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hill hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield and were following breaking news on this memorial day weekend right now, more than 100 million people are at risk of severe weather as deadly and destructive storms sweep across the central us from texas to michigan and kansas to pennsylvania. >> the storms bring a risk of tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds, and flooding. at least ten people were killed, including children after or possible tornado struck ...

Is what we did with the military and what we did in some cases with the police force. you actually seee places thace officers and their weight issuesweight. >> they cant they cant chase criminals because theyre out of shape i worry about the pilots and it does kind of feel like all the stuff that used to be good is bad flying the beach. disneylying. movie theaters, ci. >> its like has suddenly become the house on the block that stop mowing on th lawn, pi up the mail and the newspapers. they got ...

And we clean up the abandoned parks and playgrounds in this town. >> why would you do that? >> kids need a place to play. i dont care who you are, if youre under ten years old, i think you deserve some justice in this world, dont you think? yeah. >> yeah. >> how did this thing start? >> i guess i started it. i bought a lawn tractor when the city announced they were closing 72 parks. >> whats the difference betweein being opened and close? theyre just going to stop maintaining it? >> thats it. or...

They just -- they just take the trash barrels away and -- and stop mowing. >> crazy! >> its -- its a strange place, detroit. when were done here, it will not look like a nice park. >> but still a playable park. >> yeah. and a visible park so if you had kids, you could see what theyre doing in this park. its safer. >> all right. well, lets cut some grass. >> yeah! cmon -- youll like it. its fun. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

“No Mo May” encourages people to cut back on mowing their lawns or even skip it all together.

Abandoned parks maintained. who are you guys and what are you doing here? >> tom: we are the detroit mower gang, and we clean up the abandoned parks and playgrounds in this town. >> anthony: why would you do that? >> tom: my kids need a place to play, i dont care who you are. if youre under ten years old, i think you deserve some justice in this world, dont you think? >> anthony: yeah. how did this thing start? >> tom: i guess i started it. i bought a lawn tractor when the city announced they we...

>> tom: i guess i started it. i bought a lawn tractor when the city announced they were closing 72 parks. >> anthony: whats the difference between open and closed? theyre just going to stop maintaining it? >> tom: thats it! >> anthony: or do they actually physically shut it up? >> tom: no, no, they dont physically shut it up because theres no money in here, you know. >> anthony: just physically shut it up. >> tom: yeah, they just take the trash barrels away and stop mowing. >> anthony: crazy. >>...

Think you deserve some justice in this world, dont you think? >> anthony: yeah. how did this thing start? >> tom: i guess i started it. i bought a lawn tractor when the city announced they were closing 72 parks. >> anthony: whats the difference between open and closed? theyre just going to stop maintaining it? >> tom: thats it! >> anthony: or do they actually physically shut it up? >> tom: no, no, they dont physically shut it up because theres no money in here, you know. >> anthony: just physica...