because i'm tired of these scenes ♪ >> simon: the film shows rodriguez's old neighborhood in downtown detroit a legendary motown producer. >> dennis coffey: we thought he was like the inner city poet, you know, putting his poems to music of what he saw. and it was definitely a very gritty look at what he saw on the streets of detroit. the only writer that i had heard of of that time period was maybe bob dylan, that was writing that well. ♪ ♪ ♪ lost my heart when i found it ♪ >> simon: coffey co-produced his first album, "cold fact." critics liked it, but it bombed. steve rowland was responsible for his second. it did no better. >> steve rowland: nobody in america had even heard of him. nobody... nobodyven was interested in listening to him. how can that be? how can that be? ♪ ♪ >> simon: and how could it be that no one in america knew that rodriguez had become an icon in south africa? steve segerman owns a record store in cape town. >> steve segerman: to many of us south africans, he was the soundtrack to our lives. if you walked into a random white, liberal, middle-class household that had a

and it's very exciting because twitter just took an office in downtown detroit and we're talking to other around our area. we're very excited. >> we watch other -- >> the midwest labor force, both cleveland and detroit where we're located, i know it sounds cliche but there's a midwest work ethic. there's no question about it. there's great people and they're skilled and universities put out great people. >> it's where you grow up. we agree with you. there is a midwest work ethic. >> the young people who are coming out of our great universities, michigan and michigan state, a lot are leaving and going to other cities. they don't go to suburbs other cities. they want a strong, vibrant urban core. that's what we're trying to help with. >> that's kind of cool. you look at just about every city has had

december 20th, 2011, a fast burning fire rages in a home in downtown detroit. >> this is a story we first told you. two people had to jump to safety to make it out of the burning home alive. >> the detroit firefighter michael joyner is one of the first responders at the scene. >> we got a call to a dwelling fire. it was on helen street. which is on the east side of detroit. it appeared someone fire bombed the structure. >> from the outside it looks like the fire is raging out of control. it's contained to the front side of the house. but the two residents are so panicked, they may not realize it. >> when they threw the fire bomb, it broke out on the porch, it ignited and created a lot of flame, a lot of smoke. the porch was on fire, but it never extended into the dwelling. >> onlookers scream for the residents to wait to for the fire department, but they make a split second decision to jump. the man goes first. come on. >> he lands without major injury. seconds later, the woman tumbles out. >> oh! [ screaming ] >> she's not as lucky. she is taken to the hospital where she's treated for br

if i am thinking deep discount lot of people are rushing to downtown detroit. any apartment buildings of 150 units are for sale in detroit? charles: i would think a lot. >> i m not -- [talking over each other] charles: that is not -- [talking over each other] dave: how much of the single apartments going for now? >> anywhere from $85,000 to $110,000. stuart: that is what you're buying at in scottsdale. what is your upside potential? what is your target? >> i am comfortable making a low teens but i can make high teens. stuart: courier? courier? >> yes. stuart: not bad. charles: are you worried the mentality may shift in this country where people once again say i don't want to rent, i want to own because it is so much, so expensive to rent and so many parts of the country -- >> it is. i always maintain any property i have is the best one in its market class in that area. even when you take a downturn my properties have always stayed 95% unoccupied and that is important. people forget that one aspect. stuart: you like scottsdale. you like tempe. >> if you have got

name is susan novotny and i'm the owner of the book house of stuyvestant plaza in beautiful downtown detroit. where now at the stuyvesant bookstore and we been here since 1975. we sell books. real books, books that you can hold in your hand, crack open, cuddle up in a chair with, those kinds of books. i started out in the publishing industry. i was a sales rep for simon & schuster and now banned putnam. that was back in the 70's and 80s and i sell books all over upstate new york and throughout new england. after about 10 years of that lifestyle i decided i wanted to go to the other side of the counter and sell books. so i went to work or the bookstore here in the plaza and i eventually bought into the business and then bought the business out. and so i have been co-owner since 1991. it's been an up-and-down history since then. shortly after he purchased the store, with a small business administration loan, it was lynn barnes & noble and borders moved in and literally a literary landscape of albany changed overnight as visited across the country with the best expansion in the area of the chai

detroit thing, i think. i mean, you feel like, you know, you're in clarksdale, mississippi, but year -- you're five minutes from downtown. >> i know you're from the area like we said, but after ann arbor, you left and mostly lived other places, and then you come back to detroit to tell the story. tell me about the things that surprised you about the city things that you found that were different, that maybe you didn't expect or things that you found that were the same, that maybe shocked you. >> you know, i think the first thing that surprised me was how much i liked living here to be honest. [laughter] i mean, to be full disclosure, you know, when i decided to do the piece, i moved away in 93 #, i guess, and, you know, my family still lives here. a year never went by where i didn't visit at least a couple times, but, actually, the idea of a real extended stay just kind of, you know, like planting myself here, i wasn't sure how it would go. i had a life in new york, likedded my life there, and i thought i would approach it as sort of a regular reporting gig where i would come in, report work, really hard for, like, a we

downtown -- where are we there? let me see. let me take a guess. >> detroit. >> no, it's not detroit. it's new york city!hat's where it is, right where we are. dylan, you've been busy. let's get a check right now on the weather from nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer. busy, busy, busy! >> oh, and not a good week for the weather to be this busy. you know, everyone wants a white christmas, but when it wreaks havoc on the airports, it's not a good thing. look at some of the snowfall totals across ohio, pennsylvania, upstate new york. we did pick up more than a foot of snow. connecticut picked up around six inches of snow before it did change over to some of that rain, and now it is all rain. we also had wind gusts in spots that did not need more wind. we're talking the jersey shore with wind gusts up to 70 to 75 miles per hour. those are hurricane-force wind gusts that we saw across the jersey shore. things are improving right now, but it is still going to be a little nasty throughout the rest of the day with those winds staying up there around 30 miles per hour, though, instead. we do still have winter storm w

in atlanta 200,000 people will pack into downtown to watch the annual giant peach drop. in detroit they will be dropping their own new years ball. it's called the de birth. it is lit up with hundreds of lights. >> that's your 5@5. >> that's nice, the d birth. >>> here in new york city we have the famous ball drop in times square. that's the d birth actually. we all know what the ball in times square looks like and it passed the test run yesterday with flying colors and is ready for the spotlight tonight. >>> for more on the new year's eve prep let's go to maria molina who is live with an exclusive look at the waterford crystal ball. >> hi, good morning, good to see you guys. we are on top of one times square we are with the new ear's eve times square ball. it is behind me much larger in person than i thought it would be t be. it is 12 feat in diameter and weighs the weight of an adult sized elephant. a large ball. also does have this year engraved in some of the crystals dick clark's name who unfortunately died this year at the age of 82 years old. it is very cold if you are on top

detroit. we don't have any vacancie for new young people that are trying to move into the downtown area. rtainly municipal governance is broken. we have to become a better partner with our business community to fix some of the ills of detroit. but we know what the solutions are. we know what the problems are. we have, as political leaders, the political will to make the tough decisions to write the financial ship and become a betterpartner to help the corporate business community of detroit. gerri: if you are doing such a good job, why have you lost 25% of your population over the past decade? i will repeat that because i know you have technical issues. but we couldn't help but notice in researching the sory that the city has lost 25% of its population. i have been there not that long ago. lots of people leaving. just can't seem to get the economy going. lots of efforts and a ton of help from the state of chicken. why can't you get this back on track? >> like every urban arean the country, we are suffering in the foreclosure. we live and die by operty taxes and sales taxes and they are al

particularly in this bubble as he calls it of the newly developed midtown downtown area, there is a tendency to they treat detroit as invisible. i have been on a mission for some time the invisibility of the actual african-american who make up the majority of the city. i was very clear he was not trying to do a positive story on detroit because the triteness of that is offensive too but he was trying to an objective and penetrate of look at the city and cutting through some of the myths of the city and the new development of the city because that has been mythologized as well. >> because you stick to stories and stories about real people who live here and been here a long time, the book really has that feeling of saying what is as opposed to saying that is good or bad or trying to say what should be, i know i heard some interviews and some of the interviewers seemed to be leaving you to some sort of analysis, what is the city's future and the book did a good job restraining itself from that which we are getting a lot from other places. [inaudible] [laughter] >> i just want to know how much of your books surroundi

. >> all are transported downtown where investigators hope to gather new information about the ever changing underground sex networks in detroit. >> right now we're just getting them situated in their cells. we're going to start interviewing them one by one. >> a closer look at tiffany and natasha's case reveals what appears to be a start-up pimping operation ran by a convicted drug dealer out on parole. >> sorry to wake you up. i need some quick information. you can stay down if you want. investigators will continue to probe this fledgling outfit for any possible links to juveniles or bigger players in the local sex trade. >> tell me how you got involved in that. >> as for natalia, the pregnant 19-year-old yields perhaps the most promising tip of the night. >> kristen is, like, i need money. i want to do that, too. >> a lead on a possible juvenile going by the name of kristen. >> she said she wanted to do it because it looked like easy money. >> according to natalia the juvenile is being exploited by a local escort service. >> how old do you think she was? >> at the time 16 or 17. >> why do you think that? >> because she was

detroit. warriors an early lead. harrison barnes golden state up by 10. they had a two-point lead at halftime and they klay thompson exploded from downtown.ings it with five in the 3rd quarter alone. can i have an update, please, on the score? 94-83. that's live. exclusive update. how much time is left? three minutes left in the game. we'll update as warrants develop. >>> the debate continues on who should be the 49ers starting quarterback. clearly jim harbaugh isic maaing his decision week by week. >> we have faith and trust in colin and the way he has played and, you know, therefore, another start this week. >> colin kaepernick's fumble probably didn't weigh too much in harbaugh's decision to start them against the dolphins. rams head coach jeff fisher thought the play call was questionable. >> i don't know what they were trying to accomplish there. [ inaudible ] >> yeah, probably quizzical, yeah. the way it turned out, you know, that's some low hanging fruit. what the heck were they doing? you learn from it. you know, feels like somebody just took the -- reached into your chest and stomach and started pulling the innards out, you know,