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i felt -- i feel like we are like katrina.we knew the levees were not strong enough in at new orleans. we knew that the levies needed to be reinforced. in northern california, we know that, say, along the hayward fault that if it were to happen today at the level of retrofits that have been done, we will lose about 15,000 lives. in oakland, i will lose one- third of all my rental housing. there are soft story housing and other projects. for may, is to try to get monies freed up for a revolving lending pool so we can retrofit housing stock and buildings, because it only costs, on a single-family home, less than $10,000 to retrofit a home. even with the real estate crisis, you say then a quarter million dollar home on the east bay with about $10,000 worth of work. the fact that we're not mobilizing along both sides of the bay, particularly where we have stopped -- soft story buildings and multi-story units for some of the poor people and some of the high-rises for richer people is, to me, sort of waiting for another katrina to h

post- -- fema post-katrina. fema was in pretty good shape in the 1990's and was much improved under his rule. it was then gutted. bush's philosophy was that it only needed to beat a checkbook to hand over to the governor. pre-planning is crucial. the structure is correct. the locals respond first. when they exceed their capacity, the state steps in. when they exceed their capacity, the government's federally steps in. i think the structure is right. the key is to implement it and appointing people to positions that are competent and take the job seriously and know how to plan as much as respond. they are both crucial. that is something that needs to be ongoing. guest: that is a very key point he makes. we get the best system in place, but if we do not train, exercise, and have qualified people serving in those positions it can be difficult to provide a good response to people. that is by working with the federal government, we have really put the focus on making sure that we have trained national guard officers

post- -- fema post-katrina.ema was in pretty good shape in the 1990's and was much improved under his rule. it was then gutted. bush's philosophy was that it only needed to beat a checkbook to hand over to the governor. pre-planning is crucial. the structure is correct. the locals respond first. when they exceed their capacity, the state steps in. when they exceed their capacity, the government's federally steps in. i think the structure is right. the key is to implement it and appointing people to positions that are competent and take the job seriously and know how to plan as much as respond. they are both crucial. that is something that needs to be ongoing. guest: that is a very key point he makes. we get the best system in place, but if we do not train, exercise, and have qualified people serving in those positions it can be difficult to provide a good response to people. that is by working with the federal government, we have really put the focus on making sure that we have trained national guard officers to

in the days following katrina, 6,000 inmates were trapped in orleans parish prison.> in the days following katrina, 6,000 inmates were trapped in orleans parish prison. wilford martin was one of them. >> when the levees broke is when we noticed that whole businesses outside of the very prison were under water. no sergeants were around, no guards. we don't know where they were at. we were just stuck on the fourth floor. that's when we realized that we were stuck here. it seemed like life or death. >> five days after the levees broke, they were finally rescued by warden cain and his tactical team. >> we came the first night to get the first 950 prisoners, but the water was coming up. we barely got through all of this, all of this water. and we got down here to this underpass and right here was a man laying dead. we put the scaffold right here and it went down from this side. you can see the rope's still there and we would lower it, inmates would climb down that scaffold and we would line them up on this road, about 6,000. probably the largest mass movement, obviously,

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

let's bring in katrina vanden heuvel, editor and publisher of "the nation" magazine.atrina, great to have you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> i tell you what, have we seen the president this strong? i mean, he was strong today and this is a formula for success. what do you make of the -- >> you've got a congress which has achieved -- republican congress -- which has achieved the remarkable fete of making itself less popular than the bankers and wall street. the president is out there talking in feistier ways. he's got his mojo on. america can't wait. it reminds a little of, yes, we can, and i think he needs to stay on this message and me he needs to expose a do-nothing congress, especially around what you just showed, this jobs bill. i mean, ronald reagan was for an infrastructure bill, taxpayer-funded infrastructure bill. i think, you know, the vast majority of americans want jobs and want relief. >> why are his poll numbers going up? >> because he's speaking, he's using his executive power and, listen, there's always concern about overuse, abuse of executive power

yes, i was, in fact, during katrina i knew that a big hurricane was coming. i was really tired. i had been secretary of state for nine, ten months. i went to new york for a vacation. i was going to take in a show, go to the u.s. open. maybe do some shoe shopping which i'm known to do. as the hurricane unfolded i did what i thought the secretary of state needed to do. i made provisions for our passport office in new orleans. i made sure we had a way to receive the contributions that were coming around... coming in from around the world. but then that morning on thursday morning when i woke up, there i was in new york and i thought, how could you have been so stupid? to have not realized that you are not just the secretary of state. you're one of the president's closest add advisors. this is a national tragedy. most importantly you are the highest ranking african-american in the administration and katrina has a tragically black face. what are you doing in new york? and i got a plane back to washington that afternoon. >> schieffer: what did you do? you actual uwe went down there, d

it was a horror. >> before katrina, our schools, i mean they were just failing. >> the choice was dorebuild what was there or build something entirely new. >> louisiana built something new. they made it easy for people to open charters. >> you tell the state here is my plan. >> ben started a charter school called sci academy. he was the only employee. he drove his car around new orleans until 3:00 in the morning putting up signs advertising his school. >> and you see this number right here, that was my cell phone. >> he had to advertise because students had to choose to go there. they didn't just get sent here because they live nearby. >> we are putting these up everywhere. >> he went to people's houses to recruit. >> living in new orleans we never had that. >> her son reggie goes to sci academy. >> he came out and interviewed and talked to me and then talked to reggie and was explaining to him about the hours and academics and stuff. >> when the school opened only a of the students were pressurent on state tests. now, sci academy test results are among the best in the city even thou

it was a horror. >> before katrina, our schools, i mean they were just failing. >> the choice was do build something entirely new. >> louisiana built something new. they made it easy for people to open charters. >> you tell the state here is my plan. >> ben started a charter school called sci academy. he was the only employee. he drove his car around new orleans until 3:00 in the morning putting up signs advertising his school. >> and you see this number right here, that was my cell phone. >> he had to advertise because students had to choose to go there. they didn't just get sent here because they live nearby. >> we are putting these up everywhere. >> he went to people's houses to recruit. >> living in new orleans we never had that. >> her son reggie goes to sci academy. >> he came out and interviewed and talked to me and then talked to reggie and was explaining to him about the hours and academics and stuff. >> when the school opened only a of the students were pressurent on state tests. now, sci academy test results are among the best in the city even though the school itself is j

. >>> well, family and friends salute the newly crowned dancing champion, jay martinez and katrina walked away with the trophy. joyce has the highlights from the dancing with the star highlights. >> now that dancing is done i will go to professional lifting. >> after ten weeks of grueling competition, jr martinez and his partner, katrina, walk away from the dancing with the stars 13th season. >> first and foremost we should thank america every week for voting for us and believing in us as a team and second, the thanks to you. >> and his partner is besides herself. >> i want to thank my parents. >> bob kardashian and carol were in third and ricky lake in 3rd. >> i never thought i would get a a perfect score in the finals and it is awesome. >> this competition is about the journey and i have had such an amazing journey with rob. >> jr was so deserving and rob was incredible every week improving to be among these people and come out 3rd, i am grateful. >> she was perfect in the performance and sealing the season with a kiss. >> and the ballroom champion had another partner, his mother. 8-and

the last thing that hurt a great deal was katrina. it embarrassed the bush administration. and they turned to the black caucus, you take the responsibility of us and they appropriate billions of dollars and gave us an opportunity to come up with a program. that was my last year there. i was a lame duck. but we didn't come up with a program, you know. as a lame duck i guess i was sort of ignored as being a nerd going out. i put on the table a program which would have kept creating jobs in louisiana, kept the population there and been able to save what we've lost, you know. louisiana's loss is the black power base. the black population is never coming back and they're never going to have that power again. and it's loss and we had in our grasp the power to come up with a program and they didn't. in the end the task force came up with a statement that president bush had come up with a plan to end poverty in 10 years and use louisiana -- new orleans and katrina as an example, a model, and so forth. bush, they handed it to the fox. they handed the hen house to the fox. >> let me

water. >> >> mother nature is in charge and now mother nature has dealt one horrific blow. >> when katrina just destroy much of the city is also destroyed the coschool system. some school reformers thought maybe that's what needed to happen. >> one of the worst school districts in the country. it was a horror. >> i mean it was failed. >> you rebuild what was there you build something new. >> louisiana built something new. they made it easy tore people to open charters. >> here's my plan. >> ben started a school called sigh academy. >> we have complete control over the quality of our instruction. >> when he started his school he was the only employee he drove his car around new orleans until 3 in the morning putting up sooins advertising schools. >> you see this number right here that was my cell phone. >> he had to add ties because students to had choose to go there. they didn't just get sent here because they live nearby. >> we are putting these up every where. >> he went to people's houses to recruit. >> living in new orleans we never had that. >>> her song reggie goes to sigh academy. >

. >> i think we all learned a valuable lesson after katrina. i know we did in our county. from then on, we have had a disaster preparedness and day every year. we draw in dozens of people on that day. we talked to people about, you know, i will use san bruno as an example, we had all the resources you could want or need that evening, but there's no major -- no other major incident happening. if we have a major earthquake, that will not be the only thing happening. we face of a two hours, but we are actually pushing people to be self-sufficient for even a week. they need to have supplies in their house. the other thing we learned from san bruno and what we have been teaching people is when the disaster happened, people needed to call relatives outside of the area. they also realize that -- maybe they did or maybe they did not listen, but they had to have all their papers in some place other than their home should there be a disaster. and a lot of people struggled after the fire because they have lost everything, including their insurance papers and all their other important

katrina its new book is just come out it's titled the change i believe in. thank you for progress in the age of about between i thank you very much for joining our team thank you and so for having me on your interest to barack obama's candidacy you supported him his celebrated his victory in two thousand and eight know that his presidential term is coming to an end do you feel disillusioned my view as editor of the nation which endorsed president obama was that we needed to understand that one man one woman even a president cannot change the political system in one to three years that our system is so complicated and corrupted by money by establishment power that it takes movements from below allied with politicians of conviction inside i think president obama has been a reform president in many ways he has passed two major pieces of legislation one on health care financial reform. but they have been diluted by lobbyists by money did he change the culture of washington not really he tried but one has to understand that the republican party are second nature

those are barrier protection against storms that cause enormous property damage like katrina and alsoat provide about 15 to 20% of the oil and gas for this country. so what we are seeing is massive erosion that has real impact for the whole country. >> when we look at some of the good news that is happening because on monday fema announced an additional $390 million in aid. is money the greatest obstacle in getting the region back on sound environmental footing? >> that is only part of it. very early on, the governor of louisiana cut a deal that meant we didn't get nearly as many of the revenues of the oil and gas production. part of what has happened is in the absence of that money is we need to go and fill in with land, with gravel in some cases. many of the canals that were cut because they are providing more opportunities for erosion. these oil and gas companies and now some of the federal money needs to go to actively addressing the coastal erosion which has the impact on the whole country's wedlands. >> thanks as always for joining us. a reminder to viewers, you can read her tho

being in the middle of hurricane season reminds us of the challenges that community faced after katrina'sastation six years ago. but that city's small business community has rebounded, and is booming. ♪ >> six years after the devastation from hurricane katrina, new orleans is experiencing a renaissance, and small business owners are leading the way. >> new orleans is becoming this national laboratory of the next generation of entrepreneur leaders. >> it's created sort of an, you know, interesting synergy, if not an alchemy of committed natives, as well as these very enterprising, idealistic newcomers. >> those who stayed in new orleans like matt wisdom and ken were considered pioneers. >> we felt like the wild west and it made us feel like we were pioneers rebuilding something from the ground up. >> when everyone else was fleeing the city and businesses were closing left and right, and the news was piling on about who's leaving town next, i said you know, i'm going to do something right. >> and today, while other cities are struggling to stay afloat during this tough economy, new orleans

the task force came up with a statement president bush had a plan to end poverty in 10 years to use katrina as an example a and a model. giving that 10 house to the fox. >> talking about republicans during your time with of the congressional black caucus the audience would be interested to know is there black republicans in what was the relationship? >> i believe there were six black republicans elected over the course of history. >> only one of while i was there. committed to represent i forget his last name but his name was gary. he did not last long and was defeated but several others. >> but the congress manor watts decided not to join? >> guest: i and a stand they have one now. said in a gang of the senator broke from massachusetts in republican he drops by once a month or so. >> you had a couple of white congress man who wanted to join a the carcass. >> they did as the population shifted, there was a cry that it but in the situation is such they are not encouraged but at one blige we had a way to identify with those and the progressive caucus came on strong then there was no demand an

katrina, your view? i'm absolutely fascinated with this race.ces where some progressive as heck, doesn't seem at all an elitist, seems a regular person and can put it together in a way the old style liberals could do it. your thoughts. >> i agree. i think elizabeth warren is a commonsensical passionate fight r for those who have been shafted in our political system. she speaks with great expertise, but also plain vanilla. pragmatic language. grounded in the reality of people's lived experiences. and it's part of the mood of th this country that she was really the key architect in trying to hold banks accountable for the economic mess they created in our country. i think the fighting spirit, chris, is one that we saw in that video. it's one we saw in the first viral video elizabeth warren made a few weeks ago where she just took on this ridiculous idea of class warfare, meaning that you take on and tax the best off in this country who have so benefited from the infrastructure, education, so i think it's a real fight and i think she's a model. i t

. >> reporter: katrina williams was reacting to a sex offender, but police never responded saying the man living there did nothing illegal. she saw the name on the list and asthiewmed -- assumed that house was barred from participating. that has parents confused and concerned. >> we went to the mall and our friend's neighborhood. >> reporter: this mother of two took her kids somewhere else. >> i don't know them and i don't trust anyone around my children and people are -- you can't trust anybody. >> reporter: only offenders who are still active can have restrictions placed on them. police can only force restrictions against offenders whose names are provided to them. >> we conduct hour detail. our officers monitor to make sure they are state supervised and not participating. >> reporter: daniels was cleared of his probation in 2006. i talked with him today and he said he has never given out candy at halloween. his wife wanted to do it so she did. he told me legal lill he can but -- legally he can but didn't want to be. >> i believe this should ab full blank -- be a full blanket policy

i see the katrina response. i see people talking about fema.president bush and his budget cuts. that gets my juices going. >> and in prison, he's discovered a captive audience for his brand of political punditry. >> i have a subscription to "usa today" and i have a line. i let everybody read it. i write little comments. you'd be surprised, we discuss things in here. everything in prison is not just violence or gangs. we discuss issues. people are surprised the conversations we have in here, you know what i'm saying? >> he tried out some spin in response to an unexpected line of questioning from our producer on the pin-ups decorating his cell. >> are these all your girlfriends? >> in another lifetime. most of them come out of "xxl" magazine. minority based magazines. kind of like "maxim." hip hop minority community. get tired of looking at gray walls all day. they're not nude, albeit scantily. >> they're very artistic, marcus. it's nice you represent minorities, but it's not so nice about women. >> it's a bit misogynist. i'm going on 11 years, r

they took me back to the days after hurricane katrina. >> mercy chefs built a state-of-the-art kitchen to feed and train people to start and operate a local bakery. an answer to prayer for this pastor. >> when mercy chef come to haiti, that is the greatest message we need to hear and see. sometimes we can touch the message, sometimes we can hear it. >> there is an entire world and mercy chef ministers around the table. >>> for many americans, thanksgiving is a time to remember all the things we are grateful for and eat a lot of turkey and pumpkin pie. where did this tradition start? we asked a few kids what they think. >> if they get together and have a big feast. >> pilgrams and indians coming together. >> i forget. >> i have heard of it. the pilgrams and the kingdom, that was the date, we don't know exactly. that was the day when they celebrated god had given them a good trip. they are thankful for that day, defeated the greatest, thanking god for the things you gave. he gave us. and the pilgrams are thanking god for the food and indians who helped them grow the food. [laughter]. pre

it is the la katrina benefit for the maximum -- mexican and use them, and it is coming up on octoberot only celebrate in this month. we celebrate throughout the year. why we're doing this, one of the reasons that we support events like this is very simple. we know that stronger community makes us successful. as a company as well. showcasing our expense celebrating culture is also important to the soul and important to bridge the gaps of understanding between all of us. that makes starter community. we also care about the community because wells fargo as a lot of team members here tonight. they also live and work and raise our families in the same local communities. the wells fargo team members, can you raise your hands. great, they are around the room here. [applause] because they also work and live and raise their family here. that is why it is important for us to support the community. the local approach has guided wells fargo and lot of ways for how we do our business. wells fargo is the number one public giver among all the financial services company in the bay area. i think a lo

this is something that really comes from the lessons learned from hurricane katrina. it is not unique to hurricane katrina, but we have had instances where there have been state and national guard forces operating under command in control of the governor. at the same time, the world of the three forces operating under secretary of defense. the release of a competing chain of command. when you are talking about trying to save lives and protect property, you need to make sure everything is as well coordinated as possible, and a dual status command appointment is a mechanism to ensure everything is coordinated. what it does is provide of national guard in most instances to simultaneously direct federal and state forces to ensure we are operating seamlessly together to save lives. >> you mentioned hurricane katrina. give us an example of how that can break down when you're getting directions from different authorities, how can that go wrong? guest: when you're talking about something of such a masse scale as hurricane katrina, you have so much going on. in the beginning e

. >> sage served at 9/11 at the pentagon and hurricane katrina and rita and also we served in iraq searching missing soldiers, so she has been around the block sage has been effected by cancer, and actually she will be being treated again at colorado state university coming soon the sage foundation for dogs who served was started as a result of her cancer she served her country all her life and now that she has cancer both we suspect to be related to her service of country and toxic sites she sniffed hurricane katrina, rita, iraq we had to search dump sites and 9/11 at the pentagon all those were toxic sites we would like to support our police, military, search and rescue dogs to make sure their medical bills are paid for sage foundation for dogs who served -- >> and military working dogs as well. >> we will link all that information to myfoxdc.com thank you to all of you for being here today and as we kick off veterans week we should say thank you to the men and women serving in our military and those who have served if we can get bino to give a final salute. >> yes. >> yay. >>> well done.

you take the creek katrina instructed norvel. norvel admitted he had seen two other cows but they wouldn't stay with the bunch, so he just left them. we have you have to get back and get those two he said. i will push in what we've get. two long hours went by until norvel came in with the two stranded cowboys. he looked like he had been eating by babe the blue ox and regurgitated, his right sleeve flattered the tatters. i ran into a tree was his only explanation as he road by eye struck. katrina explained how he sent norvel back for the two cows. he said, you should know by know he said, never sent a boy to do a woman's job. this is baxter black, from out there. >> baxter returns in two weeks, until then check out his work online at baxterblack.com. >>> when we come back, tractor tales and our country church salute. think of big tires, heavy-duty steel parts, and >>> when you think of tractors you think of big tires, heavy duty steel cars. but this week we have a special treat. we introduce a crusher from the 1800s that's really