he made a fantastic contribution with louis armstrong. they made some records. he grew up in panama until he was 17 years old. he won a lottery, actually, to come to the united states. >> hinojosa: and there's also... you were telling me this other story-- billie holiday, "strange fruit," which is the billie holiday song. >> yeah, the piano player in that recording is sonny white, actually. >> hinojosa: who's also panamanian? >> panamanian. fantastic. >> hinojosa: so you were growing up in panama, pretty humble background. >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: poor. >> yes. >> hinojosa: but your parents were very much involved in music, your father. >> yeah. >> hinojosa: so talk about those memories of what you were hearing in panama. what was your life in music as a young boy growing up? >> well, my father was in love with cuban pianists. actually, lino frias, he was in love with a lot of the great artists from panama. but mainly piano players. and he actually introduced me to a fantastic pianist from puerto rico called papo lucca. and my father would sing to me, like, tumba

folks who around the country every day live the words sung by louis armstrong "do you know what it means to miss new orleans?" but the thing is, the people of new orleans, there's something in you guys that is just irrepressible. of making ae a way way out of no way. [applause] you know, the sun comes out after every storm. you've got hope. especially her young people reflect hope. young people like victor carter. where's carter? stand up, victor. i had lunch with him. this is a fine young man i just met with. stand up, everybody. these are the guys who i ate chicken with. [applause] really impressive. have overcome more than their fair share of challenges. but are still focused on the future. sit down. i do not want you to start getting embarrassed. so, i'll just give you one example. victor grew up in the eight wrad. -- ward. loved math. hit.s 13 when katrina he remembers waking up to what looks like a disaster movie. he and his family waded across the city towing his younger brother in a trash can to keep them afloat. they were evacuated to texas. six months later, they returned, and

folks who, around the country every day, live the words sung by louis armstrong, "do you know what it means to miss new orleans?" but the thing is, the people of new orleans -- there is something in you guys that is just irrepressible. you have a way of making a way out of no way. [applause] you know that the sun comes out after every storm. you've got hope. especially your young people reflect hope. young people like victor carter. where is victor? stand up, victor. i was just talking to him. i had lunch with him. he is a fine young man i just met with. [applause] stand up everybody. these are the guys who i ate chicken with. [applause] pres. obama: really impressive. they have overcome more than their fair share of challenges. but are still focused on the future. you can sit down, i don't want you to start getting embarrassed. [laughter] i'll just give you one example. victor grew up in the eighth ward. a gifted arts student he loved , math. he was 13 when katrina hit. he remembers waking up to what looked like some thing out of a disaster movie. he and his family waited across the

folks who, around the country every day, live the words sung by louis armstrong, "do you know what it means to miss new orleans?" but the thing is, the people of new orleans -- there is something in you guys that is irrepressible. you have a way of making a way out of no way. you know that the sun comes out after every storm. you've got hope. especially your young people reflect hope. young people like victor carter. stand up, victor. i was just talking to him. i had lunch with him. he is a fine young man i just met with. [applause] stand up everybody. these are the guys who i ate chicken with. [applause] really impressive. they have overcome more than their fair share of challenges. but are still focused on the future. i don't want you to start getting embarrassed. [laughter] i'll just give you one example. victor grew up in the eighth ward. he loved math. he was 13 when katrina hit. he remembers waking up to what looked like some thing out of a disaster movie. he was around the city, towing his brother in a trashcan to keep afloat. they fled to texas. when they returned, the city wa

was it louis armstrong or marvin gay? it's a melting pot where cultures come to live. number three, marvin gay. he was born in washington d.c. he moved to detroit when he signed with motown records and did not live in harlem. we'll have to take a look at today's web winner. the web winner in 1926. don't forget to fill out to form at the end of the game and congratulations to all of the winners. good job. it was not easy and we'll be right back after the break. >> last look at the fabulous forecast. >> again, it's like the same old saturday picture. >> sun. >> what do you mean? the blue skies. not the actual s t but the effects of the sun. >> low humidity. the only problem is eastern ong island you may have clouds and umaybe a few showars. a little unsettled tomorrow. not a wash out. just keep your eye out for rain. >> tomorrow on today in nuw york summer is winding down. say it isn't so. >> we're going to cook up a fabulous brunch to send out summer with a bang. >> we're going to cra u aand crack you up as well. the folks from the brooklyn comedy festival are going to

police say the 23-year-old driver was drunk when he plowed through a fence surrounding louis armstrong international airport. the driver then drove on the tarmac. when security approached the driver crashed through another fence then left the airport. police arrested him after a short chase. no flights were of a texted by the incident. >>> now to the north carolina police officer on trial for shooting and killing an unarmed man. for the first time we are seeing chilling dash-cam video showing the deadly confrontation. abc has the story. >> reporter: the final moments of john no that will thural's life. watch as north carolina officers responding to a breaking and entering call pull up to farrell. you can see the red light from a taser appearing on his shirt then he begins running. moments later a burst of police gunfirement then eight more shots after he was already down killing the 24-year-old. >> shots fired. >> reporter: the video played during the trial of charlotte police officer facing voluntary manslaughter charges for the 2013 shooting. prosecutors saying he used excessive forc

louis armstrong was going to close. i had to go then. i took my back to the airport, which was not an easy thing. no sir. we got down there and quickly .ealized they weren't ready you say, with lots of knowledge were made. errors i think they decided money over man. i think that decision kill people. , watched, as time went on people who died after day two are not counted as victims of katrina. i don't know what the count them as, but they don't count them as victims of katrina. those people are victims -- this is the part that if i weren't tied to a corporation, i would fill in the blank with names, but people who made decisions killed those people. food.ouldn't get water or one person came up to me and said, feel my babies forehead, my baby is hotter than humans can be, my baby will die. we are on the bridge, the overpass, across from the , and the cops were i said, if you do not take the baby, i will put it on the news tonight. he took the baby. i wondered to this day how many dead babies there were because decisions were made about m

we knew that's what was going to happen. , as my father and --e were tooling around louis armstrong was going to close and i had to go. i took my old bag and went straight to the airport. not easy. there and quickly realized they were not ready. i would disagree about errors being made -- people made decisions of money over man. when the mayor did not send the buses, he made a decision money over man. that decision kill people. i watched as time went on -- people who died after day to are not counted as victims of katrina. i don't know what they count them as. they don't count them as victims of katrina. those people are victims. this is the part where i would fill in the blanks with names. the people who made those decisions kill those people because they could not get water and cannot get food. people came up to me that one person came up with a baby and aid my baby is hotter than humans can be. my baby will die of we don't get to someone. we are on the bridge across from the superdome. there is video to prove it. we stand in front of the place where the cops are screaming by, make th

willie mays' mitt. ( laughs ) >> pelley: which would be quite a catch to display along with louis armstrong's horn, and chuck berry's horn behind the chrome of his '73 cadillac. there's the welcome of minton's playhouse, which resonated to miles, monk and dizzy. ali's headgear, pristine condition. and this firemen's head gear, a revolutionary invention in 1914 by mechanical genius garrett morgan. do you think the country's ready for this now? >> bunch: i don't think america is ever ready to have the conversation around race, based on what we see around the landscape, whether it's ferguson or other places, that people are really ready to shine the light on all the dark corners of the american experience. but i hope this museum will help, in a small way, to do that. >> pelley: this is not the american museum of slavery? >> bunch: this is not the museum of tragedy. it is not the museum of difficult moments. it is the museum that says, "here is a balanced history of america that allows us to cry and smile." >> and now a sex sports update brought to you by pref far. at the 97th pga championship at

. ♪ [music break] amy: louis armstrong. this is democracy now!emocracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. as we spend the hour on this 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina and looking at new orleans. let's turn back to some of the voices of new orleans residents who sought refuge at the superdome and convention center after the storm. help! help! help1 ! help! help! >> people just walking past us. >> got asthma, sick. >> no food, no water, no nothg. whaver weave, we've been taking. that is still the way to provide. >> food right here. right here. >> hey1 >> look, right here. look. they won't give us nothing. we ain't tricking no ice water. nothing. >> nobody in charge. nobody. some of the needs to come take charge and put organization and get these people to safety, to get them clothes, the basics, things they need to live from about low this is not income, about rich people, poor people, it is about people. nobody wants to hurt anybody in the city. nobody wants to hurt these people that have these businesses.

this day they parade relative brilliantly through the streets of new orleans, sometimes with louis armstrongis the king back and 48. come back to the indians and people are specified with them as i am. on another theme altogether new orleans has been called the northernmost banana republic. the southernmost part of the rust belt. you can liken us to detroit, the more immediate and current analogy. >> that's right. we do have our share. >> one of my favorite jokes is that you have to go north of i tend to get south. >> mississippi is deeply southern and new orleans is a caribbean hoard. all of which is by way of prologue to say that new orleans had been hugely blighted well before katrina and the levee collapse. that was certainly not alleviated by 230,000 housing units being destroyed in the flood. a very close scholar oblate in the particularities ablate. i just thought he could bring us up to speed on that whole part of the katrina recovery. >> i think it's interesting that the architecture is often referenced apart from the culture of new orleans when actually the culture of new orleans i

to this day they parade rather brilliantly through the streets of new orleans, sometimes with louis armstrong as the king back in '48, something like that. anyway, we can come back to the indians if people are as fascinated with them as i am and lolis is. on another theme altogether, new orleans has been called the northernmost banana republic. it has also, and i think with equal relevance, been called the southernmost part of the rust belt. so you can liken us to detroit which is maybe the more immediate and/or current analogy -- >> and the westernmost mediterranean. >> uh-huh, that's right. we do have our share of -- >> and one of my favorite jokes about new orleans is that you have to go north of i-10 to get to the south. >> that's right. mississippi is deeply southern is, and new orleans is a caribbean port. it's very different. all of which is by way of prologue to say that new orleans had been hugely blighted in its detroit mode well before katrina and the levee perhaps. that was certainly not alleviated one bit by 230,000 housing units being destroyed in the flood. we have in our midst

dagen: you are looking at a live shot of louis armstrong international airport.air force one in new orleans. president obama there ahead of hurricane katrina's ten-year anniversary, that is on august 29th. the president is heading to meet with residents and young people of the city. there you are. ten years since katrina. unbelievable. >>> but unbelievable also how that city has come back. >>> and talk about a comeback, let's talk about the markets. 379-point gain on the dow industrials, on top of that 619-point gain yesterday. what a week it's been? especially for oil. up around 9% this day. a bounceback short covering sis scott shellady, but is it more than that? optimistic buying? to scott at the cme. hey, scott. >> there is a little optimistic buying and driven by the feel good factor. we saw china bolstering their stock market. you have to let it play itself out. what i can't stress more to the viewers, this isn't over. we don't go from one day to the next thinking this is over and we're going to blow everything under the table. we still have the october 15

a simple sedan takes out two fences at new orleans louis armstrong international airport.ing it all the way onto an active runway. >> down on the taxi muchway there. do you know who he is? >> we don't even know who that is. it's a random vehicle. >> reporter: the dark blue dodge challenger with a 23-year-old male at the wheel penetrated airport security jamming through one fence and onto the tarmac. then as police approach the driver almost immediately gunned it again and punched through a second fence, finally arrested just off airport property. charged with hit-and-run and drunk driving. no other airport damage done and no planes even delayed. but just this spring the associated press found america's airport perimeters had been breached at least 268 times since 2004. some of them caught on tape like this driver being chased by police right onto the massive dallas/ft. worth runway. or this san diego runway incursion by a pedestrian in full view of a pilot and his passengers and, of course there was this famous runway incursion in philadelphia where a jeep driven by anothe

i can remember being at the louis armstrong airport, people had no idea where they were going.hey had to again remove them from because there was nothing there but some buildings. there was no infrastructure there. so the people of new orleans went through a horrendous period of time. and i'm just pleased that we can have hope. we do see some improvement. but a lot yet has to be done. >> congresswoman maxine water, thank you for being with me. have a good flight to new orleans. i wish i was heading over there myself. take care. >> i'm so looking forward to it. thank you so very much. >> take care. be sure to stay with msnbc for live continuing coverage of the katrina anniversary commemorations right through the weekend on msnbc. ♪ mother nature can turn in an instant; don't turn back. introducing the new 2016 ford explorer. be unstoppable. ♪ this is my fight song... welcome to fort green sheets. welcome to castle bravestorm. it's full of cool stuff, like... my trusty bow. and free of stuff i don't like. we only eat chex cereal. no artificial flavors, and it's gluten-free. mom,

i went to the airport, louis armstrong airport, and got on a flight and went back to new york and gotback into new york. the hurricane -- and this is what is so important about what doug said. so everyone gets perspective and, shepard, you know this. once hurricane passed, the sun came out. and mistake number two from an emergency response standpoint was that the city and the emergency officials were not aware that there had been levee breaches. so people went to bed, went to the their homes -- those that remained in the city -- and the levee breaches literally filled the city with water in the evening and overnight and into morning of tuesday. which created the panic and the crisis. now, mind you, in a hurricane the first thing that happens that causes human, if you will, anxiety, confusion and misery is the power goes out. you lose power, you lose electricity, you ruse access to television -- you lose access to television, you lose access to anything -- people with cell phones can't charge them. that usually occurs first before any flooding took place. people congregated at both the

. ♪ and then the louis armstrong recorded a song called "cheesecake," and that became a hit. >> a feway in some of the most prestigious places in the world. >> she waives to me and she comes in with frank issinatra. >> was that one of the highlights of your career getting hugged by frank? >> i would rather get a hug from ava gardener but that was nice, too. >> you took one from frank. >> irving plays three days a week at new york city's park lane hotel. >> i'm very fulfilled when people like my music. i'm unstoppable. >> what would you say is your secret to longevity? >> before dinner i have one martini. the food absorbs the alcohol. >> he may not have reinvented the wheel. he doesn't top the itunes charts, but every week rain or shine, irving fields is doing what he loves to do. >> do you have any regrets at all? >> i would want to change a couple of things. naturally everybody would. i would like to go back and have the same life i've had. >> he's doing it his way. >> do you know how many people credit alcohol with the secret to their longevity? >> in moderation. >> in moderation, o