after betsy, the u.s.corps of engineers redesigned and rebuilt the levees around new orleans into a system thought to be strong enough to hold up against the same strength storm, a category 3. >> we now expect katrina's hurricane force winds to reach the louisiana coastline as early as this evening in new orleans before sunrise. >> when hurricane katrina grew into a category 5 with a bull's eye on the city, then mayor ray nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation. >> this is very serious, and it's of the highest nature. >> those who could not get out, were told to go to the superdome. >> at noon today, the superdome will then be opened up as a refuge of last resort. >> this is the superdome, where tonight a crowd of 20,000 to 30,000 people expected. i was among the thousands inside the superdome as katrina hit. i was there when it tore a hole in the roof, and rain started pouring in. and it was there on a night i will never forget that i met albert bryant, sleeping on a cooler. how many people did you bring wit

it seems that betsy sparrow, columbia researcher and decembererist song lyric, recently published a report called "memory in the age of google." subjects in the study were asked to type facts into a computer such as an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. now, to determine... (laughter). how the internet affects our memory, half were told those facts were saved in the computer and the other half were told they would not be saved. the results were fascinating but i didn't commit them to memory because i knew i could always look them up on youtube. (laughter) jim? >> when people think they can look up stuff online over and over again that's continually accessible then they won't remember it as well. >> stephen: this makes sense. if something's online i don't bother remembering it. as i explained to my staff, i am constantly forgetting what naked women look like. (laughter) and nobody... (applause). and, folks, nobody remembers phone numbers anymore. if i want to call my nana, i just tap her name on my phone and all of her information is there n there? >> hello? stephen? >> stephen: see? i

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betsy cop lives next door to the school. she had copper wire stolen from her house back in april. >> i work for the school district. if they have to put out money to fix things, they may lay off teachers or we may not get books or the kids may not get after-school activities. >> att alco, they can't walk in with storm drains and leaving with cash. laws went into effect for recycler for buying stolen metals. >> we photo i.d. the material coming in. take driver's license, thumb prints and license plate numbers and keep it on record for two years. >> reporter: and we're told that there might be smaller recyclers who don't follow the rules and buy copper pipes like this from individuals but given a stolen storm drain one so hard to sell it remains a mystery as to why so many of them have been stolen. live in vallejo, monty francis, nbc bay area news. >> okay, thank you. >>> all this economic turmoil we talked about at the top of the program and how it's affecting us locally but the national impact. >> we have a picture of p our

gold as you mentioned earlier gold coins sell out at lisbon biggest betsy's twenty two percent game i remember we reported a few years ago that gold was selling out in germany so that the germans were they sensed this negative real rates coming and they were buying gold earlier then but now the portuguese are now buying it and the article points out that gold has advanced fifteen percent this year and treasuries by comparison every turn four point two percent so those are the two safe havens gould has returned fifteen percent treasuries four point two right now forgets over as up more than thirty percent this year it was up seventy percent last year and this negative real interest rate story again as relates to gold is very interesting because negative real interest rates people equate with the flesh and and they equate deflation with an environment that is poorer for gold but historically and negative real interest rates are quote unquote the flesh and is actually the best time to be buying gold and so gold is working in either of the deflation which is really another word for hyper

when we march in the studio rescue in new york is betsy sparrow lead researcher an assistant professor at columbia university's department of psychology at the i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and first we're going to start with your study here so google is making us remember things in a different way there are a lot of headlines out there said the google is making us does google is making us do you think this is necessarily a negative thing. we don't know yet. research but i have to show we're using google in the same way that we always use other external memory systems like other people so we've always allowed other people to be responsible for certain types of information and we're just the internet is just a much more pervasive and ubiquitous. poured all through other people and so we're allowing more memories to be stored externally from ourselves and we're getting really sophisticated at knowing where to find things so knowing what. was storing what seems to be the essential thing in today's age i mean if it's making us i don't know you know i don't know if peop

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. >> reporter: betsy lives next door to the school. she had copper pipes stolen from her house in april. >> we're really stretched as a society. >> reporter: we're told smaller recyclers don't follow the rules, but given na a stolen storm drain cover would be so sell, it remains a mystery as to why so many of them have been stolen here in vallejo. reporting in vallejo, monte francis. >>> he ran but he couldn't hide. police officers in connecticut have arrested a man wanted in california for child sex abuse. he's accused of sexually assaulted three young childrens from 2002 to 2011. he's originally from petaluma. officers were investigating him in an unrelated incident when they learned of the assaults. >>> a report of a woman shot in the ankle had san francisco swarming over the neighborhood this morning looking for that gunman. investigators say the woman was apparently shot and wounded in a robbery attempt on connecticut street. they say a nan man in his 50s w arrested but the exact circumstances of the crime are vague. there was a b

we've got betsy. she's from ohio. and she's got a question for you.n my early 50s, and my husband is 60. how can we stay sane and still keep a long-term perspective when there is so much uncertainty in our markets? >> i think everybody has that a question. >> that's a great, great, question, betsey. i think the key is to keep that long-term focus in your sights at all time. you know when you need this money. you know if it's ten years down the road or 20 or even 30, and that means you keep your short-term money in safer havens and other than that you just stop listening to all of the ups and downs that are happening every single day because they're going to drive you and everybody else a little bit crazy. you don't want to micromanage. we don't want to panic, because that's when we make really bad decisions. >> sometimes this is when you need someone else to step in and say, here, calm down. that's when you need a financial adviser, certified financial planner. this is your plan, you're going to stick to it. you can find great ones in your area. go to

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the challenge is that the next prez betsy says are in the start of. you must be free to leave. i challenge you to rely on individuals, open contributions. i challenge you to leave and institutional corruption. here i stand from day one, my rules. no pac money. one hundred dollars limit maximum. every nicholas closed. free to leave in this campaign for me will be about developing the six-point but i laid out. about how to turn this country around. that's what i do. i took a state with 12% unemployment, broke the lowest bond rating in america. we had seven upgrade. unemployment was cut in half and it was tough. i was not popular. no was my first answer. but we script the budget. we had campaign disclosure. louisiana stood on its feet. i was only the second republican governor. we've had 2 cents then. we have turned this around. it can be done in america. i need a million people to invest $100 in, and million families. all your gift is a free to the president who will build a team of republicans, independents, teapartiers and conservative democrats to cooperate in rebuilding ameri