katrina has been with me ever since. i had the opportunity to be part of the team to one look the lessons learned from the disaster and two, implement those. invited us to be part of -- deja vu. here is another disaster that had catastrophic consequences where in hindsight, the failures to that response were obvious. we could call that a black swan. a black swan of course was something that we didn't anticipate ahead of time, but ultimately had catastrophic consequences and in hind site sooigt, seemed so obvious. and i'll make a counterargument. i'll say it was a black swan what happened in japan. it's a black swan because it wasn't just an earthquake. it wasn't just a tsunami. it wasn't just a nuclear incident. it was all three of those things wrapped together. the reason hurricane katrina was so catastrophic is because it wasn't a single disaster. it wasn't just a hurricane. it was a hurricane, by the way, it was a category 3 hurricane when it came ashore. category 3 hurricane. shouldn't be catastrophic. what made it c

as long as i know when hurricane katrina hit, the u.s. government activated c.o.o.p. i think japan should have more, especially information. in the case of -- disaster local government particularly understand necessary for such information sharing system. however, i heard that japan has not even started to discuss about it yet. third, why this forum has affected japan. as i mentioned, japan is a small country. it has promoted to build committees. such committee have some advantage and disadvantage. one advantage is we made beautiful ride to get food and some supply. cranberry layer in the aftermath of disaster in japan because they don't have anyplace to run away. we must think about after that. so they cooperate in their community. but the other hand, such a committee oriented sometimes has a disadvantage, too. there are peer pressure that prevent people -- there are many taboo to discuss in this kind of community. people avoid discussing each other. this is not only local program but it is also nationwide program in japan. i think u.s. does good job on making lesson

in the case of katrina, we did not have any official channels of information. we didn't hear anything through the local emergency managers, the state emergency managers because they did not have power and communications. so that was a major challenge and something that's been resolved. sounds like both in japan and the united states with several technology means like satellite phones. then you have communications capabilities, but two, in addition to the media and what made the two disasters different, what's changed from 2005 to 2011. we also have social media. that made a huge difference. the social media, for better or worse, provided realtime information to everybody at the same time. the government found out at the same time the public did, but the good news is at least they had the information. >> i'll just throw a comment on. even elements like the national guard that you know, people are looking for ways to get communications back up and will come in in temporary cell towers antd some way to get connectivity out there. everybody understands how valuable

government [inaudible] hurricane katrina. think that we should have learned from 9/11 and 1995, more information -- [inaudible] information is necessary for such an information sharing system. we have much to discuss. first, this has affected japan. as i mentioned, we are a small country. we are intimate. we are local communities. some communities have advantages and disadvantages. one advantage is [inaudible] to get food and supplies. in the aftermath of disaster in japan, because we don't have anyplace to run away. after fukushima, we must cooperate in the communities. on the other hand, such a community sometimes has a disadvantage, too. peer pressure prevents people from change. there is much to discuss in these kinds of communities. this is not only a program. it is a nationwide program in japan. [inaudible] [inaudible] the collection of cultural information in the 1990s. i hope that the u.s. and japan can collaborate for the sake of japan and all of the countries say. we need to make nuclear safety important and also in

governor huey long to break every machine it had, countless mergers and most famously, hurricane katrina, bowed to the economics of the newspaper industry. >> it's something that is important in the community. >> this fall, it will go from printing papers seven days a week to three while increasing its online efforts. a new direction that will mean job cuts and a loss of community created by everyone reading the same thing. >> online, people tend to go in a lot of different directions. whereas when someone delivers you the newspaper, you look at the front page. >> affectionately known as the tp, the paper chronicled a city unlike any other, won four pulitzer prizes, and carried the by-lines of many great writers. but to understand the connection between this city and its paper, one reporter said you must look through the lens of katrina, a near death experience for both new orleans and the times-picayune. while thousands escaped the historic storm and flood, david meeks was one of a group of tp journalists who refused to leave. >> it was different for us. this wasn't just a story we were

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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

hurricane katrina on track to make a direct hit on the low lying city of new orleans. >> it happenedause of a hurricane. >> in all eyes on new orleans. >> this entire area will be under water. ♪ >> mother nature is in charge and now mother nature has dealt one horrific blow. >> when katrina flooded new orleans it didn't just destroy much of the city it h also destroyed the school system. some school reformers thought maybe that is what needed to happen. >> it was probably one of the worst school districts in the country. was a who are. >>> before katrina our schools were just failing. >> the choice was do you rebuild 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 marcowitz started a charter school. >> we have complete control over the walt of our instruction. >> when started the school 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 this number right here that was my cell

ezra, and katrina, and nick and elon james white, founder of this week in blackness.com. ookay. guess that maybe perhaps it is not $2 billion a lot of money, but it starts if i'm worrying and thinking of the emotions of the market, this loss does feel like a lot to me. >> look, it is a lot of money. it is not a threatening amount of money. j.p. moredangan does not need a bailout or systemic threat, and they made $19 billion in pure profit in 2011 so people are needing to ask what we trying to learn from this, and the main thing is that jpmorgan were the folks who knew how to manage risks and they came through the financial crisis better than any other bank. and jamie dimon's internal argument is that, look, there were dumb banks, but don't your their dumb failings that led to the failing of the market. so we do have to have sufficient regulations because even if the smart banks become dumb they don't destroy the economy as happened in a couple of years ago. >> i want to see it in the system of checks and balances. the united states went without serious financial crisis after the

the way it's grown since katrina, because katrina, of course, everything went back to zero. we have 900 restaurants, the city has 1200 after katrina. we have 12 cities, the city has about 80 music clubs. so just as the city has grown back from katrina, and strong in the culture and music and the food, so has the festival. so i mean, this is, i guess, six years, and this may be one of the biggest ever. ♪ >> there is no hesitation among so many of these big headliners to say i want to be a part of the jazzfest. what is it about the experience from the musician's point of view, from the fan's point of view, what happens that makes people want to come and come back? >> magic, magic. you know, it sounds like a cliche, but this is the greatest behavior modification machine in the world. woo l we look for the perfect vibe. its new orleans, music is not nrlt tainment. it's a force that drives something in your soul. now, when people come here from outside, they get that. and you get all these happy people out here who are great music fans and have great energy for the music. ♪ >> th

. >> tony, adam gave you the not handily over katrina. were you confident america would agree? >> i certainly was hoping they would. it you go into it feeling you might have the support -- katrina was clearly on the rise, the way her final song went to of itunes and it was a great selection for her, took a familiar song and we learned people i just as apt to vote for a song thatn a singer so i was pretty proud of her but i was certainly encouraged by the fact that adam swayed in my way and was really candid about why. it gives me a great sense of momentum going into the finale. >> you all have a lot to be proud of. jermaine, america gave you a decisive win over eric despite the lake's in decision. >> i think everyone of us once the approval but i kind of figured bla would leave it atke america. he is a fair guy. they need to make tough decisions at as coaches. it felt great to know that america thought that i was the one who should represent team blake and i am. sure eri opportunitiesn knocking on the door right now and i am happy to be here with three other amazing artist. >>

after the well publicized problems stemming from hurricane katrina, congress rightly took steps to revamp our nation's approach to emergency response. usfa is currently working to develop a better means of coordinating existing state and local response for disaster and deployment. currently the agency is considering organizes firefighters and other responders to support fema disaster response and recovery efforts. the iaff fully supports this endeavor. but we must ensure that firefighters are appropriately utilized and deployed during any disaster. during the delayed response to hurricane katrina, fema called up 1,000 firefighters to serve as community relations officers, tasking them with the distribution of fliers instead of deploying well trained respond toers the front line where they presence was dratly needed. frankly, it was a tragic waste of resources and capabilities. the best way to accomplish the goal would be to establish a national firefighter credentialing system. in the past, too many well meaning firefighters have self-dispatched to an emergency, but many of those firefigh

after the well publicized problems stemming from hurricane katrina, congress rightly took steps to revamp our nation's approach to emergency response. usfa is working to develop a better means of response for disaster employment. currently, the agency is considering organizing firefighters and others to support fema response and recovery efforts. the iaff fully support this is endeavor, but we must ensure firefighters are appropriately utilized and deploid during a disaster. during response to hurricane katrina, fema called up a thousand firefighters to service community relations officers instead of deploying them to the front line. frankly, the fs a tragic waste of resources and capabilities. the best way would be to establish a system. in the past, too many firefighters have self-dispatched an emergency, but many have lacked the training and experience to operate effectively. a national system will alleviate that uncertainty by typing responders based on training and certification levels. this will enable commanders to make the most use of personnel. the project needs to be completed.

and a significant increase from the 65% it was during hurricane katrina. from december 2011 through june 2013, the army national guard is programmed to receive over 120,000 pieces of congresswomen from army procurement funding. army national guard armories are actually the foundation of our readiness. we have facilities in 2899 communities across the 50 states, the territories and the district. providing quality facilities however is an ongoing challenge. more than 46% of our armories are over a years old. many are unable to meet the needs of the 21st century operational force while failing to meet modern building standards and in terms of energy efficiency. the army national guard continues to make suicide prevention a top priority. our soldiers are our most precious resource. we are addressing high risk behaviors and suicidal tendencies through preventive measures, comprehensive training and a range of intervention programs. in addition, we're addressing sexual harassment and assault response and prevention through an aggressive training program executed

. >> reporter: the two pastors' friendship was forged in the difficult days after hurricane katrina. franklin avenue baptist church had been devastated by the storm. months after katrina struck, volunteers in protective suits were still trying to clean out the sanctuary. >> come here and see this, this church that god allowed me to pastor, we built this church and -- beautiful -- and then coming here, and we see pews thrown all over, the mud thick, the smell, the stench, it just, i just, i cried like a baby. >> reporter: the church had to be completely gutted and rebuilt. most of the 7,000 congregation members had fled from new orleans, but the remaining 50 or 60 needed a place to worship. first baptist, which had sustained much less damage, opened its doors, and the two congregations shared the space for nearly three years. the two pastors, who didn't know each other well before that, ended up partnering on several projects, such as a 2006 visit to new orleans by billy and franklin graham. >> it broadened our perspective of our own faith, broadened our perspective of the church of j

i was secretary of agriculture when katrina struck, a devastating impact of the part of the impact of katrina was that for a period of time the shipping lanes down the river, the mississippi river, were blocked. we all knew that that was temporary. we all knew that work was going to start just as soon as the wind stopped blowing to move the items that had sunk the ships and get that shipping lane opened up, but in a very brief period of time the price of corn dropped from about $2 a bushel to $1.60 a bushel. what happened? perfectly legitimately everybody locked in their loan deficiency payment. $4 billion went out the door at the usda almost overnight. now, we knew that was a very temporary time, and prices in fact came back to that $2 level. hard to imagine these days when we have such higher prices than that. what am i saying? i'm just saying when you set targets, then you are basically sending into the marketplace a direction as to how to utilize that target so at the end of the day, the loan deficiency payment was paid out. the farmer continued to own the commodity, and at the en

she has seen her husband of 57 years leave her, almost losing her home in katrina. so many set jaeks. but through it all she has looked to gd and also caught her children to do the same thing. my mother is proud to say and often says she is a child of god. tavis: speaking of your health challenge right quick, how did it deepen your relationship with your mother when you were going through the health challenge that you were so courageous to talk about and to showcase every day on "good morning america" and the whole world, the whole country, got a chance to join you in that battle and that struggle? thankfully thaw won. and i -- that you won. and i with millions of others, particularly your mama. and no matter how old you get you're still her baby and how did your mama deal with that? >> you know what? i felt like the baby in the family all over again. it was a wonderful feeling. because i'm very blessed with the work that i do to be able to do some things for my family. and i love that. in some ways i feel older than i am with them. but i was the baby again. and my

i will say katrina is something that has been with me ever since.ot only was i there seen the response to it, but i had an opportunity to be part of the team to look at the lessons learned from the disaster and implement those. when our colleagues at the heritage foundation invited me to be part of this task force about a year ago, i had a bit of deja vu. here was another disaster that had catastrophic consequences. in hindsight, the failures of the response were obvious. as ed mentioned, we called a black swan. it is something we did not anticipate ahead of time but ultimately had catastrophic consequences and in hindsight seemed so obvious. for the sake of argument, i will make the counter argument. i will say it was a black swan what happened in japan. it is a black swan because it was not just an earthquake. it was not just a tsunami. it was not just a nuclear incident. it was all three of those things wrapped together. the reason hurricane katrina was so catastrophic was because it was not a single disaster. it was not just a hurricane. it was

what is important -- they call me the queen of disaster, because after krajina -- katrina we started disaster preparedness, but most people think about an earthquake common and the concern is are we going to have the necessary water to take care of individuals thomas -- individuals to? the answer is yes. i think we have to remember an emergency is not just an earthquake. an emergency could also be a drought, and we have increase the capacity, so that will bring us where we used to be, and that is where we need to be to make sure at the end of the day we are protected and have enough water to continue having the great quality of life throughout the region. i know the mayor mentioned jobs, and we feel the same way here. it is very important these projects have brought lots of jobs for workers throughout san francisco and san mateo county, so it has been a win-win situation for our county and the rest of the regions, and i want to thank the mayor for the great partnership they provided, because what i have found, we have worked on many projects, and this is one of many that has created

after the well-publicized problems stemming from hurricane katrina, commerce rightly took steps to revamp the nation's approach to emergency response. the usmc is currently working to deal with a better means of coordinating existing state and local response for disaster of deployment. currently, the agency is considering organizing firefighters and other responders to support the disaster response and recovery efforts. we fully support this endeavor. but we must ensure firefighters are the appropriately utilized and deployed during any disasters. during the delay in response to hurricane katrina, fema called a thousand firefighters to service community relations officers tasking them of the distribution of fliers instead of deploying these well-trained and sponsors where their presence was desperately needed. frankly it was a tragic waste of resources and capabilities. the iaff partner with usfa and fema to ensure the resources are probably had to decide and utilized on emergencies. the best way to accomplish that would be to establish a national firefighter credentials system. in the pa

>> katrina or tony. you have to cut either katrina or tony? >> no, we have to. >> that is awful!it down? >> we have four to go. >> that's tomorrow. >> tomorrow. >> they're both talented. next, team cee lo. ♪ ♪ >> okay. >> i like her dress. >> i think you revealed a little bit of that. >> okay, team christina. ♪ ♪ >> this is fun. >> team blake. last one. ♪ ♪ >> ooh! >> that's tough. it's not fair to only hear like ten second of somebody. >> we have our cards. let's give them to jo ann. >> i never look at them anyway. thank you. >>> we were all gathered around the makeup room watching ryan o'neal. >> you know, i've been around long enough to have met pretty much everybody at some point. never really had a conversation with him. i met farrah once doing letterman or the "tonight" show. one or the other. i remember when they were first a couple, i was walking here on the west side and they had just come from a tennis match. and they literally were so breathtakingly beautiful that you literally went -- that's not -- not in that picture that's later. they were just absolutely so flawles

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no one will ever come clean of the katrina of the new orleans and the stinking house of the setting sun. but it's the black and the blue of the loving on the shoes, let alone a dime or water, america, you are always scotched earth in our mouth. always a rain of disaster of streams of our broken eyes. now the rags are the most turn. our pores the poorest that can be worn in the souls shop. now that all is lost and there is only nothing to lose. long live the courage and the poor. they begin to waiver. [applause]. >> vennetia. i was enranged at your body enettia. chicanery that cried out of an awfulor gast. slowly i found you should side streets where you practice a strolling stillness without any engine sounds and the skies turning on into color and then eternal magnificence of twilight, it accompanies your every move and theirs doubt about it, you are more adorable without the car wrapped around you, where you can be what you are. walking water. that gently laps. i have come to you this midnight and lane down in your black body with it's soft red blush and pulled the starkly blue cover

he co-authored and edited the white house report on the response to katrina and the lessons lenned from it and he chaired the domestic readiness group at the white house, something i had a lot to do when i was the deputy assistant director of home land defense. and to wrap up, we'll have the senior visiting fellow for japan in our asian studies here at the heritage foundation and she was a fellow at the matsuhita government and our resident expert in japan. we'll begin with ed and go from there. >> thank you for the introductions. it's a pleasure to be here with you. to share perspectives op the fukushima nuclear accident that occurred after the earthquake and ensuing tsunami. so much has happened and been reported on. the nuclear accident -- so much has occurred and reported has been helpful to do a lookback. so we can process. first, i'd like to preface my remarks and i'd like to say on behalf of myself and my colleagu colleagues, how deeply saddened we are about the magnitude of the devastation we've seen on the slides and the large loss of life brought about by the earthquake and ts