howard cosell is on the air. suddenly, you see a tongue of flame licking up into the sky.he old image of the bronx as middle class, healthy area had survived up until 1977. this shattered it. >> the bronx was burning like the story, and that stuck. politicians make the bronx a poster child for what was wrong, would always be wrong, would never, we were told, get any better. >> so you now have a slum lord, essentially, snapping up large numbers of buildings? >> that's right. first of all, he takes out a huge fire insurance policy. so he goes to these junkies and he says, you see that empty apartment on the top floor. i'm going to turn my back. you take all of the lead pipes that are in there, but i have one request, please. before you leave, turn on the water. and the water comes down, driving everybody else out. they then hire an arsonist. they collect all the money and they leave. >> i remember it well. it was bad. are things getting better? >> is the bronx better? absolutely. there is more home ownership in the south bronx than ever existed in history. that doesn't mean

the upper west side of manhattan, but i was just with you watching monday night football when howard cosellid this. >> john lenon outside of his apartment building on the west side of new york city, the most famous perhaps of all of the beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to rose velt arrival and dead on arrival. >> it was just shocking. john, seen here on the dick cabb ot show with his wife, was just 40 years old. >> my goodness. >> you know, mark david chapman, he is still alive, pled guilty to killing john lenon as he was going from a car into his apartment, there on the upper web side, 34 years ago today. >> thirty-four years ago tonight. >> just ironically on monday night football. >>> president obama and the first lady, they have a wonderful love story, there is no question about that. the the envy of many hopeless romantics. well, now their stories are going to be made into a movie. >> entertainment weekly has confirmed that home grown pictures is producing what will be called south side with you. a story of obama's first date in chicago's south side. it the is about michelle nee