at 5:00 p.m., vice president .ence has a briefing in texas looking at storm damage and flooding damage, and we will bring that to you here starting at 5:00 p.m. eastern. right now, a conversation on lessons from hurricane katrina. host: the vice president making his way down to the area impacted by hurricane tropical storm harvey. also as well as others. he is making his way down to the area impacted by the hurricane and tropical storm harvey. washington journal this morning, we will be talking about the impact of that with michael brown, the former fema director who served from 2003-2005. he is joining us from denver to talk about lessons learned from hurricane katrina. i would like to begin with your reaction to the price tagged that has been put out for hurricane harvey. $160 billion, much more money than was spent in response to and recovery for hurricane katrina. michael: yes, that number does not surprise me one you did consider the magnitude of the storm. kachina was huge in terms of its geographical size, all the way from the texas-louisiana border, to tennessee, to alabama and

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if we continue to protect resources that we have, less to ence will continue happen. also, we have ways of cleaning caused, we need to hold industry like exxon the oil spills in new york. host: how do you get -- caller: across the country. host: how do you get fellow in this?lds involved caller: i'm an educated citizen, sir. fellowow do you get your 21 year olds involved? how do you reach out to them -- all pay attention, rally together, we listen, we are protesting. isn't ia coverage just there. host: ariel, thanks for the call from new pulse, new york this morning. tim, line for democrats, go ahead. caller: yes, good morning, for taking my call. mueller investigation. the mueller investigation is not not directed toward president donald trump, directed towards all those some kind volved in of collusion or involved with political thing with the voters voters, manifort, flynn and like, kushner and donald, r., not just toward president trump. and the other thing i want to ay is all those republicans, his is about health care, all those republicans who voted to you your

actually continuing ress working inside with certain as to s in washington what to say, such as in the ence to reports of lynch, the government, the former government administration with the press with talking points, so they only what theor spoke about wanted to say and actually worded it. about the te sure vetting thing, not seeing that with the trump administration nd i'm concerned about the actual freedom of the press in working with the government like hey have with the obama administration. host: got you, jamie, we'll leave it there, thanks. say to this d the last thing i journalism the being produced in this climate is propaganda. always good tois have a little tension between press, we're t and at a period of high tension now or sure, but i would warn your viewers to know that even in oments when the press and the government are at odds with each other, that they are talking and particularly when it comes to publication of national lead ty information that to major news organizations, there is every effort to make the information that is published will not harm security. host: mamie

repairs, some $29 million -- 29 million pounds worth of work, say that it is necessary for it to be --enced because the workers the decibels would be too loud for them, so they need for the clock to be silenced. panicking either here or in the united kingdom or across the world intending to -- therevisit london, are bulletins open live by these wrongs and since the clock is only a few seconds late, there is a major controversy. people are saying -- surely these workers could wear earmuffs, earplugs, and not worry that let us remember that exceptionally, there will be bonds to see in the new year, and also for example here for the commemoration of remembrance on hyundai. some of -- on monday. those are some of the more exceptional event here in the country. if somebody wants to check the time, the clock will be working so they will be able to do that. >> thank you very much, benedict for the update from london. the prolific show men and slapstick junius, jerry lewis has died at the age of 91. he said -- i had great success being an idiot. our reporter takes a look at his career. >> the king

. >> tonight on the communicators, hat at the black vegas ence in vagz las with mr. moulton at louisiana state university. >> the hospital was packed daily, the federal government and market space industry, the banks daily now, we're not going to eliminate this threat, we have to learn to with it. we've lived for milennium with virus, never eradicated the flu virus, we learned to live with it. when is rtain thing they are exposed, you isolate that lf from other folks have the flu there is hygienic measures you take in the and now u.s. in the digital world. >> watch communicators tonight on c-span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. do open phones for this last half-hour of this edition of "washington journal," about any topic you'd like. we'll put the phone numbers on the bottom of the screen and in updated news from the day. look forward to hearing from you. tweet or hang on and we'll get to the calls. but one story we're following this one. it is out of chicago, u.s. news com, reporting on it, chicago filing federal lawsuit threat regarding sanctuary cities. the

the nation's good ence, it will be a thing. host: who is affected most by this crisis? affected the most? guest: so certainly, if you look regions, phic midwest, the states have highest opioid overdose, individuals uninsured, who are who are unemployed, who have other co-occurring orders, all at higher risk for addiction. here are essentially two problems in this country, there are too many prescriptions for there is unnecessary prescribing ongoing, too many high of a ns for too dose for too long of a duration is also illicit supply, ot only heroin from mexico, synthetic opioid like fentanyl coming from countries like china. it is a battle on the prevention side. workingscription opioid with the healthcare community of second is illitis supply opioids coming from overseas. this is where we are with the right now. of course, treatment is critical for the two million americans addicted.rrently host: our guest is here until about f you want to ask the trump administration action on the opioid crisis, the opioid crisis overall. eastern and central time zone, call 202-748-80

of that, ence effective response, people are feeling economic pain. you are art of what seeing is resurgence in nativism movements. of racist host: a.c. thompson, tell us if stories or m these accounts from other people. what is the editorial process to and sure they are true accurate. guest: that is a great question. what we do is one, we ask they have any evidence connected to their claim they were a victim, to it.mit a police report, photos of the photos i on their house, f injuries, medical reports, etcetera. we do the typical reporting piece. 've been investigating incidents where people say they were wronged in one way or the 20 years. first thing, you interview the peep and he will see if their up.ry holds ask other people, hey, is this what happened to your dad, cousin, friend or is the story more complex, do the basic often doesn't get done today. host: latest story from project available on the website. meets hoax, tell us a little bit about the back grountd grountd -- ground of the story, a.c. thompson. guest: it was a thing we had across a

. >> tonight on the communicators, hat at the black vegas ence in vagz las with mr. moulton at louisiana state university. >> the hospital was packed daily, the federal government and market space industry, the banks daily now, we're not going to eliminate this threat, we have to learn to with it. we've lived for milennium with virus, never eradicated the flu virus, we learned to live with it. when is rtain thing they are exposed, you isolate that lf from other folks have the flu there is hygienic measures you take in the and now u.s. in the digital world. >> watch communicators tonight on c-astern

yesterdaydent pence: president trump condemned and hatred ence which took place on the streets charlottesville. our hearts go out to the victims of violence that ensued. the family of the young woman who lost her life, the families police officers who fell in the line of duty and all have that are injured, we no tolerance for hate and violence. white supremacist, neonazis or kkk. host: front page of washington want no ties cans to demonstrators in charlottesville. two republicans that took to the sunday shows yesterday, senator mentioned er, who we colorado, lindkey graham was on expressing th concern about the president's words, whether they went far enough. question we are asking until our ends at 10. falls church. good morning. caller: good morning. donna.o ahead, caller: good morning. okay, my first comment is to all people who chose to come charlottesville and to stand up for just the issue of racism, i applaud those people, takes a big person to ant to be in someone else's shoes, to almost go to the point of giving their life, unfortunately, that young woman, who was not black, lost her

enc that all of these others are encouraged but there is a distinction between all other ethnic groups that drives those out of the democratic party. tru this is why because the kinds of things that richard spencer believes but the reason he is not over there. >> the line for republicans go well ahead. >>. >> congratulations to mr. d'souza after careful decision making way he handled this situation..he the first caller you hadday today was a democrat and he i immediately came out with every side ofout to date paid 92 say something about his eastern indian heritage not to be a military that is typical tactics this has to do it with cbs news to focus on russia and trumpet you mentioned about the media you will never be invited on msnbc for cnn so the media has a much power and influence. how can america take that and make it reasonably unbiased a straightforward presentation of information information?. >> there was a term meansrdin coordination. and of those portions of society into harmony independent it is a forced with ruthless intensity. there are 2,000 because of the views were tol

ence he groups such we of donald trump.artially because, even before the election,here was all this controversy around companies like facebook or google about if they were media or technology companies. if you are a technology company, you do not have to take responsibility for the content on your platform. if you are a media company, you . most of these companies want to be a technology company,ecause you do not have to spe as much on content moderation. however, a week ago, suddenly theomthese companies realized te need to take some responsibility . that came to the forefront when google and go daddy and a bunch of other companies took down the daily stormer which is a nazi publication had been on the internet until then. was theight, cloudflare last company to cut off the daily stormer. this was a company that had taken a more free speech approach to things should we did have the ceo on -- to things. we did have the ceo on the show and he said he was still uncomfortable about taking down the site. pers, no company should

ence of the pres grandmothers and grandfathers, because old people and children were the first to be killed? i was one of the children still alive. we never heard from the people who were dragged away. calm few people managed to under the cover -- come under the cover of the night that to the ghetto, and they told us about the horrendous train ride to a place called triplicate -- treblinka where people were gassed . it is hard to imagine that anyone that loves their mothers and fathers and children can do such a horrendous thing. this is why i am here to share this story, and i believe this is why you are all here, because we have to be reminded from time beings aret human capable of such utter cruelty. and appreciate so much more the recognition and importance of love. >> as you said, 99% of the children were gone. the nazis had essentially decreed children under the edge of 14 were useless. you were 13. estelle laughlin: i was 13. i thought, what happened if they come after me because i was contraband, permitted to exist. -- forbidden to exist. my father said, i will burn their eye

and brown children, those likely to experience this to ence, are less likely receive the help they need to prevent trauma related mental physical disabilities. to put it another way, when it gun violence in a cago, sign me up for thousand cops but sign me up for a thousand counselors. we need them both. . >> here's the good news. many have shown this path forward. shaketi am [sp], is she here. c colleen has an amazing staff. times about many her worth. on the daunting task of educating a senator and has done pretty well. she and her team for the center resilience works all over the state. will eaders and parents recognize and help. over tonths ago, i went pillson with her, we went to a hispanic kids, and they have decided to pick kids, 4 they could help. 4 out of 1200. tell me was there to the story. hispanic lady. he had me the story, two little kids in the 1st and before,e and six months the husband had walked in the living room where they were all gun and took out a killed himself. went esult, these kids through flashbacks, night ter r terrors terrors, and became withdrawn in class.

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