and the last white mayor of new orleans was their father, "moon."e 1970s, when it was bitterly divided by race and class. his most important step was integrating city government, and setting the stage for a succession of four black mayors. mitch landrieu's election broke the streak. as you well know, new orleans has been dominated by white business elite, black political elite. but you're neither one of those. so, do you represent a new way, a third way of doing business in new orleans? >> mitch landrieu: well, yeah, i think so. you can't hide behind race anymore. you can't hide behind class structure anymore. you can't hide behind family. you need to produce. i have to be honest with you, i get a little frustrated that things don't move more quickly. sometimes, i think i was born in the northeast because i have a couple of, you know, not-so-good things about me. i'm impatient, i'm hot tempered, i want to go faster rather than slower. i don't understand why things take so long. at the same time, i have to admit to you that you don't want to lose the

one of the biggest music events in the country is in full swing in new orleans. take you live to the essence music festival. >>> i'm don lemon at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. a lot of news, let's get you caught up. a tragic holiday weekend for a family in indiana. one boy is dead, and his older stepbrother now faces a murder charge. police arrived at the home near martinsville on thursday. the 6-year-old had been shot in the head. he later died in the hospital. family and friends are still struggling to understand just what happened. >> they got along just fine. all normal. nothing out of the ordinary to suggest that anything would happen. i was crushed. i cried all night. the kids didn't know what was going on. it's hard. >> the 11-year-old stepbrother has a hearing next wednesday. he could be charged as an adult. we'll follow. >>> a missouri man has been charged with felony sexual assault after allegedly raping an unconscious woman on a city sidewalk. 48-year-old melvin jackson told kansas city police he thought the woman was dead. >> this is a new one

that is new orleans louisiana. mississippi river port city awash in its southern roots its colorful french creole charms and its overtones of piety. it's very catholic very catholic very bad just even very few who on a city that lives according to code your lines get stuck in this kind of like puritan mentality that's completely antithetical to everything that's happening people carmen have conventions here because they know there is the french quarter they know they're strip clubs prostitution. this is bourbon street. for about two hundred bucks you can buy yourself six more specifically straight up intercourse. with a new orleans street walker anything else oral sex anal sex can be negotiated but anything else is also. against the law. according to a law called crime against nature it basically prohibits anything other than they are ordinary intercourse there's no police out there going into a neighborhood saying you can't have sex with your husband you can't have oral sex with your wife right no one's actually e

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. >>> and this -- from fantasia to usher we take you live to new orleans, one of the biggest music festivalsn the country going on right now. i'm don lemon, live at the cnn headquarters in atlanta. the news starts right now. we begin with this developing story, the former head of the international monetary fund is free from house arrest. dominique strauss-kahn and his wife today left the manhattan townhouse where they had been saying. he was arrested in may for an alleged sexual assault against a hotel housekeeper. but in recent days the case seems to be unraveling because of the alleged victim's own credibility issues. susan candiotti is covering the story for us from new york city. susan is going to be with us shortly, but again, that is dominique strauss-kahn out and about in manhattan. again, that case seems to be unraveling because of the alleged -- what do you know? >> reporter: well, first of all, we have -- i have direct information according to a source with direct knowledge of this investigation. about two different things, first of all is confirmation about reporting that original

new orleans, july, hot and sweaty. >> definitely, i just checked the temperature in new orleans, it's 98 degrees there. a shower might be helpful. we see a few showers scattered around new orleans. and a shower in mobile. but in new orleans, if you're going to the essence festival, tank played last night on the roster. it looks like a 20% to 30% chance of showers over the next couple of days. so that's what we're looking at. as far as the heat goes, it's on across texas, sizzling hot temperatures here, not necessarily record setting, but it's so dry. for the past 35 years five works, this year, no fire works, the number one priority fire is right around los alamos where temperatures have been in the 90s. it's still breezy there today but we're not seeing those really high winds like we have seen over the past month or so. the largest amount of area that has seen fire activity has been texas, 3.2 million acres there burned this year. all right, got two pieces of video for you, one this is our i-report, this is coming out of marshall, minnesota, we have got a frontal system that's movin

>> most come to spend the rest of their days behind bars, but since katrina damaged prisons in new orleansa whole new group, mostly parole violators and men awaiting sentencing, get to pay a visit. >> i'm from louisiana, i'm coming from jefferson parish. i'm on a parole violation. i was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. it happens. >> in the days following katrina, 6,000 inmates were trapped in orleans parish prison. wilford 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 here 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 scaffo

>> new orleans, louisiana. >> new orleans, louisiana the yeah, let's hear it for the 504. how do you prepare for this whole darn thing here? >> practice. >> ok. that will get you to broadway but here you are in union square. ladies and gentlemen, two-time winner, mr. leonard oates. >> this is what i do every day. [ringing bells] >> leonard oates, ladies and gentlemen, reigning two-time champion mr. leonard oates. that completes the entire competition, ladies and gentlemen. let's hear it for everybody you heard today. the votes from the judges will now be tallied. that means up guys actually have to go to work now. we're going to name the tom three winners in the amateur and professional categories. the first place winner of the professional competition will take home a beautiful cable car bell with -- made by gilberto at the frens of the cable car museum. every year this man makes a beautiful cable car bell for this competition the mr. gad oy is pretty shy, he won't talk about his work but the craftsmanship speaks for itself the every bell every year is individually made b

new orleans -- my gosh, new orleans held it's own spanish event.ands crowded the french quarters to take part in this chase. clearly no bulls here. instead members of the big easy roller girls and other roller derby teams played the part of the animals. they had plastic bats and whacked the runners as they ran through city streets. this is the 5th year for the event and a sign new orleans still knows how to have a good, crazy time. >>

it's interesting, the irish history connected with new orleans. so the o'reilly family has been in louisiana for centuries. in cuba, nobody remembers him but it was the street of calle oreilly, famous until the 50's for its banks and bookstores. it was one of the favorite streets of (inaudible) secretary of the spanish count of fernandino, my grandfather, another irish man feeling at home in havana. there, at the busy corner of calle street and oreilly was a cafe bakery owned by a catelan. it was described by many foreigners, in particular british and irish who lived in havana at the time, as one of the best order and most elegant cafes in the world. its large door led to a main floor with a fantastic stone floor. i saw it in the 50's, i was very little but i still was there in the 50's, and have a fountain that all that water really produce a refreshing sound that drown the patrons' loud conversations. but what made dominica famous, according to some foreigners and historians, was its ice cream of countless flavors and its famous fruit ices: guav

. >>> in 2005, hurricane katrina devastated new orleans and surrounding areas. high school students from new york city discovered, the people there are still in need of great help. >> you would not believe t would you think that after five years that everything would be okay again,9i4u it's actually surprising how things are forgotten b. >> reporter: in fact, thousands of people are still without proper housing. many are living in temporary shelters, like trailers. >> it's so sad, just to think that you could lose everything, like to think, wow this is my life you lose everything, your whole house, you lose -- like your family falls apart where are you supposed to go? 4dcwu0=5kuó queens high school of teaching spent spring break in new i?á ;mqorleans, working habitat for humanity. they were helping to rebuild nonprofiting ors that raises awarenessaç forgi"7j0ngaffordab and we in this school -- we started a club called the emerson h 4 h project. >> reporter: club was started after a teacher suggested the idea to one of her students. >> i got the member because. i

even before hurricane katrina, new orleans had begun to lose new orleans. many of the neighborhoods, like the lower ninth ward have lost way more than half their people. new orleans has been going through its own triage, a painful process of trying to decide which{ neighborhoods to support and which will simply fade away. these are two american cities. each confronting a smaller future. and we talk as a nation about doing big things. in detroit's case, the mayor has come right out and said what's very difficult to admit. that detroit has to get smaller. that he can't continue to support every neighborhood at the same level, because the city can't raise enough revenue. sound familiar? i want to keep focusing in on detroit here, because i think it's a good example of the hollow prize. you win something. and because of what's happening at the time you win it, the thing you've won tons out to be hollow. you've won a hollow prize. you're dave bing nba basketball star, hometown hero, you win the race to be mayor. what do you get exactly? consider president obama

after leaving new orleans and coming here, it was still a fight. comparing the schools, yes, i can see the different -- i can see the difference. those parents are there, and they bring in money for those schools, and they have all kinds of book fairs and arts festivals, computer labs, and at hunters point, it is a whole different story. you do not have a computer labs there. we do not have a parent involvement. it is a total difference. >> your perspective on jamal, awaiting the decision on whether he will be executed or spend his life in prison. >> he should be released. [applause] one of my professors actually is working on his case, so i have been following through her visits and conversations, but i think it is the quintessential example of what is happening with the intellects in our community. he is a brilliant brother. if you have not gone on youtube and seen him offering his insight on any number of social political issues -- i mean geopolitical issues, what is happening in afghanistan and iraq, what is happening with education in this cou

i put my mount to your misery new orleans. here, war lies piles so high. this floating prison of a cementary cries of range. this delta lies on its side. rows and rows upon it's own government and crushed. summertime is over and the living is dead. and around midnight all hopes are looted. no one will ever come clean of the katrina of the new orleans and the stinking house of the setting sun. but it's the black and the blue of the loving on the shoes, let alone a dime or water, america, you are always scotched earth in our mouth. always a rain of disaster of streams of our broken eyes. now the rags are the most turn. our pores the poorest that can be worn in the souls shop. now that all is lost and there is only nothing to lose. long live the courage and the poor. they begin to waiver. [applause]. >> vennetia. i was enranged at your body enettia. chicanery that cried out of an awfulor gast. slowly i found you should side streets where you practice a strolling stillness without any engine sounds and the skies turning on into color and then eternal magnifice

so we're barely reaching a third of the kids. >> reporter: in new orleans, more than 32,000 childrene eligible for subsidized school lunches, but once the school year is over, only 13% of those kids are involved in summertime food programs. many people who need assistance simply don't know about summer programs, while for those who do, dependency is a difficult admission to make to themselves and their kids. >> you want to have soup tonight? maybe a grilled cheese? >> reporter: for lisa and her nine-year-old daughter lola, dinner time includes difficult choices. lisa, a single mother, lost her job as a makeup artist three years ago after she became seriously ill. she sends lola to this day camp because a free breakfast and lunch monday through friday come with it. >> she gets to eat here and it's great food and sometimes there's not much of a choice at home. >> reporter: their food budget is $200 a month. >> i never thought that i would be in this position, unemployed, struggling, trying to make ends meet. but that quick it can absolutely happen. >> reporter: the hardship is apparent

. >>> coming up next, how god transferred a new orleans gambler into a soul winner. here his amazing testimony that has tched millions around the world. >> now a story of a life well lived. 1 man's decision for the lord transformed his family and millions around the world. john jessup takes us on a grandfather's vision for ministry and he passed it down through the generations. jo grooms lived for 36 -- he did 180 degrees. >> mike grooms thinks back on life with his dad. >> my earliest memory was getting up early in the morning to pray. i am talking, 4 or 5 o'clock. my dad talked loudly to the lord. >> god transformed jo from a new orleans gambler to a soul winner. he told people about jesus and kept him away from his wife and children. >> during those times, i questioned god and would say i became an atheist. my dad was not a hippopotamus krit. >> all of jo's children served in ministry. >> he wrote this book, treasure path to soul winning. >> he felt if people were to win souls, they needed the word of god. you need to share the word of god. >> jo's ministry led hi

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thunderstorms from new orleans to tallahassee.nd cooler with widely scattered showers in the northeast. >> it's a sunshine day is the song we're listening to. >> the bradys. >> that's "the brady bunch" song. upper 70s from fargo to detroit. 101 in dallas. 102 in phoenix. sacramento climbs to 80. and salt lake city 90. >>> the tsa is on the defensive this morning after a new congressional report on airport security breaches. that report shows that there have been more than 25,000 breaches at airports since late 2001. that's one breach for every 170,000 passengers. members of congress meet today to investigate airport security ten years after the 9/11 attacks. >>> another topic that congress is no doubt growing weary of, budget talks. they've stalled. but republican lawmakers have unexpectedly offered the president new powers to avert a financial crisis. abc's jake tapper has the latest now from the white house. >> reporter: republican senate leader mitch mcconnell presented the unusual proposal to empower the president to raise the

new orleans. to resist gulf coast shrimp. >> spike here is hungry. >> they're delicious. >> isn't that awesome? >> uh-huh. >> the chef believes there's an important lesson to be learned beyond the gulf coast shores. >> we all need to start eating a lot more domestically. if we do that, we're supporting all these localized economies all across the -- all across the country that really depend on that. you have seen it. once we lose this culture, our coastal communities they'll never come back. >> exactly. >> you know, you were pretty good, and you should think about opening up your own restaurant. >> he is right. we do -- we import a lot of seafood. >> we import 80% of the seafood we consume here in america. the funny part about that is that only .1% is actually inspected. you can imagine. the whole idea here is also it's the misperception that, you know, everyone has on the seafood in new orleans and that it's tainted. it's such a resilient state. katrina, all the other hurricanes, the bp oil spill

and this is new orleans, this is in new york. it shows you all the different sides of america. this is in philadelphia. i have sold over 50 books. and this is minnesota. >> that i have read that you did the books with your husband? >> he writes the america blog. we are americaphiles. what a great place. how lucky we are. >> are you under contract with the library of congress. >> no, but they will have me do libraries and i will be under contract to them. i am married to the library of congress. they have the funds -- and we're joined at the hip. i want to please them. this is a place for the work to go. if i take good images with 30 years of experience, i think they're worth giving to and they think i'm worth holding hands with. >> look at those clouds. >> i am just driving along. the more i am out of the more i will get shots like that. this is an old red barn in alabama. look at how beautiful that this is, and the green grass. >> what kind of camera are you using? >> i am using several cameras. this is where the snow came down on the trees, so i am using an iconic camera and

. >>> new orleans -- a new orleans man is blamed for robbing a convenience store with his 5-year-old son in tow. the robbery was caught on camera and you can see the man walking in the convenience store with the boy. they buy a couple items -- couple of items and head back to the car. man turns and comes back andsteals the cash from the clerk and she got a partial license plate number and the police caught him a short time later. the boy is reportedly with his mom. >>> well, a stinging stow away. that's what a man is talking about when he woke up on a airplane and found a scorpion on his sleeve. it happened on an alaska earls flight from seattle to average -- airlines flight from seattle to anchorage. >> i thought it was a bug and i felt it crawling on my hand and looked up and said oh my god it's scorpion. >> it bit his arm and since he is was in the middle of the flight he had to wait until he landed to get eat checked out. even pear medics -- paramedics seemed freaked out. they had to google what to do after looking at the guy. he was okay. they think the scorpion stowed away afte

pop-up showers from florida, the carolinas, nashville to new orleans. another wet day for new mexico. and showers in the pacific northwest. >> just 67 in seattle, 84 in billings, and 107 in phoenix. dallas heats up to 98. detroit, 96 and minneapolis, 87. another hot, sticky day here on the east coast, 91 in the big apple and just shy of 100 in baltimore. >>> all right. well, coming up imagine mail delivery coming to your house just three days a week. the new cuts that are coming to the post office. >> not pretty. >>> plus, on top of that, a 6-year-old girl playing on her boogie board, the latest shark attack. >>> and celebrity outrage. why kim kardashian has launched a million dollar lawsuit against old navy. >>> layoffs are increasing again at the fastest pace in almost a year. "the wall street journal" is reporting they're eliminating jobs because they're not seeing much growth. state and local governments are also eliminating jobs and that will keep unemployment numbers high. currently over 9% in the country and that could discourage consumer spending

pop-up showers in south florida thunderstorms around houston, new orleans and little rock. a wet day in the pacific northwest. and northern california. rain from new mexico to wyoming. >> phoenix, things are heating up to 108. 91 here in new york. 88 in miami. 89 in new orleans as well. >> some of that rain is looking pretty good right now. >> yeah. i wouldn't mind a couple of days just to bring everything down to normal. >> i could get caught in a storm today. >>> coming up -- harry potter's half billion dollar weekend. >>> plus, new duties for duke and duchess. after a successful visit to the states. >>> and a collapse at rock 'n roll concert, sending people running for their lives. roll concert, sending people running for their lives. >>> ford's ceo says that there may be an economic recovery in your future. in an interview with usa today, he said that the improving economy is the result of decreasing oil prices and moving beyond the japanese earthquake. he also says that manufacturing is the foundation of that recovery and job growth. >>> worries about europe's banking w

and that was my maiden name, mckinneyand this is new orleans, this is. in new york. -- this is in the hasidic district of new yorkit shows you all the different sides of america. this is in philadelphia. i did a book on redding termi have sold over 50 books. and this is minnesota. where i grew up. >> that i have read that you did the books with your husband? >> he writes the america blog. we are americaphiles. we're both fascinated by this countrywhat a great place. . how lucky we are. >> are you under contract with the library of congress. >> no, but they will have me do libraries and i will be under contract to them. i am mary to the library of congress. -- i am married to the library of congress. they have the funds -- and we're joined at the hip. i want to please them. this is a place for the work to go. if i'm going to take care ofif i take good images with 30 that much years of experience, i think they're worth giving to and they think i'm worth holding hands with. way out in colors>> look at those clouds. rub. have to's got, do you wait for a day l

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