and here with us now from washington, kevyn orr, who retired as detroit's emergency manager last night right, i'm now retired. >> so, what do you make of the state of detroit since you have left this position and put it back in the hands of the city? >> well, you know, mika, we've managed to clean up the balance sheet a little bit and provide it with some resources, but operationally, things have improved, but there's still a lot of work left to do. i mean, we still have to roll out the plan and we still have to push out services to citizens. so, it's hopeful, but let's not lose sight of the fact that there's still some task ahead of us. >> mr. orr, so, what does it mean today if i live in downtown detroit and i call 911 this morning as compared to a week ago, now that you've cleared bankruptcy? does it mean it's more efficiency? do they come more quickly? does the fire department report more quickly? what happens? >> yeah, actually, those figures in terms of reporting are approaching national averages of like 18 minutes. it means that services, two-thirds of the civil side of the city

we're going to talk to former emergency manager of detroit kevyn orr coming up. >>> we're watching where the falling oil prices continue to try to level off and how that affects the rest of the markets. the dow dropped 268 points on wednesday. this being one of the worst one-day losses in two months. cnbc joins from us london. can the markets shake off this oil funk? close to the 18,000 mark potentially to close out the year, this seems like the work got a lot harder. >> yeah, this is interesting. we had news overnight from the saudi oil minister that really they're going to let this run a little further. so it seems unlikely that we will see the oil price declines stop. the markets are having to adjust to this and we're seeing the oil stocks sell off and that's the reason we're getting this pull-back in the broader indices. because the oil stocks are such an important part of those indices. but you have to take the positive with the negative here. the gas price is getting cheaper at the pumps which is a good news story when it comes to discretionary spend because gas is a tax on the con

detroit's emergency city manager, kevyn orr, welcomed the bankruptcy exit. >> we are thankful that atthis point, the city will emerge later today, by the time i go to bed, from bankruptcy. we will exit. we look forward, truly, to better time for the city going forward. >> with detroit no longer in bankruptcy, orr will return formal authority to the mayor and the city council, whose power he has overrode for well over a year. detroit's finances will remain under strict state oversight. and those are some of the headlines, this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. tens of thousands marched across the country on saturday in the largest day of protest since the killing of michael brown set off a national movement four months ago. from oakland to new york city, protesters called for indictments in the case of police officers who've killed unarmed african-americans and broader reforms to policing and criminal justice. in washington, d.c., the families of slain african-americans led a rally and march on the white house. more than 10,000 people took p