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president biden to shoot down another high altitude object. this one near lake huron. we ll have much more on cnn this morning starting at 6:00 a.m. eastern. i m paula reed. good night. captions by vitac www.vitac.com blng detroit s the city of champions. the whole world knows that detroit is the american city whose products have revolutionized our way of living. and only in michigan will you find the men and women whose talent made us the arsenal of democracy in wartime and the economic pacesetter in peacetime. this musical world felt the cool rain on my shoulder this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder la la la la la la la la la la la la it s where nearly everything american and great came from, the things the whole world wanted made here, the heart, the soul, the beat of an industrial cultural superpower. a magnet for everyone with a deep future from eastern europe to the deep south. american dream, you came here. the
when it s at the point that it s actually considering selling what s left of itself in chunks. in detroit, city services are reduced or cut out completely. fewer buses, fewer cops, fewer firefighters. answer: they turn to each other for help. or figure out how to do it for themselves. detroit has a reputation as a tough town, but that toughness is about resilience, too. the insistence on sticking with it, no matter what. on not giving up in the face of the utter failure of leadership year after year. if the city abandons its parks and leaves them to become overgrown and eaten, like so much of the city by tall grass and weeds, then somebody has got to do something, right? meet the mower gang. started by this guy, tom nardone, with a simple mission of doing what they can to keep detroit s abandonded parks maintained. who are you guys and what are you doing here? we re the detroit mower gang.
on not giving up in the face of the utter failure of leadership year after year. if the city abandons its parks and leaves them to become overgrown, eaten, like so much of the rest of the city by tall grass and weeds, then somebody has got to do something. right? meet the mower gang. started by this guy, tom nardone, with the simple mission of doing what they can to keep detroit s abandoned parks maintained. who are you guys and what are you doing here? we are the detroit mower gang and we clean up the abandoned parks and playgrounds in this town. why would you do that? our kids need a place to play. i don t care who you are. you know, if you re under ten years old, i think you deserve some justice in this world, don t 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. what s the difference between open and closed? you mean, they re just going to stop maintaining it? that s