here's one from southwest detroit. lot of the houses look as if it was abruptly abandoned, clothing in the drawers, food in the refrigerator. one of my favorite interior abandoned houses. also there's the abandoned brewster projects. the brewster projects was opened in 1935. it was the first low-income housing in the country. the history is still here. smoking robinson played basketball here and lived here. lily tomlin, aretha franklin, a lot of motown lived here. the few incidences where i was really threatened was in the brewster center. a lot of gangs, which is why they're tearing it down. the eco-system that comes from a blighted community is firstly drugs. we are on the east side of detroit on euclid street. it's pretty much overrun with crips. it's one of the most blighted parts of the city that i've known. they're either boarded up, burned down, or they're -- whoa. hold on. bumpy ride. they're turned into drug houses. i don't think anybody lives on this block whatsoever. , which is why the road is in disrepair.

to go 800 miles south southwest from that convention in detroit to an out of way place that's hard to get to. that had no national political significance as a location other than the one thing that town and that county were famous for. again, this was 1980. one of the things going on in president politics that year was that 1980 was the first presidential election since 1960. first presidential election in 20 years in which alabama's segregationist governor was not a candidate in one way or another or this the general election. he ran in '64, '68, '72, '76. 1980 is the first one in which george wallace wasn't going to be a factor having run in the previous four elections. when ronald reagan became the nominee for president in 1980, he had to make a decision about where to start his general election campaign. he made a decision that was widely seen, at the time, as ronald reagan's attempt to lock up any stray remaining george wallace votes that might still be out there in the country. reagan run in '76 and '80 as an insurgent force. he was promising to bring the republican party signif

variable. 6 to 18, wind is the south, southwest wind around the area 42 in danberry, good morning to you, 45 in greenwich, 45 for 41 in morristown. taking a snapshot from detroit down to cincinnati, 50, 52, charleston, 51. it is a lot warmer through the ohio valleyly and into pennsylvania, 33 degrees warmer this morning than it was yesterday in pittsburgh, the warm up not as dramatic for us, but that's the trend we're going to tap into. we'll be a little closer to normal today, 58 normal 60. 84 and 24 your records for the day sun's up. sunsets at 7:32. you're seeing a lot of green on the screen a lot of this is falling in the atmosphere as far as what's hitting the ground, showers through fair field county down into rockland west chester parts of burgen. on and off, there is a little bit of mixing with elevation, in sullivan. the air mass warms up. but there is a lot of rain available over the next day and a and a half, you can see that risk of severe weather in parts to the energy of the system. wind out of the south, southwest, it is a warmer story,proximity of the front tomorrow. heavier rain as the atmosphere rings that moisture out of the skies. i think w