a step, mr bayou says, is in the right direction. so you obviously love the bayou...what would you like to see it become? >> before i die i would like to see it restore back to its normal state... it protection for everybody but everybody do not know that until they started taking all these surveys and stuff... >> but it is from the last 10 years of studying what went wrong during katrina that a multi- pronged plan has been put in place... it's been a long, costly process that can't completely protect southern louisiana from every storm but will hopefully dramatically reduce the damage from them. >> after seeing all this, there's one thing that's so clear to me which is that new orleans was at risk... is at risk... and probably always will be at risk and obviously lives are the priority but when you stand here in a historic district you also realize that there is a lot of history at stake as well. >> yeah and it doesn't get more iconic than jackson square and there's no question new orleans is an american gem. and virtually everyone

when he has downtime, he goes to the bayous and hunts ducks, which he enjoyed doing. those four years, learning every inch of these two forts and learning the back bayous of fort saint philip became the most important thing to launch his career in the military. weitzel gets another letter saying, "your assignment to new orleans is over, and you are assigned as an assistant professor to west point," so in august 1859, he takes a steamer up to west point. before he gets there he stops in cincinnati, he meets a young girl, german girl, 17 years old, the daughter of the owner of a beer house and coffeehouse in cincinnati. it was very popular with the germans. luisa and godfrey are married. two days after his 24th birthday. the couple spends their honeymoon briefly and makes their way up to best point where -- west point where he is assigned as assistant professor. thanksgiving day, three weeks to the day of their wedding, luisa is fixing thanksgiving dinner for her young husband, the assistant professor, and a spark pops out of the fireplace and catches her hoop skirt on

he points to buy you dupont -- bayou dupont.s piping in from the mississippi river 13 most to create more marshlands. another way is with water called river diversions. there is criticism of folks who live along the gulf coast to work in small businesses, shrimpers, fishermen, or sterman worried about the installation of river diversions like the one behind me that allow the mississippi river to flow into the marshland. that is one component of the master plan post up this is one critic. we will be out of business. >> he is worried a new diversion will hurt the fishery and his livelihood. >> this is the bayou. >> about 30 miles from a river diversion built before hurricane katrina. >> look over the marsh. see how thick it is? watch where we are going. >> ok. >> we are about 15 miles from where we left. maybe eight miles, 10 miles maybe from the diversion. there is no root system at all. >> he blames it on the influx of fresh water because the government does not understand this fragile ecosystem. louisiana will revise the plan i

bayou to the boardroom.. it is an incredible, incredible read. i first want to say that and, second, you decided to write "born on the bayou" after what you call a moment of clarity. tell me what happened. >> thanks for having me, amy. i -- i always thought about a way to kind of honor my heritage and then, you know, several years back i had a triple bypass. >> at 45? >> at 45. i had a subtle little symptom. i was at an lsu football game with my two sons walking hand in hand, i got shortness of breath with my brother-in-law. he looked at me and said, are you okay and i was like, i'm not sure. the next day we flew home. i felt bad and i called the doctor. just so happened i coached his son on one of my youth sports teams and he answered his phone. i told him about the symptom. he's like, i think you have something we should talk about. went in to see him, 24 hours later i was on an operating table. >> at that moment, you know, anyone who's been through a major medical scare knows your life changes and you sta

the risky business sunk on the being banks of the bayou.be scrapped. >> if my wife wouldn't get all bent out of shape, i'd mortgage everything i had to buy me a big boat to get shrimp. >> even with the market the way it is. >> even though i know i wouldn't make no money. >> but there are challenges ahead. katrina ripped apart barrier islands that vent been rebuilt. the gulf is losing low lying habitat. >> these are the chandelier islands. >> studying coastal geology. >> these marshes are going to dismear thadisappear that way. if we lose all our marshes there is no shrimp anymore. >> we used to eat it more often before he started trawling. >> our day ends with a meal of shrimp. he chooses to chase shrimp up to and beyond the grave. >> you're going to put a trawling rig in your coffin? >> yeah. >> just in case? >> just in case. i'm sure the good lord smoke a good cigar once in a while and like a good fried shrimp with a plate of red beans i guarantee you, i believe that. >> allen schauffler, al jazeera near bayou la fouche, louisiana. >> now

but there were bayous through out the area when they got here and the meterie and the bayou merged. they were dammed up. as a child, growing up in the city, i remember the fight for dry land. there were open ditches in the cities, at that time, they were gradually filled in and covered up. i can remember, i used to do a lot of walking on the levees at that time. we're talking back in the 50's and 6 o's and they gradually got higher and higher and higher so you couldn't even see the water anymore from the streets and of course, walking on the tops of those levees, you're actually above the roofs of most of the houses. my question is this, since i basically was a northshore resident, is it not a fact that if you put lock systems over the london avenue canal and the 72 street canal, the water that, for instance, that is brought in on the hurricane surge has to go somewhere. the people in the communities of slidell, laplace, they are wondering where that water goes, they know, in their heart, it's going to go to them and it will increase the level of flood water in their areas. is it a

one that began in the mississippi delta 60 years ago with a death here at the black bayou. thank you for joining us, i'm joie chen. the delta held secrets close. in the shadows. you can almost hear the whispers day. the truth of a young black man's mistake, and the horrific penalty he paid for it are trapped in the heat of a mississippi night. if these walls could talk, would they scream in terror? cry out in desperaon? or would they fall silent in fear? they are the lost walls emmett till saw in the barn on the old sheraton plantation, a place that echos with the horror of a hot august night. where a kid from chicago funds himself facing the most brutal type of justice. his family called him bo bo, 14 years old, with a stutter. he begged his single mum to let him come to missouri in 1955 to visit his country cousins. >> he talked beside chicago. he told me stuff you didn't know about. riverview park. have you ever about there. mack me in the battlefields, listening to a story about amusement park. i couldn't believe that. >> emmett was a story steler, and a jokester. and f

this is an area you see land, this is all bayou here, those are people's homes they used to barbecue and hang out here and exchange crabs and oysters and now this is all water. essentially the water has rushed over the course of several decades and eroded a lot of the natural coastal barriers that used to be here to protect the communities from storm surges. when hurricane katrina barreled ashore that lack of marsh allowed for further devastation. some parts of louisiana are actually considered more vulnerable. the reason those natural barriers have continued to erode and in the town of burse, only a scattering of throws remain. here. this is one of the coastal areas which exist in the town of burse. what it does is act as a speed bump or first line of defense against storm surges that roll in. it slows down the velocity of the storm or the waves that accompany it. without these, the towns like burse are made more vulnerable. >> we come out here eat oysters until we are blue in the face. >> that vulnerability is something that ryan lambert knows well. katrina once put him out of busi

. >> we'll have the people that stepped in harm's way from the bayou of louisiana. >>> just a casualdent obama and joe biden. a new look at how serious the vice president is about taking this on. >>> this is "way too early" a show that would settle for lunch at the sizzler. >>> good morning. i'm ayman mohyeldin. we begin with third straight day of losses for the chinese stock market. this as wall street remains on edge after a historic drop yesterday. the shanghai plunged 7.6% to reach the lowest point in months. there's fears of losses here after the dow fell 588 points to hit the lowest level many eight months. we saw the dow drop more than 1,000 points during opening minutes of trading before recovering throughout the course of the day. nancy is live in london. what are we expecting to see

jazz makesere the you cry, the funerals make you dance, and the bayou makes you believe all kinds of things. a place that has always brought together people of all races and religions in languages. and everybody has the -- adds the culture and the flavor into the city's gumbo. you reminder nation that for all our differences, we're all in the same boat. we all share a similar destiny. if we stay focused on that, purpose, if we remember our responsibility to ourselves, but also our responsibilities and obligations to one another, we will not just rebuild the city. we will rebuild this country. we will make sure not just these young men that every child in america has a structure and support and love and the kind of nurturing they need to succeed. we'll leave behind a city and a nation that's worthy of generations to come. that is what you have gotten started. now we have got to finish the job. thank you. god bless you. god bless america. [applause] john: that was president barack of newn the ninth ward orleans commemorating the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina, talking about the

. >> earnest tim commons never imagined ehe would end up here from the flood-ravaged bayou to the dessert. >> wow. get up and see camp william, not knowing where i was, what's going to happen. i didn't know where i was going from here. >> in the dead of night >> dimmons and at least 600 other evacuees were brought to this military installation 25 miles from salt lake city. in his hometown of new orleans, hurricane katrina, one of the worst flooding disasters in u.s. history had wreaked havoc. flood waters were rising, homes were submerged. officials had all but lost control of the situation. >> water was rushing so fast it covered the stove in a matter of seconds. container cars in the back of my mother's house, slamming. it was like, okay. the end of the world is here. the wind was blowing. it was whistling. >> before the storm, tim commons was listen of living with his mother. he said he planned to ride out the hurricane. he stocked up on food and water. >> i was comfortable, you know. i could survive for three or four months. i said my prayers prior to that. i said, whatever is going t

the bayou was lowered 1.6% against the dollar, even though the bank signaled that its evaluation on tuesdaywas a one-off mood. it is missed concerns that it is on a campaign to weaken the currency in the face of slowing growth. tuesday's evaluation was supposed to be a one-off, but now the central bank has to dispel fears of a prolonged fall in the currency. >> they are looking at hopefully strengthening exports through the rest of the year. weaker r&d is going to make chinese goods more competitive around the world. the problem they had previously is that the currency is peggedally painted to -- to the u.s. dollar so it puts a lot of pressure on chinese manufacturers. reporter: the devaluation follows a more than 8% slump in exports in july compared to a year earlier. it will make it harder for countries to sell their goods to china, which has been a key market for many, including german cars and french luxury goods. aocks in both countries took hit. many are worried that the latest moves by the central bank are an attempt to cushion the impact on a slowdown at home. rates haveese growth d

i felt i was down on the bayou when i left my house. >> it's funny you should mention that. usually we wake up in the burbs. the air is very thick and heavy. the system in place the last several days, we have a little more to get through. a better chance for showers and thunderstorms tomorrow. for today, still in the thick of it. there may be a couple of isolated showers or storms to worry about. that's about it. in the you haver 70s in the city. skies partly to mostly cloudy. the humidity stays high. florida-like certainly. pop-up shower. the bulk of the day for the bulk of the viewing area will be rain and heavy rain possible tomorrow, especially in the first half of the day. right now 76 in chelsea. 77 in city island. we're talking about suburbs. 75 in long branch, bridgewater and danbury, 74 this morning. not much in the way of a range across the area. most of the showers and thunderstorms, again, sitting off to the west of us. nothing progressing quickly from left to right or west to east. that's the problem here. whatever is going on weatherwise sticks around for a few

two bayous actually merged into the bayou of st. john.child growing up in the city, ira member the fight for dry land. there were open ditches in the city at that time and they were gradually filled in and covered up. and i can remember that i used to do a lot of walking on the levees at that time, and we talk -- we talking about the 50's in the 60's, and they gradually got higher and higher and higher, so you couldn't see the water anymore from the streets. and of course, walking on the talk of -- top of those levies, you are above the roof lines of all the houses. my question is this since that i basically was a north shore resident. is it not a fact that if you put lock systems over the london avenue canal in new orleans -- and the new orleans avenue canal and the 7th street canal, the water that, for instance, that is brought in on a hurricane surge, it has to go somewhere. the people's -- people in the communities of covington, mandel , all of those people are wondering where exactly that water goes. although they know in their heart

has been the gateway to america's soul, where the jazz make you cry, the funerals makesou dance, the bayouou believe all kinds of things -- [laughter] president obama: a place that has brought together all kinds of people of races and religions and languages and everybody adds their culture and flavor into the city gumbo. you remind our nation that for all of our differences, we are in the same boat, we all share a similar destiny. if we stay focused on that, and monpose, -- on that com purpose, and also responsibility and obligation to one another, we will not just rebuild this city, we will rebuild this country. we will make short not just these young men, but every child in america has a structure and support and love and the kind of nurturing that they need to succeed. we will leave behind a city and a nation that is worthy of generations to come. that is what you have got to start with. now we have got to finish the job. thank you. god bless you. god bless america. thank you. ♪ ♪ inouncer: president obama new orleans marking the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. more coverage com

. -- the canals, the bayous, and other waterways into this commercial area. >> as you look at the remains of some of the docs, you can see the area where homes once stood before the surge. narrator: somebody's home. you can see the second story is completely washed away. the house is gone. mark: somebody's car. a home that was washed away. another home washed away. somebody rebuilding on some stilts. how high up is this? 21.5 feet. mark: how much was the surge? >> 36. i've been here 50 years. i ain't ever seen nothing like it. they claim it was 30, but if you , there's ahe corner trailer they put up before the hurricane. it's a small trailer like a log cabin. stacy: there's about three of him that he put up before the hurricane that made it. it made it. mark: are you from st. bernard's? stacy: our house is gone. it was 16 feet off the ground and it's gone. doing? you i moved to mississippi. not coming back? i don't want to see this again. i lost way too much. i'm not taking a chance. howdon't start realizing much you lost until you start looking for it. mark: did you evacuate before the s

been the gateway to america's soul, where the jazz makes you cry, the funerals make you dance, the bayouakes you believe all kinds of things -- [laughter] president obama: a place that has brought together all kinds of people of races and religions and languages and everybody adds their culture and flavor into the city gumbo. you remind our nation that for all of our differences, we are in the same boat, we all share a similar destiny. if we stay focused on that, on that common purpose, and also responsibility and obligation to one another, we will not just rebuild this city, we will rebuild this country. we will make sure not just these young men, but every child in america has a structure and support and love and the kind of nurturing that they need to succeed. we will leave behind a city and a nation that is worthy of generations to come. that is what you have got to start with. now we have got to finish the job. thank you. god bless you. god bless america. thank you. [applause] ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content

with the premium support system to give people a certain amount of money, it really is of voucher bayou give them money to pay for a certain amount of health care if you want more than that then you have to pay for the additional on top of that. he hopes they will choose not to get quite as much health care that will bring down the cost but it is just if that is made by those at the top for the consumers at the bottom. i generally favor consumer directed health care because they can make individual choices. so to talk about rationing health care the reality is every system russians health care there is no such thing as a system that gives them all the health care they want you europe for the united states everybody rations. but the debate is who makes that decision? one example is if we have every american get the ct brain scan every year as the annual physical a good catch a few dozen early enough to save lives that we will not do that. no country will do that so how do make a decision? some countries ration to say you simply cannot have the ct scan some countries like canada say you c

the funerals make you dance. [ laughter ] >> the bayou makes you believe all kinds of things. [ laughter> a place that has always brought together people of all races and religions and languages, and everybody adds their culture and flavor into this city's gumbo. you remind our nation that for all of our differences, we're all in the same boat. we all share a similar destiny. if we stay focused on that common purpose, if we remember our responsibility to ourselves, but also our responsibilities and obligations to one another, we will not just rebuild this city, we will rebuild this country, we will make sure, not just these young men, but every child in america has a structure and support and love and the kind of nurturing that they need to succeed. we'll leave behind a city, and a nation that's worthy of generations to come. that's what you have gotten started. now we have got to finish the job. thank you, god bless you. god bless america. [ cheers and applause ] >> and there you have it the president of the united states in new orleans, the lower ninth ward speaking on the tenth annive

idea to raise taxes be you could get away with it that was a terrible idea to increase regulation bayou could get away with it because you didn't have much competition. not any more now there are dozens of countries around the world that are trying to copy the things that we did as twentieth century and the results of the world is globally competitive win now compete with people halfway around the world with the best ideas and talent and company the second change is technology. that has changed everything and certainly the way we live. 10 years ago if i said i would google you you would have been offended. [laughter] . . what we were calling the news ticker series, featuring prominent authors. i'd like to thank everyone connect it was listener who helped to organize this evenings event. the guest of honor is done primarily of course for her political goals as first lady, u.s. senator from new york in the 67th secretary of state. she's also just published her fifth book and has several previous best sailors to her name. so added to the list of credits after hillary rodham clinton should

and then you friday bayou bring normal. >> reporter: trump reigniting his grudge against megyn kelly,called her a bill bow and saying i liked the kelly file much better without megyn kelly. perhaps she could take another 11 dwa unscheduled vacation. fox news ceo calling on trump to apologize, saying donald trump surprise and unprovoked attack on megyn kelly during her show last night is as unacceptable as it is disturbing. a new poll in south carolina shows him drawing support from 30% of likely republican primary goers there. better c ben carson with 15% support. and for now, we a wait him here in iowa. >> we of course will look at that speech tonight when it happens. thank you so much, sarah. i want to talk all this over with s.e. cup and dan pfeiffer. s sar are sarah talked about the south carolina poll. trump beading graham by 26 points. but lindsey graham sort of teed off on donald trump to kate bolduan. listen to what he said. >> there is a dark side of politics that mr. trump is appealing to. dem going imglants, he's not the first guy do this and he won't be the last. and there

the bayou makes you believe all kinds of things. a place that has always brought together people of all rices and religions and languages and everyone adds their culture able flavor into the city's gumbo, you remind our nation that for all of our differences we're all in the same boat, we all share a similar destiny. if we stay focused on that common purpose. we remember the responsibility to ourselves, but also our responsibilities and obligations to one another. we will not just rebuild this city, we will rebuild this country. we will make sure not just these young men but every child in america has a structure and support and love and kind of nurturing that they need to succeed. we'll leave behind a city and a nation that's worthy of generations to come. you've got it started, now we have to finish the job. thank you, god bless you, god bless america. >> you've been listening to president obama mark the tenth anniversary of hurricane katrina, in a 36 minute address at the andrew p. sanchez community center in new orleans. he touc

where the jazz makes you cry, the funerals make you dance, the bayou makes you believe all kinds of things. why should over two hundred years of citi history matter to you? well, because it tells us something powerful about progress: that whether times are good or bad, innovators with great ideas will continue to drive the world forward. as log as they have someone to believe in them. for more than two centuries we've helped progress makers turn their ideas into reality. and the next great idea could be yours. >>> we're monitoring tropical storm erika and its effect on florida. governor rick scott has declared a state of emergency. the latest forecast from the national hurricane center has the storm hitting the gulf coast monday. the entire state of florida, along with parts of georgia and south carolina, could see heavy rain in the coming days. >> we're going to do everything we can. we have a great state for emergency preparedness. we've got a great national guard in our state. but all of our citizens have to be active. you've got to take care of yourself before we can help you. >> meant

that's true not only in new orleans but also across the southern parishes and bayou communities of louisianand the southern counties of mississippi, coastal counties there, too. >> also, mr. sinclair, when katrina happened, i heard people saying over and over again that this isn't a third-world country. this is the united states of america. so, how much of a role did the shame factor play in the changes that we have seen come about? >> well, it's certainly played a role for us. was watching news clips and feeds like everyone else. someone should do something. wh when i got to the region, new orleans three days later, i said oxfam should do something. we are a large, international humanitarian response agency. this is the first time we responded to any emergency here in the united states. it overwhelmed the capacity to respond, but the capacity was so lackadaisical that the government responded so femly it justified oxfam stepping in. >> on that note, as we look back 10 years later, are we sugar coating the fact with these celebrations it did take days for the government to mount any meaningf

john: do you believe that the bp oil spill is still having a negative effect on the buyers bayous and coastal environment of louisiana? if so, what is being done to counter any long-term effects of this bill -- of this spill? mayor landrieu: as i started the speech, i tried to remind everybody that the city of new orleans -- as of the time, we were a massive tourism destination, had suffered dramatically after the attacks of 9/11. the whole tourism economy went to nothing, and we were in a weakened state. we just got back up after three years of devastation. then katrina hit us and three weeks later, rita hit us, then ike, than gustav, than the national recession, then the bp oil spill. a lot of lives lost in the bp oil spill. an untold amount of more physical damage that was done, i would say that our relationship with bp has been somewhat strange since then. i think that there is residual damage from the storm. i do think the recently, bp and the state of louisiana, and most of the litigants, have now resolve their differences. i think that we are on the path to cleaning up and maki

our bayou st.john has been reconnected to the link that it feeds off of and so forth but we are still fundamentally in the bar it, keep it away and hope for the best. >> when the dutch came over and were shown around new orleans at the end of the day they said we have three questions. why do you hide the water? everyone wants to live around the water and you say the army is in charge of this? and what was the third, i don't remember. >> also the thing about living with water i am sure a lot of you have seen different plans because it's now really going across the country as well it should. it's one of those solutions for which there is no downside because you come up with recreational areas. new orleans is a perfect laboratory for this. we have canals. they are cemented. all you need to do is move the cement, dig them a little deeper, make a recreational area on either side of the canal and you have with the dutch have, but beautiful landscaped areas that wind up holding the water in a flooding kee

. -- the canals, the bayous, and other waterways into this commercial area. >> as you look at the remains of some of the docs, you can see the area where homes once stood before the surge. narrator: somebody's home. you can see the second story is completely washed away. the house is gone. mark: somebody's car. a home that was washed away. another home washed away. somebody rebuilding on some stilts. how high up is this? 21.5 feet. mark: how much was the surge? >> 36. i've been here 50 years. i ain't ever seen nothing like it. they claim it was 30, but if you , there's ahe corner trailer they put up before the hurricane. it's a small trailer like a log cabin. stacy: there's about three of him that he put up before the hurricane that made it. it made it. mark: are you from st. bernard's? stacy: our house is gone. it was 16 feet off the ground and it's gone. doing? you i moved to mississippi. not coming back? i don't want to see this again. i lost way too much. i'm not taking a chance. howdon't start realizing much you lost until you start looking for it. mark: did you evacuate before the s

where the jazz makes you cry, the funerals make you dance, the bayou makes you believe all kinds of things, a place that has always brought together people of all races and religions and languages, and everybody adds their culture and flavor into the city's gumbo. you remind our nation that for all of our differences, we're all in the same boat. we all share a similar destiny. if we stay focus odd that common purpose, if we remember our responsibility to ourselves, but also our responsibilities and obligations to one another, we will not just rebuild this city, we will rebuild this country. we will make sure that not just these young men, but every child in america has a structure and support and love, the concerned of nurturing that they need to succeed. we'll leave behind a city and a nation that's worthy of generations to come. that's what you've gotten starting. now we have to finish the job. thank you, god bless you and god bless america. >>>. . on the tenth anniversary of hurricane katrina, offering a upbeat optimistic assessment on what'sing going on and what's been accomplished in

with its spice, with its flavor, with what it represents, i always called it the bayweather on the bayouthis shows us the vulnerable under belly of our society. how many cities now have we seen these floodwaters of gentrification, people clinging to their community? and what have we learned? we have learned over and over again and you ask the u.n., they know it's true, what saves lives is community connection. knowing who your neighbors are. knowing their names. we think we can have places without people and that's just not going to see us through. >> i want to let james back in. we'll take a quick commercial break. thank you to tracie washington in new orleans. >> thank you. >> we miss you a lot. it's always -- we miss you. no one can replace you. >> we miss you guys, you know. there are other schools here. come back. >> tracie, not on air. not on air. now you cannot possibly talk about the aftermath of katrina without talking about what happened then and still happening today to the schools of new orleans and that story is next. here at humana, we value sticking with things. when somet

caused by approximately 30-foot high storm surge coming up from the gulf of mexico through the canals, bayous, waterways into this commercial and sports fishing area. after removing most of the large items in the water such as homes and vehicles, the coast guard and fema are now overseeing removal of other debris in the waterways around hopedale. >> that's a good shot. >> and as you look at remains of some of the docks there, on the other side of the canal you can see the area where homes once stood before the storm surge and winds of katrina came in. >> this was somebody's home. can see the second story of it completely washed away. boat up on some estimates. and this was the entranceway to the house. the house is gone. somebody's car. this is a home that was washed away. other home washed away. somebody rebuilding on some estimates. -- estimates. stilts. how high up is this? >> 21.5. >> 21.5 feet. >> 25-foot above sea level. across sea level right now. right here is 21.5 to the floor. >> and how much was the surge from katrina? wasn't it higher than that? >> so they say. i've been down here