In Judy Woodruff's previous report, Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam said that strengthening the country's democracy would begin in places far from Washington, with grassroots efforts by people stepping up in their own communities.

Now she visits a down but not out community in California that's fighting for a comeback one round at a time.

It's part of her ongoing series, America at a crossroads.

Just over 60 miles east of Los Angeles lies California's inland empire,

where 20-year-old Terry Washington is attempting to beat the odds.

I'll definitely be a world champion.

Definitely be a world champion.

It's going to definitely happen.

Some very high aspirations despite growing up in one of the most dangerous cities in the country.

I've seen a lot of stuff.

I've lost a lot of friends, more than five friends while I was boxing.

I lost a lot of family members in this city all over.

And it's tough.

This was a bustling downtown.

Journalist Jim Fallows grew up near San Bernardino,

a place that in 1977 won the award for All America City. But in the years

since, its fortunes flipped. I met up with him and his wife, Deborah, for a tour of the

city that they've reported on in depth for years.

This is just a few miles from where I grew up in the neighboring city of Redland, so it's

a story I've known my whole life.

Blocks of vacant buildings and homeless camps now dot the city that was once home to the bustling Norton Air Force base that closed in 1994.

That followed the shuttering of a nearby steel mill a decade earlier.

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