pero antes de katrina era raro ver una cara hispana.> la poblaciÓn de nueva orleans, en el censo del 2000, 480 mil en el estimado hay 25% menos habitantes. la poblaciÓn negra experimento la mayor reducciÓn. mientras que el nÚmero de blancos e hispanos aumentÓ considerablemente. sin embargo, algunos piensan que estas cifras no reflejan la realidad. >>> extraoficialmente yo dirÍa que estamos fÁcilmente arriba del 10% >>> el referendo ramos estÁ reciÉn llegado a nueva orleans, vin atender las necesidades religiosas de la creciente poblaciÓn latina. ahora, es mucho mÁs comÚn ver ceremonias de quinceaÑeras y otras celebraciones hispanas. en el perÍodo de limpieza y reconstrucciÓn posterior a katrina, habÍan 120 mil trabajadores hispanos. muchos de ellos se quedaron y echaron raÍces. >>> este no es un crecimiento sin dolor. a pesar del auge de la prosperidad econÓmica para algunos hispanos. han habido momentos extremadamente difÍciles. >>> muchos, fueron vÍctimas del crimen. otros se encontraron con patronos que abusaron de la situaciÓn de lo

we upgraded pumps after katrina.t have been reengineer sod they have back up power, so in case the electricity goes off, generators will come on, so they have redundancy. we also learned to build our buildings smarter. is the charity hospital at the cost of $1.3 billion as piece, because those hospitals flooded because the generators were on the first floor. if the basements -- those two hospitals would not have to be replaced. when they became violated on the first floor, the loss of electricity lose air conditioning and no longer usable. so the new hospitals the first floors will be generic, in that if water gets in them, the rest f the hospital can continue to operate. all that being said, it will unlevied you some protection. but then on the other hand, we have to remind people, that anything built by man can be overmatched by mother nature, nothing can give you full protection from the hurricane coming ashore, other than being evacuated. today new orleans is in ways a city on the rise. growing sector and a hot h

, i'm beauty and style journalist katrina szish on location in beverly hills.n just a few minutes we'll meet one of the most beautiful women in the world, supermodel cindy crawford.

it was eight years ago today that hurricane katrina slammed ashore on the gulf coast, more than 1800 people were killed, and the city of new orleans devastated. the recovery there is still under way. wthere have been creative people who have gone to the big easy to help drive the revival. >> matthew has come a long way since helping his father fix up houses in vermont. now he's a respected furniture designer with a booming business. >> this material is what makes my work beautiful to me. like many other creative entrepreneurs, he was drawn to new orleans in the desperate days of hurricane katrina. >> i visited and fell in love with the city. the music, the young people who were moving here who had it in their heart they wanted to be part of rebuilding a city. >> and the influx of the young and talented is across the city. shared workplaces like in the heart of downtown are increasingly common, and new orleans is now ranked as one of new orleans biggest brain magnates a trend that a professor says is a game changer. >> the biggest difference after hurricane katrina it has raised the b

could tell me the problem is katrina. recently tropical storm isaac last year, so so many concerns we have, if you said, how are we going to evacuate half of our coast line in 38 hours. i know who to go to. i know how long it is going to take. how many states can be evacuated or not? how many will be federal assistance? i can tell you. all of a sudden i find myself not coming up with words or , andus about what to say we are asking for your help to advocate because of the things i know, because of operations. i can tell you american red cross has a 23 square feet per person capacity for a building, that has slowly been increasing as you have special requirements for pediatric or children, that areas, thatve lay we should have various things for children, that it is increasing. what does that mean in terms of operations? that means the capacity is lower. in au could fit 300 people building using red cross standards, now you might have two buildings to fit the same number of people. for wills you advocate definitely have an

katrina was not about god's judgment. it was about the storm that started in the low pressure zone that slowly dangerously grew to a tropical wave of low pressure. katrina had a natural cause not a supernatural one. it flooded new orleans and its citizenry and called them to go into exile was simply the catastrophic levee system that had been constructed by human hands. besides, i believed that what we did to help those affected by the storm and not why the storm or destruction happened was what mattered. mike katrina era messages were just plainly positive. i preach that the storm was a moment to prove to god just how loving we could be toward one another but the dominionists at grace were furious nevertheless. are you saying they chided me after sunday services that it doesn't matter how the people in new orleans lived? that they could be saved if they are alcoholic? i was unflinching in my answer. yes, kyra played sternly. that is exactly what i am saying. the dominionists simply shook their head in disgust. even thoug

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

it was eight years ago that hurricane katrina slammed the shore on the gulf coast.than 1800 people were killed. and the city of new orleans was devastated the recovery there is still very much underway, andy gallagher introduces us now to the creative people who have gone to the big easy to help drive its revival. matthew's come a long way since helping his father fix up houses in vermont. he is now a respected furniture desnowier a booming business. >> this material is what makes my work beautiful to me. and like many of the creative entrepreneurs he was drawn to new orleans in the desperate days following hurricane katrina. >> i visited and really fell in love with the city. the music, the young people moving here. who really had it in their heart they wanted to be part of rebuilding the city. >> and the influx of the young and the talented is obvious across the city. shared work spaces like the heart of downtown are increasingly common. and new orleans is now ranked as one of north america's biggest brain magnets. a trend that finance professor says is a game cha

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

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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

ate 5% of the city was underwater after katrina.t took joyce morris six years to rebuild her home. since then, she's just been waiting for others to come back. >> people are scared to come back. you know, a lot of people didn't have insurance. >> before hurricane katrina, this neighborhood was home to about 14,000 people. city wide, new orleans has seen nearly 90% have its population return, but only 30% back in the lower ninth ward. >> you can see there's still a lot of empty lots, vacant homes, so that's very disheartening. >> doris why man said there was a silver lining. she and her family returned to the make it right housing program launched by actor brad pitt, now are homeowners for the first time. still, there are big and little things that have been lost, which make life hard. >> i'd say just to bring back things like hospitals, more schools. >> we don't have a grocery store. people don't care. the cornfield, this is the infamous corn field. during the summer, it gets crazy and tall, and we have to wait for whom ever owns th

. >>> eight years later marking the anniversary of hurricane katrina, scars of the devastation remaina closer look when we return. >>> and the weather will change for labor day weekend. i'll look at the national forecast when we come back. ♪ ♪ >>> recapping our top stories nationwide fast-food protest is underway. workers have walked off of the job demanding higher wages. thousands of fast-food workers across the country are expected to join in the strike. an average worker makes about $15,000 a year. demonstrators want to double that. this is the late nest a spring of demonstrations that began last november. >>> the british government says the legal conditions have been made for taking action against syria. wheen time the german government says the chancellor and putin agree they must deal with the situation in syria. anticipation is growing over whether or not the president will make a strike against syria. thousands of syrian refugees have fled their homeland. they are describing how those left behind are preparing for a possible attack. >> reporter: this crossing on the lebanon sy

the may josh's office saying 80% of the pre-katrina population has returned. business is booming.is new orleans' mayor mitch landrieu. i great to have you here. i know also isaac a year ago also happens to fall on this anniversary as well. let's talk about where we've come almost over the last decade. recently there's one woman who rebuilt her home saying the recovery has been slow. she tells the associated pretty, quote, we're still living in a jungle. for those who haven't been to the lower ninth, is it still the slow it's area to rebound and rebuild? if so, how are you helping to rebuild it? >> thomas, thank you so much. the first thing we do is remember 91836 folks that were taken from us, which we did earlier this morning, and then take a moment to think about how far the city has come. it's a comeback story. there's no question that the city of new orleans is stronger, faster and better. we've rebuilt the education system, the health care system, economic development. as you noted, tourism. different parts are coming back at different levels. when it gets cold, the poor get

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> our sixth story outfront, devastation and heartbreak in new orleans eight years after katrina.st 29th, 2005, hurricane katrina forever changed the crescent city when it made landfall and left hundreds dead, and more than 200,000 homes damaged. many returned and rebuilt. but still, eight years later, some residents are in a fight for their homes. rosa flores is outfront with this story. ♪ >> reporter: danell and adell celebrated when they finished repairing their home. >> you had to do what you had to do. >> reporter: they look forward to sewing these suits in their family home, a tradition for four generations among members of the indian tribe. >> this was the living room area. >> reporter: but today they're without their historic home once again, lost this time to foreclosure. after losing your home to katrina, you weren't expecting something like this to happen again. >> you could digest tragedy from mother nature. but when you have this kind of storm to take place, i can't digest that. >> reporter: the troubles began when their son became very ill. all while they were rebuil

new orleans is putting together a plan to avoid a disaster like katrina.ry decision and part artistic creation, we'll show you how it works next. the little league world series is an annual right of summer. and coming up next in sports, we'll take you to williams port, pennsylvania where some of the world's best young baseball talent competing for one of the game's most famous championships. mission. >> there's more to america, more stories, more voices, more points of view. now there's are news channel with more of what americans want to know. >> i'm ali velshi and this is "real money." this is "america tonight." sglovrjs our -- >> our news coverage reveal more of america's stories. >> michael eves is here with sports some incredible action in pennsylvania with the little league world series, lover this time of year. >> incredible athletes at such a young age, throughout the history of the little league world series certain players have stood out during the tournament and became bona fide stars in the process. al jazerra joins us now from williams port wi

. >> eight years after hurricane katrina devastated new orleans, the surprising reason why the big easy is making a big come back. how a sperm bank for finey creatures could help an entire species stave off extinction. >> aljazeera turns to sports. components of the aljazz mission. >> there's more to america, more stories, more voices, more points of view. now there's are news channel with more of what americans want to know. >> i'm ali velshi and this is "real money." this is "america tonight." sglovrjs our -- >> our news coverage reveal more of america's stories. >> we have been talking about syria all morning, but we have some developing news coming out of egypt. protests in support of ousted egyptian president mohamed morsi are taking plagues in the country. police have closed entrances into cairo and shut down metro stations in tahrir square to contain the protestors. flash style protests are being held in order to avoid fighting with police. >> eight years ago, hurricane katrina slammed into the gulf coast. more than 1800 people died in one of the worst natural disasters in this n

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. >> in a city steeped in history, it's the newest residents helping new orleans make a post katrinaomeback. >> this morning, president obama considers going it alone, taking on syria without a key ally by its side. the obama administration forced to evaluate that option after being repudiated by the british parliament, refusing to authorize military intervention. >> the ayes 272, the nos 285. >> prime minister david cameron disagrees with the vote, but believes it represents the will of the people. just hours after britain backed out, another ally stepped forward. the president of france said all options are on the table for an intervention in syria, and that in fact if the attack was carried out, it must noting unpunished. president obama briefed lawmakers. congressional leaders were told there is proof, including intercepted communication that the assad regime was behind the chemical attacks. no decision has been made yet on syria. hagel said the u.s. won't allow politics to detour it from taking action. he said the obama administration would continue working to assemble a coaliti

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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

thanks. >> katrina, there are so many questions. i ask you given your experience and your deep knowledge on russian affairs, "the new york times" says that mr. obama's decision to forego the summit with mr. putin is a blow to mr. putin that will deprive him of a high profile moment. i heard a russian analyst this weekend saying the russians are going to consider this an act of weakness, that president obama cannot stand up to the angry voices. >> that's a very interesting point. what we have seen over this last -- well, first of all 22 years since the end of the cold war and u.s./russia did not have a cooperative relationship, we have even the emergence of an antirussian lobby in our government. snowden was a lousy christmas gift. that's how putin put it. so i think president obama got it right when he said a month ago, we have a lot of business to talk about. >> right. >> don't let edward snowden get in the way. there are issues of mutual national security concerns that russia and the united states should be engaged in, whether it'

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

one of the big issues in katrina, people were forceed to evacuate. if we had a large fire. we might have to force an evacuation. >> one the things we're trying to develop is an expectation, this is our bottom line expectation for building performance. your building, while it might not be damaged. will it be sufficient to camp out it? >> we are not quite there yet. >> that's the kind of expectation. >> i think we should pass this along to the audience. there should be design standards. there's a discussion, what should our design standards be for new construction? and the building department, we on caps are going to say, what standards should those be? and there's a group of us that have come up with a concept that hasn't been universally adopted of at some point in the future, this might be 15, 20, 25 years out, where our retrofits and our renovations are implemented at that point. it's not going to happen within next week. but where occupants of buildings, 95 percent of the population can expect to shelter in place within 12 hours of an earthquake. that's where a group of

. >>> it was eight years ago when hurricanhurricane katrina hit te shores. gallagher introduces us to some of the creative people who have gone to the big easy to help drive it's revival. >> reporter: matthew has come a long way since helping his father fix up houses in vermont. he's now a respected furniture designer with a booming business. >> this wood is what makes my work beautiful to me. >> reporter: like many of the creative entrepreneurs he was drown to new orleans in the desperate stays following hurricane katrina. >> i visited and fell in love with the city. the music, the young people moving here who really had it in their heart they wanted to be part of rebuilding the city. >> reporter: and the influx of the young and the talented is obvious across the city. shared workspaces in the heart of downtown are increasingly common, and new orleans is now ranked as one of north america's talent. >> what has rais raised the barf the city and what can they do here. >> reporter: it has helped new orleans stage a remarkable comeback. but when you come to nei

our thanks to katrina vanden h euvel, publisher of "the nation." [applause] we want to remind everybody that copies of her book are on sale in the lobby. she would be pleased to sign them. we aappreciate your allowing her to make her wait the lobby as quickly as possible. this meeting is adjourned. [applause] >> everyone. thank you. my name is carl i'm the president of the silicon leadership groufrp we're happy you joined us for a town hall with mayor ed lee with the obama administration on the action on immigration founded here just a few blocks away. that what matters is we have a mare that understands the issues a nearest and dear it to us and that's immigration reform. since it's inception we've gotten over 20 visas alone and the feeling is we have a shortage on green talent when we need to go through the steps we need to go through and for the tech community we're focused on opening up our technical school to the global community. we're in a talent war along with a state war on services gov. and anything we can help to create change here means

, i'm beauty and style journalist katrina szish on location in beverly hills.just a few minutes we'll meet one of the most beautiful women in the world, supermodel cindy crawford. at age 45, cindy still looks impossibly young and gorgeous. >> oh, my god, she's just stunning. her skin is just amazing, and so i feel like now i have a chance. >> what's cindy's beauty secret? we're about to find out. ♪ >> the first time i saw cindy in person,

thank you. >> reporter: the aftermath of hurricane katrina proved to be a failure across all levels of eight years later, new orleans officials hope that they have their evacuation systems figured out. and art is part of the solution. >> somebody told me the other day it looks like somebody trying to catch a mardi gras bead. we watched the whole battle. >> reporter: in search of an iconic imager, lieutenant colonel jerry sneed a marine with decades of disaster experience. >> look at what we are doing to improve thing. >> reporter: and robert the founder of a greats roots organization joined forces. >> we pride ourself in art and so on and so forth we did a contest with the art community. >> reporter: with the help of fogarty's organization, the city placed 17 of these sculpture around new orleans and for good reason. >> 25 no 30,000 of our sit sense that just need as tans getting out. >> reporter: many are rand handicapped and don't have cars. this icon has has the chance to save lives. >> reporter: on the coasts of louisiana, contraflow goes in to effect. what that means is that major

katrina had a natural cause, not a supernatural. what flooded new orleans and cause them to go into exile was simply the catastrophic let the system that had been constructed by human hands. besides, i believe that what we did to help those affected by the storm, not by the storm, was what mattered the messages were planted positive. i preached that the storm and a moment to prove to guide just how loving we could be to one another. nevertheless i using they chided me after sunday services? it does not matter how the people in new ones left. they can be saved if they are alcoholics? i was unflinching in my answer. yes, i replied sternly. that is exactly what i'm saying. the dominguez simply shook their heads in disgust. even though i found a profound sense of fulfillment helping to train refugees by constant clash with the diminished lead to a feeling of the fall. i realize that many of the folks at grace held beliefs that were diametrically different from my own i was a sissy with ideas i did not share. this simply was not enough t

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

what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining >> hi, in san francisco we're doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. and today w

. >>> eight years ago hurricane katrina killed 2,000 people and new orleans. we report on the influx on creative people instrumental in rebuilding the city. >> reporter: matthew's come a long way since helping his father fix up houses in vermont. he's a respected furniture designer with a booming business. >> this material makes my work beautiful to me. >> reporter: like many other creative entrepreneurs he was drawn to new orleans in the desperate days following hurricane katrina. >> i visited and fell in love with the city, the music, the young people moving here that wanted to be part of rebuilding the city. >> reporter: the influx of the young and the talented is obvious across the city. shared workspaces like baiter in the heart of downtown are increasingly common and new orleans is ranked as one of north america's biggest brain magnets, a trend that a finance minister says is a game changer. >> the real difference after katrina is it raised the bar for the city and what they can do here. >> there's little doubt this new generation helped new orleans stag

neil: katrina, thank you very much. good wor of warning by the way.rson in dallas, texas. >>> when empty-nesters that sign the economy is running on empty? [ horn honks ] [ male announcer ] once in a while, everything falls into perfect harmony. [ engine revs ] and you find yourself in exactly the right place at the right time. just be sure you're in the right car when it happens. ... in total alignment. ... neil: well you know, more adult kids than ever are refusing to leave the nest. they're making it their nest and increasing their nest for life because more than one out of three young people are still living with mom-and-pop. some not so young. up to 31 years of age. that is a lot of normans in the basement. a sign this economy is going psycho? ask jo ling kent and steve lazear and jean marsh. what do you think? >> a lot of factors, confluence of things. rising education costs. really difficult employment situation. parents who are willing to have their kids live at home. kids willing to live with their parents. is up tick has gone from 32 to 36%.