katrina fatigue?r you. is that the fact they do not want to reach out? that was one of the thrilling things about shooting down there. seeing these waves of young american students, the same generation we are talking about. they were the front-runner of the occupied generation which is a very thrilling thing for americans. the first energized old fashioned social response. all of these volunteers kept going down there. they do not have katrina fatigue. they kept going back. these are the american heroes of the 21st century. they are giant figures. they do not think about that way themselves but they dared to fight for their city like that and to the door of living in fe -- endure living in fema trailers. tavis: the first time i went to your house for dinner, i wanted to see if there is a viewing room. is that where you call it? >> we call that a dent. -- a den. we have our screen down there. tavis: it is a little bit nicer than a den. i wanted to see where he watches his stuff. and of course i wanted

i lived in new orleans, i study katrina, i don't know her name. yet, there are very, very few black women that may appeared. and yet the notion that there was still a collective shaming that happens in a country that fancies itself a place where women and children are first, hurricane katrina actually shames us into an anti-war stance. here's how it goes. from september 11th, 2001, until about september 4th i'm going to give it of 2005 we are trying to participate in the nationalist patriotic fervor against the imagined racial enemy that is those others over there that are activating terrorism against us. right until the leaf have is failed we realize we've allowed our own citizens to drown, to die, and to dehydrate on camera and we go, oh. if you can't get water to an american city for a week, how can you prosecute a foreign war? and the democratic party feels a little steel drop down its spine. all these media folks who live in new york city who realize that if this is how we respond to disasters, they're screwed. and for the first time we start

no, katrina. that's the dilemma here. you -- bad things happen to good people every day in this country and there's not $2 million tax-free available. so you better use these programs not as precedents for anything, but as situations unique in response to unprecedented events like the 9/11 attacks. >> i just want to say about ken feinberg, because no one else has so far, is that in addition to being philosophically coherent about these important central issues in society and in addition to having implemented time after time, most especially in the gulf coast case, effectively showing that government institutions can be effective, he in this book says that he was an idiot to come out and say this will be taken care of in a couple of weeks. and what a model for political leaders to actually both be effective and say i misspoke, i couldn't deliver what i initially promised. applaud, america. >> we would be far better off. >> you have said repeatedly you don't get thanked for doing this work and the expectation of sort of lau

. >> and finally, ten, hurricane katrina and the myth of superlative reporting. >> right, hurricane katrina, this is the -- the landfall of hurricane katrina was in 2005, and supposedly the news media were aggressive in their reporting and calling attention to the defects in the response, the state, local and federal response to the hurricane. but also, in addition, the news media coverage of the extent of the damage and the extent of the lawlessness that supposedly was unleashed by hurricane katrina was quite wrong. it was hardly a moment of superlative reporting. the news media got that story quite wrong. estimates of death tolls exceeding 10,000 were wrong by an order of magnitude. the fact that while widespread looting, widespread pillaging, raping, murders were going on in new orleans in the aftermath of the hurricane, all take what wa untrue and had the effect of impugning a people and city in the hour of their most urgent need. >> in the back of your book in conclusion, you cite a pew research center study from 17 march 2008. the composition reported among national journalists in 200

. >> not only could this be obama's katrina and it's not katrina yet but it could also be obama's watergatewatergates! (laughter) that's a record number of watergates! passing the previous watergate record holder, a richard nixon... (laughter). with one! they throw around the term "watergate" so much at fox you think the guy running fox had been a nixon operative in the... oh, my god! oh, my god! it's watergate-gate. gate-gate. it's a lot of gates! see, the problem here is you've become the fox who cries wolf. your outrage repertoire has been so overused as to render justified outrage meaningless. "this is watergate!" right. and what was it when second graders sang a song about obama in their classroom? ♪ barack haous sane obama. >> jon: they say it's in *r indoctrine nation. >> i thought this is indoctrine nation straight up. >> doesn't it remind you of any dictator with w the indoctrine nation of kids? this is pure khmer rouge stuff. (audience reacts). >> jon: khmer rouge stuff. yes, who can forget the khmer rouge and the dreaded singing feeds of cambodia. (laughter) they forced children

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

guest: well, this is in response to the hurricane katrina situation. that situation is an object lesson on how not to do response and recovery. the response was weak. it was poorly organized. the federal government was confused. people were put in very bad situations. the superdome. the convention center. new orleans was under water. the federal government debate about whether to intervene. and, the trailer equipment that was blocked -- bought, the conventional wisdom is the trailers were not sufficient. i do not have details about whether people profited from that situation, but i can tell you that i do know that there was a widespread misery when the levees broke a and there was an -- web is broken there were people placed in situations where crimes were being committed. it is a disgrace to our claim to the first world country, representing the highest principles of democracy. the trend has been a lesson on what not to do. i hope that the response to hurricane i rain last summer shows us that the federal government and the state government and the lo

just as george bush about katrina. plus, god and government.he evangelicals and tea party movements got together and how good a day it was yesterday for president obama. here's how "the tonight show" handled yesterday's news. i know how they do that, but it's great. that and more late night spoofs coming up. this is "hardball." the place for politics. hey. hey eddie. i brought your stuff. you don't have to do this. yes i do. i want you to keep this. it'd be weird. take care. you too. [ sighs ] so how did it go? he's upset. [ male announcer ] spend less time at gas stations. with best in class fuel economy. it's our most innovative altima ever. ♪ wouldn't it be nice if there was an easier, less-expensive tion than using a traditional lawyer? well, legalzoom came up with a better way. we took the best of the old and combined it with modern technology. together you get quality services on your terms, with total customer support. legalzoom documents have been accepted in all 50 states, and they're backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee. so go to l

it happens. >> in the days following katrina, 6,000 inmates were trapped in orleans parish prison.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 overpass an

we profiled here in 2005 after hurricane katrina hit new orleans. told us noah's wish, her charity, was saving thousands of abandoned pets. is any of that true? >> we just don't know what is and isn't true with this woman. noah's wish is a charity based in california. and based on her pleas during katrina, that charity raised $8 million in donations. california's attorney general must have been skeptical because according to a settlement agreement out there with the attorney general, that forced the charity to give back half of those dollars, the state of california was conducting an investigation to determine if contributions made to noah's wish for the purpose of rescuing and caring for animal victims of hurricane katrina were not used for that specific purpose. that's straight out of their settlement agreement. now, because the settlement was made without any kind of investigation going forward, in other words, noah's wish tried to stop this investigation by just settling. we don't really know what the final conclusion was. but we can tell you an

>> alabama had a lower unemployment rate than massachusetts and they had the whole hurricane katrina crisis and still had a lower unemployment rate than massachusetts. >> we can talk about massachusetts and inheriting the bush economy. if people don't see a vision for the future for them and they will decide between romney or president obama, who is going to get us there. right now they don't have a lot of faith in what's happened in the last few years. >> has romney cast enough bright ideas or just focusing too much on commenting on what the president has. does he have ideas? >> has to come up and show his proposals. at the end of the day in politics, if you could make it a referendum on an incumbent, that's what the american also buy-in on. >> his proposals are basically the same proposals george w. bush offered. if we're offered a choice about the past and present, tax consultants fcuts for the wealthy, continue the foreign policy of the bush administration, no new investments in teachers. >> continue foreign policy as president obama. >> what do you have, you have the bush policy

we profiled here in 2005 after hurricane katrina hit new orleans.old us noah's wish, her charity, was saving thousands of abandoned pets. is any of that true? >> we just don't know what is and isn't true with this woman. noah's wish is a charity based in california. and based on her pleas during katrina, that charity raised $8 million in donations. california's attorney general must have been skeptical because according to a settlement agreement out there with the attorney general, that forced the charity to give back half of those dollars, the state of california was conducting an investigation to determine if contributions made to noah's wish for the purpose of rescuing and caring for animal victims of hurricane katrina were not used for that specific purpose. that's straight out of their settlement agreement. now, because the settlement was made without any kind of investigation going forward, in other words, noah's wish tried to stop this investigation by just settling. we don't really know what the final conclusion was. but we can tell you an a

he grew his congregation from 65 and not even if floodwaters of hurricane katrina could keep them down.. then last week, he made history again... fred luter jr. is the first african-american president of the southern baptist convention... and he won by a unanimous vote. how this former street preacher plans to lead a denomination of more than 45.000 churches... 3 new this mmrning...more maryland state police will be on thh roads for the fourth holiday.all 22 barracks will conduct drunken driving patrols beginning this weekend...they will also be on the lookout for speeding and aggressive ddiving. a seeond bond hearing will be heed today... for george zimmerman.he's the neighborhood watch leader charged with killing flooida teen, trayvon martin.today... zimmerman will get another phance to convince a judgeeto let him out on bond. in april... zimmerman was released on 150- thousandddollar bond... but the judge revoked it after prosecutors presented evidence that he and his wife had misled the court about how much money they had. want an easy labor and deliverr?relax. a new study finds wo

and we can use as a very real excuse the fact that katrina has damaged all these schools.he right way and had a recall list et cetera, some of the teachers would have been brought back in. >> they made up a status for these employees. they called it disaster leave without pay, which the judge found was fictional as she pointed out. there was no status. >> but in a calamity of this sort of proportion of which there was absolutely no template, it's hard to say they should have followed standard practices for firing. >> it's just the opposite. when you have a calamity or a crisis like that, that's exactly the time when the law needs to be followed. >> the police officers in new orleans flood the city. there were no enforcement officers of any kind in new orleans. so to say they should have fired the teachers -- >> but that's not true. >> 55,000 students also fled the city. the entire system evacuated. >> but we're not talking about -- there was no school two days after katrina or five days. we're talking about -- >> or two months. >> but in the months and years after katrina,

i agree with katrina. if this is a referendum on the president, he loses. he loses. that's a commentary of where the country thinks we are. it's also a commentary on the campaign. he has to disqualify mitt romney. if he's going to get re-elected president of the united states, he has to disqualify mitt romney in this race. that's the only way he can win. that's the mistake they have made over the last month and half, they have spent too much time talking about how great their policies are and people don't believe it. >> also in this speech, george, they talked about mitt romney's record. it was focused on what mitt romney would do as president. >> well, democrats against herbert hoover for a generation. they'll run against george bush for another generation. neither of which is going to be the ballot. the point is that, they have to say that mitt romney somehow is dangerous in office, and how they'll do that, is by saying he wants to dismantle the welfare state. he's an extremist. but they'll have to broaden this beyond mitt romney's character. bain didn't work. >> l

i remember this woman after katrina. we did a profile of her on this program. she told us she was saving thousands of dogs. is there evidence she saved any? >> the settlement agreement really stopped that investigation in california right in its tracks. there wasn't a real finding of fact on if any of the animals were saved. there's certainly no mention in the agreement pointing to any animals that were saved. and now this is the woman going around telling us we need to give her money to save these stray animals in iraq and afghanistan. >> what she said on hln was clearly not the case based on what you covered. drew, appreciate it. we're going to continue on this. if you at home are wondering whether you can trust your favorite charity, we don't want these reports to be an indication that all charities are bad or you shouldn't give to charity. that would be a terrible outcome. that's what makes it so bad. what these -- some of these charities are doing. because it kind of casts a pall on charities across the board. if you want to know, go to charitynavigator.or

hurricane katrina actually shames us into an antiwar stance and here is how it goes.rying to participate in the nationalist patriotic fervor against the imagined racial enemy that is those others over there that are activating terrorism against us right until the levees failed. we realized we realize we have allowed our own citizens to drown, to die and to dehydrate on camera, and we go, oh, if you can't get water to an american city for a week how can you prosecute a foreign war? and the democratic party feels a little drop down the spine. all these media folks who live in new york city who realize that this is how we respond to disasters -- and for the first time we start hearing an active antiwar message, not from the people, but from the people that have been resonated through a left party. this of course is how in 2006, democrats win back the house. they win the house in 2006 because for the first first time they articulated actual paradigm difference to the republican party for the first time in five years, and of course we remember the response to the antiwar m

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jay and katrina erickson's plane crashed into the river. >>> a suicide car bomber struck near a nigerian church on sunday. blast sent church walls crashing down on worshippers, more than 30 people injured. no group claimed responsibility. it comes as nigeria deals with boko haram. dozens of church goers were murdered when a terrorist bomber struck this easter. >>> may 25th massacre of is vilians in the city of elhula. this man told the united nations, many were antiassad revolutionaries. syrian christians are under intense pressure. they shouldn't fear st antigovernment free syrian army. >> really respectful with the people. they have a lot of christian people while the assad regime kill ed a christian guy. >> you can watch more of the video at globallaneblog@cbnnews.com. >>> how social media is blocking e message of the church. >> catholics and van jell evangelicals and catholics and jews got together. it is the biggest threat the religious liberty in the nation's history. >> these mandates force them to offer abortion inducing drugs. it runs directly counter intuitive. >> this is the m

the day that the levees failed in the city of new orleans in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. maybe not exactly that day. on that day and the five subsequent days immediately after the levees failed, as the city's flooded, we behave just as we did in the immediate post-911 moments, scared of our racial enemies. the governor of louisiana, a democrat, the mayor of the city of new orleans, a black democrat, jointly decided to suspend search and rescue efforts in order to focus on law and order. until the national media recognize that there were people, not people actually, but women, elderly, and children starving and dying in the city center. it was not until the images of the women, elderly, and children who were dehydrating in the heat of a new orleans august finally turned the language away from the law and order language and into what the economists called the shaming of america. i do not know if you remember this. if i had got myself together, i would have put the image up on a power point. it was the image from the economist magazine. an african-american woman is on the co

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

joined by george will, katrina vanden heuvel, our political analyst, matthew dowd and austan goolsbee and former presidential candidate and former minnesota governor, tim pawlenty. let's start with these undecided voters. we did a poll this week on independents. take a hook at what it shows. they don't like either one. 54% unfavorable for the president's economic plan. a little bit better for governor romney, 47%. we saw these dueling speeches by the candidates this week d either candidate did you see provide the road map that these voters are looking for? >> i don't think so. 55 months after the beginning of the reagan recession of the early '80s. there were 7.5 million more jobs in this country. we're 55 months after the beginning of this recession and there are 4 million fewer jobs when it began. we'll come down to a four-letter word "jobs." . >> austan goolsbee, you heard governor rom noa's speech this week, the president had 3 1/2 years to get this job done and he's not gotten it done. >> they're the background of the economy growing, growing modestly, that's not providing a big

katrina, it's always great to have you on the program. tomorrow we'll examine the rising rate of suicide from our returning veterans. but coming up, the presidential election and the war of mistakes, that's up ahead on "viewpoint." >> that's crazy talk! [ explosion ] >> stephanie: what's that? what just happened behind me? >> liquid hot magma. >> stephanie: uh, yeah, he might need a translator to help him talk to folks in the private sector. [ applause ] >> stephanie: okay. >> eliot: when it comes to matters of money these days, the average american is anxious and for good reasons. the biggest cause of that anxiety is the number of the day, $49,100. that's the difference between the median of the american family net worth in 2007 and the median net worth in 2010. in just three years the median family richer than half of the nation's families and poorer than the other half saw their worth drop by almost $50,000 nearly 39%. according to the federal reserve that number has not been this low since the early 1990s. the income of the median fam

after hurricane katrina we participate 5 days. for work a lot of work places have supplies. make sure they do. if they don't keep one for yourself and may be your coworkers. a first aid kit a flashlight any pair of shoes in case you are driving you have to get out. water. how much water do you need for 72 hours? if you use the hot water heater you have to turn off the gas. if you don't stop the gas it will light up and cause a little explosion or fire. vegetables. the back of the tank you go up and treat water with bleach. but remember, it should be a fresh pot of bleach. once you open bleach it looses the effectiveness of the bleach. one capful for a gallon of water. wait 20 minutes. wash your hands. wait a half-hour, to drink it, tastes like pool water but it kills germs. >> what kind of food do you want to keep? open the fridge don't open it too much. eat all perishable food first. you want to save emergency supplies. what emergency supply food do you want to /kaoepl. keep? energy bars. dry food. canned vegetables. can corn, can peas, you can drain that and drink the wate

as one firefighter put it in a recent documentary, "burn" detroit is like katrina without the hurricane. detroit's finances are also in a disaster. the city has a $200 million budget shortfall and $13 billion in structural debt. the mayor announced layoffs of 164 firefighters beginning in july. is that going to help? the situation in detroit could go from bad to worse. >> i started smelling the smoke. >> the announcement comes within hours of an east side arson spree. 11 fires deliberately set. one fire buckled the aluminum siding on this woman's house. >> my neighbor starts yelling, the one behind you is burning. >> the detroit firefighter's association said the layoffs would mean 16 fewer engine or ladder companies. they call the job cuts disastrous. >> this is not going to work in the city of detroit. >> tracy is still worried. last night, firefighters had to spray water on the house where she lives with her four kids. >> our lives are in jeopardy. it's sad. >> but the federal government could step in. the mayor is applying for a federal safer grant that will allow him to rehire two

katrina rusk is inside she will bring reports on what happened next, later. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> from the south bay to north bay in fairfield police want to know if there are more victims of abuse after arresting a pastor on child molestation accusations going back two decades. police arrested 65-year-old robert ruark. investigators say he molested at least five children dating back to 1994. they say the crimes happened at the church and in some cases ruark took naked pictures of the children. >>> antioch police say a man they shot and killed in front of his home, wanted to die and gave officers no choice. 30 few-year-oldpt denny gonzalez called 911 thursday afternoon saying he wanted to kill himself, a cop or may have already done so when officers got there he came out of his garage, down his driveway armed with a hand again. gonzalez refused to drop -- drop the gun and fired one round at officers police shot and killed him. >>> san francisco suspended sheriff headed for a showdown with the man who suspended him. mayor ed lee expected to testify at

this isn't a big hurricane, a katrina type storm but even these tropical storm with flooding can be bigging big problems. >> thanks for watching that. >>> elsewhere, a fast growing wildfire near colorado springs, colorado, forced evacuation of more than 11,000 residents and tourists on sunday. in northern colorado authorities say the total number of homes destroyed by fire has risen to nearly 250. that blaze is so far scorched more than 130 square miles. right now there are a total of eight wildfires currently burning in colorado. >>> overseas egypt's first freely elected president is expected to meet with the ruling council which last week took away most of the powers of the president's office. mohammed morsi won with more than 51% of the vote. he said he carried a message of unity and pledged to preserve egypt's international accord, including those with neighboring israel. his supporters are vowing to stay in tahrir square until presidential powers are reenstated. >>> now here's a look at some other stories making news "early today" in america. in florida people were doing a double take

that's the ruling from a judge in louisiana coming nearly seven years after katrina devastated the cityecision awards more than a million dollars to 7 people who filed a class action lawsuit against the school board and the state. now some 7,000 others could also claim damages. no word on whether school officials will appeal. it could effect the prices you pay at the supermarket and your kid's school lunks. the senate working on a gigantic farm bill that deals with a whole lot more than farming. supporters claim it will save taxpayers more than $20 billion over the next decade. critics call it a pork barrel spending spree. we report. you died. trace gallagher is on it. the first imlans -- glangs of savings. $20 billion. that sounds like a lot at first blush. >> it really does, shep. when you consider the farm bill is a trillion dollars in total that's 8%. farm bill has nothing to do with food or farms. including amendment dealing with aid to pakistan. now the reason this bill has bipartisan support is because critics say lawmakers can fill it with all kinds of goodies for their respecti

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