welcome to silk city. this once was what the industrial revolution looked like in the united states. now this is what poverty looks like in this town more than twenty percent are poor more than seventeen percent unemployed it means for many here ninety m. is a time to go to work. just to find down it's time to head to the food pantry for charity . they are low income roves some of them have been unemployed for almost two years is what we're seeing but on average it's the underemployed. there are people who can't make ends meet people like jenny like the one who are going tomorrow and it's not enough you know it's just not enough to get all the poor we need and the numbers are only growing and we saw in two thousand and nine a fifteen percent increase over the two thousand and eight numbers and we're anticipating that that number will go up by another ten percent at the end of two thousand and thirteen not only here but in the entire u.s. new statistics for two thousand and nine show forty three million peo

city's mayor would ban smoking in public parks and beachs and plasa the. the law already prohibits people from smoking in bars and restaurants. is this going too far? joining us is audrey silkg smoking saves lives and how cuargue with this new law. >> i am so glad you put that way. using second-hand smoke is an excuse. it is affecting my right to choice to smoke a legal product it is not government's role to get involved in my choice such as that. i was a police officer. i took a job that was risky, why can't i choose to smoke. i don't argue there are exaggerated risk. but they are risk. why am i -- no offensive council woman you are not in charge of my life. >> we have a constitutional right to smoke but government has a right to regulate public health. i want new york city to be healthier. 7500 die of smoke more than as and suicide . 57 percent of nonsmokers are walking out with toxics. i want to be healthy in new york. >> audrey, the council woman said it is dangerous. >> it is not. one study they are relying on. that's not how science works. you have studies before it is validated. the author himself said six feet away from the smoke it is zero. so they are choosing to