it is not what happened at ben franklin. it is not what happened at xavier. it is not what happened in new orleans and along the gulf coast. [applause] instead, the city has become a symbol of resilience and the community and of the responsibility that we have to one another. we see that here at the xavier. less than a month after the storm struck, of midst debris and flood damaged buildings, the university president promised that the school would reopen in a matter of months. [applause] some said he was crazy. some said it could not happen. [applause] but they did not count on what happens when one force of nature me to another. [laughter] by january, four months later, class was in session. less than a year after the storm, i had the privilege of delivering the commencement address to the largest graduating class in xavier's history. [applause] that is a symbol of what new orleans is all about. we see new orleans and the efforts of joslyn heights who is here today. katrina left her house 14 feet underwater. but after volunteers helped her rebuild, she joine

. >>> also, lightning can be really dangerous for pilots, golfers, but hundreds of years after ben franklin flew his kite, this power of nature still mysterious, so this morning we're talking about scientists, lightning chasers, trying to understand the electrical phenomenon. >> mary will tell us more about that. >>> we begin with another serious ethics charge against another democratic member of congress. representative maxine waters will now face an ethics trial this fall, this after a week where charlie rangel's ethics investigation made headlines. these two may have repercussions across the country on election day and david kerley is in washington this morning with the story. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. already saddled with high unemployment and anemic economic growth, this is something they hoped to avoid. >> i can't hear you. >> reporter: two of their members facing ethics charges of the first it was new york's charlie rangel. first it was charlie rangel. now word that another democratic member, maxine waters may have an ethics trial in the house. >> it wil

plato channeling sack ra tease, seneca, gutenberg, shakespeare, ben franklin, henry david thoreau and marshal mcloon. each according to powers offering a particular lesson for our own time. take seneca, a philosopher and statesman, a thinker who had a small side job of helping to run the roman empire and its bureaucracy. >> they were inundated with documents, with mail. people were constantly checking if the mail boat had arrived from egypt and so forth. he realized he was running in so many directions he had to learn to focus better and discipline himself and find a place apart for the mind. so there's a wonderful passage in one of his letters where he talks about how even in a noisy room in the middle of hectic realm he could figure out a way to make his mind a quiet place where he could focus on one task. >> brown: a multi-tasker. >> he was really a multi-tasker. his friends were. he talks about his friends suffering from the restless energy of the hunted mind. and that it went with them everywhere they traveled even on vacation. >> brown: that will sound a little familiar. >> exac

she was a junior at ben franklin high school five years ago when the storm came. and after katrina, ben franklin high school was terribly damaged by wind and water. millions of dollars were needed to rebuild the school. many feared it would take years to reopen, if it could be reopened at all. but something remarkable happened. parents, teachers, students, got to work making repairs. donations came in from across new orleans and all around the world. soon, those darkened corridors were bright and and filled with the sounds of young men and women, including jade, who were going back to class. and then jade submitted to xavier, a university there refused to succumb to despair. so jade, like so many students thise scene of, for city -- at university, embody hope in difficult times. that is what i came to talk about today. it has been five years since katrina ravaged the gulf coast. there is no need to dwell on what you experience and what the world witnessed. we all remember keenly. water pouring through broken levees, mothers holding their children above the waterli