but i know in lake view they were resentful about ray nagen. on the surveillance transparency act night before surveillance transparency act -- saturday night before it happened, they were out to eat at the steak knife. it is like you have kathleen blanco living in a bunker in the emergency operation center in b baton rouge. you know what nagin did? spent the afternoon five hours because we had a big part as believe it or not a corrupt mayor. he is not sitting in a federal prison serving a ten year sentence for misconduct in office. he spent five hours on a movie studio where blanco and others know there is a horrific category four at the point, about to be category five, and the head of the national hurricane center calls, dr. max mayfield, the head of the hurricane center doesn't call politicians but he wanted to scare the governor of new orleans like you have to do something here. he is in wake field, and you know, he is up in the chopper a few days after katrina and goes to the 17th street canal, the canal where the wall fell and flood lake

. >> moderated by then mayor ray nagen. >> i'm relying on you. i know all of this is state level, federal level and all other levels. i don't have them. i voted for you. so represent me on a local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night starting at eight, more from the atlantic conference in new orleans with fee that and at nine we will show you president obama's trip to the region. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. >> our look at the 1965 voting rights act continues with a discussion on the strategy justed by president lindon johnson. later we will take you back to august 6, 1965 when the legislation was signed into law during a ceremony at the u.s. capital. >> it will be 50 year ace goi this august and later a discussion on the history of voting rights from the reconstruction era to today. >> in our hour together we will learn how lbj got the voting rights act passed in congress. and going behind the scenes with white house telephone recordings that answer that question

ron nagen took his para glider for a flight and got too close to a jail.ops thought he might be dropping weapons or something and they sent a helicopter to chase him down. he did land at a paint ball center and the sheriff's helico helicopter landed next to him and the man was apprehended by the cops. it was all innocent. he said he made a mistake and didn't know he was anywhere near the jail and didn't hear the helicopter's sirens because of the para glider's motor. who knew the helicopters had sir sirens. >> that wasn't the only unusual chase in los angeles yesterday was it? >> no, earlier in the day we had a box truck that led the police on a high speed chase along the five free way. that truck had something like 1600 gallons of diesel fuel in it. who knows what might have happened had it flipped. the box truck eventually went off the freeway on to the dirt and crashed into a set of concrete barriers and then the suspect took off on foot, cops chased him and he laid down behind a van and they caught up with him, and as they always do arrested him. so it

. >> followed at 9:00 with the 2005 town hall meeting in new orleans moderated by then-mayor ray nagen. >> i'm relying on you. i know all this is state level, federal level and all other levels. i don't have them. i voted for you to represent me on the local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night starting at 8:00 more from the conference in new orleans. and at 9:00 we will show you president obama's trip to the region as well as remarks on the recovery effort. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. "washington journal" continues. host: >>> washington journal continues. >> your view of standardized tests for educators 202-748-8000. for parents 202-748-8001 and all others 202-748-8002. a goal that looks at questions of education. they asked participants to give thoughts on standardized tests specifically the use of standardized tests to measure effectiveness in schools. 14% of those respondents said it was very important. 43% of those said it was somewhat important. as far as not important at all 28% and not at all i