Temple Israel’s second annual concert series East Meets West returns this month with live talent, food trucks and camaraderie. True to its theme “United We Stand,” this free outdoor event
edition of morning joe, live from detroit, we ll be joined by tigers pitcher justin verlander later in the show. also ahead, detroit isn t only known for its cars. we visited the motown museum to get a taste of the city s music history. up next, he calls himself a businessman with a badge and he s running for mayor of detroit. sheriff benny napoleon joins us next on morning joe. [ male announcer ] this is jim,
at this point, there s water, squatters, graffiti that people come from all over the world to see. there s truly nothing like it anywhere i think on earth. reporter: the packards and super 8 s of detroit s classic era live on in movies from benjamin button to the godfather . leave the gun. reporter: in the garages of like detroit businessman dick cohn. i started out with a 1940 packard that belonged to jim cagney. once you get started you re on a hunt. reporter: he has a passion for the classic. a successful detroit real estate developer he saved the lionel train company in the 1980s by buying it. he and his wife linda have preserved hundreds of cars in their four garages. you come around here. reporter: today dick is driving a red dlux convertible fully loaded with two windshields but no power
0 john who said axel foley so from beverly hills cop and then we have francis ford copola. he was born in detroit. best export, yeah. we had madonna from detroit and also tons of votes for kid rock. i mean music is a huge, huge part of detroit. and, of course, that s it for way too early. morning joe starts right now. good morning, everyone. welcome to a special edition of morning joe. it s thursday, august 29th. we re going to have a great time here in detroit. we re live from the ford flat rock assembly line. just outside of detroit in flat rock, michigan. and this is an active assembly line, about to get busier as the morning progresses. unbelievable news today, ford is actually returning the production of the ford fusion to this plant. big news. from mexico. it s a $555 million commitment and what does that mean? that means more jobs for americans. about 1400. great news. we re going to speak with ford ceo alan mullally and coo mark fields about this importa