mitch landrieu: this was a man-made disaster.hen the levees were broken that the city was compromised. post-katrina we have a $14.5 billion levy system. john: mark: mark: if katrina hit today what would happen? mayor landrieu: we would be safe and fine. the levees are much stronger than they were before. it is not a guarantee -- bigger storms are coming our way. by the way, new orleans is really the nation's canary in the coal mine. we are an example from miami to new york, which suffered from sandy. amongst all these natural disasters and terrorist attacks, you have to build a more resilient city, so when you build back, you have to build back stronger. the magnificent thing that the people have done is they didn't build the city back the way it was -- they built it the way it should have always been. as you see us rebuilding our schools, health care delivery systems, economic development, and government, the city has successfully turned itself around and it is moving into the right direction. we are doing pretty well. although

we have seen progress, but just as mayor landrieu was saying, we continue to see spikes in some areas, and my hope is that i will have an opportunity as president of the conference of mayors, with my second vice president mayor landrieu, to bring national attention to issues facing our cities so we can look at not just the models to help reduce violence but to develop a national agenda for cities to take a look at the resources that have been cut off from the federal government. congress has scaled back support for cities for decades, and i don't think it's a surprise that the violence and particularly the gun violence has had an inverse -- you know, that while the investments have gone down, the violence has gone up and my hope is that, over this year, we'll develop an agenda that will help reverse that trend. >> ifill: mayor landrieu, i'm not sure there is an answer to this, but i think the president brought this up a couple of weeks ago in charleston and that's the root causes of gun violence. the violence are shootings, not stabbings or anything else. do you think there is a speci

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as the current mayor is the landrieu administration. do you want to take it? >> we have the lens which are editor publishes in the audience a couple of board members. we have filed suit against the city of new orleans recently for lack of fulfillment of public records specifically public records deal with city budget budgeting bill payment issues a check register if you will. i did ask for public records under the nagin have been straight and those were filled more out of laziness than any sense of duty. under the landrieu administration it is very difficult for us to access public information. incorporated runs a very retentive type of ship so i don't see a tremendous amount of improvement transparency of the word has been adopted. i don't think the deed follows. >> he is imitating our president. in using the word and not delivering. >> much of our reporting live some public record so that's our lexmark. >> let me wrap up your at least with regard to the panel and of course always open to further questions from the floor. i happen to l

we will leave it angelica, bob, and mayor landrieu of new orleans, thank you.ll ahead, much more, leading the battle to define what americans, pitting science against big money. yes which side is winning. -- guess which side is winning. ♪ olivia: welcome back to "bloomberg market day." healthy diet in america is more orton now than ever. more than 70 million americans are obese, the first time that obese americans outnumbered those who are just simply overweight. the epidemic may only be getting worse. companies like coca-cola are out lobbying nutritionist and health groups in the diet guideline debate. 14 to one, in fact. a great story on bloomberg.com right now, also with me for the next hour, pimm fox is joining in. this is incredible. you have money from the big companies up against the likes of the american pediatric society. what is at stake here with these new guidelines? >> this is something the government does twice per decade. a revision on the science of what americans should be eating. this is a review of the guidelines committee report from last fe

new orleans mayor mitch landrieu is calling for several monuments to be replaced. >> reporter: the debate has spread to capitol hill where lawmaker cemeteries run by the national parks service. >> i do not want this to become some political football. it should not. >> reporter: many including from the capitol building. >> this is a matter of value, of principle principle, of who we are as americans. >> reporter: setting the stage for more. the suspect posted an online manifesto and he was seen posing with the confederate flag. man re? >> hena daniels. thank you. >>> severe weather is a possibility today from the ohio valley to the central plains. thunderstorm watches and warnings are posted in the oklahoma panhandle and northwest texas. flood watches are up in missouri, illinois indiana, and kentucky. last night a powerful storm with winds clocked near 70 miles per hour ripped through central arkansas. there is significant damage to buildings, trees, and cars, but there are no reports of injuries. >> in philadelphia last night strong winds and torrential rain brought down a tree. the heav

the statute is one of four confederate mondayments that mayor mitch landrieu wants removed. >> these ideals have never really belonged in a city as great as new orleans and whose like blood flows from our richness and our diversity. >> reporter: in vestavia hills, alabama the rebelman is the high school mascot. its logo was inspired by an old south plantation owner. and all of it bothers resident kira fountaineau. >> when you look at the mascot and the school symbols, what do you see? >> i see confederacy. i see enemies of slavery i see jim crow. >> reporter: this affluent suburb of birmingham is mostly right and pro rebelman state senator jabbo wag bonn gon-- waggoner urged the school board to keep it. >> we change the mascot what's incomes. once a rebel always a rebel. >> reporter: congress this week banned the display of confederate flags at cemeteries run by the national park service. 20-year-old patience smith agrees but believes vestavia hills should keep the rebelman. she was one of four black students who dress as the mascot. >> when you were the rebelman you never felt lesse

new orleans mayor mitch landrieu is calling for several confederate monuments to be replaced. >> these ideals have never really belonged in a city as great as new orleans. >> reporter: the debate has even spread to capitol hill where lawmakers on both sides are talking about whether the controversial flag should be flown at cemeteries run by the national park service. >> i do not want this to become some political football. it should not. [ applause and cheers ] >> reporter: many democratic lawmakers are also calling for any confederate flag symbols including the mississippi flag to be removed from the capitol building. >> this is a matter of values, principal, who we are as americans. >> reporter: the impasse settling the stage for more gridlock in washington. hannah daniels, cbs news, washington. >>> a former security guard says he was justified when he used force against a wheelchair-bound student at oakland high school. mitchell testified during a trial yesterday saying the student francisco martinez threatened to kill him during the incident in may of last year. mitchell faces fou

the mayor landrieu talking about new orleans.roit is changing because of what is happening with the demographics there. it is an urban problem, but it is almost always confined to a few areas. betty: moving on from what is going on in chicago locally to what is going on globally. greece, i know you're watching the headlines there. i know it is affecting the debt market and markets overall. are you worried about greece? >> i don't think the markets are either. i am hiking, birdwatching and doing some sessions. i'm doing all of the things i can't do in chicago. right now the 10-year is trading the which gives you a sense bond market feels there may be a resolution to it. the stock market was up when i left. the stock market is calm. they had the big referendum sunday. whatever happens with greece, it is not going to be a big, market moving event. i do not think so. certain things have been baked in. whether they choose to stay in the euro, the overwhelming sentiment in the best council they would get to stay in the euro and figure

he pleaded guilty from misdemeanor charges stemming from his involvement in the break-in of mary landrieu'sffice. can you talk about these links -- is it guilt by association? sharona: i do not think you even need to go into the guilt by association. that ted cruz clip -- he is a smart guy in a bookish sense, he has to know what he is saying is factually incorrect. you played the clips. when you watch the four videos, the planned parenthood officials are literally saying the opposite of wanting to profit from fetal body parts. and i mean that literally -- they are saying time and again no one wants to profit from this, we are not trying to. it is important for people to understand on the question of appearing to haggle over prices, what is going on there -- i have studied the videos and the transcripts at length. what they are trying to do is figure out what it will cost them to facilitate the donation of tissue, and as dr. willie parker said to you earlier, this is because women are asking if they can do something good for society by donating fetal tissue to research terrible diseases that

and new orleans mayor mitch landrieu is asking the city council to begin the process of relocating some confederate monuments. the flag also causing trouble on capitol hill with the house canceling a vote on whether to allow it to be flown at cemeteries run by the national park service. and the controversy's also not over here, with the kkk planning a rally at the south carolina statehouse. in columbia, south carolina, jonathan serrie, fox news. >>> president obama today announced the creation of three new national monuments, including one that reaches into the bay area. snow mountain is one of the new protected areas. it spans 330,000 acres including parts of eastern napa county. nevada's basin and range area, home to rare prehistoric rock art, was also named a national monument, along with waco mammoth in texas. >> beautiful pictures. >>> well, after a day of some rain in the bay area, things seem to clear up a little bit. i want to go back over to bill in the weather center for a look at the forecast, especially heading into is the weekend. >> look at you! today started off gloomy, t

you see mitch landrieu you see discussion about things being renamed across the country. that reckoning isn't quite over yet. >> its true. christians, i appreciate your comments on this. we don't want to get caught up in the trappings of symbolism. you know between sally hemings and the trail of tears, if we're not going to change the name of the jefferson-jackson dinner we should think seriously of excavating that history around it. i don't know if we should throw out the legacy we should confront and talk about what those figures represent. it's one way of reckoning with the history of the united states. the lesson is clear for all of us here. the election of the first black president we have to keep our eyes on the prize in terms of the substance of policies and progressive change when it comes to issues of institutional racism if our country. >> i want to talk about this little mini brew-ha ha that's erupted about black lives matter and martin omale got up and used the phrase all lives matter and that made some people upset. they sort of challenged him on that. he lat

. >> state representative terry landrieu. >> i want to applaud and con graduate and just commend howand the lafayette police department, louisiana state police, how the quick response -- these men and women are trained to do what they did. they did it magnificent. i think i'm in a position where i can evaluate and give a true evaluation having been head of the state police and working with these guys but it shouldn't go unnote how old the leadership and how these group have worked together. they are out near do a job. they do it very well. it's our job as legislature to close the loopholes in these gun laws. when a person that has a mental capacity or not mentally stable can wreak havoc on our community, it tells us we have to have a serious conversation. we have to have serious repeals in some of these lang of gun restrictions in our community. if not we'll be meeting somewhere another day, another time. >> any questions? >> reporter: chief, two questions, is there any more visibility of why he was in lafayette and can you tell us more about the magazines he had. whether which they

. >> you spoke of landrieu delays -- land route delays. what if we should have something like this that should happen again, with such a large footprint, can you foresee a time we would need to reduce the footprint and streamline to be more effective? we now have 5500 personnel. if this happens again, what do we do about that? >> if i could say does good things. that's if i could say two things -- if i could say two things and the instance this would happen again, we are working very hard. we would fall back on creative logistics. your question in principle, will be look to draw down the mission. we are looking at a variety -- how effective is the team being? what we might be up to do on the economy -- >> i do not underestimate the complexities of the problem. my concern is we are seeing a turn -- we're seeing a pattern where we have become so cumbersome with it. it comes cumbersome to secure things. it becomes extraordinarily expensive. i would think a nation of 31 million souls with the types of problems we have, we can be efficient. i a

democrat sadly, voting to table the amendment except my then democratic colleague, senator mary landrieu. but, madam president, i hope the very tragic murder of katherine steinle in san francisco, a wonderful 32-year-old woman, i hope that gets all of our attention and causes all of us to focus on this very serious issue. as we all know, her murder was an illegal alien who was deported five times previously. as we all know, he was an illegal alien who was convicted of felonies seven times previously and as we all know it's because of san francisco's sanctuary city law defying federal law that caused local police officials there not to cooperate with u.s. and immigration -- u.s. immigration and customs enforcement officials to hold this dangerous criminal for further deportation proceedings. obviously, there are a lot of things wrong with our immigration system that this case illustrates. the fact that he can come back into the country so many times having been deported, fine, that is a real red flag, but certainly this also underscores the truly truly dangerous nature of sanctuary cities