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The big reason why is because detroit keeps sliding backwards is because, hell, it's on fire most of the time. no kidding. as msnbc.com reports, last year alone, the detroit fire department fielded 30,000 fire calls. the city of 714,000 sees 30 structure fires a day. in contrast, los angeles, a city of nearly 4 million faces just 11 structure fires a day. now, detroit is always -- almost always burning at least somewhere. as one firefighter put it in a recent documentary, "burn" detroit is like katrina without the hurricane. detroit's finances are also in a disaster. the city has a $200 millio...

Detroit keeps sliding backwards is because, hell, it's on fire most of the time. no kidding. as msnbc.com reports, last year alone, the detroit fire department fielded 30,000 fire calls. the city of 714,000 sees 30 structure fires a day. in contrast, los angeles, a city of nearly 4 million faces just 11 structure fires a day. now, detroit is always -- almost always burning at least somewhere. as one firefighter put it in a recent documentary "burn," detroit is like katrina without the hurricane. detroit's finances are also in a disaster. the city has a $200 million budget shortfall and $13 bil...

Prices actually fell 3.6%. the big reason why is because detroit keeps sliding backwards is because, hell, it's on fire most of the time. no kidding. as msnbc.com reports, last year alone, the detroit fire department fielded 30,000 fire calls. the city of 714,000 sees 30 structure fires a day. in contrast, los angeles, a city of nearly 4 million faces just 11 structure fires a day. now, detroit is always -- almost always burning at least somewhere. as one firefighter put it in a recent documentary, "burn" detroit is like katrina without the hurricane. detroit's finances are also in a disaster....

1.8 million people living in detroit. last year, just 714,000. you guys, that's the lowest since 1910. population the lowest in 100 years. >> it was the heart of that -- you know, the backbone of america's middle class that worked on factory floors. >> now a max exodus to southern and eastern parts. the census is changing from just a decade. it's amazing. thunderstorms, golf ball-sized hail, tornadoes, part of a fast-moving system from nebraska to iowa. take a look at this funnel cloud caught on home video near des moines. over two dozen tornado warnings in iowa alone yesterday. homes and fa...

Single decade. from 2000 to 2010. that's the largest percentage drop for any american city in history outside of new orleans after hurricane katrina. detroit was america's fourth largest city at the height of the auto industry. now with 714,000, detroit plunges to 18th. well, the maker of blackberry wants a piece of the ipad? right? the pie, at least. >> yeah. it's a big pie. >> it is. >> what do they sell? one every two seconds? carmen wong-ulrich is minding your business this morning. >> this is called the playbook. can we convince people to buy it? so the battle of the tablet computers is...