the truth is three days after hurricane katrina and september of two thousand and five. covering a call from mexico. and they just spill is considered anything over one hundred thousand gallons. after the two thousand and five hurricane season the louisiana department of environmental quality estimated that at least nine million gallons of oil spilled across the state and in the car. spills have been considered business as usual in the easy for a long time. the father ship company. the model itself. it could. be shut. the gate. july twenty third there was a down taker that ran into a wayward barge. the taker pierced the barge basically cut it well was covering the river from thanks to think. this isn't an uncommon occurrence for us with the willing gas industry that we have. here's a predominant environmental factor. to secure rivers uses a drinking source for metropolitan new orleans and for points south of here so immediately we shut down those water intakes and started the process of bringing in drinking water for the residents of this area after a couple of days we f

millions around the world have heard hurricane katrina stories of death survival and rebirth . what has received far less attention is how the storm started station was intertwined with a handful of questionable decisions made in recent years across southern louisiana . in two thousand and five i was named director of the louisiana state university hurricane center. louisiana chose him to lead its investigation into the levee failures during hurricane katrina. didn't take me very long to realize that there was no one agency to blame and i was a call vention s. for shoddy shoddy engineering. but after i've published his official levee report his university contract was terminated. before we both live in. the mississippi river into its course before we cut up everything worthwhile and gas taxes and else we used to have very extensive cypress sponsors all the way along the coast. cities like new orleans used to have almost thirty miles more us wants to go you can knock the surge down and maybe as much as six feet within one mile of healthy cypress where. protecting the museum is c

louisiana chose him to lead its investigation into the levee failures during hurricane katrina.didn't take me very long to realize that there was one agency to blame and i was the corps of engineers for shoddy shoddy engineering. but after i've republished his official levee report his university contract was terminated. before. the levees along the mississippi river had schools before we cut out everything with oil and gas taxes and else we used to have very extensive cypress swamps all the way along the coast. cities like new orleans used to have almost thirty miles off a swamps ago you can knock the surge down and maybe as much as six feet within one mile of healthy cypress where. protecting the museum is coastline and its people in the future will require some difficult choices coastal erosion must face and they remain in cypress swamps and must be protected the mississippi river may have to be diverted again. we cannot say every single community we can build a wall of china across louisiana. i witnessed but that the levees the levees protecting. the coastline is quickly dis

you heard chad myers mention katrina.hen you mention water or flooding, spaengz after katrina, people in louisiana get jumpy. their nerves are on edge. >> yes, sir, and all the right reasons. they should be dealing with an abundance of caution. anyone south of morganza including bartton rouge, new orleans, and the surrounding counties that they're in a flood zone and they should be prepared to move in a moment's notice. you can go from a boiling to a blowout of a levee system. people need to stay aware and have their weather radios standing by because you may have to evacuate. you need to study that now and see if you're in the potential flood zone. >> dr. wendy walsh, what do you do? you don't know if it's going to hit. you know it's coming. you don't know how bad it's going to be. you heard the lady say this has the potential and probably is going to wipe out everything we have. >> this fear and anxiety can wear on someone because they don't know where it's coming, how much is coming, and how much it will destroy. what

vanden heuvel editor and publisher of the nation magazine katrina it's such an honor to have you back on the program thank you so much for joining us i ask you what's changed in the modern is that our enemy is dead do you think this means anything will change in terms of u.s. foreign policy well let us hope it will i mean i think this is a moment or so reflection on where this country has been in these last ten years enormous costs you refer to to learn wars forty six thousand soldiers wounded and maimed hundreds of thousands of pakistani of these iraqis and i think it's an important moment to consider where we go from here and in my view this isn't a moment of opportunity. to end the war in afghanistan to find an expeditious end to this war and begin to do the tough regional international diplomacy that is required and i think the president now has the political capital produce in this country is soft on defense soft on national security mean as corrupted or politics and i think he has an opportunity now to use the space and be courageous just speak to the country about how there is

have been worse if the spirits hadn't intervened. >> as it happens, katrina did not hit us over the head. it did turn to the east and it did downgrade from a category 5 to a -- i think it was a category 3 or lower when it hit, and it wasn't the hurricane that kicked our butts. you have to spend a little time taking care of your environment or you're going to get hurt. >> after katrina she spearheaded the drive to build this multimillion dollar health and healing community center to help those struggling to rebuild their lives both spiritually and physically. still, she says, there are people who say it's not a good idea to have a voodoo priestess involved in such a public project. >> but i always say to myself, you know, voodoo's ancestors endured slavery and captivity and they kept their beliefs alive. who am i to be upset over having to defend a practice, you know? who am i to say i can't handle this. >> it seems improbable that voodoo will ever be widely regarded as anything but scary and dark, and in sally ann's view misunderstood. for "religion and ethics newsweekly" i'm lucky

almost six years after katrina, and one year after the b.p.il spill, new orleans has a new mayor with a new plan on how to run the city. mitch landrieu says it's time to rebuild this place, not into what it was, but into what it can be. he brings his own brand of intensity to the big easy. and like many people who live there, landrieu is in the middle of a love affair with his troubled city, as we discovered when we caught up with him during mardi gras. ♪ ♪ new orleans is a rich gumbo of french, spanish and afro- caribbean culture that's been slow cooking for three centuries. tourism here is a $5 billion a year industry, and the biggest draw is mardi gras. ♪ ♪ beneath the mardi gras masks and the makeup, buried deep in the music, is an energy in new orleans like no place else in america, and mayor mitch landrieu moves to it with his own rhythm of leadership. i get the impression that you're having as much fun as the people are. >> mitch landrieu: i love mardi gras. i'm a street rat. i told you, i really, really enjoy it. >> pitts: yeah? >> lan

he headed up the effort after hurricane katrina. ron paul says he opposes flood insurance and fema's role in all of this. >> i have opposed flood insurance ever since i have been in congress for 30 years. i have a coastal district. i don't supportfema. i get more compliant aboutfema than support. because of government levies and because of the flood and no natural result in taking care of this flood, they have a decision to make. should they fled innocent farmers? this would not happen in a society that did not expect the government to solve all our problems. to expect the government and people who are not benefiting to pay for me to live on the beach, that is not morally correct and it is not in the constitution. host: how would you respond to those comments? guest: that is a pretty inflammatory comments. i would expect the rep would take that up with his colleagues in the senate. the idea about what fema does is the execution of relieving the suffering of the people. in his observation that there are people getting assistance from

i saw this firsthand, i went down to help out with katrina thing in september. it's weird. because you are dealing with people that lost everything and it's kind of hard to imagine that if you haven't done it yourself. basically, you know, she's looking at her curtains here, she probably hand-stitched those things. maybe they have been hanging there the last 5 or 6 years. everything in the house is wrecked, photos, keepsakes, it's a tough thing. and people deal with this kind of stress in different ways. we as disaster workers, we see it all the time. but we have a word we use, professional. we try to be professional around people that have suffered a loss like this because they don't want us to come -- you don't want to go into somebody's house and be joking and having a good time. it's unprofessional. when you are dealing with somebody who has a loss like this, just think of the word professional. that's what we try to do. this sort of body language here, she's trying to comfort here, do you think she's buying it? not with that body language. she's not really buying it. s

i mean, i grew up in galveston county so i've seen their hurricanes but we never had the kind of katrina, these alabama tornadoes, the damage just seems to be so much more and the ferocity seems to be so much more in the last 10 years than it was in the previous era. so with that, would research help? could it be done with computers? and where would you go from here in your -- >> if we could i would like to begin by suggesting that bob ryan be brought into this conversation because in his graduate work, he actually worked for one of the leading lights and modification -- >> oh, wonderful. >> let him tell that story. >> bernie vonigan had discovered the use of silver iodine and before him ben schafer had the first weather modifications of

cutting those safety nets for single mothers so conservatives just throwing women out of the party katrina pearson doesn't think so she represents the dallas tea party and is the national grassroots director of the tea party review the train is in washington d.c. today to hold a press conference and lies a little off the wrongs of the right focus and how the tea party is anti over its leading roles to women to shape the agenda trying to joins me now to talk more about the issue katrina welcome thank you for having me pleased to have you for your press release for your conference today said what the tea party movement is showing is the leading role women have in creating and promoting the tea party agenda yes tell me about well i think it's fascinating because i've spent so much time over the last two years traveling across the country and what i have learned is that the majority of the active tea partiers out there walking the precincts making the phone calls and educating their community. these have been women and women are highly undermined in the community these days then and so what we

you say that a couple days before katrina hit, the president, mayor nagin, and the governor, kathleen blanco of louisiana, were told, if this storm hits here, and it looks like it will, the water's coming into the city and the city's going under. and no one evacuated. >> well, not only did we brief everyone about the potential of either the levees topping, waters coming over the top where the levees breaching and falling apart, you don't have toly livn this country long to know if you pay any attention to geography that new orleans is a fish bowl. they have pumping systems all the time, even outside of hurricane season. >> i want to talk about some of the lessons. let me dump blame on everybody else. you really take a look at what the mistakes were and what you've learned from that. something i thought was soin sightful, you talked about how you had gone through preparedness scenarios right before this, but you hadn't taken into consideration about how people lead their lives. pets. folks don't want to leave their pets. some people in joplin, they've all got cars, they're used to driv

joining mess is katrina vanden hivele. and jonathan capeheart. >> katrina, let's start with you.s is a moment, cenk, first, for sober reflection in this country, now about the who gets credit, who won. it's about the staggering costs of these last ten years, 46,000 soldiers maimed and wounded, hundreds of thousands of civilians, pakistani, iraqi killed afghan, and the loss of our moorings as a nation. what made lead this country in a new national security direction is an awakening, okay, bin laden is dead and now we have no pretext for the mindless, senseless land wars that are not making us more secure. to step back, with bush, i mean, the exploitation of fear in this country did so much damage to our values, to our principles, to have this discussion about who won, who lost, who should take credit is almost an object senity. >> the problem here, jonathan, is that the republicans jump all over this stuff every single time. so if you don't oppose them, they come in and say, well, on 9/11, later we found out that bush set, it's just swatting flies, i don't want to deal with it, he

new orleans the area where katrina took place should never have been built up to the state that it was i mean people simply should not have been living there because it's a potential project and yet you're not going to find a politician someone go say hey let's pack up an entire. city that has years and years and years of history and go so how do we do see him as a world as a global society to be reaching this critical point where we need to take certain decisions otherwise who knows how the ecological situation's going to play out how do we get our political leaders our community leaders to a point where they're willing to look at the difficult fact that need to be taken but it's hard to katrina argument cuts both ways i mean the ninth ward. was protected by dates but it was poor people if the people of them or one were willing to invest in the dike system the way they should have a network work proposals on the table so invest the money in the dark system that would have the levee system that would have protected the oil and there was a huge scandal in the 1930's where the ruling pow

he's seen september 11th and hurricane katrina. >> it's mother nature. we don't control it. we just react to it and do the best we can with it. >> reporter: doug and his team of 80, many of whom are volunteer, spent most of the day scouring stores like this walmart for survivors. we were able to get inside and saw the scope of the damage for ourselves. this section of this massive chain store had its roof torn off as the twister made its way through. as you can see, also reducing its outer wall to mere pieces of rubble. inside right now, the search and rescue workers are making their way, aisle by aisle, on the off chance anyone is still trapped in here alive. when we met them, search and rescue worker erin and her dog pick had been on the job for roughly 20 hours. we're about 18 hours in. how much longer will your team be at it? >> we'll be at it until they tell us we don't need to be here any more and every single person is accounted for. >> reporter: across the street at the home depot, rescue workers did find eight people. seven were alive. one was killed by the storm. t

nice to identify louisiana create katrina and rita and post katrina and rita and now it's pretty spill and post gone like feel like life as we know it is changed forever. it's just unbelievably bad when they wanted to start burning the heavy portion of it we had don't insist that it only be burned when the winds were moving offshore. it was making an aerosol of the hydrocarbons it was moving on shore way ahead of the spill and making people very very sick given the headaches the tree branches burning eyes and just disrupting life all along the coastal areas. this is the last thing we need we've got a hurricane season approaching this is the tommy year when you know we've got a lot of birds creeping out on the baryons and in the way fans the fish will all be another marine lawyer starting to enter the by the news three most marine olden isms when they come into an oil slick the instincts don't tell them how to react because this is not a natural phenomenon of folding. it's just going to wipe out these coastal communities as we know it because they will not be a mechanism for them to ear

you see, we took in a number of the evacuees from katrina. we learned from them firsthand and also from gupta everything that happens down that way, we're one of the first cities, the folks in which they seek shelter. so we know that too often those of us in government assume everybody has a www-dot in their homes when in places like here we do have an unacceptably high level of poverty. folks don't have access to that. the bottom line to answer your question is, yes, we have learned firsthandedly that you have to use the old-fashioned way of getting to folks and getting them out of harm's way. we're doing that 24/7. >> brown: what areas are being affected now? i gather that the biggest problem isn't right on the mississippi river front but on all these tributaries in and around the cities where all the water is backed up. what areas are being hit and how populated are they? >> i'm glad you mentioned that. everybody is focusing on the mighty mississippi, and that's fine. but what we have in memphis, we have a flooding from west to east. ordin

six years after katrina, many gulf coast residents are still living in fema trailers.ble trailers have an alabama town in an uproar. april 27th they lost most of their buildings including city hall. while many residents are still camped out in tents, the mayor has placed a ban on single wide mobile homes, saying he doesn't want to see run down trailers a few years down the road. angry residents are now circulating a petition to remove that mayor from office. >>> stress does not lead to multiple sclerosis, that finding contradicts past research. after accounting for age, ethnicity and smoking, researchers found stress did not increase the risk for multiple sker los is in side members, even those who reported severe abuse. experts say this new finding allows them to look at other factors that may play a role in the development of ms. >>> while the american academy of pediatrics has taken a firm stand against energy drinks for kids. the doctors group even has something to say about sports drinks like gatorade. are they really necessary for young athletes? nbc's erica edwa

. >> i was on oklahoma city, 9/11 and katrina. this is as bad as katrina without the water. it's a mess down there. i have never seen anything like it. it's bad. >> but in the middle of the devastation a hopeful sight. a hair salon that was destroyed is already being rebuilt. owners say the foundation is stable and they hope to inspire others to start rebuilding. >>> all right. in another unexpected tale of survival in alabama, mason is a terrier mix missing for three weeks after a twister destroyed tuscaloosa. the family gave up hope until they found the dog on what was left of their front porch this week. he had two broken legs, but he was still wagging his tail. >> he is doing great happy to see people. he wants to play. he is eating, drinking, doing wonderful. >> mason went through three plus hours of surgery. got a little rehab ahead of him but he should be just fine. >> did you see how happy he was? >> you know, dogs don't know better. he just wanted to get home and see the family. >> exactly. >>> coming up, the battle of two silicon valley giants what google is accuse

as water levels rise, there are renewed fears for the region still recovering from hurricane katrina. first up, a look at the response to the current crisis with actor and activist harry shearer. he is out with a documentary about the role of the army corps of engineers, "the big uneasy." also, suze orman is here with a book called "the money class." >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i'm james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, nationwide insurance is happy to help tavis improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] pippe tavis: we are pleased to have harry shearer back on the program. the actor, host, and activist is out with a documentary about the government's role with hurricane katrina call

. >> oklahoma city 9/11 and katrina and this is as bad as katrina without the water much it is a mess down there. i have never seen anything like it. it is bad. >> as many as 600 volunteers and 50 dog teams are still searching that city for survivors. >>> tonight we are learning new details about exactly what happened minutes before an air france flight crashed off the coast of brazil killing everyone on board. the mistake that the crew made right before the disaster. >> reporter: the plane's black box revealed that the pilot didn't know whether to speed up or slow down. at 11:00 10 p.m. the air bus a330 was heading into a powerful storm 700 miles off the coast of brazil when the auto pilot disengaged and the plane began to roll to the right. the cockpit displays showed inconsistent speed readings a sign that the external speed sensors were malfunctioning or perhaps had iced over. "i have the controls" called one of the plane's two co- pilots. a stall warning went off and i climbed briefly before pointing the nose down to pick up some speed. then he leveled out and began to climb a bi

here are some photos about katrina and animals. >> i was sent to cover the hurricane initially, and a few weeks after the fact i started a story on the animals. in miami, during hurricane andrew, i had done a story about shelters who would not allow people to bring their pets. it was basically losing a child for people who love their animals so much. the same thing happened in katrina, only on a much grander scale. we did a small story in "the post" and i took a leave of absence to do a larger project on this issue. i was hoping to do a book, although that did not come about. it was about six months where people from all over the country donated their time to try to come down and find people's pets. it was quite emotional, like most of our stories. if i show a slide show to photographers, this is the one they cry about, inevitably, always. i guess because they are so innocent and so lost. >> how many pets do you have? >> i have three dogs, three cats, and a cockatoo. >> what is that picture? >> those are paw prints left in the muck

this is widely expected to be the most expensive flood damage since hurricane katrina, with a cost ashigh as $4 billion. the heritage foundation's david john says the price tag is another example of how federal flood insurance is not priced to reflect the true risk of a loss. >> this program has a monster deficit from hurricane katrina, and it has virtually no chance of repaying that deficit and now it is going to suffer still larger losses-- another quarter, perhaps, as large-- and this is just going to put it further under. >> reporter: the floods come as congress considers yet another round of reforms. the house make take up legislation as soon as next week to raise flood insurance premiums to better reflect the risk of flood damage. the bill would also increase deductibles on some properties. policy limits would also increase to match inflation. national association of realtors economist paul bishop says the changes should make flood insurance more sustainable. >> from one particular year to the next, depending on the types of flooding events and the severity of those, there could

paula brings us up today's timeout to take a look what's happening in the world of business with katrina. thanks marina hello and welcome to you all to the business program for this hour it's deadline day for the share swap and arctic exploration deal between b.p. and rosneft and a bridge to bid to salvage the block venture the two oil majors have been holding eleven pounds when they are babies current partners in russia. dimitri medvedev here has the details. there are reports that the sides were engaged in last minute negotiations sunday evening an attempt to salvage this multi-billion dollar deal which expires monday night but speculation has to be he might need more time to sweetness over to t. and k b p t a k b p is a russian british joint venture all of them by b.p. offered by alford says renault have a group of russian businessmen and this shareholder agreement actually stipulates that to be should be the primary vehicle for all babies operations in russia and ukraine and business why the deal of between b.p. and was there to explore the odds of shell violates this agreement that

i talk about hurricane katrina and there are hurricane katrinas that happen in our individual lives everyday, tsunamis come into our lives every day. there are moments you don't think you'll make it to the next day. you've had heart issues and surgeries we've known about and there were times you didn't think you would be around but here you are. >> you continue to use this strong belief even though, don't you ever say, if he's omnipotent, why would he allow the tsunami? tavis: that's always a great debate to engage in, why does god allow this or that to happen. >> you don't have an answer, do you? >> i. tavis: i have a great answer but an honest answer. people only ask why would god allow x, y or z to happen when x, y or z happens. when something good happens, a., b, or c, they never ask, why did that car miss me in the intersection, when i got that raise on the job, why did i get a raise? nobody asks god, why did you allow it to happen when it's good, but when something bad happens, how did god, if he's omnipotent and all-knowing, how could god allow this to happen to me. >> you think th

well brings us up to date and time now to take a look what's happening in the world of business katrina is here with us. hello and welcome to the business for this hour the share swap and i think exploration deal between b.p. and rosneft is looking more likely to go ahead b.p. and rosneft have been holding the eleventh hour negotiations with a are b.p.'s current partners in russia they are strongly objected to the tie up between b.p. and rosneft saying it breaks its shareholder agreement with a british oil major but on saturday russian energy minister sergei schumacher said that he believed the problem a compromise sorry could be found sources close to the top suggest b.p. and rosneft will buy out a hour for at least thirty billion dollars although other solutions are also being considered the deadline for a share swap agreement expires on monday night. the recent turmoil in the middle east has forced many energy companies working in the region to rethink their strategies that are a as a president of the national russian national gas society believes however that russian companies have

. >> i was at oklahoma city, 9/11 and katrina. as this is as bad as katrina without the water. it's a mess down there. i have never seen anything like it. it's bad. >> adding to the frustration, families with missing loved ones are not allowed to go to the temporary morgue to try and identify the bodies. they have to submit dna samples or dental records and then wait for a match. >>> but there is this amazing tale of endurance and survival. this is mason a little terrier mix missing for three weeks after a tornado destroyed his owner's home in alabama. the family had just about given up hope that he was alive until they saw what was waiting for them out on the their front porch one day, mason. clearly injured, but alive. >> so he had to crawl on two broken legs to get home. >> for an animal just to show up on someone's porch after all this time is remarkable especially in the condition that he is in. >> he is wagging his tail now. mason went through three hours of surgery and the vet says he is doing great. all things considered. >>> thousands of owners and operators of private

so this is also a test of the post katrina fema. the folks who came to fame for all the wrong reasons after katrina, bosching the response to that. but it isn't the kind of disaster where we are going to have ice trucks driving across the country to get here. obviously most of the state of alabama is up and running and functioning and thriving. western alabama and parts of six other states, however, are dealing with just an earth-shaking tragedy. again, the worst outbreak of tornadoes since the era of the great depression in the united states. >> what is the likelihood of another wave of tornadoes coming? traditionally may is worse than april. we just said an all-time put it in the record books record for the month of april. and it all depends on and i'm not a meet loll gist and sometimes i wish i was. the steering currents, the jet stream as it passes over the united states. the temperature of the pacific this time of year. the temperature trend in the pas civic ocean. est coast storms, if depends on a lot but when you get that awf

>> schieffer: today, on "face the nation," it is the worst disaster since katrina. the death toll from the tornadoes that roared across the south is nearing 350 people. we'll talk to the alabama governor, robert bentley. new reports from libya that nato air strikes may have killed moammar qaddafi's son and three of his grandchildren. we'll bring in senator john mccain of the armed services committee for the latest on that. and presidential politics-- is "the donald" trying to play the race card, and is the president trying to make trump the face of the republican party? >> no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the donald. ( laughter ) and that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter like, did we fake the moon landing? ( laughter ) >> schieffer: it's all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. the more we know about these