don't go john henry traffic man, don't go across that street. the flood song poems were poems written in reaction to katrina. how can i enter that space of writing poems about that. i'm not from there and don't have family there. who benefits from that tragedy? who benefits from that disregard for humanity and the thought animals would benefit from that. this first poem is flood songs number 4 mosquitoes drinking didy. >> drink every hour next up this hour and every hour after. was born in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour on the hour and every hour after. in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour. there is enough to go around. drink every hour and every hour after. go to the river there is enough to go around. drink up the hours and every after burned down by the river -- drink air land is here for after survivors go around they are enough. [applause] >> flood song 8 stray dogs duet. >> the every i learned. food. for the good. love. your hand smiled with me. you wanted me to understand you with -- my tee

reporting live in alabama, john henry, abc news. >> this is subdivision in alabama where john is before the tornado. this is the same area afterwards. at least 2 90 people died in the tornadoes. 2 04 of them in alabama and when you see pictures like this you can understand why. there has been so much death. >>> in georgia. one couple was in the car when the tornado hit. the car spun around and lifted up into the air 15 seconds inside the twister. >> started tearing the doors off. car. >> my husband put his arm through the steering wheel and grabbed hold of me and i grabbed hold of the steering wheel and we just kind of held on to each other. >> things were flying around. it broke all of our windows out. >>reporter: can you imagine? the couple escaped through their shattered sun roof. they are shaken of course. but as you see, they are okay. thank goodness. >> the tornado destruction is causing a shortage of gasoline. in many parts there is no electricity. with no power. gas stations can not run. now those that is have generators have run out of gas. some people are siphoning gasoline fr

[applause] >> next is john palfrey, the henry professor of law, vice dean of library resources and facultyodirector of the berkman center for internet as a site at harvard law school. [applause] >> and finally our panel's moderator, david kaiser, president and ceo of the national constitution center he assumed leadership of the center for a five year tenure as ceo of the corporation for national and dignity service the federal agency overseeing americorps, visit, and other national service programs. and after seven years as a senior executive at aol time warner and america online. a.q. of very much for being here. david, the stage is yours. >> terrific. so, thank you all for joining us. before we get going i really would like to ask our panelists and our audience to thank alison young for putting all this together, along with hugh allen who was there taking pictures as well. thank you. [applause] >> and last night we got started, so nicely with our preview of the upcoming movie, series prohibition. and we got to meet with ken burns and lynn noveck who are putting that together. and put a l

not to run what was point out to me that the great who are in this room debating the henry clay, daniel webster, john c. calhoun indeed were not career politicians and was rotational but the time and they would run and go back home and do whatever they were doing and then they would come back a period of time and in fact henry clay served as a senator on four different occasions rotating through and going back home between 1806 and 1852. howard baker is the epitome of what it takes to leave the united states senate to set to senator baker we love you and thank you from the bottom of our hearts for that very early encouragement to take a doctor who yes was out there treating patients one-on-one everyday to run for the united states senate having never run for public office and never served for public office because if it were not for the simple inspiration and encouragement of somebody that has been at this podium and in this chamber we simply wouldn't be here today. the key treasury this special day, which it's not me it's not part it's not our family but the day itself which really represents the re

henry mentioned i am and add john that the 10 at -- at the kennedy school, and frequently i will get asked by my students, when you wrote this story in the weekly review, you did not lay out these three different schools or three different approaches. to which my answer is, you bet i do. i actually want people to turn the page. you have to be able to find a way to give them the substance of it without necessarily giving them the labels that go around it. what is true for the reader is, and for this i would make tom the exception to the rule in the days when he was in government and we would talk. what is true for the reader is by and large true for policymakers. i have asked the question of the national security adviser or the secretary of state. this decision that you just made, would you say it is a realist approach or whatever? you get a couple of different reaction. the first reaction is, we did not label it right. secondly, if i say that it does not fit any, and i stare blankly, sanger will think i am a big it and will go out and ride that. so i have to make up something. thirdl

i participated under former chairman john dingell, former chairman billy tozan, former chairman henry waxman and now current chairman fred upton. dozens of hearings on the clean air act. markups, amendments. dozens of hearings on climate change, global warming. and all of those issues. the bill before us, if the rule passes, does not change the clean air act. it does not gut the clean air act. it does not in any way prevent enforcement of the criteria pollutants that are regulated by the clean air act. it simply says that greenhouse gases are not to be regulated under the clean air act. and the reason that it says that is that greenhouse gases are different than the criteria pollutants that are regulated under the clean air act. first of all, greenhouse gas is by definition are necessary for life. as i stand here, madam speaker, and speak, i am creating as i breathe in and out through the respiratory process co-2, so under the dictates of today's e.p.a., i am a mobile source polluter because i am breathing, i am creating co-2. co-2, carbon dioxide, is necessary for life. greenhouse ga