically is blue collar, and i think that translates really well to tech, it translates really well to entrepreneurs, because if you are going to be an entrepreneur and especially in tech, you have got to be able to work. and that's the one thing that detroit really offers that it's part of our heritage. >> reporter: made in detroit, these young entrepreneurs are showing it is not just about cars and trucks anymore. it is everything. bisi onile-ere, al jazeera, detroit. ♪ >>> your 401k is smiling. the dow up 92 points. visa and procter & gamble are today's big earners so far. gm claims most lawsuits are for accidents that happened before 2009 when it declared bankruptcy. the auto makers facing abou

, for the new detroiters at the same time as the old detroiters.how do we make sure that we are balanced and that everyone has a seat at the table? thank you for your time? >> thank you for having me. >> and detroit's efforts to fight crime. >> first responders with a medication that can immediately reverse the effects of a drug overdose. science and technology correspondent jacob ward explains from san francisco. >> the lock zone, also known as narcan. in 95% of cases, it almost instantaneously reverses the effect of an overdose of heroin or hydrocodone. overdoses have fallen by between 30 and 90%. it simply keeps the drug from binding to the brain and restores breathing in the process. it also inspires remarkable consensus. 17 states have moved to expand access. attorney general eric holder in a speech on wednesday urged policemen, fire fighters should carry it at all times citing 10,000 overdoses reversed by niloxon since 2001. in maine, which has seen i see rate of overdose quadruple since the 190s with 163 fatal overdose ins 2012 alone, the go

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i'm a life-long detroiter. when my son was two years old there was an abandoned home in our community that turned into a crack house. we called the city and police, and no one would do anything. one evening it got out of hand with gun fire, fighting and carrying on. i don't - we didn't want our children growing in and around the negative energy, that's a form of child abuse. the following morning i got together with a couple of neighbours, we spent eight hours boarding and securing the property. cutting the grass and picking up the neighbourhood. when the drug dealers came back, they couldn't get in and left. that's how blight busters started. 26 years ago this june. >> how do you think blight affected the morale of the city. >> blight is like a cancer. if you don't nip it in the bud it spreads. there were 12,000 vacant structures when we started, and as you and we know, there are 80,000 structures. it's a damper, at a minimum, and dangerous at a maximum. it's so important that we come together as a community t

while the city of detroit may be bankrupt, the people of detroit are not. to their -- committed city with the hope that they do dream of better things and that it shall ride from the ashes, the motto of detroit. what struck me in that retrospective is hopefully there is no cause and effect behind this phenomenon, but other cities i have gone to had a similar text appeared out of law school i went to miami. periodicals, were miami is dead, paradise lost, race riots, fires and brimstone. it is never going to come back. if you go to south beach, there was still the old training center where mohammed ali trained. everybody thought it would never come back. within a snapshot of five years, it began to turn. investment flowed into the city. great beaches., rat i think i want to go back, especially when i hear about the snow. the city began to grow and thrive. are there in 2001 i came to washington. street.e was on e between seventh and the 9th street corridors. it to the buildings that were burned up from the 1968 riots. nobody would, go, too dangerous. pollin bu

that's my job. >> detroit had been in decline for years.ut it wasn't until the bankruptcies that individual creditors started to take a hit. in every bankruptcy there are losers. in this one some may suffer more than others. under the current plan, police officers and firefighters could get 100% of pensions. creditors like jessie and dwayne get as little as 20%. >> what does that mean for jessie? >> that means she's not fairly compensated. jessie payne is not a sophisticated wall street bank or large bond holder. she's a woman walking in a parking lot, got hit by a city bus and deserves to be paid fairly. >> banks, bond holders and pension funds, often blamed for contributing to detroit's decline, have a seat at the negotiating table. jessie and dwayne who did nothing to hurt the city do not. >> being falsely incars raid, i didn't put the city in the situation it's in now. i think it's a little unfair. >> has the city reached out to you about negotiating or having input in how claims like dwayne's are treated. >> no, you can't get a city la

but private money is going into detroit. and a man is trying to help dozens of entrepreneurs get their business off the ground. we are joined from detroit by bisi onile-ere. >> phil cooley is an entrepreneur who offers work space inexpensively for those looking to start their own businesses. phil cooley feels that rebuilding the middle class is key to the future. in detroit said cashing town neighbour -- corktown neighbourhood the abandoned station is a symbol of plight. the small community has endured tough times. 36-year-old phil cooley is trying to change the narrative. >> everything shifts and changes. so we try to accommodate growth. >> phil cooley, a former fashion model opened a successful restaurant in corktown 10 years ago. now he's in the business of helping others. >> this is what started off as a dance studio then became fencing, as you see the line. >> in 2011 he purchased a 30,000 square food abandoned warehouse for $100,000. >> it had a negative history. we wanted to see how it could have a positive future. >>

when detroit turns around, will it be the old detroit or something completely different from the motory, motown to we used to know? >> i always look toward the positive, the future. the city has some wonderful things on the horizon. we are working very hard. the duncan administration has done a wonderful job to change the quality of life for our residents. the adopt a part program is kicking off, 300 public parks in the city, encouraging local businesses as well as organizations to adopt a park and really take pride in ownership in our community. it's about being a part of the solution. we can't rely just on the city to make positive change happen. it's about creative solutions and organizations, individuals as well as elected officials thinking creatively to really make a positive impact. >> if i am watching right now and sitting in one of those cities other than detroit, right now i'm thinking what can i get good, cheap in detroit. sell me on what i can get in expensively that will change my lifestyle say if i live in new york. >> real estate certainly is one. we have real estate for

detroit is his hometown.e has really taken a very aggressive approach to fighting crime here in the city of detroit. he has conducted massive raids, they are getting drugs off of the street and also making quite a few arrest. i had the opportunity to sit down with james craig in a one on one, and he explained that he felt after so many years the culture of violence here in detroit is finally beginning to turn, and he believes that's because more people are speaking up. >> detroit is resilient, detroiters are not afraid to roll up their sleeves and do the work. that's what is helping. we're seeing true partnership. >> reporter: and the police chief in his time here so far he has put an additional 175 more officers out here on the streets, and he believe that that is causing crime to go down. he is saying at this point it's down 7% compared to the same time last year, and this is a trend that they hope to continue on. >> and what else can we look forward to hearing about this week from your reporting? >> report

but detroit is his hometown.ity where not long ago a call to 911 often got no response from police, none. you were on your own. so far the chief has eliminated 12-hour shifts and put more officers on the streets. >> the message is we will not tolerate this lawless behavior. the message is you are not welcome here in detroit. >> reporter: the criminals are feeling it. in february a gang member used social media to issue a death threat against the chief. five people were eventually arrested. these officers are veterans. they have seen it all. >> it's kind of slow, but at anytime something could jump up. >> reporter: some crimes are still unthinkable. but officer kenneth downer says the people are starting to fight back. he thinks fear of the criminals created a look the other way mentality. he calls it a no snitch mentality, but now he thinks people have hit bottom with crime, and are more confident that the police can protect them. >>> and that's bisi onile-ere reporting. >>> coming up on al jazeera america, count

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i feel like we're getting some help from washington here in detroit.k to push that further, what we need is more of a national agenda to shore up cities, to say that detroit's not -- detroit's bankrupt and that's an extreme, but there are cities all over this country that are struggling with eroding tax bases, declining population. the kind of things that are hollowing them out. we need a national policy that helps figure out our industrial policy, which is the economic life blood of these cities. and a host of other things. we've got to get them much more centered on that stuff. >> yeah. kind of makes you wish you had a congress that would pass that kind of a national agenda. thank you very much. >> well, you know, if we were a hedge fund, we'd have a bailout by now, right? >> indeed. well said. thank you. and congratulations again, stephen henderson. pulitzer prize winner, we should say. >>> and next, we all know politics make strange bedfellows. why is the texas naacp teaming up with the billionaire koch brothers? we'll explain next on "the reid rep

>> yeah. >> this is detroit.orribly violent. >> not all these people live in detroit, though. >> it doesn'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.

detroit's long road back.we spent five days in that struggling city and tonight, turning around some of the is worst crime statistics in america. >>> also, missing money, missing patrol cars, missing water, some of the reasons some call hampton, florida the most corrupt town in america. >>> and a mystery for half a century, a rockefeller heir disappears for 50 years. and possibly cannibalism. richelle carey has the headlines. >>> phone call between president obama and president putin. a one day after the russian airport buzzes a u.s. chip. be fraser cross could face federal hate charges. >>> fire in chile leaves 200 dead and 2,000 without homes. in the city of valparaiso. strong winds make it difficult to control. more than 2,000 had to evacuate. it could be several weeks before the flames are completely, completely put out john. >> thank you richelle. >>> this week we begin an ongoing look into the issues affecting america's most fascinating and interesting cities. five day focus on detroit and a problem that

chris fury, al jazeera, detroit. >> all week, al jazeera america is presented five days in detroit, a series illustrating the challenges and the changes confronting the motor city. tonight at 11:00 p.m. eastern on al jazeera america. ahead in our final thoughts this hour, a billionaire and his big eye, the mobile who made his money on earth, but now wants to launch his hotels into space. i take a new look at news. thinking about how tough it is to aim high these day. the space program is is being cut by $85 million. the space shuttle has been moth balled. so who is is left to roam in the final frontier? in a fault lines report, josh rushing on space up for sale. >> billionaires with designs on space rarely go on record, but one of them did return our calls. >> i have met him very briefly, a couple of times. eh impressed me as a really las vegas kind of guy. he winked at me. and that seemed very 70's. this particular space entrepreneur made his money from a terrestrial hotel chain. budget suites of america. it has turned robert big gathering low into a billionaire, and now he wants to

joining us from droit >> rick: detroit is cliff woodards. great to have you with us cliff, appreciate you joining us. utesh was a tree trimmer. reports that are the ten-year-old boy and that he hit him accidentally with his truck. the boy suffered a broken leg. when utesh got out to help he was attacked by a mob of african american men. he ended up in a medically induced coma in the hospital. there has been outrage from all races and all generations. >> yes, there last been outrage in the last several days. but right after the incident happened, as i wrote in a piece on facebook, the streets were quiet, and voices were silent. and that was a concern that i had initially. that the community had not really spoken out, as it really circulate -- should have to attack and come together and heal the divisions that can happen when such an event like this transpires in the city. >> in fact you wrote that imagine, though, if this had happened to a black tree trimmer who was passing through roseville. al sharpton would have been on a plane before the

it's a monumental effort that could change the face of detroit. 80,000 abandoned buildings fill detroit's landscape. the result of 50 years of decline. race riots in the 1960s, a dying auto industry, and finally the great recession fueled the exodus. the population down to 700,000 after a peak of close to 2 million. >> we saw a lot of folks just walk away, i have folks call me saying, i can't afford it, i'm leaving. >> neighborhoods like marcus cummings', are rotted out. >> it's tough to see it go down this far but we're hanging in there. i will say that we're hanging in there. >> these are areas targeted by scrappers, squatters and illegal dumpers. >> was there ever a sense of hopelessness with the blight? >> maybe not hopelessness but definitely frustration, with the fact we're stuck with these homes for so long and nobody was maintaining them. nobody was taking responsibility. >> reporter: they are now. detroit is now embarking on a historic effort to tear down blight. in its bankruptcy reorganization, detroit is credit proposing to ray reyes o 550 buildings per week. >> the city's big

violence in detroit. tree trimmer a 4-year-old was driving a truck when a 10-year-old boy darted into the street and the truck hit him. he left his vehicle to attend to the boy but quickly surrounded by a group of young men who beat him into a coma. police have arrested 17-year-old bruce winbush and three other men who will likely be charged with a variety of crimes. the fox affiliate in detroit picks up the story. >> joseph utash speaking only to fox 2. just back from the hospital where his father is still in a comb marks several days after being viciously beaten by as many as a dozen people. >> the doctor actually said, you know, i can't tell you whether he is going to remember you or your daughter. that's hard but we know my dad is a fighter. it takes a real bad person to do that i couldn't even do that to it the people that did this to my dad. >> police say utash stop to help a 10-year-old boy he hit with his pickup on the city's east side. the son is not sure the story is that simple. fox 2 obtained

chris fury, al jazeera, detroit. >> all week, al jazeera america is presented five days in detroit, aeries illustrating the challenges and the changes confronting the motor city. tonight at 11:00 p.m. eastern on al jazeera america. ahead in our final thoughts this hour, a billionaire and his big eye, the mobile who made his money on earth, but now wants to launch his hotels into space. consider this: the news of the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the government shutdown. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america thinking about how tough it is to aim high these day. the space program is is being cut by $85 million. the space shuttle has been moth balled. so who is is left to roam in the final frontier? in a fault lines

a bankrupt detroit faces its creditors. why some waited years for the city to pay up and are left holding the bag. >>> now following detroit's bankruptcy case, pensioners and retirees have been pitted against bond holders and financial institutions. there's other ofplte in the fig creditors, who stand to become casualties through no falls of their own and little means to do anything about it. we have this report in this "america tonight" investigation. >> reporter: this may look like an ordinary family moment. for dwayne it's a pleasure he was denied for almost a decade while in prison for a murder he did not commit. it's a nightmare that began 14 years ago. >> i thought i was getting pulled over for a traffic stop. i looked through the rear view mirror, and cops were jumping out the car with guns raised up at my car, telling me to keep my hands on the steering wheel. next thing i'm getting smashed out the car. >> police arrested dwayne for the murder of a local drug dealer named hunter. >> i didn't know him, i thought it w

coming up, detroit's road to recovery. emergesalk with the from bankruptcy. appears closer to reaching more grimace with creditors as it works to shrink its $18 billion debt. jane gridley is the primary analyst for the city of detroit at standard & poor's rating service and she joins me now from chicago with more on the story. welcome back to "bottom line." and expense notwithstanding, where is the city of detroit right now in the bankruptcy process? >> we are somewhere along maybe about the middle, hopefully heading toward the end. the original schedule had said they would emerge very quickly, within about 14 months. we are winding down their. but the pace has really picked up the last couple of weeks with a lot of settlements coming in with some of the major creditors. ,> is there a possibility that despite all of the best intentions, the process of reemerging from bankruptcy that could negate any short-term benefits -- is this basically surgery by scalpel or surgery by hacksaw? >> i think it could fall in either camp. certainly the longer it takes, the mor

. >>> five days in detroit. tonight, the young entrepreneurs helping to bring the city back, and researchers figuring out why grizzlies get fat but don't get sick. we begin tonight with the crisis in ukraine, a country that could be on the verge of civil war. more violence today as ukraine launched it's first official military operation in the crisis. shots rang out in the eastern ukraine and ukrainian troops moved in. ukraine's president called it anti-terrorism operation to stop the eastern regions from breaking away from the country. the president said that he opened for a peaceful end to the crisis. but the u.n. blames moscow for fueling the fire. first, we go to kim on the ground from the airport. [ gunshot ] >> firing warning shots to crimeaian props at airfields. in the background, a woman shouts that two young people have been wounded and police forces hold their ground. outside of the airfield, pro russian mobs barricade the exit and say they won't let the military leave. casualties have been reported o

but a partial bailout could be in the works for the bankrupt city of detroit. the obama administration considering freeing up to $100 million to give to the city's pensioners, money that would come from all of us. >>> joining me, the treasure for the state of ohio. great to see you, josh. how does this affect ohio? >> well, essentially the taxpayers of the state of ohio, hard working families in toledo and cleveland and dayton and cincinnati and throughout the state will be helping to foot the bill to bail out the city of detroit. unfortunately, over many decades, politicians in detroit made bad financial decisions and i personally believe it is wrong for taxpayers of ohio and the other states of america to bail out the politicians of detroit sglp it . >> it is so interesting, josh. when detroit's problems became very public and there was a lot of discussion about these pensions, and not just in michigan but california and illinois and many other states and and some people speculated, well, maybe the federal government will end up bailing them out. a lot of peo

but that's just one side of detroit. motown has been in decline for decades, and in the latest installment of our series, five days of detroit, how the motor city is trying to turn the curve. >> 80,000 abandoned buildings fill detroit's landscape. result of 50 years of decline. race riots in the 1960s, the dive of the auto industry, and finally, the great recession. the population down to 700,000 after a peak of close to 2 million. >> we saw folks just walk away, i can't afford it, i'm leaving. >> neighborhoods like marcus cummings are plagued by crime. abandoned and rotted out homes speak to the decline. >> it's tough to see it go down this far, but we're hang in there. >> these are structures started by squatters and illegal dumpers. >> was there ever a sense of hopelessness with the situation, with the blight? >> maybe not hopelessness, but definitely frustration with the fact that we're stuck with these homes for so long, and nobody is maintaining them, nobody is taking responsibility. >> they are now. detroit is now

break the culture of violence and crime. >> al jazeera, detroit.ecordly detroit's business, there needs to be more done to deal with crime >> my neighborhood actually paid for a cell phone for the beat cop, all of the community came to that for them. another problem is the value. what the home values are. we may be investing our life savings but we will put $200,000 into a house that won't appraise for more than 100 or 150. it was a mater of regionalism. i think that's a unique challenge. the region, there has been a lot over past several years. still ahead on al jazeera. a fine line. keep t now >> it's become as simple as easter morning, where the pope greets catholics for mass. meeting more than 100,000. it marks the day of jesus's resurrection. they are calling on an end to con flicks and the militant attacks in nigeria. in washington, president obama and the first family left the white house early this morning to attend the 19th street baptist church to one of several churches the obama's have attended during the administration. in new york, th

this is taking care of detroit's financials. but we're looking at what is detroit going to look like coming out of bankruptcy? how is the city going to function? the person reason -- running this is kevin orr. his term will be up. you will hand the reins back over to a mayor, city council. they are making the financial decisions all over again. they want to make sure that they are on board, they know what is going on and have that plan for coming back out again and endorsing that plan so they can move and make sure that detroit can be a live iting city -- thriving city and a growing city because that's the goal here. >> woodruff: christy mcdonald with detroit public television, thank you very he much. >> ifill: we move now to the pacific northwest and part one of a paul solman series on the debate over raising the minimum wage. tonight, he has the latest on a story he first brought to our attention last fall. >> reporter: a lot was at stake last november in seatle, washington, home of the seattle- tacoma international airport. a

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detroit offers that. it's part of our heritage. >> made in detroit. these young entrepreneurs are showing it's not just about cars and trucks anymore. it's everything. >> yeah, right? >> aljazeera, detroit. >> tomorrow, we'll look at the city's blythe. we'll see how detroit plans to use its own money along with state and federal funds to get rid of all of those boarded up houses there. >> tough times also in england, forcing a great number of people to turn to food banks. >> we haven't got ourselves in this situation because we've lived this amazing life and we've got it because it's just the way it is. >> why local religious leaders criticize the government, saying it's not doing enough to help those in need. >> here in the u.s., more people finding themselves squeezed out of their homes, the growing prices of people who can't afford to pay their rent. >> i'm in washington where the smithsonian is welcoming its newest attraction, 66 million years after it roamed the earth. the story of the t. rex in d.c. coming up. >> a look at hour images of the day

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. >> a special look at the moves adding fuel to the motor city five days in detroit only on al jazeera america. >> as us forces prepare to pull out of afghanistan after twelve long years, al jazeera's fault lines travelled there. >> the taliban fighters, they're running towards the base now. they're trying to raid the base. >> over several days, we gained extraordinary access to a group of self-proclaimed taliban fighters. >> and the mortars are landing in the areas where we are. >> it was an insight, in part at least, into what the war in afghanistan looks like - from the other side. >> the fighter jet is still in the air circling looking for a target. >> kabul, afghanistan afghan president hamid karzai is currently refusing to sign a treaty that would leave a small nato force in the country. if nothing changes, all foreign soldiers will leave by the end of this year. in secret, karzai has been negotiating with the taliban, in order to avoid a full-blown civil war. since 2005, the taliban has clawed back territory. they now dominate large parts of the country. >> but approximately onl

. >> coming up, we look at detroit's coney island hot dog. they bring health to a beleaguered city? ♪ >> detroit's home-grown coney island hot dogs has been a dining staple for almost a century. about 150 coney island establishments ranging from simple stands to full-service diners. time. thanks for your in your story that appears on bloomberg.com, one sentence jumped out at me. you said "casual food reflects community ethers." how? >> coney islands were detroit's first fast food. they started cropping up in the early 1920's. sons, whenfounders he was working there, you put in your order and you pay for and you got it in 60 seconds. detroit's first fast food and they remained and a florist and boom. and it has been because of the auto culture. it was a quick way to get a bite to eat and we are not talking health food here by the way. [laughter] this is your basic starter package, your coney island hot dog, light on the onions and french fries. >> you have to hold that up in little because we can't see it. oh, wow. the mentioned that many of c

but detroit's financial future is in limbo. and after five decades of bleeding jobs, it can take just as long to see widespread growth. pony ride is also very involved in the community, those who work here they are i am told they volunteer hundreds of hours each year since it's inception, pony ride has created dozens of jobs. john. >> fascinating story, thank you very much. and tomorrow night, in five days in detroit, we will talk to b.c. again, go to symphony, after years of strikes the detroit musicians are now hitting a high note by finding a new audience. we will have that. coming up after the break, president putin answers questions from russians. and his surprising comments about the use of military force in ukraine. plus, still not safe, my korean officials had said dozens of kidnapped school girds were rescued well tonight, they say that report was wrong. also, four years after the b.p. oil spill, dolphins and turtles in the gulf still struggling to survive. off.lus, a nevada stand a ranker takes on the federal governme

plus music to detroit's ears. city's symphony is making a come back. >> this week, the white house again called on congress to move quibble and move forward with immigration reform. the situation is more urgent on the ground look the u.s.-mexico border and it's an issue affecting a growing number of young people. this year an estimated 60,000 unimoind minors will cross into the united states. many are trying to escape the violence in their home towns in central america but they face other dangers on the journey. paul beban is in the border town of n nogales with the story. >> these three boys have traveled 2200 miles to make it here to the mexican side of this border town. >> my name is axel fernandez. i'm 15 years old and i'm from honduras. >> we first met axel when catholic boip bishops held a ma. the journey axel and his cousins were about to make. >> they teld me the hardest part is coming. we'll see if it's hard in the moment. >> axel lined up for a free lunch, a sandwich and a coke. he had little more than t

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