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>> right. so we got -- weve got to be able to have reasonable ways also of talking about safety, public safety. >> i wanted to connect wades point, which was so important because its not just an issue for certain with bobs point about history. the 30 states that i mentioned, a number of those states passed those laws in reaction to efforts to have race that becomes one of the central factors that helps everybody get access. >> its the story like you think to yourself, what does the great montgom...

Bus system. detroit >> detroit has long had more troubles than dollars to fix them. but in just six months, detroits public buses, annual big-time money losers have started an unlikely turn-around. >> this past month, they ran the first surplus in years. 1.6 million in the black. >> mark ashley, the team of consultant hired by the city to straighten out the bus system. the approach has been to adopt a business model. sticking to a new reduced budget. gathering data and running buses where most r...

It makes no sense to run a bus with three people bouncing around in it. some people would call that a cut. we call that putting service out in a way the community wants to take it. >> reporter: but last month the bus system, a reduced bus system, smaller bus civil, much more efficient bus system saved or was in the black by a million and a half dollars. still the reduced number of buses on the streets has rubbed some of the customers the wrong way. have a listen. >> i understand the city of detr...

Genre, like prawn ta 3-d but this is piranha 3-dd. lots of gore and blood and well-skbwell well-endowed. >> wait a minute, is that david hasselhoff? >> yes, david hasselhoff is playing himself. i would say must avoid except if you get the 3-dd joke and if you want to see david hasselhoff play himself. he does a good job of spoofing himself. and thats what this is, its aover the top, horror genre comedy kind of movie. so go see it with a sense of humor if youre going to go see it. >> okay, well t...

L.a. used to be very, very dirty. its cleaned up a great deal, because why? the technology was there to clean up the air. >> and they switched to natural gas for their bus system. the municipality switched to a natural gas for bus and truck system. >> we have the ability to do that and america has proven that over and over again. the bottom line is, from my per spoke tiff, we should have as diverse an energy portfolio as we possibly can. i said that with the above energy, but to totally ignore t...

Messy progress that is democracy. we learned about wiv whisk gumptd, and the u.s. government and how amazing it was that they came together. we also realized it was bloody and we had to fight for it and make it hard to do deliberate things. youre supposed to be transparent because the public matters in all of this. then when we keep the meetings going and look at the bill, 144 pages, we found out theres $147 million of federal aid cut, and they said, well have to close the bus system, and when i...

Hotbed of transportation issues. why did you guys accept the money? >> well, mass transit is important. as much in winter haven, florida, as it is in new york city and i lived in new york city at one time. i lived down in the village. mass transit is the way to get around there. winter haven being part of rural florida getting from one town to another is not particularly easy. so mass transit does matter and it will exist in the future. the reason i questioned this in all honesty, clayton, is we...

Traffic. what theyre doing is they arranged a bus system on the one bridge that was open during this event so you can go back and forth making u-turns. a lot of mexicans come here to buy their groceries. as you can see, the sun is out, still the chance of locally heavy rain, but remember, tamron, this river on sunday, back on july 4th, was where it should be, three feet deep, not more than 40 feet deep. and it was only 50 yards wide. now its a quarter of a mile wide. usually not more than a litt...

D.c. plans may seem like a step back in time, but d.c. officials say its not backward, its the next generation in mass transit. >> the streetcar today is not the streetcar of your great, great grandparents. >> reporter: d.c. council member tommy wells is an ardent supporter of the plan. he says it will not only alleviate the growing congestion on public transportation in the district, but also help spur economic development in some of d.c.s struggling neighborhoods. >> street cars really is the ...

With a sense of fear. a sense of caution. i would not feel, as if i have the liberty to be there because im vulnerable. i am vulnerable because of the way i look. >> councilman, critics of the boycott say, among many things, say light is going to hurt latinos in the state of airs involved in the hospitality industry if tourists stop coming? >> you know boycotts have worked in history. during the 60s. civil rights movement, boycott of the bus system of alabama we, had freedom riders go in and try...