. >> ramona africa joined the group 30 years ago. she and other move members were hunkered down in this row house in philadelphia in may 1985. tension between move and police was heating up. a confrontation seven years earlier ended with the death of an officer. nine group members were tried and sentenced to prison for his murder. may 13th was the most violent confrontation. complaints from neighbours summoned police to the move bunker. things escalated. thousands of rounds of ammunition exchanged and in an effort to flush the members out the city's first black mayor wilson good ordered police to pom the house. >> -- bomb the house. >> we'll do it by any means necessary. >> the explosives delivered by helicopter were dropped to the roof. it killed 11, including five children. the resulting fire incinerated 65 homes, and displaced hundreds of people. there were two grand jury investigations. and an independent commission found top officials grossly negligence. still no one from the city government was criminally charged. the city paid

africa. a number of members try to escape. as you have indicated, ramona was the sole surviving adult. was a child named birdie africa who later became michael ward. they were able to escape. when they were coming out, we heard gunfire. it was later determined that police fired on the escaping move members, driving some of them back into the house. but in the convoluted logic that many of us have seen over the last year from grand jury's and st. louis county and new york and southern ohio where the guy was shot in a walmart, the grand jury under the control of philadelphia prosecutors determined that move members ran back into the house not because police were firing at them, but because they mistakenly believed that police were firing at them and/or they ran back to intentionally commit suicide. juan: linn what were the main can -- conclusions of the move commission established subsequent to that tragedy? >> well, the move commission which was a panel mayor good had set up to investigate it, but had no power to do anything other than big recommendations filed monumental in confidence

ramona africa, the only adult survivor told us the movement remains strong. >> the fight is still inve sisters and brothers. one thing that should really be made clear to people is that what happened on may 13, 1985 did not happen behind any complaints from neighbors. >> you said that poor -- >> i am not saying that some neighbors didn't have complaints about us, but what i am saying is that is not why the government entered into a conspiracy, a plan to kill move. >> africa was convicted of conspiracy in connection with the confrontation and served seven years in prison. >> more than a third of residents in flint michigan live below the poverty line. it is also one of the countries most violent places. police officers in flint are working to change that. >> all of this needs to be -- >> flint is ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in the country. we spent the day with a police officer who's been patrolling these streets for 17 years. officer terry lewis grew up here and has spent most of his life here. he's been following news of police shootings be that have dominate the head

. >> reporter: ramona africa, the only living survivor, remembers the moment that the bomb dropped. and when the fire ignited by that bomb, a fire that officials let burn finally ended, six adult move members five of their children are dead and an entire neighborhood destroyed over an eviction turned ter liz wrong. while the investigation commission called move an armed and dangerous group that threatened and terrified neighbors from their fortified row house with the bunk are on the roof move members maintained that the bloodshed was revenge for an august august 191,978th confrontation in which a officer died but no move members were shot. final decision to drop a bomb >> obviously we know what happened but there were efforts to try to prevent any kind of violence. >> reporter: mayor michael nutter a community leader in 1985 was among many who unsuccessfully pushed for a peaceful solution in the days and hours leading up to the confrontation. >> when we have a bomb squad organizing a plan for evicting people from a building, you're probably eventually going to get bombed. >> report

. >> reporter: living symbol of the move struggle ramona africa is carrying on the fight. >> we know people have issues about move, but get over it, deal with the real issues. the viciousness that injustice, the the brutality. >> reporter: add day in philadelphia's history remembered. and with the people who we spoke to today they say that this neighborhood has changed forever and the lessons to be learned here is that it never should have happened again. reporting live from osage avenue, pat ciarrocchi, cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> all right a path path, thanks very much. >>> we will come back with more information on the the amtrak derailment, of course, we're getting in new information from the ntsb. is there live look as investigators remain on the scene. we now know they are moving wreckage to a secure location, we will have the latest for you, >>> well kathy amid all this news today a cool down. when you walk outside it was very clear we had dropped in temperatures. >> absolutely, we're talking about a 20-degree temperature drop between yesterday afternoon and this afternoon and