ok katrina let's talk about the general election here let's assume on this program for the time being and i agree with you we've seen a rollercoaster with this this campaign and with the republicans but let's assume that romney is the nominee ok number one well the democrats the republicans come out and. go vote for him even if they don't like him too much he's he's not conservative enough and he's strong enough to beat barack obama what do you think. well i'm not sure right now if the election were today it's possible but i think with mitt's recent behavior in the debates towards conservatives it's probably going to turn some people off we do have contended senate and congressional races out there it's been the chatter that i hear that people if mitt romney becomes the nominee they will go and support those other races so i'm not so sure he would get help in that side and if he did become the nominee we have to look at one of the differences between mitt romney and barack obama with the exception of brock wants to reform wall street and mitt romney wants to prop up wall street other

we have doug there now is a senior vice president at s k d knickerbocker and in dallas recross the katrina pierson she is the executive director at watch the vote dot org and a board member at the dallas tea party or at crosstalk rules in effect folks that means you can jump in anytime you want katrina if i go to you first i mean after florida we have mitt romney again for the fourth time seen as the frontrunner for the republican nomination is going to stay that way. i don't think it's going to stay that way actually and what we are experiencing is this huge up and down rollercoaster. you know newt gingrich is receiving endorsements rick santorum is receiving endorsements i think this race is going to stay divided for quite some time i do see this going all the way to the convention as it should does what do you think about that i mean there is mitt romney got the big mo is he going to be able to sustain this. well right now it clearly does but i think the next month it's going to be a challenging month for the other candidates because there's only one debate and we enter into the next co

four years ago but you know katrina's right only five percent of the delegates have been allocated were a long way from this being finished and i think if there's anything that we can you know that that this contest has shown us is you know anything can happen and you don't count i don't think you can count newt gingrich out at any point he just kind of has you know he just keeps coming back to life ok it's interesting john if i can go to you i mean mitt romney has a lot of money he has a good war chest and newt gingrich is struggled in getting money but he you surprised is sometimes is money going to be the be all important factor like in this election for the for the republican nomination or as our other guests have said it could go either way still. well mitt certainly the favorite at this point partly because of the money and also partly because of the organization that he has he also has a very favorable schedule he's you know like a football team that has a bunch of patsies waiting in front of them he's got nevada which he did very well and four years ago that has a high mormon po

he is the editor of nation magazine friend of the show katrina bandenhovel is with us, katrina boom, give it up. ladies and gentlemen, star of stage and screen, best selling pop artist and recent first person voted off celebrity apprentice david cassidy, (cheers and applause) >> stephen: okay. high five from a distance my man. all right, first of all, great available panel do you have your -- >> yes, we do. >> i didn't put the tip on there yet. >> stephen: that's all right. you're not reimbursed for tips, okay. and we're get a check out to you guys in 12 to 18 weeks. thank you so much. all right, panel what is going on with this election? okay, john harwood, okay, you're a political analyst who takes florida-- florida. >> stephen: . >> well, first of all i'm in an open marriage with my political predictions right now, but-- . >> stephen: good man, good man, that's appealing, evidently. >> yeah. but i think the one that i love the best at the moment is mitt romney comes back, wins florida, wins the nomination. >> stephen: how does mitt romney take it back though, people are liking gin

katrina made our case forcefully. she did it without a hint of an edge or snarky humor or even questionable taste. twe won and were not shy about celebrating. we were exuberant celebrators. the sense of grace combined with her intensity and style. in a world of kardashians and other circus acts in the media, she is a giant gusts of intelligence and class. it makes me feel old to say this, but i know her mom, and equally fascinating woman, a great writer. her grandfather founded the music corporation of america that defined culture and music today. having said that about her mother, i feel i should balance that by saying i cannot count on my fingers and toes together all of the otherwise party intellectuals and regular people who have confided [unintelligible] [laughter] i am wondering. she is the editor and publisher of "the nation." she is summa cum laude from princeton. she is here with her first collection, "fighting for progress in the age of obama." i do not always agree with her personally when it comes to polit

because my understanding, katrina, you saw what dr. keith ablo said, the ladies trust a guy who is a known philanderer. newt gingrich, what's the magic. you are a lady. >> the republican party has been screwing this country for too long. it's not just newt gingrich. >> stephen: excuse me. >> it's basically screw and shaft. and i think tonight we're going to see a guy. >> stephen: what did you say, a screw and a shaft. >> yeah. >> stephen: a screw and a shaft so double teaming the american people. >> well no, but i mean-- i mean newt-- it's not just newt gingrich but he's going to get out there tonight. he's a street fighter with a poisonous history, race bather, baits the mythic liberal media and this is a guy who will go as low as he can to rile up the base, he's playing the old republican southern strategy. let's play on racial anxiety and fear. he has no scruples. >> stephen: he is a fighter, he is a fighter. >> and, and -- >> and are you still attracted to him. >> stephen: what is it, what is it-- what is it that makes someone who

. >> you came out of the crisis called hurricane katrina, with your reputation going up. right? so what the one thing that we can learn about leadership that you learned during hurricane katrina? >> this thing is, be lucky enough to be represent a strong self reliant bunch of people. they were the heroes of katrina and mississippi, were the courageous and compassionate people of my state, they were not looking for a hand out or whining, they knocked down flat. and the next day, they got up and hitched up their britches and went to work, they went to work helping themselves and they went to work helping their the neighbors s the stories of selflessness and putting others before themselves the winds were 240 miles inland in mississippi, we had 102,000 homes that were not liveable and 40,000 of them were inland, a third of the deaths were inland, it was not just on the coast. but the people, wherever you were you half way up in the state, 200 highmiles up in the state. they waited their turn and were gramp f grateful for the help. my job was to make people have confidence that if t

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

four years ago but you know katrina's right only five percent of the delegates have been allocated were a long way from this being finished and i think if there's anything that we can you know that that this contest has shown us is you know anything can happen and you don't count i don't think you can count newt gingrich out at any point he just kind of has you know he just keeps coming back to life ok it's interesting john if i can go to you i mean mitt romney has a lot of money he has a good war chest and newt gingrich is struggled in getting money but he you

this is without question the strongest mardi gras since katrina. expect close to 1 million visitors and have direct economic impact of almost $200 million. >> some nice beads going there. you can see more photos on ." -- wbaltv.com. >> three people are killed in a traffic accident in harford county. a live report next. >> putting the brakes on speed cameras when high workers are not around. details at 6:00 p.m. >> live, local, late-breaking. this is wbal tv 11 news tonight. >> we are calling breaking news at this hour. two people killed in a crash in baltimore county. skyteam 11 is on mcdonogh road. >> this is mcdonogh road. county police have both vehicl.

the mississippi river of outlet, pallas writes quote had it not been for him katrina would have been a storm of no note so we will hear more about that in his remarks. according to greg louisiana shut down its hurricane center after katrina and i'm wondering if they have rebuilt it yet. >> probably not. no funding. >> in his book which we will get to momentarily. i am so excited. greg palast is all over the map. he is everywhere. you practically need a passport just to see him. he creates -- it's a little squeamish at some point. it's got everything. i was really surprised at that, greg. [laughter] he creates his own sex scandal. he's not afraid to name names in this book. i know you all have copies and i'm sure you have read it. there is jamaica. there is sweet and. >> we are going to do that. >> he writes all over the world. i've heard people scream but no one was listening. americans just turn up their tvs. that is a little scary and i hope he addresses that as well. >> couple more things just so you know i am sure you have all heard of greg palast the fournier had "the new york t

i just want to tell you i call myself a liberal, katrina. i think a progressive is a liberal who is afraid of being truthful about who they really are. a chicken liberal is a progressive. >> caller: to be elected as united, not a divided. and look what is going on in this country right now. okay? >> thank you, katrina. she hung up. do you want to respond? >> i would say that the president has gone out of his way with these republican members of congress to try to work together. he has been shot down at every attempt. on the debt ceiling, on the jobs bill, on immigration. i mean look, sean hannity last week even said that if president obama had his way, osama bin laden would still be alive. now where is that coming from? who gave the orders to go get him? who gave the orders to find him? who approved the plan, even though it was very risky plan with only a 60% certainty that he was there? who did that? it wasn't george w. bush who said he is only one guy and i don't care if we find him or not, basically. so give the man credit for something.

he started a website to help victims of katrina, he decided to post the story on that website. he raised $10,000 to save his grandmother's home that his grandfather built. >> interesting tie to the story, when he started the katrina website, he was 6 years old. unbelievable. >>> accused of putting a dent in big box retailer sales. >> what could be in store for amazon. >>> what recession are you talking about? the latest estimates on the billions of dollars to be she would out in the name of love coming up on valentines day. we will find out if you are going to contribute to that. you are watching good morning maryland, we'll be right back. ♪ abracadabra. new hershey's milk chocolate with almonds in pieces. your favorites, in pieces. -[ beep ][ man ] laun-15 seconds and counting. [ male announcer ] at kfc we have one mission: and t-10... serve the world's best tasting chicken. 9...8... that's why our whole chicken is delivered fresh. 7... and prepared fresh by real cooks t-5. all systems go. 4... with kfc's world famous secret recipes. preparation complete... 3... 2...1... taste

it happens. >> in the days following katrina, 6,000 inmates were trapped in orleans parish prison.rtin 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, of inmates in the country. we would put the boats in the water right down here under this overpa

most in the ninth war will tell you little has changed in the years since katrina. marty laron here is filled with damage, debris, and a sense of desperation. -- mardi gras here. obviously there is no easy fix in the be easy. most everyone seems to agree that any progress here is directly tied to making sure that the party and the profit continued to grow. >> there is no question that this year's bash is the biggest since hurricane katrina. estimates of more than 1 million people visiting the bbc this mardi gras season -- have visited the be easy -- big easy. >> i have never been to mardi gras, have you? it is supposed to be crazy, and loads and loads of fun. >> they are an hour behind us. >> 62 degrees in new orleans right now, and dry weather. a couple of sprinkles have passed through the mid-atlantic on our radar today along with some cloud cover. that is keeping the temperatures of little tonight. not cooling off very rapidly. still some showers and sprinkles near oaklandon tarrant county. still an outside chance of a sprinkler to -- near oakland in garrett coun

this is more than six years after flood walls and levees broke during hurricane katrina and caused the city to flood in epic proportions. the federal emergency management agency said the last trailer was taken out sunday. the agency said folks who have been living in that trailer moved into their rebuilt home last week. new orleans once had more than 23,000 fema trailers within city limits. hard to imagine. >> we complain with lights go out for two hours, seven years waiting for your house to be rebuilt. >> it's really good they are into homes and out of those trailers. >> tell us about our weather here. >> not bad, 55 today. we can't really complain in mid- february. we may need the umbrella tomorrow. no shoveling, that's for sure. this is our live weather cam by michael and son and temperatures are falling but it's not that chilly, 50 downtown. winds turned a little bit north, northwest at 7, pressure up a little bit, 30.27 inches of mercury and the dew point stands at about 28 which is really not that dry for this time of year. satellite picture radar combined, here's our system, it

fema called the departure a significant katrina recovery milestone. more than 23,000 were deployed in the storm's aftermath in just the new orleans area alone. while they were the only shelter a lot of folks had, a lot were later suspected to have toxic interior materials leading to various illnesses. the best news here is that all the former occupants of the fema trailers have now moved on to a more permanent residence. >>> there is a new jd power survey out on auto dependability. vehicles are more reliable and owners are holding on to their cars longer. toyota well represented among the top brands. scion and toyota made the top five with porsche and cadillac. lexus most reliable. notoriously finicky jaguar among the bottom five. chrysler brought up the rear with ram, jeep, dodge and chrysler named as the least reliable brands. >>> take a good look at the man we are about to show you and ask yourself if you've seen him or if you heard anybody lately bragging about the new rolex they picked up at the airport? this happened at the ft. lauderdale airpor

this is one of the biggest turnouts since katrina?> yeah, i think at this point there's no question this is the strongest mardi gras since katrina. take a look at bourbon street where the crowds are growing. there are hundreds of thousands already here, and the parades are not over yet. there are a dozen in the area, more than a million people expected to visit during the mardi gras season. and the economic impact, close to $200 million for the city. something they desperately need. everybody very excited about what's happening here, the city really on a role. they just hosted the bcs championship, now mardi gras, following that, they will see the final four here, and then early next year, we will see the super bowl. so they are on a role, everybody in new orleans having a good time economically. and i can tell you, because i am a diligent and responsible reporter, i got down in the parade, the people on the ground having a pretty good time too. >> i bet they are, they gave you something to wear. you wear it well. you've had some prac

we have ha the ability to grant waivers for the older disasters, and katrina and rita being among them, and fema is preparing that process now, but we are prepared to be very robust there. >> and the other issue is basically we have spent billions of dollars to develop metric system systems, starts and stops and that is still i believe the wish of a lot of us that somehow we should perfect this and make it a part of the system. to you s do you see that happening at some point? >> well, i think that biometric entry is on the way, and a biometric is a different kettle of fish, because the ports were not designed to have biometric equipment in the exit lanes. that is just one of the many reasons, so that's got to be a very expensive process. to compensate for that and we are as you said a u.s. visit to the ccp and we want to consolidate the border vetting responsibilities and get greater leverage out of the resources that we have and cdp and i.c.e. for overstays, but cbp at the exit stage, but we have developed now and are able to come wine a number of databases for very layered and robus

and we have the ability now to grant waivers for these old disasters, katrina, rita being among them and fema is preparing that process now, but i think we are prepared to be very robust there. >> another issue is basically we've spent millions of dollars trying to design biometric intrinsic systems, starts, stops. that is still, i believe, the wish of a lot of us, that somehow we should perfect this and make it a part of the system. do you see that happening at some point? >> i think biometric entry is well on its way. biometric exit is a much different kettle of fish. in part because our ports were not designed to have biometric commitment in the exit lanes. that's just one of the many reasons. so that's going to be a very expensive process. to compensate for that, we are, us a know, a u.s. visit to cdp. we want to consolidate those kind of border vetting responsibilities, get greater leverage out of the resources that we have. cdp and i.c.e. for over stay, but cdp at the exit stage, and we also have developed now and are able to combine a number of different data bases for very --

i think there's -- it goes to katrina's point. the anger at public sector unions verses the trade unions has bled over and fired up i think some of the trade unions in a way that -- >> that we have not seen. >> president obama has never been the labor guy and people forget it. >> and his coalition -- >> he has not been that and all of a sudden they have drawn him over, a guy like jimmy hoffa junior would love to flirt with the republican party but they are weirdly hostile to him. >> what is so interesting, george romney, mitt's father -- we are seeing the change of a republican party that has no room for a george romney. >> i mean, he is trying to channel -- >> you can talk the talk, but when you are not walking the walk -- >> listen he had kid rock on stage with him last night. if anything is going to lockup that vote, it's kid rock. game time, will santorum steal michigan from mitt romney? we will ask john ward when he joins us live from detroit. next on n.o.w. -- [ woman ] dear cat, your hair mixes with pollen and dust. i get c

the nation's katrina vanden heuvel has reaction. >>> rick santorum's hard right turn has him up nine points in michigan. bob sh rum has the latest on the race. >>> lin puts it up, jeremy lin from downtown! >> why didn't anybody see jeremy lin coming? now even the president is caught up in lin-sanity, director and super fan spike lee and bill rhoden will weigh in tonight. >>> good to have you with us, folks, thanks for watching. if there is one governor in the united states of america who represents the complete opposite of what president obama stands for and what he's working for, it is the guy he came face-to-face with today, his name of course is my good friend scott walker. president obama and the governor of wisconsin were face-to-face for a brief moment today. when president obama arrived in milwaukee, wisconsin. they were supposed to go to milwaukee's masterlock factory together, as kind of a team effort. no, not really. scott walker got sick. think about that packer fans. your governor can't play hurt. dog gone it the president in town he gets the flu. probably he should have

workforce and mississippi's effort to attract more manufacturing jobs in the wakes of hurricanes katrina and rita seven years ago. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome chairman and ceo of ge, jeff immelt. >> thank you. thank you very much. it's my distinct pleasure to introduce today's luncheon speaker and that's governor haley barbour. all of you know haley was a two-term governor of mississippi. as i mentioned earlier this morning has been a great partner in attracting business and really has been focused on workforce training as a way to make mississippi competitive. he is a fantastic leader on the national stage, several times ran the republican national committee and things like that, but did a great job in mississippi. the one quick story i'd like to tell is i was responsible for the business council in 2005. and this is kind of an association of the 100 or 125 biggest companies in the united states and we happened to have a meeting two weeks after hurricane katrina, and i invited the governor of louisiana at the time and governor barbour to come and speak to this group. the gov

when i came back to the smithsonian in 2005, shortly thereafter katrina hit new orleans. one of the things that i realized is that new orleans was devastated, often the african-american community bore the brunt of much of that devastation. one of the things that i realized that was very important for us is to document that. and as we thought about what are the things that would document it, i kept seeing the picture of people being rescued. of the helicopter, the coast guard going down and having people jump into these baskets. so, i had a colleague from the museum of american history, david shea, who was going down, and i asked him please pick up a basket for us. and so this basket was one of our earliest acquisitions and this is a basket actually used to rescue people during katrina. so, what you've seen in many ways is a snapshot of the more 15,000 objects that this museum collected and these objects are really at the heart of what the smithsonian is, because even if you have the most amazing technology possible, it really is the artifact that really brings the public

that in louisiana, a case, area which is very interesting given the demographic changes because of katrina, where in many ways the one majority african-american district there in new orleans is one that if you were really being a partisan gerrymander it would have been one you might split up and as a result that district is safe under the vra. with respect to party republicans have more state legislative seats than at any time since 1928. they also have total control of the redistricting process in twice as many states as they did in the 2000 round and particularly in a lot of the battleground states and so a lot of that has meant that this high water mark of republican dominance transferred them to protect their incumbents in much of the country, whereas in 2000 round a lot of it was trying toex tend their advantages, they've certainly tried to do that again in texas, but if you had to look at what was happening, in the difference between 2000 and 2010 is preserving the gains of the 2010 race. now, last, on party, i think in talking about commissions, it's clear given the criticisms of bo

the last of the trailers the government provided for hurricane katrina has left new orleans.ergency management agency. it reports crews removed the trailer on sunday after the woman who lived inside moved into her now rebuilt home just last week. according to fema, there are but three other trailers from the hurricane season that year still in use in louisiana. outside new orleans. at one point there were more than 23,000 fema trailers in the city after katrina devastated the gulf coast more than six years ago. the feds are cracking down on automated phone calls we all get from telemarketers. according to new rules from telemarketers must get written permission from you the consumer before they can make any rope bow calls. that applies even if they already had established business relationship with the customer. telemarketers also have to come up with an automated feature to make it easier for all of us to opt out of any calls we don't want. the conservative leaning web site the daily caller put out another report today on the liberal advocacy group called media matters for a