well, it has been almost ten years since hurricane katrina stuck new orleans. the lower 9th still hasn't recovered. have many say they feel forgotten. instead it signifies it's failure. it is like giving a a kid what they wanted for christmas, and then taking eight way friday this them, and being like you can't have it any more. >> that's a recurrent theme. it remains uncared for. the community center then is a symbol of this neighborhood's persistent problems. it's been almost ten years since hurricane katrina struck, and still homes remain abandoned. only a fraction of the residents came back, and there seems to be very little political will to remaining a neighborhood that was once vibrant. >> this is our future church. but reverend charles hasn't given up, his church was destroyed by the storm, but he hasser severed and now a new structure is slowly taking shape. it's been a battle, but he says people are returning albeit slowly and in small numbers. >> people have found better lives in other communities. that's okay, but how do you built a community by giv

of hurricane katrina.a real pleasure to have you with us tonight. thanks for joining us. >> good evening, rachel. >> i imagine you have to be very disappointed in the vote that was taken in the legislature tonight. how did this come to pass? why do you think they were able to pass this? >> well, disappointed is a mild term to use. they were able to pass it because democracy failed the people of louisiana tonight. it showed that the oil and gas flags still fly over our state capitol. meaning that the influence of this industry was able to influence our legislators and basically told them what they wanted them to do, which was to pass a retroactive law. yes, you heard it, rachel. they passed a retroactive law, meaning that this law will go back op a suit that's already been filed that is sitting in the court. a judge has already preliminarily said this suit is legal inside the statute of the laws of louisiana. they have passed a law that would make that suit illegal. they've passed a retroactive law. >> in t

. >> reporter: i am in new orleans, it's been almost 10 years since h hurricane katrina devastated thise county. wwe'll be showing you how it's struggle to go make a comeback. >>> egyptian presidential candidate has conceded defeat in the election, but says there were serious violations in the vote. he's described them as an insult to the intelligence of the people. supporters of the former military leader al se sisi says he's won the election with more than 90% of the vote. here say report. >> reporter: he's the only other candidate for the presidency and now he's conceded defeat. >> translator: the election process in itself in the democratic governor the election was violated and lacked impartially. i am telling you with respect to the people, we cannot give any credibility and we cannot believe the figures declared until now about the participation of the voters in this election. >> reporter: al se sisi is only waiting to be sworn in once the official results are through. it was billed to be a celebration democracy, a chance to show the world that the majority the majority of the eg

it has been ten years since hurricane katrina, and yet it still remains abandoned. only a fraction of the residents came back, and there seems to be very little political will to rebuild a neighborhood that was once vibrant. >> it's a sacred place. >> but the reverend hasn't given up. his church was destroyed by the storm, and he has persevered. now a new building is taking shape. it has been a battle. and the people are returning slowly. >> how do you build a community is by giving them hope and by somebody standing up and saying, we can do this if we work together. >> across the street, a multimillion-dollar community from is being built. with other amenities like supermarkets and farm fees are non-existent. and time is running out. they're desperately trying to raise cash, but a building that housed hundreds of volunteer workers is dwindling. >> every in new orleans, they have fought for human rights, and we haven't been able to do that. because we have less than one-third of the community back. >> for the lower 9th ward, it's a picture of limited progress and co

the problem has gotten worse since katrina in noerz. the city is now leading the chargeew orleans.he city is now leading the charge to turn entire neighborhoods around. >> the stock of gutted, abandoned and run-down homes across new orleans has been tied to poverty. but nearly nine years after hurricane katrina, they are a result of those uprooted by the storm. >> thousands of blighted structures in the city with the x on the door from when the search crews came through. >> considered the most blighted city in america after the 2005 hurricane, new orleans seems to be putting a noticeable dent in its ugly problem. >> this lot was overgrown. >> the crumblic home next to zac miller was torn down. neighbors are using the space for community garden. >> it's been amazing how much the neighborhood has changed. there is a to know of new properties that have been redeveloped or new construction on empty lots. >> it's a storm effect. >> a geography professor, peter yanki has been heeding a team in the flood zone since 2006. >> includes homes renovated by non-profits, reconstructed or torn do

nobody took the republican only select committee investigation into katrina seriously. nobody remembers its weird whitewash with the president doing nothing wrong because nobody paid attention to the report. the democrats' strategy of boycotting republican investigations they consider to be a sham in that case quite successfully marginalized that investigation. on the other hand, there's darrell issa and elijah cummings, a totally different tactical example. as chairman of a key oversight committee, darrell issa launched hearing after hearing and investigation after investigation after investigation, all of which the democrats think are shams. one of the ways they made their strongest case that darrell issa isn't really investigating anything, he is just grand standing and doing so in a way that's partisan, pointless, classless. one of the ways democrats have expressed that about darrell issa is by having the ranking democrat, elijah cummings, say that at all of the committee hearings. having elijah cummings in the hearing room is a critical way democrats made their cas

katrina. katrina. as you said, the state took as you said, the state took over over about about four-fifths of the four-fifths of the schools. schools. there were too many school seats there were too many school seats for kids even before katrina. for kids even before katrina. among the changes they've made among the changes they've made they have turned most not all of they have turned most not all of the schools into charters. the schools into charters. there's still going to be five there's still going to be five traditional public schools in traditional public schools in the city in the fall that are the city in the fall that are run by run by the the local i don't local i don't orleans orleans district. district. you have to enter a lottery and you have to enter a lottery and choose and be assigned to a choose and be assigned to a public school here. public school here. many, many issues have been many, many issues have been changed. changed. >> one of the schools that oprah >> one of the

before creercht, 75 katrina, 75g schools. today less than 15% of those students are attending schools with either a d or f rating. >> advocates for charter school, are quick to note, what's lost when traditional public schools spearts. joining us are nola and danielle. danielle, the statistics are touted every. the high school graduation rate was about 54% and 7,000 teachers and public school employees were fired. the recovery school district took over and about four fifths of the schools and since then most of the schools have become charter schools and as of last year the graduation rate was above 75%. a tulane university study shows the l charter schools have had a positive effect, do you agree? >> everything has changed. so many things have changed in the school system here since katrina. as you said, the state took over about four-fifths of the schools. there were too many school seats for kids even before katrina. among the changes they've made they have turned most not all of the schools into charters. there's still go

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

we haven't been able to do that. >> nearly a decade after hurricane katrina devastated the big easy, one local community in new orleans struggling to rebuild. >> the young duties known as mill len yells having a tough time getting ahead. why a staggering number of them still need financial help from their families. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> i'm del walters. a record breaking deal could lead to a new owner for the laugh clippers. >> shelly sterling has agreed to sell the team to steve ballmer. >> he offered $2 billion for the team, surpassing groups with high profile games like david geffen, oprah winfrey and magic johnson. it was ballmer and his wealth won out. >> he is worth $20 billion and a huge fan of professional basketball. donald sterling's wife shelly agreed to the sale thursday afternoon just days before a planned nba hearing to kick her family out of the league. >> i don't think there's anything donald sterling can say to the nba owners to convince him to let him keep the team. >> his racist rant was released on line last month and led the nba t

. >> reporter: the katrina family bought their home in 1998. >> we paid 400,000 for it. >> reporter: the previous owners were his wife's parents. she grew up in this home. and in 1963 ... >> bought the lot for about $8,000 and spent $25,000 on the house. >> reporter: it has had its share of remodeling. >> it was a beautiful fireplace. a nice stone from back then in the 60s , but the problem was it took up so much space up here and it was wood-burning. >> reporter: and the home has been updated with hardwood floors. >> it had the typical white carpet that was white. it had more marble in the house than a mausoleum. it was just marble all over the house. >> reporter: for decades, this established neighborhood had little to no turnover until about five years ago. >> the widows were passing away and new families were coming in so you are seeing more kids in the neighborhood. kids playing on the street. you come on the other hand the corner and you have a cone saying kids playing. >> reporter: the price for the katrina's home shot up in a 60 year span from $33,000 to $400,000, and new? >>

we caught up with the founder and the people benefitting from it. ♪ >> after katrina, new orleans wascattered around the country and we lost everything we had. >> i didn't know what i was going to do. there was no place to play here in the city. ♪ >> it was seven years ago in 2007 i was at a backyard party, a fundraiser, and they were playing a set. i was backing john up and trading on the songs and someone came up and said you are wonderful together and make a record and i said we can't even make rent right now let alone make a record and he said how much do you need. paul said $10,000.02 weeks later he called and said where do i send the check. he didn't say i want to own the music. promise me when the record comes out you will pay the money back. they really want to help new orleans and this is how they wanted to help. they paid the money within a year and the idea from that, let's see if we can raise money more others and loan it to them and that was the start of thread head records back in '07. we loaned the money to the musicians and they make the cd, they keep the masters and k

nearly half of the people who didn't evacuate during hurricane katrina, the rescuers would say, we're not going to take their cat or dog, the people said, then fine i'm not going to leave. and a lot of those people died. the pets act compels rescue agencies to save pets as well as people. in future natural disasters, and a lot of natural disasters post-katrina you saw pets being rescued also people. >> a pet named napoleon, we have come to realize that they actually understand, are much more sentient than they were thought to be in the past. >> exactly. there's been an explosion in canine research, especially in the last 15 years. and the video of napoleon shows that when an experimenter points at something, like points to a cup, the dog knows what cup to go to. that may seem like a simple skill but believe it or not chimpanzees can't do that. revolution, oh reply gosh there's all things that dogs can do, empathy, skeptics of empathy empathy -- concepts of morality. there is not as much we know about the fee line mind as we know about the canine mind. >> the fe fee feline is a little

. >>> and the music that helped new orleans come back after hurricane katrina.s. >> well, the week long storm that's plaguing most of the eastern part of the united states, is still down here in florida. gone through orlando, made their way through parts of tampa as well as the cape. we're going to see this rain tonight and tomorrow. this is the forecast in terms of the warnings still in effect. across the pa be b pan hand pane these warnings start to fade out. rainy all weekend unfortunately. even if you are going to the caribbean. we plan to see parts of the u.k. yucatan, the bahamas, it is going to be the temperatures we're going to be seeing over the next three days, witch taff starting on saturday at 97°, oklahoma city at 90. but as we go through rest of the weekend it is really going to be heating up. look at lubbock, almost 100° for you there. look at your national weather, news is coming up right after this. >> tonight, the secret of the great pyramids revealed. researchers say they have got the answer to a 4,000 year old question. how were the egyptians

in the aftermath of katrina congress passed the pets act compelling the rescue agencies to save pets people. a number of states passed similar acts. in future natural disasters, you start to see pets rescued as well as people. >> as part of the research for the book, you observed a carrier name napoleon, a canine lab. part of the change that you see it in the way we look at cats and dogs is because we have come to realise that they actually under much more than they were thought to be in the past. >> exactly, there has been an explosion in cape ip research -- kyne in research, especially -- canine research. research found dogs know. chim pap zees can not do some things that dogs can do. it led to a revolution there's things that dogs can do, and they've been shown to have empathy, concepts of justice and morality altruism. cats are capable of such as much, but they are harder to study. we don't know as much about the feel ip mind as the kain ip. >> cats and dogs under a lot more than they are given credit for. it's good to have you on the show. the book is: sh . >> it's a fascinating

after nasser al khatter the music scope -- after hurricane katrina the music scene survived.ught up with some that benefited from it. [ singing ] >> after katrina, new orleans was scattered around the country. i, for example - my wife and i lost everything we had. >> i didn't know what i was going do. there was no place to play in the city. [ singing ] >>. >> it was seven years ago in 2006 i was at a backyard party, a fundraiser. [ singing ] >>. >> los angeles and john buteay were playing. >> i think we were trading songs. after the set a guy from california, came up and said "you guys are wonderful you should make a record." sarcastically i said "we can't even make rent, let alone a record. he smiled and said "how much do you need." >> paul said "e probably need $10,000. >> two weeks later he called and said "where do i send the check." he didn't say he wanted to hear the music or own it. he said "where do i send a check and promise me when your record comes back you repay. some people paid $5, but they really want to help new orleans. >> they paid the money back within a ye

city of new orleans expense years recovering from hurricane katrina in 2005. for the most part, it has been a success story, but some communities such as the lower ninth ward have been neglected. we report on a neighborhood still struggling to rebuild. >> the park opened to great fanfare, corporate sponsors lent their names and cash to the project and things looked promising. weeks later, the money ran out and skatepark built inside a local community center closed its doors. it was supposed to demonstrate the revitalization of the lower ninthward. instead, it signified its failure. >> when you build up big hype especially in an area like this where there's nothing of this nature and close it right there, it's like giving a kid what they wanted for christmas and taking it away on new year's day and saying you can't have it anymore. >> that's a current theme in this community. despite many areas bounces back, much of the lower ninthward remains uncared for. >> the community is a symbol of the neighborhood's persistent problems. homes are abandoned, only a fracti

and then right after that hurricane katrina hit and the school was boarded up for four years before thereally hard to put it on the historical registry so it would not be torn down after hurricane katrina. since then it's reopened this past august. it's filled with kids, but it is 9 9% all black, which is is a little disheartening for me. i have been asked on several occasions, do i feel like the sacrifices i made and my parents made was that done in vain? i have to say that, you know, before i walked up those stairs, i didn't have the right to choose my school. brown v. the board gave me the right to choose that particular school. but the truth of the matter is that the teacher that taught me every day who came from boston because teachers actually quit their jobs. they didn't want to teach black kids. she was white and the lesson that i took away is that we are not to judge someone by the color of their skin. that you have to allow yourself the opportunity to get to know people and color of skin has nothing to do with it. i believe that it is crucial that our children attend school to

. >> she adopted that school after katrina. she's like such a great person. she adopted her child from there, she has a home there. new orleans is the hip and happening place. >> and she donated millions after katrina. millions. anytime there is a huge -- she's got a lot. that's right. but she can spend it anyway she wants. she's earned that. but she uses it to make the world a better place and we love her. >> this is funny. godzilla is number one. so jimmy kimmel likes to have fun with folks on the street. he sent out a fake reporter to ask people if they thought hollywood was wrong to make a film about the true story of a giant lizard that killed more than 100,000 people in tokyo in 1954. the true story. this is the reaction they got. >> do you think it's wrong of hollywood to glamorize this event for entertainment value? >> i think it is. i mean if it affects the people that were affected and then there's people who passed away during that time, so they're glaermizing their death. >> uhh -- is godzilla real? >> yeah. >> oh,. then i guess so because like if

the problem was worse after hurricane katrina struck a decade ago, destroying 80% of the city's homes. as jonathan martin reports, the city is leading the charge to turn entire neighbourhoods around. >> the start of abandoned and run down homes has been tied to poverty. in my opinion years after hurricane katrina, they are still the result of those uprooted by the storm. there's thousands in the city with the x on the doors where the search crews came in. >> considered a blighted city in america after the 2005 hurricane new orleans seems to be putting a department in its ugly problem. >> this lot was overgrown. >> the crumbling home next to zack miller was torn down. neighbours are using the space for a community garden. >> it's amazing how the neighbourhood chained. there's re -- changed. there's redeveloped. >> a professor, peter has been leading a team tracking residential recovery. that include homes renovated by non-profits. reconstructed or torn down by the city. the blight count has been reduced by 10,000 properties. >> there was a time period after the storm when there was an

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 >> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and l

it happens. >> in the days following katrina, 6,000 inmates were trapped in orleans parish prison.them. >> the whole businesses were under water. no guards. we don't know where they were at. we were just stuck on the fourth floor. that's when we realized we were stuck here. it seems like it's for death. >> five days after the levees broke, they were finally rescued by warden cain and his tactical team. >> we came here to get the first 150 prisoners but the water was up. we came right down here to this underpass and right here was a man laying dead. we put the scaffold right here and it went down from here. you can see the road is still there and men would climb down that scaffold and line them up in this road, about 6,000. probably the largest mass movement, obviously, of inmates in the country. we put the boats right here on the road. meanwhile, folks on top, at first they threw things at us. right here. remember that? that's a sphere. >> transported by bus, some were perhaps victims of bad luck. >> we were on a long vacation of 35 days traveling cross country all the way down to

lawmakers and a path for reform and cutting the va and starting over, this will be his hurricane katrinaneil: size, i want to thank you so much. these are not just republican soldiers and veterans these are not just democratic soldiers and veterans. these are guys that are hurting and they need us. we owe them. we will have more right after this. cars are driven by people. they're why we innovate. they're who we protect. they're why we make life less complicated. it's about people. we are volvo of sweden. the neil: welcome back, everyone. presidential candidate john huntsman was telling us that this clearing of the field and a lot of republican primaries this week including tea partiers is continuing. it means now that the money guys have a clear picture where they can put their money. so did that clear the decks a little bit? >> absolutely and he is right on. i liked what he said. and he is just a decent human being. >> he gets that, and he's smart, maybe that's the reason that a lot of people didn't get it in the campaign. i always thought that he was right on and a pretty sharp guy. y

many waited months. >>> the city of new orleans has been facing blight since hurricane katrina, which destroyed many homes. as jonathan martin reports, it's leading a charge to turn neighbourhoods around. >> the run down homes across new orleans has been linked to poverty. >> there's thousands of blighted structures, with the x on the door from when the search crews came through. >> considered a blighted city after the 2005 hur day, new orleans is putting a noticeable department in its ugly problem. >> this lot was overyoep. >> the -- overgrown. >> the crumb bling home next to zack miller was torn down and neighbours are using the space for a garden. >> there's a top of properties, new construction. >> a geography prove score, he has been leading a team to track the recovery. including homes renovated which nonprofit. he said the blight count has been reduced by more than 10,000 properties, a clear goal of the mayor. >> there was a time after the storm where there was an acceleration in recovery and it slowed off. it's still improve. >> in 2010 there was an estimated 40,000 blighted p

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so where we're gardening there would have been eight homes before katrina. >> reporter: many people livingth ward cannot afford or find fresh fruit and vegetablable it's. >> the hunger fight is not just a fight for the quantity of food you put in your body, but the fight for good quality food. food desert is an area where people cannot obtain access to good nutritious food for themselves and their families in a reasonable fashion. >> reporter: ravaged by floodwaters when the levies broke, the lower ninth with regard has been slow to recover. and for people who returned here to the lower ninth ward after hurricane katrina they're trying to rebuild their lives, but the only place he ca they can get fs and vegetables is a grocery store three miles away. >> for a lot of us, fruits and vegetables, we can't get to grocery stores. it's all for vehicles who can go, but for those who don't, it's hard. >> reporter: young gets assistance from 350 volunteers from around the world who help cultivate and maintain the gardens along with distribute the fresh foods. >> is this new in new orleans? there can

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so we're gardening there would have been eight homes before katrina. >> reporter: many people livingthe lower ninth ward cannot afford or even find fresh fruit and vegetables. young's harvest goes to them. >> the fight against hunger in south louisiana is not just a fight for the quantity of food you're putting in your body. it's a fight for good quality of food. a food desert is an area where people cannot obtain access to good nutritious food in a reasonable fashion. >> reporter: ravaged by floodwaters when the levies broke, the lower ninth ward has been low so recover and many properties remain vacant. >> reporter: for people who returned after hurricane katrina they're trying to rebuild their lives. but the only place to get fruits and vegetables is a grocery store three miles away. >> brenda has lived her whole life here. >> a lot of us, fruits and vegetables, we can't get to the grocery store. it's all about having vehicles to go. but for the ones that don't, i mean, it's hard. >> reporter: young gets assistance from 350 volume tires from around the world who help as cultivate

. >> katrina. >> katrina. right. there, george w. haven't really talked, i think we're going to see that interesting dance happen over and over again. >> perhaps the more interesting thing from what president bush told me yesterday was he basically made a case for his brother. one that had to do with electability. take a listen. >> have a big state, he's confident he can reach out for people who believe that the republican party doesn't listen to them. >> that's an interesting thing to say, that jeb can reach out to people who jeb thinks people don't listen to him. presumably he's talking about younger voters, latinos, women. it's pure electability. >> absolutely. even as they fear that some of the baggage from the bush name would be a problem for him, even as they fear that he might have a hard time getting through a republican primary, he looks like someone who knows how to win an election. as his brother said there, was the governor of the -- the popular governor of a purple state and they are desperate to put some points on the b

and katrina and him are celebrating they're ten accounting anniversary and thank you for doing a fabulous job at the roosevelt (clapping) and last but not least our fabulous principle over at mission high school eric - (yelling). eric began his teaching criteria you can come up over 25th years ago as an english teacher in east los angeles when he cob came back to the bay area he created a high school for homeless children and completed the fellowship program and got an award for arts education in 2011, the first year mayor ed lee said i heard that mission high school for the first time one their division in football so eric is got a football and they got to see the 409 and eric got to bring his students down. so, please help me in congratulating eric (clapping) (yelling) >> give it up for your principles of the year (clapping) okay. so the superintendant wants to know what prize you got in the mystery envelope. it's a bummer i got two tickets plus a sunday brunch at the star light room and one night in the hotel (inaudible) and breakfast (clapping) i got breakfast as well as breakfast for

katrina. now, the program didn't go over well. what i want to point out is when the government wants to act quickly, it can. if the government wants to act quickly and give the veterans an opportunity to go to a private hospital to get treatment they can't get at the va, they can do that if they want to. we just need an administration that wants to put veterans first. >> saying that the president needs to treat this scandal differently than the others on obama's watch. that this isn't simply a pr problem. it's a national tragedy that won't disappear. can that bureaucracy really be fixed and how can the va and the white house earn back the trust of veterans and the american people? >> well, it can be fixed, but you can't do it by replacing one person. what needs to happen instead of a top to bottom approach is a bottom to top. you know, i know when you're dealing with a big government entity, the worst thing you do is think if you change the players at the top of the food chain, you're going to

allen shoff her for news seattle, it's been almost ten years since hurricane katrina struck new orleans. two lower 9th ward still hasn't recovered. allen gallagher went back, where many say they feel forgotten. corporate sponsors and a wealthy musician let their names and cash to the project, and things looked promising. just weeks later the money ran out, and the skate park closes its doors it was supposed to demonstrate the revitalization of the lower 9th ward, instead it signified it's failure. >> when you build up hype for something, especially in an area like this, where there is nothing of this nature, and then just close it, it is kind of like giving a kid what they wanted for christmas, and then taking it away from them on new year's day. much of it remains uncared for. >> the community said it is a symbol of this neighborhood persistence problems. only a fraction of the former residents ever came back, and there seems to be very little will to remaining a neighborhood that was once vibrant. this is our future building, but reverence charles hasn't given up. his church was destr

. ♪ hurricane katrina ♪ >> one of my favorite show was saturday night fema. really powerful show to be a part of. it was that really cool dance between trying to make it funny and then having a serious thing to say. >> you mean to tell me you're just going to let somebody go without bothering to find out the truth? >> it's the job. we're americans. >> when you can make somebody laugh about something that might be painful or hard to talk about, i think that's a really powerful tool. >> obama mia, here we go again. >> i'm pleased there are no subjects that we have not at one time or another tackled. >> make sure the first lady's okay! >> and at least for a time, being the only voice in town talking about a particular sore point. many were in the third race riot, we were always doing our summer series called the race riot review. >> one of the things that is instilled in us is that our shows should try to be ahead of the curve. dudley can tell stories about he would go and get first early edition of the paper the night before and the more educated then your audi

. >> helping new orleans find its face a decade after hurricane katrina. sink sink. >>> [ singing ] >>> the nonprofit record company helping to revive the big easy's music scope. >> made it real for me that people really care about me. >> cancer nearly took this man's life. one community is using is to show everyone's neighbour how much they missed him. >> from day one he's been an amazing neighbour. >> take a walk around the little neighbourhood in houston, and there are chairs everywhere. they are called chairs for charlesly in honour of their beloved neighbour who found he had cancer. the neighbours love him strolling down the street so they made is easy for him. >> making it real for me. people care about me and are looking out for me. the love of his neighbours makes him stronger. he intends to walk to the end. >>> good morning, welcome back to al jazeera america. the nonprofit record company helping new orleans find its voice. first, eboni deon with a look at the forecast. >> it's foggy across parts of florida. rain coming down this morning, and unfo

before hurricane katrina, mr. chairman, 75% of the students in new orleans public schools were attending failing schools. schools that were giving them no opportunity, no hope for their future. and what's happened since with this revolution, with the charter school movement in new orleans? what we've seen is now over 91% of the public school students in new orleans attend charter schools. over 91%. but what does that mean for quality? because that's ultimately what really matters. what kind of education are hese children now being able to get? as i said before, before katrina, 75% of the students in public schools in new orleans were attending failing schools. today less than 15% of those students are attending schools with either a d or f rating. because now there's competition. parents literally have multiple options of where to send their kids and those schools are competing for the students. i attended hines elementary school last week in my district in lake view, the part of new orleans, the school that is a

todos al llegar a la ceremonia a ofrecer el discurso, bullock adoptÓ la escuela despuÉs del huracÁn katrina deportivo, becas, entre muchas otras cosas. >> quÉ emociÓn. tambiÉn les contamos que en los angeles estuvo el presentador mexicano yordi rosado, promoviendo dos libros de su autorÍa y hablÓ de los besos en la boca que le dio al actor, veamos de quÉ se trata. >> fueron cinco besos que tuvo que darle en la boca al actor josÉ, todo fue para saldar una apuesta y los televidentes lo vieron en su programa "estÁ caÑÓn". >> cuando era definitivo y el productor me dice, ya! me acerco,pero mi cuerpo se hace para atrÁs, porque no me siento cÓmodo. >> pero no sÓlo los besos no tienen en medio de la polÉmica, fuertes crÍticas recibiÓ por haberse comparado gabriel garcÍa mÁrquez. >> han hecho muchas bromas de eso, pero lo tomÓ como bromas. >> ha hecho planes de boda, se comprometiÓ nuevamente con su exesposa de quien se divorciÓ en 2011. >>acabamos de tener un bebÉ que tiene siete meses, fue muy chistoso, nos vamos a volver a casar. >> estuvo en los angeles promoviendo el combo de libros que escrib