and basic services like garbage being pick up greatly reduced at a standstill. speaking at a news conference earlier early this morning, michigan governor rick snyder says it's really the only viable option. >> i don't view this as a terrible answer in the sense that now's our opportunity to stop 60 years of decline. this is fundamental. has anyone liked the detroit of 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago? how long has this gone on, and people have not stopped to say stop kicking the can down the road and do something. we are doing something. jenna: steve moore is joining us and as the governor just said, steve, for decades there's been questions about the financial viability of detroit. why now? why is the filing coming now? >> well, jenna, let me just give you a couple statistics on how bad things are in detroit right now. you know, if you look back 30 years ago, jenna, there were