wayne ford has been working the beat for over 29 years at the athens banner herald, athen's georgia's most prestigious and only newspaper. editor roger nielsen. >> wayne represents the old-fashioned kind of journalist, you know, the shirt and tie kind of guy to go out there and meet people. >> as a journalist i guess growing up walter cronkite was my hero. >> stephen: like his hero wayne ford knows to get the real story a reporter has to hit the pavement. >> on july 12th, i was at the county sheriff's office probably before 8:00 that morning. and i go through the reports and i came across one report on rogers road. >> stephen: rogers road. >> it's a place where if are you going to run some law that is probably the place you're going to end up. >> stephen: county sheriff, scott berry. >> there are a lot of stories to be told on rogers road. >> stephen: and a story is what wayne needed. so he went out to meet the suspect, a criminal mastermind known as chris toole. >> i got a long history with the county sheriff's department. and usually they don't believe me over anybody else. so norma

in michigan, retooling loans made it possible for ford motor company to save 1,900 jobs at the michigan assembly plant this the city of wayne so they could build the all-new ford focus and the battery focus in america and in the process of that, as we partnered with them on battery funding as well, in the process of that with the help of these retooling loans, they are bringing jobs back from mexico to support the work they're doing on the new vehicles. madam president, i don't know how many economic development efforts we capital stand on the floor today and talk about in the united states senate or house that are actually bringing jobs back from overseas. and this is the program that the house republicans want to cut. this loan -- and it is a loan, so it has to be repaid -- but it is allowing them to be able to have lower costs, to be able to do the retooling on these older plants, to be able to make these new high-tech vehicles and as i said, in ford motor company's case, they have saved 1,900 jobs and are bringing jobs back from mexico. another michigan company, silver star north america was able to secure a retooling l

in michigan, these retooling loans made it possible for ford motor company to save 1,900 jobs at their michigan assembly plant in wayne, michigan, so they could build the all, new ford focus electric and the battery electric focus in america. in the process of that between the retooling loans and our partnership with industry to invest and advance battery technology, we are now bringing jobs back from mexico. how many times have i heard colleagues before talking about how we want to make sure we're exporting products, not jobs, and that we want to bring jobs back? what the house republicans have done is to cut in half an initiative with the private sector that is actually bringing jobs back. back from other countries. so far 41,000 jobs saved or created through this effort around the country. obviously i care deeply about michigan and have fought for this. but we're talking about indiana, illinois, we're talking about florida and louisiana and california and all across our country where we are seeing communities have the opportunity to retool plants that would be idle, empty, an eye sore and be able to bring those bac