we held hearings in new orleans and in biloxi. katrina was not partisan. we lost a senator, a republican senator's home, a democratic member of the house. and the thing that i think has to eventually be addressed is this whole issue of wind. jean taylor, congressman gene taylor only had his steps remaining on the lot where he lived. and i guess the question is, how do you determine whether the house was washed away by the floods or whether the house was blown away by the wind? and it seems to me that what was broken was that it provided a lot of insurance companies with a way out. they just declared, you know, you don't have wind insurance and your house is not here because of the flood. it seems to me that that's something that has to be repaired, you know, as secondarily to the repair of the levees. >> in 99% of the times, the two adjusters that are assigned to assess the damage will be able to determine the difference between wind and water. it is very rare when the professional adjustors in the field cannot make that determination. adding wind to a pol

she said she was from biloxi. she didn't even have custody of the kids she said she had. and she never went to the hospital. she was never in the hospital. in fact she was wanted for bank -- for check kiting and check fraud. and she was arrested shortly after the "times" piece ran and short he after that the "times" standard editor issued a memo to reporters saying we'll have no more single source stories. the reporter took her at her word and never check any of the public records available to check. we have the awful story of the duke rape case, which stewart teller, journalist of national review, wrote a wonderful book about. which he called it a fable of evil rich men running amok and abusing black women. it was too delicious. he said they should take -- the "times" should take out a billboard in times square and apologize, but they never did and never an editorial note to readers or anything acknowledging just how bad the "times" reporting had been, how much it slandered the lacrosse players in question, and how much it needed to take can't for what it had done. i loo

host: wayne is a republican in biloxi, mississippi. good morning. caller: good morning.ll this information that comes from the mass media is brainwashing. i think his speech was weak. he does not write his own speeches. somebody else does that for these puppet presidents. we should not be in the war abrogating -- aggravating other people. host: what did you think was weak? caller: just what i said. like i said, he does not read the speeches. i do not think throwing bombs at somebody is humanitarian, anyway. i think that is a weak statement. thank you for letting me speak. host: what was your mind said going into the speech last night? did you think the president was coming across as weak even before the speech? caller: i think the president is weak. host: your mind was said before the speech. caller: i already knew what he was going to say. it was basically somebody else's idea for him to say to the american public because this mass media is brainwashing at its finest. it's the agenda to push the world tentacles together. host: do you agree with senator john mccain that

biloxi, mississippi. republican line. voting today on two senate bills. live coverage on c-span2. getting under way at noon eastern and 9:00 on the west coast. john, good morning. caller: good morning, steve. how're you doing this morning? host: how you? caller: pretty good. if the federal reserve, if they would freeze the interest they are charging the united states government to borrow money from the federal reserve -- which is a private organization moaning us money -- if they would freeze the interest on this for a good year, instead of cutting everything they are talking about cutting, they would solve this deficit problem. but the problem with all of this cutting they are trying to do, as long as they are charging as interest on every dollar they print, it is not going to help us any. one of your callers, the black fellow, he is still playing the race card. this is an all american problem. not just black people. everybody is out of work. gas prices are high. anyway, that is all i had to say, steve. host: thank you for your call. from our twitter page -- erskine bowles, the c

coast about five and a half years ago with a 30-foot wave coming on shore right into gulfport and biloxi, mississippi, and then a catastrophe of man made proportions, in our case when the federal levy -- levee system broke and 1,800 people lost their lives. but this situation in japan as we now know is the worst crisis, according to their prime minister, since the second world war. it's going to take all of our best efforts, governments around the world, individuals, corporations and businesses to be generous. i know and i hope the people of louisiana and our skis and communities will be generous because we were so benefited by the warm generosity of the people of japan and many, many volunteers that came from all over the country and the world. i hope that as this week of just search and rescue comes to a close, that then there will be time for debris cleanup and rebuilding and mental health counseling and all the things that have to go into helping an area of the country survive and grow back, and i know the people of japan were as prepared as any country could be for a situation like

coast about five and a half years ago with a 30-foot wave coming on shore right into gulfport and biloxi, mississippi, and then a catastrophe of man made proportions, in our case when the federal levy -- levee system broke and 1,800 people lost their lives. but this situation in japan as we now know is the worst crisis, according to their prime minister, since the second world war. it's going to take all of our best efforts, governments around the world, individuals, corporations and businesses to be generous. i know and i hope the people of louisiana and our skis and communities will be generous because we were so benefited by the warm generosity of the people of japan and many, many volunteers that came from all over the country and the world. i hope that as this week of just search and rescue comes to a close, that then there will be time for debris cleanup and rebuilding and mental health counseling and all the things that have to go into helping an area of the country survive and grow back, and i know the people of japan were as prepared as any country could be for a situation like