it's for the mayor of the city the fringe candidate looking up and the traditional runners this is steve burke a thirty two year old yale university grad and former comedian and his campaign burke has been trying to appeal to younger disenfranchised voters who he says may be willing to take a chance on him when the polls open tomorrow artie's perry and boring is in miami and brings us more heat steve burke a thirty two year old miami beach mayoral candidate is looking to reform his city simoni beach happens to one of the most corrupt cities in america this tropical paradise has been plagued with corruption and police misconduct scandals that have gained national attention steve is running on a platform of transparency to bring this school responsibility to city hall to put an end to go on portman brutality he plans to implement an independent police review and disciplinary board he also wants to decriminalize marijuana which would save the city at three million dollars a year the miami beach mayor election is nonpartisan however steve has created a political party of his own i'm trying t

the miami beach mayor election is about challenging the status quo steve burke is one of the most alternative candidates we've seen but he lacks some of the resources as his opponents mamie's ready for this change election day is november fifth i mean beach florida perry and boring are to. and now we turn to iran where tens of thousands of demonstrators packed the streets today outside the former u.s. embassy in tehran was the. now these protests take place every year outside the compound marking the anniversary of the nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution and takeover of the u.s. embassy however today's protest was bigger than in years past in fact it was so large it stood as the largest anti-american rally in the capital in years which many say signals the opposition to president rouhani as historic outreach to washington ties between the two countries have been strained since the iranian embassy siege which began a hostage crisis with fifty two people held for four hundred forty four days artie's sam sachs takes a look back on that defining moment. in. the civilized world there's a

burke was steve burke. is it was my son might say oh you're adorable you're heading toward the comedy circuit. yes absolutely no interest in being there a lot of people think like my vote doesn't matter anyways. and so little of what is a coach who shot before. really they're all corrupt. she says now. god uses our own the young people are infatuated with hannah. this demographic is so disenfranchised by the political system that very human bio in the immediate elections. even when your best friends about lighting up your book and they're not. five it said on wednesday evening but what i got a kick in and out. burke is a comedian he just wants to beat phoenix suburb burke is no stranger to visit us this proposed billion styling cable car called the styling of the solution to the city's traffic problems. this project has even caught the attention of virgin ceo sir richard branson is interested in sponsoring it and of course steve has a song for the sale. among the humans. and when you see a new business. i h

going against him is steve burke now he has gotten national attention because he's so different from anyone we've ever seen he's thirty two years old he's a yale graduate and a former tennis pro he wants to decriminalize marijuana and he has only spent about twenty five thousand dollars on his campaign he is totally grassroots supported and he is a native of miami beach one of the most corrupt towns in america and he really just wants to clean up his city well let's talk about steve burke you've been following him he's a former tennis player turned comedian he's is running on a platform to legalize marijuana as kind of the subject of an m.t.v. two film crew can he win the how of his tactics proven unconventional but effective down there in miami you know he actually has a really good chance this is second time running he ran in two thousand and eleven and walked away with thirty percent of the vote and you know he was having issue of people not taking him seriously and again folks will be and have the best people working for him and they have really painted him as an entertainer who

burke he is thirty two years old a former pro tennis player he suffered a very serious back injury lost his entire athletic career to it and turned to medicinal marijuana as a natural means of treatment and has been a big advocate for legalizing marijuana and he's running on a platform of decriminalizing marijuana and miami beach but has made him a very alternative candidate he's also only raised a small fraction of the amount of money that levine has spent and he doesn't have the same resources and manpower to get people out there to vote for him as an opponent and the third person i need to mention as michael gone he is miami beach is a first openly gay elected to city commissioner he's now running for mayor and we've gotten some numbers in early voting started two weeks ago and with the absentee ballots plus the early voting numbers levine is leading advocate fifty two percent gone gore has about thirty seven percent and burke only has a but again you know i had the type of resources to bring bosses and to get a lot of the elderly people to get a lot of people mobilized and moved on

major issues that has caused national headlines here and miami beach well i want to talk more about steve burke you've highlighted a number over the last few days as you mentioned he's kind of got this unconventional past for a politician former tennis player former comedian is running on a platform like legalizing marijuana is the currently the subject of an m.t.v. two film crew during this whole race can he actually win and how would his tactics prove an unconventional but effective down there in that miami beach may or race. well he is tied in the polls with levine even though levine has outspent him nearly one hundred to one so he does have a good chance and he ran in two thousand and eleven for the first time and he got thirty percent of the vote then so today is going to be you know very interesting to see exactly how this. up with some of his nontraditional tactics of reaching voters has been through comedy which has proven to be extremely successful for him he has these you tube videos that have gotten millions and millions of hits on them have twenty five fifty million hits young

burke who perry and boring who's a correspondent here reported on hold at about twelve percent detroit elected its first white mayor since one thousand nine hundred seventy four former detroit medical center chief mike dubin he must face the milot the city's that twenty billion dollars bankruptcy problems but he will not do that on his own and most of the power for the student is still in. hands of the city's emergency financial chief so we'll have to see how all of that plays out in the future with all of these upcoming new people now in colorado initiative to tax recreational marijuana is at a twenty five percent and that was actually passed the funds will go to schools and towards regulation also five of eleven roll counties in the mile high city that had the right to vote to secede from the state did in fact passed that whoever the likelihood of that becoming a reality is zilch as it needs to go through congress and they need to approve it first finally in washington state voters took you from their california neighbors to the south and struck down a ballot measure that would requi

and mare juana activist steve burke, who has won the interest of sir richard branson for this idea, to bring the world's longest urban cable car system to link the beach with downtown miami. >> we have one guy in bed with the special interests and one guy that is a developer and special interests. that's why people are so pissed at politicians. >> reporter: the job only pays $10,000 a year, and carries zero executive power. brett? >> all right, phil, thank you. still ahead, the president's political motive you probably have not considered for obama care. first, drunken stupor, crack cocaine binges, and lying to the voters. a mayor in trouble two is actually becoming more popular. the day we rescued riley was a truly amazing day. he was a matted mess in a small cage. so that was our first task, was getting him to wellness. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. from contractors and doctors to dog sitters and landscapers, you can find it all on angie's list. we found riley at the shelter, and found everything he needed at angie

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. >> the good news, guys like steve burke out there understand the value of a theme park business. no if you look at it from inside the industry, what happened was harry potter. i mean, universal fundmentally restructured the quality of their amusement park business by signing the licensing with harry porter, a phenomenal product. >> did they want at the beginning, do you think? the word is that they were going to get rid of, now they love it, but like disney when they bought abc and ended up with espn. a little bit of surprise on the way, good for them. that's what we think. industries healthy. look at disney, the destination business, you're seeing things work, one of the few places you are seeing good things happen. >> what we like to say is having fun should be fun. again, i will go back to the point, the world is overly complicated. i think that whether it be us or whether it be the comcast folks, universal folks, et cetera, providing that reward working as hard as people are working -- >> you can't share pictures of your family on facebook at an amusement park unless you go t