home and accounted for in gwinnett system, as well as the decatur city system was in the same situation really well, they only had about six students that were being sheltered in a police precinct, and that was because of the urgency of the situation for those six children. cherokee county had about 415 children that spent overnight in their system. they only had about 15 -- excuse me, about 50 children remaining as of this morning. we have been in contact with the officers of the school superintendents of each of these school systems that i have just enumerated. now, we, in addition to thanking the teachers and the staff and the national guard and the state troopers, who have been working to make those children a priority, i want to simply say thank you to the citizens of our community here in the atlanta area, particularly, and it's happened not only here, but it's happened in other parts of the state where this storm has adversely affected normal transportation, and that is that neighbors are helping neighbors and neighbors are also helping strangers, people that they don't know, fol

to understand how it worked, look no farther than gwinnett county, georgia, east of atlanta. in this county alone, the housing development, hud, that's you and me, owns 77 homes. there are also entire neighborhoods, where nothing but pvc piping and lonely lamp posts are left. remnants of a boom, fueled by a company that no longer exists. >> the owner, it was the strangest thing, he would run down the center of the hallway with a ten speed, it was like a party atmosphere. >> the party has been over for sometime. and if the u.s. government is able to recouple any of the money stolen from it, you can thank comfort frittel. she went to work at bank of america in 2014. >> i've been in banking since 1996, and with starched white shirts, and at first, i thought it was fun. i thought the atmosphere was fun, and it was more layed-back and not so tense. >> frittel said that it took her awhile to understand that not only the work environment was different, but home america did business like no other loan company where she had ever worked. >> it seemed odd to me. they would never be able

. >> right, that's in gwinnett county. they said we're going to get parking revenue. didn't happen. or they get much less than they said. >> it wail pay for itself from day one. >> and they never do. the thing that is so frustrating for me is it has been studied so much. >> i thought you won this fight. >> economists like you have explained it. the football team has eight home games a year. how is that economic stimulus. >> let's go back to the bread and circuses comment. that is not a positive comment about human species. that's saying they're being placated. give them bread and circus. they were giving up some of their freedom because they were given something they wanted. sports are popular today. people say, why don't i support this, i'm nots going to punish a politician for supporting it. >> let's go back to the rome parallel, because our stadiums do pale compared to what they did. the gladiators, this was entertainment to keep the people pacified because they were getting ticked off? >> not even that they're ticked off, but some form of entertainment to distract us from other

today, even today when those outer counties are a bit more diverse, it still does not stretch into gwinnetty, doesn't stretch into fayette county, out into rockdale county. all these people drive into the city every day for work. if we had, for instance, approved it two years ago, we could have transformed this city in meaningful ways to get people out of cars, back on to bikes, owen to rapid rail. you know, and transform the city in meaningful ways. but the same dynamics that play out in the early '70s that stopped it from crossing the city line stopped us. a very curious coalition. tea party republicans -- >> before you do, i want to give people the background. it is, of course, the rapid transit for the area. right? >> sure. >> you had this proposal at the ballot box in 2012, right? >> that's right. >> it was basically a kind of integrated public transit plan. what was the coalition that defeated it? >> tea party republicans from outer counties who were concerned about the additional sales tax revenue that would take, pay for it and couldn't believe it could be executed on such a grand s