they are beginning to rely more and more on air power. the air strikes have caused a flood of refugees, families who are scared of the bombs and angry that no one is helping them. look at us, he says, these are our families. there are planes over our heads, we are just trying to live. their numbers have tripled in the past week. [crying] 2,000 refugees a day are now trying to escape north to turkey. three generation of family members take shelter in fields, abandoned houses and movings. border check point for days. in the heat, it s the very young who seem to suffer the most. i have seven children, we left everything to run, he says. all we have is the clothes on our backs. as the number of syrians in turkey climbs towards 100,000, the government has said it may establish a safety zone for refugees inside syrian territory. now, any safety zone is likely
now. we really don t. the murder rates are unbelievable. chicago homicides augusting 2010, there have been 59. the iraq coalition deaths so far in 2010, 46. the source of this is the chicago tribune i assume their figures are accurate. danger zones. the highest murder rates in go ahead. well, the context is detroit, for example, there are 90,000 abandoned houses and vacant lots. why can t young people be trained as apprentices to be landscapers, remove boards, put up windows. weatherize this, put them back to work, gainful employment. detroit 90,000 homes abandoned or left vacant. there s not one chain grocery store, not one chain retailer store. we ve abandoned urban america. as we come out of iraq now is the time to make a commitment to reinvest it was dr. king s great mission.
thousands of homes will soon be torn down in detroit. detroit s mayor recently announced a program to destroy 10,000 of the city s most dangerous buildings over the next four years and recently started demolishing the first round of abandoned houses. joining me on the phone, a radio reporter from detroit. this is really fascinate be. the issue being those foreclosed homes, it s turned the area of certain parts of that city into just devastation. what s the goal here? you tear it down, and then what? well, that s the thing. because what they want to do is make this more accessible for people to re-invest in detroit and come in. right now in many sections of detroit you can have homeowners who have lived there literal already for decades and maintained their homes, but across the street, down the neighborhood block, multiple homes literally abandoned, stripped out of copper plumbing,