the reason i'm so interested in this is i saw the wasted money in katrina on debris clean up. it was atroshese. the crore contracted at about $70 a cubic yard but the guys doing it and halling it to the mp were making about $6 to $9. the people doing the work were getting 25% of what was allocated. and subcontract tors took that money and didn't do anything except organize. we are going to be interested in following that. i hope you'll take in good faith. it's not to be critical of the corp but we think wise spending of that money. so i have a lot of questions. why do we have a dump site for new york 300 miles away from the facility and what are the rules that make us go 300 miles when there are other areas it could be transferred to. there are a lot of cost based on rules. we want to figure that out for the next time so we are not spending. i think we are averaging $62 a cubic yard and six or 7 years later on the clean up. and the contracts and the requirement to use local contractors and whether or not that's efficient for the taxpayer because we are paying for it, the feder

and we see the drama all the way from 9-11 through katrina to whatever the next catastrophe is going to be. we live in a nuclear age. who would have predicted the united states would be fully invested in a response in japan? who would have predicted several years ago when a tsunami hit a country in indonesia which was predominately anti-american in its sentiment, mostly because of disinformation, mostly because as people grew up there they were given propaganda and told stories about the american those and what we do and how we do it, and they learned to feel we were the enemy. then they saw through that catastrophe, they saw the response of the lincoln battle group, they saw american military men and women in uniform as well as partnering with non-governmental organizations like project hope, operation smile, doctors without borders, they saw all those people coming off the ships and taking care of their loved ones, taking care of those who were hopeless and helpless. they saw that and it turned them around. it made the world a better place. it certainly made indonesia a better plac

we've developed these relationships and how do we avoid the mistakes that were made after hurricane katrina? but what we've also found is that by simply convening these groups, we are preparing ourselves not just for what happens after a disaster, but we are literally building our community today. with this coordinating council, we're figuring out how to fix the potholes, how to deal with the literally million people who are going to descend on our neighborhood this weekend, how to take care of the needs that we have, not just in the future after the big one, but today in 2012. and by bringing us together today, by tackling and talking about the problems we'll deal with tomorrow, we're actually achieving many things here at this moment in october. and, so, i want to ask you to think about how it is that you can help us to build these infrastructures, how you can help us to build community so that we're keeping ourselves safe today, this month, this year, and for many, many years to come. so, with that, again, i want to thank you for being here. and we as a civilian leadership of the city an

and it has not gotten better since katrina. so i was struck when i saw -- when i was doing this series. and it was based specifically at your school. it was a long way of asking, how much more difficult is it for you to navigate this journey at this school in new orleans post- katrina? >> wow. i did not know much about new orleans, other than a tourist view. when i arrived, i got an eye opening -- my dad was a marine. we lived all over the country. sometimes in civilian communities and sometimes on base. i thought i had seen and heard enough. these young people and the city itself have yet to one, recover from katrina. as he said, there are pre- existing conditions. i find that my young people have a very narrow vision. the inability to project long- term outside of that world. in the world of school, that is the biggest shock to me is that they can't project beyond their immediacy. and when i talk to them about best case scenario, the things the present to me are things that most of us take for granted. i asked a young man at

or did you come out to katrina thinking of it as a book project? >> i didn't. i moved to new orleans about five and a half or six years ago, to work as an education writer at the times picayune, i didn't know i would write a book. and from having talked to other people who had written books, i didn't want to write a book for the sake of writing a book because i got a success of whan at arduous and long process it is. so i wanted to wait until i was a point where i felt driven to do, and i think it came from just like a desire to really kind of grapple with issues in more depth. i had worked at a daily newspaper for seven or eight years when i started writing this book, and you just don't have the space and time to really go into stories and issues in as much depth as you'd like, even at the best of papers. so that motivated me. and then as i said it kind of -- the project evolved over time and didn't end up being what i had envisioned it initially. >> good evening. my first experience with a sarah is a student at walker school before i enlisted into the nationa

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

we have seen the impact on people's lives after katrina. >> cheryl: you are so prepared. over the place in your country? >> we did that after san bruno but during that explosion, we were on site first. we were checking on homes pets were left behind. we had animals who were displaced and spend time in our shelter at no cost while owners could get settled. we kept them safe there. we were handing out supplies as well. we were helping on a lot of fronts after san bruno. >> that is fantastic. you brought a lot of stuff here. people need to think about for their pets. you've got a little bag that collapses? >> it's collapsible and you transport it. it's important. having visible identification. there is little collar. we see far too many pets that don't have i.d. and if they do have i.d. it's an outdated phone number or address. it has to be current. also a way to transport animals. their dog or cat has never been in a carrier or never been in the car before. you want them to be used the to being in a car. this is good way to do that. also have a few places to go in an emerge

either robin hood -- >> you can have it both ways. >> i'm a movie nut, katrina. >> katrina, you know, we talk about this as people who have catholocism in our blood lines, it was part of our family structure. at the same time, the church, there's been a cleave between some people at this table and the institution writ large and what role do the lay people play in holding the church accountable and pushing for more reforms and saying this isn't right. because of some degree it has to come from the top. there has to be someone in the belly of the beast as chris says. >> there has to be. >> but to some degree, the grassroots are accountable as well. >> we talked earlier about the nuns. the nuns are trying to hold the church to what they believe the church's best traditions. i don't have a clear sense, because as i said, i'm a lapsed catholic, what the lay community, the groups are that could force some reform. it's going to take it. but you do need -- and i come back to this. the gorbachev analogy is not wrong. when he came into the politburo, the belly of the beast, in '95, the average

this is after katrina. over and over again being attacked.lying to louisiana on the way back to washington. and the snail-like pace of relief. my heart goes out to him. the critics do not know what's in 43's heart. of course he did, he's his father. i agree with you, that it's a father's sense, rather than probably a more pragmatic thing, which is actually the president made a number of big mistakes over katrina. >> i said go back to washington, i meant get ahold of this katrina situation. but anybody who is a father understands why he would leap to his defense, even within himself saying, look, i think he's made a mistake here. he's got this great empathy and sympathy for his son. anybody who attacks his son, he sees as a personal attack on him. quite natural. >> this special you've got, about elderly abuse, quickly, what is it about? >> what it's about is the phenomenon of so many american seniors being preyed upon by international crooks, cowards, to take their money, with telemarketing and particularly with lotteries. i had an idea about

he was in the post katrina and new orleans center. he trained people in the film. he received an advocacy fellowship and named a public interest fellow by harvard law school. next we have maurice call well. he was convicted in the housing project here in san francisco. there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime yet he was still convicted based on the false testimony of a single neighbor. he was sentence to life behind bars. in prison mr. colwell contacted the center for help and located two witnesses who saw the murder and said mr. colwell was not involved in anyway. they located the real killer who confessed and he committed the murder. that man is serving a life sentence for a subsequent murder . on march 28, 2011 after more than 20 years in prison, maurice colwell is free. thank you for being here. [ applause ] linda star is the legal and cofounding in the santa clara law, law center clerk received her ph.d.. she wrote and argued post conviction matters in state and federal court and supervisor in the sex crimes unit. she worked as a staff attorney

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hurricane katrina puts a face on what this particular study talk about, but when we think about climateamericans are more vulnerable to heat stresses, to air pollution and asthma-related health consequences african-americans tend to be heightened by storms and climate change activity but are less likely to respond to things like floods and hurricanes. another interesting thing is the southeast has the largest -- one of the largest populations of african americans in the united states. that's also one of the regions most vulnerable to hurricanes and tropical cyclones so when we sue superstorm sandy or katrina, the southeastern population is particularly vulnerable to these types of storms. >> michael: it is more difficult to bring awareness to this problem, because there's not a head-line related storm disaster happening right now? is that a big problem with this story? >> yeah, whether you are african american or not, oftentimes people see climate change as something creeping off into the future. but as i told the senate about three weeks ago, it's really about cheerios. people are sayi

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[applause] >> so i know, myself, like a lot of people have thought about katrina. one of the silver linings of that might be the kind of reform of education. now you cover that in your book. what to you feel has happened? would you feel the state of education in new orleans is at this point? years later. >> endo, there is no easy answer to that. there are sort of -- i feel people who make what has happened here out of a complete positive and that is to make it out as a complete negative. i really feel like the truth is in between that. there is much more complication. i feel like they're a tremendous amount of educators working really hard in the schools and just a huge amount of progress that has been made. and a lot of families that feel like schools are more sort of stable places for preparing your kids for college. but that said, i think that there are a lot of lingering challenges. think that kids who are the most challenging, whether or not because they have special needs or a history of behavioral issues in the schools were coming out of alternative settings

neil: katrina, i mentioned my concern this government would try to get involved. i think with best of intentions, but to little avail, people try to keep in their homes get thrown out. because the rework program does not work, my best advice, for government to stay out and let the market do its thing, it will be more efficient, it will be better, it will not put an artificial veil over this, what do you say. >> i agree with you 100%, for last 2 or 3 years we've been discussing the band-aid fix issues, we need to let paper take its course. and another component are develop ores that are coming back into the market this time they are coming back smarter, so many of them that suffered during bust, are now building more inventory, that will be great for south florida but they are doing is wiser now, they are not letting people come in buying 5 to 10 properties, with speculation they will flip them. so that is another component in our favor in florida, i agree, i think that government needs to stay out and let supply and demand dictate the market. >> you are right. we'