i never saw professor longhair life. -- what was i missing all my life? tavis: what is the point of this documentary? so much has been said, done, written about new orleans. what is the point of this particular documentary? >> a hurricane did hurricane damage to the gulf coast but what almost killed new orleans was not a hurricane. when it passed by new orleans, this was on a category one or a weak category two, it was a catastrophic failure of the hurricane system. it took them four and a half decades to almost complete the project and it failed in more than 50 places under storm surge conditions that were less severe than was supposed to withstand. it was a catastrophic situation. people talk about the government and all of that. unless you have read these reports by the investigations, you don't know why those people suffered, why those people drowned. >> i heard you say that it took four and a half decades to almost complete. >> it was not completed. >> i have heard of government bureaucracy, how does any entity work on a project for four and a half d

music and literature glorifying the longhaired madness.there, this is what really happened. once the rain started, everything fell apart. no sanitation. no clean water. half of a million waterless flower children near panic. all of a sudden we looked to the sky and there was the thumping of a national guard helicopter on the horizon, loaded with much-needed supplies and equipment. one after the other after that the woodstock festival could have turned into that -- if not for that the woodstock festival could have turned into the donner party. the festival was saved by the national guard. a few years ago senator clinton suggested that there be a statute resurrected on the farm to commemorate the summer of love and its impact on the generation. i suggested at the time that the statute should be of a national guardsman treating a dying hippie. [laughter] i was there. that is what happened. but i was one of them. i had a beard. long hair. it was sickening. even then, hearing the lyrics of lucy in the sky with diamonds -- picture yourself in a